Author: Laura

Today we got up and started getting ourselves together. We decided to go to town to use the bathroom and get diesel. We saw Carlos, one of the hunters we meet the first week we were here, on our way out of the pasture. He said he was sure we’d be gone, but instead we’d…

Yesterday when we went to Walmart, again for the third day in a row. We tried to find paper towels, but reacted terrible to all of them. Today we went to Family Dollar to see if we did OK with any of theirs. The answer is no. So until we detox more and aren’t as…

Oye! Recovering from these MT exposures has been rough. We went to Alamogordo on Saturday and unfortunately all the stuff we got was cross contaminated as was our truck inside and out. We went to Socorro to return everything Sunday. All the stuff went into the back of the truck and as we went over…

Our mentor has been trying to sell us on disposable clothing for three months now. We’re finally in. I have a love/hate relationship with our ninja spin dryer. I can‘t imagine life without it, yet I have homical thoughts towards it every time I do laundry. That’s gotten better after we moved it to a…

Wesley has been consistently doing better since our last post, which was a blessing. He really turned around in a time you don’t normally see- in the midst of a storm. The good news is that while toxins likely played a role, the self-inflicted stress over work was the bigger factor. I was definitely slammed…

The past two nights when I’ve gone to make our bed, I’ve completely crashed and burned energy wise. Today we tore everything out of the tent to figure out what the problem was. Our air mattress and both sleeping bags were retired without attempt to clean them. Bedding was all soaked and washed. The sheets…

So this pup is wicked smart. He’s making really quick progress. I feel like there are two times you don’t get either Rocket Dog or laying and resting: during training or when a cat hisses at him for being an irritant. Last night I was playing with Jake throwing his reindeer stuffy and he’d of…

I can’t really put it fully into words how great it is to have this diesel heater on nights in the teens and 20s. I know this makes logical sense to anybody who reads this, but until you’ve lived it you don’t feel the fullness of how wonderful it is. We’re sleeping better and far…

We got the tripod for our jerry can that fuels our diesel heater on Monday. We got that all set up and now we have heat! Can I even begin to tell you how glorious it is to come home from taking a shower and have it be so cold that your hair immediately freezes…

Sorry for the late update on things. We moved into our tent on Wednesday, and then Thursday morning it rained like one of those steady, but not hard, rains that we get in Iowa for three or four hours. Apparently it only rains like that once every 3 to 4 years down here, and being…