housecleaning for puppy LOL
So today I have 4 bedrooms to re arrange and scrub down, along with the livingroom, kitchen, bathroom, etc... but it is the de-cluttering that is the hardest part (any flybabies here will recognize the dread associtated with that word!) After being up with my son for the last 5 days (he is finally feeling better, his fever is down to 99.9) I don't have a lot of ambition, but it has to be done. I'm going to start with the bathroom. Then take a break (realistic here, need that caffiene) Then do the kitchen, another break, then do the livingroom and hallways, then help my sons with their rooms, then another break, then attack my daughters room (since she's not here it's the only time it will ever be clean!LOL) (I can't wait till she comes home to mess it up though) Then my room! That is going to be a challenge~! Then I get to do some re-wiring and networking. We have two tv's , big ones, in the livingroom, hooked up to x box, playstation2, gamecube, and nintendo 64, as well as my daughter's karaoke machine, stero equipment, dvd player and vcr. What a mess. In my room there is a little tv and vcr. I'm going to put the little tv and vcr and karaoke machine in my daughters room, and move one of the big tv's, a vcr, a dvd player and the xbox into my room. That leaves one big tv, playstation2, gamecube, n64, and stereo stuff in the livingroom, and reduces the very unsafe wiring mess in there. Then I have to add my daughters computer onto the network, and set it up now that we have a monitor for it, in her room as a surprise for when she comes back. Where the heck I'm going to put it I don't know yet. LOL You guys probably really don't need all the details, sorry, thinking out loud! Anyway, my reason for all this is to make sure I have room to section off a bit of the livingroom with an x pen for Sky, and use old crib rails to section off an area in the kitchen, and make room for her crate in my room. Whew. All this housework for a puppy, now I KNOW I'm an animal nut! Wouldn't want to be any other way though.... Well, I guess typing this long rambling message is delaying the inevitable, I need to get my butt off the couch and get to work!  |
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| Time to consider wireless networking!
When I moved my office downstairs to what was the dining room (It's cooler in the summer) I went with wireless. The internet connection is only in that office, and I would have had to fish wires for a week to get it downstairs. The wireless networking really made "wiring" easy .
To make room for the wireless card 9and antenna) I had to remove the modem from my new computer -- all the other slots were already taken with the cards designed to make the computer a video editing station. |
that is why i'm always here lurking. I HATE house work! I hope it goes quickly for you. remember lift with the knees not the back. 
cher |
| Ron- what equipment are you using for your wireless networking? I bought Linksys, not sure I like it. My computer is wired to a broadband router which also acts as a transmitter for my husband's computer, which has a wirless (linksys) receiver. His computer kicks offline frequently, mine on occasion. I haven't figured out yet if it's
a. The 2.4 ghz phones interfering (I've read that they may do that) b. Inferior quality equipment (linksys doesn't have GREAT reviews) or c. Improperly set up (most likely, since this was my first try). |
| I'm sorry that you're having troubles with your wireless netwrok. They can be quite frustrating and there are lots of possibilities --
(BTW, the wireless gizmos both at the router and at the computer areboth transmitters and receivers -- "transceivers") There is a free ("beggarware" - pay him if you wanna) utility on available on the net called "netstumbler" ( http://www.stumbler.net/ ) which may or may not work with your particular wireless cards. This utility will be helpful for a couple of reasons: #1) Placement of antennas... move the stuff around to find the best angles and locations so that you get the best signal. Try to ensure that there's no metal between the antennas. Netstumbler (or any other signal strength indicator) can help here. Netstumbler also has a "noise meter" which can help determine if there's interference around. It will show you a Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) wich is helpful. #2) Microwave oven and/or 2.4GHz wireless phones If you fire up the microwave, you can be fairly certain you won't have a connection while the microwave is in an "on" cycle. 2.4GHz phones are more likely to be affected than to affect the network, but it is a possibility. Turn them off and give it a try. Cell phones are not an issue. #3) Other 802.11 networks in the area. Again, Netstumbler is very helpful here as it will show all the other networks it "sees" at your location. Some cards come with a similar utility. Netstumbler shows not only the other netwroks, but other important info, such as THEIR strength, and WHAT CHANNEL THEY ARE ON. Depending if you're running 802.11b or 802.11g, there can be up to 11 channels. If there are other networks, you;ll want to try to select a channel on your router that is unused. I think the lLinksys stuff uses channel 6 by default, so there's lots of people on channel 6. #4) There's a very technical issue re- windows and it's Zero Wireless Configuration Service or is it (Wireless Zero Configurtation Service -- one of the two) tht can cause it to drop off and reconnect every couple of minutes. This is a huge problem if you're downloading a big file, as it will never complete. My brother had a similar problem. He lives in a neighborhood with close houses. His 2.4GHz phones don't work there and he has had problems with his wireless network. His downstairs notebook was behaving this way connecting to his upstairs router. I think they were mostly solved by him changing the placement of the router from one side of a computer to the other (the big metal box was between the two transceivers. Good luck, and let me know if I can answer any more questions... and let me know how it works out! |
| My hubby wants wireless networking, but I don't, simply because I am constantly downloading huuuge files, and I have to wait in queue for them, sometimes I am as far back as queue 3000 or more, which means I wait quite a while in the first place, let alone if i was constantly losing connection and having to be bumped back in line. We have been losing our connection quite frequently lately, and I'm not sure if one of the construction guys nicked aline and it is getting wet or if it is electricla problems we have been haivng in the house the last few days. Today my poor cat Winston got zapped when he stepped on a wire leading to a little radio in the kitchen (he shouldn't have been on the counter, but that is besides the point) The dryer seems to have been the start of it all. It blew something out again today, when Winston got zapped. Now half of the house doesn't have power. By the way, Winston is fine, Thank God. I just about had a heart attack when that happened, I don't know what I'd do if anything ever happened to him.
