Tuesday March 18 2008

Got Cookies?

Joe went to town again this morning, this time to get his radio fixed. Neither of us could believe he waited nearly 2-1/2 hours at the dealer repair, and all that was wrong was it needed a new fuse, something he could have done himself if he had known the problem. It cost $115. He got back home about noon. While he was gone Bill with the big co plow called to see how our road was and I told him we were fine right now. He said to let them know if we needed them to come in. The wind blew again yesterday and there are little tongues of snowdrifts licking out into the lane, but nothing we can't drive through easily at the moment.

While Joe was gone I got a little housecleaning and vacuuming done, actually very little. But everything seems to be staying pretty straight. Joe is still helping with some of the chores, and just a few things I don't have to do seems to make a big difference. I wrote more on the book this afternoon. Boy those high school years were difficult, weren't they?

The small painting group was thinking of coming out today, but it didn't work out this time. They might come later this week when everyone's not so busy.

The very nicest thing that happened today is that Zane wrote and offered to scan all of my slides into digital format, he says they will be on DVDs or a large external hard drive. He and his cousin are going to buy a good machine to do it. Well, not just mine, but their slides too. I'm just flabbergasted about this. Like ask and you shall receive, except I hadn't gotten past just thinking it was something that should be done. The slides themselves have been offered as a collection to the Museum of the Mountain Man and they have accepted. It will be a big job, as you who know are aware I'm a photo junkie. I estimate I have about 70,000 slides.

Tonight I just couldn't stand it any longer and have to have a snack. I can only go so long without something sweet and chocolaty. So I made some chocolate chip cookies. Sparky and Raven said "Yum". So good. Yes, they got small bites.

Remember I asked why I didn't think to record the Ansel Adams program last night? Well here is the answer from my friend Judy in CO, also an artist. And as soon as I began to read, this hadn't occurred to me but I knew she was so right!!..... "I can tell you why you didn't think to record the program until it was nearly over ... When you started to see the beautiful photographs, your eyes got big. When your eyes get big it causes your right brain to engage. Once the right brain has been turned on everything else is turned off, and tunnel vision becomes enhanced. When in tunnel vision mode, there are no locator sensors available to you rendering you unable to find the remote for recording. Even if you have the remote in your hand already, your vision would be unable to look past the sides of the tunnel, and finding the right button to push would be impossible.That is why you didn't think to record it until it was nearly over."