Milestones

Another donation to the Red Cross this afternoon. I've been working up to this one for a while. Here are some of the other tokens I've gotten over the years.



They've been calling me to come in every three weeks since this summer. I used to make my appointments once a month. I don't mind the process, I'm not squeemish about having a needle stuck in my arm for an hour and a half. I schedule the appointments for Friday afternoons, makes for an early start to the weekend. Work has no problem donating my time, giving back to the community in this way. It's one of the company's "Core Values". I watched the the first half of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon today. They have quite a collection of movies. It's the hardest part of the whole procedure, choosing the right movie.

There's a storm moving in. The remnents of a couple of typhoons are heading our way. Should hit us Sunday evening/Monday morning. We're talking winds up to 70 mph for over a day. There is a good chance there will be wide spread power outages. This is one time all the trees here just may be a handicap. Especially when they fall on and take down power lines. Oh yes, just for good measure, the storm thats coming in before hand, Saturday afternoon could drop up to three inches of snow on the valley floor. Never a dull moment around here. Our friend DJ lives at the coast and was planning on coming to town this weekend. It's her birthday. Instead shes staying home and battening down the hatches. Better safe than sorry. There's sure to be snow in the costal range passes. She has studded snow tires but there's no reason to tempt fate. It's just too costly, money and time, if you make a mistake trying to get through a snow covered pass.


Here are the boys. We took Shakespeare in to get neutered a couple of weeks ago. There will be no little Shakespeares in the future. Bailey has been on a diet for almost three months now and has lost about 20 lbs. A shadow of his former self. He has more energy, can move faster and jump higher now. He hasn't been real happy about it but you can tell that he knows he is in better shape than he has been for years. Now, if he can just get that pesky puppy to leave him alone when he's trying to take a nap. Shakespeare, on the otherhand has energy to burn. Exactly what you'd expect of a puppy. He goes out to the backyard many times a day and races from one end to the other looking for squirrels in the trees. He hasn't caught any yet, but it sure isn't from lack of trying!