Such Disappointment 
Another Small Bunch of Deer in the Hoback CanyonToday Helena came over about 10 a.m.. I've known Helena for a long time now and she is one of my most favorite people. We are in Sublette County Artists (writers) Guild together. She lives in Big Piney. She wanted to do one of her Pioneer Couple interviews with us for the Roundup, but Joe didn't want to be interviewed. So she asked if she could interview me. I said yes. We both tried to get him to tell some of his story, but he stuck to his guns about not getting interviewed. We even told him lots of the guys had done it, but he stayed staunch in his decision. Helena was able to ask Joe some questions about some of the old places around here, and he talked with her about that.
Helena has been working on gathering information on the Sublette County original homesteads for the County History board for a couple of years now. We had fun looking at maps for a while, and some of the photos and interviews from old timers that I have, especially about the Boulters who originally homesteaded our place. By then it was time to get lunch in the oven. We had a Hot Chopstick Salad (which I thought was appropriate because LaRee Cowley, my long time neighbor down the road gave me that recipe - they were pioneers) with Alpenglow Frozen Cranberry Salad, Banana Crunch muffins, sliced tomatoes, and Helena brought a heavenly chocolate layered refrigerator dessert - and such a crust it had - perfection - yum!
After lunch she got started interviewing me. She typed it into a battery powered computer compatible word processing machine about the size orf a keyboard. I know some of you are going to be asking what it was. She told me and I can't remember the name of it, but it will download into her computer when she gets home. And the interview also went onto tape. The tape and a written copy will also go to the Museum of the Mountain Man. It took us a couple of hours. When she has it written up she will send me a copy to look at, and then it will go into the paper. I had hoped that you would be able to click on a link in pinedaleonline to read it, but she said they weren't putting her stories on pinedaleonline right now. But they used to. So we had an enjoyable day.
Remember back on Monday the 14th I had a photo of the deer migration on the blog and told about seeing about 300 deer going down the highway near Silver Creek. Some of you have asked to see the photos of all the deer. I had explained that all I got was water drops on the windshield, but thought I'd show you what they looked like. I was so disappointed, and now you can understand why. I have about 25 other photos just like this. They went on like that further than I could see. Sad, huh? I was trying to be polite and not freak them all out by getting out of the car.
Betty has really been enjoying her new camera and sending great pictures and descriptions to some of us of her place, Plumnilly, near Mesquite. I've really enjoyed seeing all the variety of subjects she gets. She says she's having a lot of fun with the camera. And years ago she was probably the main one who influenced me to get into take more photos. So I could blame my 70,000 slides on her, couldn't I?
Maxine's bearded collie, Sharpa (means beard in Basque), had five little puppies last Friday. She was bred with Pete's bearded collie austrailian mix male. They make great sheep dogs. I hope I get to see them babies before they get too old.
This morning started off very nice, warmish and calm. Later in the day the wind was blowing all the moisture out of the whole country, including dust devils down the road. So I don't even want to talk about it.
