Sunday November 23 2008

No Pictures for Today - This is a silly one - I must have

moved the camera taking the crowd at the art show.

This looks kind of like contemporary art - Sandy

thought tipis. Anyway maybe interesting.

Today was the day I had chosen to go to Walmart in Rock Springs to see how much I could get on my very long list of things I've been writing down since the last Walmart shopping trip. I was tired from the day before and didn't get up until about 8:30. Hurried and got myself ready to go. Joe said he would go with me, but I just wanted to go by myself and be able to browse and go slowly if I needed to - not have him and the dogs waiting for me to get finished.

I got down there about 11 a.m. and went back to Herberger's first. Well, this time I didn't bypass the ladies clothing sale racks and got 5 tops and 2 pants at a great bargain - about $15 for each top and $7 for each pair of pants. YES.....I KNOW!! Pretty nice stuff for very little money. I checked out the housewares again but didn't find much there this time. Bought another set of towels, kind of a chocolate brown color.

Then drove by to see if the furniture store was open and it wasn't. I want to check to see if they have a chair or two that I like. And tell them my dresser arrived with a scratch on top. I went over to pizza hut and had the personal pan pizza..... yum. So then I started the ordeal at Walmart. Must have been in there between 3 and 4 hours. Tried to get most of the stuff on the list, but was unsuccessful in that. And that's o.k. I'll have to go back yet again, or try someplace else. Eventually will get everything we need. Loaded the "stuff" in the car and then went back in for a few groceries so I wouldn't have to shop for groceries in Pinedale. Took a fried chicken breast and some fries from the deli for dinner and started the drive home. By then it was dark and I found, like when we went before, that there was a lot of oncoming traffic from Pinedale direction. I got home about 8 p.m. and only unloaded and put away the groceries and then crashed in bed.

Saturday November 22 2008

Welcome Bear

Welcome Cowboys

Friday night I tried to get my email and then log on to write the blog about the art show and could get no internet connection. I figured something was wrong with the internet or maybe the sites, who knows?? But turns out it was still wacko on Saturday (and also on Sunday and also on Monday). By then I figured it was something the phone co. guys had done, but I knew not what. And I knew no one would come to fix it until next week. So put the laptop away.

Today Gina and Bob, and Bonnie and Craig came to dinner. Joe and I spiffed up the house, vacuumed the carpet for the first time since the kids left and I did as much of the dinner ahead of time as I could. I fixed Cornish game hens with wild rice and baked acorn squash, salad, and an apple pie. When they got here I gave everyone a tour of the house. Craig and Bonnie brought two Welcome signs that Craig made out of metal - I didn't take any pictures of us all - never even thought of it. But later have taken some of the welcome signs so you can see Craig's artwork. I am supposed to choose one of the two and I love them both but have been a little more partial to the bear. So have decided to choose the bear...... Maybe. You can vote if you want to. I really enjoyed the evening.

Whatever else we did, I can't remember, but that is the main thing that happened today.

SOME PHOTOS FROM THE ART SHOW

Husbands

Ruth, Cristy - Artists,

This happened when I pointed the camera at them.

Reception Table

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Nancy pours the wine and takes care of guest book

My Wall

The Crowd

Dick - Lois

Friday November 21 2008

Sunrise this Morning Across the Street

Lynn Joe Sheryl Dick
Yesterday at Bottom's Up

Thank you everyone for making my birthday seem like such a special celebration. I had a wonderful day.

We Have Snow! It's lightly snowing this morning and had a little skiff in the night. Doesn't seem to be sticking much. The sun is trying to shine too with the flakes still flying. Joe went downtown to wash his truck again in the snow. Hope he's got his long johns on. And I hope it doesn't keep it up enough to deter people from coming to our art show reception at the library this evening.

The furniture store delivered my dresser and the second living room end table today. Now I can put my clothes away and quit living out of a laundry basket. The desk is on special order and will come in a couple of weeks. I'd like to get a couple more chairs from the furniture store.

Earlier I had gotten part of the ingredients out to bake some oatmeal cookies for the reception. Wish I had my cookie press but it's still at the ranch. I would have made those really yummy thin crispy Swedish butter cookies if I had the press, but oatmeal will have to do. And bars may be easier. - Well - later - and I never did get cookies made.

The telephone man was supposed to come this morning to finish up getting all the connections installed etc. But he didn't show up until after lunch. He said I needed a little box jack in every room where there was either already a connection (2 rooms) or where I might want to use a phone, computer or TV. So he and his helper started drilling a hole through the floor next to the molding in every room and got them fastened to the baseboard. I waited for a while for them to get finished and move their trucks from in the way of the garage door. Then they said they were done and left - except his truck was dead and was right in back of my car which was in the garage. Finally they drove one truck away and I backed out at an angle and headed for the art show a little late. And BTW I wasn't very impressed with these two guys. They never told me how to work the "plugs-ins", or set my computer up with the new email address I was to get, and several other things. And guess what - here comes the weekend.

