Friday September 7 2007

Northern Wind Rivers

Bob came with his Honey Truck again and pumped out the septic tank so there wouldn't be water draining out while Joe and Bucky work there on Monday. He stopped in for coffee and we all talked for a while. Learned yet more about septic tanks. Joe has been out there working on it most of the day. There was a very wonderful message from Pete that came yesterday while we were gone. He said for Joe to come to Midland (their ranch) and they had a front end loader there and a pile of gravel. If he let them know when he is coming, they will load his truck with gravel for his septic field. Joe was expecting to shovel about 4 pickup loads with a shovel down at the river, so this is a huge help. We are still trying to let as little water as possible down drain. It's not too bad, since I have the utility room sink which goes into a separate cess pool with the washer. It's really coming in handy. In the shower have to do the get wet and soap up/turn the water off/scrub and then rinse.

I've tried to go on line at Home Depot, which I've heard will deliver and install up here. I got a few of the dishwashers looked at but keep getting too many interruptions, if you know what I mean. After lunch I was able to pay a few bills, and organize the checkbook and credit card. Many emails coming in, but have gotten the ones that need serious attention down to about 60, not counting what went into the WAOW subject files.

Tomorrow is our September Sublette County Artist Guild meeting out at the Box R Ranch. Three or four of the gals are carpooling with me - I'll drive.

Here are a couple of things that I saw on pinedaleonline this morning, both kind of surprised me:

Sublette County (that's us), which includes Big Piney and Pinedale, had the highest growth rate in the state at 17 percent, comparable to the fastest-growing states in the nation and behind only Nevada's 20.8 percent growth during the five-year period.

Wyoming woman crowned Mrs. America (posted 9/6/07) Kelly McBee from Worland, Wyoming was crowned Mrs. America on Wednesday, September 5th, at a program in Arizona. She is a 30-year old mother of three.