Saturday July 11 2009

On Saturday morning went in to Pinedale and to Rick's office to have a few "lessons" on questions I had about the computer. Mainly there isn't much wrong with the computer. He wants me to sort out the photographs and delete the duplicates because there is WAAAYYY too much in there, storage wise. This is what has been overwhelming me for several years now, because each time I "saved", it would make another copy, not just add the new things onto the external hard drive. He showed me how to avoid making those copies. He also showed me how to best save The Book, although the way I've been doing it is basically o.k. So at this point not much has been accomplished actually. When I get the photo problem organized better, he will try to get rid the the error messages that pop up for what seems like no good reason.

There were a lot of people in town for Rendezvous and the parade. In fact a few days ago James had called and said Friday? that there were 800 people at the museum. That is a lot for a town this size - the population of Pinedale the town might be 1500 or so. Had lunch at Arrowhead, a Lean Cuisine TV dinner warmed in the microwave. Had the dogs with me. Watered all the plants and everything is still alive. Don't know yet if the two new cottonwood trees are going to live or not though. Got groceries, washed the car (the car wash wasn't open last Wednesday).

Drove on home getting back about 3:30, put groceries away, and was in the mood to make a big pot of spagetti sauce, so started that and it had time to simmer for about 2 hours before dinner. I love spagetti, but Joe doesn't like it so much. I got about 4 quarts of sauce in bottles for the freezer and that will make an easy meal every so often.

I just left the computer sit - not hooking it up - and spent time wondering if I wanted to just toss the whole thing into the garbage barrel. Discouraged. This job of sorting out the photos is so overwhelming, and my question of whether there is an easy way to organize them was "no". They all have to be looked at and compared one by one by one if I want to make sure I don't delete something I want to keep, and only delete duplicates. The reason is every time it copied, it was give the picture (file) a new name. I have already deleted some old text files I know I don't want anymore. So that will be an ongoing thing for some time.

Saturday November 1 2008

Behind the House

Cloudy but a fairly nice day. I opened the windows in the studio to air it out and it wasn't too cold. No wind either. Tomorrow might bring more of a chance of some snow showers.

It was a very quiet and relaxing day for a change. I nodded off in the chair a couple of times, so know I'm tired out. We shopped for some more bedding and looked at kitchen things online. The list of needs is just about filled. Some more furniture will be necessary eventually. We went through a few closets and drawers looking for anything that we want to take to the new house, and will do some more of that tomorrow. Otherwise we did very little except some laundry, vacuuming and made a nice dinner with BBQ spareribs. The Mixed Media show was hung today. So if you get a chance be sure to go into the Pinedale library and check it out. On December 3 it moves over to Big Piney for a couple of weeks. I'm anxious to see it myself.

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PLEASE VOTE FOR THE TAX TO BUILD THE

PINEDALE AND BIG PINEY COMMUNITY CENTERS!

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I'll SURE be glad when the elections are over, But would like to take an opportunity to say: Please vote for the SPET..... the 1 cent sales tax that will build a new community center in Pinedale and a recreation center in Big Piney. The oil companies will pay 97% of this tax. It will go away for good when the needed money is raised. Part of the money will be building costs and part will be invested in a PERPETUAL ENDOWMENT which will pay for nearly all the expenses of running the centers.

I've heard and seen the letters from people who are against the tax and the centers. However they are wrong when they say we don't need these buildings. Even a small group like Mixed Media cannot find meeting space, adequate space to hang our art show (Yes, we are having our art show the library but it is NOT the proper place for artwork to be hung, i.e. not big enough, not secure, not protected when other meetings are held in the same room daily (we've gone in and seen coats hung on the paintings, or in the case of various meetings skis or other items leaning on the artwork, meeting papers taped onto the frames, children with sticky hands handling the artwork and frames, etc. etc.

We could bring many workshops and conventions to the area with the community center. It will bring thousands of people here to attend events held there. There is no place in town adequate to hang our annual State WAA Convention Art Show of 300 paintings, so it's taken to another town. The new theatre would be top notch for many of the community's performances. Other groups, funerals, weddings, receptions, classes and private or business meetings have no place large enough to meet or that isn't always booked. I continually hear of standing room only at many funerals. Unlike only a few years ago, if you try to schedule a meeting now you will soon give up in frustration trying to find an open facility or one large enough. We need to face the fact that, whether we like it or not, our area is burgeoning. This is a wonderful opportunity to build a beautiful state of the art community center that will serve our region well for years to come. Wouldn't it be dumb of us not to take advantage of this excellent opportunity. Please go vote for the tax. !!

To see how the tax will work please visit http://www.1cent4change.com/