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Pampered Puppy

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We have a very pampered puppy.

She has so many toys it’s not funny. I jokingly call her my yuppy. She’s even got two doggy beds. Of course the one that’s in her crate has to be removed during the day because she’s still teething and lately she’s taken to chewing on everything again – including her doggy bed!

A couple of months ago I ordered her a new doggy bed from a Canadian company called Mammoth. Our dog is a Labrador Retriever and her first doggy bed is a donut shape and it’s only about two feet long. Midnight is 6 months old now and she just fits in the original doggy bed. It will be too small soon … so, as I was saying a couple of months ago I ordered her a new bed, one that will be more than big enough even when she’s fully grown.

I think the new bed is about 40 inches around! It’s huge! Oh and it’s filled with a memory foam mattress or well maybe not a mattress but memory foam. It’s so soft! She really is pampered! I wish my bed were that comfortable!

The new bed is too big to fit in the crate. Well we could cram it in, but we probably won’t do that. Right now it’s in our living room on the floor in front of the TV and it’s filled with her toys and a real bone that she likes to gnaw on.

I think we’ve finally got enough things to keep our dog happy for a long time. Well unless she goes nuts and destroys all her toys, that is!

Do you pamper your dog or cat? Does your pet have more toys than you did when you were a kid?





I need another trip to Vegas

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Lately I keep thinking about our trip to Las Vegas last November and how much I enjoyed the sites and sounds of Vegas. I’m starting to think about planning another trip. Soon.

Perhaps it’s all the bad weather we’ve had this winter and the snow that just keeps falling this week, but I really think I need a holiday. I think it’s time I took a look at some Las Vegas hotels and perhaps book a room for a weekend or even a week!

When I was in Vegas in the fall I wasn’t well at all. There’s no guarantee that I’ll be ok if I go again, but it would sure be nice to feel ok and have some fun there. I did have fun on my trip but it would have been a lot better if I’d been feeling great. My husband on the other hand had a great time! On our first night he had to have the security guards help him find our room! I’d stayed out with some friends in a restaurant for a while when he headed back to our room after having a little tooooo much to drink!

If I do go on a trip to Vegas in the near future I’ll certainly try to stay in a different hotel than we stayed in last November. I didn’t like that hotel at all. Anyone have any suggestions?

Oh what a headache!

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I’ve barely posted on any of my many blogs over the last two days. On Wednesday I woke up with a severe migraine. I’d been headachey the night before, but I thought a good sleep would make it go away. It didn’t.

My headache just got worse and worse throughout the day. I just lay on the couch unable to get up.

I’m so grateful that we have a crate for our puppy. She ended up being in the crate most of the day because of my migraine. If we didn’t have a crate or if she’d been out she would have been jumping on me all day and making me feel worse. Don’t worry. I did let her out twice during the day and she had lunch too. She wasn’t totally deprived!

I still had a bit of headache on Thursday when I awoke and I guess it stayed with me most of the day but it was a lot better than the day before!

I haven’t had a headache that bad for a long time! I don’t know if I was fighting something or if the headache came on as a result of the strange weather we’ve been having here. On Wednesday we had snow and an ice storm all day and today we’re expecting a LOT of snow.

What do you do when you get a bad headache? Or are you like my mother in law and you’ve never had one?

Get an armless gate opener for your fence

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Now that we have a dog I think that we’ll have to get a new fence for our backyard. I’ve always wanted to re-fence the yard and I guess I’ve got a good excuse to do it now.

Two sides of our yard has a chain link fence around it and those fences boarder on two neighbors. The third side of the yard borders our nearest neighbor and we have a tall wooden fence between us. That old wooden fence needs to be repaired every year and the chain link fence is too short. I’m certain our dog would be able to get out of our yard easily if she wanted to.

So I’ve started looking at different types of fences. I think we’ll either put in a tall wooden fence or one of those vinyl ones that look like wood.

As I was looking at fences I came across a website that specializes in Armless Gate Openers. Considering that I spend a lot of time working in the garden, carrying items like bags of earth and trays of plants back and forth I can really see the benefit of an armless gate.

They have both manual and power operated Gate Opener. The manual ones look pretty much like a normal gate but the post that holds it on one side pivots when pushed by your hand or as your body moves through the gate. There are other manual armless gates that have a post in the center and they swing around in a wide arc when they open.

They’re actually really cool looking. They look sturdy too.

The power operated gates are controlled with a hand held
Gate Operator device. You could have a power operated armless gate opener that looks like a simple small gate at the beginning of your homes walkway in your front yard, or perhaps at the opening of your backyard gate, or you could use a powered armless gate opener at the entrance to a driveway on a large gate.

I watched the videos on their video page and it looks like you can use a manual or powered armless gate opener just about anywhere! I saw them used in farms for swinging barn doors, gates on farm properties, gates on large residential homes and smaller gates at urban homes. The armless gate opener will work with virtually any type of gate material from vinyl gates to wooden gates.

The armless gates are easy to use and look much more attractive than ones with manual closures. They are also cost effective as they don’t require a lot of maintenance. The powered gates use a rechargeable solar battery so they’ll work in any weather and they’ll even work if you have a power outage since they’re solar powered.

If the armless gate opener sounds like the perfect solution for your home or work visit the site and take a look at the video page. There’s nothing like seeing these gate openers in action to help you realize how handy one would be!

In the meantime I’ll be picking out my fence and deciding if we’ll get an armless gate opener too.

The zipper pond?

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I only wish that I had a big enough property that I could create a cool landscaping design! Maybe not quite like the zipper pond that I’ve included above, but something interesting and unusual would be really interesting don’t you think?

We did landscape our yard when we first created our garden. We put in build up raised garden beds pretty much all around the perimeter of the garden. We used easy lock stones. We also created an oval that is attached to the garden beds on one side and it juts out to one side and acts as a partition between the patio and the back area of the garden. It helps to create a garden room.

Have you landscaped your property? Did you do anything interesting? I’d love to see some photos if you have landscaped.

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