Sunday Evening Adorableness

Now I know everyone has been so patient this week and to reward you all, I give you not one, but TWO adorable puppy videos!  They are now 5 weeks and 3 days old.  If you go back to the older posts and see the other videos, you can see how much they develop every week.  Today I am looking at them and they have crossed the line from infants to toddlers. They can scamper and scurry, they can pick things up and hold on to them tight while some other pup tries to take it away. They are interested in their toys and the Giants who seem to spend a lot of time making coo-ing noises to them.  They come when I call "puppy puppy".  And they have been moved to the big puppy pen in the kitchen area.  They have a lot more room to play and in a few days, we will increase the play area and decrease the peeing area so they learn to seek out papers to go on.  They will also start to go outside tomorrow for short times since the weather is so mild here right now.  That will give me a chance to really clean the pen out throughly 3 times a day or so.
In a couple of days they will be allowed "Playtime!" which means free run of the front room to explore, run and play in.  I still have to puppy proof this room.
Here are the puppies checking out the new living quarters this afternoon after I put them in for the first time:

And here they are after I added their toys:

Sunday Morning Adorableness

I will try and get a video done today and get it up here later on but here is something to get everyone's "Awww!" factor working well this morning:

JJ (Justin Junior) is in the middle flanked by two of the girls, who are virtual clones of each other. Thankfully their neck markings are quite different. 
This is where they go when I change their papers out.  But they barely fit in here anymore!
Today is our big move to the kitchen so they can be part of the family, a good worming and their first baths.  A very exciting day for baby corgis!
Also, I sent the DM tests in on Friday morning, if we are lucky, the results should be here by next Friday.

Four and Twenty Corgis, baked in a pie....

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty corgis baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the corgis began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When along came a corgi and bit off her nose!


OK, I have had some artistic license with this old nursery rhyme.  But it is fun, anyway.  And here is my corgi pie!

Now Jerry just loves chicken pot pie and I just happen to make very good chicken pot pie! So tonight I decided to have some fun with my pie and made it a corgi pie! I took the bits of crust that I trimmed off and rolled them up and attempted to make a corgi.  
Here it is baked up:

Well, now that I look at the pictures (after it was all gobbled up!) it rather looks like a lamb or a goat.  Whatever.... we have goats, too:)  It's the thought that counts, or at least that is what I am told.  It was just an impromptu thing that I did to jazz up dinner time.  I have an idea of how to handle it next time, though, and make a more realistic looking corgi.
By the way, the pie was excellent and half of it was eaten for dinner, the rest will be lunches for Jerry this week!

Just Slightly Off Topic

Well, Geez, maybe it isn't off topic.  Remember the post a little while back where I said that they cancelled school here if anyone even said the "S" word?  We are having a "storm" right now, started snowing just a little bit around noon and it's 5:00 now.  We have maybe 3 inches.  They have already cancelled school for tomorrow.
Jerry and I were in WalMart this morning and yep, the rush was on.  Fortunately I was shopping for other things besides actual food, although I did pick up a few things.  Someone sent me this picture of Austin, TX and I just had to share it, it is exactly how people down here feel about snow.
And you really can't blame them for that, because this really has been an unusual year. 100 degrees nearly every day in July and August and 90s throughout September.  Of course, I loved that part of it and thought maybe, just maybe, I would thaw out before winter got here.  Not quite but I was feeling much better about actually going outside without thinking about if I needed one sweatshirt or two. And yes, two summers ago, that is exactly what it was like in Michigan.  :) Even when I went up in August to get the last load of animals, it was quite chilly that evening and following morning when I picked them up.
We had an awesome Fall and then around Thanksgiving, things started to crumble a little bit with the weather.  I have been told that on average, there are just a couple of inches of snow every winter, and of course, this Dec/Jan/Feb we have had at least a foot total, I'm guessing.  I'll have to see if I can find the total accumulation for this area.
And what is that sound I hear now?  Oh, it's just Jerry shoveling the front porch, a sound I have not heard since last March or April.  :)  Took him exactly 2 minutes to do it, too.  You know, he's really good at this.  We both are.  I just took the trash out in the big container for the morning.  It was at least a mile out to the road and I went up hill both ways.  :)
So it's not just the Texans that are freaking out about snow.  But we are fine and this is nothing, really nothing, compared to what we have seen in 31 years living in Michigan.

Video of Puppies Doing Absolutely Nothing Except Growing Up!

I guess everyone is really enjoying the videos, so here is a 3 minute long one of them just doing nothing, exploring, looking around and working on walking skills.  Please excuse my sniffing, I'm getting over a cold and I took this on Friday evening. That makes them just 4 weeks and 1 day old. They really don't do much at this age but they are working on basic skills, starting to interact more and trying to play (but not sure what the rules all are :).  But...for the puppy addict it is nice to sit and waste time watching them.  I'll do another one in about a week.  For those of you who are on my list, go back and compare week by week, it is truly amazing how they grow and develop.
On Wednesday (day before they are five weeks old) they will be moved from my huge bathroom (next to my bedroom) into the kitchen or the front room.  I have to do some measuring and see where is the best place for them.  I would like them in the front room but have to move a huge dining room table out first, so they may go in the kitchen to begin with and then move the table when it is a bit warmer and put the pups where that is.  I bought this wonderful kitchen table and now have decided it's too big for us, I would rather have a small dining room table and a corner where I can work on things on a table or a small chair to sit in where I can read, etc. 
Enjoy the babies!

And the Floors are done! (Mostly)

And here is the final result:

The grout was still wet, so there was a difference in the color for the moment and it will all darken down as soon as Jerry gets a sealer on it.  He got some of the baseboards put up today but expect we will go and get some tomorrow so this can be finished up. We've waited so long!  
It was cleaned twice today but that scuz they put on the floor, the grouting, takes a while to get removed and I just have a personal Universal Law about mopping the same floor more than twice a day. And anyway, Hayley went out and peed on it since we had no champagne to break on it!  We got some things moved out there, still will need to paint the walls, put up a different kitchen light and do the threshholds.  But the hardest part is done and now we can just pick at it as we please.  What a relief!  Tile floors are a snap to keep cleaned up and with a dog household, we were desperately in need of the tile!

This is Hayley in October, before the new floors were started. We'd torn up the carpet but that was all at this point.  She approves of the new floors!

Kentucky License Plates

So a license plate is a license plate, right?  Well, not really.  In my former state, although there was some variety, it is nothing like what I see in Kentucky!
Above is a plain old license plate.
The next one is the one we have on our truck:

When people asked me "why Kentucky?", the first reason was that we wanted little to no snow.  The second reason I gave was that I wanted a horse on my license plate.  :)  It was as good of a reason as any, I figured.
Then the one we have on one car:

And the other car:

There are all kinds for all sorts of causes, or of wildlife, etc.  Sit back and enjoy!  I like looking at all the plates and like seeing a new one that I haven't seen before!

I had a hard time deciding.  I love the waterfall, the dragonfly is especially pretty, and the polar bear is very eye catching!