Rainy Afternoon
It rained more in the night and is cloudy and cool. There was a pretty peach colored sunrise. Joe's dressed for town today. This is his regular clinic appointment for blood tests and getting a haircut. I've fed him pancakes and bacon. He should be gone for part of the day. His heart doctor's office called and said Dr. Blank says the dizziness is not from poor blood pressure or his medication, and that was one of his main questions. The nurse suggested checking him for Menier's Disease with an ear doctor. I've had a couple of other suggestions about that and recently read an article about it, so I'll see what Joe thinks. If I understand correctly, if it is that, the cure is easy and works.
Today I suppose I must try to reconnect the internet receiver/modem. It came with a 66 page set of instructions. The old terminal comes out of the base and I insert the new one into the old base. Anyway I'm pretty sure it will be to unplug everything from the power and then replace the cords in order; there are 4 of those so I suppose I can handle it. Then there's registering and getting all the serial, SAN, pin and i.d. numbers, powering up and doing a ping test. Anyway, now I do know what a ping is. I have to reset the terminal and take all the old numbers out. Whether I want to or not, I will be learning a lot of new stuff and it's going to take a while. Wouldn't you think the installer/agent/whatever his title is, would be supposed to do this job?
o.k. this afternoon I followed the directions and hooked up the new receiver. Can't tell you how disappointed I am that only one light is lit on this one – supposed to be five. I'm so over this. If they don't issue a work order for the guy in Pinedale to come and fix this and get it hooked up and running right, it's all going to be hauled to town and dumped in his store.
Today I had to brush Sparky again. He was absolutely full of "beggar ticks"…..again. This is a very small sticker burr that grows here. It has a lovely small blue flower. When they dry up and go to seed they are just terrible to get in his fur. The feathers on his front legs were especially packed with them. They don't stick on Raven that way, but she got brushed too. I HATE this burr. It gets on your clothes and embedded in your socks when you hike or even just walk in the field. When I used to hang the flannel sheets out on the line and we had weeds in the yard instead of grass – the sheets would reach down and the burrs would reach up and it was awful to pick the burrs out of the flannel sheets or anything else that touches them. I've waged war on the plants for years. Anyway Sparky is beautiful boy again, at least until he runs through the weeds.
I called Betty to talk to someone I felt so rotten about the receiver. That was on my list anyway because I wanted to see if she had any flash flooding there, because the Virgin River was flooding through that country from Zion to St. George yesterday and she is just below there. Her house is on a bluff above the river at Mesquite. We talked about her plans to come up in September for about a week and then go on down through Colorado and So. Utah to go back home.
Above is a photo of the dogs dressed for rainy weather. Look at that Raven, she always poses exactly the same way for the camera, so serious. And …..what a glare…..Sparky is mad at being put out in the storm. We had another wonderful rain for an hour or so, maybe longer. We sometimes get the remnants of the southwest monsoons and this just moved on up here after wreaking havoc in Utah.
