My Current Read.

I am 85% complete (according to my Kindle) with Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. I wasn't sure what I would think of the book when I first chose to read it - I'm not usually one who will jump for a historical fiction, but I have really enjoyed the romantic novel and it may change opinion of the genre. It has an interesting perspective jumping back and forth between 1942 and 1986. I'm no book critic, but would suggest reading this one.

Looking for a New Home.

Joe and I are going to start the process of looking for house plans online again. It's nice that we are able to filter by certain criteria in order to narrow down the many options. It's a lot of fun to look at it!

For Haiti.

Bride?

I received a 'Bride' magazine in the mail today...been there done that! I have no idea how they got my name and address and I hope they don't expect me to pay anything...

I'll still enjoy looking at it.

An early spring.

I forced some bulbs inside this winter and they have bloomed!

We've been tagged.

Joe, his father and I went to our Pittsburgh to check up on and clean our house. First thing we saw that needed attending to was the graffiti on the side of our house. Not nice things were written in black marker on our brick - luckily they sell a very effective graffiti remover at Lowe's so it cleaned up well. There has not been a lot of action on our house recently but hopefully things will start to pick up as spring comes.

Wild Dog!

Well, it seems as though we can't confine Bailey anywhere! We left her in her crate again for about 4 hours yesterday morning. I had reinforced the collapsible sides with duct tape but when I came home, she had managed to pop two more brackets that hold the cage together off. Given a little more time I'm confident she would have freed herself.

Joe and I went to dinner with his dad and some friends and we decided to leave Bailey in the basement weight room at the Patrick's. We had done this before and were successful until one time we came home and she had wood-chipped the top step. Since the step was already ruined we decided to keep her there while we were out for dinner.

And...she greeted us at the garage door upon our homecoming. She mulched the top step even more and learned how to use the door handle to let herself have free reign of the house. We are just about out of ideas.