Dog Food, and Boy its HOT!

In case you missed Penny's comment on yesterday's blog I will reprint it here.

Since several were interested in which flavor I purchased.  Penny explains it better than I could have..........


"I am so glad that Biscuit likes the "Wetlands Canine Formula Roasted Fowl", Taste of The Wild dog food.   Mine love the "Roasted Bison and Roasted Venison" one, too.

I know my cats love the feline version, "Rocky Mountain Roasted Venison with Salmon", Taste of the Wild, too.

It is grain-free, and that is what our little carnivorous animals need to keep them healthy.

Corn meal, which is used as a filler in so many name brand pet foods, is just not good for them, and can cause skin allergies and all sorts of nasty things like kidney trouble.

Happy Tails, and Trails, Penny, TX"

Today I just forced myself to go down and finish the insulation job in the basement.  It was well over 100 degrees when I rode the motor scooter back from Lowes with a ground fault recepticle and several regular ones to put in the string beyond the GF.

Too hot to be out on the bike, since I saw 112 on the dash thermometer while I was waiting for a pesky light to turn green.  We have these lights that sense if there is a car waiting at the light.  Trouble is they can't sense a motorcycle.  So it just skips over the green for you until a car comes up behind you.  The longer I sat there the hotter the dash indicated.  I about passed out at 112......

So I really wasn't minding heading down to the basement in the AC, but cutting insulation and becoming all itchy again just wasn't appealing.  But I powered on thru it, telling myself that it would all be over once I got this bit hung........

I waited until it was almost dark and then headed out on the bike, but it was still 96 when I left the house.   But without the sun beating down, it was more bearable.

I did see 103 on the electronic weather station that is here at the house, and the temperature sensor is on the North side of the house in the shade.  Maybe we are finishing this basement just in the nick of time...........

Retired Rod

Taste of the Wild Pet Food

This is just a little story about dog food and the recommendation from Penny Taylor of Penny's Tuppence several days ago.  Penny is an SPCA mom and has had numerous pets in her care as a foster mom.  She is a groomer as well, and explained about a Taste of the Wild animal food.

Well I kind of did my normal thing saying Ya Ya Ya,  but when Loyce announced that we were out of food for Biscuit, I did a look up on the google site and found out where to buy this stuff.  "Tractor Supply!"

I do buy some stuff from them like trailer parts, and a pair of coveralls.  But it is not a store that I normally frequent, because I don't have need for hog waterers and the like.  But they do have all kinds of feeds and bird seed too.

They have all sorts of varieties of this Wild stuff, but the one Penny was feeding was the poultry based product.  It has Duck, Chicken and Smoked Turkey.  The filler is sweet potatoes, as it is completely grain free.

Other formulas include Bison and Venison, and a Lamb based food.  Also a Fish based food and several for cats as well.  Their web site is Here.

But the fun of this story is that when I came home with the smallest size to see if Biscuit would eat any of it, she began to follow me around.  I took the bag upstairs to show Loyce who was in her office.  I sat down and Biscuit jumped up in my lap and began to sniff the bag.

She kept licking me and sniffing the bag almost demanding that I open it.  So I did, and she frantically gobbled the handful that I poured out.  Amazing, she is the most finicky eater......

The instructions were to mix some of it with her old food, so I went down to her bowl and did just that. About a third of the new stuff in her old bowl of Science Diet.  She dumped the bowl over on the floor and took her paw and spread the food out and began to pick out the new pellets from the pile.

She stayed at it until she had completely separated the new from the old and eaten all of it.  Then she just marched off leaving the old stuff all over the kitchen floor.  What did I start here?

Anyway that was yesterday, and she will not touch the old food now and is demanding to get some of the new Wild stuff like it was her treat bag.

Like I said, Penny knows her animals!!

Retired Rod

Basement Pictures

Since we had requests for pictures I went down with the camera and snapped some photos.  This is the main room that is under our living room upstairs and will become the play room or family room downstairs.

Look at all that insulation!!  Walking over next to the ladder and looking back at the door going upstairs, you can see the little storage area under the stairs.  I put a light under there with a switch next to the door.

This will be the bathroom and a storage closet behind it.  I still have to insulate these walls.   The closet walls in the back where the tube encolsure is leaning will not get any insulation.  The plumber needs to come back and put the enclosure around the shower base.  That is supposed to happen Monday.

There is a smaller room that we have been calling an office, because we cannot legally advertise it as a bedroom.  In order for it to be a bedroom there has to be a window to the outside, so the person sleeping there could escape in case of fire.  This room has no escape, but the next room that I use as my ham shack office does have that window, so there is two ways out for an emergency.

 

  

Today, I started by installing the remaining wiring in the service panel, and the new breakers.  I broke out the slugs that cover where there are no breakers, so that the new ones would poke through, and replaced the cover.  I don't like leaving the panel open, because I never know who might decide to put their fingers in there.   SURPRISE!!!!  Ya folks are that goofy.....

Then I started to insulate the walls, and used up another roll and the remaining partial  pieces on the floor.  But by about 2:30 I began to get hungry and bolted to Wendy's on the scooter......  I never came back.....  Hard to get good help these days......

I ended up over in Missouri at a different Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki dealership.  I had never been there before, and it was huge.  I saw a bunch of bikes that I would love to have for a while, to learn how to ride.  That's the problem, you don't really need to own these products, you just want to ride it for a couple of days to learn how!

It was a total waste of time, but then it costs a lot less that way!!! LOL

Retired Rod

Dinner party!

We just returned from an enjoyable evening at the home of our son and daughter in law Chris and Melissa.  They had home made and baked thin crust pizza and it was scrumptious.  Along with a fresh salad wedge and home made ranch dressing, I am making myself hungry again......

We sat out on the back deck as the stars came out, and the night was cool and almost delicious.  But we had a puppy back here at the house that needed to be let out for her evening chores, so we had to call it short, but thanks Chris and Mel.

Today was just another day in the basement, hanging inuslation and deciding that with every piece that was hung, it was getting darker and darker down there.

When we first moved in here, I painted all the concrete walls bright white, so the rooms were bright and seemed fairly large.  But as the wood and now the brown craft paper of the insulation is going up on all the walls, it has become dark and dingy.

So late in the afternoon, I decided that we needed some more lights in the ceiling.  Or the floor joist as the ceiling will be added as a drop ceiling later.  It was over to the lumber yard for more electrical parts, and another couple of rolls of insulation.

So with my late blooming project of adding boxes for lights to the floor joist at 4 PM, we were late getting to the supper party.  The new electrical boxes will become connection points for the can lights in the new suspended ceiling when we get that far so the work will not be lost, or temporary.

I still have three rolls of insulation to hang again in the morning, if I don't go play hookey instead.

Retired Rod