A slight
detour....
March 9, 2005:
We're about to get on the road again, so I'm putting out a
quick update.
We came back to SD about a month ago to get Gus' leg fixed and are now
on our way back to Colorado to use some lift tickets and get our last
bit of looking around there done. Gus had his surgery to fix his
torn ACL 2 weeks ago and got his stiches (actually staples) out this
morning. All looks good so far. He's trying to use the leg
and REALLY wants to go for a walk - but he's not allowed to do that for
6 more weeks. He's feeling much better and we're having to keep
him rather drugged up so that he'll want to stay very relaxed and not
do much of anything but lay around. We hate doing it, but it is
for the best since he doesn't seem to know that he's had his leg bone
cut up and patched together with a metal plate.
Although we stayed in SD for about a month - somehow we didn't
get around to seeing very many folks. We worked on a few projects
around the house. The deck is much closer to completion, and I
put in a planter for herbs on the side of the house and did some other
yard work - between rain storms. A simple trip to Costco to get a
couple of new chair mats for the office turned into a major
project for that room. We ended up deciding to put in a wood
laminate (fake wood) floor instead of getting chair mats - and
that led to getting the cottage-cheese ceiling scraped and retextured
and painted. But - it's done and it looks pretty darn good.
Besides work projects and doing our taxes - I did some
geo-caching. I got into this over Christmas and got my cousin
Kate hooked on it too - so we did some hiking with the intent of
finding these little boxes of stuff that are hidden around the
area. It's pretty cool (although Bill thinks I'm pretty nuts)
because I've gotten out to places in SD that I wouldn't normally go
hiking/walking in.
We're now planning on a month in Mexico when we get back from
Colorado - and then heading off to China in May.
Stay in touch!
D and B and Gus the bionic dog.