Monday July 14 2008

Joe got the back yard mowed yesterday

and the front yard today

The lawn is looking so good this year. But I'm so sad that it seems our big lodgepole pine tree we planted as a baby years ago is dying. We dug it up on the ditch at our headgate where there are a lot of trees. This spring so many of the few pines along the creeks that we pass going to town are dead or dying. Ours looks just like the others. Bugs, stress from the droughts or disease?

Gorgeous morning. Quiet day so far. Feeling pretty good again today, actually noticeably better. It's surprising me that I'm getting much more strength back so quickly since I felt so awful a week or so ago. Probably a combination of the chemo working (?) and I remembered that the surgeon said it would take six months before I felt recovered from the surgery. And its just about six months. So who knows.

Tomorrow is chemo day in Jackson. Rather dreading getting back on that bus, but am going to do it anyway. Called her tonight and Judi is going to go with me so it will be a more enjoyable day than if I went alone. They all have me spoiled anyway and I miss having a friend along. The prescription for motion sickness from the doctor's office was finally sent to the drug store so I'll stop by there early to pick it up before I get on the shuttle. Amy (Dr. Meno's nurse) said the motion sickness pills will make me really drowsy so have to watch that driving home. She said to take 1/2 a pill. But maybe it will be good just to zonk out and get a good nap going up and while sitting in the chair during the treatment.

Charm offered me a ride to Jackson Thursday when she has an appointment up there. I''ve been so tempted to call Oncology and change my appointment, but feel I should stick to the schedule. It definitely would be more fun to spend the day with her. Beverly and Gloria are arriving Friday, and I want to enjoy them as much as possible. If I go for my treatment on Tuesday I'll be over the worst of the ickyness by the time they get here Friday. If I go on Thursday I'll be "noxious" for a couple of days right when they get here and I don't want to waste my time with them feeling sick. Always decisions.

I've made Joe an eye checkup appointment with Dr. Jensen when he comes to Pinedale in August. They are watching to see if his macular degeneration changes for the worse. We're sure glad not to have to drive to Rock Springs.

Sherese came over this afternoon and took another truck load of plants back to their place to get into their flower beds. She is such a nice person. She'll come back tomorrow and take some more while I'm gone. I'll take a box of iris bulbs in the car and give to whoever I might run in to in the next few days. My hands and nails are sure looking rough after not working much for the last six months. As for the art show, I've finished up in the barn and it's looking pretty good to me. Nearly everything is hanging and I took a couple of easels in to put a couple more paintings on. Got nearly everything dusted off and the glass cleaned.

Bighorn Ewe and Lamb.

Black frame with a black mat and cut design.

This is the image I've always used for my

logo on my business card, etc.

Have saved the drawing for a long time,

but decided to put it into the barn show.

This has been on the blog before, but since it's framed

and going into the barn, thought I'd show it here again.

Saturday October 27 2007

Bighorn Ewe and Lamb Sketch

It was a pretty nice day. Today our SCAG writer's was scheduled, but I told them I'd better not try to come and asked VP Nancy E to preside at the meeting for me. I missed seeing everyone. Instead I made Joe some food he could eat on for several days while I was gone - his Aunt Eva's cabbage rolls, bunillos from the recipe Melita gave me that he likes, and the pancake batter that is like a sourdough and lasts about 10 days in the fridge. I was trying to hurry the roll dough I guess and didn't let it rise light enough after they were formed and they weren't as good as usual. But not bad either, just a little tougher. Sometimes its the weather too. I got Joe's sheets changed and the bedrooms cleaned because Debbie would be bringing me home and be here with us for a while after the surgery. I was realizing that I wanted to keep busy with productive things to keep my mind off all that had been happening and was going to happen. In the morning Joe was to drive me in to Pinedale to meet Melita and Nancy by 7 a.m. at Faler's parking lot. They were taking me to Salt Lake. I had gotten us two rooms at the University Guest House again, one for them and one for Debbie and I. I had been working on getting my suitcase ready for a few days, so just had to be up by 5 a.m. in the morning and get into the car about 6.