Tuesday May 5 2008

Curtis and Joe digging a trench to put in

a drain pipe so water doesn't puddle at

the septic cleanout.

Curtis moving the chain link

Debbie and Curtis unloading the concrete mix

More unloading

Debbie and the dogs

No high water at Pine Creek yet.

On the nature path and

on the lookout for moose!

Part of the herd of deer tonight

Awesome rainbow

Debbie and Curtis went to Rock Springs to buy the fencing supplies. They left about 7 a.m. and got back about 2-ish - that was a quick trip. In the meantime Joe went to the ranch to get some of his tools Curtis will need to use. He also walked the irrigation ditch and cleaned it out, probably from our headgate to our field. He had lunch out somewhere. After he got home he had a nap.

I had a quiet morning. Betty called and we talked. I told her I'd missed her calling me last weekend, so she did and we had a long talk. Too bad we're not in charge of the world, we would fix every thing for everybody.

Took the opportunity to cleaned the house up a little while everyone was gone, especially getting some of the muddy dog tracks off the floor. I didn't mop yet because as soon as they are back it will be the same thing again. A couple of small loads of laundry needed to be folded. We have washed the bedskirts while working on the beds so I threw in all the other dirty clothes. I jumped in the shower.

I was supposed to go back to A to Z to get a couple more sets of the square rubber furniture casters to put under the other two bed frames but didn't get gone before everyone was back. Debbie and Curtis unloaded the stuff out of the truck and started digging the post holes. Joe woke up and helped dig. Lickety split they had the posts in and the cement mixed and poured in the holes. So they should be able to finish in a day depending on the weather. It's supposed to rain all day tomorrow. Debbie and I went down and got the furniture casters later in the afternoon. While there, we took the dogs for a walk on the nearby nature trail in the park and that kept them out of the mud in the yard for a while anyway.

They brought me a new hand held shower fixture, and a pretty matching bronze grab bar for my shower and a small guest towel ring for my bathroom. They put Joe's grab bars for his tub in yesterday.

More rain during the night and very cloudy and drizzling all morning, still breezy. It seems like at noon, the clouds were trying to break up a little and a few spots of sun shone now and then. But it showered more, and the clouds got so dark. After dinner we saw the first rainbow this spring. At the same time about 20 deer were in the yard, so we were all looking out the window at the scenery and wildlife. The wind has really come up with yet more rain.

Edis also called and wants to make a visit here. Hopefully we can make that work. It was sure nice to hear her voice again. Made oven fried pork chops, creamed red potatoes and peas, and apple pie with ice cream for dinner. Everyone but me has crashed including the dogs, who ran while Joe cleaned the ditch, and again at the park where we probably walked about a mile. So they've had good exercise today.

If I had more patience I'd try to put the photos with the batch of text that they belong with, but they want to go in backwards to what you would think - last turns out first - and I don't think that way too well. Judi can do it but I don't seem to be able to.