WHEW!!!

It is finished ;) The garage is finally clean...or all but one shelf that is too high and not really needing to be done...so I will call it complete!!!!
In unpacking, I found a furry little critter in a box....I thot it was a mouse but I am thinking more of chipmunk? Anyway by the way it smelled, it hadn't been that long that it was there...not sure what it is but it looks like it has two tails :)

Ok...now for the after pics...things still need to be rearranged a bit but all the boxes have been gone through..except

...except for the two top shelves which are Christmas (go through them later) :)

the other side of the garage...

the same side but a different view...I can even get to the dog pens now ;)

this is the before picture of the last wall....didn't do much on the food shelves but the pile of stuff in the right hand side of the picture is processed

here is the finished wall done.....hurray I am finished in the garage...now on to the house :)

Binging and purging :)

A full weekend of purging after I had spent years binging ...some of this stuff had been packed for YEARS! This is the stuff from the barn rafters...put up there almost 5 years ago :) Dave packed the car to bring it to the house to go through some and to take to the thrift store some others

another shot of the back

the back seat packed full

the other side of the back seat view

this box was in the front seat but I had to move it out so that I could see to drive to church :)

that was Saturday's work....then today I figured I would start on the garage to get some of those other packed boxes processed....once again I forgot the before pictures but these shelves were packed full...now there is one full shelf empty and another one half empty :)

another shelf area....altho it looks like they are full there is at least one and half shelves that are totally empty if you took the one shelf and put everything up :) The top two rows are just boxes of Christmas stuff....that will be another project for another day.
WHEW!

The only stuff left to process is on this table...oh and a box under it too...some will be put out and some will be repacked for storage

Tried to take another picture of my car all packed and ready to go to the thrift store but it is so packed tight I can't even get a picture of how full it is
Can't wait for this project to be done and all organized back again...knowing that there is no fluff left that I don't want...woohoo!

Grooming day...well at least for one ;)

Piper got her first hair cut today...you can see she is pretty shaggy looking but she was so cute. I love the longer hair but am not good at keeping it combed out on all the dogs so I tend to keep them shorter than I would really like...her back end was getting a bit gnarly so hair cut day...Her hair is straighter than most of my dogs so I didn't want to tackle it and have it look really funny so took her to the groomer...


couple of before pictures which I actually remembered to take :)

and after pictures...looks choppy in these pics but she isn't really....straighter hair is so much harder than the curly or even wavier of the bunch

there...my little girl is a woman now...at least with her hair that is

A work day......

Today is a work day....well one of us was working....and guess which one wasn't :) Well you can count photo taking as work??? I actually did do some things but not much...my leg was hurting but felt some better after the ibuprofen :)
I didn't get the before we started picture but the side of the patio had tons of "schtuff" there that needed to be placed somewhere other than where it was....
And would a blog post be complete without a few pics of some of my babies?

two of my dogs...love the back shots


chairs waiting to be washed

this is the invisible shed............Dave wants a shed so this is the invisible one for right now ;)

the hose hanger :)

hanging another hose hanger to have one close to the deck

just a quick shot of a bird house on the patio table

chairs everywhere

a baby chair getting a bath

partially clean chair..they were filthy :)

a man's tools for keeping a woman happy

Bailey and a bone...love these huge bones... they keep the dogs occupied for a bit

Cody is very protective of these bones...so he has to be watched so that they share nicely sometimes :)

He hung my new fruit basket...we are trying to eat more fruit and vegetables....so I went on a search for a fruit basket...

Mindy chilling from a day of hard work :)

Beach in June?

There was a homecoming party for Stan. Dave and I...well actually I came up with the idea and Dave carried it out....decided to take Aaron so that Danica and Jason could get some friend time at the party...well Dave took him for a couple of adventures and I decided to provide relief when they were at the beach near our house....
Aaron loves sand..the wetter the better

more sand

oh and water....that water couldn't have been warm

right as Dave was leaving Aaron laid down in the sand...from there it just got worse as far as dirty goes....wish I had the camera to have taken a picture of him when he was at his dirtiest :)

After the playtime it was bath time....I left him alone for a bit and he grabbed the towel from the bar and covered himself with it....and he just laid there with a wet towel over himself :)

he is lovin laying there in the water

hiding from me ;)

little piggies

Moving day....

Big day at the house today...we got everything ready to move...well not everything but some important things :) The pups are almost 3 weeks and they were moved from their sewing room/nursery to the dining room where there is a lot more action and noise.
I love this basket...it is great for transporting the pups...when they need to make their vet visit it isn't going to work as there are too many of them :) and they will be too big to fit in this basket...but it worked for transporting today.

another view :)

Here they are in their new place where they will stay until they are ready to go home. Grace was having a few issues with the others being able to see her pups but I think we are fine now...sure there will be a few more skirmishes before they are going in and out of the crate visiting and beggin the pups to play

a little corner of the dining room...perfect for the babies to have a new place...added a few toys as they are just getting to where I have seen them playing with each other. Soon they will be all over this crate and traveling outside to learn the ropes out there too

My next victim

I sometimes feel sorry for my dogs...they have to endure my feeble attempts to groom them...but with the quantity I have and the fact that I am a cheapskate I do it myself...
Cassidy was my victim of choice today...she has a very full coat of curls and was getting a very big head...not like us humans do but her hair was taking over her face and you couldn't see those beautiful eyes...so snip snip-chop chop and a nice treat and she was done...

Enjoying a magnolia leaf after her hour plus on my washing machine getting "groomed"

A fun romp with the littlest of the bunch getting beat up on by the rest of the pack..poor Mindy

Cassidy continuing to pick on Mindy...what you can't see in Mindy fighting back by biting Cassie's ears and lips

Coming out of the house after dinner...once more to romp with Mindy