3 inch blade, goggles, ramp!

remember how i said the trip home was normal...i almost forgot the stop at a rest area to walk the dogs. no sooner did we get out and ready to walk and stand still (chaco and bruno respectively), a man walking his dog with his 14..15 year old daughter stopped and asked if i might be interested in buying his gps or his smart phone. they were on their way to colorado and only had enough money for about 2 more tanks of gas. these are the times i wish i carried a little more cash on me, i would have liked to give them some money without taking their gps. hmm.

the girl wanted to pick up the dogs, and she said if chaco was hers, she would name him 'little girl,' so i told her he was a boy and she said, "hmm. i would name him 'little boy.'"

my day started with a little bit of a rumbly in my tummy...but it wasn't because i needed honey. it just wasn't right. but i did bring more items up from the car to clear out some space, then i made a little trip to lowes for some wood and a mastermind saw. i saw a rotozip on a commercial, and decided that it would be a handy little tool for me! so i looked online and the mastermind saw had great reviews, so i looked and lowes didn't have one, so i finally found a hardware store that supplied them. the gal that helped me was a little too excited about the saw and that i was getting it for myself! something about there not being enough women who can do carpentry..

3 inch rotary saw...some girls like new shoes...

i LOVE it! i even made something! i used it to make a little ramp for the dogs-again, i had created one out of cardboard, but it was getting pretty flimsy because the boys use it so often and sometimes wrestle on it, so i made my own!

not willing to spend $179 on a ramp from petsmart. it's not perfect, but it is functional and sturdy~

i got in a hurry and i did not want to take the time to measure carefully; note to self-next time, take the time to measure for accuracy.at least it wasn't something like a roof or anything like that..it's just that i got so excited i wanted to start!

if you or your husband likes to do things around the house, like remodeling, cutting molding, cutting lots of little things...this would be a great gift! they are on sale at a hardware store on coit road in richardson (between beltline and arapaho)...if you don't live in dallas, amazon has them!


now, i have a lot of other things that i should have been doing instead of playing around, because i certainly didn't get to them while i was hanging with mom and dad.


we have so much to do between now and Christmas break! i really should have done something...well, i suppose i have the rest of tonight and some of tomorrow.

build it so you don't have to buy it!
julie

it's not a 'skate or die' ramp-but that's ok b/c my boys aren't skaters

today was such a lazy day! we got absolutely nothing done...the boys kinda let me sleep in a little bit. then i had to give bruno his medicine from a dropper-he hates when i have to force feed him. boo. he always pretends he's dying and throws a little tantrum. not long after that, i had to get a pic because the boys were hangin out together and they just looked really cute. after i took the pic, chaco asked me if i could print the pic off and frame it, and get him a bunch of wallet size prints so that he could give them away to friends. strange, because i have never given him a wallet.

handsome boys!

remember when i mentioned that my dad had taught me so much of his handy-man tricks? well, i had this box ready to go down to the dumpster, and i decided to put it to use. i saw one of those ramps for little dogs at petsmart yesterday when i was forced to wait 15 minutes for lab results (you know, so they don't jump from the bed and couch and hurt their little bones). the one they had was like $129-if i had a shop and the right tools, i could build one out of scrap wood or something, but all i had was tape and cardboard boxes...so, here's what we did.

this is actually the bottom side-it needed extra support so it wouldn't cave in

sharp, right?

and final product-i had to cover it with a throw because the cardboard itself is more like a slide than a ramp

so, now that we've made stairs and a ramp out of cardboard boxes, who knows what our next project will be! i suppose it'll be whatever we need at the time-necessity breeds invention!

today bruno and chaco were talking about crank calls while i was in the kitchen (they still don't realize that i can hear them from over the bar). so i don't know if they have already or not, so if you ever get a call from my # and just hear giggling or silence, it was probably them.

make something fun this weekend!
julie

oh, and check out hollie's blog for fun little food-flags you can make for your 4th festivities!!