Betty must have been going through her photos again and sent this one this morning. This shows my Volkswagen camper van maybe about 1965 or so. We look pretty sleepy maybe kind of grumpy. It's me, Dutchess (Barney must be in there somewhere), Debbie and Beverly. I'm wondering how Duchess got squeezed in there. Betty and Duchess, her German shepherd, went camping with us a lot in those days. Probably we were in Utah, maybe Beaver Mountain or Brianhead area. (Betty says Beaver and I agree).
One day we were coming down from Brianhead in the canyon and it had been raining and a VERY LARGE boulder fell onto the road right in front of the van and bounced out of the way. Two seconds later, or in a car with a hood, it would have landed on the van surely causing us to have a bad accident. We had great times then, and covered the southwest for many years, mostly on weekend trips. We'd go as far as we could in a day and back the next. We had a lot of fun in that van.
This morning Bonnie, Craig and I went out west of Cora to a "yard sale". We left here at 7:30 a.m. to drive over there. A man with no relatives had passed away some months back and left everything he had to the Museum of the Mountain Man. So the museum was having a sale of everything in the house. Then they will rent the house to raise funds for the museum. There's a whole nuther subdivision back there I never even knew about. It was fun to look, but everything was very old, very dusty, if furniture it was mostly rickety, more books than I've ever seen outside a library but not arranged so you could go through them and see what was there. Stacked up, mostly with the titles facing the inside wall. You would have had to take all the stacks and stacks down to see what they were. There were dishes, and lots of his clothes. The only thing of interest were a few dishes and some recipe boxes he must have made that I liked. But guess I wasn't in the mood to buy (or pay) for anything today. Probably too early in the morning.
It was a cloudy morning, and there was another skiff of snow. Joe swept off the deck after he came back from coffee. Bonnie and Craig came back a few minutes ago and they all are going to put rain gutters on the house. Melting snow off the roof is especially a nuisance out the patio door to the deck. Sparky sits at the door and gets soaked with the dripping water, then comes in and shakes it off in the house. Bonnie and Craig are going to have dinner with us tonight. I'll broil some T-bones.
Friday my protime was 5.2, way too high, as well as my blood pressure. They had me stop coumadin for two days. I had to go back to the clinic this morning to get another protime test to see if its any better. It was about 3, so I will go back onto the coumadin at 2.5 for a couple days and then go back for another test on Monday. I'm getting my list of vegetables back out to read it again, some of them thin your blood and you're not supposed to eat them. And I love my vegetables. I let the dogs run home from the corner for some exercise on the way back. They are being entertained by the workers out on the deck now. It's not too cold out today. No wind at the moment. So a fairly good day to work outside.
