Charm, Gina, Sandy, Kay, Ruth, Melita and I had a good Mixed Media meeting. Melita and Gina skied in and the rest we hauled in by snow machine on our little sled. I made it out to where they park on the county road about 9 a.m. They laughed and whooped and hollered so loud on the ride in I thought they were falling off. Frosty drove by right then and I think he was pretty amused. The dogs ran back and forth to the mailbox on every trip. I took three trips out and back and Charm took one. I let the dogs ride part of the time, and the last trip out Raven sat on the sled with Ruth and Charm. She never had stayed there before when I tried to get her to ride there. Sparky rode with me on the seat. Both Raven and Sparky were pretty pooped by night.
We had good weather, dark black clouds to the north and mostly blue skies to the west and south. Not cold or windy. The county did get the road plowed as it had drifted in pretty bad the last time Joe and I went to town. The meeting and lunch went really well. I baked fresh blueberry pecan scones so we had that with coffee after their ski in. We had pineapple frozen salad, turkey noodle soup, hot rolls and a dark chocolate soufflé pudding with whipped cream for lunch. And wine. I did have to make the ladyfingers to line the pudding mold with as they were non-existant in Pinedale. We all had a good time, and most of us painted a still life that Charm set up in the studio. I used pastels. I'll work on it some more and it might be worth framing.
Joe went to town as usual when we have the meeting here. He had lunch in there and visited with some of his friends. He got back about 3 p.m. and had scones and coffee while we did our ferrying back and forth to take everyone out. Hugs all around, and farewell until next time. I'll send some photos in a day or so of the goings on.
This was devastating news from a friend near Cora north of Pinedale and my heart goes out to them: On Wed night, Maryhelen and Bautista's barn burned to the ground. The cause is not clear, but there was a heat lamp on the new lambs which might have been knock into the straw. The fire investigators were out yesterday and could only find limited information. Fortunately, neighbors saw the fire around 11 pm and called it in. Bautista was asleep and had to be wakened by them. The house was not damaged except for a scorch mark on one corner, cosmetic only. The sad thing is they lost all their sheep who were in the barn that night. Bautista is especially upset about them. The rest of the stuff was only furniture, tools, etc. Somethings of sentimental value, but no big things. They are well insured for which I am thankful. As some of you know, Maryhelen had knee replacement surgery on he left knee last week. She is doing well. She is in the Retirement Center in Pinedale recuperating. She is able to do PT twice a day, which I think will speed her recovery. We're all still in semi shock around here. Hopefully, the insurance will cooperate and we can clean up the mess this weekend.
You might remember my friend Melita and Hanks big shop/garage burned last fall. They also lost everything even her new SUV and Hank's irreplaceable old flatbed truck. They about have a new building completed now. I haven't seen it yet. Her skis burned up, so she had new skis and new boots she used to come in here on Wednesday, really nice ones.
Sadly the mechanic Lance K. who usually worked on my car and changed my flat tires died. He was 44 and a real nice guy. He had some kind of machinery accident on his ranch that crushed his chest. I felt really bad to hear that. He raised horses and has a stud horse he bred. He did rodeo and roping with his horses.
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