Deer and Fawn at Round Hill Charm got back from South Dakota today, I'm glad she is back. I know she's had a trying time there with her dear mom having surgery. Welcome back Charm.
Cat from the VA called early with a question (what is Joe's Mother's maiden name), and she said they had a terrible storm down there in Rock Springs last night, probably not long after we left town. Lots of strong winds and branches down. She said it was raining at the time. Cat is an interesting person, she really takes charge and organizes everything at the VA Clinic. She is a retired military officer.
It rained off and on in the night here with some wind beginning a few hours after we got home, but was just cloudy this morning. Then later about noon we got more rain for a while. I wish we would get some of that more heavy rain but it keeps missing us. We should get our turn one of these days. When I went to pinedaleonline I was surprised that there were all kinds of severe thunderstorm, wind and nickle sized hail warnings for today, including for us. But we never got anything much but some rain showers. This evening has cooled off quite a bit. Also there had been two more mud slides this time in the Snake River Canyon that closed the highway and trapped cars between the two slides. They got it cleared away and open again. Tonight is an 80% chance of severe thunderstorms, so we will see what happens with that prediction. Kemmerer had a tornado warning, the first time I've ever heard of that. There have been small sightings of tornados or roofs blowing off etc, but never heard a warning.
Well at some time this morning, Joe told me he had got the wrong size of pipe to fit the couplings and elbows he bought yesterday, and that we'd have take them back to Home Depot. I did very well not laying my head on the desk and sobbing. Just said "Oh". We must have spent an hour in Home Depot for him to find and pick the stuff out.
This morning Joe had me go out with him and measure the depth of the septic tank drain pipe in two different holes he had dug. There was three inches difference in the pipe in the two holes, i.e. its three inches higher about two feet away on the down/discharge side from the tank. That is why we're having such a problem. He said the frost had heaved it up and the water can't run out properly. (or the tank has settled or both). So when new pipe is put in it should be good again. It's been about 11 or 12 years since we put that tank in and it doesn't seem like that much time could have gone by.
Then I really tore into cleaning up the house and getting the huge stack of sacks from shopping put away. I thought I could do all that AND finish up my barn cleaning project - dusting and cleaning all the paintings again, but it was just to much to be done before company came. Also Renee our broker called and we enjoy visiting, so got caught up on all the news with her. Both her kids are in college now - hard to believe.
Today Lynda, Don and a friend of theirs from Kansas - Judy, came to look at the art show in the barn. She had called several days ago. They got here about 1:30. I made a cake to have something to offer them for refreshments but they declined and I stored it away. It should come in handy at some time. I sure enjoyed visiting with them this afternoon. They have been here before and they have a cabin right on Fremont Lake at Sylvan Bay and are here in the summers and back in Kansas in the winter. Very nice people. Judy likes photography and showed me her camera. I was properly envious.
Tonight Buckshot called Joe back and said he would come Monday morning with the backhoe and bring all the pipe and a load of gravel rocks that Joe would need to do the drain field. What a wonderful friend he is.
Smokey is getting quite friendly and realizing that gets her more canned food. No more sign of there being a skunk getting into the cat food. Her mother Rascal is around more lately. It had been so long since I'd seen her, that I wonder if she had been out on a long backpacking trip or something, and was nearly starved when she found her way back home. And that it was her that made such a mess at the food dishes. That's about the time I saw her again up in the eaves. Tigger is still missing though. I hope she can find her way back.
