Thursday May 28 2009

Judy, Lynn , Lois - I love Lois' Expression

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Judi Massaging my Wrinkly Pinkly Feet

Muddy Creek Looking Downstream'

You can just see the trees at the house

on the left horizon

Muddy Creek Looking Upstream,

It's a nice place for ducks and water birds.

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Sandhill Cranes near the Ranch

Yesterday I finally got the floors in the kitchen, utility room and bathroom finished and got a coat or two of finish on them. They look much better. In the process of that and using the utility room sink, discovered that we had another water leak. Joe worked on it a little yesterday afternoon. He thought he had it fixed and everything tightened up, but then there was another puddle, and since it was late by then we left a pan underneath to catch any drips. He worked on it again this morning. The pan is still there so I'm not sure if he's finished there or not.

Oh my, what a great day. This was our Mixed Media painting group meeting day, so went in to Rendezvous Pointe for that. Dropped off the recycling first. Sure enjoyed seeing everyone. Three of our ladies had very recently gotten back from being gone all winter. We all just talked and laughed for about six hours straight. I felt like I couldn't talk fast enough. Maybe too much caffeine. We had a good crowd of the members attending too. We have a new member. One of Kay's young students, a boy named Thomas. He was doing a really nice painting of a buffalo. He's about 12 or 13 and a really nice young man.

Judi surprised me by bringing her lotions and potions and asked permission to give me a foot massage. Like I'd say "NO". She even had a hot water soak. It was wonderful. Thank you so much Judi. It was a special gift and you are so thoughtful to do it. She gave one to Nancy too, but I guess I was in such bliss that I forgot to photograph Nancy getting one.

I worked on my moose pastel and just about have it finished. It can be photographed to show you soon. Lunch was Swiss steak and pretty tasty.

Lois had dug another plant out of her garden for the new house - a gooseberry bush, so we went up to the new house after the meeting and planted it. I watered all the trees and plants. All the others she gave me are looking good, even the aspen trees are budding, but the had some deer nibblings on them already. Everybodies shrubs and trees need to be caged to keep the deer from destroying everything.

Next went to buy a few groceries, not to waste the trip to town. The drive home in the evening light was nice. It had rained between Silver Creek and the end of the pavement, but didn't seem to have any moisture here today. Things are getting greener every day. Spring is such a pretty season. Picked up some baked chicken and scalloped potatoes for our dinner, which made that fairly painless.

Then talked to Bonnie and after that to Betty. Betty and Nancy (high school girlfriends) will be here for a week starting the 6th. Betty's cat is sick, probably an allergy she thinks, and she is worried about her. So here I am still all wound up with visiting hard and fast today and need to get calmed down to sleep.

Oh, need to tell you more about yesterday. About the beginning of the week the girls said that they were having a party at Debbie's. Our family has a lot of birthdays at the end of May and first of June. So they all get together to celebrate. AND ..... the new great grandson would be there too. I was so disappointed that there would be another get together that Id miss, but just figured that's life - what else is new.

Then for some reason Tuesday night I started thinking , Hey I could go to that if I got on the plane and flew down. Wednesday kept thinking about it and finally got on the Internet to see if there were flights and how much it would cost. Of course then I was all excited about doing it - Joe wasn't. I emailed them to see what they thought and they said do it. There is a flight about noon out of Rock Springs with a change in Salt Lake and getting to Vegas about 3:30. BUT altogether with the two hour drive to R.S. the whole trip would take about 10 hours including getting there an hour early prior to take off etc. etc. I could get in the car and drive all the way and be there in about that time, and it sure wouldn't cost $325. Judi even said today that she'd drive me to the airport. Because if I did that I could come back home with Betty when she comes to visit. But I finally decided to just wait a little while and go later if I have a chance. I could go back with Betty. So it's been a "flighty" time. I decided this afternoon not to go.

Someone said today that the airport in Jackson is closed for runway repairs for some time. They are busing all the people over to Idaho Falls. That was why I didn't find a flight out of there. I never knew a fairly large airport could just close up that way.

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