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I was pretty dang lazy yesterday on my day off. The welder guy was here ALL day (from 9am to 7pm) so that kept Dh pretty much out in the garage ALL day. LOL. But, he got all the welding and fabricating part done. He will take it to have powder coat (flat black) tomorrow and they said it will be done in about a week. Then it just needs to be screwed onto the gate and the attached to the gate posts and it will be complete.

Sick dog is back to normal, thankfully. He enjoyed his chicken and rice and for his dinner meal yesterday I did both his kibble and the chicken and rice on top. He did his normal sleep on the floor next to my side of the bed and up and full of his usual energy when I got up this morning. This morning there was no turning down any of his food, his "vitamin" or his brushing chew. He did the gallop (him, not me) upstairs with me, to get the half of milkbone I split and give them from the jar at my desk.

Today is our 36th anniversary! We are getting so old, haha.  DH has every year had delivered a bouquet of red and white carnations, one for each year, so I'm sure this year will be no different. 

The replacement lantern lamp for the guest bedroom arrived yesterday, so one more thing completed with decor.

Now tracking is showing on my monitor cables to arrive tomorrow, instead of Thursday. 

I've had a few books downloaded from the library and didn't quite get to them all in time, so I have had 2 recently I started, but didn't finish in the time left, so I had to re-resesrve them. While I was waiting for one, I was trying to finish the other book in the time left and the first book just became available, so I've been working on that one the past couple of days, and the 2nd one became available quickly again, so now that one is in my queue again. I should be able to finish both up in the next week or so. Plenty of time now that I'm more than halfway through both of them. There were 2 others I didn't get finished in time, either, but I don't think I'm going to bother reserving those again. One just had too many story lines going and the other started out really good (a sci-fi genre) but then just kinda fizzled out just going on and on with "technical" space details, rather than the actual story about the characters.

The book I'm trying to finish currently is called The Searcher, by Tana French. Set in modern day Ireland, about an ex Chicago cop who retires to a quite town, but ends up doing some detective work.

The other book is Network Effect, by Martha Wells, the 5th in a sci-fi series called The Murderbot diaries, that I have found enjoyable and a bit on the funny side. The AI "bot" has become quite humanish and quite the sarcastic humor.

My dd just sent a group message wishing dh and I a happy anniversary. I'm like she'll remember....she remembers dates of everything - she even knows the date my grandma passed away. I don't even remember the date. July something and the only way I know the year was I know she was 95 and was born in 1918.