Checking In / Sir's Horns

I'm alive.

That is all.

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No really.

LOL

Yesterday was Jim's birthday.

This is his final year as a 20 something.

He is really enjoying his new job

as a service writer.

He gets to talk to lots of people

and help them decide what / if to fix

on their cars.

He's been working parts / service since

he was about 6 years old and he's good at it.

(And it's also nice to have a steady pay check...)

We all went out to dinner to celebrate.

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Otherwise, it's just been a busy week.

We got all moved into our new office.

It's a lot further, but not much longer 

time to drive.

It's a nice facility.

But it's strange to be sitting with people on both 

sides of me.

And people walking behind me.

Headphones are an absolute MUST.

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I finished up a good class over the weekend.

All the students (except 1) passed the final exam

and two of them are already licensed.

So that's always good.

I also taught an evening review class at

my old school - happens to be a couple

of blocks from my new office.

8 students and one of them passed

their state exam the next morning!

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We are still waiting on the beef.

The butcher hangs the meat for 28 days 

to age it and then butchers out, wraps

and freezes it and we drive over to get it.

We picked up the steer's head last week.

Rod wants to hang the skull with horns

out in the barn.

The butcher told us to toss it in the lake

and let the fish clean it for us.

So we did.

(In Brock's pond next door.)

And two days later it floated back to the top!

Which lead to quite the adventure.

We tried attaching a concrete block and 

re-sinking it, but that didn't work.

We are in a drought and the pond isn't deep enough.

It involved Kyle, a kayak, and a dog.

(who it turns out is afraid of the water

and tried to drown everybody...)

So the guys dragged the head out of the pond,

loaded it into our little red wagon 

and brought it back over to our place.

They put it way out in a back pasture

(it STINKS)

and covered it with the water trough

and a couple of heavy tires and some

concrete blocks.

Sprinkled a bunch of lime around it 

and left it there.

But the dogs kept getting into it.

So the other day they went out and dug a

deeeeep hole and put it in there with

about 30 pounds of lime.

They will dig it up again in a couple of months

and hopefully it will be clean.

(The ants had already gotten a good start.)

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So... that's about all the exciting stuff.

Otherwise, it's just our normal

busy, happy lives.

The horses got their "pedicures" yesterday.

It was nice to visit with my farrier.

I've missed his visits for about a year.

Rod has been coordinating it and having

him come when I'm out of town.