Fresh start to the New Year

 Of coarse need an obligatory Dog show picture in it!  November 30th Autumn finished both her Novice Obedience Title and her Rally Advanced title.  As of right now I am starting to work Willow back into condition so hopefully she can finish her Rally Advanced title.  

Now onto the New Year fun stuff.  Snowmaggeden as everyone was calling it is here.  They were saying 18-24" of snow with some sleet and ice in it.  Made a HUGE run on the grocery stores.  Even banana's didn't survive the masses emptying the store shelves out.  

What did we get?  an inch or two and it's currently freezing rain outside.  When it switches back to snow I'll scrap the porch and clear my car off.  But the weather didn't even slow Autumn down when it came to playing with her Jolly Ball that Natalie got her a few months ago.  But I enjoyed getting Icicle pictures and the girls out in the mess. 

Willow has been quite enjoying the crate mat I bought for Autumn's show crate with a blanket over it to lay on.  

Yesterday before the snow started I ran to Lowes to let the girls get out and do something and I picked up a set of drill bites since I knew I needed to drill holes for putting anchors in.  I had bought some clear plastic floating shelves to put up in my room for displaying My Little Ponies on.
I put a few of them up.

Now that I have the little camera back in action basically I'll try to do better about updating.  With more than just Dog Shows.

Fishing Trip round 2

 Today dad and I went down to Grayson lake.  Grayson was smooth and not so flooded

The girls were so happy when I got home.  They didn't appreciate me having 2 fishing trips in one week.  But they enjoyed their romping around in the fenced yard afterwards

Fishing Trip!

 

Dad and I took the boat out for a good shake down run and a little fishing.  Neither of us were expecting Cave Run to be THAT flooded still.  Dad was still able to get it launched over at Scott's Creek and we got it out in the water.  It was rather rough and just getting worse.  We lasted only hour and a half-ish 

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Pics below you can see how high the water levels had been.

Some picture updates

 So I moved in last Friday night, Jess and Allen were over here before I was.  Dad got gravel delivered the other day and Harry came down and spread it. He's going to come back down in a few days to smooth it out some more. Today since Jess and I were both off we hit the kitchen and living room pretty hard to start getting stuff cleaned up and set up into places.  

So yes Allen, we have so much more counter space.  We still have a long ways to go but it's so much better than it was.  The one picture you can see the small display cabinet that has the Stablemate Breyer unicorns that I kept.  Top shelf of the book shelves is Mom, Grandma Kauffman, Fred, the Bunny from Gene Warner, and my little guardian Angel from Connie Richardson. 

Autumn has settled in really well, she's learned the bed is a nice place to sleep, so she does sleep with me, Willow isn't as big a fan though.  Hopefully eventually she will figure it out but Autumn is a pretty good bed hog on her own. 

Dad got our mailbox put in a couple days ago as well, it's way down by Benny's so I have to remember to either pull into Benny's driveway or walk all the way down to it.  Honestly it's so much safer down there, we are on that curve so someone would have taken it out if we had tried to put it closer.  

Still need the numbers for the front though.  Something to help the Mail lady.

And lastly Dad's patch on the tub.  It feels super solid in there.  Water pressure is fantastic and thank to Uncle Jim and his BIL Bill too, we have lovely hot water.  

Getting Closer!

 

Not a dog show post!  No more shows until March for me and the girls.  

Anyway, the power is on now, and hopefully by New Years we'll be in.  Hopefully Benny will be over this coming week to hook up the septic, then really we just need internet(which Jess is supposed to call and get moving on Monday) and then gravel on the driveway. 

But I have been working on my bedroom more and more.  Tomorrow afternoon we are going to do soem heavy work on the kitchen/dining/Living rooms to make them more than ready to go.

Plus my desk is moved over, tomorrow Jess is going to hook back up my computer.  Dad has to re-glue the middle drawer track back together, I'll just put that stuff into the box while he works on that drawer.

Our chest freezer has gotten moved over, it's plugged in, running and has our stuff in it!

Got most of my carousel ornaments up on the wall, they are kind of behind my bedroom door and I have plenty more to still go up, including the unicorn ones too.

The girls were chilling out while I worked on my plastic ponies

And Got the TV up and going on the Calvary external harddrive.  Had a movie playing while I worked.  Helped settle the girls and gave me a time frame to work with.