3 Aug 11

I read 3 Nephi 1 and Ezekiel 23 this morning, set a good mood for the day.  Work was mostly a day of catching up on paperwork, with a break to have lunch with my dad -- one that would make Rachel smile:  a grilled chicken salad at Dairy Queen.  There is enough grilled chicken, sunflower seeds, carrot slivers, cheese, and the like that I have discovered I enjoy it without dressing and the scrubbers felt good for a couple hours after eating.  Yea!   We had a nice conversation too - this was the Fathers' Day lunch that was postponed because we went halfway across the country by car to Helena's funeral.

This evening was city council.  The agenda was short, but the discussion on each item was thorough.  For many years we have contracted our animal control services to our neighboring city of Hurricane, but beginning this past July 1 we have started doing it ourselves.  Tonight we considered what type of animal shelter building and facility we should have.  The good news is we have been trying hard enough to do it right that the animal protection folks have been pleased and offered their help.  A different viewpoint came from a citizen, who thought this was a waste of money and we should just put the animals down with carbon monoxide from car exhaust.  This isn't humane, would probably subject us to lawsuits, so we aren't doing it, but at least this person cared enough to make their opinion known.

We also discussed how much traffic we expect on two new roads, and thus how wide they should be (they will be handling traffic from a school, so this is especially important), new developments in fire protection, and plans to plant grass seed and install sprinklers on 2.5 acres so that a year from now we have additional ball fields for our children to play on.

Changing subjects, I continued my one day at a time quest to improve my health ... Eating and walking detail for today is available at http://terreeeblay.blogspot.com/2011/08/170.html

The tortoise is smiling.