Funny how hitting enter published my title, just the title again tonight, and with just that one word beginning I think?
But the actual "funny" I was going to tell you about was really the cuteness of Gus, our Havanese mix rescue dog, sticking his nose into the bedroom to check on me every few minutes to make sure of what I do not know?
We had enlisted a trainer through the Animal Welfare League to come to our home to help with his training.
At about two years of age he still gets quite rambunctious in a playful way, and of course we as with our previous four legged as well as a two legged children pretty much have been too lenient so they have been known to run the show.
Discipline is necessary lovingly.
Although, with him not getting some commands a little bit of an unconventional action has been trainer approved and it seems to be working.
Actually, with cats we used to use the method to teach them to not jump on the kitchen counters, water pistols or water bottles with squirting them at the misbehaving four legged child; although I suppose it would work with those two legged ones too, that is if they climbed on the counters too, ha.
I sincerely hope it doesn't prevent him from having his bath at the groomers, she does that more often than his haircut and he has just started getting used to it with her.
My other concern is will he ever love the pool like Skipper did, oh well, not nice to compare...
Gus can be quite comical.
He enjoys jumping on me while in my recliner, straddling me and bestowing me with slobbering kisses all over my face!
He does seem rather smart when he plays too, he retrieves the ball no matter where it goes, he reaches or finds it even when out of view or under or on top of things. He knows when to ask for an assist too.
Moving on...
Hubby has been working hard on painting the exterior of our home, driveway, walking path, patio, pool decking all cemented hard-scapes, but he had pressure washed them with our own machine that we have had for years. Once you paint you have to do it over and over again and ours had been blue when we moved in seventeen years ago, not sad, the color like the whole house including floors and in the garage and ceiling too, all painted the color BLUE! We changed it all to white, and so when you pressure wash the dirt off colors sometimes come through, anyway white has to be redone accordingly. Ordinarily I love blue, in clothing and even in some furnishings, my kitchen counters are a marbleized blue in Corian. But this house proved that there is such a thing as too much blue!
He did repaint the cement sills outside too as well as the two fences on either side that are white also.
He bought a five gallon drum of storm satin exterior one coat all surface white at Lowe's, great deal under a hundred bucks.
Our tan main part needs it too, but all in time.
A lot of work for one person.
The weather got cooler that is why we decided there was a window of opportunity to get it done, pleasant low seventies, back to eighties by Monday.
Ah Florida!
On that note of we live in the best weather ever, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages with you know whom ad we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
But the actual "funny" I was going to tell you about was really the cuteness of Gus, our Havanese mix rescue dog, sticking his nose into the bedroom to check on me every few minutes to make sure of what I do not know?
We had enlisted a trainer through the Animal Welfare League to come to our home to help with his training.
At about two years of age he still gets quite rambunctious in a playful way, and of course we as with our previous four legged as well as a two legged children pretty much have been too lenient so they have been known to run the show.
Discipline is necessary lovingly.
Although, with him not getting some commands a little bit of an unconventional action has been trainer approved and it seems to be working.
Actually, with cats we used to use the method to teach them to not jump on the kitchen counters, water pistols or water bottles with squirting them at the misbehaving four legged child; although I suppose it would work with those two legged ones too, that is if they climbed on the counters too, ha.
I sincerely hope it doesn't prevent him from having his bath at the groomers, she does that more often than his haircut and he has just started getting used to it with her.
My other concern is will he ever love the pool like Skipper did, oh well, not nice to compare...
Gus can be quite comical.
He enjoys jumping on me while in my recliner, straddling me and bestowing me with slobbering kisses all over my face!
He does seem rather smart when he plays too, he retrieves the ball no matter where it goes, he reaches or finds it even when out of view or under or on top of things. He knows when to ask for an assist too.
Moving on...
Hubby has been working hard on painting the exterior of our home, driveway, walking path, patio, pool decking all cemented hard-scapes, but he had pressure washed them with our own machine that we have had for years. Once you paint you have to do it over and over again and ours had been blue when we moved in seventeen years ago, not sad, the color like the whole house including floors and in the garage and ceiling too, all painted the color BLUE! We changed it all to white, and so when you pressure wash the dirt off colors sometimes come through, anyway white has to be redone accordingly. Ordinarily I love blue, in clothing and even in some furnishings, my kitchen counters are a marbleized blue in Corian. But this house proved that there is such a thing as too much blue!
He did repaint the cement sills outside too as well as the two fences on either side that are white also.
He bought a five gallon drum of storm satin exterior one coat all surface white at Lowe's, great deal under a hundred bucks.
Our tan main part needs it too, but all in time.
A lot of work for one person.
The weather got cooler that is why we decided there was a window of opportunity to get it done, pleasant low seventies, back to eighties by Monday.
Ah Florida!
On that note of we live in the best weather ever, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages with you know whom ad we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
