Thursday June 26 2008

Vic Cooks

Kay

Justine and Dee

Looking NE

This is the view I chose for my 1st painting

Looking West

Looking East - The Bulls

successfully integrated with the cows.

Ruth

Jo and Vic's Cabin

Still no time to work on the photos. And the way summer always gets so busy, it might be a while yet. But eventually I'll get it done. Answering email is in the same situation - sorry but I'll get to that when I can. Have had everything since I was gone on the trip to Vegas come into the Outlook Express three times now - don't know why - its a mess. But it happens every time I use the Hughes.net home page for my email while I'm gone somewhere.

Today we got up early and I decided to try to shower with the port anyway and it worked fine. We were in to the clinic by 8:15 to get the chemo pump off. The reason they couldn't do it yesterday was they had a father and two children in the emergency room all afternoon, and they were life flighted to the hospital. They had been in an ATV accident. Sounded awful.

Then we zipped up to Jo and Vic's place in Bondurant for a Mixed Media painting meeting. What a delightful day. We loved their log home there in the beautiful setting on Jack Creek. So much to see - Jo's artwork and collections of her favorite things. During the morning light we all got busy doing plein air paintings. I worked with my pastels and got a scene of the Sawtooths with a cabin and pond. Except for being a terribly hazy day with smoke from the California wildfires, it was perfect weather, a little breezy sometimes. Sparky and Raven got to go and behaved pretty well. Jo was concerned about her Blue cat attacking them, she's very territorial Jo said, so she locked her in the bedroom. Poor cat. She had another house cat too.

They fixed us hamburgers of their grass fed beef. Kay made the potato salad, and then there were brownies with ice cream and strawberries for lunch. In the midst of the day's activities, their son and his wife brought their bulls up and put them in the pasture with the cows, with some discussion about whether they would cooperate or not.

After lunch we had a meeting on the artists' priorities for the new Fine Art and Convention Center which is taking off running now. We all got another painting started before we left to go to a small meeting back in Pinedale to present our priorities to Sandy. It was decided I'd take our thoughts and edit and incorporate them as a rough draft into an older document I'd authored, which I did last night after we got home and got it sent to all the members for comments.

Bid goodbye to all the friends - so great to see them all again and spend some time together - and thanked Jo and Vic for a wonderful experience at their ranch. Made the beautiful drive back through the Hoback and over the Rim to Pinedale for the meeting which went well. Then Debbie and I had dinner at the Chinese Gourmet. It was nice so we didn't to have to fix something at home. It was a great day. Filled up with gas..... gas-tly experience. We also stopped on the way back at Ruth's frame shop to drop off a package of drawings I'd done when I was in grade school to be shrink wrapped to protect them for storage. I had sent them to my older sister instead of letters when I was a kid - she was older and married - and lived in Chicago then.

There were lots of Search and Rescue vehicles running all over our country, planes flying and helicopters, as we got toward home. They are searching for a missing young man, son of our neighbors, see pinedaleonline to know more. Such an awful situation for everyone. He's been gone about a week now.