Bondurant Elkhorn Store
Battle Mountain and Hoback River
Going Snowmachining - Granite Creek
Hoback River
Coming in to Jackson
Field at Wilson
Field at Wilson with Horses
Snake River edge of Jackson 
The Doctor's Office at Wilson
Back of Albertson's Store JacksonI'll skip a post on Friday and just combine Friday and Saturday in this post.
FRIDAY: Yesterday Charm arrived at the house about 8 a.m. She is getting over a cold, so she wasn't feeling the best either, but said she was good to drive me to Jackson. The weather was much better than the 100% chance of snow and 20 mph winds predicted. The roads went from snowpacked to icy to wet to dry, with mostly dry on the way back home. I guess we were just in between these storm pulses that have been coming through. The drive was beautiful with the fresh snow piled on the pines and as Charm mentioned the hills looked like marshmallow. You think the landscape is white until you see the highlights of the sun on a snow cornice or mountaintop. Mainly in the Canyon the snow was still over the fences, and more or less in other places. The Hoback and Snake were up and flowing, dark and ice free. I didn't take many pictures, since I've got too many of that trip already. Got another rock ding on the windshield from a passing truck. Ow!
The plan was to go right to KMart, and Charm left me there for about an hour and a half to get through my large list. I did get a basketful. And did what the economists on TV are telling us to do - "Spend your money"! I got about everything that was possible to get there that was on my list except Joe's eye drops and my Metamucil. It has been a long time since I stocked up at Walmart or KMart. While I was in there Charm went to Wilcox Gallery and a store that had cards. She got a couple of new art books. From there we went to The Bunnery and had a delicious lunch - they had their clam chowder. I got some of the pastries from the bakery to bring home.
My doctor appointment was at one so we drove out to his office in Wilson. Saw an osprey on its nest as we crossed the Snake River bridge. Charm let me out at the door and went to park. Lo and behold there was a sign on the door that the office was closed - they were all on vacation - there must be ten doctors in there and all of them apparently gone for two weeks. I finally got a young woman to answer the back door and she said they really were gone and Dr. Meno wouldn't be back for another week. I whined about how far we had driven and that Charm had come even further to drive me. She apologized nicely but didn't have anything to do with it. I left my appointment card with her to give the office staff, signed my name on it and said I wouldn't be back. She said she didn't blame me. Another lady, probably also a patient, came and stood forlornly reading the sign as we left.
So we contemplated whether to go anywhere else just for the fun of it, but decided just to go to Albertson food shopping and come on home. I also got everything there I had on that list plus the eye drops and Metamucil. What a wonderful produce section they have there compared to what we get in Pinedale. There was a huge pile of legs of lamb and I seriously thought about getting one, but didn't. Maybe later. I do like lamb. Never could figure out why most people don't like it. So we started back home and got to Pinedale about 4. It was also a nice drive home. I'm so grateful for Charm, and all my other friends, driving me and for the good companionship along the way. It's a great way to get a visit in.
Got all the bags of stuff put away, put the new set of towels and rugs into the washer, and by then was pretty pooped out. Joe asked if I wanted to go downtown to eat. I was about too tired to even eat, but he drove us down and we went to the Chinese restaurant. He had friend shrimp, one of his favorites, and I had fried rice. You can't believe the huge pile of rice the waiter brought, so that will probably be lunch today. WENT TO BED.
SATURDAY: Had a nice apple turnover for breakfast. Yum! I'm sure I won't see another one. Another cloudy day, but just a breeze so far. I watched the Salt Lake news and they said if people had to travel to Wyoming -"Just don't go there". The freeways are still closed along with many roads to the east. At least the temperature is warmer if nothing else. So the snow is mostly melting off. We have our big drift in the back yard. The front is mainly bare.
An interesting thing is happening. The dogs seem to have learned on their own to stay out of the mud. And there is horrible mud out there. They just walk on the snow. I'm sure they don't like that sticky stuff on their paws. The time will come - when the snow is gone - that it will be muddy and they will have no choice. I told them a few times "Don't get in the mud" and when they came in, they hadn't. Not sure they comprehended that or not. But I think that's a very good thing for them to realize on their own - both of them.
Will just have a restful day. I keep eyeing "the studio". I'll try to go in and do some painting. Think I'll make a chicken and broccoli casserole with that big wad of Joe's steamed rice from dinner last night. That's the leftover chicken from back when we had chicken and dumplings. I had rinsed it off and froze it. Got a bunch of emails waiting for me to read. Might organize the linen closet since I got another set of towels and a couple of rugs and it's kind of a mess in there.
WHATEVER HITS THE FAN WILL NOT BE DISTRIBUTED EVENLY.
