Saturday April 18 2009

Red Sky at Night, Sailor's Delight

Sunset Last Night
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Betty's Springtime Yard.

This is Part of Betty's Yard in Mesquite.

We are in the decision process of trying to decide what to do with our muddy and barren yard and not have to water or mow grass in summer when we want to be at the ranch. Gravel and rocks are sounding pretty good. Maybe a few shrubs or perennials. We HAVE to improve the mud situation so we and the dogs can walk out there.

Talked to Beverly for a while last night. We're both looking forward to when she comes up. Also Lois called me yesterday - speak of the angel - and said they had gotten home the day before. I have to call her back today because when she called I was just leaving for the store. Went to quickly print out a copy of the punch list, and wouldn't you guess when I'm in a hurry to get to the courthouse before it closed, the printer ran out of ink. Changed the cartridges and got my copy. Then jumped into the car and got the property taxes paid. And lucky that I went down there instead of mailing it because the clerk put the payment on the ranch instead of Arrowhead Ave. and then we would have been delinquent here - although I'm sure they check the legal location - right?

Got another fax of the punch list off to the builder at Office Outlet. While I was in there, although my brain was saying don't spend the money now, I bought two books ..... Ann Noble's "Pinedale" (historic photos of town), and Helena Linn's "Winter in the Bunkhouse". Helena took some of her inspiration from the locales around our place on Muddy and the history there. We took a few exploring trips when she was in the thinking stages of the book. Anyway she gave me a nice signed copy and some time back I gave it away and said I'd buy another one, so finally have it now. Also got the groceries, home and put them away. Made us baked chicken fingers for dinner, recipe was edible but not too good. I won't try that again. Should have friend them.

My morning started off irritatingly. For breakfast I decided to make cream of wheat in the microwave and while it was cooking - couldn't stand to just stand there - thought I'd organize the spice containers in the cabinet right next to the microwave. Involved in that and the cereal boiled all over creation and my 3 minute meal made such a mess it took about 15 minutes to clean up. By then breakfast and tea were cold and I started over. Hope the whole day doesn't go like that.

Its very sunny, blue skies, almost 50 degrees when I woke up!! and the wind is howling. If this keeps up as it's supposed to for the rest of the week, that drift might be gone in a week or so and the back yard dry enough I can give the new pooper scooper a trial run. Wheeeee! Have been seeing the deer around us often, as many as a dozen at a time crossing the lot in back. And watched cranes flying overhead this morning.

So one of the first things is to call Lois back. I don't know what else the day might bring. Maybe straighten up "my studio" instead of leaving it be a dumping ground. And put on some new nail polish.

Cousins Iris and Peggy called from GA, remember this is the time they invited me to come there, and they were on their way to Blue Ridge for a couple of days. Said they were having a good time and staying super busy. So hope they have a wonderful visit there with all the Thomas relatives.

This morning I got curious about Bluetooth and what it is, what it does, since this laptop has it and don't have a clue what to do with it. Thought I'd google it and this came up in Wiki. Much info went on for many pages. Anyway I know a little more than I did. Thought this part about King Harald and the logo was probably the most interesting: The word Bluetooth is an anglicized version of Old Norse Blátönn or Danish Blåtand, the name of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and Norway, who united dissonant Scandinavian tribes into a single kingdom. The implication is that Bluetooth does the same with communications protocols, uniting them into one universal standard.[1][2][3].Origin of the Bluetooth logo: The Bluetooth logo design merges the Germanic runes analogous to the modern Latin letters H and B: (for Harald Bluetooth) (Hagall) and (Berkanan) merged together, forming a bird rune. Etc. Etc. Etc. Went on longer than eventually I cared to read.