We’ve come up with a new saying. When something turns out to be harder than it should, “That’s like painting with a puppy.”
We packed the car and hit to road with Winn to go to my mom’s house in Southeast Colorado. She lives in a very small, rural town and wants to sell her house, downsize and move closer to one of her children.
Her house is a beautiful, old, brick Georgian style home that needed a fresh coat of paint on the interior along with some other repairs. We had a very long list to accomplish and I’m happy to say that we got almost everything done but I had to repaint a few areas several times because Winn would be right behind me rubbing against it and licking it.
When I was on the ladder she was always right beneath me.
When she got bored, she would start to cruise around, taking things she knew I would need in order to get my attention. She grabbed my gloves, paint rollers, garbage bags, my empty coffee cup, and as often as possible, a roll of paper towels.
Since she wanted to always be near, I finally tied her to a radiator pipe so that she could see me but not disrupt my painting progress.
I took lots of breaks when she was feeling restless and was most productive while she napped. She loved my mom’s yard, romped through her lily patch, played in the sprinkler and ran around when she got the zoomies.
It took a week but we accomplished what we set out to do. Her house looks beautiful and is ready to show!
maisiethenewfieandcompany 
Whoa…your mum is in SE Colorado. So are my folks! What a small world. The fun of having a puppy is…hmmm is there fun with a puppy? Just kidding. Winn is adorable. Love her “je ne sais quoi” outlook on life!
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Rocky Ford, very small town
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Oh my gosh, that was the first town I lived in when I came to America!
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What! small world indeed!
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There is NOTHING better than a Rocky Ford cantaloupe. Nothing.
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My great great grandparents were cantaloupe farmers many, many years ago.
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Then hopefully my family over the years helped support them because we LOVE Rocky Ford cantaloupes. To this day in fact, I will wait for them to arrive at the market. Well worth the wait too. They were always a special treat as I was growing up.
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If Winn lived in Australia we would probably think he has just had a nice cold mouthful of beer, leaving a bit of foam on his mouth…. Louise
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Ha, I didn’t think of that. Was it a Guinness commercial a few years ago that featured a foam mustache? I wouldn’t put it past her, she’s tried to drink my morning coffee many times!
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haha
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Sorry, she. All female dogs? So that’s easy to remember. Louise
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yes, a house of girls, we’ve had boys in the past but not at the moment. 🙂
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Oh Maisie’s eyes are just gorgeous! Lovely photos, she looked so sad when you tied her to the radiator pipe haha. Can’t wait to see more x
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Gorgeous! What a wonderful post and only discovered as a direct result of your recent decision to follow Learning from Dogs. Many thanks. (P.S. fancy writing a guest post for LfD? See https://learningfromdogs.com/interaction/ )
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Thanks for stopping by! I just might try to do that (guest post). 🙂
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Sing out if you have any questions. My contact details in that link above!
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