Mom sees red...

Camryn here:
     You guys may remember Grampa's little dog Mickey who comed to visit us several times last year?  Well, on account of his health Grampa gived Mickey to one of his daughters.  This daughter is down in WV with Grampa right now while we gets our new house bought and the old house ready for Grampa. 
     Sister wanted her hubby to come down and visit for a while.  Their car won't make the trip so Mom n Dad lended him one of ours.  They also said that Grampa didn't wanna see Mickey for some reason so they was leaving Mickey with us for the week.  Well, upon her husband picking up the truck and dropping Mickey off, Mom decided she was glad Grampa wasn't gonna see Mickey.  He'd have cried at the condition they had her in, as it was Mom was seeing red big time. 
     Mickey has a poodle coat being a Pekeapoo, and course this means she needs groomed and brushed regular like.  SIGH, Mickey hadn't been groomed proper since Mom took her to groomer last year, and we're pretty certain she hadn't met a brush either.  Along with that she hadn't met any toenail trimmers.  Her toenails was over an inch long, poor girl had hard time walking with them, they was so long they actually crossed over each other & her dew claws was curled right up to her leg!  Mom gotted her dremel out and got them back far enough to make her more comfy.  Her coat was beyond just matted, the mats was pulling her skin and making it hurt when she walked, she couldn't even jump on the couch cause the mats pulled on her joints when she tried.  She had poops matted to her bottom, and her girl parts it was like a matt diaper!!!  Dad said she looked like she had dread locks, Mom said she looked like she lived with some of those hoarders on
T.V.
     Being a holiday weekend Mom had to wait to get her groomed proper, but she got down on the floor, and scissored the matts of poor Mickey for over 5 hours.  And get this Mickey never wiggled onced.  Dad was kinda poo pooing Mom's ranting about animal cruelty and neglect till she needed his help as she cleaned the matt diaper from Mickey's girlie parts.  His eyes bugged outa his head when he "finally" realized Mom's rants were for good reason.  Yesterday Mom got her into her groomer friend, they gived her a bath and trimmed her down proper (she's naked actually).  The groomer is at Vet office Mom used to work for, so they can and did sedate Mickey to get her nails to where they need to be.
     Dad talked to his sister who had tons of excuses, "the groomer closed, I tried to cut the mats, she wouldn't let us, we didn't think she was that bad" kind of excuses. (Mom googled area groomers, there are 5 of them)  
"They didn't notice?  A poop, pee smelling, filthy, matted miserable  in pain little dog in their laps and they didn't notice?" 
 Dad told her to save her excuses and that she'd be lucky if Mom didn't tear her out a new A##% hole when she sawed her next.  Dad also warned her husband that if he saw Mom when picking Mickey up that he'd better be wearing body armor.  The husband tried to get Dad to just leave the keys so he could pick her up when Mom's at work even!  Mom is "NO WAY" I'm gonna drop kick the SOB!  She plans to let him know that she'll be keeping tabs on Mickey and if she ever even gets a sniff of neglect she will take Mickey AND report them too.
     The Sister & her husband aren't mean, they are just STUPID, LAZY & IGNORANT.  They can't even claim they works to much to groom her right, cause they live off the government and watch soap operas all day.  Oh, and it turns out that "they found Mickey's brushes" at Grampas on this visit.  Which of course means that they never even bothered to get the tools to take care of her.  They also only brought enough food for a few days when Mickey is here for a week.  So course on top of payin for Mickey to get cleaned up, we had to buy her food too!!!  Guess they figured with three dogs we'd have enough.  We do but, not same kind Mickey eats.  Mom also gotted Mickey all caught up on her vaccinations so they wouldn't have no excuse as that a groomer wouldn't take her cause of not having them.
     Mom is given them another chance for several reasons, one being Grampa gave her to them, and of course we gots enough animals without taking her.  Mickey also doesn't really fit in with our critter crew at all either.  Our dogs think she's very odd (she is) and she acts like other dogs gots cooties!
     Sorry to go on like this but, just something I had to get offa my chest and vent over.  On a good note, Mom n Dad picked me a load of hay yesterday.  Right now they're just gonna be doing it in small bunches stead of loading this barn, then having to move it when we move.
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Fly Swatting 101...

Camryn here:
Sadly along with lovely grasses, warm weather n sunshine.  Spring brings with it flies & bugs of all shapes & sizes.  Coarse they loooooove us horses, along with our other hooved counterparts.  We however don't love them back.  Luckily I am armed very well with an excellant and lovely if I do say so myself, fly swatter...

As I munch calmly and happily on my lovely green grasses, some of these hateful bugs wanna munch on me.  Sooooo...

I swish it this way....

Then I swish it that way.  If simply swishing doesn't do the trick I then...

"MO-OOOM, fly spray, blankie and mask & hurry it up!"

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Can't talk now...

Camryn here:
Sorry can't talk right now...Mouth full!!!

This patch looks pretty tasty, nom, nom...

Mmmmm, this patch is good too, nomminy, nom, nom...

Sorry can't look up right now, tooooooo good...

 

Fly go away, I'm eating...

