Bath Time.... Our kidless version! Don't worry it is PG

Josh took our doggies to the Tongie Farm to run around while he welded some metal to make my door headboard work. Needless to say once they found the pile of cow manure and rolled in it, they were getting a bath. So this is our version of bath time!

Is this not the saddest dog you ever seen. She is our Diva Dog and the cold water from the hose was not what she is use to. More of a luke warm kinda puppy!




Oh, Ella didn't know what she was in for as she happily waited in back of the pick up truck for her turn!

But she knows now! She hates bath time too!

I hope you enjoyed a quick peek at bath time at our house!

Dog Treats, Guest Bedroom, 5K...

Wow, it has been two weeks since my last post. Hmmm... in the last two weeks I....

*Ran a 5K with my wonderful cousin Mrs. Mindy!

*Turned 27! Yikes!

*Baked dog treats, yes dog treats!

*Started on our guest bedroom with the help of my hubby!

Here is Mindy and me before tackling our 5k! This was her first ever and she did amazing! I am so proud of her! Oh, and a huge I LOVE YOU and THANK YOU to my husband for driving us and taking pictures! I know waking up at 6:00 am isn't what you want to do on a Saturday, but I sure do appreciate it!

My birthday gift from my mom and dad! So festive!

The rest of my birthday gift from my parents! I really just wanted items to decorate our house so my mom took me to Gordmans. Where I got the star, oval platter, and churn. The brown box was made by my dad when I was in elementary school. It is slowly coming together!

So you are probably wondering what my husband got me for my birthday. Well all I wanted was to finish the guest bedroom. So here is a sneak peek of what a trip to Target and Home Depot got us into!

Notice the two different paint colors on the wall?

Sneak Peek at the bedding with the door headboard in the background. Stay tuned for the big reveal of the guest bedroom.

Dog treats! Yes I baked them. I spent an afternoon making sweet treats for our two dogs. No there isn't any dog food in them. Mostly flour, honey, peanut butter and other staples you have in your kitchen. Our dogs love them! Harlie will seat by her treat jar and whine until she gets one. It was funny and cute in the beginning but now it is just annoying (I have created a treat monster!)

FYI- Josh is still chew free! Way to go Hubby!

Landscaping?!.... 75 BRICKS and one STEAMING pile of DIRT later....

We took on landscaping this past Sunday and Monday! Yep, The Bosleys got down and dirty! The original plan we started with Sunday morning was to cut down the tree planted by the contractor and lay brick blocks around the tree we planted when we first moved in. But oh how the plans change so quickly! We got up Sunday morning got dressed and began our day. Josh cut down the tree. You may remember from a previous blog I would not let Josh cut this tree down until the baby birdies were gone. So since they flew the coupe, we were good to go. ( I crack my self up!)

Timber!

The tree was down and we were off to the Shawnee Wal-Mart and Earl May to get our supplies! At Wal-Mart we purchased 24 bricks to go around our tree and a couple bags of potting soil. At Earl May we picked up an 8 lb bag of Marvel Blend grass seed for the bare spot that once housed the contractor’s tree. You know Josh, aka yard nazi, his yard, specifically his grass, needs to look good at all times which means putting grass seed down. Yes, I know Earl May is kinda pricey, but we like the blend of grass the previous owners put down so we wanted to be consistent. Here is where our plans went to hell! As we talked we decided to go ahead and yank the monster bush on the south side of the house and lay bricks there also. Well this meant buying more bricks, purchasing more soil and mulch, and finding new plants. I could just see how damn costly this "simple" landscaping project had become. So we hit up Bonner's Wal-Mart and bought the last 26 bricks they had. But of course they did not have any mulch! So back down 7 hwy to the Grass Pad for mulch. Ok the best part.... did I mention that my husband brought home the '93 from the Tongie farm?! The '93 is a 1993 white dodge truck that I hate! The thing has exhaust that runs up out of the truck bed and the lining is falling down from the ceiling, it smells funny, rides like you are sitting on a bed and someone is jumping up and down next to you. This truck is a monster! And we are trucking all over god’s creation in this thing. BTW Josh knows I despise the '93, but for some damn reason he loves driving the thing. Oh, and it is loud as hell! Ok, so back to the story. We finally get home and start our project. First we decided to lay the bricks around the tree. (Side note: Our neighborhood is very friendly, our neighbors are always outside.) About 40 minutes into our project our neighbor Lucas yells "You guys have been going at that for about 40 minutes now and you aren't yelling, fighting, or pissed off at each other!? I am impressed." I replied "We been together over eight years, we each know our roles in the relationship. For projects like this I assist and give my opinion." Lucas just laughed.

Cutting up the grass

Yes, I was working too! Weeding around our water meter so we could put grass seed down. Water meter story! I insisited that the water company come cut our pipe down to make it flush with our lawn like everyone elses on the block! They of course tore up some grass.

This is the monster bush to the south side of our house. I took the tree trimmers to it so Josh could find the root to dig up. It was much bigger before this picture was taken and I got ahold of it with the tree trimmers.


Working hard to make his masterpiece!

