Well today was a day of less… less work on my part… less people and dogs in the house as well. The kids left and took our dog (dogs) with them for the month since we are going to be gone 8 days of this month? I think that it would have been cheaper to have them in the kennel for the 8 days over having to make a fast 3 day trip with 2 days of driving out and back but it was not my decision. It was kind of quiet around here with out the white dog
Can you see she hates car rides— the angle of the lease and which way she is pulling?
Here she is always in the way needing attention but we still have the cat and she is doing her best to make up for the missing dog… strange, when it is just the cat here… she demands a lot more attention… Also it came to my attention that she was a reminder that I needed to go out and pick up the mail… the mail comes after lunch… I go in town for lunch and when I get back I have to let the dog out so at that point we walk up and get the mail… today… I forgot to go get the mail till 9pm cause I didn’t have my reminder… Old people need consistency and reminders…
Anyway this morning was a send off breakfast at Braums, then they packed 5 dogs into the back of a Camry and headed west… I went to work on some little things I had in the shop as well as making some phone calls and setting up some appointments. Early when they got up and forgot to check for the geese it was a scramble by the geese and dogs and I don’t think any of them (dogs or geese) were hurt but I have not seen the geese back up this way at all today… I did notice before the commotion that they were short one young one? Yesterday they had 6 but after the hard rain I am not sure all 6 made it through and now there are only 5 little geese…
Then it was off to lunch and to complete some errands… I had to pick up some medication, get a CPAP reprogramed, and pick up the down spout parts to finish up my project on the stairs… I got it all back and then had to do some more dragline work and get the spout put in, screwed tight so it won’t move, and bury some extra drain pipe so it comes out at the lower end of the hill form the step… the should help stop the excess water from running in under the step and causing a muddy spot or washing the mud out into the flowers on the other side…
Now to get another 3 inch rain to test it all out… and pick up the excess rocks and probably place them in the “snake river’ drainage as the last rain , again, has moved some rocks down and I will need to move them back up and this time put a little cement or mortar in place to keep them where I put them… I hope.
I did get a bit more radio time in today… nothing exciting there… and made it to the local Ham Group monthly meeting, paid my dues, paid for my T-shirt for Field Day for which I will not get to attend as plans change… oh well..I have seldom made a local Field Day… I have made a few out on vacation at different places and made a lot of contacts with those there were participating… but my actually being at a local groups day… only 3 times that I know of…
So after getting the wall, rocks and drain re-arranged… what project is next? not sure… I have a pretty long list of things to do, some easy and quick and some difficult and will take some time… but mostly I think we will spend some of the next few days preparing for a trip…
WD0AJG