Maggie La’ Phew

Have you all been missing my naughty puppy stories?  If you have, here is another one for the books!  Seriously I am beginning to think we could write a book about this dog… oh wait… one was already written and made into a movie – Marley and Me!! 

One of Jesse’s fears is that Maggie would get sprayed by a skunk!  When he takes her for walks out in the woods behind the house he is on the constant look out for skunks.  He has had two close encounters on his walks so far, but was able to get Maggie’s attention and book it out of there before Maggie spotted the sunk herself and took off after it. 

Last night… we weren’t so lucky!  It was about 10:30 at night and Jesse took her outside.  It’s dark out.  He can’t see where she’s at.  All of sudden he hears her growl and he calls for her to come back.  Maggie comes back and she is acting really funny.  She won’t come by him and she is blowing air out her nose.  Then Jesse smells it!!!  He comes flying into the house and says – IT HAPPENED!!  SHE GOT SPRAYED!! 

We had no idea what to do with her.  She is a dog that sleeps inside the house – but there was no way she was coming in!!  We paced around the kitchen trying to think what to do.  Then we googled what to do.  We needed an unopened bottle of peroxide, which we didn’t have and our grocery store closes at 9am.  Maggie was going to have to wait until morning. 

We put her in her kennel outside and told her to blow the stink off and she could come back inside.  Did your parents ever tell you that – ‘go outside and blow the stink off’? 

This morning came and Jesse went to the store to get his skunk magic… and it worked!  She no longer smells like skunk!  Now lets hope she learned her lesson and won’t mess with the skunks!

Back to Work

I knew my time would run up and it ran up today – I went back to work.  I have never been gone from my job for more then a week – so being gone six weeks really made me not want to go back.  I was out of my work routine for so long that I forgot how to do it… and I didn’t want to do it.

I have to say it went way better then I thought.  She got a little fussy towards the end of the day, but by that time Jesse was home from work.

Thank you to everyone who sent me well wishes today!  It went very well!!

I’ll leave you with some pictures that my Mom took a couple weeks ago for Mallory’s One Month…

Friday… Operation Organization

I’m down to only two more days left before I go back to work.  Six weeks went way too fast and I’m not ready to go back.  I could do this stay at home mom stuff easily!

Anyway – Jesse took today off so that we could finish off our basement.  Hang the rest of the curtains.  Move the furniture around.  Put up shelving in the office.  Clean out the warehouse… I mean our spare bedroom.  Except Jesse is over at the neighbors right now helping him learn how to use a GPS.  So… I’m going to show you some before pictures while I wait for him to come back to do some heavy lifting. 

Here is a corner of the living room that shows you the curtains, wall color, and my splash of color. 

Here is where a big majority of our focus will be today… on our office area.  Last night we went and got industrial type shelving so we can move Jesse’s products in here and organize them nicely.  We also ordered counter top!  Where are desks are on the left – we are going to put a huge piece of counter top there and have shelving underneath it.  We will have two work stations there.  Then we ordered another piece of counter top to have like an island – so we can package and do shipment for Jesse’s business.  The ‘island’ will go about where you see that couch sitting. 

I am very excited about this island – because when Mally gets older she can sit there and color, do puzzles, etc. while I am working!! 

Here is the warehouse… aka: the spare room.  All of this stuff is product for Jesse’s business and believe it or not we are completely out of two of his products so this actually looks good.  By the end of the day this room should be cleared and ready to be turned into a guest room.  

Our tile is in and we can go pick it up.  If time allows (depending on how quickly we work and how long it takes to teach a guy how to use a GPS… it is still too early for beer this morning so that won’t delay him) we may be able to go pick it up and start that!!  Here is what the bathroom looks like.  Very ready for tile.  Shower installed.  Walls painted.  Ceiling painted. 

Yup, we burnt out a light bulb already and we haven’t even been able to use the bathroom!! 

Lets just hope that sweet little Mally does a lot of this today, so we can get lots done.  Lets also hope that her mommy pushes away all instincts to pick her up and snuggle – she has lots of work to do today.  This is when I love that I am nursing… because I have to hold her and snuggle her and talk to her and make her smile & coo and oh yeah, feed her!  : )

Alright I better go get this mission started.  I’ll be back with the after pictures soon… I hope.  That GPS must be tricky… he is still MIA.  Maybe they need a girl to show them!  ; )