Monday March 2 2009

This is a portrait of me painted by my favorite oil painting teacher Keith Ward. I took alot of lessons from him in the 70's. He was one of the artists for the Dick and Jane reading books, among other things. Beverly has this one, as well as the following six or so older paintings in the blog done by me. I photographed them at her home when I was down in Vegas.

Joe and the dogs went to coffee and got the mail. I showered, emptied the dish washer from yesterday's lunch and got the rest of the big stuff in for the next load. Had some cream of wheat for breakfast with my activia yogurt while I read the email. Finally was able to connect to you other guys' blogs. I've missed you! Love your cat tower, Duene, and seeing your art studio. Thanks for comments that I've received too.

This was the morning that the Dish Tech guy was coming over at 11:30 to realign the dish position to point to the satellite. He got here right on time and got it all fixed lickety split. He said he got a bolt really tightened down that the other installers had left loose and we shouldn't have this problem from hard wind again. Hope he's right. We seem not to have gotten any more error messages or windows telling us we owe them money so I hope that's all fixed too. I was able to go in to their interactive program and get those pop up messages deleted thank goodness.

Joe put up Sandra's atomic clock sensor outside with the first one and I got the clock sittinig on my dresser. Joe checked and said that both clocks are within 2/10ths of a degree of each other. The other one is in the living room.

Charm came over after her haircut, about the time the Dish guy left, and brought us long handled bath brushes. I had told her if she came across any to pick us up a couple, and she had found some when she was in Jackson last week. I'd been looking for some ever since we moved in and not found them anywhere. I can't wait to scrub my back with it. So asked her to stay for lunch. She had gotten a "wrap" at Obo's deli, but decided to eat it with us and had a leftover tamale. She agreed they are pretty good. It was great to get to visit with her. We don't see each other often enough. Soon she put on her snow machine suit and left for home. She says their road is really rough and "chewed up", so she'll have a rough ride home on the snow machine. The county may plow their road in a week or two and then they should be able to drive in and out again.

That reminds me. We got a letter from our home owner's association and they are making progress getting some of our roads in our subdivision designated county roads, but not our street. Perhaps if they do it won't be long that our street will be included. If that happens we won't have to pay for maintenance and plowing.

This afternoon I took the dogs for a walk. They really enjoyed being out. Even flushed out a rabbit and chased through the drifts but of course couldn't catch it. They've been sacked out ever since so guess they got tired out. I walked very slowly while they ran around and played.

It is warmer today and and pretty cloudy. Sounds like tonight will be in the 30's, quite warm for this time of year, and in the 50's tomorrow ! with a chance for an inch or two of new snow. Hard to figure how we will get snow at 50 degrees. I've gotten through the mail, and a stack of papers filed. This evening called to activate the new credit card and have that taken care of. Cut up the old one in little bits. The person I talked to said a merchant's records where I had bought something in the past had been compromised - most likely by a hacker, but also possibly by an employee. He wouldn't say which merchant. Am ready to pay the bills that have arrived by online bill pay.

My blogs posts are caught up to date now, and I may (or may not) remember a thing or two I missed and stick it in. Will get some photos in as soon as I can.

Joe asked if I wanted to go out for dinner tonight, so we all had Chinese.