First Redwing Blackbird - This Morning -Gorgeous morning, and should get above freezing today. It has still been below 0 in the nights. We were really socked in with fog this morning, and it left everything frosted. Joe went off in the mists to get his blood tests this morning. He thinks he is getting shingles again, but forgot to ask them to check it out at the clinic.
Later I noticed that a big tractor with a snowblower on it came into Norm's clearing out their road, another sign of spring. They do the road and then go in and clear out the haystacks too before they drive the cattle over. Was surprised to see that their two dogs came all the way in to our yard checking things out. Mine were asleep inside so no confrontations.
Had calls from Sandra and Mary. Sandra's old cat, Cat Man, is sick and she might loose him soon. She's had him ever since they moved here from Michigan. Mary also called from Rock Springs. It was nice to talk to her. She said they had 8" of snow south of there, where they winter their sheep, about the time we had that last 2".
This morning I tried again and was able to download my latest photos. Maybe I'll do another small photo essay to show what the snow looks like now. Crazy tempermental computer. I need to call Best Buy just to tell them it still isn't working and see what they say. Later I sat and updated my address book, now that it is working. Gradually I'll have to make sure that everyone's new email addresses are correctly in there since it's been a long time since I've been able to do that, and I know there have been changes.
Tomorrow Charm and I will head back to Jackson, so may not blog tomorrow.
LETTER FROM DEBBIE RECEIVED LAST NIGHT - Now we've all had our vehicles trashed: We had an interesting afternoon today. I was working in the yard and Tayler decided to go get us a sandwich. She got around the corner form the house (on Torrey Pines) and smoke started coming out of her air vents. She tried to call the house, but I was in the yard with the blower on and didn't hear the phone. She parked her car on the side of the street and walked home, told me what happened and I asked if her car was parked in a safe place, she wasn't sure.
We got in my car and went to where her car was and I told her I would see if I could pull it into the parking lot on the other side of the street which belonged to a church. When I opened the car door smoke came pouring out and there were flames coming out of the dash. Two guys across the street where going into church and noticed what was going on and the yelled at me to get away from the car (Tayler was in my car). I asked them if they had a fire extinguisher, and then remembered I had one in the back of my car, ran back to get it.
One of the guys called 911, for the fire department, they both came over and one of them knew how to use the extinguisher, so he doused the flames.The fire truck came and they made sure the fire was out and disconnected the battery. I called the insurance and then we waited for the tow truck to show up. Curtis came home from a ride he had gone on while we were waiting for the tow truck. He followed the tow truck to the VW shop for repair(?) We will wait to see what they say about the damage.
We are thankful that 1) Tayler didn't get hurt, 2) She was close to the house, 3) Those two guys helped us out, 4) The fire department came, 5) We have insurance, 6) We get a rental car. Although we don't have Tayler's car right now, there were many blessings. I think this was probably good for her to see what to do in an emergency situation.
I was going to just leave the car there until Curtis got home, the only reason we went back was because she wasn't sure it was parked safely enough. I guess it would have been totally burned had we not gone back. Other than that, it was a beautiful day today. Love, Deb
