Moving furniture again...

Pam and I began the day with readying the 'new' living room for the furniture from the current living room. We decided to do this for a few reasons; one was that our power bill was out of this world, meaning that we had better find a way to heat the house more efficiently with the wood stove and in order to do that we had to keep the wood stove a lot hotter, which makes it impossible to stay in that room and watch TV or anything without melting into a pile of goo. We also needed to make room in the office for beds for Mum and Dad. So now we have a little library/sitting room where the wood stove is and a guest room. Well almost, we still have to set up the two beds, although they are in there just not put together yet. I think they will be quite comfy in there and will enjoy their visit with us. Only six more days!! We're finally getting around to hanging pictures and making this our home not just our house. We are enjoying this and although it has been pretty physical work, we're both happy with how things are coming together!

A sea of opportunity to initiate change

We've traversed the country and landed in beautiful Nova Scotia. Gorgeous scenery, and super people. We can see many opportunities here for us to grow, learn and prosper as a family. Ma & Pa Kettle will be joining us soon for a visit and we are excitedly awaiting their arrival.

On the 'pet front' there are several issues that I think would be interesting to encourage and perhaps enable change in the area. Such as a spay and neuter program, incorporating interest and functionality of the HRM dog licensing system/program, generating interest and excitement regarding the behaviour of dogs (The dominance theory is only a theory) training animal health professionals on safe pet handling and restraint techniques... the ideas are endless as is the need.

Oh What a week !!!

Let me see, hmmm, where to start. I guess Monday is a good place.

• Monday - Root canal first, Dr. , visit with friends, get home and some arse has broken into and tried to steal my car!! This is the 3rd assault on my car in a month. 1st they just broke in and went through stuff, then it was egged and now the stearing column is in pieces!
• Tuesday - Had to go have an eye test ... they dialate your pupils and they stayed that way for hours... which makes you really light sensitive. Then around 1 a.m. some idiots decided to drive around our neighbourhood and rang our doorbell and kept driving by laughing. Until I went out and tried to get their liscence plate and vehicle info. Then they screwed off.
• Wednesday - Another appt !
• Thursday - drove my niece to and from her final exams
• Friday - took car in, so they could let me know what to do about the damages etc. and did gardening all afternoon.

Thank God it's Friday is so true !!!

Wolf at my door

You know that totally wouldn't bother me. Now if someone said there's a boogie man at the door that would freak me out! Unlike people animals are without malice ... go ahead and argue the point if you want to try; just keep in mind that I can be long winded.

This weather is keeping me way too close to home .... going extremely stir crazy... and so are the poor dogs. See now if I didn't mind the rain I could walk the Rotty but the chihuahua, forget it - they're extremely allergic to cold wet weather. They shiver and shake just thinking about it. My sister's golden would just become a walking sponge. I used to have long haired high maintenance furry dogs ... when the weather is like this I don't miss all the grooming. The Rotty's coat is so low maintenance ... buff, shake and go !! Got to love that. And the chi's avoid getting dirty and or wet at all costs so that makes it easy plus she's 3 whole pounds so you can carry her over the mud ( besides she just stands at the edge of it and waits for you to pick her up anyway~!)

Well that's it from me for today... Praying for SUNSHINE !!!

Another day ... another hockey game tonight!!

The Oilers are going to WIN tonight and Ryan Smyth is going to play awesome!! As for the swiss cheese I mentioned earlier ... it is still full of holes. If the sun doesn't come out tomorrow I think I'm going to step in front of a bus!! Can't take any more gloomy weather, thank God I don't live on the coast!

I've been working with my Rotty.... just brushing up, and he's doing awesome.... even walks past the two psycho dogs in the back alley .... they get so worked up barking when you go by that they actually start to fight .... now there's two dogs badly in need of some training. I am hoping to find a tracking harness for him ASAP because he has an absolute natural tendency to track and a real good nose on him.