Tuesday November 4 2008

Our Horses in Winter a Few Years Ago

Horses in Snow - Bondurant

Today we left about an hour earlier than needed to go to Jackson for my treatment. It was the daylight savings time - all our clocks are't set yet so I was an hour off - luckily earlier than later. We stopped at the Boulder Community Center for me to vote, and this was the first time I've seen such a line - not for most places but for here the 20 people in line was a lot. We don't have voting machines now, but its back to being handed a paper ballot and a black pen to darken in the ovals beside your choices. We sat at tables next to each other or their were cardboard privacy screens, white with stars and stripes, on another table, where the other person couldn't look onto your ballot.

When we left home he weather wasn't bad here at the ranch, but as we traveled on up toward the rim we started into a real winter blizzard. Visibility was awful and at the worst had maybe 4" of slush on the road, not slick at this point. Sometimes the snow was coming down so hard visibility was very difficult. We came back out of the worst of it coming out the north end of the Hoback Canyon. We got to Oncology early so they got me started while the room was still empty. Later on the shuttle brought some of the patients from Pinedale/Big Piney. They had to stop on the east side of The Rim because after we had gone through three semi trucks had gotten tangled up on the pass between The Rim and Hoback Ranches road. The highway was closed for an hour and about 30 cars had to pull off in the turnoff east of The Rim and wait until they got the trucks off the road and the snow plows had cleared the way. We didn't see any snowplows when we were driving, but Al the shuttle driver said they had about six of them working when they went through and that it was very icy. Well we did fine and coming home the road was DRY!! There were still some flurries and cold.

I got out of the chair about 2 p.m. which was good time. Debbie soon came back from her shopping and sightseeing and picked me up. We stopped at a store called Home Again and looked at furniture. I saw a lovely turquoise small desk and chair I might think about going back for to put my laptop on. We're still looking for a couple of twin headboards. Then we went to Smith's for prescriptions and some groceries. We had another load of stuff we're moving packed in the car and went up to the new house and unloaded that. The lady who James asked to clean for us was there finishing up so we met her. She was very nice and did a good job with the cleaning up. Then we came on home. Joe had already eaten, and later we had a little dinner, I forget what it was now. Went to bed pretty early and slept fairly good.

You can observe a lot by just looking around. ~ Yogi Berra