Caught up on this years photos!

I managed to finish up scrapping the photos I had left to scrap so far for this year today! Nothing major special about most of the layouts...but this one was kinda cute. Course that could have something to do with the subject matter. LOL Gotta love puppies! :) Now I can get back to scrapping last years photos...which aren't to far along, as well as try to keep up on this years. Course I also need to sew some skirts, so...I still have my work cut out for me I think. (no pun intended...since my skirts ARE cut out! LOL)

Kit Credit: Winter Wonderland add on by Raspberry Road.

I took these photos a couple days ago, the puppies are starting to try to eat their Mom's hard food, and drinking milk out of a pan (when we have extra to give them) and they are wanting to chew on things...my fingers and shoes if they are available. *giggle* A couple of them also try to come see me, when I go out, instead of me going to see them, although they have been chickening out and going back to the pile of puppies before they get all the way over to me at the gate, but it's still cute. Won't be long and I'll have trouble getting through the gate, without them getting out I'm sure. :)

The Puppy Barks though (and growls at times to), are just darling! We hear them when we are in the barn, or barn yard, and it just makes me laugh with joy. They always sound so cute, when they bark. Ahhh the joy of puppies!

In other, not so joyful, news:

Our oven is doing strange things. We bought the stove brand new when we moved here in 2004...so I have the strange idea that it shouldn't be giving us trouble this soon, but...well things aren't made as well as they used to be I guess. The repair guy just left, and I think he is kinda stumped. Yesterday when I went to bake some chicken for our lunch, it didn't get hot enough after 45 min. to cook the chicken. Today he turned it on, and it got up close to the right temp, at 350...but the hotter we set it, the more off it is. Not sure if the thermostat is going out, or the little glow worm thingy...*giggle* my technical terms show you how much I know about stoves. He took the numbers off the stove, and is going to talk to another guy he works with, and also find out how much parts are for it...so we can decide if we want to repair this one or buy a new "cheaper" stove. (That is of course if it keeps having trouble...which I would assume it will.)

When we bought this one, I spent a little more money (we still had our business then, and so I guess I figured I could get a little fancier one), and got a stove that I could set to come on when I wanted it to. It's a really cool feature, and I do use it some...but would probably have to live without it, the next time we get a stove, since I won't want to spend as much money. Oh well, I just want a stove that works, so I guess putting up with a cheap stove is better than what I have now...if it keeps having trouble and costs to much to fix (although I do hope this one can be fixed without getting TO expensive, cause I like it for the most part).

DH & I are sure it got hotter today than it did yesterday...but that's typical I think. They (they being anything that needs fixed by someone else) like to make us look like idiots...unfortunately, with me, that's not hard to do! *snicker* I think the trouble started when I used the self cleaning cycle last time...which was a couple three weeks ago, so I'll take that to mean I should NEVER clean my oven...that would make me happy, least as long as I didn't open the door! LOL On a positive note...least my oven wasn't horrible when the repair man opened it! *giggle*

Ok, well I gotta go finish up some things. Having the repair man here kinda slowed me down a little. Have a wonderful weekend...can't believe its here again already! :)

***Quick Update: I got the bright idea that I should test the oven out, after I finished a few things around the house, so mixed up a cake mix real fast (that was about the fastest thing I could think to make...especially since supper was in the crockpot, so I wouldn't be using it for that). I ended up having to turn the oven up quite a lot to get it done, so DH called and talked to them again, and they think it's the "glowy thingy"...which isn't as expensive as we thought it could be (PRAISE GOD!!) so it's on order!! Should come in next week, so we will again have a working oven. I thought I was going to have to fire up our wood burning oven...if that cake didn't get done, but thankfully it did. LOL Glad I thought to test it out again with food in the oven, so they could get the parts ordered sooner rather than later, and we could learn the price before having to stew about it all weekend. LOL

Now we have a cake to munch on over the weekend...such a shame I had to "test" the oven out. *giggle*