Our facility is fully open now! Well it has been for about a month really, but we were working out some kinks and finishing up the office. We had our official Open House yesterday! While I have attended open houses over the years, my favorites being hardware store openings, I have never had the pleasure…
Category: CONSTRUCTION
our Dog Gym – the final stages!
An awesome Sunday to be sure! We were set to go hiking and swimming this weekend for our dogs birthday’s, but Franny was having a Grandma moment and didn’t really want to get out of her rocking chair. So on Saturday we had a Spa Day instead, baths, brushing, nails, massages, garden hang time, and…
our first workshop in our new Dog Gym!
Well it has been one month and three days since we started renovating an old warehouse. We have had very few glitches, the flooring, or rather the damaged flooring has been the biggest, and truthfully the only one that has caused any kind of stress. It set our renovation/opening schedule back two weeks, but we…
renew, reuse, return …
So exciting that most of everything new going into our Dog Gym is not actually new but rather renewed, and/or reused materials. I think I’ve mentioned before that my husband is a pack rat of sorts when it comes to building materials. He saves anything he can from job sites if it’s marked for the…
week #3 – where is my carpenter?!
Spore is the man! He has worked for two weeks straight, crazy sick long hours, and has accomplished more than I could have dreamed of. Fear not, I have fed him well, supplied him with arnica sore muscle patches, lots of love, and coffee coffee coffee! But alas, I no longer have him full time,…
Moving along… it’s been a week now
So we have plowed through the big stuff in just under a week. I can now say that the business I founded a bit over nine years ago, Paws & People, is truly a family business. This whole adventure would not be possible without all of us doing it together. We’re kind of like the…
moving stuff in little by little with Batman!
The sixteen hour days just might be catching up with us! Spore was painting until 2:30am, his day was actually more like twenty hours. The painting is done for the most part, now just small trim pieces that go up here and there. Today we have mirrors, lights, bathroom and heater stuff. Over coffee last…
the push – day 5
We have been busting through 12-16 hour days at our new dog gym. Some of the renovations have been easier than expected, and some for sure more laborious, like painting a 2,000 square foot freaking ceiling. Remind me that this task may not be necessary, ever again in my life! Spore hasn’t quite put together,…
construction, demo, kill the navy blue! days 3 & 4
Thank you to our many visitors in the past two days, even you wise crackers asking for medical marijuana for your hang nails! Friendly faces and mini tours put some awesome energy into this space! So we are moving along at a pace that makes me smile. I am so excited about the progress and…
and the construction begins… days 1 & 2
It really doesn’t hurt to be married to a carpenter, furniture maker, welder, tiler kind of guy. In fact it’s more than handy when you need something fixed, built, or re modeled. And if you’re into training any type of competition dog sport, there is always equipment or gear that needs to designed and made….
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