Saturday, March 28, 2009

Dogs & chickens


So far this Reno trip has been fun..... until I got the phone call from Rick this morning. Once again Chance & Seven had managed to escape & run the nieghborhood, infortunately Seven cmae home with a chicken in his mouth! Rick got the chicken away from him & got both the dogs in the house. Shortly a local deputy sheriff showed up at the door. The fine for two unlicensed dogs running loose is $268! And that doesn't count what the owners of the chickens will want for reimbursment...... or vet bills. Rick was going to go talk ot the owners. I am so angry that I might just go home & shoot the dogs myself. We knew it was only a mater of time when the dogs would run into some kind of trouble when they escaped. I really thought however that they would get run over and killed by soemone. This is just unbelievable, I am so angry and upset that they did this! I had such a nice day in Virginia City yesterday. It's a quaint historical town. They've turned the historical buildings into lovely shops with all kinds of stuff. They're a number of 'rock' shops, Virginia City being the first mining town in Nevada. It was very interesting to learn about Boulder Tourquoise, it was originaly found in Elko. No 2 pieces are exactly alike. Unfortunately I didn't purchase a piece of it, but I did find a number pf pieces that are very lovely. I bought a beautiful necklace & earring set and 10 rock 'marbles'. I picked ones that I found interesting.
One of the leather stores was having a winter clearance sale (maybe it was 2 shops) I found Rick a new mototrcycle jacket for only $45! he was thrilled that I got it for him. I also got myself 2 leather bomber jackets they were buy one get one free, who could pass that up? SO yes I spent way too much money but I felt like I was thoughtful in my purchases and looked for things that I really liked and fairly priced, now does that sound like good justification?

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Whining

Needles was certainely a long trip. I missed Zac's Dr. Suess program thurs. night but Rick videotaped it for me and it was fun to watch. Zac was so cute!
It's been a hard spring traveling. I haven't been home when Rick's been off for weeks. And I have to go to Reno fri. to pick up the FFA group that I took there tues. night. It was an out & back and we left Spring Creek 2:00 PM tues. so by time we got to Reno & I dropped them off I didn't get home till 4:00 AM. By then I was wired so I just stayed up to get Zac to school and then I went to sleep. I woke up at 1:00 PM and couldn't believe that 5 hrs had passed, it felt like I had just went to sleep 5 min. earlier. I rolled over & went back to sleep till Zac got home from school.................... what a day. And to top it off I have to go back to Reno next week for 3 days! I'm almost tired of traveling. Actualy I'm tired of missing my husband & son. And to top it off we haven't been to SLC to see the kids & grandkids since Jan. OK so I'm whining! and rambling! I haven't got to enjoy the nice weather yet either! I want to get out in my yard & garden! I want to walk my dogs, I want to go for a ride on the bike with Rick! He's had it out the last 2 weekends and I haven't got to ride!
Alright enough whining for now.

Friday, March 13, 2009

traveling

Here I sit in a motel 6.............. well it doesn't quite rhyme but I'm in Needles Calif. for the Colorado River Softball tournament with Spring Creek High School. OK so the girls are here to play, I'm here to drive them around! Needles is approx. 2 hrs south of Vegas and 550 miles from Spring Creek and it looks like we won't be going home till sunday instead of sat. night which is what I had been told. I'm a bit ticked off that I wasn't told in advance. Seems like I've been on the road a lot lately, Vegas last weekend, Vegas the weekend before that and Sun Valley, Idaho with Jackpot the week before that! So now I think I'll take a nap before I have to go take them to lunch between games!