A bad plumbing job

OK about my adventures with this house. It has been a major remodeling job from the beginning. Weellll all that aside I finally got moved in and of course it took a week to get the phone and Internet on. Well I started having problems with my sewer line backing up. If I washed clothes I filled the tub up. It finally got to the point that we could not flush the toilets yesterday. Steve and I both were outside and under the house today trying to find the problem. We finally found it outside just past the concrete slab behind the house. It had been broken at some point in it's life before we moved in. Well guess what like all the plumbing under this house it was never glued at the joints. Who does not glue their plumbing joints together. I know things are rough all over but a can of pipe glue is not that much. So we start digging in the stinky dirt. YUCK and it was a major gusher when we moved some of the dirt we just stepped back and watched. As I write this Steve is on his way to Lowe's For another connector because we cut the pipe outside the house in hopes of draining it. He pulled the whole piece up and we moved some dirt to get the gushing drainage. So It is another day of fixing bad construction I really need to find good contractors.

The big move

This the second writing of this as one of my kittens spooky is trying to help me type it. Sorry for the blur he would not stop walking and he is also trying to share my pork rinds which is why he's head in the bag. And Ms Mittens is the top picture. We finally got moved into my house  about 2 weeks agoYipppeee. My future mother in-law was happy to because she was babysitting a cat that had adopted us and gave me five kittens. Well we brought them home and oh did the fun begin. Of course anyone who has had to haul cats knows they do not travel well. So their first day here and they have to get a bath. You know that card with the cat in the sink all wet and soapy we had that in spades. So we get all the cranky Kitty's washed and dried and then we let the dogs out. Well Ms Mittens(momma) was used to Taz who is a the same size she is. Well here come my two monsters Mittens about came unhinged she started hissing and snarling. Poor King took one look at her and ran. Now here is a 50 lbs dog running from a cat, but I can't say much as Skeeter did to and he's over 100lbs. The dogs were glued to my heels it was a case of mommy save me from the big bad putty tat. Ms Mittens in all her determination to get the dogs got me twice in the next 12 hrs. We won't discuss the condition of my legs let tell you they are rough looking. I know have a cat who runs the house and her five kittens. One of them reminds everyone of the cat in Bed Nobs and broomsticks complete with missing fur (Spooky). It was so bad here that the first 2 days I had to take my dogs to my mothers while I went to work. Because Mittens would stalk the dogs. I wish I could have recorded it. It was funny to watch. That first morning they were here is when Mittens really got me. OK I walk out of the bedroom with both dogs on my heels and here is Mittens sitting in the living room (start Theme from Jaws) She goes to attack the dogs and I mean all claws out and sharpened and she got me instead OUCH. Well I let out a yell that wakes everyone up and since the kids had school no biggy right. My poor daughter I yelled at her to get me a towel as I am bleeding all over the place and I limp to the door to take to the dogs out still bleeding. I open the door to come back in the house with the dogs (start Jaws Theme Again) and Mittens is in the laundry room just waiting to pounce. The dogs would not come back in at all with her there. So I'm still bleeding as I run the cat off so we can get back in the house. By the time we get back in my towel is waiting, Steve is up and he got bandages and what not to wrap my shredded leg. (It's a good thing I like animals) Poor Steve he works nights so me squacking was not what he wanted to wake up to right after he got to bed. So we have now started day one. Of course that was 4 days ago so my legs are finally starting to heal. I promise you much more of the insanity that is now very normal in my house. And yes the Jaws theme still Plays to this day

Sunrise on the Lake

Here Is the sunrise from my parents place on the Lake

Watching a storm move in

Heading home and into the storm

Down at the Landing

Cruising up 65

Back at the Landing

The sun behind some clouds while I was at the Landing

Sorry It's been awhile since I posted life has been rather crazy, between work school and remodeling my house. But I'm still here. I was down at the Landing in Branson and I had to take some pics of the storm that was moving in. I also got some cool pics of the sun behind the clouds. I hope you like them as much as I do.

My Wacky Pets

I have to admit my dogs are always on point when someone has food. They remind of that Snoopy cartoon when Snoopy is on top of his dog house and has his tilted down doing his vulture impersonation. Or maybe Chance from Homeward Bound moving food must follow. My poor kids are main target. In the morning they will be sitting their eating their poptarts and they hold it just a tad to far away from them and it's gone. Then I hear MOM Skeeter or King or Nadia Ate my POPTART. The frustration or sometimes exasperation is right there in their voices. I just tell them get another and don't feed this one to the dogs. They fire back with I didn't give it to him he took it. I just laugh these day might not happen every day, but if there is food there are the dogs. Even when I'm cooking anything in the kitchen here they come to try and lay under my feet in hopes I drop something. Where would we be with out the undying love of our pets, or is it the hope of a free hand out.

Comming soon The tennis ball relay

Well Skeeter and King invented a new game the tennis ball relay. Here's how it works mom takes the chuck-it complete with tennis ball and fakes throwing the ball. Skeeter falls for it every time. (He kinda reminds me of the dog from the movie Over The Hedge) when he gets down in the yard he looks a little lost cause he can't find the ball. He looks back at me and I throw the ball. Well I bet you can't guess what happens next He chases it and gets it and doesn't bring it back. So I end up yelling for him to drop it every time and he does. Poor King at this point is still standing next to me the second it hits the ground he is off. He works his way down to the area where Skeeter dropped the ball. When he gets it he has to dodge Skeeter and work his way back to me with the ball. So we can do it all over I guess it is a combination of relay and keep away. Anyway I plan on bringing this to you soon in the form of a video clip. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

single parent

Some day's you have to wonder how you survived. I am a single mom with two great kids although sometimes I wonder about them. I know every parent out there has those days. But as a single mom it is tough to fill both sets of shoes needed by your kids. You try to juggle work, family time, homework time, and still if your lucky alone time for mom or dad. I know its rough out there. The job I currently have I have 2 days a week that I'm at work 15hrs a day. I work 4 days total and I'm going to school full time. You add kids to that and it's real tough, but possible. I know single mom's with 2 jobs. Heck I give them a thumbs up. I'm sure someone else has it worse that I do. Keep on trying is all I can say.

My six year old son has recently started on a new approach that he thinks will keep him out of trouble. It's called flatter mom when she yells at me. I think it's kinda cute but it doesn't work the way he wants it to. Especially after he hits his sister with a monster truck. I mean what was he thinking right. My 8 year old daughter sets her brother up as the fall guy every chance she gets. By now I've figured it out if she instantly claims innocence and her brother did it all she probably started it. I love the moments where they do those crazy things most kids do when they shut their little brains off. Your sitting there scratching your head asking why. For example my daughter at times can be a bit of a flake, but we were watching NCIS the other day on dvd and the one episode "See no Evil" was highlighted she reads it to me then asked Mom how do you spell evil. I just looked at her she's joking right. So I had to ask why did she need me to spell when she read it to me off the tv screen. So she points to the words and again reads the title and still wants me to spell it. My 6yr old promtly starts in E.V.I.L can't you read that. We all laughed after that but I do wonder why.