Day 2997

 I woke up at 8, it seems to be Abby's preferred time.  Ellen is dong the pet stuff no days, so I just get dressed and have breakfast.  It was cold and windy today, so no real chance to run the dog.  Instead I went out to the garage to work on obstacles.

I finished the bridge obstacle.  It took quite a bit of time to do it.  Nothing was hard, there was just a lot to do  I had to cut another 9 dowel pieces and attach the L brackets to the closet rod pieces.  Then I marked out 1 inch intervals on the ropes and attached the dowels and closet rods.  That used a total of 52 cable ties.  The final steps were to cut an nail top pieces over the ends and screw in the ramp mounting eyes.  It all came out pretty good.

I also wanted to add some difficulty to two of the obstacles I made last summer.  I added a couple of short "logs" to the log obstacle.  They are at angles which will make things a lot more difficult.  I was going to add a couple of logs to the stump obstacle, but I need to fine the right sized branches first.

That was all for the garage.  I brought back another ball for Abby.  I took her out to the back yard so that she could play with it.  It was still cold, but not as windy.  Abby had a great time chasing it around the yard - for about 12 minutes.  Then she killed it.  She drug the carcass around for a little while, but we took it away from her when she started breaking it apart.

Then it was back inside.  Abby was tired enough lay down and rest for a while.  I did some surfing and then had a frozen Mexican thing for lunch.  After lunch there was a whole bunch of garbage to take out.  I took Abby with me  She ran all over the place at Mach speed.  She made sure to check back with me every once in a while.  I think she would have stayed out running for quite a while, but it was cold.

You called to thank me for saving Tony's life.  Apparently he'd been bleeding enough over the last 4 days to lose half his blood supply.  The cause is internal bleeding probably caused by his falls and the blood thinners.

A little after that it was time for the Super Bowl.  I watched the first half.  It was a close, but not very exciting game.  I started watching videos.

Apparently the second half was very exciting.  The game ended in a tie and the Chiefs won in overtime.  I just wanted SF to lose.

I continued surfing until it was time to go to bed.