Tuesday August 14 2007

Sunset at Ranch Buildings in Daniel Coming Home From RHR on Saturday

Today Bev, Deb and Clay took their lunch and went fishing on the Upper Green. Clayton needs to catch two fish in order to get a fishing badge in Boy Scouts. He's enthused about working to earn Eagle Scout. Debbie really enjoys fishing so she got the license. We got the fishing rods and tackle box out of storage in the garage for them to use. They went to Dollar Lake and all the way up to Green River Lakes. But they didn't have any luck catching fish. The road up there is very rough and Beverly didn't like taking their truck up there. (She said her air conditioning fan went out when they got back and she wonders if the road shook it to pieces. Of course they need the air in Nevada so she got it fixed right away.) They didn't get any fish either, but I think they had a nice day. They saw 3 or 4 moose and some deer. I would have loved to go fishing, but stayed home to catch things up. The house needed to be shoveled out, and there was a lot of laundry to be done. Just to have some quiet time to myself I went out and straightened up the Art Show in the Barn a little bit and played with the horses. (The ad for the show I ordered two weeks ago didn't come out in the paper again, so I haven't had any calls and summer is almost over.)

First thing in the morning Joe was out digging up the septic tank access. Joe asked me to clear away the tall weeks and thick grass there so he could get in and work on the drain field. That afternoon I spent about 3 hours weed eating out in the fenced off section next to the septic drain field. The Heningers came over in the afternoon and I quit for a while to take a break while they were here, then went back to it. I got it about half done and that was plenty for one day. That grass is horrible, very tall and strong. You could make rope out of it. I like to clear that section out every year, for one thing in case of fire. But it doesn't get mowed with the yard or the hayfield and the horses don't graze there, so it needed to be done. Joe called Bob to bring his Honey Truck and clean out the tank. Bob said he could come the next day. I'm positive the problem was just too many people all at once overwhelmed the system. You could see that it seemed to be draining out pretty well when he got in there working, so I think things were basically o.k. It just had been a long time since any maintenance had been done and it was time to take care of that.

I called the Best Buy store in Idaho Falls to ask about bringing the computer in and talked to a kid named Dustin. He assured me that they could get it fixed to bring home by Friday afternoon, so I decided to take it there and use the warranty to fix it.

It rained again later that day accompanied by another rainbow in the evening. The kids decided to eat dinner in town after their day fishing and went to the Chinese restaurant. They got home about dark. We enjoyed visiting for a while before bed. And also began to get things together for our trip to Idaho. We would leave in the morning, and I planned to take the computer to Best Buy.