Friday August 31 2007

Found Antelope Skull

The last day of August, and pretty much the beginning of fall here. Its been decidedly cooler. Leaves are coming off the trees. We've all been seeing clumps of yellow foilage around the country for several weeks now. Joe has finished up his wood pile.

Carol called and said she went home from the lodge yesterday, going as far as Lander the first day. She lives in Nebraska. She said she was just having too much trouble breathing at the high altitude. I know she really hated to go because she loves it up there so much. She was going to cook for hunting season, until about November. She had a nice trip to Germany this spring where a daughter and husband are stationed. They took her to Paris too. It was nice she got to do that.

We were supposed to have heavy rains yesterday which would have been nice, but got some thunder showers. Not enough to even water my flower pots. Joe went out and got the mail and went down to the river look at a big rock pile that our neighbor owns. If they are what he can use in the septic fix-up job, he will call them to see if he can have a pickup load or so. The county ran a big gravel separator there for a summer getting gravel for road maintenance south of there. But they can't put the biggest rocks on the road so that pile has just set there ever since. Once I went a got a truck load years back when the tractor fell through into an old cess pool I didn't know was there in the yard. I filled the hole up with some of those rocks.

I see that pinedaleonline.com has an interesting story with 21 pictures about the BLM gathering 500 horses off the desert south of us. They will be put up for adoption. The pictures look like they are nice looking horses and in good shape. There are supposed to be twice as many as there should be on the range, and that isn't good at all in such a drought year, they might starve to death this winter. Cat Urbigkit took the pictures. She has wildlife pictures in the paper every week and is a wonderful author.

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2007/08/Wildhorseroundup.html

Sandra said that she went up to Irish Canyon, probably staying in her trailer, and heard a wolf howling. My dogs have sure been barking at night, more of a ruckus than they usually do just at coyotes, especially Raven has a fit about what she is hearing. Sparky is the one, he sings a beautiful song, and you can tell how hard he tries to make it sound wonderful. I'm not sure I've heard anything but coyotes, and plenty of those. But I get the dogs in right away when they start to bark out there in the dark.

I paid the bills on line for the first time since I got the computer back. Before this I did it twice on another computer. I ordered printer ink online too by clicking the HP online shopping and that worked well. I'm out of color ink.

Was thinking today that I probably am not the chosen one for the governor's portrait project, as I haven't heard a thing yet and and they said they would choose the artist in late August. I wonder who it is that got it.

Remember the garden wagon I was thinking of buying back before the computer woes? I ordered it Monday and the UPS lady brought it Wednesday. She picked that huge bulky heavy box up and carried it clear across the yard. I thought.....WOAH!! I tried to do that to get it in the garage, but decided to go get the dolly. Well.....I did used to be able to do that kind of thing, but not now. She must have one huge set of muscles carrying all those packages every day. No need for her to go to the gym after work.