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My class starts today at 1, so I'm spending my last few free hours in the hotel room with Hagen, entering sweeps. So far he's been really good when we've left him in the room -- I haven't heard any barking. But today he'll be alone for 5 hours, and then tomorrow and Saturday most of the day (with a break at lunch). He's pacing around the room now looking for spare biscuit bits he may have missed while extricating the others from his Kong.

Dana's off at the "frog pond" again -- today they're taking apart cars on their sides, and cars on their roofs. Despite that they billed the class as teaching new extrication methods based on today's cars, nothing has really changed since the last time he took this a few years back. Plus, the instructors seem to be telling them what to do, but not really why -- I know the guys from our squad who are in Dana's group are happy to have him give background.

Oh, and Nature Valley granola bars are teh suxx0rs.

Thank you, cozit

For identifying that tree as mountain laurel. In Search & Rescue class, they mentioned that it's necessary to search mountain laurel thickets, and now I know what one looks like!!