Thursday September 18 2008

More Cowboys

Mainly quiet and relaxing today. This morning Kevin and his older brother Curt and their boys came over. They are up from Layton to go sage chicken hunting. They ride their ATVs a lot too. He wanted to see the things George made out of horseshoes, to make some for their place - mainly the coathooks and the bridle hooks that I have. They all looked at the art show. He brought us a box of peaches which was very nice of them. Kevin said that Sheral and Dick finally got on a flight to Houston this morning, so they are on their way. They are all certainly nice neighbors.

We had quite some thunder in the afternoon and dark clouds, lots of thunderclouds, but no rain here. It didn't last long.

Tomorrow Mixed Media will meet here from about 9 to 4. Not too many have responded with yes, so it won't be a large group. Ruth is my co-hostes. She is bringing roast turkey sandwiches. I have made Alpenglow frozen fruit salad, a pasta salad is ready to put the dressing on tomorrow, some Hello Dollys for snacking, and will have a key lime pie. It should be real easy to get the lunch on. Joe vacuumed this afternoon, and I mopped the floors and cleaned in general. Also did a couple loads of laundry.

I'm feel about like I have, mainly not much ambition. Betty called and she will visit some friends around Logan and Afton on Monday, and will come over to Jackson Tuesday morning to meet me at chemo. Then we will drive on home. It is a good thing she can see her friends who have moved away from Mesquite. I've been writing some recipes for my recipe collection. I should have seen if the printed ones would scan and convert to text, but didn't do that today.

I got Joe an eye dr. appointment when they are coming to Pinedale on the 3rd. I left a message 2 weeks ago that he needed the appointment and they were gone until the 18th. So when I called today and they said all the appointments were filled for the Pinedale day, I demanded to have one anyway. When I got uppity, they said he could come in at 3 p.m. I may be gone to Nevada then. At least we don't have to drive to Rock Springs right now.

The real estate business that is going to use one of my paintings on their large quarterly hand out magazine want to use that painting on their Christmas cards. I am thinking of asking them for 50 blank ones for ourselves and see what they say - as long as they are printing a big batch of them.

Here is 28 hurricane pictures along with a lot of viewer comments. It's very big and never loaded all the pictures for me, but what it showed was great, so if you have a slow computer you might not want to try it. I thought they were interesting. You can go there if you want to see them. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html

DOOMED SPACECRAFT: Jules Verne is about to become a fireball. On Sept. 29th, with NASA aircraft looking on, the 22-ton European spacecraft will plunge into Earth's atmosphere over the south Pacific Ocean and harmlessly disintegrate. Jules Verne recently spent five months docked to the space station where it delivered supplies, used its engines help the station avoid a piece of space junk, and served as an impromptu bedroom for the ISS crew. Mission accomplished, the doomed spacecraft is now making its final orbits around Earth glowing about as brightly as Polaris (the North Star). US and European observers are favored with flybys this weekend. If you'd like to see Jules Verne, check the Simple Satellite Tracker for viewing times: http://spaceweather.com/flybys/