Waited all week for this....

Today I am going to sew all day....I bought this comfy chair at a craft sale and was so excited I put it in a corner of the kitchen and have enjoyed many days drinking coffee, watching tv and just visiting with family and friends.  One morning I come in and find our 12 year old dog has tore the back of it to shreds....grrrr...I put a quilt over the back and just forget how bad it is underneath...later I come home to the seat tore to shreds...another quilt is put on...grrrr...then last week I walk in and she has each arm with stuffing flowing everywhere...grrrr....so today I am going to recover the chair with fabric that isn't so easy for her to ruin.   We have dog beds in every room and I don't even care that she lays on the furniture but she likes to fluff up her bed before she lays down so anything that has any give she keeps fluffing till she makes a very big mess.   I totally understand I have to have my pillow just right to go to sleep but omg...She is such a sweet heart she just wants to lay around and sleep and live out her days in comfort, she can be very destructive when she wants.

I saved her from my old boss.  He brought her to the office to show us and she was so durn cute.  I walked to my car and she followed he called her back and I opened my door and she was so quick she kept jumping in my car before I could get the door shut.  I finally had to just get in, let her in and give her back thru the window.  He had to be out of town for two weeks and asked if we would take care of her, well of corse we would, she loved us so much.  One day I am working and my daughter comes in the door crying saying Dad killed Zena....WHAT... well he was sweeping up a broken vase and the dogs came running thru and he held out the broom to stop them and didn't see the little one and wacked her in the head...she was out....he took her to the vet and it cost us 350.00 we sure didn't have.  I told my boss and he said "why did you do that I would have let her die" .... ya he was that kind of boss.... It was Feb 12th and I am on my way home from a friends house and he calls and says" do you want this dog, I am going to shoot her in the head"?  Well heck ya...I tell Thomas it can be my valentine present (he did pay 350.00 to save her).    I drive up to his house and he has her food and her on the porch, I say" what is going on",

he pointed to the window...the shades were in shreds half way up and he said come here...he put her in the bathroom while he was gone and she had tore up all of the linoleum in the bathroom...it was in pieces...I had never seen anything like it...she is a schnauzer (a puppy)...she is one smart dog...he was an asshole and she knew it!!!!

 She never tore up one thing in our house she was so sweet, she loved us so much, she was more Jakes dog she slept with him and was with him every second he was home.  Only one time later she went to stay all night with our daughter and when Amanda came home every magazine was in little pieces. I guess she was ready to come home.  It has been 12 years and this is all she has done I think she gets a pass.  The other one is another story he is always into something, he never tears up anything he just gets himself in trouble like the wrong end of a skunk and barking at the neighbor.  It has been 2 weeks and my house just now finally doesn't smell like skunk...now he is another story, when he runs around he has a hint of skunk in he sweaty coat...blah...but hey I don't have the kids at home anymore and Jovi is Jakes dog he couldn't keep when he moved.  He is a sweet guy that just gets in trouble sometimes like all little boys do.

Well 9:00am time for my shower and my projects await.... will let you know how they turn out.