Tuesday January 27 2009

More Photos from Yesterday

This is a strange thing that has been happening for a while. I've been ignoring it, but it's weird. In the place on the blog where it wants me to type the date, which is my title, my fingers just want to keep typing October 4 2004 nearly every day. I'm getting more curious why and even wonder what happened on that day. Like..... is it a haunting or something. Anyway it's hard to realize another month has gone by.

The wind was howling here through the night so we had a ground blizzard going. By maybe 9 or 10 a.m. it settled down to where the wind isn't blowing the snow anyway, but still a good stiff breeze. Very sunny and clear. It was 20 or 25 below zero last night.

I’m glad we didn’t drive up to Jackson today, but tomorrow may be worse because its predicted to snow. I called this morning and told Oncology that we'd be there tomorrow. They said that my medicine still hadn't arrived yet.

Joe went to the ranch to feed the cats and took the dogs with him, as usual. I was still asleep when he left. I worried about him driving out there in this wind, but he was fine. He would freeze to death if he got stuck and was out of the truck digging, if he didn’t give himself a heart attack first. Today is Wayne’s funeral at 2:00 p.m. Joe will go to the funeral this afternoon. The wind has settled down a little since I got up, and hope it stays that way.

I’m anxious to see the uncluttering progress in the art room at Rendezvous Pointe when I go in there next. It looked like all the counters would be totally cleared and stuff they had piled on top of the high cupboards taken off there. Even the mat cutter was going out because no one uses it much. But how could they with it so buried in clutter. I think Mixed Media should make a contribution to Ren. Pt. because we don’t pay anything to use the room for our meetings. I brought it up once and they all agreed but nothing’s been done yet.

Today I'm going to address the Christmas cards I was given by the real estate office for letting them use my painting on the cover of their semi-annual "catalog", and will mail them soon. Better late than never.

Later afternoon: Hope Joe can see to drive home from the funeral. It's in Boulder so he will be out on the highway. The wind has blown like a banshee for hours and Mother Nature is rearranging everything on the landscape. She must be feeling like we do when we feel the need to rearrange the furniture. Been sitting here with one of the largest mugs of hot chocolate. Wind always makes me nervous. I just don't like it. So glad Charm and I aren't out on the road far from home. I just didn't want to go to the clinic so flushed my line myself.

The wind used to blow terrible in Nevada when I was a kid and I thought the roof would be torn off the house. I can remember laying in bed at night listening to the creaks and groans of the house and the wind whistling in the eaves and just having faith that it would stay on.

Still Later: Joe did fine on his trips "out". He came home after going to the ranch and then left again for the funeral about 1:30. He said the wind had not blown at the ranch, hard to believe. But he drove right in again. Although when out there he did try to start his snow machine and it wouldn't start. At least he didn't take it down out of the truck before he tried to start it. He also said there were more people at Wayne's funeral than he had ever seen before. And he didn't know hardly anyone, but blamed some of that on his eyesight. Said there were lots of flowers.

Did you see the very thin fingernail clipping of the crescent moon tonight after sunset? It was beautiful. I probably won't write the blog tomorrow.

It's the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria.