The Riley Factor #35

The Riley Factor -- January 22
(All the news that's fit to print, along with some unfit to print rumors, prognostications and bloviations.)

Fort Plain, NY, January 22 -- Yesterday, Riley recorded his third-ever 'accident'-free day, as house-training marches-on with improvement.  Several times, Riley has requested to be let out to conduct his business.  Today, Riley and Gabby have been relegated to indoor activities, owing to too much activity going on outside.  It's early morning, with brilliant sun and warm temperatures, and much of the material for the new equipment shed arrived from Pennsylvania.  The 28'x52' building is being located out behind the garden shed, on the road to the back trails.  Susan spent the early hours watching the building pieces be delivered on an 18-wheeler and chatting-up the driver, who left Lancaster County at 4AM, expecting a six-hour trip, but made it by 8:30AM.  Elmer the Builder arrived in a GIANT forklift (think four five-feet in diameter tires and a boom able to lift a dozen 30-foot roof trusses at a time and carry them 20 feet off the ground at 20 mph, and you'll have the idea).  He unloaded the flat-bed and carried the materials back to the building site.  Later in the morning, a smaller truck arrived with the steel for the building roof, sides, doors, etc.  Riley napped on the kitchen floor while Gabby, tied outside to the pine tree, barked at the moon (or sun or workers or something).