The Sewing Mom

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To all the dads, I wish you all a wonderful Father’s Day and hope you get the opportunity to spend time with your family, take it easy, and relax!

As for us, we’ve been to brunch and to the local nursery for some beautiful flowers.  Now we’re heading out to the pool where we’ll spend the rest of the afternoon, lounging! 

I feel like I’ve been going non-stop for the last 2 weeks, basically ever since school let out for the summer. I get up early in the morning, work 5-6 hours, then spend the afternoon and evening trying to entertain my daughter, clean house, cook dinner and do the laundry. Throw in a couple of softball tournaments and, over the last few days, all the landscaping work I’ve been doing, and I’m exhausted. Guess that’s why it felt so good to just sit and do absolutely nothing this morning except lift my cup of coffee from the end table to my mouth.

Let me tell you though, by the end of the afternoon, I sure could have used a nice cold energy drink to keep me going, a BluFrog energy drink would’ve certainly done the trick!

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Hard to believe, but I’ve actually been able to sit here this morning, enjoy several cups of coffee, spend time catching up on email, and all in the peace and quiet while daughter and dh are at softball practice. This has truly been an excellent morning!

I am willingly putting an end to my peaceful morning and heading out into the heat to do some much needed landscaping work. I’m sure I’ll be jumping into the pool regularly to cool down, but I hope to get most of the bushes trimmed by the end of today. I got started on this major project this past Wednesday and am actually almost half way finished. It’s times like this when I realize just how many bushes we have around our house!

I hope everyone has a fabulous Saturday and is able to enjoy some family time!

My daughter has had a friend over for the past two days and they pretty much camped out in our upstairs t.v. room when they weren’t out in the pool. I headed up there this afternoon and had to put everything back in order before I felt comfortable sitting down on the sofa. The pillows and blankets were strewn all over the room. I even found dirty clothes and dishes shoved between the sofa cushions, yuck!

The worst thing I noticed though was all the dog hair all over the sofa. I’m sure it looked this bad before her friend came over, but I really need to clean it. I have one of those pet sweepers I can use on all the cushions, it’s so much easier than using the heavy vacuum. I think there’s enough dog hair on the cushions, I could probably construct a new dog!

I’ve been pretty surprised at how much our dog sheds, particularly since every breeder I talked to said they don’t shed much. I can tell you first hand that I’m sweeping the wood floors every 2-3 days because of the amount of dog hair and it doesn’t matter what time of year it is, this cute little dog sheds like there’s no tomorrow!

I recently read that it is not normal for dogs or cats to shed year around. This does seem like common sense to me, but, Plinko on the other hand must think differently because she certainly has been shedding all the time in the 2 years she’s been living with us. If there’s a way to cut back on her hair loss, my clean up time would be reduced and I’d have more time for other things. So, I checked out the solutions center at Dinovite and learned that Plinko’s diet may be low in Amino Acids, Fatty Acids and minerals such as Zinc which are all important for maintaining a healthy coat. Dinovite even supplied me with a solution report and a recommendation for nutritional supplements that could help reduce the amount of shedding within 90 days.

While I am going to check into this a little further, I have a pretty strong feeling that I’ll be ordering those supplements. A dog that sheds less would lead to a house filled with less hair!