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Gina and Lynn - taken by Sally this afternoon. I'll write about today tomorrow...... Sunday morning and I'm back. Yesterday got busy. Joe mowed the back yard early. He's been doing the yard watering, timing each move exactly. He seems happy to be doing that and so am I. He also cut up some, what he calls beaverboard, or particle board for me. When he cleaned out the garage, a couple of large pieces were something he wanted to get rid of and I said I could paint on that if he would cut them up into standard painting sizes. It cut up into about 60 pieces, mostly 8x10s to 16x20s, so guess I have to get busy using them now for sure. They will all have to be gessoed first.
Don't even remember everything from yesterday, but did clean house and got a few more flowers planted. That flower project is coming along slowly. Baked some cookies and took some banana bread out of the freezer. After lunch, Gina, her sister Sally and Bob came over to visit. It was great to see them. All three of them are working in the "oil patch" these days for some kind of water recycling business at the gas wells. They told me the name of it but I can't remember offhand. I really enjoyed meeting Sally. But I already knew I liked her. She lives in Arizona in the winter and comes back here in summer. We have first gotten acquainted over the Internet, reading each other's blogs. Then decided we'd go in together for a booth at Rendezvous. She and a friend will be selling their original jewelery and I'll be hawking my matted prints. Long Tall Bob was looking good as usual too. He and Joe visited. We had snacks and ice tea, hit the art show in the barn, gave the horses treats, and showed Sally where I stored all my "stuff". I thought I was taking pictures, but didn't have the card in my camera, so Sally sent me some of hers. Thank you very much Sally. I hope you don't mind that I've put them on the blog.
After they left I got my hair washed. Sheral and I had been visiting yesterday and they have company this weekend. They all came over about 4 p.m. and their friends are delightful. Dick and Glenn had been out on the ATVs the day before and got way back in on Muddy Ridge, and had a few hairy trails to negotiate, but seemed none the worse for wear. It made a good story. Sheral and Jan stayed home, I believe Sheral said they had a nap. But we did enjoy meeting them and we had a nice visit. Glen is a podiatrist and says he's almost retired. They live in Bountiful. One thing he talked about was a flood they had there when it got hot very quickly in the spring of 1983. One day was 100 degrees and it melted all the snow in the mountains causing a flood. Unbelievably they had 5' of water in their houses there. They also saw the paintings and we had more cookies and bread. I was a little late with Joe's dinner. I fixed us some chicken fried steak. It was a good day.
