Belated gifts

Remember the Christmas gift I finally gave my sister this spring? Well tonight was Dad's Father's Day dinner (smoked pork chops, per his request), my parents' anniversary (which was July 27. BBS and I put together a photo album for when they travel) and Mom finally got these pillows for Mother's Day. I made the tan covers for Christmas and BBS and I got several different holiday decorations to pin to them, with the idea that I would make covers for each season for the upcoming holidays. These bright flowers were for Mother's Day and will be her Spring/Summer covers, then she'll get some Fall ones for her birthday in October...although, at this rate, she may not actually get them until January!

Disgusting

Why yes, that would be a huge bowl of dog hair I cleaned off the couches this morning. Gross.

The sponge is actually some special rubber that catches the hair and pulls it right off/out of the fabric on the couch. I vacuum the couches every week (sometimes more) but I hadn't sponged them in about a month. Guess I need to do that more often! Yuck :/

Sleep!

Last night was so much better.  I just started the night with the door closed and we both slept through the night.  When I first adopted Wolfey we lived in an apartment, so I slept with the door closed all the time to keep Wolfey from wandering around and barking at the cars coming and going.  Even after buying the house, it was just habit to sleep with the door closed, but when the kids came, I quickly learned that I needed to learn to sleep with the door open to hear the boy if he woke in the night (which happened A LOT) and know when the girl snuck out of the house (not that I could stop her, but at least I knew to stay awake so I knew if she came home safely).  It took a while for me to get used to hearing Wolfey wander the house at night, but it is now habit, and he seems to enjoy the freedom.  I googled how long it would take for the concrete to cure and we're looking at several more days of that caution tape being up, so I think for the next few days, at least, he may have to give that up so I can sleep.  I hate feeling like I'm penning him in, but at the same time, I need my sleep!  I just hope that him getting a good night's sleep will help with his anxiety so he stops chewing at himself so much!  I know I've already said it, but as happy as I am to have this new sidewalk, I am SO ready to be done with the chaos!

Please keep an old friend in your thoughts and prayers and she prepares to have her beloved dog put down. He is very ill and will be much more comfortable in doggy heaven.

Barktastic

It's no longer just the construction and weird schedule throwing Wolfey off.  Last night he was flipping. out. at the caution tape around the freshly poured cement.  Several times I had to get out of bed to calm him down.  Finally, around 2:00am I had had enough and just called him into the bedroom and shut the door.  Thankfully, we had a peaceful night from there on out.  As excited as I am to have the new sidewalk done, I'm sooo ready for this to be over so my poor pup can relax!

A call for help

With all the chaos we have had lately, the changes in my schedule with working a different store this week and the construction going on outside, Wolfey has really had a rough go of things.  He chews and licks himself when he is stressed and it's been pretty bad the past week or so.  After having fostered, I have several empty beds at my house, and Wolfey has claimed one of them as his own.  He constantly has the blankets all wadded up and full of hair, so I wash them as regularly as if a child were sleeping in them every night.  This morning I went in to check if they needed cleaned and found that there was a huge pile of fur where Wolfey had slept last night.  I laughed, remembering the line from Aladdin, where Iago is so upset he yells, "I'm molting!", but at the same time, I'm really worried about him being so stressed.  I gave him a bath this morning, which always helps to soothe his skin, but I know he'll continue to lick and chew just out of frustration with the situation.  Outside of spending more time at home, which I'm trying to do, but that's easier said than done, I'm not sure what to do.  I'm open to any and all suggestions on how to make this construction time and weird schedule easier on both of us!

Facelift

I'm getting a sidewalk!

I woke up to a knock at my door this morning. Alex, my neighbor who works for the town, was asking if I minded if they extended the sidewalk in front if my house. They will also pour an apron on the driveway going from the sidewalk to the road He asked if I was okay with that. Hmm...let me think...YES! I do feel bad that Wolfey has probably been flipping out all day, wondering why these guys are digging up his yard and Mommy's not home to take care of things, but at the same time, I'm super excited about the little boost it will give my curb appeal. This couldn't have come at a better time, with trying to perk my house up a bit for the appraisal. It's going to make the front yard look so much nicer. I can't wait to get home and see how it looks!