...I did manage to get a couple of things done around the house. Cleaned up my living room, tore out the carpet, scraped off the decades old and disgusting padding, scrubbed the underflooring with bleach and re-scraped it, re-scrubbed it with bleach, laid a pseudo-Pergo floor down on it (oh, had to bust up about a 2'x5'x5" slab of tile concrete and then regrade it level too learning how to cement all the while), got all the doorways edged & finished (including the bloody 144" wide front window), installed a 30" louvered door 'tween the hall & kitchen, installed two 24" doors in front of the 42" opening/archway-thingy 'tween the hallway and living room with lot of frustration/creativity/resolve I managed to mount them very nicely right in front of the opening so they're flush with where the ends of the trim used to be (and I'm building little mantle atop the support structure I had to build for it, I really impressed meself with that one!), stripped/cleaned/improvised a very clever PSU mounting on her/installed all the new bits along with re-installing the old ones on Bubbles, and managed to do it all while NOT blowing up at my kids once or loosing my temper...even when my son "helping me" did something I had just asked him three times not to do that when he did for a fourth time it ended up in me getting my pinched 'tween a couple of boards and getting a nice 4" gash in my arm.
Oh, and I gave the Z a bath and spoke/apologized to 4 of my neighbors about my puppies escaping....as well as apologizing to my next door neighbor and the guy across the street who have these gorgeous garden type yards while I'm sort of annoyed at having to just mow mine.
All in all a truly suck-assed weekend for me no matter how much I got done, I WANT MY BUBBLES BACK!!!!
On another bright note, my wife wanted all the louvered doors installed so we could keep the puppies in/out of various rooms....and also to break them of their "pissing in the hallway" habit. They're not allowed in that half of the house if they pee, and I've had them locked in this half of the house most of the day and have been frequently letting 'em out and there has been only ONE puppy pee incident. 8)
Oh, and I gave the Z a bath and spoke/apologized to 4 of my neighbors about my puppies escaping....as well as apologizing to my next door neighbor and the guy across the street who have these gorgeous garden type yards while I'm sort of annoyed at having to just mow mine.
All in all a truly suck-assed weekend for me no matter how much I got done, I WANT MY BUBBLES BACK!!!!
On another bright note, my wife wanted all the louvered doors installed so we could keep the puppies in/out of various rooms....and also to break them of their "pissing in the hallway" habit. They're not allowed in that half of the house if they pee, and I've had them locked in this half of the house most of the day and have been frequently letting 'em out and there has been only ONE puppy pee incident. 8)
