Friday June 11 2007

Flycatcher

Grackle and Western Kingbird

We've had a flock of Eastern Kingbirds here recently.

Welllll.....came back an hour later and......I think I'll just leave the title calling this Friday. That's the kind of day it's been.

I'm not even going to take time to look up and identify which flycatcher this is, but it was quite small, if you want to look it up. They all look the same to me, and I'd probably come up with something like Cuban flycatcher. Kingbirds are one of my favorites because they are rather scarce right here - as if they pass through now and then.

A beautiful sunny morning, turned cloudy, 70 degrees by afternoon but a cool wind. My bedding flowers are still in the car and doing wonderfully there, like they are in a greenhouse, just blooming away. Maybe I should take a picture of them in there.

Charm and I had a nice visit on the phone. We don't do that so often anymore now that we can email back and forth. But we should go back to calling more.

Whoopsie.....I managed to send out a personal email to my friend Jackie to the whole WAOW board group email this morning. Luckily it didn't say much that anyone couldn't know. The only good thing was that it went to the board and not the whole membership. It's an easy thing to do when you just click reply. Its time for the monthly board meeting again. This is our 6th, so halfway through our terms in office.

The painting has to be done by Wednesday afternoon, so hope I make it. Dan called this evening and I told him this will be my last year for doing the Search and Rescue commander portraits. No ambition for this deadline stuff any more. I guess I did them for 10 years. He said he wasn't going to be in charge of it for the S&R any more either.

SCAG our writer's group is having a writer's workshop on Tuesday night and I should go, but I probably won't drive in to Pinedale at night for it. That's bad of me, since I'm the president I should be there to support the group. We're supposed to make cookies for the refreshments. Not sure how I will manage to get cookies there either.

The Museum of the Mountain Man is going to take all the rest of our old things that Joe wants to get rid of, so will load the truck up and take them in there Friday. That will be a good day to shop for groceries. There are four medium boxes of books for them too. We also have an almost new cream separator from that era. When they moved here they had a cow while Joe's mother was alive, But she didn't live here long and they got rid of the cow. So the creamer has all the parts, even the book, in good shape. Its a tall heavy metal one that was bolted to the floor, with a hand crank. You can imagine that there would be a lot of small things kept around for so many years, but nothing of great value like heirloom antiques. The nephews and neices will get all the personal things of their grandparents later this summer.

We also have an electric motor wringer washer that was the washer here from the late 40's?, and it is what I used at this house for several years (10?) before I got an automatic washer and dryer about 1985. I'm sure they are more common than some things, but Millie said they would take it. It is in very good shape. I always used a wringer washer to do all the laundry at the lodge too, and for most of the time it was a gas engine one. Toward the end Joe strung an electric wire from the generator to the wash house and got me an electric motor one there too, which I think they still use. Talk about feeling pampered!

Joe's been reminding me every day to type up his doctor visit notes, so that's been finished now and printed out for him. We do that each time so later we know what was done and discussed.