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My silly leash pulling dog

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I was just saying on one of my other blogs that my dog gave me a real work out today. I discovered that if I only used her leash on her rather than her prong collar as well as leash that I get a massive workout.

Of course … along with a workout I’m sure if I did this all the time I’d probably have more than a few injuries since I also have a bad back and bad knees. LOL But I’m guess I wouldn’t need to use something like Lipofuze as I have a feeling that with all that pulling on the leash that my dog does when she doesn’t have her prong collar on I must burn double the calories!

We were out talking with our neighbors and our dog Midnight was over excited and wanting to explored their yard and it was all I could do to just hold on to the leash! She’s crazy when she’s showing off in front of people she likes. Silly dog!

It’s going to be a long time before our neighbors move in

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Our neighbors that come to their home infrequently to renovate were here for a few hours today. I really don’t know about them … I mean .. who buys a house, a year ago now, and only renovates it ones or twice a month? Who has the time and money to do that?

At the rate they’re going their house won’t be finished for about five years!

Right now they have no walls inside, or well just frames and as I said they’re going at a snail pace so it doesn’t seem like they’ll be moving in any time soon. I guess it’s a good thing his parents don’t seem to mind them living with them!

I was talking with the woman and she was telling me that there were going to eventually put in a laminate flooring called armstrong grand illusions. It looks nice. I’m sure their house will be very nice once they get everything done, but as I said, it’s taking forever. I was looking forward to having new neighbors, last year, but … I’m going to have to wait a long time before that happens!

Very persistent delivery person

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Well I think my next door neighbors might be expecting a second child. There’s been a lot of activity at their house over the last couple of weeks and I saw the oddest thing that I ever saw a delivery person do …

A week or so ago a van pulled up in front of our houses. It blocked my driveway. I didn’t see the van pull up and only noticed it after I heard loud knocking at my door. Of course by the time I got to my door the man who’d knocked was proceeding to walk to the neighbors on the right. In his hand he carried a package that looked like it was flowers and maybe baby gifts or something baby related. His van wasn’t marked with any company logos, it was just a plain van … I had thought about opening the door to him to call out to ask what he wanted but since I didn’t even know what company he was from I wondered if it was scam .. especially when I saw that he just kept going from house to house knocking on my neighbors doors.

I guess one of my neighbors many doors down finally opened the door to him and took in the package. The delivery man then walked back to my immediate next door neighbors and left what looked like a note – probably to tell them where he left the package he was delivering.

Wasn’t that strange? I’ve never seen a delivery person so determined to deliver a package. Usually if they can’t deliver they just return the package to the store or to the warehouse and then the customer has to pick it up there or wait until the company tries to deliver it again – right?

Visiting the neighbors

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Our neighbors had a small birthday party for their little girl yesterday. We were invited to the party so we went over for a few hours in the afternoon.

We end up having a really nice time. We don’t socialize all that much with these particular neighbors. They’re in the house that’s attached to ours- so we hear them all the time … but we don’t talk to them all that much.

We got along really well though so I think we’ll be getting together more often. Oh and when we were leaving our neighbor – Carol, gave us the sweetest thank you cards for attending the party. So nice.

Do you socialize with your neighbors?

New Home Security System

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We were talking to our closest neighbor the other day and they were telling us that sometime this week their going to be getting a home security system installed.

They live in a corner house and they have a young child so they’ve concerned with child safety and security as well as home security. Corner houses always seem to be a little more vulnerable to break-ins, and vandalism.

Their little girl has health problems and one of the very nice things about a home security system is that they often have emergency buttons that you can press to contact either the fire department, the police or call for an ambulance. They’re very interested in this feature. I certainly hope they never have to use it though!

My husband and I have often thought about getting a home security system. Maybe we’ll look into the company that they’re using and finally decide if we’re going to get a system or not.

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