There’s no room at our Inn. We have an old friend from out of town who’s here for a visit. He and Tim are going to play golf and go hunting for the next couple of days, and we’ll all get to hang out and visit. We haven’t seen him in a while (he lives out of state), so we’re really looking forward to seeing him again. After he heads back home, our niece (who is also out of state, in graduate school) is going to come stay with us for a couple of days. Her boyfriend is here, and a bunch of friends, so we are glad to offer her a bed and a shower. We won’t see her much, but we’re still glad she’s coming to visit! After that, it will nearly be Christmas weekend.
This weekend has been busy. Yesterday morning (Saturday), Tim went shopping for a while. I thought that was very brave of him!!! He said it was “crazy out there” and the traffic was really bad. He usually puts off my Christmas shopping till really close to Christmas, so he was actually early this year, getting presents a full week before Christmas. 🙂 I stayed home and finished my wrapping, so YEAH, I’m done! I still have some mixes and baking to do, but at least the presents are all bought and wrapped.
After Tim finished his shopping for me, he called and offered to take me out to lunch. We went to a new favorite place of ours that opened recently just a couple of miles from our house, a sports place that has a “bar-type” menu (lots of appetizers, burgers, sandwiches and salads). It was really really good. We each got a burger (bacon cheeseburger for Tim, mushroom swiss for me, but at $9 a pop for the burger with fries… still, they really are good!) and had a nice lunch. We had put Beau out in the back yard (it’s fenced) for the whole 50 minutes that we were gone. When we got back, he had nearly dug out a huge hole under the fence, not to mention two other giant holes in two different flower beds. I think that I’ve lost a few shrubs and several of my perennial flowers now. He dug up a huge area where I have some purple verbena (perennial and I love it) and a big patch of my rudbeckias (sunflowers). Argh. I’m not happy about it. I hate to chain him since we have a fenced yard, but I guess we’re going to have to start doing that to protect what little is left of our backyard. Tim got a shovel and tried to scoop most of the dirt back in the holes and commented “he looked like he was digging all the way to China”, the holes were that deep! Like I told Tim, expect to help me at least one full day in the spring, going to buy new, BIGGER shrubs, and more perennials and reworking all of these flower beds he is tearing up. Argh.
We had a surprise birthday party for Tim’s grandmother late yesterday, which was out of town, that we went to. She thought she was coming to a scrapbook party, and I think she was surprised! It was a lot of fun – lots of family there and lots of good food too. I think I’m going to gain several more pounds before the holidays are over! 🙂
Hope everyone is having a great day!
Sounds busy and fun. I have my shopping finished, but not wrapped. I’m very impressed with you for having both done already.
Busy!! I have to say I’m happy to never have houseguests – I generally dislike it very much. Antisocial me.
Enjoy your company! I really enjoy visiting other people, but I get all stressed out when people visit me. And I’m so glad to be home from my travels!!!!
I so love having company too.
Girl, what is it with dogs and digging?
Hi Stacy. Glad you’re done with your Christmas wrapping. Almost done with mine.
Hope you’ll have lots of fun with your friends.
Sorry to hear about the holes that Beau had dug in your garden. Dogs will always be dogs. 🙂 Mine loves doing the same thing when we leave him unattended in the garden. We just let him stay at the garage when we leave the house so he won’t get into trouble.
Happy Holidays!
Ugh, we dealt with the same thing with Reagan. Philip buried concrete cinder blocks all along the perimeter of the front fence line, where Reagan was always digging out. We thought surely that will stop him. NOPE. Reagan would dig all around the cinder blocks, and then use his ELBOWS to “roll” the blocks up and out of the hole. Determined!!! He would end up with bloody elbows, and would be out of the fence waiting on us when we got home. We finally started chaining him up, which has worked out well. We got a long tie-out cord from Wal Mart and hooked it to a hook we installed on the front porch. It’s 20 feet long so he can walk all around the front yard and even get to the side yard to go poopoo whenever he needs to, all while being tied up. He doesn’t even seem to mind the restriction.
Anyway…I’m proud of Tim, too. That was very brave! The lunch sounds yummy. I hope you have fun with your friend/family in town visiting! Merry Christmas!
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