Tuesday June 19 2007

Skulls on Tree in Muddy Canyon

The visit yesterday with the Barn Door ladies went well and I got images they wanted sorted and sized and emailed off to them in the afternoon. The contractor and another person have to approve us after they see the photos. They want large paintings. But I was surprised they want generic Wyoming landscapes, no wildlife or western, so take that subject matter out and doing the paintings should be quite easy.

Yesterday afternoon was spent getting portraits I've done scanned and properly sized for the governor's portrait project submission. So that pretty much filled my day, just working on those two things. Today I had planned to do the required cover letter, bios, list of info about each portrait and hopefully I can come up with enough reference letters from past things I have. This morning I began to work on getting the images onto a CD and my CD program kept saying it wouldn't work, and that there was no CD in the slot etc. so I gave up and didn't go any further doing cover letters and copies of stuff. But later tried again and figured out that it was actually putting stuff on the CD and still saying it wasn't, so now there's two sets on there. I got rather upset about the program actually. Its the first time I've tried using the CD writer on the new computer and it didn't work. (Dreading a call to the tech guy in India!) The submission needs to be postmarked tomorrow and I can make that. Maybe I'll be in the mood to finish it up in the morning and get it into the mail. I'll have until about noon. I had given up thinking it was a lost cause, but I should make the effort. I'm also a little upset that they are accepting artists from several other states too.

Today there were two meetings I didn't go to. The Sublette County Artist's Guild (writer's group) held the Caryn Bing Memorial Writing Contest for kids today, and the man who came to teach the kids about poetry did an adult workshop tonight. Although am prez and should have been present, didn't feel up to driving two hours to go to it. This afternoon there was a meeting for the new conference and arts center as well.

So instead of going to the meetings this afternoon I worked in the yard. It was time well spent. And except for the mosquitoes was a nice day to be out. Got all the wells around the shrubs cleaned out of weeds, and got them all watered. Not sure the crab apple tree is going to come back from the winter kill, but it has sprouted a frail looking limb. Also worked a little on the flower potting project. This may be the last time I do that, spend all that money and don't even get them planted before they are dead. Lost all the dahlias, most of the impatiens, and about half of the zinnias. None of them are hardy enough for a killing frost. Most of the petunias are going to be o.k. but all the flowers were frozen off of them.

Helped Joe a little after lunch, he's been working the last three days trying to get a probe into the well to keep track of how far down the water level is. He's worried something is going wrong with the well. I hope he can figure it out. Anyway he was drilling a hole in the base of the hand pump to put the probe through and the drill kept binding or kicking back, and when it did that I was supposed to kill the power at the main switch. So that took most of an hour.

Made breakfast for dinner - ham, hash browns, toast and eggs with avocados and strawberries. Worked on the emails after dinner.