If it's Monday

it must be another PowerTap workout.



Two weeks of relative inactivity and Thanksgiving helped make the intervals hurt.

Some follow-up on Thanksgiving.

We went to my Uncle don's and had a good time. I didn't eat too much and I got to watch the Cowboys win yet again. (Thursday should be very interesting) The view from the family room was of a tree in the yard. It was a common sight in Wisconsin during the Thanksgiving holiday. Hanging in the tree were 3 doe and a 6 point buck. Don had shot a doe and the buck. At the DNR registration station two hunters brought the other doe. This year Wisconsin has an "earn a buck" policy in an effort to reduce the herd numbers. The two "hunters" registered the does, got their buck tags and asked if there was a dumpster into which they could throw the does. Yes folks, they wanted to throw away roughly 200 lbs of perfectly good protein. Don wasn't going to have any of that nonsense so he took the does and gave them a lecture.

I asked if I could have one and he said I could. So I've started cleaning the basement for a freezer.

While we were hanging out with the family, the pets were getting attention by Sephie. A massive German Shepherd/Grey Wolf mix and 3 cats were all getting along with each other and Sephie. Sephie asked when we were going to get a new cat. We explained it was too soon as we all miss Pal and he would be impossible to replace. My cousin Nicole pipes up with "we have a cat who needs a home." Great. So Sunday Nicole and Chris brought over Aries, a 4 year old domestic longhair. She's very lovely and best of all she cuddles up with Seph in bed. She's never had a cat for her own and it looks like Aries (she may get renamed Zelda) is going to work out.