Wednesday May 20 2009

This is a pencil sketch I did to help us be authentic

with reference for one of the murals a group of us

artists did for the Green River Valley Museum on the

subject, The Green River Drift.

It was taken from an old Carl Runguis photo of a

cowboy camp taken by him in the early 1900s when

he used to come to this area. I don't usually use other

people's references but this time I did.
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Little Varmit

Judy M in CO has joined my blog followers - Welcome dear friend Judy and thanks for joining the followers. BTW Judi and I both had a stranger from Bali give a comment on our blogs, and I have no idea how an unknown person would even find this, as it is semi-private - friends, family, friends of friends. Seemed odd and I hope not some kind of intrusion.

This post is actually being written yesterday, and I scheduled it to be published today. Last night we went to dinner at the Brew Pub. There were more people there at one time than I've ever seen. It was SO LOUD in there, Joe was really having trouble with his hearing aids. There was some biker dude eating there with a couple, looked like he though he was God's gift. Throwing pickles and tomato slices across the table and cleaning his ears with the knife. But the food was good. Then Joe wanted to go to the little Sugar Shack and get a milk shake so we did that. "The Boys" shared a baby ice cream cone. Also saw some guys in mountain man "leathers", maybe some kind of event is going on I haven't heard about. I can't decide if I like cowboys or mountain men the best.

Tuesday evening the sky got cloudy and dark again, and there was a sprinkle of rain while we were downtown. Temperature really dropped. It had been up in the 70s again early in the day.

This morning hopefully I'll get everything necessary organized for the stay at the ranch. I have clothes and shoes packed in a tote, which is too heavy for me to lift! , files we'll need packed in a box, and another tote with medicine, first aid and my personal "stuff". At the last minute I will have to take the remaining fresh food out of the fridge to go (not much of that). And we need to remember to turn a few things off - washer faucets, the water to the ice maker - made aware to me by Judi who said a friend of hers had $100,000 damage to their house when the line to the ice maker broke.

Charm and I plan to have lunch about noon today. Then I'll do a thorough grocery shopping for food to take out. There is NO food there. Hopefully the place won't need too much cleaning right away. Joe said he opened the windows and aired it out. He's got the water and the furnace on.

So..... Hope to be blogging again soon.