Heaven, I'm in Heaven...nom, nom, nom!

 

Yep, finally at last I'm getting more of the green stuff.  Feeling kinda Irish surrounded by it all.  Mom's been letting me graze for longer periods of time.  She started at juat 10 minutes, awesome, but at the same time torture.  I'm now up to 30ish minutes.  Much better and more bearable.  Enjoying my little slice of green heaven thank you very much.

On the new house front, the radon test failed, so awaiting sellers decision on how she wants to take care of this issue.  With it having now been tested and it's being a serious health hazard she can no longer sell it without disclosing the problem.  So, she needs to either have it fixed or deduct the cost of fixing!  There were a few other slight problems that Dad doesn't mind taking care of at our cost, the radon however may be a deal breaker.  Also the bank is appraising the house today to make sure it's worth what the loan amount will be.  We don't think there will be a problem there, however we didn't think there would be a radon problem either.  Dad almost didn't do the test, Mom felt we should, so thankfully we did!

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Boring human stuff...

Camryn here:
Well, since Mom did take pix specially for me of (waiting apprasial) the new place, guess it's only fair if I show you guys the boring human part of it...

The front yard, Mom doesn't much like split levels but, it's got everything her wanted/needed (like my barn) so she's OK with it.  She finds the placement of some of the trees unatural and odd.  So expect them to have shrubs n flowers with them come fall if I know my Mom.

 

The front porch where Mom can watch the cows.  Mom's gonna be moving lots of her flowers over since keeping up with all her flower beds will be way to much for Grampa.  Come next spring it'll be so purty.

This is Mom's kitchen, she finds it odd that the oven/fridge are side by side but, maybe in five years she'll redo it.  The counter tops are outdated, but again in five years she'll change them.  Lots to do and kitchens being so spensive to redo it'll do nicely while she does other less pricey stuff.

This is the family room with Dad checking out the fireplace.  Mom's gotta get rid of the ugly fugly deer hunting border first thing. The deer hunting theme border is in almost every room!!! This'll be the most used room for Dad!

This be the guest bath, it's roomy and needs some updating too. My stuff comes first however.

The living room, Mom says the ugly fugly window covering going bye bye.  The owner is camping as she moves things out!  With this house having more space than our current she'll be furniture shopping for this room and the dining room too. Afer she does my stuff first of course.

This be the Master bedroom, again ugly fugly border going bye bye

Mom says this is gonna be the guest bedroom, on account of the ugly fugly border n carpet will mean they don't stay long hee hee.  The other bedroom isn't as ugly so her's gonna use that for Gramma's staying for Dr. visits.

Oddly enough Mom tooked picture of Dad sitting in the family room via the laundry room.  The laundry room is huge so her's gonna make it her art work area too. She can get pretty messy working on paintings.

Ahhhhh, this last one is Mom's favorite part of the house.  She can look out her bedroom window and watch me in my dining area. 

  The plan is once the closing happens is Mom'll go strip the ugly borders, clean, & paint.  While she's doing this guys'll be running the electric n water to my barn, while other guys put in the dogs fence and mine.  As she gets rooms done, Dad'll moving stuff room by room as he gets our current house readied for Gramma.  Lotsa Mom n Dad teamwork will be in play.  Mom figures she's gonna have to take coupla weeks offa work to Get R Done.

There be more boring room pictures but, like I say they be boring so I won't make you suffer thru any more of those.

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Dining area...

Camryn here:
Mom made sure to take pictures of what is going to be my most favorite part about the move.  The dining area...

 Mom stood way at the back of my dining area for this pic.  See how far away my barn is!!!  I'm hungry just looking at it all!!!

 Then her tooked a picture looking out to the end of my dining area too.  You can make out where my dining area ends and the farmers field begins.  Grass, grass, grass, AND there aren't ducks in the new pasture!  It's higher up than where we live now with much better drainage.  Down side to that is if we have another drought all that lovely green grass will turn brown much quicker.

This is closer up to the barn, Dad is gonna put me in a dutch door at the back.  That way I'll be able to look at and see my new Neigh-Bray-bors on either side when I'm in my room at night.  Oh, and my stall is gonna be much bigger than my 12 X12, it's gonna be 12 X 15.  AWESOME!

I won't have access to the barn aisle like I do now but, with my own "patio"  I can go under there when it's raining.  There are a few young trees, nothing for shade to speak of but, again I'll have my "patio"!  Dad plans to cut in a door on the top to access the loft to load my hay in.  Mom's talking bout getting artsy on it too.  Oh, the shrubs off my "patio" are gonna be moved and Mom'll put gravel where they are now to keep the mud down.  I'm so glad Mom made sure to take pix so I could better imagine my new home.
Dad's got someone all lined up to run the water n electric to my new house too.  With Dad still in college n working full time he's decided to hire someone to put in the fence posts for my new paddock n pasture. 
We be hoping to be moved come late July, maybe early August.  Getting us AND Grampa moved gonna take some doing for sure.
Kinda bummed that with having close by Neigh-Bray-bors I won't be getting a mini something of my very own.  BUT, that also means all that grass is mine and only mine!
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