Thursday June 18 2007

Sparky with Dark Cloud

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Mushroom Rock and Field during Rain

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Muddy Canyon After the Rain

Betty and Nancy must be on their way. Betty is driving to near Provo today. Early in the morning she will pick up Nancy from Amtrak in Provo and they'll head on up here in Betty's van. I hope everything is going along as planned, because I haven't heard anything just lately. They should be to the Arrowhead house around noon-ish.

Later: Betty checked in about 1:30 and is sitting in the St. George Airport waiting for the van to arrive which she rented to make the trip. "The man" is on the road to deliver it to St. George. Betty is bringing her cat that has been sick and it is with her in a cat carrier. After initially doing some yowling between Mesquite and St. George, is being VERY good. The cat needs medicine a time or two a day. She will go to Nephi tonight, but is going to be quite a bit later than usual getting in. Nancy was sitting in Sacramento where she has a layover, so everything is coming together alright.

I'll get things in order here so I can be gone for a week. Cooking is high on the list. I'll leave Joe something he can heat up, planning on pork and sauerkraut for that because he likes it. A batch of Bunillos is rising and ready to bake, a type of french roll. Tonight we're supposed to go to Craig and Bonnie's for dinner. She said they would cook on their new barbecue. I've been curious who is going to stand out in the rain to cook though. As it is really coming down again this afternoon.

Last night we went over to Sheral and Dick's for dinner. They had prepared a delicious tender roast dinner. I enjoyed the evening immensely! In fact perked up quite a bit when we got there, because my stomach had me draggin' around all day. P> It rained pretty hard most of yesterday, When we drove over, the darkest clouds yet were sitting to the south, and brought loud crashing thunder with lightning and rain poured down again after we got over there. Water was everywhere. Our roads were good though. And the road crews are working on them now, putting gravel on the county roads that go past our place. That is really going to be nice. They've been dirt with mag coating on them up until now. And that mag coating made a huge difference when they did that. Anyway it's very overcast again. When I woke up clouds were totally covering the hills, but not foggy right here. It's showering again now. I know people are getting tired of the rain, but I'm very glad to have it. Someone said it had been raining for 8 weeks. I'm not sure that is right.

Joe is pumping water out of the "basement" now. He said it was the highest he's ever seen it in there. He's also ordering a new submersible pump. I hope it will last as long as the old one has, which his father bought in the 1950's.

Our Mixed Media Round Hill Retreat (June 25-30) has been postponed until after the middle of July. Haven't heard from anyone for sure, but apparently the rain has made the road too bad for us get up there. Although the rain is supposed to quit by tomorrow, the road might not be in any shape for a bunch of old ladies to be traveling up there. It's very remote too. Timewise it will actually be better for me and still something wonderful to look forward to.

I probably won't blog tomorrow, or maybe even for a few days.

Charm asked if I was being droll when I made a comment about our November art show. That necessitated looking it up in the wikipedia to see if I was droll, and this was an example I thought was funny.

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

-John Cleese in Monty Python