Today's pictures are all taken by Judi yesterday when we went to the Williams Place and the river. Thanks very much for lending them to me Judi.
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Judi found these pieces of a China plate that had been unearthed in cleared land by the gravel pit. This was the best treasure we found all day. It also could have come from almost anyone of the several places down there but the Macks had a homestead just about in this place. They had a stage stop, and also caught and broke wild horses off the desert. I've never found any trace of where those buildings sat, even a nail. Vic said there is nothing left there.
Me - having crawled under the locked gate. Uffta.
This is the remains of a lady's shoe. We stopped at the old dump where Joe's dad took a lot of old stuff when they moved here. Buried in there are a really old wringer washer, a handle crank oak telephone and lots of everyday stuff. I thought the shoe might be his mother's, ..... or who knows whose it was or where it came from. The dump had eroded out in the years since I'd stopped there and quite a bit of rusty cans and other stuff is strewn around. Going through the old homestead dumps is quite a common and entertaining recreation for some people. My favorite finds have been a few old blue glass bottles. Last night I got wide awake for a while and read emails and finished up reconciling the online statements. I also used the "up" time to do a fresh manicure. Jackie sent another installment of her journal pages and I really enjoyed reading that instead of any book. Her little old pug is having some seizures and has been taking him to the vet. It reminded me of when my Barney got seizures so bad. So I sent her the story I wrote about Barney years back. It took the computer a little time to find and dislodge it from the innards of the files. Aren't computers amazing?
Won't go to church today. Just plan to keep slowly working on the house cleaning and eventually it will get done. Most of the floors are wood. I want to use the wood floor cleaner finish on all the wood floors today. It doesn't take too long though. I have a nice big flat mop that spreads the finish, mops up dirt and covers the areas quickly. You spray on the cleaner and mop away. Some years back now we had a floor person come from Jackson and refinish the wood floors. He put on a protective finish and I never have to wax the floors anymore. Boy that used to be a huge job spreading paste wax on hands and knees and then buffing. So glad not to have to do that anymore. The refinishing was worth every penny. Joe and I had to move to a motel in town for three days while they worked here. Its supposed to be redone every 3 to 5 years, but we haven't had them come back. We had to move all the furniture totally out and then back in.
I haven't watched any TV since we came back out to the ranch. Well, it's only a week so far, but doing pretty good not having to rely on TV to sleep like I have for so long.
Betty and I have talked again, and her nice house cat Caitlin is very sick. I don't know how many times I've woke up the last several nights worrying about Caitlin. She quite suddenly got some kind of severe allergy. Betty is pretty distraught about her. I hope the vet can find something to help her. Betty might not be able to come to visit here right now if Caitlin doesn't get better soon. We will just stay flexible.
The coyotes were really singing and yipping while I was writing this. Also the frogs are singing now. I love to hear the frogs at night. Its a very comforting sound to me. They are tiny little things here, about an inch long, usually dark greenish.
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Thanks for another nice visit this morning.
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