I stopped at Ridley's and bought my homemade cookies. I saw Bonnie in there shopping so got to say hi to her. Then I got over to the library and helped a little bit to get the food ready for the art show reception. We always have a very nice layout of hor'de oeuvre's, and everyone enjoys the party. The reception and show really went well. Lots of people came. We had sold 12 paintings from the show last week and 8 more tonight. I sold some to the new Marbleton Clinic earlier this summer, and one small one tonight. We all think this was the best turnout and the best sales since we've been doing the show. I suppose we started doing an annual holiday show about 20 years ago, maybe longer.

Ruth came over this afternoon to see the house before we go to the art show. It's been a long time since we've seen each other and it was nice to have her stop by. After the show I came home and thought I would blog and look at email and ..... NO CONNECTION. I thought maybe it was something wrong with the Internet, and after several tries gave up trying to connect.

Thursday November 20 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ME-EE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

(AND MANY MORRRRE)

. See the Fish

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I probably have to explain this one. It's Raven's and my shadows on the dock and that is the bottom of the lake - that is how clear and pure Fremont Lake water is.

Very Still Lake

Dear Charm, Thank you so much for the cinnamon rolls - I cannot leave them alone! And thank you for taking me to lunch. It was very enjoyable.

Dear Bonnie, Thank you for the bouquet and for your thoughtfulness in stopping by to give me birthday greetings.

Dear Sheral and Dick, Thank you for coming to visit. Thank you Dick for MOPPING THE FLOOR! That is one of the nicest birthday presents I ever got. For loading the dishwasher and other helpful things. Thank you guys for the yummy lunch and for singing Happy Birthday 69 times - boy was that awful!

Judi, Duene, Zeke, Sherene, Gina, Mary, Judy, Charm again, Nanny, Bev and Clay, Noleen, Debbie, Edis, Zane, Sandra, Sherese and the family also singing, actually quite a few people sang - anyone I am not thinking of (brain glitch) - Thanks for your thoughtfulness with calling or sending birthday wishes. I am overwhelmed with thankfulness for my wonderful friends. I love you.

Edis sent me my horoscope for today: "You're an idealist and a fighter. You're also independent and not afraid to buck a trend. You're hardworking, witty, playful and highly practical. You like your toys. Once committed to a goa, you're extremely determined! People admire your enthusiasm for what you love. After undergoing a major change this year, next year will be lighthearted, social and good for relationships." ..... If it's not true, I would like for it to be.

Boy, things did start happening fast yesterday after I began the blog in the morning. Charm got here about 10:30 and I showed her the house. She took me to lunch at the Chinese restaurant and we had a great visit. It has been way too long since I saw her last. Afterwards I went to see our art show at the library - hadn't seen it yet and its been up for a couple of weeks. It's very nice. Tomorrow is the reception and I said I would make cookies - but no cookies are made yet.

I went up to the clinic to get my protime blood test. It's back to being too thick again. Better remember to call Oncology in the morning to find out if they want me to change the coumadin dose. Should have called today!

Then I remembered that I hadn't gotten the eye test for my driver's license and drove around town looking for their new office - finally asked at the Chamber of Commerce where it was and its right in back of Jame's real estate office. But it was closed - used to be on Wednesday and now is on Monday and Tuesday, so I will be late getting my license. I'll go Monday. Went to Ridley's to get a couple of prescriptions with the required time standing in line. While I was there went through the store to see what we needed that was on the sale flyer. Washed the car. Stopped at the P.O. Got a milk shake. Did the recycling. There were a few more things I can't remember.

Came home and put groceries away. Then fixed us some leftovers for dinner. Had just cleaned that up and Sheral called and said they were in Pinedale and wanted to take me and Joe to lunch next day for my birthday. They had brought a trailer to their ranch to store it there for the winter. And that they were going to stay in Pinedale because their place is closed up now, but all the rooms in town were full, so they just wanted to come by and see the house and say hi and they would start home. I talked them in to coming and staying overnight. Fixed them a turkey sandwich with can tomato soup - mmmmmmmm how good was that? That was fun, and we visited non stop.

This morning I made an omelet and hash browns for breakfast, and in a while I drove Sheral around to see the other top two houses we looked at and then we went to The Barn Door to see those twin antique headboards that I liked so well. She liked them as well as me and we measured them to see if they will fit our new beds. Happens that everything in the place is on sale so the price for the headboards was down $100 since I was in there last looking at them. We looked at all the pretty things. and then came back home and measured the bed. The deep mattresses is the problem - I'm just not sure enough that the headboard will even show unless we adapt them some how.

Then they took us to Bottom's Up for sandwiches and it was very good, plus good company. Then they took off for home. Today started off looking like, and was predicted to, snow, but while we were in the restaurant it cleared up, so they would have good weather for their drive home. This afternoon I got a couple loads of laundry done. We're having more leftovers for dinner. Tomorrow the phone co. guy is supposed to come and finish that job. I'm pooped again.

Well..... then tonight when Sheral and Dick got home they called and sang happy birthday AGAIN. Yes.... I KNOW!!!

