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Tigger - she's seldom seen
Mourning Dove
FlycatcherIs anyone else having trouble buying good artichokes? None of them have seemed any good at all for a couple of years. They need to be cooked to death - over an hour - and they never get tender. Do they pick them too green? Anyway we like them but I'm about to never buy another one. They are the price of steak and not worth eating! Some recently bought asparagus spoiled before it could be used it so threw that out. Our lobster for dinner last night wasn't the greatest either. Maybe I cooked it too much. Maybe I'm loosing my touch for cooking.
On the topic of cooking and cleaning up the kitchen, since the dishwasher has been broken I've been washing dishes. I really don't like to wash dishes. The dishwasher repairman was just here and found two pieces of clear plastic in the pump. It came off an expensive cheese grater I bought at Williams Sonoma. I found a piece of it in the sink while I was hand washing the dishes. So I knew it was cracking and breaking. As soon as he showed us, I knew exactly where it was from. He didn’t charge us much. Said he didn't want to retire all on one person. Came all the way from Lander. We both liked him a lot and he knew what he was doing.
This afternoon we have to drive to Pinedale to meet with Scott Cheney at 3:30 at the house to get the estimate for getting some landscaping done. He is drawing up a plan for landscaping and hopefully we can afford it and Joe will change his mind about not having it done. At first we will only have him do gravel in the fenced in part in back.
Tomorrow the glass guy will come and replace the living room window that was broken here.
James found Joe's name in the Wyoming Treasurer's Office unclaimed property list and let us know. He was looking up his own name. I did look and printed the pages for Joe. I checked it out and he gets $32 from one of his old stocks. We could use a little income lately. My dad's name is in the same thing in Nevada but they wanted so much information I gave up on doing it. It was $60.
Just out of curiosity I checked back on my receipts to see when and where the oil was last changed in the car. It was September in the same place I was the other day. Then deducing if it was September .... and I hadn't driven hardly anywhere from then to now ..... that I can safely come to the conclusion - that as well as them leaving the cap off the brake master cylinder - that they didn't put a new mileage sticker on my windshield. I don't think I went 1300 miles over from the last oil change. That would have been 4300 miles since September, except ..... that car hasn't been anywhere!! Its was more like I had driven 1700 miles since last September. Not that it matters, but it does make more sense. And I don't have to be so down on myself for making such a stupid mistake, it didn't happen that way.
Both cats have been out in the yard, hunting birds or whatever cats do. Its always especially nice to see Tigger, the bobtailed one, because she is so much shyer. The dogs seem to be leaving them alone. Now I'm pretty sure the dogs would like to investigate those cats better. They do bark and run after them sometimes, but the cats have no trouble getting to a safe haven. The dogs did that a lot at first, but no longer are going after them. Smokey was out in the rain the other evening and didn't seem to mind it a bit.
Raven went out in the field for her little nightly walk and the cranes were out there. They didn't fly off, but kind of started to sidle away from her. She just ignored them, although I did see her looking in their direction. She was a good dog. The first time the cranes were near one morning after we came back she barked and barked. Her "Oh Mi Gosh, Come and SEE whats out here!!!"I think she had forgotten about them over the winter, but I just talked to her. I always tell them not to bark at the big birds and NO chasing. They are both very good about it and I trust them fairly well. Also they won't chase the antelope. We were coming home the other day and the dogs always get out at the gate to run on home. There was an antelope in the lane and they just loped along, put their ears up a few times, and never chased it.
Sparky must be loosing some of his hearing. He's always been afraid of thunder, but during these rain storms, he hasn't been trying to hide or sit in Joe's lap, etc. But he has started barking more like there's a car outside, very alarmed and looking out the window. So he must not be recognizing it as thunder. He's more than 14 now, but still pretty perky and acts like a puppy.
I'm reading one of my new Peter Mathieson books, a novel Shadow Country. It's VERY good. He wrote three books years ago like a trilogy, and this is all of them together, abridged. It's over 900 pages. He's so good at making the people seem real.
The full moon came up as orange as .... well .... an orange last night and reflecting its warm light on the clouds. It was fun to experiment with trying to photograph it.
More rain today, not sure how much it will amount to, but a lot like the rest of the days lately. Cleared off in the night for a while. I made a coffeecake this morning with blackberries in it that needed to be used up. It wasn't one of my best things, but Joe has eaten about half of it already.
I would add sports, cooking, sewing or knitting, dancing, woodworking, crafts, etc. climb mountains, fish or camp ..... whatever you love.
