Minor Project Gone Major

Chad has to park on the left side of our driveway, outside of the garage, so my car can be in the garage. :-)  He has complained for years about how muddy his shoes get when he gets in and out of his car and has to walk through the yard there.  Well we finally decided to do something about it a couple weeks ago.  We bought some retaining wall blocks, pavers, and rock to extend our "sidewalk" down that side of the driveway past his car.  It turned out really nice.

So nice, in fact, we decided to do the replace the shale stones that outlined our existing "sidewalk" with the retaining wall blocks.

 

So then, we decided to replace the shale stone throughout our flower gardens with the retaining wall blocks.  We had to order 125 of them, and thank goodness Lowe's delivered them.

When they showed up we were thinking, "Those aren't all ours, are they?"  No, they weren't, just one pallet.

That's still a lot of pavers that need to be placed!  I can't wait to see the end result.  I'll be sure to post it.

Doggy Dental Downer

On the morning of Saturday, February 23rd I thought it looked like Abby's cheek under her left eye was a little swollen, but then I thought maybe it was just the way she was laying...it was getting pushed up or something.  By the time we got home from dinner that evening, her cheek was noticeably swollen.

By Sunday morning, it was so swollen it was causing her eye to not be able to open fully.  I called the veterinarian's office first thing Monday morning and got her an appointment for that afternoon.

The doctor thought it was probably an abscessing tooth, so she gave Abby a shot of Penicillin, gave me Amoxicillin to give her at home, and told me to call back on Wednesday and let them know if the swelling was going down.  If it was going down then she could be sure that it was an abscessed tooth, if it didn't she would have to do x-rays and look into it further.  They had me schedule extraction surgery for Thursday anyway, because the doctor was pretty sure that was what it was.

We didn't make it to Thursday.  Tuesday morning, we woke up to goop oozing out of her eye and her cheek so swollen her eye was just a slit.

I called the veterinarian back and they moved her extraction surgery up to Wednesday morning.  She had 2 teeth that were cracked up the middle and abscessing.  One of the teeth came out in its 2 parts, the other took more work and came out in 4 pieces.

We had them do a complete dental cleaning on her as long as they had her under sedation.  Hopefully that will keep this from happening again.  So, $520 and about a week later, the swelling was almost completely gone and she was well on her way back to healthy.

Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike snakes?

Last weekend when the weather was nice we were working out in the front flowerbeds.  Chad suggested that I pull out some of the old plants that were sprouting up and as he reached in to show me what he was talking about...he suddenly jumped back and said, "Whoa, snake!"

Mind you, this was just a garter snake.  We didn't get a picture of him still in the bush, but this is about what he looked like, maybe 2 feet long.

I FREAKED OUT!!! I ran around and jumped up on his tractor to get off the ground.  Chad and Zak started laughing at me, but I noticed they both stepped back several feet also.  Chad's first thought was to try and catch it.  I said, "NO WAY, kill that thing, I don't want it coming back!"

So Chad grabbed 2 shovels, 1 to hold the snake down with and 1 to chop its head off with.  He didn't have very good aim on the first shot, ended up cutting it pretty much in half.  But the second shot got the head.

The creepiest part was the tail end kept moving for a good 10 minutes!!!  I didn't come off the trailer until it was properly disposed of and Chad had checked around for more. Haha!

Popping the Question

Zak's girlfriend, Meesa, is a junior, so therefore the plans were that they would be going to prom.  But Zak wanted to do it right and officially ask her to prom.  He came up with a very unique way.  When she came over Friday night this greeted her as she got out of the car.

Fortunately for him, her answer was "yes."  She had perma-grin for the rest of the evening.

My Birthday Celebration

As usual, Chad and Zak gave me a wonderful birthday celebration this year.  It was a Thursday night, so they didn't go too crazy, but it was perfect for me!

We started with dinner at my favorite restaurant, Mexican of course, Los Aztecas.

223 Shoemaker Rd.,  Pottstown, PA

When we got home from dinner I had a pile of gifts awaiting me.

Chad got me everything I had suggested for gift ideas!

Yes, Corningware...I'm a cooking geek.

Our 3 birthstones. He had Chad and Zachary engraved on each side of the stones.

And just when I thought it couldn't get any better, Chad pulled this out of the refrigerator.

Cake Boss Red Velvet cake...my favorite flavor. This one was phenomenal!

He even got me sparkly candles!

Sometimes you'd think my son was still a toddler.  True to form he had more fun playing with the box than the gift.  HAHA!!!

It was his "helmet".

My BFF, Tami, got me this beautiful windchime to add to my sun collection on our front porch.

Thank you, Chad, Zak, and Tami, for all of your love and support.  You all mean so much to me!!!

Snog, Marry, or Throw Off a Cliff

My BFF posted this the other day and I loved the idea!

Pick a male/female for each category: 1)Snog (Kiss), 2)Marry, and 3)Throw off a cliff.  You can use real people, movie or literary characters… whatever.

Here's my list:

1) SNOG

I couldn't narrow it down to just one!

From left to right, top row to bottom row:

Dwayne Johnson, Ian Somerhalder, Jasom Momoa, Jason Statham, Paul Walker, Jared Padelecki, Jensen Ackles, Ryan Reynolds, Chad Feltenberger

2) MARRY

If I have to choose somebody other than the love of my life

I would pick

Andrea Casiraghi, second in line heir to the throne of Monaco

3) THROW OFF A CLIFF

Any one of them!!!!

What are your choices??