I wanted to Keep Her!!!

We found a cute brittany spaniel on sunday. We walked around the neighborhood with her and some kids told us where they thaught she lived. No one was home so we left a note
to call. The dog was muddy and we still don't have a backyard fence so we gave her a bath and she hung out inside with us. She was a ball of energy and a cat chaser. Rusty enjoyed having a friend for a day. The owners called us around 7 and Brice walked her back home.

Fishing Trip

My fishing trip was a lot of fun. We left yesterday after work and drove down to Lake Texoma. We had an awesome steak dinner and hung around the cabins. We went out on the boat around 7 this morning...it was about 39 degrees. The first 45 minutes was a little slow....then it seemed like the fish were jumping into our boat. There were times that all six of us had fish hooked at the same time. We hit our limit of fish before 10 and just released the rest of the fish that we caught. "Sparky" cleaned the fish when we got back to the boat dock and divided them into bags for us to bring the fillets home.

Sunrise on the lake

"Sparky" , Trudy, and the biggest fish of the day

Baby fish...I caught bigger than this



Andrew and his little fish

Back on the dock--lots of fish
Displaying our catch
The group with our catch

Johanna, Jason, Me, Trudy, Andrew, Paul

Couch Pictures

Here are some pictures of the couch and loveseat. They recline and are really comfortable. I also bought the big area rug....we are waiting for all the wrinkles to fall out before we move it.

Couch

Loveseat
From the fireplace - rug

I still have my field trial going on...which pretty much means no weekends, even if it's just for a few hours I've had to go out to the lab to check samples. Tonight I'll have samples arriving from the job today around midnight....which means I get to go out to the lab to deal with those (PJ's and all). I am " taking off" next thurday to go fishing down at lake texoma...I'll still have to run into work when I get back and check samples....I don't really have days off with this trial going on. I'm really looking forward to the trip it should be a lot of fun.

Another long week...

This is the beginning of my third week to work at least 55 hours in a row. I went back out to the field again for a frac job to catch samples on Saturday and Monday. Friday night I got to stop by Jaime and Travis's house for a while and see them and play with Bailey...He's turning into a little dude. Today it rained all morning on me when I was out on the job, so I was cold and wet for most of the day. It wasn't too bad...but i was super muddy and Halliburton truck is covered with mud both inside and out.

I still need to put up pics of the couch...we ordered a rug and it was defective so we had to send it back...we have bad luck. But I'll try to put those pictures up soon.

2 year...Brice got and X-box

and I got a couch...that he really likes to share with Jack

Baby dog

Work

I went out on a frac job Monday. It was pretty neat to see all the equipment and to feel the ground shake a little when they start pumping the fluid and proppant downhole. I was doing some work with the water that was being used so I was crawling up on the frac tanks and then working out of the back of the truck. My coworker took the picture bellow right after the sun came up. We had to get up at 4 am to make it to the well site on time. It's been a really long week for both Brice and me. I've been styaing late or leaving and going back to work late when samples from the field get to Duncan. Brice has a project deadline coming up so he's been staying up at work until at least 6 everynight.

Skunk

Brice's parents came to visit this weekend..and it was an exciting first night. Maddie woke up and needed to go poty so Brice took her and Rusty outside...Maddie found a skunk an so sprayed right in the face. Then we found a recipe of peroxide, baking soda, and dish soap and washed her head twice (gotta love the internet) then we gave both dogs a full body bath with regular dog shampoo. Unless you put your nose right up on her face you can't even smell her anymore and even then it's not strong thankfully. Spraying a diluted bleach sultion outside got the odor out of the yard (it stunk bad on the side of the house) we also put bricks around any of the holes in the fence where the skunk could have gotten in.

I left today around 1:30 to come to Alvarado for a fracturing job. It's my first time to go onsite. I have to train so people how to do some of the water testing that I've been doing in the lab....I guess everyone wasn't kidding when they said that I'd be the biocide expert...and it took less than three months of work.

I got something I've been wanting...

I called mom as soon as we got home, and had her guess what Brice bought today (I think she was hoping for something a lot smaller, and that comes from a jewelry store :)

Well, Brice bought us a new couch and love seat, they are being delivered next Saturday, so I'll have pictures then. They recline and are microfiber.

Rusty with his Kong ball by the Red Tech Flag that Brice's parent's sent us

Last weekend we went to Amarillo. We bought a grill while we were there. We had been looking at getting a propane grill for a while.

Brice testing out the grill for the first time

It's not the best picture, but I'm obsessed with hummingbirds. I love to sit on the swing on the back porch and watch them.
Brice "playing" with his favorite cat Riley

Snuggin' Rusty