Chris, Jonita and Me
Charm's Cat
Boulder CreekToday up early again. and we drove up to Boulder Lake to go to the Mixed Media meeting at Charm's house. The dogs got to go along. It was a nice warm day. About six member showed up plus the three of us. Cris had called this morning about stopping by to see us, along with Jonita and her husband George. I told her we were going to the meeting. So she said they were taking a picnic to Boulder Lake and wondered if they could come up to Charm's to say hi.
Bev and Gloria walked around the development and took the dogs with them. They tried to find Soda Lake, but probably didn't go quite far enough. They also checked on the dogs and let them out of the car every 30 minutes or so. We set up our paints, both inside and Kay and I were on the deck - bombarded by hummingbirds several times. Cris, George and Jonita showed up, and I didn't paint much after that. Beverly said "Do you usually get that much painting done?" Charm served a wonderful taco salad lunch, and co-hostess Sandy brought a blueberry cake with vanilla ice cream - you know that kind with the vanilla bean specks in it - yum! Charm invited the visitors to join us and I think they surely enjoyed the lunch and companionship too.
In the afternoon we had a meeting about the Fine Arts Center and were concerned that the plans had taken a turn away from the original concept, but I think in the end it will be fine - just getting through the politics of the whole thing. We had preliminary sketches (not drawings) to look at and a lot of comments about that. About 4:30 we packed up and started on our way home. We sure enjoyed the day in the mountains and being at Charm's home as always.
We fixed cheese tortellini and artichokes with salad and garlic toast for dinner. And later still had enough pie for a small piece each. About dinnertime there was another very nice rain shower, probably for most of an hour. Called Sheral and visited with her for a while. They had been over to Lander and have some more company now.
I fell asleep during the video we were watching - Ken Burns Lewis and Clark but soon was awake again after everyone else was in bed. I stayed up until about 3:30 before I got sleepy enough to go to bed. I downloaded the photos from the last few days and perhaps tomorrow will have time to get some pictures on the blogs. I got through about half the email that has piled up. Sorry not to be answering email very promptly right now, but will try to catch up after company leaves.
My TV won't get a satellite picture, just the blue screen. It wouldn't come on after we got home today. Perhaps lightning zapped it off or just knocked off a setting. Sat for an hour or more in the middle of the night reading manuals and trying to get it to work. Can't fix it so far, so will probably have to check with their tech support - Ugh!
