Funny weather this morning. All night whenever I woke up I could smell the smoke and it was very hazy this morning. Then all of a sudden it seemed it clouded up and rained a little. Just as quickly it cleared off and got less hazy. We had a windy afternoon but a beautiful, calm and clear evening. Sally's blog "updates from AZ-WY" on my sidebar has some excellent new pictures of the fire - they drove up quite nearby yesterday evening.
Not much news to write about here. And don't even have a photo, but will put in some artwork. Zane is working the big project of scanning all the pre-digital slides of my artwork and has emailed several dozen to me.
This morning I waxed the kitchen, utility room and bathroom floors. Of course Joe had to walk across the kitchen before it was dry, and while I yelled at him he was saying he wasn't doing anything - except his shoes were stuck to the floor! It won't last long anyway with the dogs and us tracking across it.
We are both quite disappointed not to be going to Sandra's cabin this afternoon for the BBQ. Our old friend Jim is coming over this afternoon. We've been trying to get together on a time he could come for several weeks now and this is the best day for him, so we'll stay home and look forward to seeing him.
This morning the TV continued to crash, can't even get the Fox news it was giving Joe yesterday. I didn't think anything could be more annoying than the TV blaring on Fox all the time, but now he keeps trying to get the radio to play ..... and we have very little reception here so its squealing and static mostly, as well as turned up very loud. UPDATE ON THE TV: Cheyenne's dad read the blog and found out we were still having trouble so had him call me, and explain exactly how to get the picture back, pushing a certain sequence of the buttons, and BINGO ! Got the picture back and it's been fine all day. Hope I remember how to do that tomorrow.
MORE UPDATE: Our friend Jim did come to visit this afternoon, and it was so good to see him again. He says he's putting in a new solar and wind combined energy system, and will use the old diesel generator as a backup. Its a good decision because of the cost of diesel fuel. He talked about how many wind turbines there are in Wyoming now, and that they can provide enough energy for Pheonix, southern Nevada and Southern California. He is just one of the nicest people in the world and I don't like seeing him so seldom. He's a neighbor with only 2 other places between us, but about 40 miles away. We enjoyed the visit very much.
Joe wanted a vegetable omelet with hash browns for dinner, so we did that. And then later I just had to make another chess pie. My favorite.
Have been doing some online shopping the last few days, and seriously have checked out the camera I've been thinking of buying. I might just go for it. It is a Canon 8 megapixels and has a 12X zoom lens. Not as small in size as I would like, but there always have to be the tradeoffs. The tiny pocket sized ones usually don't have much more than a 3X lens, which is what I have now. I think I've about worn the old one out with the many thousands of photos it has taken. Called Betty and we had our weekend visit. And another high school friend Pat, who lives in Bend OR, also called and we had a great chat. They had an idyllic vacation by renting a 14,000 sq. ft. house up near Coeu d'Alene ID on the lake and inviting all their kids and their kids to come and stay. The house had every kind of thing - 7 bedrooms and baths, theatre, spa, gym, etc etc, and lots of sports, fishing, boating to do. Sounds like a dream.
I still haven't really gotten 7-25 and 26 written about the Yellowstone trip so am going to call my sister Gloria and have her read me her journal. But I downloaded the photos into the laptop on the trip, and can not find the best photos, those of Yellowstone Falls. So frustrating and hope they aren't lost. During quiet times I've been trying to organize all the many photo file copies "it" has backed up. May be best just to ignore it all and leave it sit there.
Tomorrow Edis, her mom and dog Lucy will arrive for a visit.
It was on this day in 1492 that Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain on his first voyage, the voyage that took him to the Americas. He set off with three ships (Santa María, Pinta, and Niña) and 90 men. In September, the crew restocked in the Canary Islands and on October 12th, they sighted land—an island in the Bahamas. Columbus kept a journal, and later that day he wrote an entry about the natives of the island: "They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very quickly whatever we say to them. I think they can very easily be made Christians, for they seem to have no religion."
1 comment:
Hello Lynn, I just love this drawing. I remember it from my vist. It was during your barn art show when I was there. It is such a great depiction of the border collie. You certainly deserved all the publicity you got from it.
Glad you got a little rain to clear off the haze. I really enjoyed the wonderful pictures on Sally's blog. Going to have to tell her so.
~J~
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