Rainbow Reflection
Joe went to town after breakfast to get one of his prescriptions and took the dogs with him. He stayed in for lunch. It's cool and cloudy this morning with a few streaks of sunshine dappling the landscape. It rained more in the night. The hills have their heads in the clouds. Everything looks so much greener in just a few days. The sagebrush and other plants are looking so much better. It's as if every living thing is breathing a sigh of relief having the rain. <P> I rode the ATV out to the mailbox to take some mail that needed to go today, and then rode up to the gate Doc has across the road going up to the elk feedground to see if it was unlocked. He has it locked with about a dozen padlocks, so guess I won't go in although he did give me a key. It looks like they don't want anyone in there. There are other nice places to go, just not so convenient. I saw a nice big buck antelope get up from sleeping in the sagebrush and trot a ways off up the road. He was beautiful. And probably about two dozen sage chickens came out of the clover down by the creek. I got a picture of part of them. They never flew but waddled off into the brush where they hid.
What a day…. First thing this morning Fed Ex called and said they needed directions to our place, and had a package from Hughes, which would be the new receiver. I was so excited that this would be the day that I got the internet problem fixed. The contract driver got here with it about 3 p.m. and the box was soaking wet and crushed and almost torn open. My heart sank, because since its electronics I would not feel good about accepting it in that condition. I rejected the package and called Fed Ex just in case. They said the same thing, to reject it. Then I called hughes.net and sat for 30 minutes to get it straightened out, and they will send me another one. Anyway I think they were foisting another cheaper receiver off on me, so I made sure they are sending me the same one I bought in the first place. I hope it wasn't actually something better and I just didn't know it, but it looked dinky/tinny and even maybe this one was reconditioned or something. It wasn't in a new product box for sure. The packing was crappy and it wasn't even entirely wrapped in plastic, so the water could have gotten in. They said it would be another 3 to 5 business days, and since this is Friday that is plus the weekend. I am so tired of all this. As long as I was in that mode, I called Sony and sat on hold with tech support about the TV. I'd procrastinated with that, and we have had this reconditioned one about 5 days now. So told them we were unhappy with the poor picture etc on this reconditioned set they sent us. It doesn't even begin to compare with the new one. I have to call them back again on Monday, but they recorded what I told them anyway I guess. The whole thing is so discouraging. All this electronic high tech stuff is wonderful, but you really have to know what you are doing with it.
THEN…..Jackie called me and there has been quite a blow up in our WAOW board group, and not unexpected. We talked for 45 minutes or so. It's always good to visit with her. I love Jackie….I love you Jackie!! Sorry for the troubles you have to deal with. I'll be back online and in contact with you one of these days…….Actually it has been wonderful without all that email to deal with. The scary part is that it's all waiting for me there in cyberspace and I'll be overwhelmed for a month trying to deal with everything that is sitting there. <P> Thunder clouds were massive and beautiful this afternoon, but it has stayed dry today. There have been several hummingbirds around the yard lately. They are sure beautiful. It's a lot of fun to watch them, tiny but belligerent, however their language is terribly profane. They have been tapping at the studio window a lot.
When the dogs came home from town they just crashed the rest of the day and slept, so this evening I took them for a run around the fields with the ATV about sunset. They had a great time and we saw half a dozen jack rabbits to chase. She headed off in a beeline that way but I managed to keep Raven out of the black stinking bog. I have to spray her off every few days. There was also a small herd of antelope and lots of birds. The cranes were calling a few fields away and there was a beautiful sunset. Then the clouds parted and there was the almost full moon just risen. The grass in the field is bright green and has grown about 6 or 8 inches since Joe hayed. It sure would be great pasture for a bunch of horses.
You got to stop and smell the flowers.
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