Beautiful day again. Not much of anything going on here. Joe started raking the yard but the ground is still frozen too hard to do any good. He also started up his old yellow Chevy and fed the horses with it. First time it was started since he parked it about the end of December. Quite a bit of snow went off the field in the last week.
Yesterday was my mother's birthday. She would have been 99. None of us could really keep track of her birthday because she would always tell my dad it was her birthday and he'd say "I thought you just had your birthday". Then he'd go get her a present.
I'm writing ahead since we'll be gone the next two days. Nope I won't get the car out by Tuesday to drive to Rock Springs for Joe's eye surgery, sure hoped it would. Drifts are still big in back, but are getting smaller. The drift in front of the garage is an icy 4 or 5' deep and neither one of us is going to shovel it out. But after lunch Joe walked down to the gate with the dogs and brought the truck up into the yard. So tomorrow we won't have to snowmachine. Hurray. No groceries on the sled - cheering both in the sense of doing less work and that there's not enough snow to use the sled and snowmachines anymore.
The weather report for the next couple of days isn't looking as good as it did earlier. Between 20% and 60% chance of snow/rain and wind about 15 mph for both days. But the temperature should be warm enough it won't be much of a problem. Sure was warm today, too bad it couldn't last one more day.
Still getting ticks off the dogs. It must be from that firewood Joe brought from the Big Sandy Campground that the Forest Service knocked down there. We'll probably have our yard infested from now on. So far we haven't had ticks on ourselves, and I can't stand the thought of it, the possibility of tick fever as well. I'm sure they are coming in the house on the firewood, and crawling wherever or until they find a dog. I keep checking them and doing a lot of vacuuming.
Been trying to make something out of that little landscape study with the building I started at our Mixed Media meeting at Josie's. I can never believe that I just can't get the perspective right on buildings. Then it just tends to grow bigger and bigger. Can draw a horse fine but have neglected working on buildings and figures. That photo would sure make a nice painting subject in a larger piece. Maybe I'll get it all worked out in this study. I hate to give up and throw anything out. I beat them into submission. I'm very tenacious. It looks (a little) better. I have several photos I took that day that I would like to do large paintings of - you know how the light is wonderful some days. I'll take a picture of the drawing to show you.
