Lynn's Lines

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Tuesday November 13 2007

Today started off very cloudy. It was about 5 degrees. Then before noon the wind came up strong and we had a sprinkle of rain. Beautiful yellow crescent moon setting in the west just at dark tonight.

This morning Laurie got here about 8:30. I was sorry to hear that Millie had the flu, so she didn't come. Laurie and Debbie started right in packing books into boxes. I mostly supervised. They worked until about 11:30 and had pretty much everything I wanted to send to the Museum of the Mountain Man library loaded into the boxes. They took them out on the dolly to Laurie's truck. Joe found a tarp and helped cover everything. He also helped them load it all. After all these years he insisted there were some things he wanted to read, like Charlie Russell, so I kept some of those back for him. There are more art books left here on the shelves. I wanted some to refer to or leaf through, which I enjoy doing sometimes. Those can go sometime later. This has been a plan that the museum and I have had for perhaps fifteen years now. They already have perhaps a couple hundred of the books in "The Lynn Thomas Book Collection".

A few miscellaneous books that aren't appropriate for the Museum will go to the library book sale. And a few other things I want to give away to others. Debbie and Beverly are going to share the recipe books. The scrapbooks of various kinds, and all the slide photos are left. As well as four four drawer file cabinets full of my organized and indexed reference material. I've been clipping and saving pictures since I was a kid, and like most things have been obsessive with it. But that is something I have enjoyed doing all my life. The slides will also go to the Museum. I have about 75,000 slides, taken before I started doing digital. Then I got the digital camera and never looked back.

Debbie did a feng shui thing with the books and "knick-knacks" that were left, so the shelves actually look much more peaceful, calm and not so overwhelming and crowded. I told her when more of the books are gone that I'd probably like to put some of my pottery collection on the shelves. That should be a nice change.

Debbie made us a nice pork chop, rice and zucchini dinner. I continue to feel better every day. I have only small discomfort, although sometimes I do get to itching and that's not nice. I stood and checked the books as we worked this morning, and didn't get tired until toward the end. We're talking about taking a trip in to town one of these days.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Monday November 12 2007

A gorgeous sunny morning. Powdered sugar frosting on the hill tops. About 10 degrees early this morning. Debbie's a busy bee with cleaning, changing sheets and going to make spagetti for dinner. She's taking the mail out to the box for a short break and getting out. She had to scrape a lot of ice off her car.

Joe has gone to town to get a letter notarized and will take the old blue chair to Fred. A lot of the guys go to Fred's snowmachine shop to have coffee around the stove so that's a good place for the extra chair. Kind of reminds me about the men sitting on cracker barrels around the wood stove in the olden days. Well he found out after he got in to town that the bank and post office were closed, so that means we won't get mail here today either. We had all forgotten about this being the legal holiday.

Today is a step in recovery by starting to take my pain medicine every eight hours instead of every six. I've been stretching the time longer between doses for a while now, so this is good. Today Debbie and I went out for a real walk, not far, but the first one since I've been home other than just wandering around. The dogs loved it. I am supposed to be walking 5 or 10 minutes three or four times a day. I tried yesterday, but it never quit raining.

Tomorrow Laurie and Millie are coming to pack up a lot of the books and may stay for lunch.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Sunday November 11 2007

THANK YOU ALL OUR VETERANS. WE HONOR YOU ALL WITH GRATITUDE AND WE PRAY TO KEEP THE SOLDIERS SAFE.

Slept until 8:30 which felt very good, and was more relaxed this morning. It was very cloudy so that helped allow sleep - no brilliant light coming in the windows. Not sure when it began but it was raining - not snow here in the valley yet - but it rained all day with snow flurries. There was no snow on the ground here. You can see snow sticking just up past the base of the hills. And the clouds veiling the rocky hills raised and lowered for different views of the landscape, the changing panorama.

I fixed my own breakfast this morning, some cereal with a banana, quite an accomplishment. We're looking for something to do for today. I've been writing thank you notes, and am almost finished with that. I need more stamps, so will put a check in for a roll of stamps and Debbie will take it all to the mailbox. And we have egg cartons to give Cami for her chicken eggs.

Going through drawers and files throwing out papers. It's something good to do right now that doesn't take much effort. Got the Visa card question straightened out, and printed a bank statement now that we can go online, so will be reconciling that maybe tomorrow. I'm getting in the mood to do some painting.

We took naps yesterday afternoon. I like to get comfy on stormy days and that was probably the best sleep I had since going to the hospital. Debbie deserved a rest. She's been like the energizer bunny.

Saturday November 10 2007

It was a little more cloudy today and gradually the wind began to blow with more clouds. We're supposed to have a chance of snow during the next few days, but the storm should be weak.

Slept fairly well, but as usual have wakeful times. Wrote some on the blog in the night, slept some, watched TV some. But by 5 a.m. seemed to be awake for the day. I got a shower and actually dressed because Sandy planned to come over today. We invited her for lunch and Debbie made a pot of soup with some muffins for us. We had such an enjoyable visit and it really perked me up. By later afternoon I'd been up a long time so laid down to rest a while. My sister Gloria called and we talked for about an hour. Then Suzy brought us a delicious meal and it gave Debbie a break from cooking too. She and Lars had thoughtfully made a pork loin braised in milk with salad and whole grain rolls. Very yummy and much appreciated.

After dinner Debbie packed up the shelf of recipe books that she will take and share between she and Beverly. I kept only a few, and those included some that should go to the museum with the rest of the book collection. It made a small dent.

Joe is doing good, helping Debbie and has been giving his old Chevy a tune up. He's also enjoying his chair.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Friday Afternoon November 9 2007

Today was a beautiful cool November morning. It got up close to 50 and not much wind. After breakfast Debbie began to take down and pack up the art show in the barn. She did a great job. She had taken the boxes over yesterday and when she was finished she used the wagon to haul the boxes over to the shelves in the garage and store them away. Nube and Bobbbi supervised along with the dogs. I walked out and watched for a while, sitting in a lawn chair in the sun. Then came in to the house. Debbie chose about five pieces to take down to Vegas to be put in Curtis' Rotary Club Auction, so we will see how that goes.

I started going through a box of old taxes gleaning information that might be helpful in "The Book". We turned the walker into a support for a large yard trash bag to hold the discarded papers.

Debbie finished changing studio light bulbs. I had a nice visit with Ruth on the phone today and tried to call Gloria but they weren't home. Had a nap this afternoon.

Friday Morning November 9 2007

I'm back with a new laptop, courtesy of my son-in-law Curtis who put it together for me. Still getting used to it. (It's an HP Compaq 6510b.) My other computer is still lifeless, and holds all my files, photos and address book. If you happen to check here on the blog, you can email me now - still at lmthomas@hughes.net - and I can reply once I get your address again. If there wasn't a message sitting at the server, I don't have anyone's address at the moment. The computer will either be sent back to Best Buy in a few days or I'll have someone local working on it.

I do have some photos taken in the last month or so in the camera to download, but it's going to take some time to get going with that again. The laptop has Microsoft Office and Photo Elements 4 installed, so that is exactly what I have in the other computer. I'll get them downloaded and put some photos with the blog entries.

Six weeks have gone by since I last blogged. I'll gradually catch up on events of the past days and let you know here on the blog what has transpired lately. The news is not all good. I'll write more soon.