Saturday May 23 2009

Richies driving cattle to a new pasture.

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Cattle Drive Panorama

(needs to be clicked on to see it better.) .

Joe's taken the suv and the dogs and gone to the other house to get his TV. And it's two remotes. We're having an ongoing "conversation" about the remote for the tv. He's asked me 15 times at least where I put that remote. I tell him over and over again I don't know where it is, I didn't put it anywhere. And he asks again like the answer will change to something he wants to hear. AARRRGGGG! If it's "lost" we can get another one. The only reason you need the one for the tv is if things go wrong, and eventually they do. In the meantime there are visions of that big tv being dropped as he tries to get it out to the car. Anyway he'll also get the gasket for the kitchen faucet. The panel is off the bottom of the dishwasher as he waits to see if its going to leak. It's been run twice now. And the panel is on the counter, or the table, or the wood stove. The screws have also disappeared and guess whose fault that is. I told him this morning it's nice he always has someone else to blame when things go wrong.

The body is slow getting started this morning. Sleep was very long in coming last night. Takes hours to wind down sometimes. So thought I'd give today's blog a beginning. It will probably be tweaked later.

A day with high clouds and weak sunshine. So glad for the air to be warmer. This is usually the time more or less that we used to arrive at the ranch from Vegas. Such memories, and the time we've been here (without moving back and forth) - twenty five years - gone in the blink of an eye.

Cleaned the keyboard a bit ago. It's always full of crumbs and dog hair. Come to think of it, I bet someone else was here using it during the winter. I'll at least finish cleaning the floor in the utility room, and go from there.

Joe just called me from Pinedale, and sounded happy that he found his "clicker". Even asked me if there was anything he could bring back from there for me. Wow. This is a first, and progress!!

LATER: Joe got back safely with the tv, o me of little faith! He also found the remote. No, I know not where. He did forget to bring with it the special surge protector. And is in the process of repairing the faucet.

Dark clouds came up with rumbling thunder, and we had a short rain shower. The temperature dropped from 65 to 50 in about an hour. How I wish when it does this it would just pour rain for three solid days. The best I can hope is that the leeward ? side of the house got its windows washed down. Wyoming is probably to blame for all the lakes and reservoirs on the Colorado and Green Rivers being nearly dry - from this ongoing drought.

Still proceding with my day slowly, but have a fresh manicure. I am so tired of these breaking, splitting and brittle nails. Another sign of old age. Sorry there's nothing more exciting and interesting going on. Think I'll just spend the afternoon making phone calls.