Every six months or so, Jake meets up with a the high school tennis team coach and "gets the goods" for Hudson and his best friend, Rocky. This morning was the big day, and it was long overdue. Hudson and Rocky have eaten (Yes, eaten. Literally eaten. We find the remains all over our yards, the living room floor, you name it) every last tennis ball we owned, the neighbors may have owned, or anyone in the Redneck Riviera radius may have ever laid their hands on. Hudson could find a 19 year old scraggly tennis ball, drowning in a marsh with dead animals planted on top of it. He did, he ate them all, and they're gone.
So this morning was the big day. Jake traded a case of beer for a box of tennis balls for Hudson. Every time we do this, we pour all the tennis balls onto the living room floor and watch Hudson freak out about how many balls there are. He sorts them, moves them, picks them up and then moves them back. It really freaks him out if even one ball is not where he thinks it should be. It's probably a bit risky to present all of these "orbitals" to him at once... I'm sure his adrenaline gets pumping so hard he gets close to a frickin' heart attack.
Please forgive the fact that our living room looks like a play room. It is. Until the basement is done. You're not supposed to see all of that, but since I can't control the world, I'm going to just be okay with revealing the fact that we're humans. Humans with a small house that's not quite complete yet. And when it is, Layla's gear will take over the basement vs. our entire upstairs dwelling area.
Peace.
6 comments:
Wow I thought your place looked pretty tidy. If you want to see a mess feel free to swing by Mequon anytime:)
As a Harford resident, I'm not allowed in Mequon, remember. ;)
You know what would be even cuter?? If you plopped down that many kittens in front of him!!
Dido Kelly...if you want to see mess swing by Osceola. The ranch is WAY messier than the Sherman residence ever is! :-)
So that Jake doesn't feel like he has to defend his "summer cleaning endeavors", I just want everyone to know how thoroughly impressed I am with Jake's housekeeping, dinner making, landscaping, basement fisnishing skills he has displayed this summer. I don't think our house is messy, but more so that it's been 'taken over' by baby stuff. Everywhere you turn, there's something to bump into, but there just isn't anywhere to put it so it is what it is. But thx for the vote of confidence on our house. Maybe I'm over the top about trying to keep things clean because we're a bit "restricted" when it comes to space at our house. One thing laying in the middle of the room on the floor and you feel crowded and overwhelmed. ;)
Pulling a page from the April book....I'm ready for more pictures please! :-)
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