Sunday August 17 2008

Irish Creek

It's over the hill to the North of us.

Yet another beautiful morning. Sure makes me wish I could be back in the high mountains again. Betty called yesterday and as always I sure enjoyed talking with her. She's going to come back for another visit here in the last half of September and maybe I'll go back to Nevada with her. Then Debbie wants to come back to the ranch in October and she can bring me home. That sounds like a good plan and all the travel arrangements taken care of for me.

All day yesterday I worked on the book. It helps to get other messes out of the way to be productive on something. I reread and edited about half of the Nevada section, and made it more readable. I'm always surprised when I go back and find things not as organized as they should be, as many times as I've been through it already. Part 1 The California Years has 102 pages. I consider it 95% finished, since I'm sure there will be a few additiions and polishing. Part 2 The Nevada Years has 107 pages - it is not finished completely yet. Part 3 The Wyoming Years is the one yet to be written, although all the journals and letters have been typed into the computer. It's going to be mainly editing.

I can't even estimate how much work and how many pages in reference and correspondence and investigation have been written in addition. I bet 25 times that much would be a conservative estimate. It's all organized and all the actual paperwork is sorted and filed, most of that is also copied/typed or scanned. I just need to get to writing the last of it. In fact, the blog will be fuel for the last years. Also many photos need to be scanned yet, and inserted into the proper places in the text. If anyone has any memories they want to share, it would be appreciated.

Gone Fishin' - Irish Canyon

I slept in pretty late today, but am feeling better now after the last chemo. The first few days it feels like I will never feel good again. But then the "sickness" gradually lifts away and I'm better - usually by Saturday. For sure I'm going to spend some time outdoors today, doing one thing or another. Tomorrow I'll go into town to the meeting for the Community and Fine Arts Center. I've missed too many of them. I have to get a couple of prescriptions filled too.

It's the birthday of actress and playwright Mae West, born in Brooklyn, New York (1893). She said, "When women go wrong, men go right after them. "And, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."