Thursday July 3 2008

Dave Barry said, "You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." This was one of our immature days.

Today we had to get to Pinedale about three hours earlier than we would have needed in order to take the chemo port and leave it with John out near Cora. He was going up for his chemo about 10:30 a.m. and would take the port to oncology. They needed it for another patient before I was scheduled to go back. And if John hadn't been able to take it back for them I probably would have had to make a trip to Jackson with it. It was interesting to meet him. He may be about my age. A short little guy. Said he had a sore on his foot for a long time that wouldn't heal, and was getting his medication in an IV every week, and it was starting to heal. I knew he had a European accent on the phone and he said he was from Hungary. He told me that his disease was more common in Eastern European people. Afterwards I wondered how he ended up in Cora WY and was sorry I didn't ask - just don't like to be nosy and then regret I wasn't.

We went back to town - saw where Rocky Mountain Home Center had burned to the ground - and sat in the Patio Grill with a cup of coffee to pass the time. Curtis did some work on his laptop there, was able to connect to the Internet on the Rock Rabbit wireless (next door). Joe had a haircut appointment at 11 and I ran him down to the beauty shop, then in 40 minutes we went back to pick him up and shopped for a little lunch to take out on the boat. At Ridley's we saw Pat and Aubrey (Joe's cousin) and talked to them for a while. They got to their place here from Georgia in early June.

The Thunder Jet - Sally Took Photos of us Leaving

We headed up the hill to Fremont Lake to be on time for our 1 p.m. boat reservation. We saw Sally and Pete there on the deck of the Lakeside Lodge and talked to her for a few minutes. One of the owners took Curtis out for a trial run driving lesson, and soon we were all loaded and on our way for an afternoon cruising on the lake. We had a fire engine red jet boat named Thunder Jet. It could be all enclosed if we wanted so it was very comfortable. We lucked out and had the most gorgeous day possible, and most importantly, no wind. Got to a little over 80 degrees. Just a pleasant breeze most of the time.

This is where there was a landslide some years back.

People actually witnessed it, said there was lots

of noise and dust. You can see it ran clear into the lake.

With the water level very high there were lots of logs - small sticks to very large trees - floating on the water. We jetted most of the way up, and stopped for our picnic, then went clear to the head of the lake - which is about 7 miles long. The best thing we saw was many osprey nests and the adult birds taking fish to the young ones. Curtis and Debbie seemed to enjoy seeing the ospreys that way. ( We could park the boat very close to the tree with the nest, they usually hang right out over the water in a dead tree. Debbie drove for a while too. We had enough boating by maybe 3:30 so took the boat back.

Lakeside Lodge

Curtis drove us up to Elkhart Park, quite pleasant to see the scenery. Not a lot of cars in the parking lot up there or the campground either, for it being the fourth of July holiday. I never saw a person. We stopped at the overlook, and got back to Lakeside right at 5:00 for our dinner reservation..... which they told us we didn't have one. But, oh well, it worked out fine because they just gave us a table upstairs and we had a great view of the lake while we ate. The food was delicious even though very expensive. Thank you guys. We had a wonderful day and thank Curtis and Debbie for taking us. Joe said he liked going too, and enjoyed the boat ride and the dinner.

View at Dinner

We had to leave the dogs home alone all day, the first time they have ever had to do that in their lives. We got back home about 7:30 or so and fed the dogs the leftovers, fillet mignon and baked potatoes. Happy "boys". I went right to bed and to sleep. Was up later again for a few hours and downloaded the photos I took. Got about 84 fairly good pictures out of 130 that I took - I deleted a bunch this time. I'll put in the osprey photos tomorrow and a few from the overlook Sunday.

Franz Kafka wrote, "A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." (Lynn says my inner frozen sea must have gotten axed enough with what I've already written because I sure haven't worked much on the book lately.)