Joe Splitting Wood for the Winter Joe's working on his woodpile again today. He is doing it in the morning while it is cool and the trees really shade his work space then. The dogs just sit in the cab of the yellow Chevy while he's out there....helping as they usually do.
I worked a long time on catching up the blog today, and read more emails and filed them away. There was laundry to do. I had several phone calls and enjoyed visiting with Jackie. She broke her ankle, the small bone in her leg just above her ankle actually. She always changes the big sprinklers on her hilly horse pasture, and slipped and fell doing that. She skootched all the way home on her butt from up there in order to get her husband and be taken to the hospital. We hadn't been able to email but had talked on the phone a few times since. She is going to a very nice wildlife painting workshop with John Seerey Lester teaching in Canada about 8 hours drive from her home. I hope she has a wonderful and restful time there.
Later Nancy called to let me know that she is hosting the small painting group tomorrow, but I won't go this time. I keep feeling like I have so much to catch up even though I would so enjoy doing that. We had a nice visit, and she told me the recent developments about their new house and how its going. That is a long story. They have a lease right on the shore of Fremont Lake, which had an older cabin on it. They decided to get a new modular home instead of building on to the cabin, and thought everything was in order, had the old building torn down and the foundation all built, all the red tape you go through with the forest service approved, and the new house delivered, etc. etc. Then the forest service "boss" came and told them they couldn't put that house there, and even made her tear out some of her old plantings she loved as well. Its way longer and complicated for them than this. But to make that long story short, they bought another piece of property to put this house on, are having to build that one in another place and all that you go through - permits, well, utilities and so on - and get another house for the lake. And they thought they would be moved in last spring. I would be talking to this guy's boss in Washington if it were me.
Tonight was the full lunar eclipse. I watched a really lovely moonrise, and then the progression off and on through the night. Its not supposed to happen where we can see a full eclipse here again for 17 more years. I hope I'm here to see it then.
