Misc. Tidbits:

*Tomorrow is the last day of Brodie’s puppy class. He doesn’t start again until September. Nice break for us! I am still amazed at how quickly he learns stuff.

*Hot Hot Hot
Going to be at least mid-80′s over the next several days. I hope to have time over the weekend to take Brodie to a local lake. He loves the water and I’m curious to see what he does.

*A couple of weeks ago our 11 year old huge projection tv went kaput. Seems to me something like that should last a bit longer but what do I know! Hubs bought a bigger led/lcd (whatever!) hgtv flat screen….

And I LOVE it!!!!

Since it is a flat screen and I didn’t want to mount it on the wall we had to order a tv stand. I didn’t like any locally so we ordered from Hayneedle. We got the Hampton White Oak one. At this very moment it is still in the box. Hubs will assemble it this weekend! The tv has been on our coffee table for the last two weeks and it will be nice to have that back!

*Remodel
Ugh!
We have lived in this house for over 20-something years and the only thing we have ever done was paint and install carpet. The carpet was ripped up over a month ago (it was old and yucky) and I am sick of the pink and blue country-type theme our house presents.

So we decided to start re-doing the inside of our house. I have been taking pictures so I have before and after comparisons as well as a video here and there.

This will be a time consuming and long process as we both (hubs and I) don’t have a lot of spare time (we are doing this ourselves). Because we have suspected there were ‘issues’ with the smaller bathroom (since day one) hubs decided he best start there.

Good Thing.

Long story short:
Since before we moved in there was water leakage I assume from the bathtub/shower. Hubs said it looked like it was fixed once or twice but never properly. Needless to say there is a lot of rot…so much so that the entire outside wall is….gone (hubs had to remove everything-even the outside siding of the house). We have a sheet of plywood up so we can still use the bathroom without baring ourselves to our neighbors!

Half the floor has been removed so hubs can get under there and repair some of the pipe. Nothing specifically wrong with the pipe but he wants to fix it with plastic NOW while everything is open.

To fix the above mentioned pipe he will need to remove the toilet and sink.

*Panic*

We have recently gone from a two person household to a 5 person household during the week and a 7 person household during the weekends!

I have already warned everyone that we will be down to one bathroom at least for this weekend. I am keeping my fingers crossed that hubs can do the repairs quickly so at least we can get the new toilet back up and working.

Worse case scenario…
There is a park across the street that has bathrooms.
**snicker**

That’s it for now.
I have been busy keeping up with the spring/summer soap making, revamping our Fall Harvest labels, experimenting with a few new scents, getting ready to start making our fall soaps, putting together free samples for Confessions Hair Studio to hand out with every hair cut (our soaps are available at the salon).

I still as of this very moment have NOT had time to weed the flower beds. Total neglect. Looks like crap. But what do you do??
I figure if I wait long enough maybe I will just have to do it once before fall sets in.

Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Friendly Shea Butter Spa Products

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