On the road again
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February 15th, 2009
leisa
Well, I didn’t have Willie Nelson with me, but I did have my daughter who is in training to do a 10K and my three girls. Today is her day off and my first day back after being a bit of a slug. So a walk was just what both of us needed.
I had a very robust workout yesterday with my volunteer dog transport and I’m sore today in my back and shoulders. Time to get back in the groove. Though inactive over the last few weeks, I’ve maintained my weight which is a good thing.
Still working lots of hours and will be for the next three months. I’m also working on a not for profit idea to supply animal shelters with collars and leads. Naturally I’m preying on all of my off line friends–not really. I’m just using them as a wall against which I can slap some ideas to concretize my thinking on it. I came up with the idea after buying 50 yards of webbing and 100 metal buckles to make leashes by hand. I can make a high quality lead for $3 that retails for about $12-15. I’ve since bought 350 yards of webbing (you cannot imagine how heavy it is), to continue the the process after burning through that pretty quickly.
This small production with me as a piece rate seamstress is fine for my current goal of supplying all of my adult dog transportees with his/her very own high quality lead ,as they navigate the journey from being a shelter dog to a dog with a permanent home. I can make a lead in 5 minutes. Cut, burn the ends through the gas flame and sew the handle and the snap. You’d be hard pressed to tell that it was made by me and not a pet supplier! It’s been a few years since I’ve broken the trusty Bernina out. I don’t remember the needle being that hard to thread!
But as I think of all of the shelters scraping buy and trying to find quality collars/leads to handle their charges, I know that there is a way to ease their burden. Plus, on our transports, we’ve had dogs break their collars–D rings snap, collar snap (plastic) breaks–break their leads–snap breaks, the shank breaks. We even had a dog break a stainless steel choke chain. It’s a terrible thing to have a dog that you do not know get away. Thankfully, all of the ones that it has happened to have come back to us. But we hear of other transports where they get away and don’t come back.
Workout:
- Type: Walk
- Date: 02/15/2009
- Time: 10:30:00
- Total Time: 1:00:00.00
- Average Heart rate: 119
- Max Heart rate: 152
- Calories: 259
- Distance: 3 miles
- Average Pace: 20:00/mile
Entry Filed under: Walk
