I spent a couple of hours in the garage and finished erecting a bit of fence adjacent to the gate from the dog stall. At one point in time there was a lot of stuff stacked in the space where I built the fence - the dogs couldn't get through there. And over time I moved stuff and Poppy kept knocking things over other (in her frantic goal to chase mice) and I finally just let the dogs into the garage because they ran around the gate through that gap. The girls are trained to not run out the front of the garage - but when Zeke arrived he didn't have the same training and has never caught on - the best I can do is turn it into a game so he races to my vehicle, hops in, and rides back into the garage. Now the dogs can't get around the gate.

The wind is gusting heavily so it was good to work indoors (I'll be picking up branches and raking leaves this week). I have a coffee cake in the oven now, several jars of tomato sauce cooling, and in a little while I have some more cooking and stuff to put in the freezer. The only day I'm planning to work this week is tomorrow, but that may change if we don't have enough bodies to keep the department open.

SRS