Wednesday October 8 2008

Continental Divide

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Debbie Looks for Fish. Big Sandy River

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Road To Big Sandy Openings

Doe - We Saw a Whole Herd of Deer

AAAAAAAAAAhmmm

Big Sandy River

Some With Color, Some Not

Dutch Joe Creek

MOM!! There's Something Down There!!

Picnic Panorama

Yesterday I went in to Pinedale and got my protime test for the coumadin - got stuck again. But she was able to get it on the first try. Ran out to pick up four new pieces of my new artwork - pastels - from the frame shop, and was really pleased with the way Ruth had framed them. We'll hang them out in the barn show. Then walked the dogs and went to the Mixed Media painting meeting. I took the horse and rider portrait commission to finish, but didn't feel quite like doing that one, so started a 9x12 oil painting of cows in a field and was able to finish it. I actually was quite pleased with it. It's pretty impressionistic but good enough I took it right to Ruth after the meeting to have it framed.

We had Mexican food for lunch at Rendezvous Pointe where we were holding our meeting - salad bar, chicken enchiladas, beans, tortilla soup..... AND peas and carrots - I skipped that. We got a good outline plan for our show coming up in November. It was good to see everyone again, and especially nice to see Gina there since we haven't seen each other most of the summer.

Walked the dogs again. Shopped for groceries at Ridley's and drove on home. Well about the time I got home Paige from Oncology called and said my blood was too thin, so to stop taking the coumadin temporarily and get another test on Friday. She asked me a lot of questions about how I was doing and cautioned me about bleeding etc. and if I started bleeding to go right to the clinic and get a Vitamin K shot. So far everything seems o.k. but I'll be on guard.

Debbie had arrived at the ranch about noon, so she had leftovers ready for dinner when I got home, and helped me put away the groceries. We talked until about 9 and then went to bed.

TODAY: This morning Jim came over to bring the pickup load of wood he gave to Joe. They unloaded it onto the wood pile in back. And we had the nicest visit with him. Thank you for being so thoughtful to bring the wood, Jim.

On the spur of the moment we drove up to Big Sandy Openings and had a picnic by the river this afternoon, since the weather is supposed to bring us snow by tomorrow night. It was a little breezy, therefore cool, but we were dressed warm and were in the shelter of a small grove of trees so it was just great – had the best view in the world. Most of the leaves had fallen off the trees up there, some color was left near the bottom of the hill and alongside Leckies. Pooped the dogs out. We might go up to Muddy Canyon in a day or so as the colors are still good there.

Tomorrow Joe goes in to town for his protime and we're going to meet with James to get the offer on the house the way we all want it. Hopefully we can take Debbie to the South Fork Trail house to see it inside. We will check it out and make lists to see what we might need to buy to move in, but even pans, dishes and linens are there. We can get started with what’s there and discard a couple of things later and buy what we need/want. Not much "moving" from this house to the new one will be involved, it comes furnished with almost everything. Debbie, Curtis and Beverly will be here to help, but even then I'm hoping there will not be much to do.

So tonight Debbie's got the BBQ grill going and we're going to have T-bones, baked potatoes and salad for dinner.