So I changed every single fuse downstairs and no change. No power to half of the house, including the fridge. Good thing I haven't gone grocery shopping yet, which I was planning to do this morning. I called an electrician and he hasn't got back to me yet. If I don't hear from him soon I'll call another, and I'm going to shut power down to the entire house when i go to bed, that's just too damn scary to see blue zapps coming out of plugs, big ones too! Anyway, so far I've finished the bathroom, swept the entire house (all hardwood floors) cleaned the french glass doors, done the dishes and started one load of laundry, although now it is sitting soaking wet in a washer that has no power. *sigh* Now it's off to try to make some sense of my kitchen, but man does it suck trying to clean with no music! LOL |
| Well, my housecleaning sort of got sidetracked by these electrical problems. I still can't get a hold of an electrician, probably because it is a holiday weekend here for us. I went to the hardware store, with ALL the fuses, both the little glass ones and the long black cylinder ones, and had them all tested. All fine. I asked their oppionion, and he thought perhaps because I had bought only one new fuse after the dryer fiasco that the weaker ones couldn't handle the surge. Well, I replaced both again, and it still doesn't work. Still no power on half of my house, including my fridge, so i cleaned it and the freezer out and took all the perishable food to my grandmothers to keep in her freezer. *sigh* I know I'm not going to get any sleep untill it's fixed, nothing scares me more than fire. |
| Stacey, Are you having fun yet? LOL That is what you get for deciding to clean. What have you learned?
Stormi and co. |
| Yeah, and the worst thing is, anything you DID get cleaned today will be dirty tomorrow! |
Yeah, talking about keeping house clean... Mopsey seems to find the only mud spot in the yard and immediatly go and lay in it.  Then, I get out the bucket, first two front paws (she wiggles and squirms), then the back paws (she wiggles and tries to crawl away using her front two paws), then the towel is out to dry the paws (she tries to bite and tug on the towel), finally towel is ripped out of my hands and she runs around the house with it in her mouth, and wet paw prints all over the kitchen. I mop the floors as she runs away with the towel, she drops the towel and starts chasing and hopping on the mop. So I yell, Mop let go of the mop! Pause... Laugh... An hour later, it starts all over. Never a dull moment with her around. Wouldn't have it any other way, though.  |
| LOL Isn't it funny how our floors get washed a lot more often with sheepies around?
And yes, everything I got cleaned yesterday is now a mess again! I give up. Today I am just going to try to keep cool, wait for the electrician to call back, and probably spend a lot of time in the pool. |
Mmmmm, pool! Now we have one in the basement, because its been raining like crazy here. LOL Now I am taking Mopsey's foot washing bucket and using it for the water removal. Dull moment. What's that?  |
| LOL, you guys are hilarious. Marley, your story of Mospsey and the mop is great. Typical sheepie.
Yes, we are always in the habit of spring cleaning, no matter what season it is. That day is looks great, then the kids and dogs scatter their toys all over the house again, hand prints, paw prints, and huge sheepie nose prints are on the lower 4 feet of all glass doors and windows. I vacuum, and a cat or dog runs through leaving me a nice tuft of fur left of the carpet and I just laugh or scream depending on how the rest of the day has gone. LOL The pool is a great idea, except we have had rain forever and when it cleared up we figured out that the water was green. Yuck, it is 2 late in the season to drain and start over......so GRRR  !
