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Yep, that Morty is gonna be a big boy. I have to take him in Wednesday to get neutered. The breeder had said not before 2 years and I am thinking that is crazy....suposively he won't reach his full growth potential but I am thinking like it will matter that much! His feet are enormous. His mom came over from Germany and the father was 1/2 Czech and 1/2 american so Morty is definately going to be big. We live in a 2 story house but we stay downstairs and upstairs is my sewing/jewelry room. I have been working on some jewelry and couldn't coax him upstairs before so he went right up with me after lunch and sniffed everything and then was ready to go down. So I took him down and he did well and go to close the stairwell door and he ran right back up the stairs. So then he wanted right back down. I guess the stairs were pretty fun.

This year hubby is only doing tomatoes and cucumbers. He makes pickles and I like to make Salsa and can tomatoes. We usually have a huge garden but he wants to rest part of the garden. I like perenials and have bought seed for sunflowers, morning glories, marigolds and zinias. I try to do mostly stuff that will come back or sprouts from seed easily. I haven't much luck with anything else sprouting. I am planning to do an old fashioned cottage garden. My gramma always had those types of flowers and I guess a lot of them would reseed themselves. I also want to add a few new beds. Every year we try to add a little more.

My father in law sounds about the same but may be in the hospital for a while so we will go visit again this week. He has got to be bored to tears. I offered to get him some books and magazines and he said he doesn't like to read. I think he should learn to like it!

Connie, I just want to check in with you and let you know I'm still thinking about you. Life has a way of 'going on', and it sounds as if you've been busy. When you talked about your father-in-law, I remembered about you gramma-in-law. Is she doing OK, and is your FIL her son?

Are you planning an event for your son's graduation? When does that happen in OK - May or June? My grandson graduates on June 12th. Sometime this summer his parents are taking a motorcyle trip to Enid, OK. Is that close to you. The oldest will stay in his group home, but his two brothers (11 and 13) will be with us while the parents are gone. FUN!!

Keep us informed. Thoughts are with you. GrannyH

I love hearing about how things are going for you. Keep us informed. And He is such a big "puppy". and adorable!

Boy, I tell you what...life certainly does go on whether you want it to or not. Yes, this is my gramma-in-laws son. He has been ill for quite some time and I am always telling him that he can come stay with me and let me take care of him. I am still working on him but at this point I think he needs a nursing home care. I just hate for him to spend his last days alone in his home. Gramma is doing well, but my fil and his brother are both in really bad shape. They have a sister and she is in good health but still it seems wrong for you to outlive your children.

We really haven't made any plans for graduation yet. I am hoping my daughter from South Texas will come. My other daughter lives in the next town over and I see her as much as possible. She started a new job and is very busy now.

Enid is very close...we live 1 hr and 15 min away. That is where I take Morty for obedience classes. I think we have 2 left but I am going to have to cancel today. I decided to pull up the laminate flooring in the dining room yesterday and really overdid it. There was a layer of linoleum that was on top of a layer of old square tiles that was fixed to a thin sheet of wood that way nailed down to the wood floor. Did I say nailed? They used a ton. I had pulled up the carpet a couple of months ago in the living room and I have got some big time sanding ahead of me now. There are 2 rooms that the wood is still covered in, the bathroom and the kitchen, but I can tell by looking at the underside of the floor (you can see the floor in the basement) that the floor in these rooms is not fixable. I am thinking to put down linoleum in these two rooms. The bathroom already has linoleum, but I think it must have been a remnant because it is not good quality. It has been in there maybe 6 or 7 years and is very worn. The people we bought the house from made cheap repairs to the house but luckily didn't fix too much. The one thing that they did that was good was add heating/cooling system. One on both floors. There were wall furnaces before and they used window units in the summer. The kitchen has more laminate that needs to be pulled up but I am not ready to tackle that yet!

Here is a link to what I did yesterday and a few extra photos. They are all backwards and I can't figure out how to fix it so you go from the finished floor to before I pulled the laminate. Enjoy!

Floor

Thanks for the compliment on the puppy Jase, he is very sweet, but still a bit rambuncious! My obedience trainer thinks he will be perfect to do therapy work. She does this on Mondays and visits several nursing homes and she invited us to go once he is less puppyish! She can help us train but we will still have to go to Oklahoma City to test. I guess this is the only place in the state that does the test. So if we could get certified I think that would be wonderful.

Connie, I loved your pictures!

Boy, it sounds like you had a lot of work on your hands!

This is so funny, because as I'm posting this about your floors, I saw a topic to the right hand side (under latest messages), and the topic was "refinishing hardwood floors" in the Home Improvement forum. I thought of you, and was about to post a link for you to that forum. Then, I realized it was YOUR post, lol.

Anyway, I hope everything goes well as you work on the floors.

I have my fingers crossed that everything works out in the coming weeks. Do you have another court date coming up in June, or did I dream that?

Any Easter egg hunts at your house this weekend?

Hey Granny, no egg hunts planned here...but tommorow we will go to hubby's cousin house to hunt. I had been out there a couple of weeks ago. It is off the beaten path, a 100+ yr old house they moved out by a big lake and they have 5 elk. The house is so cool, I could go on and on about it. They totally redid it and it is so charming. It has quite a bit of gingerbread (which I adore, my house is just a plain house). It has this great porch that goes around most of the house and a turrent. They have almost finished the inside and will then go to work on the outside.

We go back to court in July...time seems to drag by but I have faith in God and that helps. It is just the waiting that is hardest part.

As far as the floors go. Hubby is going to take a week vacation and we will sand and refinish in that time I hope. I have lots of prep work to do but the weather isn't good for that yet. Also we have planned to pack up everything downstairs. Last time we redid sheetrock it was a horrible mess. Plus with this being the floors we figured it would be easier to get all the furniture out and it would go way faster. I have a craft show the 25th and 26th so I am supposed to be making jewelry although I have grown tired of it! I suppose I have enought already. But I hated to start anything until after that as I still have to price things and get ready and life with Mary Jayne is not full of many still quiet moments! Guess the dog is in that category too! I had taken him to be netured on Tuesday and that really didn't slow him down much at all! He weighed 99lbs when I took him in.

Happy Easter to you all!

Hi Connie!

I hope you guys had a happy Easter!

I can relate to the dog not slowing down one bit after getting neutered. I remember they told us "Keep him still, and don't let me run around or be active for two weeks..."

That worked for the first few hours, but how do you keep a puppy still? I know it's for a good reason, but it's almost near impossible, at least it was for us!

I hope everyone is doing well, and wishing you lots of good thoughts during this hard wait!

Hi Connie, I hope you're not thinking of me as a nuisance, but I've been thinking about you. Wondering how the situation is progressing. My brother-in-law will be arriving here tomorrow from just out side of Ft. Smith, Arkansas. I keep thinking I could ride back with him. He will be returning for my grandson's graduation. So I could spend 6 weeks with him, and not get anything done at my house.



Happy Spring and Summer to you, and do keep us current. Not nosey, just concerned. GrannyH

Hi GrannyH!

Connie, I was thinking the same thing as GrannyH-didn't want to be nosey, but have been thinking about you and hope everything is going well. We're here if you need support, or just want to chat!

Granny H, congratulations on your grandson's graduation! What a special time!