Monday April 27 2009

Ghostly

Tom Lucas with a

"genuine replica" of a sheephorn bow.

He makes a lot of replicas and knaps arrowheads.
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Drawing the Bow - not easy

Joe went out to the ranch to feed the cat's today. He stopped at Boulder Pub on the way back and had lunch. This afternoon he took another siege at cleaning up the poo in the back yard. It's kind of a first for him to do this chore, although he did always rake the ranch yard. It's nice he's doing it, I know so I won't feel like I should be doing it. Did you know people on chemo aren't supposed to empty cat litter?

I’m feeling pretty good today. Got up earlier and cleaned the whole house, mopping, vacuuming and dusting. It looks good and glad I got it done, didn’t make me too tired either.

Then Bonnie and her new visiting teacher partner Christy came over about 10 and this is the first time for me having visiting teachers. She taught out of the Ensign magazine, which Beverly subscribes to for me and I hate to tell you the post office wouldn’t deliver/forward after 90 days. I’m pretty mad at that, because we’re also not getting Joe’s $50 TV guide either and he never knows what’s on TV for him, he can’t see the guide on the screen. We don’t get our paper either, so unless it’s on Pinedaleonline I never know what’s going on.

The snowflakes have been flying most of the day, with a brisk breeze. But the sun is also trying to shine a lot of the time. Our hot and cold running weather - springtime in Wyoming. I hope they keep watering my flower seeds and some of them come up. Scott who plowed our snow last winter, does landscaping and yard care in the summer. He called and asked if he could give us an estimate for landscaping our yard. And I said yes, he sure could. He said he could do the xeriscaping for us (fancy word for lots of gravel and some hardy shrubs). He's coming tomorrow at 10 a.m. Was thinking of calling a couple of the artist gals and having them come over to do artwork here tomorrow, but better not with Scott coming. Not too many are here right now anyway.

They told me to call them at Oncology at the end of the month, so I did that this afternoon. Judy is going to call me back tomorrow. I suppose they will have me get another scan and we'll go from there - not sure what the answer will be. The three months off treatments have sure been wonderful and it seemed like a longer time than I thought it would be.

Remember back in maybe end Feb/early March I posted pictures of Sandra's elephant pictures from her trip to the sanctuary in Thailand. Well the very old male elephant died recently. It sounds so sad. I enjoyed reading the newsletter about all their animals. If you think you would here is the link: http://elephantnaturefoundation.org/nl/2009-04/newsletter.htm .

LOVE THIS ONE:

Playwright August Wilson said, "Confront the dark parts of yourself. … Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

It's the birthday of Samuel F. B. Morse, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts (1791). He got the idea for an electromagnetic telegraph while on board a boat returning from Europe in 1832, and by 1835 he had a model telegraph working. He helped develop the first telegraph line in America, between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. He tapped out the first message on May 24, 1844. It was a biblical quotation: "What Hath God Wrought?"