Daily Archives: November 8, 2014
Hot Hands and Old Dogs . . .
Well, our frack started winding down today, just as another is getting close to starting up. In fact once again we may have two fracks going on at the same time.
Oh boy. More14 to 15 page days.
But at least right now we don’t have all the sand trucks coming in, so we’re down to 7-8 pages. A nice change.
Most of you will remember Old Dog and New Dog. They would visit us at our other gate across from the drilling rig. Well, as it turns out Old Dog’s name is Russell, and he’s a rig dog.
He lives and travels with the drilling rig. He adopted them a while back and has been with them ever since. On one move a few months ago, the rig crew was on the road and suddenly discovered that no one had Russell with them, so one guy turned back to look for him. He didn’t have to look far because when he got back to the pad, there was Russell waiting patiently by the wellhead. Smart dog.
The fact that he’s a rig dog might be why he was so protective of us, running off New Dog whenever he could. I guess Russell considered us part of the rig crew.
New Dog, the Great White Pyrenees, does apparently live around here and still comes around to visit us once a week or so. He’s kind of muddy in this photo.
But it’s kind of funny that he still seems to look around for Russell before he comes over to us.
I tried out one of the HotHands’ hand warmers last night and it really worked. I say I tried out ‘one’ of them, because, although they come two to a package, one for each hand, I only need one at a time.
I have a very warm glove for my left hand that does a good job of keep it warm. However on my right hand I wear a thin cotton work glove with the fingertips cut off. This is so I can write and turn log pages without taking my glove off for each vehicle. So I just tuck one in my right glove and it really warms up my hand. I’ve found that it’s almost too warm to keep in my palm, but on the top of my hand it’s perfect. And luckily the hand warmers are sealed individually within the packages so I can use one at a time.
One the UPS front, apparently they don’t work on weekends since no one answered when I called. So my Amazon order that should have been here this past Wednesday is still in limbo.
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Thought for the Day:
“If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.” — G. K. Chesterton
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