Beautiful Tuesday

The sunrise was wonderful, loved the pinks in the clouds. Jim was able to be home for an extra day, which made my day. Of course the down side is that he will not be home next weekend. I so wish he could find a nice job closer to home, but don't get me wrong, I am very glad he is working. So many people are out of work, I could not knock his having a job.

Over the weekend he was drilling holes in the walls to be ready for the big job of doing blown in insulation. I have mentioned in the past that our front room is dark and sort of gloomy. In my daydreaming I have been trying to come up with a good wall treatment. Well, part of that has been solved. Under the wall paper was paneling, when Jim started to remove that to make drilling easier he found

a surprise. Some where along the line the people decided they did not want a window so they just blocked it up and covered it over!! We are going to restore it, now there will be more light

in the room. He also discovered that there is NO insulation in the walls, this would go a long way to explain the cold and drafts.

This same solution was used in an upstairs window?? You can see the window from the outside, even has mini blinds but drywalled over from inside. Sorry, I just do not get it. They did cover the window in the downstairs so can't be seen from outside, at least that was an improvement. See what people with new houses miss,lol.

We have a new member to our family, his name is Charlie and he is brown so of course going through my head is "Charlie Brown, he's a clown". He belonged to our neighbors who tied him up most of the time, when ever he got off chain he was over here. I would take him home, and he would be at my house before I got there. I kept trying to shoo him away and made sure not to feed him or encourage him. None of it worked, he loves me. The other day the owner came to pick him up, yet again, and I told him "you can just leave him here". They work and I am home all day so he thought about it and now Charlie is laying by my chair snoozing away. Very smart dog, he is learning manners quickly, I am always upset when people have ill mannered dogs. Just as bad as bratty kids (mine were of course angels, not), but they did know not to push Mom too far. Charlie is German Short hair Pointer and Chocolate Labrador Retriever. Very high energy at the moment but he should calm down some. Gets Elvira up and moving which is a good thing, he can be very annoying and she lets him know to leave her alone. He has been very good in the house, not bothered the cats and had no accidents. He slept by the bed for the last two nights and was a perfect gentleman.

I spent part of morning putting new stakes out for more fencing, the goats have done a great job clearing out their other areas. Now I will have three different pastures for them and three less places to mow, hooray. Using this wire is so easy, I love that I can do it myself, a little later I will go out and string the twine and tie it in to the existing fence. Neighbor is coming over later to help me with some hog panels that I want to use to block off their pen. Hog panels are large sections of welded wire and there is quite a bit of it around here so will put it to use. They are a little heavy and the people here previously put them up high to keep their pigs in.

Yesterday Jim helped me plant my butterfly garden, the plants were delivered last week and I needed to get them in the ground. While not large there were quite a few of them, so the extra pair of hands helped bunches. He also helped me plant a new rose, we had picked it up to replace one that did not make it through the winter. When Jim went to dig up the "dead" rose we found that it was trying to grow, so back in the ground it went and we found another home for new rose. If we won the lottery I know where a bunch of mine would go,lol, tons of plants ,my dream garden. I have thought what I would do if we were lucky enough to win one of those huge jackpots and trust me it would not all go for play. I am so glad my roses are blooming again, lots of buds. I want everything to grow now!! Not that I am impatient or anything. Need to get back to work on the goats new pasture. Wishing everyone a wonderful day, full of joy and laughter. We need to appreciate all the good things we have going for us, makes the bad seem a little better.

Barbara