Judi sent this: http://www.peepandthebigwideworld.com/ .Then click on the red starburst that is today's video. Peep is yellow & a chick. Chirp is red & a girl baby robin. Quack is a purple duck shaped like an egg.

Wednesday November 19 2008

Some of the other cabins near the outlet

of Fremont Lake - yesterday

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Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay

Shows how still the lake got later

in the afternoon. I've never seen it

this still before.

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Here's our house, the beige one with Joe's

red truck sitting in front, and a view

of the mountains from where our street turns off

up the hill. Just going down that far we loose

all that wonderful view. Fremont Lake is

straight over the hill. Click and you can see

THE MARVELOUS FENCE!!

This morning Joe went back out to the ranch before I even got out of bed. He took the dogs with him. It's another beautiful day and supposed to get to about 55 degrees. James wrote from Georgia near the Florida border and said its cooler there than here. It was supposed to get to 27 last night. Good luck to the orange groves.

The house needs to be cleaned - perhaps this afternoon. It hasn't been vacuumed or dusted since we moved in and there's a lot of muddy dog tracks on the wood floor again. I'll probably get a box or two emptied. Some of the boxes sitting around have files in them and may just go on a shelf. Talking about shelves, for once in my life I have a bunch of empty cupboards and shelves. I hope I keep them that way and not get a lot of unnecessary clutter piled up.

In a while I will go to the clinic for my protime test again. It was supposed to be yesterday but I played all day instead. Then Charm is coming over to see the house and we're going to lunch together for my birthday, so I better get busy. I should decide on which shades I want and take the book back to RM Home.

I need to get a printer for this house, and I have my laptop here. Left the PC tower and its printer at the ranch. They have hooked up wireless here and my laptop is wireless. I'm reading about wireless printers this morning and wonder if its a good idea or not - to get a wireless printer. I probably will get an HP so it will be compatible with the laptop, and my PC is also an HP. Anybody got any advice or information or experiences to share?

Here is an interesting site to visit. The homeless horse population and too many wild horses as well, are a huge problem right now. If you are a horse person or have an opinion, you might be interested in checking this survey out.

http://survey.ictgroup.com/uhcsurvey/

I might write more later if something interesting happens.

Tuesday November 18 2008

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It's the 80th birthday of Mickey Mouse,

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Which one do you think is mine?

Nancy and Dick's House

Wind Rivers

WRs again - Mt Bonneville in the shadow

Fremont Lake from the overlook

A little more to the west showing the bluff
or butte - notice the lighter places where
wildfire has burned the sagebrush and
grass is growing now.

This morning Nancy called and invited me up to her place on the lake for the weekly small art painting group and I said yes I'd be there. Then after we hung up I remembered this was the day the phone/computer/tv guy Jerry was supposed to come. Well, Joe said he wouldn't be here, which is just as well, because I want to be here when he does the work - my computer you know and Joe doesn't know anything about computers to tell me what the guy did. So I called Sandy at the phone co. and asked if he could come Thursday instead. Did I mention that the computer is wireless in this house and it works just great. Its really noticeably faster too. Guess it's DSL? And after getting all my painting stuff together drove up to Nancy's. Joe went and got our forwarded mail at the Pinedale post office for the first time and got his truck washed.

Somehow the dogs got split up, and Sparky managed to get in the truck with Joe and Raven was left home, so I took her with me. The last few days have been beautiful, and so was today. I took 62 pictures of the lake and things up there. It was easy to go be with the gals because instead of an hour's drive away I just drove up the hill a few miles. I've only seen Nancy once or twice all summer. And this was the first time I've seen Nancy and Dick's new house. The tore down their old cabin and had this one put up in its place. The forest service oversee's cabins on the lake and gives them a hard time, just like you would expect of the bureaucrats. They also had an awful time with the builder, but finally they are in their new place. They will go to Overton NV for the winter in about 3 weeks or so. Nancy made us a wonderful lunch with tortilla soup and salad and apple pie. We had a good time together and I got a small fall scene started. The lake was just like a mirrow with absolutely no ripples. This is the first time I've ever seen it like that. It always has ripples. There were a bunch of fish all about a foot long down below their boat dock, made me wish I had a fishing pole. Native Cutthroat I think. Next Monday they are coming here to paint, and I'll fix us lunch.

On the way home I went to Rocky Mountain Home and picked up a sample book of the pleated shades or blinds that we're getting a price estimate for. So have to decide which one to choose pretty quickly - tired of parading around in PJs with no window shades. Joe was just out here in his shorts - don't tell him I told the whole world.

When I got home Joe invited me out to dinner again and we went for sandwiches at the Brew Pub. That was nice. The furry faced guys liked it too.

I took 62 pictures today, so will put more of them in the blog from time to time. Tonight I got them enhanced and straightened out - I always seem to have the camera tilted and I don't know why. Guess I list to the right. Debbie called me and we talked on the cell phone. At the ranch there was never cell phone reception, so now we can talk for free on the Verizon family plan. I know I missed a call on the cell phone from Beverly too. Oh all this technology - it's such an awesome feeling to have all these modern gadgets.