Ducks on Muddy CreekIt's gray and raining today. Just showers coming and going, nothing major. Not very cold either in the early part of the day and no wind so far. That changed in the afternoon when the temperature dropped about 15 degrees in about a half an hour and the wind began blowing fairly hard. Yellow leaves are blowing off the cottonwood trees spiraling past the windows. There's a bunch of antelope just the other side of the fence this morning. and have stayed there all day. The buck slowly goes around the herd of about a dozen does keeping them together, and they have minded him all day. Sometimes they don't and take a notion to escape. Then the chase is on. He usually gets them back.
Debbie called last night and we talked for about an hour. The renter/buyers might be able to keep their old much bigger home they were loosing with the changes the government is initiating, so Debbie and Curtis may have moved all their belongings out for nothing and will have to go get some stuff back out of storage. Right now they are sleeping on futons on the floor each with a cardboard box for a night stand, and kept one recliner each. Makes life more interesting I guess.
Woke up late, but refreshed and feeling better today than for a long time. I got some laundry going. The house is in o.k. shape for company so I don't have to do much cleaning, just get the dust bunnies out from under Betty's bed. Already had a bunch of phone calls this morning - Sheral in Texas - she had emailed me some pictures of the hurricane Ike damage around her daughter's place down there where they are visiting near Houston. Despite all that going on, they are having a good stay there. They got a beautiful new pool and it's good weather for poolside fun with the family. Betty got to her friend's house in Logan and will head for Alpine soon to see another friend there - then over to Jackson in the morning and meet me at the hospital. Nanny called and we had a very good visit. What a sweetheart.
Well, I've been looking at homes to buy in Pinedale. Anything on the lower end of the price scale just looks dismal. I would not (want to) live in 90% of them. James is going to help look for a place as as our broker, and I'm very thankful for him and his experience. We are likely to have to spend more money than I thought to find a nice place. Maybe while Betty's here we can check out a few of the more promising possibilities
In the meantime, we received a very gracious offer of the possibility for Joe and I to stay in a friend's furnished home this winter. They will be snow birds. It is another option to think about. I'm not going into the details right now because there are lots of iffy things. But I was just speechless with this offer. And wonder of wonder, Joe said yes he would go there with me. He still wants to snow machine to the mailbox and leave a truck out there again and said I could ride on the sled. And I said I don't think so.
Joe had told me when his driver's license was up this year - Oct 6 - and that he would not be able to pass the vision test again. But he checked and he has another year left until his license is up. So that's a good thing. Joe goes to the dentist tomorrow while I'm gone to chemo.
Thinking of leaving home for the winter prompted me to clean out the freezer. I can not buy any more meat, for one thing, or won't be able to use it - or even much of what is in the freezer. It's going to be something of a problem to think of leaving it here, and what if the power goes off for days. As usual the day I clean the freezer, I picked out the meat with the oldest date - round steak - and am making a roaster of Swiss steak out of it. With mashed potatoes, mmmm.
A nice autumn poem and photo from Judy
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