Saturday May 2 2009

Oatmeal Cookies Cooling

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Beautiful Deer Photo

AHA!! a note a week later from my cousin Maryann in Bakersfield. This was taken by her former neighbor Dr Tom Roess in Battlement Mesa. He sent it to her April 13th and he called it THE WATCHERS, since it was taken from his back deck on Boulder Ridge Drive. The deer do look different colored than ours, quite a bit darker, perhaps smaller? So now the mystery origin of the photo is solved - actually too bad I don't have a better memory because Maryann told me that when she sent the picture.

(My note on 5/2)This photo isn't mine, don't know where it came from, I must have copied it from somewhere. Maybe Duene? Or Gina? If whoever took it doesn't want it in my blog you can tell me and I'll take it out. But it sure is pretty and looks like it could have been taken here.

No big surprise - another cloudy breezy day. The forecast is for another storm to be coming, but it probably won't amount to much. Joe has taken the dogs and gone out to the ranch to feed the cats. When Norm was here yesterday he called Joe a cat rancher. See ... Joe endures ridicule to go feed my cats. I thought that was pretty cute.

Debbie and Curtis get here late tonight or in the morning. Deb and C. are coming to work on the house and help us to do things we haven’t got done yet. Including building another span of chain link fence across the small end of the back yard to fence in the septic tank area. Then the day they leave - probably Saturday - Beverly will get here. Beverly wants to take a little drive, maybe to Devil’s tower for a couple of days. I try to think where we might go and I’ve got plans to go up to Canada or the NW fishing or floating some river. Right….. In my dreams. I can’t even get my suitcase packed to go to Cody. Guess I’ll just let Beverly put me in her car and take me somewhere.

The other day I invited the artists over for the small Tuesday painting group. Dang!! Charm had to remind me that my kids are coming for the next two weeks ---- So ----- I guess I shouldn’t commit to being the hostess next week. I’ll do it after they have been here. Or Debbie used to like to be involved in my meetings, so it might be possible to have it anyway.

I don’t know where my mind is most of the time, very forgetful especially about dates and time. Any thought vanishes as soon as I think it. Actually living on “no time” is pretty nice until you goof up some appointment or a date with someone.

Today I PLAN to clean house, mail some packages if I can get them to the P.O. before 2 p.m., go to R.M. Home to pick out the window shades, which didn't get done yesterday, organize the cupboards in the utility room since all that stuff is just shoved in there and we can't find anything, and see if I can get my studio room all cleaned and organized. It might need to be used for an extra bedroom. It remains to be seen how much actually gets done. I did get all the letters typed up last night. No excuse now not to start writing more actively on the book.

"There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen."

- - Jerome K. Jerome