Thursday December 4 2008

This is your room when you come to visit.

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The last job to do is still being procrastinated.
Yeah, I know .... "Just Do It!"
This will be the studio.

Well in case you missed hearing anything from me, the Internet was out for about two days. There was a cable cut somewhere in Montana that had several servers down. I bet they didn't call before they dug. I'll just kind of go through the days with a quick report of what went on.

On Tuesday Dec. 2 In the morning our small art group met at Rendezvous Pointe for painting and lunch. There were six of us, and we had our usual good time. Stayed until after 3:30. Saw Maxine there at lunch and nice to say hi to her. She goes to Tai Chi. I got a good start on a snow scene which will have some Angus cows in the pasture. I got my protime at the clinic. It was 4.4 (too thin) which the lab lady said was critical, so she would fax it to oncology and also call them to make sure they got it. When I got home late in the afternoon Judy B. had called but they were already closed, so I didn't know how much coumadin they wanted me to take. I decided 2.5 sounded good, and talked to her the next day when she told me how much to have each day. Shopped at Ridley's - seems like I covered all the aisles three times before I got most of everything on the list. We've been eating leftovers for dinner, so fussing with food has been kept down to a minimum. The alignment of the crescent moon and Venus and Jupiter was absolutely gorgeous. Told Joe to come and look at it and even he was impressed. Glad I saw it and it wasn't cloudy.

Wednesday Dec. 3 Joe went to have coffee with his friends, but he says he's not going anymore because he doesn't like the coffee. I called the furniture company and told them about the scratch on my dresser and they said they would make an adjustment. So for this one I said fine - I'll live with the scratch. I might send the dining room table back for another one though, as when the leaf is used, the holes and pegs won't align up to close the table all the way.

The Dish repairman came from Idaho Falls and fixed our TVs. The wind had apparently blown the dish off alignment where it should be pointed. The signal was about 5 which it should be 55, so that's why we weren't getting any signal or programs. He repointed the dish and went through all the systems and receivers and said everything was set up just fine. That was good to know. He fixed it fairly quickly after he got here, but we had to hang around all morning. I used the time for getting paperwork and phone calls and appointments taken care of, and housework started. Soon after the Dish guy left, Bonnie and Craig came over and hung the new Welcome sign he made up by the front door. It looks beautiful. THANK YOU CRAIG. We had a nice visit with them.

In between all, I got laundry done and house cleaning done. Later in the afternoon I got my haircut. It took a total of 30 minutes to drive there and back and get the haircut. A big difference than going from the ranch. Charm stopped by toward evening with the box my paintings were packed in for the show. They took them to Big Piney library and hung them for me, where the Mixed Media show will hang for the next couple of weeks. And Ruth sent me a little birthday gift for the kitchen. THANKS ALL YOU GUYS - YOU ARE SWEETHEARTS. I had run down in the morning and picked up the biggest painting and will hang it in the living room. I got a few filing supplies for the next project - organizing the new file cabinet - from Office Outlet while I was out. Talked to Gina again to see if her Internet was still out, and she told me how to unplug the modem to reset it which I did, but still didn't have Internet last night. After dinner I went right to bed.

This morning Dec. 4 we're having snow flurries and the ground has just enough to make it look white. It got down in the single digits for a low. At least the wind isn't blowing.

Found that when I clicked on my email there is Internet now, but all I can do is read it in Outlook. All the buttons for reply etc. are "dead". So I can read email but not answer, forward, or do anthing else with it - except delete. Why meeeee???

Anyway, the dogs have just decided to stay in bed today, literally. They aren't getting up. Must be the weather. Today I took them out for a little walk in a big circle around the house hoping to get their spirits up.

I've been having an upset stomach lately, so did not work on the studio room unpacking boxes as I planned. I took a nap and watched a great afternoon of programs on National Geographic about the Grand Canyon. I want to see them all again. One thing they have learned is that - although the condors have had some success coming back they are still dying. One of the things that is killing the condors is lead poisoning - from eating hunter's gutpiles that have shattered bits of lead bullets. Hopefully, the hunters will stop using the lead bullets.