Daughter didn't feel like doing much this weekend except art work and pillow fights. So we stayed home.
She claims to like cold weather. However, when it's cold she tends to stay inside an awful lot. If she's going to learn to be active during the winter, that's going to be up to her mother more than me. I am much more active in spring and summer. Even fall. Not much in winter.
I did walk across the street and took some hardwood grape vine cuttings from the green seedless vine at the abandoned house. From what I've read, winter is the best time to take cuttings from grape vines. I'll find out is that's correct in a few weeks, I guess. Came back and got them in potting soil right away.
On the way home from dropping daughter at her mother's, I stopped and got some supplies for the house. Couple of 1x2's, a new box of premixed joint compound and a self-closing latch for the solarium door.
I made the mistake of opening the solarium door once or twice. Now the younger male has been trying to beat the door down again. I cannot say I am happy with having to always open that door from the inside. Though one benefit of the latch is that I can add a padlock (or just a wire) to keep it from being jostled open. And I can drill a hole for a wire to open it from the inside.
I know what is going through the younger male dogs head. He sees me doing something like entering the garden or the solarium through the large door and he figures that's what an alpha does. So he is determined he is going to do it. But he is NOT an alpha in any respect! He has tried forcing the older male away from the food so that he gets to eat first. The older dog lets him take a few bites, then chases him away. He sits with his head down and tail tucked until the older dog finishes eating. He has tried getting in the garden and that has resulted in him now wearing two shock collars. I have written quite enough on the problem with the solarium door. All of that was him, not the older dog, who is well behaved.
I'm going to have to gather the money to get these dogs fixed this year. Guess who goes first?
So, this week I am going to get the ceiling holes patched up and maybe painted. I hope. Bedroom is going to take a bit of work more than the kitchen. The ceiling I had to drill through was all stucco and wire lath, so I didn't have any good clean plugs come out. Now my hole drill is largely destroyed, so I'll have to manually cut new plugs. Oh, well. I'll get it done. Then get to work on the other spots that need patching. I think I can get all the patching done by the end of January. Except the office, where I still need to run wiring, among other things.
She claims to like cold weather. However, when it's cold she tends to stay inside an awful lot. If she's going to learn to be active during the winter, that's going to be up to her mother more than me. I am much more active in spring and summer. Even fall. Not much in winter.
I did walk across the street and took some hardwood grape vine cuttings from the green seedless vine at the abandoned house. From what I've read, winter is the best time to take cuttings from grape vines. I'll find out is that's correct in a few weeks, I guess. Came back and got them in potting soil right away.
On the way home from dropping daughter at her mother's, I stopped and got some supplies for the house. Couple of 1x2's, a new box of premixed joint compound and a self-closing latch for the solarium door.
I made the mistake of opening the solarium door once or twice. Now the younger male has been trying to beat the door down again. I cannot say I am happy with having to always open that door from the inside. Though one benefit of the latch is that I can add a padlock (or just a wire) to keep it from being jostled open. And I can drill a hole for a wire to open it from the inside.
I know what is going through the younger male dogs head. He sees me doing something like entering the garden or the solarium through the large door and he figures that's what an alpha does. So he is determined he is going to do it. But he is NOT an alpha in any respect! He has tried forcing the older male away from the food so that he gets to eat first. The older dog lets him take a few bites, then chases him away. He sits with his head down and tail tucked until the older dog finishes eating. He has tried getting in the garden and that has resulted in him now wearing two shock collars. I have written quite enough on the problem with the solarium door. All of that was him, not the older dog, who is well behaved.
I'm going to have to gather the money to get these dogs fixed this year. Guess who goes first?
So, this week I am going to get the ceiling holes patched up and maybe painted. I hope. Bedroom is going to take a bit of work more than the kitchen. The ceiling I had to drill through was all stucco and wire lath, so I didn't have any good clean plugs come out. Now my hole drill is largely destroyed, so I'll have to manually cut new plugs. Oh, well. I'll get it done. Then get to work on the other spots that need patching. I think I can get all the patching done by the end of January. Except the office, where I still need to run wiring, among other things.
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