Busy Week

It sure has been a busy week.  Working from home, I found I actually had less leisure time most days this first week as I was taking advantage of the longer lunch hour at home (and my coffee breaks) to get some of the laundry done that always gets put off (sheets, comforters .... pillows!)

The dogs do like having me home during the day.  While I'm working I can't DO anything with them (except once in a while tell them to be quiet), but they curl up at my feet or beside me on the recliner which needs to be moved from the room, or even behind my computer chair so that I have to peek behind me before getting up from the desk.  They're getting potty breaks on my coffee breaks, so hopefully that will go further towards having dry darned carpets!

Maxx just picked up a carpet knife yesterday or the day before, and he's going to be ripping the carpet out of the spare room as soon as he can.  We'll then have to see what the floor is like and make appropriate plans.  We'd like to get this cork type flooring we heard about where it's sort of like tiles of cork, that can be replaced on a tile-by-tile basis if they get damaged, and are apparently really simple to install.  Simple to install would be good!  Now, we just need to really get together on one of our days off together and LOOK at flooring.  Obviously, we need something that would be able to stand up to the dogs.  It would be so nice to get rid of all the carpeting and replace it with nice flooring!  Then, when that is done we could look at working on the areas of the house which currently have linoleum, as it's all pretty nasty.  If we can get all the floors redone, that should certainly help if a time comes when we are selling.  Then, next task would be the walls in the living room (taking down the wood panelling) and the master bedroom (fixing where the wall had to be torn out a while back due to a roof leak ... while repaired it wasn't "finished").

But, not planning on doing much today, although I do have to take Imp and Elf in to the vet for the leptospirosis booster shots.  I really REALLY urge people who have dogs to ask their vet about this shot. When we were taking care of my mother-in-law's dog, she actually caught lepto and was the first reported case on Vancouver Island, apparently.  So, even if it's not been in your area it can come ... and it has the potential to not just kill your beloved dog, but it can be passed on to humans (I think it's called zoonosis) and can also kill us.

Something to think about.