Charm and Iris 
Kay Welcoming Us to Her Home
Meeting at Kay Meeks Studio
Charm, Melita and Lois
Kay with a Mule Deer Painting
Lois
Ruth and Her Painting of Mustangs.Got up about 6:30 and ready to go to town. Went first to the Arrowhead house to get some of my art supplies and pick up some of the personal items I never brought back to the ranch with me such as the hairbrush I like and my hairdryer and makeup, etc. I decided to go on out to Kay's for our small painting group meeting and leave the other errands until afterwards, so I wasn't late getting there.
Such a nice and enjoyable day to be creating some artwork with the artist friends. Kay prepared a very yummy and different lunch - Waldorf salad, and meadow mushroom sandwiches. She had gathered the plentiful mushrooms that we have this time of year that usually grow out under the sagebrush, and there are lots of them especially after the rains we've had. She sauteed bacon and onions and then added the sliced mushrooms, and we spread wheat buns with mayo and spooned on the sauteed mushroom mixture. It was sooooooooo good. Now I have to go mushroom hunting. She had apple Betty with homemade caramel sauce for dessert. Everyone got good artwork done.
There was a fire that I could see driving in over in the Wyoming Range, Kay said around Horse Creek or North Cottonwood, and everyone thought it was a prescribed burn. But it was sure putting up a bunch of smoke. You could see it very well from her deck.
I stayed just as long as I could squeeze the time to keep painting and then went on to get my protime at the clinic. It was 2 points better today. Then back up to the house to pick up a box of slides that had pictures of a few paintings I want to get done, took plastic to the recycling center, and then got groceries. I brought deli chicken home with fries, rolls and coleslaw for dinner.
After getting home had another quite bad spell of that pain in my neck and shoulder that I had worst when Debbie and Curtis were here - if you remember me describing that, hurting worst when I would take a breath in. I've had this quite a few times now. It may be related to the occluded veins. So laid down after dinner with my new heating pillow Debbie gave me and tried to get some relief. It seems to happen when I raise my arm up as I was in doing the painting and work with my hand up in the air for a prolonged time. Before I had gotten it washing the windows, so now I'm getting really skeptical of working or scrubbing that way. It wasn't a very good night at all with stomach ache/gas, very sore hip, and a headache too. I probably overdid things. Hate that I can't go go go like I always have in the past.
Read some chapters in my book. Talked to Beverly for an hour or so. This is the week Clay is gone on his Boy Scout camp and she to girls camp at Mt. Charleston - not last week like I thought. She is staying busy.
