Sunday April 27 2008

The Neighbors Place

about a week ago

If you noticed you haven't been getting email from me, its because for two days hughes.net has been saying my ID and password are wrong..... NOT! Thought it might resolve, but it looks like I'll have to do a technical support call, and just hate that. I can't get to my email at the hughes.net home page either although I was able to send them an email outlining the problem hoping they would look into it. I'm not optimistic they will. I expect there must be a lot of emails sitting there. The first thing they'll tell me is it's not their fault, that something must be wrong with my connection but the Internet connection is fine, as I'm able to go to the Internet and do this blog etc.

Yesterday was still cool and breezy, never got over 34 degrees, yet sunny pretty weather. Today is also sunny, still windy but over 50 degrees, so we're getting there. This week should be warmer and that will be a welcome change. The snow is almost off the whole field now. The big drifts are still laying around.

This morning Joe asked me if I wanted to go to town for dinner again, so we'll be doing that. I don't know where yet.

I saw all five cats together again this morning and watched them go from the garage, and clamber over Big Kahuna to get to the corral. All winter I've wondered how they were getting back and forth to their food in the shed, and that's what they've had to do. They all were playing and look good and healthy. Yesterday I saw our first little flock of mourning doves, and today there was a shrike in the rose bush. Looked like it was either finding some bugs or eating rose hips, either would be an interesting departure from its diet of birds. Or... Maybe it had impaled a bird in there. We have also been having quite a few juncos and the first sparrows.. Tonight there was a rabbit in the yard and it was about half brown now. The dogs went out and the rabbit wouldn't even run, just wiggled its ears.

I've got another pastel nearly finished and not looking too bad. I keep loosing some of the freshness by going back and overworking, but on the other hand they aren't to the point I want them with lovely color and feeling either. So I keep fiddling with them. You can have the same problem with oil painting, so I'd rather just try to make something better out of it, whether it's as spontaneous as I'd like or not. It will feel good to take some new things to the framer.

This morning I tried on the new clothes, and need to send several things back. The trouble is that something has to go back to each of the three places I ordered from. So have to look up three sets of paperwork and make three packages. I got the box ready to mail to Cabelas. I like the things that fit, which I'm keeping.

Debbie called this afternoon and we got to visit for a while. They have had company for several days. Everyone there is fine.

P.S. Oh Poooh..... When Joe went to get the car out to go to dinner, the battery was dead again. The headlight switch was left on by the unnamed person who put the car away last Friday. But this still isn't right. I'm going to call the Chevy dealer to ask why this is happening. Everything is eventually supposed to go off when the key is turned off. I'm suspecting that something with the programing that is possible on that panel is out of kilter. So I made some homemade pizza for dinner.