Well not to much going on lately. Have been a bit under the weather. Just a cold I think. allergies have picked up again also though. So hope I get over this cold soon. Taylor goes to school tomorrow. We take her out to the place tomorrow evening and then pick her up on the 9th of may. Will be quite without her. Probably will miss her. Just bought her a new rawhide ring last night. The thing was huge. The reason I say was, is because she has almost finished half of it already. Probably was about 6 inches across and 2 inches think. Maybe a bit bigger. Man can she chew those things up. Starting the planning and layout of the sprinkler system this weekend. Will call miss dig after that and then go rent the trencher and pull the main lines in and get all of the smaller lines in also. Then it will be hooking up all the heads and letting the water flow. Probably won’t have the plumber out to hook the system up until much later. probably will put it all in and include the backflow preventor right now and then have the house water hook to that later. Will try to get away with hooking a hose to the system for now, until more money starts growing on our money tree. Just hasn’t started as of yet.

Well, this morning while watching the news I saw some flashing way off in the distance. About 10 mins later it started to rain and lighting at my house. Man was I glad. Thought I was going to have to start watering the lawn. I have not had a chance to start on the underground sprinkler system as of yet. So that means moving the sprinkler all over the yard again. So not I do not have to do that for a bit. Nice to have the seed and fertilazer I just put down get watered in naturally.

Well, friday turned out to be a perfect day to take vacation. Got up and cleaned up the basement mess from the water softner problem the day before. Also cleaned up the rest of the utility room and organized the work bench area and also a set of shelves that really needed some help. Then went out and bought some stain for the deck and stained/sealed the deck finally. That took most of the afternoon but was well worth it. Looks pretty good, have two places we missed but rest of the deck looks great. Probably will look much better after the summer when it fades a bit. Woke up early sat. and got out the tools and started cuting and diging getting read to put some lattice work around the bottom of our deck so taylor doesn’t dig or lay in the dirt down there anymore. So everything was all in place and ready to nail about 10am, got the air compressor out and staple gun and in about 5 mins had the whole things hooked up and looking great. Put the weather station back up, ended up mounting the temp gauge and water gauge on the deck instead of way up in the air and then put the wind gauge back up on the pole. Eventually I want to try to mount the wind gauge on the roof somewhere so it is out of site, well not out of site but a bit more hidden or ugly. I must admit not the best looking setup at this point and time. Was able to hide the temp gauge under the deck though. Can’t really hide rain gauge since it needs to collect rain. The solar cells also can’t be hidden to much either. Grass is growing pretty good. Coming in a bit thicker this year. Put down some more seed and will fertlize middle to late this month and probably will cut the grass on the highest lawnmower setting this week sometime. Some patches of grass are getting pretty tall. Sunday was able to was the car and clean the inside of both the jeep and the car with jenny’s help. Helped a friend cut a tree down and patch his roof on sat. That was interesting to say the least. Over all a pretty good long weekend. Could use a few more of those for sure

Well the morning started out with me waking up just a bit late, not to late. Got up and went down to feed taylor and let her out. Taylor is our 7 month old dog. When I turned the light on down stairs I was very suprised to find about a half an inch of water in the utiltiy room. So got the shop vac out and started sucking all the water up. Filled up the 16 gallon container up once and then about half again. Man is that thing heavy to lift when it is full. So ended up making it to work on time. Early actually. Well my wife called while I was at work and said she filled about half of the shop vac once again. So something has to be leaking I am thinking. Couldn’t find the leak earlier though. So take off from work about 10am and get home. Floor is pretty much all dry now, since she went over the floor again. Well come to find out. We painted the previous weekend and I forgot to put the watersoftener discharge tube back in the utility sink. I had move it up and out of the way while cleaning the painting stuff up. So my fault and everything is drying now. Should be pretty much dry when I get home. Now to clean up just a few spots from salt buildup on the floor and then organize that room so in the future I don’t have to worry about water damage. Not to may things got wet, most stuff was either not touched or up and out of the way of any water. So got lucky this time.

Well this weekend was very relaxing. Taylor it taking to the backyard nicely. She was out quite a bit this weekend. Eating grass and everything else she can find. Found one of the sticks of fertilizer that I buried for the pine trees. Good to see she didn’t eat it. Might have chewed on it a bit though. Could not really tell.

Jenny and I decided to redo our guest bedroom. So the walls are blue now and we have a new quilt for the bed. Probably later this week I will put all the plates back on the wall and finish up on the rest. We want to put one more coat of white paint around the window and then have some artist brushes to clean up a few miscast around the edges on the walls. Bought some new curtains and curtain rod for the window also. Will put that up tonight since jenny is on call again.

Other than that. Woke up today to about 2 inches of snow piled up against the garage. Was a bit suprised. Just put down triazonone yesterday to try to get rid of the grubs. Still have to spray the backyard. Just got the front and side yard right now. Put another bag of grass seed down. Hopefully the yard will take off this summer. Looking much better than last year already.

Well we have had a few days that have been great. I think that is over with now though. Getting colder out and is suppose to rain today. Maybe even have a thunderstorm. That is good though. Just got the second bag of grass seed down on the lawn last night. Wish I could have put some triazonone down though. Need to get that stuff down to try to get rid of my mole/grub problem. Want to try it on the front yard and then if all goes well I will put in the backyard also. Noticed a few mole holes and found at least one grub. So figured I would try to get a jump on a big problem before it happens. Still have to get the underground sprinkler system going. Have most of the parts, just have to find the time to start putting it in.