Fun Ducks

I am getting some pictures ready for a watercolour painting class on Saturday with my mum and I just created this one....hehehehe, should be fun to paint.

World of Pink

So this Saturday dad worked really hard, with a little bit of help from me, to get the attic space completed & ready for the coming cold. He is making it a cold space so that their won't be an ice damping problem ever again. But it looks so much better and more like it should be inside. I opened the door to take this picture and it was so cold in there I could almost use it as a second refrigerator - wow.

Thanks dad!!!

Ladybugs everywhere

So these are all the shots I took yesterday of all the ladybugs I found throughout the garden as I was winterizing it. I was scared to walk around for fear of squishing them.

This is my mini movie showing you all of them on my deck bench.

Wounded pug

So little Madi has not been listening to her mommy. She had an itch one day on her head, seems normal enough....so she scratched it. But then she kept scratching it. Then we noticed it was red. Yep it was bleeding.
So mommy put some cream on it. Then I caught her licking her foot and looking all strange as she was doing it. She had scratched her head again and was licking the cream from her foot. Bad Madi. So mommy had to make a strange bandage out of a torn sheet and a tissue. She gave up trying to get it off of her head after a five minute battle. But she just looked so sad. As though she was saying, "Mommy - why?"

My new friend

So this is my new friend. Next door got a new puppy and a new kitty. Haven't seen the older fluffy three legged dog since the puppy arrived. And I haven't seen the big fluffy kitty from next door either. So the neighbours obviously needed some new pets. I still wish they wouldn't just leave the kitties outside all day, but nothing I can do. But since the day was nice, I was able to clean and winterize my garden. I was outside for several hours, I then noticed I had a shadow. But I made a big mistake. I held this guy and gave him lots of love. Then when I had finished I went inside.....this is why it was a mistake - kitty tried to get into the house with me. I was able to keep the kitty outside, but all I could hear was the cries from my new friend.

A lazy sunday

So the parents called in Sick today. They were going to come over to do some more on the house, but I think they are still under the weather since they have been quite ill with colds recently. I don't want them making it worse with doing stuff on my house when they should be just staying warm and napping at home so they can get better. So here are the puglets enjoying the lazy Sunday afternoon provided by their grandparents.

Pink insulation

View along the attic where dad has been doing a super great job cleaning it all up.

Oh so many wood chips. This is one of the major things dad has been dealing with - getting rid of all of this stuff.

Dad brought all the pink stuff out of the attic and it was on my deck for a day and this was the view through the mudroom window.....so much pink.

This was how the the pink insulation got out of the attic so that mom and I could clean off most of the wood chips before dad took it right back up the way it came.

We blocked off this part of the deck. Pugly does love to pee on anything he can cock his little leg up so I didn't want to have to deal with telling dad that there was yellow on a bunch of the pink.

So this is some of the garbage. I had already sent out about 30 bags for the garbage men just before I took this picture. This is just stuff out of the attic that dad has hauled out. Wow, the amount of weight lifted off of my house is amazing! Thanks dad, my house says Thank You.

Some more crap that dad found in the attic, so much scarp wood - what were people thinking storing it in there???