In the picture Emily is making her transition from the swim to the bike portion of the race. She will be doing the Mini Haha race right here in Broomfield.Emily has also been handling a lot of the issues with Maggie. She is still sick and was causing a lot of extra work for her, taking away from the blogging time. Maggie was super lazy again and not feeling very active. Here is a pretty good shot of Maggie making our lazy dog look like a marathoner.
So, we decided that Maggie needed more attention than we could give her. Some days she needed to go out more often than once every 3 hours. So we have resigned from the Great Dane rescuing business. It was pretty sad for me to see Maggie go she is a great dog! But the lady taking care of her now will do a much better job than we ever could. Hope fully Maggie’s tumors, worms, and bad teeth will all get cleaned up and she’ll make someone a great companion.I have been busy helping out with the Louisville and Lafayette Fire Academy. So, pretty much, all of the Saturdays were taken up for me. That is finally finished up. I missed out on the picture and final burn building because I make poor decisions.They are a rag tag crew but they’ll do in a pinch. I guess I hadn't taken enough abuse so I decided to take a Wildland fire fighting class. That ended up being every bit of free time I had from Monday night to Sunday afternoon, including the final day of structure academy. But it was pretty cool. Here are some photos from the prescribed burn we did.
The pictures above are my crew watching a fire line and the one below is a fire whirl. That’s a tiny little tornado of fire. A prescribed burn is used to safely thin out the forest to it's appropriate levels without endangering any of the community around it. We got to see a lot of pretty fun stuff and sucked a lot of smoke.
After all that Emily and I had a couple of days to get our stuff together to go to Fort Wayne. Emily put together an informal BBQ for her Dad. It was a fun gathering of the closer friends and family to say “congratulations” for Mike’s retirement (Congrats Mike!). Hopefully he is stress free and spending less time picking out ties and more time picking out hobbies! The kids got together and got him a tent. It’s conditional though, he has to come out and go camping with us. As you can see Mikey Likes it!
I managed to sneak out and see some friends and take in the 500! Here I am with Carl, Justin and Me, from Right to left.
Don’t worry, it’s Carl’s hat, and it looks a lot better on him. Speaking of Carl, he met his Dream Girl, too bad he’s married and she didn’t really care that he existed!
It was a whirlwind trip to Indy, as they always are. Sorry I didn’t have time to meet with family. I caught enough guilt from Mom as it was, so don’t worry about that. It was sad to leave but nice to be in our house again. The offer always stands; the guest room is ready for company at all times! We just need like a couple hours notice so we can be home.
That pretty much covers what all we have been up to. Emily has been as busy as I have and we’ll both try and make more updates. Hopefully they won’t be this long!
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