There are no words. So you post a picture of your daughter’s dog.
Tag: Papillion
Some Updates
As usual, there is a lot going on in the World of Weeks and I’m not sure where to start with the blog posts, so I’ll just start and hope it all falls into place.
Watering the garden has become a daily practice around here. There was rain in the forecast all week, but we only going a few sprinkles of rain. Not enough to even soak into the ground. So the watering will continue and maybe our forecast of rain next week will produce some nice soakers for us. In the meantime, little green tomatoes are emerging and they need water, so each evening I’ll continue to give the garden a nice shower while I wait for rain.
I moved my herbs to the green house and they are growing much more quickly now.
I have more that I need to transplant into bigger pots and will move them out to the green house in a few day. In the meantime, I’m getting their future homes ready around the patio and can’t wait to see how my few herb garden grows.
Can I just say that having a local homeschool group is AWESOME!!! We had our weekly get together. One of the moms brought supplies so the kids could work on a Sharpie marker tie dye project. The kids and the moms loved it. Sharpie markers will be taking up residence in our home in the not too distant future.
Change is on the horizon for the Weeks. We’re still in property shopping mode, but it’s all on-line shopping right now. Hubby’s work prevents us from going leaving the area for more than an overnight and we need more than an overnight to look at property. So, we continue to wait. That’s okay though! We have a lot on our plates and as anxious as I am to get moved, I have come to realize that for a number of reasons, the timing just IS NOT right at the moment.
I’m in the process moving things around in my house. Our homeschool room went from the basement (because there wasn’t enough natural light) to the dining room (which is nice and bright). Over the weekend, I decided we should utilize our family room in a different way and transition the homeschool room back to a dining room. So we moved our t.v. out of the family room and into our living room, a room that has rarely been used since we moved into our house 18 years ago. We will sell our family room furniture, paint the walls and 1/2 of the family room will become our space for homeschooling. The other 1/2 will house the girls toys, but since I’m moving things around, we’ll begin sorting and ridding ourselves of all the used/unwanted toys. A big job, but one that needs to be done. Then it will be time to tackle the basement. Another big job for sure.
There are other things happening in our lives. Some bigger than others, but I’ll save that for another time. For today, the big happening around here is Jagger’s birthday. Jagger is Lili’s little Papillion and today he turns 2. Happy Birthday Jagger!
Hope you all have a glorious day and a wonderful weekend!!
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Dogs on the Farm
Once we get moved to our farm and begin adding animals, we plan to also add livestock guard dogs. Dogs trained to protect our chickens, ducks, goats and sheep from predators. Dogs trained to send out the warning when something or someone is on our property who doesn’t belong. Dogs who will respond in an appropriate manner to protect our animals.
We have three such dogs in our home right now. . . sort of. Our dogs are excellent at sending out the warning when something or someone is on our property. They are also good at sending out the warning when they hear someone pulling in our driveway or driving down the road or pulling into the neighbor’s driveway or walking down the sidewalk, or walking one opposite block. But today, one of our dogs was sending out a warning that caused me to walk out on the deck to see what in the world was going on. He was staring down some terrible creature in the yard, who obviously did not belong and if I would just open the gate and let him out, he would protect all of us from the predator.
As I was peered over the side of the deck to see what creature was wreaking all the havoc, a small bird flew away and our protective dog went running across the deck barking to let that horrible creature know he was not welcome on our property.
I feel so safe with this little guy around.
Unfortunately, he’s not as predator proof as he probably thinks, so we’ll have to provide him a safe place on our future farm.
Our other two dogs are also good about sending out the warning signals, but they really aren’t livestock guard dog material. Fortunately, they are cute and very good at letting us know when something isn’t quite right. Having them on our farm will be very good.
