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

It's been a while

Nothing exciting has been going on in the great town of Duncan. Brice and I met his parents at Altus Lake last weekend. This week has been busy for me with presentations and meetings, not to mention that my viscometer isn't working right again. So that means i get to spend a day tearing it apart and rebuilding the head...I didn't know was going to be all this mechanic work. We are heading to Amarillo for the long weekend Friday after work. I was thinking about taking Friday afternoon off, but I found out today my boss from Houston is going up to meet about the project that I've been working on.

Go Tech!

We are getting excited about football season starting, and the trash talking and the emails have officially begun in my group. With all of these OU fans and a few Aggies it should be pretty entertaining. Penni and Finnis sent us a Tech garden flag...I'm sure it will be a big hit will all the OU and OSU fans on our street!

Today I had to give a presentation to some possible customers over the work that I've been doing. It went really good. I'm probably going to be in the new recruiting brochure, a photographer took picture of me yesterday in the lab, and was also taking pictures of me giving my presentation today.

I'm on a committee that remodeled a break room in my module, and I picked out the furniture for it, and the last of it came in today. Now in between experiments I have to start assembling the furniture...it's just putting the seats on the chair bases for now.



Since we don't have "real kids" like Jaime and Travis to post videos and pictures of, everyone get to enjoy seeing the animals that we treat like kids! I thought it was hilarious watching Rusty play with the big dog stuffed animal.

I thought about buying a new car

I was thinking about buying a new car, but I chickened out. I decided to wait another year or so, then I can get exactly what I want, even though it would be nice to have a small SUV now.

This is the entry table that Penni and Finnis gave me for my Birthday. It looks really nice, we had to put quarters under two of the legs to get it to set even....our landlord put the tile in himself and didn't get it level. So we had some laughs about that.

Jack napping

Brice likes cutting Jack's hair...and Jack likes it too.

Squirrel Catcher

Rusty is an official bad ass and caught a squirrel in the back yard after work today. The squirrel was hanging out by one of the trees in the back yard and Rusty saw it when it started to run up. He caught it by the tail and the then he picked it up in his mouth and tried to squeak the little guy. We made him let it go obviously, and the squirrel ran up the tree. And he caught it again. After the second escape the squirrel made it safely up the tree. Rusty feels like a total bad ass since he finally caught a squirrel.