Sunday June 7 2009

Rain on the kitchen window

Joe Mowing - We've had quite a bit of dandylions

I love their sunny color.

This is a little folk art bird that was in a
second hand store for about a buck.
I've always liked it. Its color had faded off so I painted it.

The kitchen has chickens and birds for decorations.

Heifers and more dark clouds

This is my 900th blog.

The power was off for repair type stuff a couple of hours this morning.

It rained good during the night, was raining this morning when I woke up and then most of the day. The sound of rain on the roof is always wonderful. Hail the size of peas came down a little bit ago, then wind, rain and lightning The birds sure fluttered into the tress for shelter when the hail started coming down. Not right at first but then when it got harder they really scurried away. Now the sun is shining and there is some blue sky peeking through the clouds. You almost forget that blue is still up there when it stays so cloudy for days and days. I wish I knew how much moisture has fallen since it all started. I suppose someone is measuring. Kay said they got about an inch and a half just one morning. The temperature seems to be staying about 40s to 50s. The rivers are at least bank full, and some flooding over. over 20 photos at this site, and notice the article about a grizzly bear in the Wyoming Range near Big Piney - none seen there in recent history. http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2009/06/Rainscausingstreamst.htm

Each morning I always start out thinking how much I'm going to get done today and by night it's usually not even close to finished. But a lot of it is because I get so sidetracked with other things. Was going to finish cleaning the studio, but that went by the wayside. Got about 4 loads of laundry, sheets and stuff. And have been mopping more floors (grit and dirt tracked in from the wet yard - however its better than the mud at our Pinedale yard).

Then..... the big sidetrack ..... I went out to see how the cat's shed was doing, had suspected that Joe was neglecting their food and water while he hasn't been feeling good. And found empty dishes. This was way down on the list of things to do, but once I got out there I just started to work. Carried out a bucket of soapy water, rags, and clean food dishes, even took the hose to part of it. They eat in the big machine shed, and it has a dirt floor so, it's beyond me why a wild cat wants to be inside to go potty, but they use a section of the floor for a big litter box. And the stink!!!! While its all frozen - not a problem, but when it thaws out ..... whew! I'm not sure what is worse to clean, the shed floor a few times a year, or a litter box in the house every day. Several days ago Joe did clean up most of the poo. But I was able to do it more thoroughly, get the ground leveled out and sprinkled with Pet Fresh. Then started in on their feeding platform and dishes, which have not been cleaned since I left last fall. So the shed took me a couple of hours. I had no idea even what time it was when I was finished.

Got it all cleaned up, and left little Smokey some canned turkey dinner. When the job was finished, I called her like I used to so maybe she will get used to me again. Isn't it kind of a put down that they don't really need or want to have people for friends, just provide the food and they entertain themselves and are happy. The little cat shelter home Joe built in the wagon hasn't been used much. It looks as if they like sleeping on the hay in the baler better. I worried about the two of them being warm enough in our winter temperatures because until I split them up all five of them just slept in a big pile. They probably spend most of their time under the barn.

Joe's been laying under the kitchen cupboard for a couple of hours putting in the new faucet for that sink. He got it in and it is working fine. Will have to look at the contents of the under sink cabinet sitting all over the counter for a couple days I'm sure, so he can keep checking under there to see that it's not leaking.

People have let me know they've had trouble reading the poem about the ducks. I'll give you a hint and then you have to figure it out yourself. You have to say every letter (but read the words as words). MR ducks = Them are ducks. CMEDBD feet? = See them itty bitty feet? Etc. Grandkids of the right age will love it. It's also been called Bill Clinton's reading exercise, or a comprehension test for getting into some (usually southern) university. Barb McK gave me a copy probably 20 years ago.

Betty called and I was glad to hear Caitlin is not quite as bad as she was, but she doesn't give her "the remedy" until this Tuesday. Betty is taking notes to compare the before and after the remedy. She has asked her neighbor to feed and give medicine to the cat while she is gone and if all continues to go well, she and Nancy may be starting up here about the 17th.

My computer isn't recognizing the camera card all of a sudden. I get so discouraged at those things and have no idea how to MAKE it work. I tried restarting. That's about the extent of my knowledge about that. This has happened before with the old camera and I used the cord to download from the camera (not removing the card), but I haven't come across that cord lately. And I don't know where my box and guides for the new camera are - I looked some in Pinedale, and didn't find them, but that's where they have to be. Heaven forbid I would have ever kept them handy to read the directions.There may be some fairly good pictures taken the last couple of days on the card. But anyway, I'll just put a couple in the blog that have been hanging around ready to go for a while - they were never good enough to stick in before and probably aren't now either. Maybe tomorrow the computer will be through with its sulking.

Thought I didn't have much to write about, but this got plenty long. Long doesn't mean there is anything interesting to write about does it? I'm going to fix us a small lobster tail with rice pilaf and artichokes for dinner.