Monday August 6 2007

Shade

It rained again 3 times in the night and early morning, but mostly sunny with more clouding up this afternoon. It's a very pleasant day, not too hot and a good breeze. Made Joe a waffle, bacon and egg for breakfast. He called and ordered a new engine out of the catalog. After lunch he took the tractor and went out to the haystack and built his bottom layers for the rest of the stack. Lucky he didn't invite me to help him again, because I'm not going there. Today I've been keeping at the housework getting ready for company and also cleaned out a few more drawers. Washed the worst of the windows. I did go through most of my clothes in the closet and tried to be ruthless discarding some of them. I still have the sweaters to go and have way too many of those that I almost never wear. By this afternoon I started feeling like I could get around better anyway. Had a night with very little sleep, and got up about 3 a.m. to take a shower and wash my hair, then later fell asleep for a while.

Lois, Melita and Kay are coming out tomorrow to have the small painting group here and see the art show. Maybe I'll get another painting or two finished up. I'll fix some lunch for us, maybe fettuccine Alfredo with tiny shrimp. I've been hungry for that. I could steam some broccoli with it and salad and sourdough bread. I haven't even paid any attention to the art show lately since the barn is packed so full of hay. I'm sure with the wind and all the dirt from the hay that the paintings are getting filthy. I'll go clean them again one of these days and clean up the floor as well. The ad should come out in the paper tomorrow.

Charm called and tentatively asked me to go to Jackson with her Wednesday. I said I would go with her and it sounds like Gina and Jody will go too. She wants to leave the Boulder Store about 8 a.m. Tucker Smith has a program at the National Wildlife Museum at noon and there is a lunch there too., along with a show of his artwork with a couple of other well known artists. Then Friday and Saturday I'll probably go to the Round Hill painting retreat, and the kids will arrive late on Saturday. That leaves Thursday to get things ready for them being here. If it's not done, that's the way it will be. Joe's going to have to fend for himself some days.

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