New friends.

Simon follows Snickers all over the yard. Smells good!





Olly just watches them go at it.

Snickers is very jealous right now. He wants Matts attention and doesn't want to share Matt at all. Simon follows snickers around like a shadow and Snickers just got annoyed. They played in the living room for a bit until Snickers got fed up with Simons razor teet!h. Those teeth are sharp

Wet dog

He got a bath!All clean!

Simon

Red Sox fan!!!!

Simon is our new golden retriever pup. Matt has wanted his golden for a long time. Before we even lived together. He also wanted a beagle. Beagle came first, obviously. And now seemed like a good time to give the beagle a friend. Snickers did meet Simon when we brought him over to Matts parents house. He sort of understood that he had a new brother. He tried to play with him like he would play with the cat. Kinda cute, kinda wierd. He also just wanted to hump him any chance he got. We just kept reminding Snickers that some day Simon will be bigger. And that wont take long.

But, we had an emergency already. He was tooo skinny today and his poop was very very bloody and watery. I had made an appointment for next wednesday but called and asked to be seen sooner. We settled on saturday and just before I hung up, I saw a pool of blood on the floor and the vet had me come in asap. So I did and we got a room right away as to not infect anyone or any animal. We got seen right away and taken care of very fast and I loved the ladies. They were helpful and awsome. We did the parvo test and all the other parasite tests. They were acting as if it coulde be parvo. Disinfecting everything he touched and even cleaning their own shoes. I was scared. But she came back and said he was clear of Parvo and would not need to stay the night. He had giardia. Easy to treat. K. She went to go make sure that was all. Nope. He also has coccidia. So 2 forms of parasites. No wonder he was so skinny this afternoon. So he got some fluids pumped into himself and he got a pill and some yummy liquid stuff. He is on a prescription diet to gain weight and make his digestive tract better. He loved the food. MMMM. Hes home now and sleepy.

On a good note and hopefully im not jinxing it, he is doing awsome in his crate. No poop last night or today. Hes a good boy so far.

Our backyard is filled with animals!

You can only see 4 but there are about 5-7 outside at a time. There were 2 black and 4 grey this time.

And we had about 5 chipmunks eating helicopters

This has to be the cutest picture of a chipmunk ever!

And this creature was outside too. Looks hungry?!?!

our fire pit!

We used some of the left over bricks to make a fire pit in the back corner of the yard.

We finished the wall!

All empty and ready for building.


Where did all the bricks go? Matt and his friend Tom loaded them into Toms truck. They made 2 trips and used them to build a fire pit at a campsite a few towns over.

Here we go!

Just need to cut the ends.

All done! Minus whatever we/I decide to put there.

It looks much better than the bricks did! I just need to get to painting the concrete base and the stairs and it will look much much better. Matt is very proud with himself.

It was going to fall apart soon anyways...

A story with pictures!

We decided our first outdoor project would be the retaining wall. It was falling apart and the only thing in the front to fix up. We figured we would look better to our neighbors by doing a little fixing up in the front. Matt took me out shopping to pick out the blocks and he learned how to do this and measured everything and all that crap.


We borrowed my moms jeep and trailer. So we took our first trip to home depot for the day. We bought 60 blocks out of 100+25(top blocks). We had 2 cute boys help us and it seemed to go very smooth. Loaded up and went home. Unloaded without the help of cute boys. They told me I'd have to pay extra for their services if I took them home. Yes I asked. So Matt and I unloaded the blocks and went back to home depot. This time we bought our grill. Why not while we have the room? So we bought the grill and stuffed it in the back of the jeep. We filled the trailer with 40 more blocks and 25 topper blocks. It was only a tad heaver the second time. Until they put on the extra blocks. They gave us about 10 extra blocks free because they were the rest of the pallet and mostly broken but good for our purposes and Matt will use them to practice cutting with. About 2 minutes into our trip home the trailer tire was smoking. OOPS. We loaded it too much. We took as many blocks out as we could and the trailer still wouldn't get off the tire. Turns out the suspension sucked and it really wasn't our fault. Either way, My mom gets new trailer tired for mothers day. I had my mom and Bryan meet us at our house to help unload the grill. We unloaded the grill and the blocks and the sand along with the sand bag I ripped open by running over it with the carts wheel at the store. oops.

Our blocks!

That was all we had planned for the day. Besides family dinner at my moms for moms day and gramps 80th b-day. While matt was explaing what and how we were doing this new wall, Bryan decided we should get started now! So we did. The ugly bushes came out first since we knew the wall would come down with them.

Not strong enough Bry.

Go Mommy!

Woot! Looks better already!

Messy.

And the second one!

Much better!

Just so you don't think all I did was take pictures!

Now we need to finish breaking the bricks apart and find a place to dump them. We have everything to rebuild the wall except some small rocks for draining purposes. We have more white concrete paint in the basement from the old owners and are going to use it to repaint the stairs and the base of the house. Then get new bushes of some sort to plant and I'd like to plant some kind of flowers or something nice and easy. Hopefully this will be done by next weekend.