Thursday June 28 2007

Antelope Ground Squirrel

Sparky and Raven Swim

Sage Chickens

Lupine

Very nice day, warm - Joe says hot. He worked on some of his haying equipment and got the baler ready to go. I did a lot of miscellaneous catching up jobs. My company I was expecting is going to postpone their visit, and will come over a little later in the summer. Bummer. Saturday is the Mixed Media painting meeting, we go up to Jo's on Jack Creek at Bondurant. I think I'll take my pastels. And the bug spray. Charm is going to drive and I'll meet her in Pinedale. Since the car will be in there all day, I'll try to leave it somewhere to get the oil changed. If not Saturday it could be done Monday. Charm and I are going in for lunch and a meeting for the new fine arts and conference center. Beverly's trip to Prescott is also cancelled. She says Bummer. Cousin Donna's basement flooded while they were away to camp. Sounds like she will have a mess to clean up.

I hardly slept last night, and have been doing so well with it lately. Have been awake since about 3 and (2 and 1 and 12:30 etc. must not have slept much because it was nearly midnight when I went to bed.) I kept reading Only Count the Sunny Hours in between dozing. So I finally got up before 4:30. I'm suspecting a bottle of peach ice tea I drank on the way home yesterday. If I remember right that has happened before with that. It must be saturated with caffeine. I got some letters written that I'd put off doing.

Did get the TV repair process started and that was several phone calls. Best Buy says no one wants to come this far - Riverton is closest and they don't want to come - you know that Geek Squad?? Anyway he said in two to three business days (middle of next week?) someone will call and set up and appointment for the repair or replacement - and when might that happen. Sounds like this might linger quite some time before Joe gets his TV back. He comes in the studio and sits in here to watch some things. Its been very peaceful and quiet, and now he's playing his music CDs. This isn't a bad thing! I even felt in the right mood to finish another small study painting. Maybe when it dries I'll put some horses in it. I have several things to take to Ruth to frame.

A rock or something hit my windshield/car yesterday. It sounded like a gun going off. When I let everyone out and went to the car wash I looked the whole car over and couldn't find but the tiniest scratch on the driver's side windshield. Very small for such a loud sound.

It's very pleasant right now, if the bugs don't carry us away. The dogs and I are went out on the ATV for a ride to the mailbox, there is a little mail that should go in the morning. They came back all wet, muddy and tired. I must have seen a hundred antelope, and one baby up close which we unintentionally cut off from the grownups - it was pretty frightened, several bunches of sage chickens, killdeer doing their broken wing act, sage sparrows - which are there but usually so hard to spot, the cattle - Angus and Herefords, ground squirrels.

Although it wasn't smoky here today, the plume of smoke to the west was more visible and seemed bigger. Sun was red going down.