MELS. NEW ADVENTURES

[Devonviolet]

Callie I still cannot talk about, there will never ever be another like her. The pain and grief of losing her is just immeasurable.

Awww!!! Callie was such a special dog!!! Many of us went through her last pregnancy and birth of all those puppies and then felt your pain when she passed away!!!

 

[Southern by choice]

Awww!!! Callie was such a special dog!!! Many of us went through her last pregnancy and birth of all those puppies and then felt your pain when she passed away!!!

Thank you devonviolet. I have never in my life been so affected by a loss like I have with Callie.
No one should be so affected but I was, I still am, and it is what it is... just horrible still.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Mel is back to normal, has run of yard, dog door and his sand pit he has dug....and no longer gets bowl tiped for him as he is eating .... although his food is put on a chair on the porch, for his comfort. May have to do as @Bruce suggested, and build him his own dinner table

 

[Baymule]

Don't you love the piles of dirt on the floor after he's been outside? Who needs clean floors anyway?

 

[Baymule]

Just wear some flip flops in the house. Deal with it. I miss wearing flip flops outside. But I'm gonna get feet full of sand, thorns, pine needles between my toes, and animals that will stomp my feet. We live on a farm. Flip Flops are house shoes. LOL

 

[CntryBoy777]

Even without any animals at all, ya sure won't keep sand out of a house in Florida....I've owned 2 here and never have....I remember when we first came here to live back in '01, and the adjustment to what ya have to deal with here....sand, insects, and humidity....damp humidity.....tho, in the first house there was carpet down in the house...old, sand-packed carpet....there was a huge mulberry tree at the corner of the house....nobody, before us, ate mulberries....cause the carpet was stained mulberry....from the people walking around outside....tracking in the juice on the shoes on the carpet.....yep....when we got the house, I ripped out the carpet...it was put on top of a wood floor...

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Sand in the house ...yepper , this is Florida...and with three dogs and a cat that rolls in the sand...our vacume cleaer gets a work out !

 

[Devonviolet]

We don’t get sand. With two cats (one of which is long haired) we get LOTS of cat fur! We also get lots of hay from DH’s pants cuffs.

 

[Bruce]

DW and I honeymooned in Akumal Mexico. We chose one of the "bungalow" style rooms rather that a hotel style. EVERYTHING was concrete or tile. Easy cleanup of the sand, need nothing more than a broom.

We don't "do" carpet. No matter how much you vacuum it is always dirty. Hardwood everywhere but the bathrooms and those are tile. We have a few smallish rugs. I do still need to tile the mudroom, had a plan, couldn't get the tile, forgot . Of course now there is so much stuff on the floor that most of the Avantek is covered.

 

[Mike CHS]

We do it exactly like Bruce posted. Since we gutted our home it made the choices easier.