And What Do We Do on a Sunny, Snowy Day....

.....in the North Country? Well....we SKI!!

We were out walking, and every step i took, i sunk down about a foot. It was great exercise, but I was getting exhausted, and realized that SKIING would make me smile. So, ran back to the house, strapped on the skis, and off we went. It is super icy, so the downhill part really felt like alpine skiing...not an easy feat with nordic skis! Good times though...gorgeous gorgeous, and the dogs were happy to run run run. Hmm, maybe later i will strap on the alpine skis and brush up on my mad skills? The neighbors will think i have GONE MAD though...oh well. Fun times.

Good Dog, Bad Dog

....or, My Dog and My Cat, or....My dog, and the Husbands Dog. Can you spot the good dog in this picture??? He is the well behaved one, sitting on the FLOOR! The other one, well....you cannot say he is not ALL Vizsla. This is what they do. Really, you just have to learn to laugh at it, and accept that they are what they are. cats.

Snow snow, lots of snow. We are telling ourselves that we LURVES us some snow. It is pretty, and cold is a GOOD thing, and we love love love it. We can ski and snowshoe...and all is right in the world. And the plow guy came, so at any minute, we can load the car and head for Shelley's condo in Florida. And believe me, we have the route ALL PLANNED OUT.

Happy Thanksgiving

Well, i am thankful for WONDERFUL neighbors, who have invited me to Thanksgiving dinner over at their house. I am even MORE thankful that i do not need to DRIVE to get there, because if i did, i would NOT be going!!! I could not leave my house if i wanted to right now..there is about two feet of snow in my driveway, with about three to four at the end of the driveway, courtesy of the state snow plows. Awesome! I think i have an appointment with my snow shovel. I hope my back can take it, it just about reached it's limit shoveling off the pack porch for the dogs. The houndies MUST be able to reach the toilet, aka the backyard, without having to climb over mountains of snow.

I am also very thankful that the neighbor dogs that i am dog-sitting for across the street decided to come home last night. Their stupid electric fence failed (ask me how much i am against electric fences another time) and they took off for the day yesterday. I called my neighbor, and she did not really even care. She was mad at "the stupid dogs". Um...no comment. The dogs did come back last night, and will be spending the remainder of the weekend in the toasty warm house. If they wreck anything...not my problem!!! I will feed them, and play with them, and let them out to pee. They are sweet sweet dogs, and deserve better owners.

My own dogs are all snugged in right now, under wool blankies on the couch. We are watching TV, and thinking about going out for a ski.

I am thankful for my awesome, wonderful Husband. I love you, babe. Oh...the Seahawks are playing the Cowboys today. Go 'hawks!

Warmies!!

I have a new furnace, and it is the prettiest thing i have ever seen! I will post pics in a bit for the man, but too lazy to go upstairs and download them.
snowy snowy out right now...was going to go to a friends for Thanksgiving, but i feel no need to be on the road right now, so will go across the street to the neighbors house. good to have good neighbors!

yesterday laughing, today...not so much

Today i hit the wall and the tears and massive frustration came. The husband, bless his heart, was bound and determined to get our crappy home buyers insurance (that shitty little insurance you can buy that covers repairs to EVERYTHING for one year?) to cover the cost of the furnace replacement. He called them from Iraq, and after an incredibly massive headache, and many many phone calls on my end, their end, and his end...it got pushed through. Everything was going to be GRAND. Yeah right. They just called me back to say ...nope...SORRY!
I knew that they would be a headache, and i KNEW that they would not cover this. Bless the man's heart for trying, but i knew that he was wasting his time. He was.
Note to anyone ever buying a house....do NOT buy that shitty insurance that is supposed to cover everything that could ever possibly go wrong in your house during that first year. They do not cover a FREAKING thing, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get an emergency call pushed through, and you will just be throwing your money and sanity away. Save the $500 and put it towards medicinal marijuana, and wine. and a good hammer. and a xanax or ten.
Today i am going to get my haircut. I will be putting the dogs in their sweaters, and bringing them along with me, because i do not feel secure leaving them in the house with a malfunctioning heating system.

My heating guy....

....gets a gold freaking star.
He was going to install my furnace next Tuesday, but had to change it to this friday. he just now called me back to let me know that he will be here this Weds to install. He knows i am very freaked about this whole ordeal, and he does not want me going through Thanksgiving with any more stress. Pretty nice, huh? he and his dad (who is the husband of my realtor) completely rearranged their schedule so that they could do this. They kind of know that i will not be sleeping well while this whole ordeal is looming over me.
honestly, i just am so thankful for this family. They have been nothing but THERE for the husband and i on this entire home adventure. SO, i am giving thanks to them this year.

New Furnace Coming.....

....have you ever seen Strange Brew? That part where they are giving "Hosehead" the dog a donut, and they say "jelly donut coming" to appease him in the meantime. Anyways....i wish i only had to pay for a jelly donut...but no...i get to buy a new furnace. ugh. oh well...at least in the meantime i still have heat. And all the shit i have been through for the past few months has just made me laugh at all of this. had i not been through all the other shit, i would be curled up on the ground in the fetal position. But seriously...what ELSE can you do, when in the past year you have had to:
Put a new roof on your house
Re-route and re-fit the majority of your plumbing
Replace your heating oil tank
Install a new sump pump
Buy a new washing machine (that it turns out you really did not need to do because the one that you thought broke in the move turned out to be not-all-that-broken after all.
There is more, i know there is more...but i cannot think of it right now.
Anywhoot.....like i said, all you can do is laugh at this point.
Oh...i know the other one....send your beloved off to war!