Sunday February 8 2009

Panorama of the whole room

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Joe, Dale, Gina, Charm

Don't know them, but cute.

George, the Head Cook

Kay Visiting

SUNDAY; Joe went out to the ranch to feed the cats first thing this morning. It's very gray and overcast and supposed to have a 20% chance of snow today, as well as more of the same all week. I'm going to get as much as possible ready ahead of time for Tuesday's small art group here, since I'll be gone back to Jackson for the CT scan in the morning. Charm offered to drive me up. I'm leaning toward putting a BBQ bean soup in the crock pot, with rolls, probably salad and a gooey sheet cake, Verla's Earthquake Cake, for dessert. Will do some cleaning. Last night I made up an invitation for the Mixed Media meeting I'm hostessing on the 20th and will need to get them printed, addressed and ready to mail in the morning. And need to write a few cards too. If anything more happens later ..... I'll be back.

MORE SATURDAY: Slow morning. Had not looked at email yesterday (Friday) so there was a lot of that to read through and get the new blog done with yesterday's news. Bonnie and Craig came over in the afternoon. Craig had a question about a new headgate he's building for Joe. They had been skiing up at White Pine. So it was good to see them. I was building pies again, one to take to dinner tonight and as long as I was doing it, one for the guys across the street who have helped us - that was more just a neighborly thing though.

We were invited to come to a big BBQ George and Kay were having, so we got ready and went over there about 5 p.m. They cleared out George's big shop and set up tables in there - just like for Kay's Holiday art and craft show. I wish I'd insisted more that Bonnie and Craig go with us. We didn't realize there would be so many people and tons of food. Way more people than 50 I'd guess. No one probably would have noticed the gate crashers. They cooked us rib steaks which I saw Kay cutting right off the huge long roast. They were wonderful and tender. They had cooked a big dutch oven of potatoes and one of pinto beans in a hole in the ground. Not sure how they dug the hole in the frozen ground. George had a big fire going, and all his barbecues hot for the steaks. People had brought food like a pot luck and everything was superb. We didn't know but about one tenth of who was there. Joe's tooth was paining him, but he ate a good dinner. We probably were some of the first to leave. Had a good time. Gina also had her camera, so she might have some photos on her blog you would like to see.

Tonight I got the humidifier set up. It was easy but I need some kind of waterproof base to set it on so it wouldn't be sitting on the wooden top of the night stand. It's supposed to be located near the bed. And got going on the pills, neti pot and nose spray that Dr. K wants me to do for the next week. It's easy to make it harder than it really is. Just a couple of pills every eight hours and the sprays and rinses ..... and NOT TO PROCRASTINATE IT. The humidifier needs daily care. It will be worth it if it gets rid of this awful sinus and drainage.

Got a nice call from Nanny in the morning, also Bev and Deb and Betty this evening. Beverly is all excited about her genealogy, finding things in a box her grandma gave her and making sense of who is who. So it was fun to hear the stories she is finding. FYI In the photo a few days ago of all the grandma's, the lady on the left IS the 14 year old girl that was rescued from the Willie Hand Cart disaster and she had several sisters who also survived. I had no idea she could have lived that long but it brings to reality that the "old days" were not that long ago. New cousin Lisa was so excited to get a copy of that photo. She is calling Beverly the cousin who walks on water. The year the photo was taken was about 1913, Beverly said. I'm getting lots of info about the vacuums, so should be able to prod myself to buy one soon.

There's bunches of photos on here of our big annual dog sled race that's going on now. http://www.pinedaleonline.com/pinedalelocal.htm#pineyipsssdr