Another busy week!

Well, Campers....For those of you who are still wearing their winter parkas, let me warm you up.  Highs down here in lovely Texas by the Sea have been in the high 70s and low 80's for a few weeks.  Absolutely lovely.  

View of the property from our front door

Ain't it?

On the however side, however, there have been a few of what we weather cognecenti call thunderstorms that occurred.  One last week delivered a very nice deluge of about 2" of rain on us.  It took about 20 minutes.  I say very nice as a friend of ours living about 20 miles North of us reported 8" of water in his garage.

Not quite so nice.  

Unfortunately, the 2 inches we had didn't even make it in to our two stockponds. (Our stockponds are in the first line of slightly darker green trees (mesquite) beyond the grass in the photo above.) Still no standing water in the ponds.  Rats!  

Right now as I look out my office window to make an official weather observation, Visibiliity is unlimited and no clouds in sight.  Wind is about 5 knots.  Temp is in the 80's.  

However, the forecast for tomorrow is 104⁰ and Tuesday it's supposed to be 107⁰.

Guess I'll be running through the sprinkler in my natural swimsuit.  (Try and get THAT picture out of your mind, Beans!) 

On a related note, most of you know we have a herd of 4 dogs, a rat terrier (emphasis on the rat), a Transylvania hound (Old, blind and deaf, gonna miss her sometime soon) and two Great Pyrenees (they're pretty good, but not great.  I'll refer to them as Good Pyrenees AKA GPs).  Well, the first two dogs are short hairs.  The GPs well...  As mentioned above, it's pretty warm down here, and GPs are bred to herd sheep in the Pyrenees Mountains where the high temperature record, I believe, is about 32⁰ F.  So, they get uncomfortable when outside.

So, Mrs J decided some pre-emptive action should be taken.  

One of our Vet's technicians has a side job of Canine Hair styling, (Ok Beans, she shaves dogs).  Mrs J called and got on her schedule for this past Saturday.  On arrival, we were concerned about the dog's reactions.

I mean, everytime they've been to the vet,  things happened that they didn't enjoy.  Kennelling, Shots,  Meds etc.  So they would get a little tense when they recognized any of the Vet Team. Can't say I blamed them.

No, this isn't the dog, just the fur

However, this time the GP's didn't even bark.  Couple of sniffs of the groomer, then they went over and laid down on the floor.  

Nor is this the dog, just the fur

 

About 2 hours later (yes Beans it took a couple of hours.) all was done.  Another hour of sweeping and all the fur was scooped up.

Treats, Mom? We were good dogs!

They seem very happy now.  Cooler also.

As to the other adventure in our life now, moving.  We're pretty well done prepping the guest houses for viewing by potential buyers.  The main house is progressing.  

Mrs J is "ruthless".  As an observation, I think junk procreates to fill available space. I've stopped asking if we are going to "keep this?"  No is usually the answer.  

Since we'd lived in our previous house for ~20 years and this house for 5, well....Thank goodness I own a pickup truck.  Myself, it and the trash bin are becoming pretty good friends.
Our neighborhood dumpster gets emptied every Wednesday around noon.  My neighbors have come to realize they have from Wednesday PM to Tuesday PM to empty their trash.  Wednesday AM the dumpster seems to magically procreate trash and fill itself up to capacity. 

Also, Goodwill and several other charities are VERY happy to see us pull up to their door.

C’est la vie!

To end on a high note, finally, I got the Front Door refinishing project finished. I think it turned out pretty well.

But, I've got to say, the house is really starting to be very nicely displayed.  So, hopefully/prayerfully, it gets an acceptable offer fairly quickly. That would make things a lot easier on the "Things to worry about" meter!

Peace out, y'all!