Stacey, we have been going further out to look for at least an acre of land to build on, or if the right house comes along with the right land, we want to go for that. I figure it will be around 2-3 years though, we want my husband out of school first. LOL We have a nice house now, and with the houses built 12 feet apart, with 6 feet on each side of you. We do have a decent sized yard though. The builders only have a couple of more houses left to build and they aren't very near us, just the dirt everywhere bothers me. I like most of our neighbors, except the ones behind us. They did have one untrained, intact male pit bull that they couldn't control, it has BROKE through our fences and the people won't do anything about it. Except, get another intact male and a female. They are awful, they will jump up 6 feet and hang on the fence. We put up a new fence this summer after the dog broke through and the woman had to pull her dog off of Jack. I think Jack was around 6-7 months at the time. I hope things stay calm now, but I don't know. I don't have anything against the breed, but just the people who breed them wrong and train them wrong. Anyway, that is ramble on story.......Stormi and co. |
| Wow that's awful, poor Jack. Did they help pay to replace the fence?
I know lots of people have pitbulls and they are fine, but it is one breed I really wouldn't trust around my kids. i know it depends a lot on how they are raised, but I don't believe it is all nurture and no nature. |
Well, I will go as far as saying that I DON"T like pitbulls. They were originally bread for one purpose, to fight in the pits. So they are fight dogs, not guard dogs. They have such high tolerance to pain, that once they attack and attach, its practically impossible to get them off their victim. Jack is lucky. In the book that i read "the dogs mind" there was a survey of who owns these kind of dogs, and the results were not surprising to me at all. What is the purpose of this dog? I might be wrong, but I saw a pit attack a person once, and it was horrible. A few years ago, one (or two) attacked a woman, and practically ate her. I mean literally, there was much flesh missing from her body. I can go on and on about this. I really dislike the breed. I guess its terrible to say, but that is how I feel. Please be careful with your neighbors. I also noticed that the saying that your dog resembles your personality is actually quiet accurate. Putting up a good fence was a great idea. I would put some barbed wire around the top, so that they can't jump and climb over. A little extreme, but better safe then sorry. Ok, done now.  |
| Hey guess what?! The electrician finally showed up! YAY! He says my house is shot and needs to be upgraded. He did some temporary fixes for now, but it may take up to two weeks to get ontario hydro's approval to upgrade the entire house. He showed me some scary stuff, the panel has places it actually melted. He's going to install a whole new panel and breakers and all new wiring to the plugs that are still only two prong plugs and not grounded. The house is still only 60 amp service so he is going to upgrade it to 100 amp service. In the meantime i just have to hope the place doesn't burn down.... |
| WOW, that is scarry! How old is this house? I hope he can get the work done fast. Its frustrating living without electric, especially in the summer. I remember when we had the blackout in NYC last year, boy it was scarry. We don't realize how much we depend on electricity. The good news is, you can make a camp fire in the back yard, and make smores! Yum! I am sure your kids would enjoy it, not sure about the dogs... Much luck! Keep us posted. |
Willowsprite wrote: [...]it may take up to two weeks to get ontario hydro's approval to upgrade the entire house. ahhhh.... who has to pay for this huge job? |
| Marley, that black out was here too (I'm only 4 hours from new york) and we roasted marshamllows in a fondu pot on the deck...LOL
I also used the fondu pot to boil water so I could have coffee. That was the thing I hated most about the blackout, Tim Horton's was closed!
As to the age of the house, I don't know, sometime around WWI. Old. Ron, as to your question, it's not my responsibility, hydro has to pay for most of it. I only have to pay for the service calls today. And, there is even scarier news on the electrical front. After the guy left, it started sparking again and everything went out, again. So I got him to come back immediately, and he took a while figuring it out, but it was the strangest thing that apparently is the cause, setting the whole chain of events off. My stove is an electric stove. But there is a natural gas pipe right behind it if I wanted to use a gas stove. Some idiot stuck the wiring for the stove TO the gas pipe. There was a fork stuck in the back of my stove, right between the wires, preventing it from grounding. It was arcing through the fork and off the natural gas pipes, and the electrical current followed the gas ppes all the way outside where it finally grounded. There was actually a HOLE in the fork! The arcing current melted right through it. He took out the fork, re attached the ground, and replaced all the fuses again. The main fuses (the big 60 amp ones) had to be replaced again too. The fact that it has been arcing off the natural gas pipe all the way to the outside for who knows how long is what scared me the most. It could have blown up the whole block, there is a gas main right out in front of my house. I want to move NOW. He said it should be fine now, but i'll probably never sleep again until we find another house. ASAP. |
| Wow, Stacey, that doesn't sound like any fun. I am glad that you found out about it though. I hope you are up and running good soon.
