Wednesday August 1 2007

Horses with Washakie Pass in the Background

Hard to believe another month of our precious summer is gone already and we have a new month. Cloudy morning, just a nice comfortable temperature. Sandra came with her horse trailer and Joe helped her get the last of her hay loaded. All the hay for sale is gone now. He put the last of his equipment away, parked the bale wagon and drug the skid back to where he stores it near the stack yard. Sparky has a sore leg. He came home limping this morning after Joe came back with the tractor. He put Nube out in the field but Bobbi is still staying in the corral. I worked some more getting the grass out of the new flower bed space since it was cool.

Jackie called again this afternoon and needed some info from me pertaining to the WAOW articles of incorporation. So we had another good visit besides. We sure would like to meet somewhere nice more or less half way between us and spend some time together painting and doing some photography. We promised to work on a plan for that.

The second replacement internet receiver came today about 3 p.m. Unbelievably this box was also crushed, but I said I would try it and see if it worked. At least it wasn't wet. What is going on anyway. Hundreds of packages have come and none of them crushed. The driver assured me that I would just need to call Hughes and tell them, and Fed Ex would come and pick the package up. Since I was in the middle of the kitchen mess and felt tired after that I decided to try hooking it up in the morning.

I don't know what has happened for me to be this ambitious, but I got half the kitchen walls, ceiling and floor washed down this afternoon. Being cloudy the light wasn't the greatest, so we will see what it looks like in the morning and whether I did any good or not. Then I'll finish the rest of it – and hopefully feel like doing that. The cabinets are yet another huge job maybe worse than doing the walls etc. I clean and polish them with Pledge oil spray.

The garbage needed burning again, although I'd just done it a few days ago, there were big boxes and couldn't get anything more in. There was a beautiful rainbow again, not very tall but about the widest one I've ever seen. It was awesome. While I was out there I noticed that there are black angus cattle in the fields in back. They sure put them in there quickly after getting the hay up.

It was nice to have some leftovers to warm up for dinner. This evening about 5:30 it started to rain and continued into the night. Very nice.

Sandra called tonight after sunset and asked if we were o.k. She had just seen an ambulance and sheriff's vehicle go past on the main road toward our place. I told her we were fine, and watched out the window as we talked to see if they went on south of us, and in a few minutes they did, as well as a second larger emergency vehicle. We're both pretty curious as to what happened. This is the second time this year we know of that the ambulances have gone down that way. I'll call Sandy tomorrow to see if she knows what might have happened because they have a scanner. We talked for a while about the awful bridge collapse in Minneapolis and other things. Sandra never heard of Chuck Barris being a CIA agent either. She and Dave just laughed at that thought. Do you know?

(This came from Sandra - I hope you can connect and read about C.B. if you are interested in whether his book is real or not. http://www.straightdope.com/straightdope/. It still doesn't really say if Chuck was a CIA agent or not though.)

Horses in Pond