New floors and Mac

Well, we finally did it! We bought flooring (laminate) so that we could finally rip up the yucky old carpet.

Jeff went and picked it up from Menard's this morning, but while he was gone, I started ripping up the carpet in the spare bedroom.

This is what was under the carpet - asbestos tile.

Here is the flooring - just waiting to be opened!

The spare bedroom without carpet.

Some of the padding - all piled up.

Blue floor!

Paco kept a close eye on me today.....but didn't want to get too close....

Same for Chlo.....

This is what we got done today. Not bad...

Chloe testing the floor.

Mac testing the floor....

And Paco! He wasn't sure about it at first...

Mac sleeping.

Mac's new shirt! It says "Lifeguard"

Mac

Here is our newest rescue, Mac. He was a personal rescue for me (came home from work with me one day). He had a long gash on his leg and his tummy and insides of his legs were bruised (like someone kicked him). He's our smallest dog so far, but he has a giant heart!

He sleeps through the night and loves to play! He's also doing great at going potty outside already (only about 4 1/2 months old and probably had no real "training".)

Paco playing with Mac the first night. Paco was scared at first (notice he doesn't ever touch Mac - just dances around in front of him).

Most of you already know, but Jed passed to the Rainbow Bridge recently. I wanted to post a couple of cute pictures of him in remembrance.

Which pictures to send?

I want to enter Paco's picture in a Happy Ending calendar contest for PBRC (www.pbrc.net). I can't decide which three pictures to send, though! Please help by voting!

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Pictures...

Here are some pictures of the "kids".....

Jed and Paco at Nanny's house chewing on sticks in the yard.

Handsome Jed.

Paco and Jed "sharing" their deer antler.

Cutie pie Paco!

Always a smile (even with green feet).

Paco and Chloe sleeping after a long day at Nanny's house!

This is how you give a dog a bath when you don't have a bathtub, yet she needs a bath because she got in the mud!

Obviously not thrilled about being in the kitchen sink....

Chloe after a long walk around town....the fan is on, you just can't tell.

Paco's New Toy

Bathroom Re-do

Apparently, "we've" decided to redo the bathroom. Jeff has started taking down the plaster and has 2 walls completed. We have no plan for how it is to look once completed ("we" didn't really talk about this before "we" got started on it).

Wall - notice where the tub used to sit (and the lack of insulation - no wonder it was so cold in there during the winter!!).

Other wall. Toilet is still functional (for now).

Pretty wallpaper we found hiding underneath the pretty green tile (which I did like, but is now 1/2 gone in the trash).

We now know why our windows don't stay up. They use a weight/pulley system (broken, no less). You can see the rope that used it on the left hand side of the window (also notice the broken window - it wasn't broken when we started).

The actually weights. I thought they were kind of neat looking...

Tiny green tiles that I had hoped would be underneath the white tile so that I could use them for something creative...Only 1 way to find out if they are actually under the white tiles.....

No green tiles...just white tiles glued on top of some green laminate glued to what seems like a million layers of what looks like cardboard and then pretty wooden floors (well, not so pretty right now). I did this myself!

Original wood floors.

We will keep working on it and I'll be sure to post some pictures. Hopefully it will be nice when it's all completed...not sure when that will be though!