A New Project

I had intended to post yesterday, but the day got away from me. Lucy, the Springer, ended the day with 2 seizures. The first one was so light, that I thought we would be good, but the second one was pretty bad. I had a pacing dog until late last night. She goes to our vet this afternoon. I am praying he will have some new ideas. She has full blown incontinence on some days. She is wearing diapers. She doesn't seem to mind them.

As you can see, this dog lover is struggling.

In other news, I had planned to post yesterday. I have quite a few things other than just the normal interruptions of life to write about. Good things like new cookbooks, refreshing rooms in the house, the things we girls like to read about.

I had not planned to share this bit of news with you until next week, but this news interrupted my morning for about 3 hours yesterday. I never caught up.

My son is buying that house. My husband and I have been praying for him so long. He has made  a lot of progress. He has some money that his grandparents left him. We finally decided it was time to look. We were looking for a cheap fixer upper, but not too fixer upper. I was about to give up on finding one in the price range that we were looking for. Either they were too old, too messed up, or in a neighborhood I didn't like.

Then a VA repo came on the market in the perfect location. It took three tries to get it. The VA did not work like anything I had ever dealt with in the real estate market. Of course, it is a buy as is, and you really don't have time to do an official inspection. We have had a builder friend look, so we are fairly certain that there are no catastrophic problems. Just a few things here and there.

IT is by far the worst looking house on the street, so we should be hits with the neighbors as we make it look better month by month.

House across the street. I am sure they will be happy for it to look better.

This one is right next door. I told you the one we are buying is the worst. The baseball field where we spent countless evenings and weekends at is right around the corner. I could hear the ping of the bats the other day.

Yesterday, my morning was taken up by the first of those projects. A broken spicket (spigot) on an outdoor faucet.

I will be very busy getting all of the work done. We have to paint the whole house, clean, replace a door to name a few.

He is very excited as he should be. I will share more on this later, but that is where my day went.

Here are a few pictures of the interior.

This is one of the bathrooms. It appears throughout that some remodeling had been done, but not all.

All of the interior doors are new.

The kitchen had new cabinets. They are cheap ones, but new. There are also new windows and blinds in the house.

I am appliance shopping today.

It has hardwood floors all through out. They are in good shape and are newer. This is the living room looking out to a HUGE backyard. We have to replace that door. It is rotten on the outside.

Oh, we were able to get a termite inspection. That was all good.

The side yard was fixed for a dog. There is a doggie door out the laundry room door and fenced in.

Then beyond the side yard.  A couple of views of the back yard. No grass😥

Volleyball poles.

Horseshoes set up in the very back.

I will be busy friends. 

My sweet Lucy can't get enough water. I have had to remove the water bowl from her because of the incontinence. I heard the bowl hit the floor while I was in the bath. I came into find her asleep with the bowl. Y'all I am worried about my baby. Struggling.

Be back soon,

Sandy

February

Hello Everyone,
I took a little two week blog vacation.

February has been one of the most beautiful, but yet CRAZY busy months I have experienced in a while. About half way through, I just decided if I was going to stay sane and positive, I would have to do a semi unplug, so I did just that.

It made a huge difference. You know sometimes you have to get quite to listen to God. He speaks softly many times. I feel like a have a few things to talk about now😊

The calendar is not letting up until about halfway through March, but I feel like the rest gave me the attitude adjustment to make it through.

I have all my Easter thoughts together, my planned readings, and my service and discipline plans all set in my mind.

Now, for a few things y'all might like to see.

I so desperately wanted to finish my books of the Bible piece, but I still have the top border to go. It is the same as the bottom border.

This piece has taken a very long time for some reason. I have plodded forward the whole month of February on it. I didn't stitch anything else. I am going to continue to work on it only until completion.

We have the onions and potatoes all planted, and they are doing well at the farm. I don't have a recent picture though.

I have piddled in the flowers here at home. I have planted tulips at the entrance to our circle. They are popping up slowly. It has been like watching a pot of water that you are trying to boil.

The cold in January wiped out so many of my geraniums. I knew I should have brought them in. I have just decided to redo most of them. I took the ones that I thought weren't dead and placed them in one area downstairs to see if I could revive them. That is just me, however, I think they are toast.

A few of my collection on the top deck in front of my kitchen window.

This is one of the reasons I like to put them here. Washing dishes is more fun. Well, maybe.

I took long walks on the beach this month. In shorts. In February. Only snowbirds do that. They have been so incredible.

I have no clue what March will be like with weather or how warm that Gulf of Mexico is already. I think pretty warm, so I will pray we are spared with no hurricanes.

Lucy, my Springer Spaniel, has been real sick. I have a vet appointment on Thursday. Whew, it has been tough with her.

Well, that will sum it up for me today. I will be back soon. My busy lifestyle will not end until about halfway through March. More on that later.

With a little more spring in my step,
Sandy