This is a photo of the ranch Gina and Bob took from the plane a few years back. It has been on email back then but never in the blog yet, so thought I would put it in today. The right angle track is our snowmachine trail out to the county road. The other tracks are from the horses wandering around. You can see them at the right of the house on their feedground.
Yesterday we drove to the Troy's auto repair place and picked up Joe's truck. The repairs are finished, except for the paint job. It will be done in a couple of weeks. They are busy until then. So he drove his truck home. He asked me if I wanted to go to lunch in town, but I didn't feel like eating much. I sure don't turn down many offers to eat out.
On the way back I stopped at Dr. Susie's and got the dogs their checkups, shots and worm medicine, and their glands cleaned out. I was sorry to hear that heartworm, which we haven't had here in the past, is being brought in by dogs from the south with people who are working in the oil fields. So now our dogs will need heartworm medicine during the mosquito season. It is given once a month as long as there are mosquitos, about six months. If we do this as a preventive measure they will be able to stay free of this awful disease. Sparky is still about 15 pounds overweight. He gets very little at dinner time, but somehow manages to beg or steal (from Raven's dish) more food than he needs. Joe insists on dropping pancakes down their throats and I try to adjust for that, but its not working. He weighs 57 and should weigh about 40 pounds. Raven weighs 80 pounds and is doing well. She behaved so well with her checkup this time, but Sparky was a big sissy, crying the whole time. He never used to cry.
Today is very overcast, and looks like it wants to snow. The weather report says we should get some, maybe one or two inches. It looks about the same through the weekend - chance of snow. There is a breeze but it doesn't feel very cold. This morning Joe went in to Pinedale to get his haircut, so will probably eat lunch in town. I'm watching a John Wayne movie, and want to size some of my photos of the snow here at home from when I walked last Sunday. I'll put a few on the blog into a photo essay.
Beverly wrote: "Today I went to Debbie's after work and right when I turned onto her street, there was a lady passed out cold on the sidewalk and part of the street. I ran over and someone had already called 911, Debbie came with me. We waited for the paramedics to come and they took her to the hospital. I said, man! A lot of excitement happens on this street, that's where Tayler's car burned up."
3 comments:
I'm glad you put up the picture of the ranch in the snow. People who have not been there can now have a much better idea of how isolated you are. I clicked and it enlarged, so I could really see it well.
Lynn, Your winter solstice photos are wonderfull, and your collection of past photos are also fantastic, makes me plenty homesick for sure,, but I am really soaking up all this good Sun down here. I Think of you and yours every day.Your stamina is amazing. You have GRIT, my Spirit Friend.
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Awww poor Sparky. He is just getting older and doesn't want to know what all the fuss is about.
I can equate with his weight problem. He'll lose some once it is warm enough to be outside a lot won't he? But I sure know about being older and not able to lose the extra pounds.
And it's just not right!
~J~
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