My house looked like a bomb hit it this morning, but now, it's almost as clean as it gets for company! One of my biggest irritations when then power was out was clutter. No place to set things, fumbling around trying to find things, I love a tidy camp :~)
I think your brother will like the present :~) Sounds like fun :~)
We just got back from town, went to the hardware store to get stuff. There's a storm with wind coming in tonight, hopefully not too bad, but if the power goes out again, we're ready :~)
Here's some pics :~) We have improved our emergency water supply.. raised it up a little to get enough gravity to more easily fill the horse buckets outside with the hose. We've also added another barrel that was extra at the beach house, for more potable water we can get at with a siphon. We need to have a lot of water, we used about half the barrel in this last outage, just keeping horses watered, toilet flushed, and drinking and washing water.
And some cute doggie pics... First, I think we found the perfect cover for Gidget's chair, don't you think? :~)
And tell me if this isn't the cutest most pathetic sight. Homer's been licking a bare spot on his back, right on his spine. We switched dog food recently, and have now switched back, thinking it might be a food allergy. It was getting better, but during the storm and aftermath, he went after it again, from stress. So I put this t-shirt on him, cut a hole for his tail so it stays put, cut the front out of it so he can pee, and he can't get to it now. I think it's really cute on him :~)
Heh...we did the t-shirt thing with my brother's Golden after he had some surgery and kept wanting to pick at his stitches. Some sort of baseball shirt, as I recall.
Homer looks a little depressed about the whole thing. Not that that's a lot different from his usual mode, of course...
I hope he at least laughs when he opens it. To me, it woulda been worth it.
You know, Terra (my old greyhound) got hit by a car. It tore her skin from one "armpit" over her back at the base of her neck to the other armpit and pealed it back to nearly her tail. She didn't have any broken bones or torn muscles amazingly, but it almost skinned her alive. She had drains and stitches like you wouldn't believe and I treated her like she was in intensive care (she was...had an IV and everything at home) and stayed at her side till it healed up all but a huge hole in her skin, 2" across that wouldn't heal. I say, you could see her muscles. I tried everything. Finally, I tried some burn medicine we had and would just rub it right into that gapping hole. Then I put a tie-dyed t-shirt on her so she couldn't lick and it worked. It healed right up.
Just a few weeks later she bit Matthew.
...I never even met the lady. It all happened pretty fast. He's just shattered.