Bean Bags
Check it off the project list! William and I have been talking about getting some bean bag games made for quite some time now and we finally made that a reality these past few days. You might remember the picture of William cutting out the wood and making the frames from a couple of weeks ago.
I laughed when I saw what wood he was using because on the back of the board was a city that Kyle made probably 25 years ago for all his little tractors and trains, and entertained him for many years! But now it was being re-purposed into a big kid entertainment. So here is the picture of William working on getting the frame built.
William working hard on the games
And now.. here is a picture of the finished product.
Can you tell we are Iowa State fans?
After one coat of primer, then two coats of white paint, and then 3 coats of color – well let’s just say I’m pretty much done with the painting part of this project. Tonight we added the stickers and Bam they’re done! Check it off the list!!
Dog Massage
First my disclaimer: I am not a crazy dog person. There are people who’s dogs are almost more important than their kids and even though I really love our dogs, well they are still our farm dogs. So when Reno has been having a small gimp in her walk lately I got worried and knew that I need to take her to the vet to see what was going on. But it seems like lately there has been too much to do and I just honestly haven’t gotten an appointment yet to get her in. So I’m thinking, why not give her a good massage with some of the oils that I’ve been reading about lately? Could it hurt? No. So into the house both dogs come and I spend quite a bit of time reading what I should do for her. When I finally find one that I should use, I added it to some other oil and start massaging her back legs and her back hip. To say that she absolutely LOVED IT is an understatement! And kinda for awhile I thought I killed her or something because she literally didn’t move a muscle. I did one of those checks that you do when you have a little baby in the house – you look to make sure that their belly is going up and down to double check! Now I realize how I must look when I get a massage 🙂 After she got all rubbed down and I walked into the other room, here she comes limping again. What? It was her front leg and not her back leg!! So I grab my little bowl with the oil in it and as she was leading the way back to the blanket to get her front legs massaged, I swear she was smiling!
Kaiser on the left and Reno on the right
And finally loud noises
There has been a lot of chatter that I’m reading about tonight on facebook and the internet about a loud noise that was heard over the midwest last night. And I don’t know if you heard it, but I sure did. I was upstairs in my craft room when I heard what I thought was an airplane going over. But when it lasted over a minute I started to listen closer and thought that maybe it was just the rain or something. When it was lasting over two minutes it started to kinda freak me out so I literally went outside to try to figure out what it was. It lasted about 3 minutes and not only I can’t figure it out, but it looks like a lot of others can’t figure it out either. I found quite a few articles on it as far as Wisconsin – but with no explanation of what it was. Weird huh?