Tuesday June 2 2009

Rainy Day - Melita's Back Yard - New Fork River.

On a clear day you would see the Wind River Mtns.

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I showed you this in winter, now in Spring

Lois, Charm, Kay Painting

Melita making Dessert - homemade sour cream poundcake
with strawberries.


Nancy with the Cream of Asparagus Soup

Salad - sliced tomatos and BUFFALO MILK mozarella

cheese with balsamic vinigarette

Melita's homemade bread

Today got up at the last possible moment and got ready to go into town to Melita's for our small painting group and lunch at her house. Took the dogs along. I got a few pictures of us to post. I had my usual great time being there with the friends. It was much the same as our other get togethers. so I won't write a lot about it. We all worked on our paintings. Kay is illustrating another children's book, and I really liked her drawings for that.

Joe did drive over to Big Piney to go to the dentist today, so he is definitely feeling better.

I had to be down to the car place at 2 for the oil change so headed on down there. They took my car right in. As I was waiting, the mechanic came to the door and said Mxxx you better come and look at this. I thought - I know that's my car and something isn't right. So got up and went to the door. Three of them were bent over the engine of my car. The guy came over and said the cover to my brake fluid container - the master cylinder was mentioned - had been left off, or not screwed on tight and vibrated off, it was not anywhere down beneath the motor. So dirt had gotten into the brake fluid. This is not good.

Well who knows how long it's been like that!! Maybe I'm lucky to still have brakes. But it probably happened the last time it was looked at during the last oil change. There. (Or possibly when I took it in to another place during the winter to have that problem of it being hard to start, fixed. - they shouldn't have been concerned with the brake fluid though. ) It's probably just easier to forget trying to figure that out and not worry about it at this point.

Mxxx said I'd better take it to a place that had the machine to do it and have them flush out the brake fluid and refill it. I asked who in Pinedale could do that. And they said probably no one, that I'd have to go to Jackson or Rock Springs to a dealer. I asked if Wolf Motors (in Pinedale) could do it and he said he didn't think so. I told them I thought the cap had been left off there, but apparently in February the place changed owners and this guy had nothing to do with it. He would order me a new cover and I said o.k. paid them and left, mad as that wet hen. And discouraged.

I went up to the house to get a few things Joe and I wanted from there, thinking all the time. Mainly "I don't need or want one other thing going wrong". And the thought to check with Wolf Motors kept coming into my mind, so I closed the house back up and just drove over there to talk to the service department. They are a Dodge dealership, not Chevy, but they've worked on my car before. She said yes they could do it and I have an appointment to have it done on Thursday. $129.00 and at least don't have to drive 100 miles to get it fixed.

The new little plants at the house are still doing fine. This rain is sure good for them. And there's lots of "vegetation" coming up in the bare spots in the yard. Could be grass, weeds, wildflowers, who knows, but if it would come in solid enough to cover the mud, that might be all we need in the back yard. But it would have to be mowed. Maybe even watered.

Well, without being able to look at my datebook, I thought Joe and I had our foot doctor appointments on Thursday and together with the brake fluid "thing" it could be done in one trip. Then later Judi reminded me that the foot doctor comes on Friday - she made the appointments for us. So now I must decide whether to make trips to town two days in a row, or call Wolf in the morning and see if they can do it on Friday instead. The latter sounds best.

I panicked when I got home, thought I lost my camera. But found it after dinner – in the glove box. – where I put it. But not until I envisioned one of the car place employees stealing it and the whole scenario of how I would accuse them of it. And then calling Melita and asking if I’d left it there or dropped it on her road when I let the dogs out to run a little, causing her to walk way out there to look. Or that I’d kicked it out when I went up to the house and then ran over it, or it fell out at Wolf Motors and rolled under the car where I couldn't see it and someone found a nice new camera, etc, etc.

Wasn't The Kid nice to admit that she also let her car go way beyond the time for the oil to be changed? I’m soooooo glad I’m not the only one who can try to ruin a nice car by not changing the oil for 1300 miles.

Melita got the number for me and when I got home I called Mike the appliance repairman at Sweetwater Appliance in Lander. He is coming over on Monday. Thank goodness. I hate doing dishes. Only ironing is worse than that. He said what I described didn't sound good at all.

Betty called this afternoon and we talked for a while. It's not likely she and Nancy will be coming this week to visit for a week, but will for sure later. She doesn't know all the information she needs to about her kitty yet and won't be able to leave for a while.

There was rain most of the day again, mostly light showers and temperature just below 50-ish. I have been loving this rain. The clouds were covering the mountains. It may be snowing up there again. And they say we're supposed to get snow on Saturday. I've noticed we usually have the last snowstorm around the first of June most years. Of course it can snow or frost any month of the year here. Bonnie had her flower pots planted the other day when I was there and they sure looked pretty. Hope they don't get frosted.