ParadeUp and down all night. Finally had Sleepytime tea and a toasted English muffin at 3 a.m. and watched two very interesting hours on Navaho weaving artists and Pueblo pottery artists. Gave up to sleep some time after that. I swear I am not doing any more of these dumb projects I don't really want to do or be bothered with. It was not a good idea at all. I get too stressed, no matter how well I think I MIGHT deal with it or think I should do something. The best thing was how much I enjoyed being with Sally and getting to know her. She is a very nice person and a lot of fun to be with.
I heard awful news yesterday. Karen, a woman who lives in town, an acquaintance, was riding horseback when the horse spooked and jumped over a buck fence with her and fell down. It was a gentle horse and she doesn't know what might have caused it to do this. She has a broken back and two broken wrists. I think the horse is o.k. The fence was all loose and the saddle billets broke and the saddle came off. She lay on the ground and screamed for help for an hour before her husband heard her and called 911. She had surgery and a rod was inserted in her spine. They said the EMTs were wonderful. And that if she had moved she would have pinched her spinal column and been paralyzed. What a thing to happen to someone. A friend thought the horse might have been bitten by a hornet, and I know they are awful so that's a logical reason. Horses hate hornets.
Have not had a good morning and am not going to do anything until I feel better. Except I have gotten Joe's meals and cleaned that up. He worked on his equipment in the morning and then after lunch started to rake, so what he cut yesterday was dry enough and then got it baled.
Joe's niece Joslyn's husband Howie and their boys Jacque and Rives, won first places at the #8 team roping at the rodeo over the weekend. Congratulations to them, lots of hard work and practice to accomplish that.
There was a call from a lady in town on my answering machine. She wants to know if I give art lessons. That is probably also something I would rather not do, but maybe I'll invite her to join Mixed Media or tell her about the class at Rendezvous Pointe on Wednesdays. This morning it was warm, and had been warm all night, so this is the first day I've put shorts on. Boy, are my legs white.
This afternoon I called hughes.net to try to get the internet connection back. This was the first time I had time to do it since I got the cordless phone charged up. I had already made up my mind I'd be talking to someone in India, and that we would both have to work together to find out what is wrong. Yes that is exactly what happened and I did have difficulty understanding "Nick". He could understand me better than I could him, and was courteous and helpful. After I did the things he told me to, he said the white cable to the LAN light/connection was bad. I'm always in awe of what they can figure out. That would be an easy fix and I sure hope that is what it is and that I can buy a new one somewhere. Maybe Dave who installed the system will have one, I hope. I can call him in the morning.
Although there are leftovers, I know Joe doesn't want them, so I am making chicken fried steak and creamed peas and potatoes for dinner.
Today I called Lois and visited with her a little. She had been taken to the clinic in the ambulance a few weeks ago during the time I had no phone and then she said she had two more bad spells, but is doing o.k. now. All her tests came back good. I saw Melita yesterday for the first time in months. She said there would be a small painting group get together at Kay's on Tuesday.
Today I'll probably also drive the SUV over to the barn and unload the prints and racks into there - it was raining and I was too tired to do it last night - and also water the flowers.
