365: Celebration

Decided to celebrate my first funded proposal at Chico State with my favorite adult beverage! I love Woodchuck so much. So many good memories associated with it, JC girls you know what I'm talking about!

365: Amassing our Arsenal

Now that we have a gypsy camper, we need supplies and rations for her makeover. I've been stalking Craigslist since Sunday and was lucky to get this hideous futon mattress for FREE. Since it's not a full-time bed I was ok with used. Besides the fugly cover it's really nice actually! We are going to douse it with Lysol & Febreeze Anti-Microbal spray before recovering it ...with some cool new fabric just to be on the safe side. Score for free!!! 

And as with everything new to come in our house, but particularly things that have been in other people's houses, it needed to be inspected. An re-inspected. And probably inspected again 678654 times before it's taken on our smell and they forget about it.

365: The Mythical Dust Dog

So apparently I drive fast. Who knew? Anyway, the speed limit on our road is 15 MPH and apparently that is not the actual speed our neighbors would like us to go, but would instead prefer 5-10 MPH. About 2 weeks after we moved in they posted some signs along the road. Maybe it wasn't because of us (really, mostly me) but since there are only 4 houses past ours and we're the only newbies around, I'm thinking they were directed at us (and mostly me). The best part of this whole public shaming of my driving skills is that Ange recently revealed that for several weeks she was perplexed at what a "dust dog" might be and it wasn't until several weeks of pondering went by that she realized they were two separate reasons to slow down. I laughed so hard at her. She told me I couldn't tell anyone about her blonde moment (moment that lasted weeks, ahem), but she is the one who took this picture today using my phone so unless she was having another blonde moment she had to know it was going to be my pic o'the day. Love you dust dog!

365: One of my Favorite Things about Camp Awesome

As if having FIVE dogs wasn't enough work already, we have 4 perpetually needy dogs that take extra special care to thrive. One dog only eats wet food, one dog has epilepsy and has to take phenobarbital twice a day, one dog is a grouchy arthritic who takes 5 pain pills and Prozac daily, and one has a genetically terrible mouth and is on antibiotics ever other month. The one "well" one is just a jerk, but requires no particular medical care. This house came with an AWESOME basement-y type area that we've totally made into the Dog Dude Ranch. The very best part of it is the "wet bar" area where we can set up the arsenal. It's a one stop shop that I visit several times a day for various reasons. It saves me from having to make eleventy million trips up and down the stairs. I need all the energy I can get living in this zoo!

365: Handsome haircut boy

Sam got his hairs did today. The groomers said he was SO good and SO sweet. He likes haircuts! Takes after his Momma A!