Lessons by Leeson

I love holidays and decorating for holidays; be that as it may, I am to much of a procrastinator to actually get decorations up before the holiday gets here. Unless it's Christmas, since I normally decorate for that around Thanksgiving. My plans for the 4th of July this year were big - for every decoration I was making for myself I was going to make another one to sell. Hmmm well since the fourth is only six days away I would say I'm not doing very good. I did get one project complete and I started another one yesterday My complete project is my holiday coasters. I made these last year for Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day; last years coasters were not good quality at all so I tried something different this year and I like them a lot more. Materials:  Plain white kitchen/bathroom tiles. I got mine at home depot because of the military discount. There are like fifty cents a piece Mod Podge (Glossy or Matte) Something to smooth the Mod Podge with (old c...

Let's just start with the fact that normally my gardens do very well.... that being said, my garden this year is dreadful. Going back to previous years, I have generally grown enough vegetables to make two home-made batches of salsa and eat summer squash for supper every night for a few months. Last year I also grew carrots for the first time, which turned out great. As well as small watermelons, green beans, and green peppers. Speaking of green peppers - my current pepper plants are pictured below. Raise your hand if you think they will produce anything......... yup didn't think so.   If we are being honest here, and I promise I am, I didn't necessarily prepare my garden the best this year; or at all really. This was my first time planting in a community lot (since we moved to base in the winter last year). I had friends tell me about the downfalls of planting on base, but I really wanted my garden and figured with my wonderful past experiences with gardening th...

This week has been an interesting one. Daisy has become an escape artist and spent her days exploring upstairs (where she isn't allowed to go). A couple things she got herself into include: taking my fuzzy socks downstairs, destroying a pair of my underwear, tearing an ear and eyeball off a stuffed animal in our guest room, ripping apart my heating bag and eating the inside (result = nasty poop), and pooping on the carpet upstairs. BO has been his normally laid back self. I did some research for why dogs might escape and a common occurrence I found was that she might not have enough mental exercise, even if she is getting enough physical. So I have been looking for games to start playing with her; if you have any suggestions please list them in the comments below. I did one game yesterday with a muffin tin, play balls, and some treats. I found all the balls I could around the house and put them in the muffin tin, then under three of the balls I hid some small training treats. The...

I know I've been gone for a while, but I'm back and ready to go! I graduate in nine days and all of my assignments are officially done, what a great feeling. I'm now spending my days with my pups; trying to keep them both physically and mentally active. Daisy enjoyed staring at me while I tried to finish homework To begin; we got snow! In the middle of April. April showers bring May flowers right? But what about April snow?? Daisy absolutely loves running around in the snow. BO on the other hand refuses to even go outside. The snow didn't last long and we got back to our sunny and 50-60 degree weather. The hubby and I took the pups to Petco and the Puppy Park on Saturday. We hadn't attempted Petco since we got Daisy; we used to take BO pretty often. BO decided to bark and howl the whole way up to the entrance of the store. We haven't figured out yet why he howls at everybody, once they come close to him and start petting him he is in love. But he scare...

Family Picture: This was probably take seventeen or something crazy like that, but hey at least we got a family picture right? The puppies got a new toy (Easter present) to play with while we went to church in the morning, and then some family time before we left for my parents house. They also got to enjoy a huge rawhide stick that afternoon because I felt so bad leaving them on a holiday. Jeff claims they didn't care, but I did so I gave them all the goods. Spoiled pups! Daisy is wearing her pink and sparkle sweater (the sequence are on the back and wouldn't show up in a picture). BO is wearing his signature bow tie of course! He was actually sad when I put Daisy in her sweater and he didn't get to put his on. I was pretty mean since normally wearing a sweater means we are going on a walk, so he probably thought he wasn't going with. But no I was just crushing their dreams and making them dress up for a picture. On a positive note, my teal wall has made for ...