A Fun Filled Weekend!

We hiked Mt. Humphrey with our friends Brian and Joy on Sat. Brian is in my PT program, and Joy works with Sunny in the Radiology dept. at Flagstaff Medical Center. It was a PERFECT day for a hike and a picnic, and we had a great time!

Sunny Soldier and I at 11,700 ft. elevation...Soldier was looking a little dizzy. I guess that answers the question "Do dogs get altitude sickness." No, I'm just kidding. Soldier was a trooper!

Soldier will be turning 8 months this week. What a mangy looking BEAST


With all the work gone into the dog house, I wanted the paint to look nice so we primered it first to ensure that the paint will last a very long time. Once this project is done. I'm retiring from dog house building!

I really like the paint color that Sunny chose for us. It is called Smouldering Red. It sounds tough. We have one more coat to lay down so the paint should look even richer than in the picture (a little poetic rhyming, is that allowed in blogs?)

I've never laid shingles before, but there is quite an art to it. Luckily the packaging described the step by step "git er done" technique. Still a work in progress.

New Doghouse Pics

Here is mine and Sunny's Halloween costumes for this year. Doesn't the "Queen Bee" look cute?

Here is the latest development on the dog house. It's coming along! The left side of the roof has tar paper stapled down. The asphalt shingles will lay on top. I got an open case of shingles from Lumberman's warehouse that would have normally cost $50 for a grand total of $7. I got the tar paper for free from the scrap bin at HomeCo. The only thing I had to pay full price for was the metal flashing that goes around the outside lip of the roof to keep rain off. All said and done, the roof alone will weigh about 100 pounds.

Here is the underside view of the removeable roof. I added the 2 x 4's as support to the eaves of the roof because when I first picked it up, the roof split right down the middle. Yowsers! Hopefully, it's solid now.

Here is the last wall I insulated. The toughest as well, due to the angled cuts for the gabled roof. Sunny said it had to have a pitched roof, so that is what I did. I ended up using 40 feet of R11 insulation on this doghouse. That's the same stuff you would use in a regular house. It is rated down to 0 degrees F. That should keep Soldier toasty warm during the chilly Flagstaff months.