In One Week

In One Week I'll find out if I get the two weeks off next year that I requested.  I have to bid on vacation days and I chose November 9th thru November 22nd so Lan and I can go to Arizona and volunteer for Ironman Arizona 2014 & sign up for IMAZ 2015. Then, I can train for 2 years AND share my working out with my coworkers. I can also share my race with them and be all excited for it, not have to hide it from them like before.

 

I'm about 99% sure I'll get the two weeks off next year, not a lot of people want to take time at that time of year, they all want May or June. I think IMAZ 2015 will work beautifully for me, it gives me 2 years to get ready. Most importantly, it gives me all of next summer to ride the horses.

 

I really want to do the endurance riding with Sarah, that should be a lot of fun work. Now that Karen is going to be at Bton dock, she is ahead of me on the seniority list so she will get the hours I would have gotten but I'll be back to more time off, to do fun stuff. I do have my priorities.

Handy, going out to pasture

I need another one of these so very badly!

 

Linda and I both need these.

 

I have almost everything together to make a shadow box but I've lost my swim cap! Also, I threw out the yellow tag for my loved one to pick up my stuff, I have no idea what the thing on the bottom right is and I don't have a love note from my wife. But I'm sure I can put something else in there, like the toilet paper roll Lan carried for me.

 

I do have the medal, bike number, helmet number, bib, blue wristband and my envelope, plus extras like the small maps of the course, a FINISHERS sticker and glow I in the dark plastic necklace. Id like to make one for Lan too.

Horse Trailer Repairs

The horse trailer now has a new floor. This is the old original floor.

 

The 3 right side boards were rotten, not unexpected for being 15 years old.

Not so rotten that they were going to fall through on the next ride but it was time.

 

We decided to replace 6 of the 7 boards because

1)it will be done 

2)the ends of all the boards were rotten 

3)they weren't THAT expensive.

 

Lan had to remove the front kick mat off the wall. That's when he noticed the rust.

 

He had to sand blast a few parts, cut out some others, replace a few pieces of angle iron & sheet metal. This is the front wall between horses & tack room.

 

Lan, BREAKING BAD.

 

He was sand blasting here, had sand everywhere. Including in his ears.

 

Flintstones.

 

So hes got the floor boards in & bolted down, now just to trim the side mat that has stretched & bunched up.

 

And bring the mats in.

 

He still needs to replace the front wall mat. He didn't want to, said he would do it later. But I know when later is:

 

NEVER.

 

So I made him go to the store, get rivets and he did it tonight. That way I wont have to bitch about it forever and its finished.

 

 

Probably the only job he has ever completed in a reasonable amount of time and actually finished.

 

There is still a light pole hole between the arena and pasture, its not safe for turn out in either of those places. I didn't realize the arena had half the hole. Shit, any of the horses could have got a broken leg.