Saturday October 6 2007

Jenny Lake Colored Pencil

Today is Joe's birthday. We didn't do anything special, just a nice dinner. I figured his reupholstered chair would be his birthday present.

Joe trimmed a couple of horses feet while I held the horse. We did this for several days until he got them finished. It's amazing that he still does this, because it tires him out pretty bad and if they acted up, kicked or something, he could get hurt pretty bad.

The phone was out all day and here it is the weekend again. I think Charm reported it for us. Sandy at the phone co. says they are working on our system a lot of the time and will be putting a new phone in for us soon.

Today I finished my Jenny Lake colored pencil drawing. I will NEVER do a colored pencil drawing that big again. It took forever to get it done. That one is also ready to go to the framer. It will be my piece for the Mixed Media show theme wall. Our theme this year is "The Blues". The annual holiday show will be hung November 12.

Some kind of animal has gotten into the cat food and water several times and made a mess. I'm guessing from the tracks its another raccoon.

October 5 2007

Road to Storm

There was rain and wind all day and very stormy. Quite a bit fell.

I called the kids and visited. My sister Gloria and her daughter Donna from Arizona were up in Vegas visiting the family. Debbie made dinner for her and my other sister, and they all got together with Beverly's family too for family time. The next day they all went to lunch and had manicures/pedicures together. I felt a little left out and alone knowing they were all together.

Jerimiah from Best Buy finally called and set up a time to come next Wednesday.

Thursday October 4 2007

Raven in the Studio

Today I spent cleaning the house and doing laundry. I took a nice nap.

It was about 50 degrees all day and night. By evening we started having a thunder storm and it poured rain. It must have rained most of the night. Rain is so welcome.

There was no promised call from Best Buy. But Sheral and I visited on the phone for a while.

Wednesday October 3 2007

Nube and Bobbi Next to Bale Wagon

Had a morning call from Best Buy. They said Jerimiah would come over next week to work on the computer here. So I called Judi and asked her what she thought about going to Mesa Falls in the spring. The waterfall would be much more spectacular then, So that's a possibility.

Tonight there was a meeting for the Fine Arts Center at the new visitor center. So I fixed an early dinner and went in for that about 7 p.m. It was a pretty drive in, but going home in the dark watching for deer late at night is not my favorite thing.

Tuesday October 2 2007

Today was warm and sunny. Joe went in to Pinedale and the clinic to get his protime test. He brought back a few fresh groceries. I saw Tigger, the cat with the cut off tail, from a distance and she seems to be healthy, although each time it seems like the tail is shorter.

Judi and I are talking about taking the computer to Idaho Falls together, staying overnight, doing some exploring in eastern Idaho and driving up to Mesa Falls, a place I've wanted to see for a long time, then going back to pick up the computer.

Not much else of importance must have happened.

The picture is of my friend Ruth at a workshop this summer. She's on the right, cutie huh? She's a grandma now. The teacher is Jeanne McKenzie, and they were over in Dubois. They got on the cover of this magazine.

Monday 9:31AM
This is Lynn's friend, Judi. HI! Lynn just called and said her computer is not working...again. So, hold off on emails. She'll be back as soon as possible. She might have to take her computer to Idaho Falls.

Monday October 1 2007

Cottonwoods Willows Rabbitbrush - Pastel

This morning I made a list of all the computer problems so I could let Best Buy know the details. Until the comuter is repaired there will be no more blogging - and with yesterday's blog I'll gradually be catching up about six weeks of journaling - I'm now writing the next 5 weeks about the end of the first week of November. Hope it's not too confusing until I get to the present. It will be sketchy anyway. I'll add new photos in later.

Today I called Jackie to visit with her and let her know that with no computer I couldn't help with the WAOW work. I always enjoy talking to Jackie. She is such a special friend. I'm very grateful to have her presence in my life. We have a lot in common. She is having a new studio built, which is quite an event for an artist. Her husband is having health problems and remember Jackie had broken her ankle not that long ago. I also had enjoyable phone visits with Judi and Betty Pfaff.

In the afternoon I went out to feed the cats and since I had been thinking that they needed a warm place to sleep this winter, went in the back of the shed to see what would be best to do for them - either put back their tent on the baler or fix something in the wagon. Lo and behold, Joe had made them a little custom fit "bedroom" in the wagon box. He had it all lined with an insulation and it has a little door. The top comes off in case you would need to clean it out or anything. He had put the cat bed rugs into the box and covered the whole thing with a folded tarp for more warmth and shelter. I hadn't even mentioned anything to him about where the cats were going to sleep after he rearranged everything in the shed, and he did it all on his own. I was grateful and impressed and told him thank you.

Today I finished two new pastels and they are ready to go to the framer now. And the dogs and I went out to get today's mail on the ATV. It was a very nice fall day.