Thursday, July 3, 2025

Demolition dogs

As an only dog Bailey is becoming more bonded to me than ever. I'm now her only friend and playmate in addition to being her person. The stupid heat and humidity has had us mostly confined to the house for the past couple of weeks, but yesterday we spent more time outside, which she really enjoys.

I'm working on getting the yard cleaned up and a lot of old stuff hauled away. We had a dumpster delivered here yesterday that I'm working on filling up. The 15+ year old wooden walkway between the  house and dog yard is gone. It was great in its day but even pressure treated wood doesn't last forever in this godforsaken climate. The dog washing platform is gone. The summer kitchen build is going away today. Pretty much everything I've built outside over the past 25 years is going away to give the prospective new owners a clean slate. 

Bailey is happy to hang with me and she's smart enough to usually find a comfortable spot in the shade to watch me work. I'm smart enough to be doing as much of the work as possible in the shade as well. 







Bailey doing her "up" on the dog wash stand before it went away.



We are to the point that much that remains will be going into the dumpster.

The old wooden walkway is now a dirt path with stepping stones.
I planted grass seed last night.