Projects

Today was a stay at home and do projects day. This isn't my favorite kind of day because as you know I am Heroic Action Dog. However, when Mom was putting polyurethane on the picnic table I did get to run across the top, which left some good sticky pawprints.

Dad and our friend Thomas the excavator spent the morning creating a concrete base for the new sculpture, so I got to bark at the backhoe quite a bit. The base doesn't look like much now, but they put about 700 pounds of concrete into the hole, and at that they would not have had enough concrete if a friend of Thomas who lives nearby hadn't been available to drive up here with an additional four bags. I could say something about planning ahead, but I won't.

I pulled out Dad's shoes, and played with the recyclables container, while Mom worked on jewelry and Dad finished putting up the windmill. A big afternoon wind had come up by then and the windmill spun like crazy and whipped from side to side. It was instantly very cool!

Mom has this idea to smash all these overweight dishes that she and Dad for some reason bought at a yard sale and later hated (I hated them from the beginning) and then use all the broken pieces to decorate the base of the windmill. We'll see what comes of that project.

At the end of the afternoon we drove to Lamy, a little village where Amtrak stops, and walked around the railroad tracks. It was very pretty and there were lots of good smells. I snoozed in the car while Mom and Dad had supper at Harry's Roadhouse Cafe. Fortunately, they didn't bring any leftovers home in the car (I always find that very hard).