It's 10:36 p.m. CDT in St. Louis and this blogger is wishes the midnight hour would come around in the next minute or two. The Sunday night shift for a Tech Services support technician at the P-D is a pretty durn quiet affair, folks.
Not much has been happening lately. I started working my new shift a few weeks back. It's 4:00-12:00 Sunday nights, 10:00 - 6:00 Mondays, 8:00-4:00 Tuesday-Thursday. I'm gradually adjusting my life to the new schedule. The Sunday nights have been quiet, the Monday hours make it harder to get to bible study on time, and the other three days are hard in the mornings but nice in the evenings. The 8:00 start time gets me a good parking space closer to my building but it's a noticeably more crowded commute on I-55.
Chili and I had a private, one-on-one obedience lesson on Friday afternoon. It was very beneficial for her and her owner. Her owner learned what he was doing right and wrong in teaching her the necessary skills to pass the next test. Chili discovered that she likes stuffed animals and will play "fetch" with them. Her owner was suitably overjoyed at this and bought Chili her own stuffed duckie to play with. It it stuffed with a "crinkle" material and squeeker that keeps her busy.
(Aside: did you know that dog obedience trainers have their own association? It's the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and their annual convention is in Portland, Oregon this week. I guess that's the kind of convention that the Portland, Oregons of the world get.)
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Back in August, you may recall I had a rotting maple tree cut down in my back yard. My dad had the tree service guys save 2 large logs of good wood for his adventures in carpentry. We made a valiant attempt to get those logs home with him that day but they were just too much for the two of us to load. Those 2 large logs subsequently lay in my back yard until just last Friday. Dad and I wrestled the logs into the back of his pickup with the help of two hand trucks and winch straps. Fortunately, neither of us was injured in the process.
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On Saturday her Chili-ness and I enjoyed a late-afternoon Fall walk at Whitecliff Park in nearby Crestwood and along Grant’s Trail near the Grant’s Farm horse pastures. She warily went nose-to-nose with a giant Clydesdale that was grazing near the fence line.
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I bought my first Willie Nelson CD last week. It's "The Troublemaker," his mid-70s country gospel album. I've enjoyed bopping down the road chorusing with Willie on "Unclouded Day" at full throat.
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No matter how many times "Apollo 13" is shown on Bravo, I still enjoy watching it.
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Idyllic: Devouring the Sunday paper big crossword while sitting in a cushioned patio chair on your deck under a shady oak tree, your dog a few feet away taking in all the smells wafting in on the not-so-gentle breeze under a sunny, cloudless sky.
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