Monday November 10 2008

FRIEND JOAN GETS HER FOOT SURGERY

TOMORROW. BEST WISHES FOR A

SPEEDY RECOVERY DEAR JOAN.

HOPE THIS IS THE END

OF ALL THESE REPAIRS. YOU

ARE GOING TO BE THE BIONIC WOMAN SOON!

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Cows in back of the ranch - Muddy Canyon

I still seem not to be recording with pictures any of the moving process or of the family while they are here. So I'll just keep sticking in other photos until I get some family pictures. I loved Duene's photos of Kasey today, especially the one with the grape. What a cruel gramma to try to feed her slimy grapes. And thanks for not wishing for the snow for another week or so, Duene. The desert rats need to get us in the new place and on down the road before another storm comes. They're not used to cold snowy weather. I guess Vegas got another flash flood though and it was bad enough to close McCarren Airport.

Curtis and Debbie did head to Rock Springs early this morning to get the fencing materials, and they aren't back yet. Too bad they have had to drive in bad weather. Curtis had vowed he would be back to the new house and have the corner posts set in some concrete by this afternoon. ..... I was skeptical though. Debbie got me a small flat screen TV today at Wal-mart for my new bedroom. The big box TV that has been in my studio is going to be for the guest room or our office room. It can be moved back and forth. The Dish TV, and Centurytel phone and internet will be installed tomorrow afternoon, so we have to take the TV's in there tomorrow to be installed.

Betty called me from Kemmerer this morning and we had a good visit. It's been a long time since I've talked to her. She seems to be doing fine. Bonnie and I also visited a little. And good news..... Twila called and said her husband Joe saw Traveler (the father cat) today. And that she was sure she heard Rusty, and she thinks she saw Rascal the calico over on the hill so they are hanging around there so far. She said there had been a cat fight on her porch where she feeds her own cats so figured they were around.

Today we packed more boxes and Beverly and Joe took them in to the new house and unloaded them. I stayed home and packed a few more boxes and did some housework. Beverly said Joe was liking the house a lot better now that he can see it with the furniture in place. And that he thought the builder had done a nice job (well lucky for his bad eyesight because there are places the workmanship is good and places it's not so good. Believe me, I'm glad he can't tell the difference.) He really hasn't been very positive about the whole process up until this one remark. We're getting toward the end.

Today hasn't been terribly cold, but low hanging clouds, and scattered rain and snow showers.

I'm making some teriyaki grilled pork on skewers with rice and asparagus for dinner. Curtis and Debbie ate at Applebee's so guess they won't have dinner here. Later: they got home o.k. about 8 p.m. after they had driven to Pinedale and unloaded all the materials out of the truck. It was a long day for them. It was a good thing that Debbie got the prescriptions she needed at Walgreen's down there.

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me." (Mahatma Gandhi)