Wednesday December 5 2005

Nube Goes to Gina's House to live.

Partly cloudy, never snowed today.

An eventful day, and sad. This morning I called Gina and asked her if she could give Nube a home, and she said yes. She said she and Bob would come right over and get her with their trailer. She got a few things at the store for me including the digital thermometer I'm supposed to use. In the meantime I got a shower and then read until they got here. It was good to see them as usual. This has been a plan for some time now. I knew Nube would need a new home, and it is also time for Bobbi to be put to sleep. She has had founder for a long time. They have been wonderful girls and I know Nube will have a good home and enjoy working with cattle again, and maybe going hunting or trail riding in the mountains. After Gina and Bob left Joe put Bobbie to sleep and took her up to lay on the hill overlooking the ranch with all our others that have gone on. All of a sudden we are without horses for the first time in forever. It is the end of a long era of having horses as part of our lives. It will be much easier on Joe not to have to feed them all winter too, and not knowing for sure what the next months might bring, it is good to have this all settled.

In a while two phone company trucks drove into the yard and began to install our new phone equipment. They where here an hour or so. They will come back again to finish the job, then probably after some adjusting, we should have no troubles with the phone any more.

I didn't have a good night with pain in my shoulder and stomach, but with the pain pill can sleep although the pain doesn't totally go away. It is a little better tonight and hopefully fading away. Debbie called today to see how were doing. Joe went out to get the mail. I painted some this afternoon, and have the painting I'm working on a little further along. Hope it can be done within the week. Fixed us some trout with macaroni and cheese for dinner.

After dinner a truck drove in the yard and some mountain lion hunters had lost their Walker hound dogs way up on Muddy Ridge and hoped they might make it down here by morning. We said if we saw them we would get them in for them. They will be back in the morning. You could see they were very tired and concerned to have to leave the dogs out overnight. They said they were leaving coats on the road for them - it must be something they do that the dogs are used to going to the coats. They must be smart dogs.