Deer Lease Weekend

This weekend we had a huge family outing to the deer lease. All 6 of us loaded up and spent a couple nights in the camper hanging out. Yes, that is a 24 ft camping trailer with two adults two 40lb +/- dogs and 2 10lb +/- dogs(Foley has gained a little weight in her older age and finally passed 10lbs) Anyhow, yes we have electricity and water out there so it isn't totally roughing it. For Rocky this was really his first experience running around the pastures with the big dogs and what an experience it was for him. I have attached a video of him ridding on the trailer with the big dogs while we set up a feeder this morning. I have also attached a video of Blake shooting a black powder rifle which packs a pretty big bang. I spent my time at the trailer taking down the ugly generic border and curtains that comes in campers and putting up camoflage border and making brown curtains with camoflage valances. It was a good weekend, with the exception of Blake not getting a deer and the fact that I am having to deal with dog gas from them eating to many scraps. It is nice to be able to get away from the city for awhile and just hang out.

Soooo Blake!

This is an email I received from Blake today. Thought I would pass it on, I am sure you can all see him saying this as well as I can. :) Enjoy!

I forgot to mention that we all had to start our day by being threatened of being fired for not wearing our safety glasses and gloves. People are talking about how out of control they are getting with the rules right now. Even the drillers are talking about how all of this is a bunch of BS. I'm looking for them to make an example of someone soon and run someone off for not wearing their gloves or glasses or touching a load or something. I can tell you that it won't be me! I'll tell you all about this when I get home. Oh and dirty jobs didn't have anything on me today. My red shirt was black...I just had to get a new one. I ingested plenty of oil and grease today too but it's all good...it's environmentally friendly :)

It has been awhile!

It has been a while since I last posted on the blog so, I thought I would do a quick update. Blake and I both survived Ike in our own ways. :) We had over 400 guests from the gulf coast in the City of Arlington for over a week. Luckily, we were able to get them all back to their home towns. Blake's ship weathered the storm from the south, they then went back up onto location and experienced some of the backside of the storm. What an experience for that land man. :) My mom and I had a cruise planned that we were afraid would end up cancelled due to the storm, however we were able to cruise out of the Houston port and had a great time on our trip. I was able to catch up on alot of sleep I had lost over the past month. We had two great ports of call and did some shopping in Cozumel and enjoyed the beautiful beaches of Progresso Yucatan. Anyhow, I have spent the last week trying to catch up at work. Blake is back out on the rig now and hopefully this will be a much calmer hitch for him.

The Water is Blue and there are Bubbles

Apparently this is what large waves look like as they are crashing into the side of Blakes ship. I spoke with him this afternoon and all is well. They are having major high waves crashing into the ship. He says that you can see dolphins playing in the swells which is pretty cool. Things are apparently going OK and they were headed back into the south east side of the storm and were going to let it push them back around to their location. I am working 6:30am-7:30pm right now at our Emergency Operations Center, we have a few hundred evacuees sheltering in our city right now. So, until Ike has decided to go away and stop raining and water receeds and we can send everyone back to their homes I can resume my normal work schedule. Hope everyone enjoys their weekend, I will be getting up early and working late!