Back to Normal

I'm back to my normal schedule at work as of today, working my full 10-hour split shift and the regular four days a week with three-day weekends.  I had a couple of extra-long weekends recently with the holidays and with my schedule change-over this weekend.  It's so nice to know that even on a regular weekend there's the three days off!  On Maxx's schedule for January, he's got Saturday and Sunday off with his ten hour shifts, but his third day off is on Wednesday.  Which means that we do get two days off together, and each have one day off alone ... which leaves just three days during the week when the dogs are left alone.

I sometimes wonder if I should rent and set up some sort of motion activated video camera or sound activated recorder, to see what happens when we're not here.  While we do gate the dogs away from the livingroom (unless we've somehow managed to forget), I really don't know how much they bark when they don't see people on the road in front of the house.