Well we have a new puppy. My parents and I bought Evan a new pug puppy for his birthday. He is the cutest thing. He has a chocolate face and green eyes. Evan named him Winston Edward Thompson. Winston after Winston Churchill. We are trying to house train him and it seems like we make progress one day and he forgets it the next. I had forgotten how much energy puppies have.
We have been working on getting our composite wood fence for about a year and a half. We have finally gotten up three panels and are ready to put up one more panel and two fence posts. We were moving pretty quickly and getting alot of progress done on the fence until Evan got a concussion. On Friday, March 20th, Evan was hit on the head by two of the fence posts. My parents came down for two days, Tuesday and Wednesday, and brought the rototiller. Evan had to go to the doctor on Tuesday for his concussion after he started having bad headaches and violent vomiting and dry heaving episodes. The doctor told him to go to the ER and get a CT scan. Everything was OK with the scan but because Evan is still getting pretty bad headaches, he has an appointment with a neurologist at the end of the month. My parents and I and at sometimes Evan, worked on the fence on Wednesday. My mom and I also worked on getting the garden tilled. We would not be where we are right now with the fence without my parents coming down to help. We have not gotten much done lately with the fence because Evan, with the advice of many people, won't touch the fence unless he has a hard hat. So our next thing to buy is a hard hat. I really want to get the fence done.
Evan and I are also going to a Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor on Friday. We both had CT scans done so the doctor can see what is going on with our sinuses. Hopefully the doctor can figure out why I keep getting so many sinus infections.
We finally got our garden started again. While my parents were here we tilled the garden soil. Evan and I decided to expand the garden. We almost doubled it in size. We wanted to be able to plant more than we did last year. We now need to get the fence completed around the entire garden. We have it partially fenced with last years fence but since we doubled it in size we didn't have enough to complete the fence the rest of the way. We bought the compost on Saturday and I worked on getting it spread around the garden while Evan rested, he had another headache. We tilled the garden one more time to get the compost mixed with the soil. I then worked on getting the rows and walk ways mapped out. I stopped just short of exhaustion. I slept really good Saturday night but was almost to sore to get out of bed on Sunday. Winston had his first Vet appointment on Sunday. He got shots and a check up. He is a healthy puppy.
I worked a little more on the garden rows on Sunday but only finished one more. After work on Monday, I finished all the rows and then rested until Evan got home. When Evan got home we made the mounds for the zucchini, cucumbers, watermelon, and two types of yellow squash. We have nine mounds for zucchini, three mounds for crookneck squash, three mounds for straight neck squash, two mounds for cucumbers, and two mounds for watermelons. We were able to get all of the seeds planted Monday evening.
After work on Tuesday, I worked on getting the rest of the seeds planted. We have two rows of okra, half a row of snow peas, half a row of mustard greens, and half a row of leek. I also put in a few spinach seeds. I am so excited about having the garden finished and can't wait until we can get vegetables from it. I will have pictures to show as soon as we have something growing.
Winston has made quick friends with Reagan. I caught them taking a nap together. They don't play together a lot because Reagan is 80 lbs. heavier than Winston. Reagan tends to crush Winston when he plays with him. Copper and Winston are constantly playing together. I haven't been able to get a picture of them playing because they are so fast. They run up and down the hall at Flash Gordon speed. 
I caught Winston trying to feed himself. He has chewed holes in every bag of food we have bought for him. We will soon be getting a container that will hold Winston's puppy food. We don't want anymore food spilling onto the floor. 
Evan is loving his birthday present. He and Winston love to hang out together. Winston showers Evan's chin with hundreds of kisses a day. 
Evan and I didn't realize that puppies lose their teeth. We thought something was wrong when Winston started losing his front teeth. He only had gums in the front of his mouth for a few days. We took this picture to show his new adult teeth coming in.