Marley, I have been extra careful with the dogs and kids. It is been such a hassle. WHat happened is they left our fence broke this is a wood 6 foot fence. Then the woman had her 19 year old son put up a new one fence right behind our broke one. THey even had the nerve to attach it to our posts. We then took down our fence that had 3 holes in it from the dog breaking through, when it broke through the last time, he also tore down the fence between us and a different neighbor. .....Anyway, we thought since they put up a fence we would take our broken one down and just see the back of their fence. Come to find out after we get our other fence down that the boy attatched the fence using ONE nail instead of a few screws. Each panel was held on by one nail at each end into a post.....Well we had a good Oklahoma wind storm and it took it ALL down! The woman refused to go out and help us get it up, and all she would do was put her dog inside so that my husband and I could come in her yard to start putting it back up. We went out and bought all new metal posts and installed a really nice sturdy fence, but now with all 3 pits back there they are trying very hard to come over here. My husband and I have decided to call and let them know that they can either put back up the fence that is still laying in the place it has fell, so that 2 fences separate thier dogs from our kids and dogs or we take ours back down and install a chainlink behind our wood fence and then put the wook fence back up. They will be looking at a chainlink fence if they don't, while we we a nice wood fence. We live in a nice well kept area, and these neighbors are driving me insane. As you all can tell with how much I just wrote about them. Jack was ok, but it scared us all. The dog was quiet and still, it just stared and quietly got ahold of Jack's throat and they went down. The lady told me to stay still while she wrapped a huge chain around the dog to get it to let go. We called the humane society on him and they told us unless Jack was hurt nothing could be done. Grrrr.
I think most pit bulls are very loving and loyal to thier family and need extra training because of stubborn and aggressive streaks. At that same time though I think MOST of them are bred for the fighting and the people who are buying them are not training correctly and have dogs that are having serious aggresion problems. There is a town close to us that has banned pits in the city limits. I do wish that would happen here. I wish separate breeding license would be made and people checked on when they choose to breed dogs like these. Anyway, just my long winded opinion. LOL Stormi and co. |
| Well, the fact they they are loving to their families isn't doing any other families around them any good. LOL Like I said, the dogs usually resemble their owners. Looks like its the case here too, heh? I would go ahead with the chain link fence, although I heard that if these dogs want to get to something, they will. I know that some dogs have chewed through wired fencing. But they have to be really ticked off. I don't mean to scare you, but I think its really dangerous having three of them living next door. Yikes. Do what you have to to protect your family. I can't believe they refused to put up a fence!!! How inconsiderate. Maybe they will move?! You can help them along by throwing your dog poop over the fence. LOL Just kidding... |
marley wrote: Maybe they will move?! You can help them along by throwing your dog poop over the fence. LOL Just kidding... That's a good idea! Think I can get rid of my neighbors like that too??? |
| Hey, why not, give it a go. Was it agingright who wanted to do that to the joggers of her dogpark??? I don't remember. |
| LOL, I think that was Marianne, but I'm not positive. That is a good idea, I will aim really good because on Saturday nights the kid has a party and leaves the backdoor open so if we aim just right I can get it right into the living room. LOL Get this, our back corner has a police officer living there. He isn't for our city, but you would think he would at least do something. It is really irritating. I am a little leary of the chainlink too, mainly because of climbing. They do seemed determined if Jack is out. They seem to be fine if Annabelle is outside or the kids, but it is like they have a radar for Jack. Jack doesn't seem to be bothered unless he is out at poo corner and then if he gets upset when they hit that back fence like they are going to come right on through. I am the mom everyone calls over protective, so the dogs or kids are never outside unless they have me with them or watching at the back door.
Oh, and I think you are right humans seem to resemble the dogs they choose. We have other great neighbors with an adorable scotty dog named, Rocket. A golden retriever, I forgot her name, but her owner got her from a GR rescue. She is really nice, and our dogs like her. We also a few houses down a retired couple who started out with one rescure lab and now has 4, I think. They all go to obedience, and the dogs are PERFECT, in any situation. The couple is very nice and really love their dogs. We actually have dogs all over this neighborhood, but those are the ones we see a lot. Stormi and co. |
| Oh, we have a police officer living across the street from us! He, however, is a very good friend and will do a lot of stuff for us. Your guy seems to not care. Its like, unless they are directly involved with something, they don't give a hoot. Aren't people grand! Nah, there are good and bad, I suppose. Overprotective is good. I am like that too. I just think of how I would feel if something happened and I knew I didn't do everything I could. That scares me into action, usually. I am sure everything will be fine, but just follow your instincts and do ALL you feel you have to do. Especially that you know these people aren't going to do a damn thing to prevent a disaster from happening. I want to say keep us updated, but I am hoping there will be nothing for you to update us on, if you know what I mean. Accept maybe the installment of the new fence. |
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