Alright story time! Ok if you have done your math through out this entry you will have read that I only mention picking up 50 bricks, but the title says 75. Hmmm.... well right before this picture and after the previous one we ran out of bricks! We truly underestimated the number we would need by 25! So at 7:00 at night we head to the Shawnee Wal-Mart, remember we bought all that the Bonner Wal-Mart had earlier that day. So we get there and tell the lawn and garden chic we need 25 more bricks. She rings us up at the lawn and garden register and we head out to get the bricks. This lady looks at me and says she is only carrying one brick at a time and that some guy has the manual pallet lift. (side note: by this time I was starting to crash! I had been working outside all day and it was a warm day! Digging up grass, hauling those damn bricks, and assisting my husband. We had not had dinner and lunch wore off many hours ago. I was cranky and ready to be done with landscaping!) (BEGIN THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD): So this lady is telling me she is going to haul them one at a time! Hell no! No one is carrying any bricks, especially me and Josh. We have been carrying them across our yard all day. Shit if I am doing it at Wal-Mart! When we bought bricks earlier today we, as in Josh, loaded them off a forklift that brought them right to the truck bed. (END OF THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD) I tell the lady that we have been hauling these things all and to please page that guy who had the pallet lift. After several minutes of waiting he showed up with it, but of course it didn't work. So he went and got the forklift and brought the pallet over to Josh's truck. We left Wal-Mart! Damn I hate that place!

Yes, we even worked into the night after we got back with more bricks! Josh was determined to finish laying them that night!

Monday morning Josh got up and went out to the Tongie farm and got a trailer load of "dirt". When he started shoveling the dirt into our flower bed, I noticed it was steaming?! I said "Josh why is the dirt steaming?" He said "I dug to the bottom of the pile to get the good stuff!"

Yuck! There wasn't just dirt in that trailer!

The finished product! The green tree is Josh's little buddy! Seriously. He kept saying lets see how my little buddy looks or where should we plant my little buddy. Oh, and when it came time to plant the tree and mums, well lets just say I couldn't not bring myself to dig in the "dirt" even with gloves on. It was grossing me out!

I planted pink tulips in this flower bed! Can't wait to see them next spring!


Flower bed to the left!

The dirt spot to the left of the new tree is where the old tree was. Now everyone can see our Christmas Tree in our front windows!

Saturday Steals and Deals! A Door Too!

Oh, what a Labor Day weekend for the Bosley Home! Saturday morning my dad and I hit a couple of garage sales and estate sales. BTW Estate sales are my new favorite thing right now. I really liked the thrill of finding cool old stuff at awesome prices! Below are my findings from this past Saturday's outing! Not to mention is was great father-daughter time!

This is an old glass beverage dispenser. It has a brass turn style lever to release the beverage. I loved it! How much did I pay you wonder?! Well it was originally marked $25.00, but since it was the last day of the Estate Sale I got everything 1/2 off! So I paid $12.50!

I decided to put it in the nook above my kitchen. I plan on filling it with fake lemons to add some color! I just love this piece!

My other two findings. Love them! I paid $10.00 for the tall one and $4.00 for the smaller one!

I also decided to put them in a nook. The one above our fireplace.




Last weeks blog mentioned a door.... Well here it is and the story behind it! I have been playing with the idea of making a headboard out of an old door for our guest room. I have seen it done in many magazines and have always thought it looked really cool. Thus begins our tale... Two Saturdays ago, Tiblow Trot Saturday, my parents, Josh, and I went to the Habitat for Humanity Restore. What is the Habitat for Humanity Restore you ask. Well it is a building that contractors, homeowners, and whoever else take used building materials. Now alot of this stuff comes from people doing renovations on their home and have items that are still functional and in good shape. They have all kinds of stuff, bricks, doors galore, windows, sinks, blinds, toilets, stoves, the list goes on and on. So I found this door for $5.00, yes five dollars, and decided what the hell. For $5.00 I could give this project a whirl! So we loaded the door into the Yukon and off we went. By the way Josh was quite sold on this idea/project of mine. I think he thought I was crazy!

I sanded the entire door two Sundays ago! Here I am sanding away. Power washing was way to tedious for me and it took chunks of the door off.

It was this ugly yellow color! The exposed wood is where we started to power wash it.

Here I am aging the painted door with sand paper.

I painted it a cream color and then went back and roughed it up.

Finished product! So $5.00 for the door, $7.00 for Vanilla Bean colored paint from Wal-Mart, and many sheets of sand paper later... I great headboard. Now once we paint the guest bedroom and put up the headboard, I will post pictures of it actually serving its purpose! BTW I LOVED how it turned out! It is too cute and can't wait to finish the guest bedroom!

Oh, and while I was estate shopping and working on my door headboard, Josh was out at the Tongie farm helping a friend put a gate up. I haven't gave a dip update! Josh is well... Hmm.... like 5 months Copenhagen free! Yeppers, I am still so proud of him. I think some of his random crankiness is starting to fade! (thank god) So my Labor Day Saturday was GREAT! Sunday's activites to follow in the next blog!