Day 568

We got up a little after 8 to do the pet stuff and have breakfast.  Then it was surf until 10 and leave for the club.

We got to our station about 10:45 for a 11:00 start.  We soon discovered that they were way behind.  We finally started shooting a little after noon.

The targets were pretty difficult, but that was to be expected.  What wasn't was how crappy everything was run.  We had three stations on the course where at least 6 squads were backed up causing at least 20 minute waits.  We didn't get finished until 2:45.  They had B squads on every station, which really clogged things up.  It didn't help that a couple of the trappers were finding their job really challenging.

The weather was good most of the time, but it got sunny, humid, and hot for the last 45 minutes or so.

Ellen shot pretty well.  I shot well on a few stations, and shot like shit on the rest.  I even had my first 0 station in years.

When we got home I did my exercises.  I left my timer in the exercises room, but I didn't realize it until we got back from the club in the evening.  I'll have to see if it's still there tomorrow.

We had lunch and took showers.  Then it was back to the club.  It was 93 degrees and probably 90% humidity.  No wind.

We had dinner at the club.  It was pretty good.  They also had a silent auction.  I bought two things - a rechargeable flashlight and a neat pair of electronic earphones.  They were both at good prices.

After dinner Ellen went to Gebben's prayer meeting.  I surfed.

We watched part of the expert shooting competition, but it began to get windy and cold.  So we went to run the dog.  She did 25 really long retrieves.  She was having a really good time.  So good that I had to lift her into the truck.

There was a thunderstorm to the east of us.  We got to see quite a light show on the way home.

It's nice that it's cooled down to 70 right now.  Yesterday night sucked.

We were supposed to have a 2:00 start tomorrow.  They've rescheduled it for 3:30.