—Yikes! I am in the middle of a 4 day weekend, and I have accomplished next to nothing towards building my observatory. What have I been doing you say? Spending lots of money on non frivolous things I’m afraid.
—Tuesday I took my car in to be serviced and to repair a flat tire sensor that says I have a flat tire all the time (Remember the old days when you looked at a tire to see if it was flat?). So I spent half the day waiting at Barnes and Noble reading science books while I waited for my car. I did buy a Stephen Hawking book while I was there. It was two books in one… “A Brief History of Time” & “The Universe in a Nutshell”. Good reading for those spare moments after bedtime and before the lights go out.
—So after the trip to the service dept (where they didn’t fix my sensor), I drove to Kansas to see my doctor. Yes I live in Arkansas but still go to a doctor in Kansas. He’s been my doctor since I was 10 and his office visits are 1/3 of what they are in Arkansas. So I had my blood pressure checked and new script given for meds. Then I went to visit my parents for an hour before heading home at 19:00.
—On the way home I saw a great Dane walking down the highway and he didn’t look well. So I stopped to check on him and found the poor dog in a state of total starvation ( I mean totally emaciated). This totally pissed me off because I rescued a dalmatian 5 years ago in a similar condition. He would not come to me because he was afraid. Eventually he went to a local farm house and went in the garage. At this point I knew he lived there and was being abused so I turned around and drove back to the previous town for help. Believe it or not, there was a sheriff car at the local gas station, and I stopped the officer and asked for help. He was a dog owner and was very concerned about the welfare of the dog. I told him I was going to buy some dog food and take it back to the dog and he asked that I call him when I got there so he could call the local human society and report the incident. Well I bought the dog food and drove back to the farmhouse, to my surprise, the sheriff pulled in behind me. While I was feeding the dog, he called in the address and requested someone be sent there immediately to help the dog. I totally feel good inside that I was able to help the dog and at the same time get the law involved in a case of animal abuse. I hope the story ends well without my help, I will have to put faith in the system that it will.
—So that brings me to yesterday where I had plans on felling two trees. One over my dog pen that is dead and in danger of falling and hurting my dogs and the other where my observatory will be. My dad drove from Kansas to help fell these trees because they are both HUGE and have the potential of falling on things they shouldn’t. So what do I get accomplished? Well I get the one tree over my dog pen down, and it took 4 hours to do it. In the end it did no damage, and did not fall on the fence or the house. After we finished that tree, we were to tired to tackle the second one, so my observatory is no closer to being built. Oh well my dogs are safe and I don’t have to worry about it hitting the house.
—That brings me to today where I am feeling waaaay lazy and have little drive to accomplish anything (yet). I plan on tackling something tomorrow in regards my observatory and will fill you all in on that at a later time. Until then I bid you all a good day…