Beltane Waxing Garlic Moon
Tomorrow I leave for Lincoln, Nebraska. Sollie will head back to Denver with Jon. Our goal here is to calm the dog situation down by getting rid of the extra dog and getting to work integrating Gertie into our pack. She has a Jekyll and Dog personality; sweet and friendly, cuddly 90% of the time and all gnarly teeth and dog for 10%. Trouble is, we can’t predict the 10%. Outside humans seem to raise her hackles, at least sometimes, but there’s something between her and the other dog’s, too. Our hope is that Sollie’s presence, a male among females, may have tipped the balance toward aggression in the doggy world for Gertie and that with him gone, she’ll calm down. That may be wishful thinking.
Mark finished a first course of granite blocks for our firepit. Now I have to find a steel fire ring. It’ll be nice to have a place for a fire just in time for summer. No. Kidding. It’s nice to have it done and ready for fall. Mark’s helped out a lot. I’ve found it much easier to do my work here if I don’t have to do the heavy work on both ends of a project. (This will be the Agni fire pit by Mark Ellis.)
I’m awake. In addition to getting up at 10:40 I also had a 2 hour nap. Staying out late is possible for me, but I have to have time to recover.
Watched the NBA finals with Mark tonight. Two Hoosier boys watching the big guys play ball. We didn’t have the sound on. Basketball is the one sport I know well enough to watch without commentary. I decided, early on, that I wanted to see Miami win, so tonight’s decision pleased me. It was a game right down to the final 4.0 seconds.
