As I sit here waiting to head to dinner, I have to say that the H.O.G. Officer’s Training was one of the best learning events of my life. Coming from the shitty student that I was, that says a lot! Enjoy the pics.

. . . . and since she’s been so nice to Mom, I’m posting this here as a treat for her. It’s a video about owls and how cute they are.

Enjoy the video Beth!

Steve, from the state E.D., stopped by yesterday and confirmed my suspicion that they were going to condemn our septic tank. With that bad news came good news too. He’s open to a smaller volume combination than Rudy thought he would be. He said that they’d ignore the living quarters’ waste stream and just use the flow from the store, which is quite a bit larger than the upstairs.

Other Stuff

Tomorrow I head to Alb. for H.O.T. or HOG Officer Training. Nina is rumored to go with me for this but will be excluded from the meetings and training. There is a party on Friday night with morning classes on Saturday.

Sunday, Nina gets picked up by Andy or Tori, while I will be winging it east for a visit with Mom. Looking forward to seeing her and a few friends while there.

More Other Stuff

The marketing committee I’ve been dealing with for the past 18 months recently got savaged in the local paper by some that feel that we should have used a local firm to brand the area and provide advertising for us. I just saw on the news that Santa Fe is also getting flack for doing the same. They are using a Boston company while we used a Tennessee company.

To me it seems that local firms just assume that they have an advantage in the bidding process, but with dwindling funding, we too have to shop smarter. The bids from local firms that we reviewed did not show adequate knowledge of the area and the examples that were shown should have been their “best” efforts, but what we saw was lacking. Tennessee came in with their A game and the finished product was amazing. Sorry, but I can’t show the finished product until sometime next week.

The gods that were smiling when
you were born are laughing now.

Well, we got about 4 inches overnight and I was out there plowing my concrete areas at 5:30. When I got to the lot, there was a car parked on the concrete in front of the store. I stopped and asked the lady to please pull up about 10 feet so I could get all the concrete. She agreed but told me it would take about 5 minutes because she had to put her pants back on. HUH? What the hell was she doing? I guess it’s better that I don’t know.

Paul DesRoche is not doing well. If you know him and Charlotte, keep them in your prayers. He’ll be heading home for hospice care soon. The have a FB page for his care info. Email Charlotte to be added.

.223 ammo is going to be outlawed by the Big O administration? Why? Stupid ass. Lucky for me I have several thousand rounds.

Well, Rudy and his crew returned to expose the septic tank for the building. It’s not pretty. It’s made of cinder blocks and has a homemade concrete top and both he and I doubt that the state environmental peoples will allow me to continued to use it. Its also showing signs of seepage through the blocks.

The current work to expose the tank has also caused the removal of one half of the patio out front. We’re actually pretty lucky that that’s all we lost out there. I’m not sure what will go over the new tank, if anything.

And here’s a picture of Erin