Big Horn SheepYesterday I made Joe the recipe book he has asked for - some of his simple to make favorite dishes. It turned out to be about 50 pages. There are a few empty pages in case we think of something else to go in there. I can think of one of his mother's salad dressing recipes that I had forgotten about. I had bought a special notebook and plastic envelope pages to put them in. He wanted them to have large bold print so he could read them. I printed them off letter sized with size 18 font. That is another thing to cross off the list!
After I cleaned the carpet last week I cleaned my upholstered office chair which was absolutely filthy. It took about an hour going over and over it, and I finally sprayed it with Clorox kitchen cleaner which routed out a lot of the stains. It's so much nicer to sit down in now and looks quite good again. I was ready to trash it and get a new one, but this will do for a while longer. Off the list!
Today I got through a very large pile of paperwork that had been haunting me for months, What a good feeling that is. I have some bills to pay and then can go on to other things without that hanging over. Scratched off the List!
I sorted out all the art magazines that have piled up and will give about 50 away if I can find someone to take them. Guess there's always the Rendezvous Pointe art room. This will be the first time I haven't gone through all the magazines to clip out "scrap" for my reference files. It's hard to leave it alone. That is something I've done and saved since I was a kid but I don't need to do that any more. Scratched it off the list!
I waited until 2:30 for the the TV repair men and then called the TV place since I had to go to town. He hadn't heard from the repairmen recently. They were doing some installation. We will set up another appointment for them to work on the TVs next week. I need to be here when they come.
This afternoon I had to go in to Pinedale Clinic and get the chemo pump taken off. I sure didn't feel like driving in, but it turned out it was a good thing to just get out and take the drive.
While in there I got another long pending chore done, and that was taking all my paperwork on the book collection back to the Museum of the Mountain Man for a small correction in the agreement. I've had the paperwork since January. About 2000 they started putting a phrase into the contract that the museum could sell or dispose of things that aren't of interest to them in order to raise funding. But my wishes for the collection, books, slides and art reference, was that it should all stay intact. So Laurie the director and Peggy? the curator in residence and I discussed what is the best way to word the contracts and also what actually is the best disposition of the collection. That is fixed now to reflect my wishes for it all to stay intact. They were very helpful and agreeable. I'm sure the proper thing will be done. They are also happy to hear that Zane is getting all the slides onto the DVDs. At the same time we straightened out some questions about paintings that I had donated, and that should be in order now. A few more things to cross off the list!
We made a provision that IF the new Community and Art Center has a place for the collection , which is primarily an art reference collection, such as a library - and they want the collection there, that it can go from the Museum of the Mountain Man to the Fine Arts Center Library. By that time, I may no longer be here so I wanted to make sure that the right thing happens with the collection. When we started this process in the '90's I didn't think a Fine Art Center would be built in Pinedale in my lifetime. But of course now it is quite likely to be built and finished within three to five years probably. So my collection will either stay at the MMM or go intact to the Center, depending on currently unknown circumstances that will happen in the future. So far the plans for the new art center don't name a space for a library although the artists have requested one.
I took two paintings in to Melita's so she can keep them for Dawn who called and said she wanted them after they had visited last week. That was nice to have a reason to go see Melita. She gave us some fresh leaf lettuce out of her wonderful garden. I saw her spectacular flowers and the delphiniums on the south side of her house are as high as the roof. I got home about 5:45 and Joe was having cereal for dinner, so that's what I had too. And some strawberries.
Another really lovely day here - cool and some wind. Maybe some chances of rain in the next couple of days. But it sounds like that will be further east and south. Maybe only in the 50s for highs. We recently had a couple of nights below freezing already, and the flowers in the pots wilted a little, but seem to have come back.
Even though feeling very fatigued, I'm not feeling all that "bad". Same things going on that are usual. Food is tasting awful, but I eat it anyway.
