Berck is on his way home. He is now on reserve for the rest of this bidding period. He’ll get a regular schedule once he bids on a line (month-long schedule) the next time they’re accepting them. In the meantime he gets Tuesday and Wednesdays off and has to be available from 7am to 7pm otherwise. That’s good that he gets two days off in a row and he’s not available 24 hours a day, like he was at ASA.
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Justin and Allison’s baby
Born this morning, 7 lbs, 12 oz, and still no name. Justin says he looks like a Vaseline covered parrot. And he’s pretty unhappy at being out of the womb.
Daisy
Here’s the newest addition to the ranch.
She’s a Sicilian donkey Michele bought to guard the sheep. So far the only time she’s been near the sheep is when they come over to the fence where the horses are to graze (where Daisy likes to hang out). She came over to me when I went outside to show Berck, but not close enough for a pat.
There are also some new sheep.
Final Vaulting Performance
We have goslings! All that sitting by the white goose apparently paid off.
On Saturday was the second and final vaulting performance for Wings Like Eagles this year. Here’s Nikki’s oldest Kayla with a buddy doing a move that the kids last week invented: the Royal Double.
Our vaulting performance would not be complete without a firetruck racing down the driveway.
The aunt of one of the campers passed out for some unknown reason. Her sister was conveniently the camp nurse and ministered to her until she decided it was time to call an ambulance. I haven’t heard the latest, but she looked like she was going to be just fine.
The vaulting performance ended with the counselors showing off. Here’s Alex doing a special vault.
He’s on Sailor, Cathy Couchman’s quarter horse. Sorry it’s blurry. Berck takes our camera with him, so I was stuck with a borrowed one that someone had messed with the settings and I didn’t realize until later.
Alex later collected $250 to shave off his shaggy blond mop. There were women in the crowd of onlookers crying as we took the clippers to his head. One of the other counselors raised $150 to shave his head too, but Nikki gave him a Mohawk. On Tuesday his dad donated an additional $25 if we’d shave that off too. Overall the counselors raised $10,500 for Wings Like Eagles this year.
After the performance there was much dunking as usual. I instantly raised $40 by announcing at one point that Nikki was only twenty bucks away from getting tossed in the water tank. The kids showed their love and admiration for camp director Josh Beoddy by stuffing his pride and joy with newspaper.
Wake Up Call
Berck called me this morning. “Hey! I just landed the plane all by myself! No control inputs by my captain! What time is it there?”
“That’s great! It’s 6:30.”
“Oh, crap! I’m sorry. I was looking at Zulu time, and I figured it was 10:30 and you’d be at work.”
(It’s Saturday.)
Fortunately, I was really tired yesterday and went to bed at 9:30.
Berck sent me a text this afternoon saying he’s probably coming home tomorrow morning. His IOE captain is training another captain next trip, so Berck will probably be home for a little while again.