Update

Currently I am scheduled to leave for Singapore June 25th and return July 2nd. I am dreading the long flight, I am literally flying around the entire world. There were a limited number of flights that fell with in the restrictions that Halliburton places on tickets. So I fly from Houston to Moscow (stop and refuel no plane change) then on to Singapre. On the way home I fly from Singapore to Tokyo, then on to LA. I'm flying Singapore Air which has been highly recommended by some of my co-workers who travel a lot.

I haven't posted pictures ina while, because my camera is not working...I guess I will probably be buying myself a new before I leave to Singapore.

Was supposed to start some pretty heavy travel in the US in June, but we have had a few set backs at our manufacturing facility so now it is looking like the heavy traveling will not start until July. Which means I will at least get to enjoy the first part of the summer, rather than none of it. The traveling will probably last at least 2 months, where I will be gone during the entire week and home only on the weekends and one week during the month.

Addicted

Rusty is addicted! We bought some "speaker toys" from tractor supply company a few weeks ago and there is hardly a moment that Rusty doesn't have one in his mouth. He will wake up in the middle of the night and look for them. These are the most annoying toys ever made....two make chirping sounds, one crows like a roast, and one sings an annoying song. Rusty g

ets frantic when you put them up.

Rusty with a Speaker Toy

Brice's mess...building a new computer

Bailey snuggin' on Jack

My new orchid

Update from Duncan

As usual not much has been happening in Duncan. I had an exciting weekend. I spent Saturday morning at the Humane Society cleaning. Then I spent part of the afternoon trimming the bushes out front and planted flowers in the front bed.

I should have been in Brazil right now, but my trip was cancelled. We'll see if they let me go to Singapore in July....I'm not holding my breath. My taveling will start back up soon. I will have 20 guys from across the US come for me to train before April is up, I still find it funny that I am considered "the expert" on all this stuff when I have only been there 2 years. Then I will making a few trips to Houston, Tulsa, and OKC to start. Then I will be heading out to Pennsylvannia and West Virginia to ensure that the field camps are trained on the equipment and lab testing that we are sending to the field and I'll meet with a few customers. Then I will be off to Colorado again for a week or so doing the samething. I'll Also be hitting up a few places in Texas...Alvarado, Kilgore, and Alice. Needless to say the current commercialization plan is going to keep me very busy for the next few months. Hopefully I will have dates soon for when I am supposed to fit all this in.

Crazy cat face.....Riley was yawning, but it looks like an evil laugh

Front Flower bed....I can't remember what the green stuff is...I planted the bulbs last year and they didn't even get half as big as they are now. I have impatients then in the back caladium bulbs should come up anytime and a few elephant ears in the very back that will be sprouting soon
My pansies...they survived our aweful icestrom. Soon caldiums will be coming up here too. I had really good luck with caladiums last year, so I planted more this year

My cute plants from Wal-mart

Berries n Cream for dessert

Our lives are not that exciting

It's been a while since I've posted. I haven't been very good about taking pictures lately. All the family including Grandma and Grandpa Wilt made it to Amarillo for Easter, I left my camera in Duncan, so I don't have any pictures from the weekend. March 30th I went down to Fort Worth for work, I spent Sunday afternoon with Jaime and Bailey then headed to downtown FW. I was at a workshop on unconventional gas giving a presentation with a customer.

The weather has been really nice in Duncan. In a another week or so I will buy some impatents for the the front flower bed. My caladiums and star gazer lillies are starting to come up.

Even though my trip to Brazil next week was canceled a while back there is a possiblity I might get to go to Singapore at the end of June. We'll see if the trip gets approved, but one of my managers really wants me to go present my paper at this conference.

Wrestle Mania 2010

As usual not much exciting has been happening in Duncan America. We have had a few days of nicer weather, but it has been really windy. I am ready for it to warm up. Brice is getting some grass seed to throw in the backyard, so the dogs won't get muddy paws everytime they go outside. My caladiums looked really good last year, so I am planning on planting more of those in the next few weeks. Other than that it's just been the same old routine of dragging ourselves out of bed to work day after day. Brice built a new computer this week. And I got my new microscope at work.

Bailey and Rusty are officially best buds! They love to play chase and wrestle. Below is a clip of a portion of Wrestle Mania from the other night. Rusty is a cheater, but they have a blast.

The girls taking an afternoon nap
Bed Buds...sharing a toy

Saturday morning snug
Rusty trying to skin a cat
Jack likes to hang out in the kennel

Duncan Update

Not much has been happening in Duncan lately, we had another brief power outage Feb. 10th. It only lasted a little more than 3 hours. The power went out around 10:00am and everyone was sitting around waiting for them to send us home....but no luck.

I've been busy on Saturdays trying to help with computer stuff at the Humane Society. They hired someone that is supposed to stay up on all that stuff, but I still haven't seen them update the adoptable pets online yet. I hope they can get things figured out soon, because I don't want to have to spend every Saturday up at the shelter....I like sleeping in.

I've been at home sick the past two days. I strep throat, but I don't have tonsils. I haven't really had may sore throats since I got my tonsils out in 2004, but my throat hurts and is super red. Now that I've had antibiotics, I'll have to go back to the real world and got to work tomorrow.

3 days no power = no fun

Thursday, January 28th Amarillo had about 10 inches of snow. That storm ended up turning into an icestorm by the time it reached Duncan that afternoon. We were dismissed from work at 3, to come home to now power. The power went off around lunch time. I made the miserable trip to wal-mart to look for candles and firewood....no luck, they were already sold out. I decided I'd drive up Hwy 81 to see if there were any other stores with generators that might have firewood. Orschelin's was open, but the don't sell wood. I guess they must have felt sorry for me though. They had a gator display in the store with the bed filled with firewood, and they said they'd give it to me. It seemed like a lot of wood when it was in my car, and it was enough to get us through the first night, which we spent sleeping on the floor in front of the fireplace.

Day2. We woke up cold and uncomfortable from sleeping on the floor. We were almost out of firewood again too. So we started burning our fence. The fence was wet so it wasn't the best, but it was able to get us by. I looked in the "Shopper" for ads for firewood. I was able to get a hold of one guy, his response..."We don't have any power so call me back in a few days." Stupid guy, couldn't get it through his head that I wanted the wood because we didn't have any power. We talked to Brice's brother, Bryan, and he told us about an ad on craigslist for 24 hour firewood delivery....I called the guy, apparently 24 hour, means within 24 hours, so we continued to burn out fence. That afternoon we were both uncomfortable from laying on the ground. So I got out our queen sized air mattress, and yes I blew that stupid thing up by mouth

Day 3: We reached the lowest temperature in the morning 46 and that was in the living room where the fire was! About noon we had the firewood delivered and then we were able to warm the living room up a few degrees. We got our hopes up on Saturday after we heard a press release from the mayor saying that power should be restored by 5:00pm....well that didn't happen. It made it worse anticipating the power coming back on

Sunday morning at 7:21am our power finally came back on! we wanted to throw a party we were so excited. It has been a week now and there are still a lot of people that don't have power. Some of our friends still didn't have power on Monday, and they were going to join us for a slumber party on Monday, but luckily their power came on a little while after they got home from work.

So what did we learn:
Keep lots of cheap candles around the house
We should probably consider buying a generator
We need to buy flashlights (we had two small ones) and keep batteries in stock
Get an oil lantern and have spare oil
Always keep a few metal hangers around...we roasted hotdogs over the fire
That our smoke alarm works...very well! (the vent on the fireplace closed during the night - so now our house smells like a campfire)
We had plenty of water since we always have 5 gallon jugs that we fill up since that is cheaper than buying bottled.