Volunteer Hours

This weekend a friend pointed out that I’m like a retired person who spends more hours volunteering than I did working. Not sure if that is true but when my pastor asked me yesterday how many hours I’m putting in I had to sit down and calculate it.

This week:
CWAM (museum stuff), 16 hours (pictures to come)
Church, 2 hours
Laramie Plains Museum, 2 hours
MPMA (more museum stuff), 2 hours

22 hours. So, I’m a part time volunteer. What else am I doing with my time!?!? I don’t make a very good housewife but I did do two loads of laundry yesterday and when I’m in the mood, I’m a really good cook! Today I’ll get groceries, pay bills, walk the dogs, pick up the backyard, trim Rocky’s nails, plan a birthday party for a friend, renew my library books, watch a movie and wonder what to make for dinner. Jason is gone for a week and cooking for one stinks. Ho hum…

Hunting Season

So it is hunting season and Jason is working 12 to 14 hour days, seven days a week. I spend a lot of time alone at the house with our black lab Shelby. Once and awhile I ride along with Jason on his adventures.
Otherwise, I’m keeping busy volunteering with the local museums, historical society and co-teaching a Public History class at the University of Wyoming. This weekend I’m off to Leadville, CO for a CWAM (CO WY Ass. of Museums) meeting. I’m Local Arrangements Chair for the 2010 annual meeting in Laramie.

Next week Jason will be on the other side of the state and I’ll be helping with MPMA’s (Mt. Plains Museum Ass.) annual meeting in Cheyenne. His birthday is right around the corner (Oct. 2) but I’ll have to wait for him to have a day off before we celebrate. So far he only has one day off in Oct. and he is planning to go hunting that day. Got to have food on the table!

New Pets

Blue, someday will be known as "Old Blue" Cheeta and Orange Fish (Unofficial)

Not pictured, "Little P"