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June 26

Since my last post was some more old Animal Control memories, I forgot to mention some other noteworthy info.

Brother Mike has settled into his new home near Seattle. He sent most people a very comprehensive photo tour of the house, looks pretty nice!
Monday the 15th was "Ride to Work Day" a day to show your support and enthusiasm for motorcycles by riding to work. Well' I'd fully planned to ride that day, I was looking forward to it actually since I had to go to Sandpoint for an all day class. Unfortunately that morning it decided to literally P O U R! It rained very hard all the way to Sandpoint then went to off and on rain the rest of the day.
Oh, the class? It was to learn to fill out a new state form to try to get everyone "on the same page" for records that follow 'clients' as they move about the different counties in the state.

Today Stacy is down in Coeur D' Alene for meetings with the department supervisor. It's a very windy summer day, highs in the mid 70's, but no rain predicted for the near future. On days like today Stacy may or may not get back before closing so I rode the Motorcycle so if she doesn't I don't have to wait. I recently got a 'half cover' from E-bay for the Gold Wing so instead of parking in the Sun all day or having to bring the full cover from home, I could park under the shade of the trees near the courthouse and not worry about tree or bird droppings on it. This time of year many of the area trees leave a mist of oily residue on anything near them. Its a pain to wash off too. Not as bad as tree sap, but its a mess none the less.
Sandy is now in India as I'd mentioned her trip last post.

Laura is still sore but already back at work from her auto vs her work truck accident last weekend. Like I'd mentioned last post, she did get rattled by the accident but she said that the air bag deployment is what caused most of her injury and pain. In e-mailed photos her Dodge truck didn't look damaged much at all. The guys car looked totaled but he's supposed to have continued on with the wet roads there and plowed into other things from bouncing off Laura's work truck after he ran the stoplight.

Relatively short post this time as I can't think of much else to say!
Type later, Tad

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