This is Beverly's husband, my son-in-law Brent.The card is in the mail.
Clear last night with a gorgeous full moon. Today got up late again. Tried to take a look at email, but there was no interenet connection again. Sandy who works at the phone company called about the new idea to get a building for art functions and classes that Paul Jensen has, and she said that the internet was down. Apparently Centurytel is working on updating equipment and this is causing the internet to be off and on. What an annoyance. Judi said they were going to reimburse people for their trouble, I just need to call them. Mine was off all day today, and I wasn't in the mood to be on the 800 number about it again.
So I didn't have much time to get myself dressed and head out to Bonnie's for lunch to be there by 11. She fixed us really yummy clam chowder and homemade wheat bread. She grinds her own wheat and it is so good. Afterwards we took the dogs on a walk nearby up the Silver Creek Cemetery Road - no traffic there. Thank you for the lunch and nice visit, Bonnie!
Then I headed over to Dr. Susie's for the dogs checkup, shots, worming and cleaning their glands. She told me that the lump Sparky has had behind his shoulder is a layer of fat under a layer of muscle. That was good news. And that disgusting thing near his tail I'd been calling a grub is a sebaceous oil gland, and what comes out of it is like fat. Also still disgusting, but not as bad as I'd been imagining all this time. She said it's nothing and not to worry about either thing. Sparky is still a little too fat. He always tells me he's just fluffy. Susie said to Sparky, "Lynn just takes such good care of you". It's more like he manages one way or another to get all the treats and dinner that he wants from one or the other of us. Raven weighs almost 90 pounds now. She should soon be old enough that she won't be growing much longer. She's too big for me to lift for sure. They got good checkups, and we got the several medicines Sparky takes replenished. His eyes still need the ointment and the drops. She said his eyesight wasn't very good now.
Dr. Susie, Raven, Dinell, SparkyOn the way home I finally went in to the Heritage shop to see about them putting a new zipper in to that down coat. Sue said they have a good seamstress who will do it and do a nice job. So I need to wash the coat again and take it back.
In the other half of her store she has a selection of women's clothing, and had a sale on so I spent some time going through everything and picked out about six things that came to just over $100 - and one of the sweaters was originally $140. So I got some pretty good buys. Got a slip and a brown skirt to wear to church. Didn't find anything to match the skirt though. That's the way my shopping always turns out. I'm sure I'll have something that will work.
For some reason I got into a whirlwind organizing the freezer, and it's lots better now to be able to find things in there. I'm closer to the goal of getting all the old meat from the ranch used up before buying more. Fixed us garlic shrimp with fresh mushrooms, brown rice and peas for dinner. And was ready for bed about 7 p.m. - same as usual - naps and watching old movies in between. TCM is featuring Ronald Reagan this month. Realized he was already married to Jane Wyman the year I was born.
After reading my haiku some days back, Bonnie googled haiku and wrote the nicest poem - her first ever haiku. Hope she doesn't mind that I shared it with you here.
big sky clear and blue
cold wind whips and bites at ears
voids the spring promise
