The Car Is Packed

I can't believe I missed so many days without blogging, but I guess I have been a little busy the past week. We have been getting ready for our big trip and I think we are ready for it! This is my final item on my 'to do before we leave' list and then I am shutting down my computer and headed to bed. We are planning on leaving Missoula by 6:00 a.m. and geocaching on our way to Billings, where we will pick up a friend at the airport and take him to Cody, Wyoming. Then we will head for Casper, Wyoming and jump on the Interstate to Cheyenne, Wyoming - hopefully arriving sometime between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m. as long as everything goes smoothly. It is snowing around the state, and it looks like the mountain passes will be a little hairy, but the Subaru does a great job on the snow and ice, and I don't have much worry about our travels - mostly the people who will be on the roads with us...What else is new in the past week?

Work has been progressing quite well. This week we took all the tin off the building and yesterday we cleaned up all the garbage inside of the building. Not to mention a few hundred pounds of frozen pigeon poo! Uck! We did start taking down the last of the roof, and today it was about 1/3 of the way down. This part of the roof was a little tricky because it is solid wood, which is 4x6 tongue and groove, and 30,000 board feet of lumber. Most of the building should be gone by the time I get back.

Today, I managed to step on a nail. I was walking on some railroad ties and they were wet. My foot slipped and I put my foot right on the board below it. DOH! Lucky for me, I was wearing my thermal hunting boots and they have a thick sole, so the nail didn't penetrate my foot very far, but enough to really cause some pain. Laura looked through my records last week, and determined that I needed a tetanus shot, so looks like I will be getting a shot in the next few days... Ironically, Laura was planning on getting a tetanus shot in Cheyenne so I guess we will just go together. I am not too worried about my foot or tetanus, but I guess it's always better to err on the side of caution.

Well, 5:00 a.m. is going to roll around sooner than I would like, so I should wrap this up and find some shut-eye. It will be a long day on the road and a short night in my warm bed. I will try to update my blog when I have some free time, but no guarantees. Until again

-=Nolan=-