Saturday August 2 2008

Jacob and the Elephant Bank

This feels like one of our warmest days. It's warm in the house, but have all the windows open with a breeze going through. The thermometer says 78, so the number's not too bad.

This afternoon Bonnie's son Cheyenne and his little boy Jacob came over to try and fix our TV. Bonnie kind of volunteered him the other day, so we gave him a call. He got Joe's TV going right away, just a matter of getting it on the right setting. I had tried the same thing over and over but it wouldn't work for me - I wasn't pushing input three times to make it stay on "satellite". However when Joe tried to change channels it just goes back to " cable". Rats! My TV in the studio is presenting a more difficult problem, so he went back home to get a new piece of cable and brought another TV to see if it worked on the setup - and it didn't. Cheyenne came to the conclusion that the receiver has gone bad. The day my TV went out there was lightning, so maybe that's the problem again. Joe says it looks like some varmint has been under the house, so it may have chewed something up too, but Cheyenne went under the house twice and says it looks o.k. under there. I have the information he gave us written down and Monday will have to call the Dish place in town. They have someone who comes from Idaho Falls to do the service call.

Jacob looked at several of my animal "knick knacks" and said he liked horses. I showed him the elephant bank and he liked that so I asked if he'd like to have it. We wrapped it up and put it in a bag for him to take home. He is sure a cutie.

The forest fire is over 3500 acres now burning into the Bridger Wilderness.

Tigger - the little cat with no tail.

This is the best and almost only picture I

ever got of her. Took it out the studio window and

it scared her away when she saw my face there.