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Our Dog Is So Retarded

We have a Shitzu female that is over 5 years old now and is about the stupidist dog that we have had the pleasure of owning. We have tried every single trick in the book in an effort for her to stop doing her business inside of the house. She has ruined all of the carpet that was wall-to-wall when we moved in. We have always have cats and dogs for as long as I can remember, at the moment we have 5 cats so having a kitty litter box is nothing new around this house.

The past couple of weeks I have noticed that the dog has not left behind any puddles in the middle of the night for someone to step into, as she has always done, night after night after night. I think that I had heard an unusual amount of noise coming from the corner in the kitchen which is where the litter box is and so during my investigation I found the dog there and the litter was clearly newly wettened and there was some kitty poop in there also. My first reaction was to scold her, thinking that she was playing in there and even the possibility of her eating the poop as dogs have been known to do. I did manage to stop myself in time as I thought that there was a possibility that she use doing her business in there.

Well last night I heard more noise in the corner again and I did find the dog right smack in the middle of the litter box taking a leak, so I praised the little devil and gave her a treat. Now it looks like I need to buy another box and find a place for it so that there will be enough to go around for all of the users.

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Garage Repairs

When our neighbors tree fell in our yard last month it took out a chunk of our garage, too. It fell on a corner of the garage and tore the siding off the top parts of two of the garage walls. The insurance company adjuster said he would give us enough money in the claim check to fix all four sides, if we were smart about negotiating with the home improvement contractor.

The garage was here when we bought the house, so we didn’t have any say in how it was first built, but now that it has to be repaired, we are looking into the different types of vinyl and siding. I was reading about the benefits of vinyl siding over plasterboard and wood, which is more technical than I ever knew. To sum it up, vinyl is best because it lasts a long time and needs almost no maintenance. It doesn’t need to be scraped and painted or stained, like wood. And vinyl doesn’t split, peel or rot. So vinyl is the way to go.

I want to use a company like American Home Craft Inc to do the repair work. This company is fully licensed, bonded and insured, which is important if anything was to go wrong during the job. But American Home Craft Inc has an excellent reputation and uses only only highly trained and certified workers, so we can rest easy that the job will be done by professional who will take the greatest care with our property. I also like the fact that they use only the best materials, and every product has a lifetime manufacturer’s warranty. They care about the environment like I do, and use materials that are environmentally friendly and the most energy efficient products available.

I’m looking forward to having my garage fixed so we can start using it once again.

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My Memories Of A Mantel Clock

howard miller grant mantel clock
howard miller grant mantel clock

I’ve always wanted one of the mantel clocks much like the one in my grandparents house that sat on the side board in their dining room. They brought it over from England when they came over in the 1920’s and it was one of their most cherished possessions. After they both passed away it broke my heart that I wasn’t given the mantel clock that I so loved and remembered, but at least a cousin got it and it will stay in the family, for better or worse.  Every now and then I look around online and see if I can find one similar to my grandparents one that I could purchase and keep on my side board as well. I always check in on one of the more popular blogs that I read concerning clocks that I have book marked on my laptop.

There is a lot going on in the world of clocks that I find fascinating and try to keep up on as much as possible. It’s amazing what sites have good quality blogs to read that are actually fun and interesting to read, you gotta love that.  I know a lot of us don’t even use watches and/or clocks these days. Our cell phones, black berries and computers have become a much more convenient way for us to watch the time, but I’m still stuck back in time as far as that is concerned.

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Safe and Secure Mailboxes For Everyone

The apartment complex that is located behind our street is such a mess. The landlord is what we call a typical “slum lord” and doesn’t give a hoot about his tenants, their safety or the neighborhood in general. I feel sorry for the majority of low income people that have to live there. The place is littered with trash, old cars, drug dealers and loud music played all hours of the day and night time. Their Mailboxes are in such sad shape and most of the stair banisters and light bulbs are missing. Such a waste of valuable space.

A good quality source of Commercial Mailboxes is needed for that place. As you walk by you can see all the junk mail, newspapers and the such strewn about the stairs and entrance ways. I’m sure that identity theft must be an issue with a lot of those folks who’s mail boxes are not functioning and locking properly. I hate to see people taken advantage like that, there isn’t any excuse for conditions to be this bad for so many people.  My mailbox needs to be safe and secure. I’ve got one of the nicer of the Residential Mailboxes that I’ve seen in the neighborhood. It has my street numbers on it, but not my last name, which I was told was a smart move. It should last in the outside elements for years to come.

