My Barking Neighbor

Ok, so last night at just after 530p I put the dog outside on her run. I had not even been in the house 5 minutes (Now I know it had not even been 5 minutes because as I walked in the door I took food that I had started for dinner out of the microwave which beeped as I walked in the door, and stirred it up with the rest of the ingredients that were already ready on the stove to put into the oven and it was as I was adding the ingredients that the phone rang), when my phone rings and my neighbor Scott is complaining that the dog is barking(5:41 by caller id). Ok, I explained that I would have her in within 10 minutes she had not been out all day. He then starts ranting and raving that we need to move her to the other side of the house because she drives him crazy and "he just wants some peace and quiet and since you are (meaning me) home all day and I just got home from a 15 hour shift." Well when he started yelling at me, I hung up on him telling him I would take care of it.

Now the reason she is not on the other side of the house is because where we had been putting her has become infested with poison ivy and I don't know about you but I would rather not have her get it on her fur and bring it into the house to spread to all of us human folk. I have the stuff to get rid of the poison ivy but with 2 kids and wind and rain it has not been possible to apply it.

Well, I had brought her into the house within those ten minutes, after I finished putting the dinner that I had started. He called back again (6:00pm by caller id) and starts swearing at me about if we want to be "bastard neighbors and f****** this and F****** that" so I hung up on him again. Well, after he called the first time he went and lined up all of his outdoor equipment ( a riding lawn mower, push mower and a chipper thing) along the fence line and turned them on. (this would only make Charli bark more LOL) but since I brought her inside by the time all of them were set up it was a waste of $3/gal gasoline, his stupid waste)

We have had conversations with this guy in the past and had made accommodations by moving her to the other side of the yard when we put her out but again Poison Ivy has infested where we put her. But we recently had one with him that if we kept her from the backyard on Sundays he would be happy because that is his "only day off", well last I checked yesterday was Tuesday and it was before 6 pm and she has to take a crap somewhere so maybe I will start walking her in his yard if it will make him happy. No only joking, I like his wife Christine way too much to do that and she has nothing to do with this because she could care less about the dog barking. I went to talk to her today and she is absolutely mortified about him calling. She feels like we live in the country get over it. But says that he is a very unhappy man and needs to be a control freak. They are now not talking AT ALL because she is so upset with him about yesterday. She told me she went and took the key out of the riding mower when he was not looking yesterday but did not know how to shut off the chipper so she just hid the key top the mower and left it at that. LOL.

So to continue, we called the dog officer who is one of Michaels coworkers wives and asked if there were any regulations for barking dogs and she said not that she takes care of except after 10pm and before 8am. So in actuality we are doing absolutely nothing wrong with our dog. But she recommends keeping track of when we put her out on the back run and any external factors that could cause her to bark while she is out there. So I guess that is my new activity. Writing a list of activity for the dog. She also recommended making note of the fact that he called and used profanity with me yesterday etc. Because that is not good for him if something were to happen in the future.

I feel a little better now just needed to rant and rave which is one reason to blog right. Thought I would include a picture of the DOG who is making my neighbor bark.
ROFLMAO.

Loving adding the photos

Ok, I am loving adding the photos. I think you will be seeing more of them in the future.

Toe Jam Puppet Band

I brought the kids to the library today to see the toe jam puppet band
(http://www.toejampuppetband.com/). It was alot of fun the kids AND I had a great time. We were not really sure what we were going to see when we got there but figured it was free and why not go check it out. The guys were fabulous very kid friendly and got them up and moving with music and dancing. It was not very crowded either which was great.

I guess they play every Monday at the Bottonwood Park Zoo. I think we will have to plan a trip there to check them out there in the future.


Here are some of the pictures from the show



Nate being the butterfly who flapped his wings so that the Queen Bee could wave her scepter, the worm could wiggle, the stink bug could stink, the spider could clap, the cricket could jump and the worker bee would give the hungry bear the honey.



The Hungry Bear, aka, Tom Poitras - Lead Vocals, Banjo, Guitar



Jacqueline dancing during the toe jam puppet band music.



Nate with his BUG antenna.



Jacqueline "adjusting" her bug antenna.

Just too cute

I just thought this picture of Nate holding my girlfriend Nancy's daughter Savannah with Jackie looking on was just too cute not to show.

Carver Carnival

Well, Michael and I brought the kids to the Carnival in town on Thursday night, we had a really good time. Spent WAY too much money but, hey how often do we do something like this.



Here is Nate driving the school bus.






Jacqueline and I on the Merry go round, she was ready to fall asleep




Nate and Jacqueline riding the train. They were the only kids on it at the time





This is Nate and Michael on the scrambler, VERY blurry but had to post cause Nate was so thrilled he actually got to ride it.

Red Paperclip for a house

I just have to say that this is pretty amazing.

http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

I wish I could have done this.

The Pond

Well, we went to Sampsons pond yesterday. The MOM's club was going for a picnic and swim and I had never been so I convinced Michael to go.

We packed up the kids and had a great time. I definitely think we need to get water shoes for all of us if we go again though, the rocks just kill your feet, but being able to let the kids play in the water and sand was great.

I think we will probably be spending more time there this summer. There was almost no one there other than the people form the moms club and 2 other families. It was fun.

Onto my day today...

I have to get laundry and cleaning done today, trying to start going through the kids clothes that have been sitting in the attic, so that we can gain some storage space up there. The baby stuff and outgrown kids clothes takes up at least half of the attic. I think I might have a yard sale and bring some of the good stuff to a resale shop somewhere.

What a weekend

We spent a good part of Saturday outside working and playing in the yard. I got the lawn mowed and the kids played in the sandbox and on the swings. They also took the play mowers and helped me mow the lawn as well. It was really cute. Yesterday we went to Edaville for the Free Carver Days. Jackie loved going on the rides. Nate loved the ferris wheel which he got to ride with me. Jackie almost fell asleep leaning against her dad on the tilt-a-whirl, I think she would have if it had gone longer. Nate was fun he LOVED the tilt a whirl and everything else of course.

After Edaville we came home got the kids bathing suits and went to a friend from the fire departments house where the kids played in the pool. We had lobster steak and pretty much everything else you could name to eat. It was a really good time. I came home took a tub and pretty much crashed, not sure if it was the glass of wine that I nursed all aftrenoon or just being out in the heat all day.

Planning to go to the Plymouth parade tomorrow, Michael is working so I will see how it goes. Going to go watch the fireworks from my aunt and uncle's in Plymouth tomorrow night.