Brice Wants me to Blog

Brice has been complaining for a while that I need to blog...I don't feel like I ever have much to say though. We live in town (or should I call it a settlement) where the most happening place is Wal-mart or Braums on a Sunday evening. I'm sure that people are sick of seeing pictures of our hairy kids (dog and cats).

I went to Fort Worth a few weeks back (see Bailey's Blog for pics because I didn't take any that were very good) http://hughesbaby.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html I also got to stop i and see my good friend Berkeley on the for a few hours after leaving Jaime and Travis's house. Hopefully I'll be able to make it back down to see everyone again soon. Next time I'll have to plan more with Berkeley, her husband is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq in September and is in North Carlina for training.

Jaime and Bailey...from this pic you'd never know that he was not happy that morning

Bailey got some boxers while we were at Wal-Mart (See link above for more pics and video) He was surprised by the freedom of boxers :-)

Frog Dog...and cat

Rusty has an obsession with toads. When he sees them he goes into a trance, but as soon as they move he decides that he needs to pick them up. Rusty got a hold of one about three times in a row on the side of the house while Brice and I were cutting Jack's fur. He got super foamy, and I think he flung some of it in his eye, because he was rubbing it on everything....so we washed his eye and his mouth out and gave him a benedryl and that seemed to do the trick.

Some of Rusty's foam

The toad...you can see how much slobber there is on it
Jack is also interested in toads....he tapped it with his paw a few times, then decided to lick it....just FYI cats foam at the mouth too when they lick toads. After that he didn't want anything to do with it.

Misc

This is red "danger do not enter" tape. The safety guys strung it across one entrance to the lab and part of the other half after doing a chemical inspection....I found it funny that they didn't care about someone working two feet away or the heard of us that that was amused by the situation and felt compelled to take photos

The "safety guys"

Part of my lab with red tape across one entrance and lots of water samples

Brice and I went to Arlington to watch the Rangers play the Yankees last Wednesday. We ended up getting rained and hailed on....no baseball that night. We had awesome tickets too.

Jack is turning into a cheetah

He even has a polka dot belly

Brice and Rusty hanging out by my flowers

Four Door Sedan

Brice and I went to Amarillo last weekend for Memorial Day. Brice has had new car fever ever since Thanksgiving and would spend his evenings searching online for cars and reviews. We went to look at cars on Saturday...a Tahoe is what Brice and I thought we were looking for. We also looked at 4-Runners. And this is what he ended up getting


Had to put a Tech licence plate on the front, since it already had the holder and Oklahoma doesn't have front plates

The best part is the heated and cooled seats....it blows air up your butt :-)

Brice's secretary saw him driving on Friday and told everyone up there that Brice got a new car. Brice was going to the copy machine and someone asked him if he got a new car...he said yes...then they asked what kind....he said a four door sedan...they said that doesn't tell me much....then he said I'm sure you'll see me driving it....

Flowers

I'm acting like I know what I'm doing planting flowers out front this year. I planted some petunias, impatients, lantana, and few bulbs a few months ago that are starting to come up. I finally had a chance to put some mulch out today, it has been raining just about everyday here. Our yard...mostly weeds has been growing like crazy. I'm sure our neighbors are asking what we are doing having flowers and awful looking grass. I also bought an orchid today and I'm going to try not to kill the thing.

My Orchid

Close up of the orchid flower My "baby" petunias to the left of the driveway

My petunia around the mailboxThe big flower bed by the front door...pitiful looking roses....pink impatients(I bought two flats that were the best looking ones they had and they turned out to all be pink) some lantana towards the back were there is no shade from the tree in the front yard. Hopefully they all start the spread out soon and look really good.

Brice is so happy that all the animals want to be by him

Jack looks like he's laughing.....His foot is still yellow from back in Feb. when he first got sick because the medicine he was taking had a yellow-orange dye...which seems to be permanent

Riley snoozing, telling us to turn the lights out

This is how Rusty falls asleep every night...this toy has been named the "bedtime bone" because he only cares about it when it's time for bed

'nuggin' on Jack

In the field again.

I left at 6am on Saturday with 3 people that I work with to go on a frac job for a new fluid....it was near Victoria,TX. After driving all day we went out to the location to do some pre-job testing...we didn't get to the hotel until midnight. This morning we met at 4:30 to go back to location after our "nap." We finished pumping the job around 2 and got away from location around 3ish and drove up to Austin and called it a day.



The worst parts of going to field:

1. Port-a-potties....needless to saw I will not use them. So today from5:30 until 3ish felted like it was never going to end...starting about 6:30am.

2. When you get 3 hours of sleep and the company man (customer) thinks it's humorous to call me Sunshine....not amused

3. Rain....being wet and muddy all day is not funny

4. Only getting 3 hours of sleep



Other than that it's a nice change of scenary from the lab

Kids

It's been a while since I've updated this. Nothing exciting has been happening in Duncan. A few weeks ago we had more layoffs. It was about 250 people total but no one in the Technology Center got laid off this time. I looks like I might be going back to the field at the end of this week. If the job stays on schedule I'll be going back to Bay City, TX on Friday. All our kids are four-legged furry guys....so that's what you get to hear about :-) I've been busy with Jack, he's been sick on and off for the last month...but hopefully he is better now. He is acting more like himself....but he has gotten used to being spoiled. Riley wishes she was an only cat still....she hasn't been the same ever since the first trip to the vet. Rusty is exited that the squirrels are back...so he has something to "hunt"

Cone-Head Jack made into a blanket burrito

Little ball of love
Rusty...trying to take up the entire couch

Riley lovin Brice