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Libra’s horoscope for today

LIBRA                                      
October 21, 2012

Today is going to be centered all around your relationships — at work, at home, even on the highway. The way you interact with friends and strangers alike is important, so make sure you are paying attention to how you come off to other people. Being a good listener is vital, and biting your tongue is essential. Avoid making assumptions about people and do some deep breathing to avoid getting any road rage. And no matter who you’re talking to, you must be totally honest.

Libra

Still waiting for the claims adjuster to show so I thought I would check out my horoscope, looks like it is giving me some good information to live by today when the insurance guy shows up!

 

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Used To Like To Clean and Cook

Boy those days are gone.  I even used to clean a few houses to earn some extra money back in the 90’s, it was hard work, but for the most part I basically enjoyed it.  But then again I used to enjoy so many things that I no longer like to do such as, cooking, laundry, working outside of the house.  Guess we all get burned out but I am seriously bummed out about it all.

Hubby insists that when we are better situated in our finances that he will sign us up for a monthly cleaning service that will help make our house more manageable.  There are a few companies out there that you see the little cars in traffic with their mops and buckets all hanging out of the windows, but I never really took the time to check into their services so I set out to do some research on the Internet.

Come to find out – the company that I liked the best, that I could find, doesn’t have an office anywhere close to us, bummer, their site was pretty impressive.  Hubby was watching over my shoulder when I was checking maidpro.com out and he saw where it advertises that they offer franchise opportunities and he jokingly stated that we should check it out since there wasn’t one near us.  So just for grins and giggles I played along.

This Cleaning Service web site answers a lot of questions that can help them assist you in having your residence cleaned by trained professionals and/or to give you information on their franchise opportunities .  They already have well over 100 independently owned locations. You can even get an on-line free estimate, which requires them to call you the next day to verify the information and to give you the quote.

I don’t think I’m ready to open any franchise right now, but if I did I would enjoy researching this opportunity some more.

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Mouse Traps

Just the thought of a mouse trap creeps me out, but it appears that we are in need of a few of them around the house right now. I’m finding mouse droppings in a few areas and we have to nip this issue in the bud before they really take over and make my life miserable. But I can tell you right now that it won’t be me that checks the traps and I won’t be disposing of any dead mice, I don’t have the heart or the stomach.

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My Science Project

Hello, I’m Darlene’s daughter and my science partner and I have a science project due on February 24 about Saturn. My partner has the pictures of the Milky Way and Saturn’s clouds. While I get the information together about Saturn. I really wish that our project was all done and over with. It’s getting pretty hard with all this information. But I’m glad that we have about four or six days to finish it. We’ve been able to do a lot of the work at our houses even we can’t go to each others houses while doing it there. That would make it a lot easier for us. Just in case we didn’t think what we did is good or not. That is probably the hardest part about the project. (I wonder if I should have done it by myself or with a partner? Hmmm.)

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My daughter’s first club experience in D.C. scared me

My daughter has never been the club type, but a few of her girlfriends wanted to go to one in D.C. and had been talking her into going with them. She scared the heck out of me because I told her to call me when she arrived and when she was on her way back home, and she forgot to call me when she was leaving and she apparently fell asleep in the car and her girlfriend took her to her house to sleep, and her phone died so I, of course, freaked out. When she returned home the next morning at about 7am, and I was so happy that I could finally go to sleep after staying up all hours of the night worrying about my first born.

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Backed up sink!

Craziest thing with a house’s plumbing is that every so often, without rhyme or reason, the plumbing goes haywire. That’s what happened to me, I’m trying to wash dishes when the double sink in the kitchen just started backing up. My darling hubby decided to play plumber and try “snaking” the drain. When that failed he took apart the pipes under the sink, to no good end I might add. He then goes to the basement and starts snaking different sections of drain lines when one of them decides to blow foul water and waste material all over him! You could have heard him hollering all the way down the street. Poor hubby, He cleared the blocked pipe, but all I could do was to herd him into the shower and tell him if he can’t get the smell off he’ll have to sleep in the basement! (At least I got my sink back, and hubby knows the benefits of a hot, soapy shower too!