Wednesday August 22 2007

Duck Creek Near Pinedale

Carol stopped by this morning on the way in to town from Big Sandy Lodge. She had gotten to the lodge a couple of days ago from Nebraska to cook for hunting season. One of the guests, Steve? from Boston, was riding along with her to Pinedale. They looked at the art show and he bought a print of the laundry lady. Steve thinks he wants to buy the lodge and make it a center to take handicapped kids into the wilderness. He would take them in on travois pulled by llamas. Can you imagine putting a little handicapped kid on something like that and bouncing over a rocky trail, let along hoping the animal doesn't take off with them. In a corral that works, but I'm skeptical of them doing it in the mountains. Sounds far fetched to me, since none of the buildings are properly handicapped accessible, and he knows nothing about horses or llamas. But Oh, Well!! Maybe he just has a lot more money than he needs. Carol had to get a watch battery. It was good to see her. She isn't sure how she will do up there because she had bad bronchitis or something over the winter and her breathing has gotten a lot worse. She was having trouble in the high altitude.

Don't have many notes on the calender for today, but did keep busy with something all day. Had phone calls. And I called Beverly to see how Brent was doing and how Clay was doing in school. There were meals and more laundry done.

We ate dinner a little early because there was a meeting at 7 p.m. at the library in Pinedale with the small committee for the Conference Center. I took the dogs to ride along with me. The architect had made a very preliminary drawing of the building sized approximately for what we will be needing, and we could see how it would sit on the property. All is still pending on whether we do get the property, but we are making progress in the right direction. Everyone is thinking positive and very optimistic. The meeting took less than an hour, and turned right around and went back home.

As usual Sparky sat on the console and watched for deer and rabbits. It was another wonderful sunset and I enjoyed the drive....especially knowing that the brakes were fine. As we came by Hittle's there was a pony out in the road! and I pulled in to the Bousman's place and told them their pony was out. She said it was from across the highway, that their pony was where it should be. She told me they looked a lot alike and were the same color. And that she would go and yell at it to get it to go back into its pasture. I sure was glad not to have hit it and hope no one else does either.