Monday

Barrie to the Rescue

About 9:30 last night, Lance Mackey and Newton Marshall drove off with Barrie's pickup. Lance's pickup had quit in Farson, and they were having it towed into Pinedale. (Both dog teams were on the truck.) Lance called Barrie for help, they dug out the horse trailer, and will use her truck today.

Lance is the four time winner of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, and Newton is the Jamaican who ran the Iditarod last year.

This is "Fat Albert", Lance's truck. Barrie took this in Jackson before the race started. Lance's and Newton's sleds are beside the truck, with the lines laid out.

Sunday

I'm not sure I ever posted this before. It is a small drawing that started out much larger. The more I worked on the mother, the worse she looked. I finally erased her and trimmed the paper to include just the fawns. I didn't tell them I killed their mother - they think she is just out of the frame of the picture.

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Read an interesting news article this morning on the safety of e-cigarettes. I didn't know what the heck e-cigarettes were! Electronic cigarettes are hand held devices that deliver nicotine. They are tobacco free and smoke free. The FDA is trying to gain regulatory control over them, and the state of NY is attempting to ban them.

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Why is bra singular and panties plural?

Why do we push the buttons on the remote harder when the batteries are dead?

Okay, that's my contribution to the world for today.

Saturday

Would you believe me if I told you I took this photo? Well, I didn't, but it wasn't for lack of trying. I used to sit up at Meadow Lake when the GF were spawning Grayling, to guard the trap so people didn't come help themselves to the fish. Because there were so many fish gathered trying to get up the creek, there were always a lot of osprey fishing. I don't know how many rolls of film I went through, but I never got a good picture.

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I got an e-mail from Amazon today. I rented a movie earlier in the week, and it was very poor quality. I gave up watching it and tried again the next day. I have no idea how Amazon tracks these things, but somehow they knew there was a bad connection and the film was poor quality. So they are refunding my money.

Tried to work with the watercolor pencils yesterday, and hated them.

Barrie went to Jackson yesterday for the start of the Stage Stop race. Just talked to her for a few minutes this morning, and she said she had a good time.

Friday

A friend sent me this. The question was, "Did Philip fart? Took me a while to catch on, but it really is funny.

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When Kasey came home yesterday afternoon she came upstairs and told me, all excited, that she and Momma went snow machining and she saw a coyote and the sunset.

I went downstairs yesterday and worked on the desktop computer a little bit. I changed the settings so it will not "hibernate" or go to sleep. I can now print from my laptop downstairs, but not if the desktop is "hibernating". I tried to get Barrie's computer in the "home group", but didn't get it done.

I did fix some playlists on my desktop iTunes program, and syncronized the iPod. Plays great now.

Wednesday

I just watched a movie on my computer that I rented from Amazon "City of Angels." I didn't think the darned thing would ever get over. I usually like Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan, but this was a terrible movie. Sure glad I rented it instead of ordering it!

Kasey came upstairs last night to tell me not to eat crackers and peanut butter, because her Mom was cooking. We had baked squash, hash browns, steak, and brownies. Yum! Kasey ate half a squash, but only about two bites of her brownie. Barrie about gags if she even looks at squash.




And old picture of Tracy in her cradleboard. This board was made by a woman from Ft. Washakie. She made the shade years ago for a boy they adopted. He is my age, so the shade is really old. I took this board to Tracy several years ago, and she has it hanging on her wall.

One of the new themes for Windows 7 I downloaded today. Pretty, isn't it?

I accomplished something yesterday. Finally have figured out the home network for our computers. Everything I read said it was so simple to do and anyone could set up a home network in just a few minutes. Right! Anyone but me. Finally found an article on the Internet that explained it to me. All our computers were members of the "homegroup", but they had each created their own homegroup. Finally got that figured out.


Barrie and KC went to Ridley's today, and KC brought the Valentine plates and napkins up to show me.

I had a thermos of coffee and a plate of bacon and blueberry pancakes delivered to me this morning Yum. Kasey made the pancakes. Can't beat a sack of Krusteez pancake mix.

Monday

Enjoyed the football games yesterday. I didn't really have favorites, but kind of lean toward the Packers.

The track pad on this computer is behaving better. (Like your joke about the jumping mouse, Hank!). On the "pointing device" page, I found a setting to "disable gestures", whatever that is. So I disabled it. The cursor behaves better now, but it is still a little hard to control. I know all track pads are different, and I will just have to get used to it.

Hmmm - wonder what got into me? I subscribed to Newsweek on my Kindle. Am still struggling through the first issue. Yes, I know it's good for me.

Ok, you can all laugh at me. I finished this pencil drawing yesterday (I thought) and photographed it this morning. It wasn't until I saw it on the computer screen that I realized the doe only has three legs. Back to the drawing board.

Sunday Drawing

This is Cat's dog, Rant. It's not complete yet, but I need to let it rest a while and decide what more I need to do. I hate the paper I used. It doesn't take the pencil pigment well. So Rant, "Sit" "Stay", boy. I'll get back to you later.

I actually have the TV on today. The QVC cooking show is on, but for no special reason. I just don't want to forget the football game starts soon.

The touch pad on my new computer is driving me nuts. The cursor jumps all over the screen. Maybe I'll read and see if I need to adjust something.

The wind is blowing again. So what else is new?

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Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?

Why is the third hand on a watch called the "second hand"?

Friday

Now playing on my iPod, Chris Le Deux, "Five Dollar Fine for Whining".


Yes, I was young once! This is a photo of me with a group of friends floating the Snake. We are in the Lunch Counter Rapids. Judy Bogle is at the front of the raft. The other people are staff from the Learning Center in Jackson.

Just discovered I've only got one Chris LeDeaux song on my iPod. Wonder how that happened? The songs are on my computer, but somehow I didn't get the playlist set up correctly.

When I was dowloading (pirating) songs from the Internet, I tried to find the music I had on old vinyl records, you know, like the Columbia Record Club, or whatever it was? So it wasn't really pirating, was it?

Anyway, I have a bunch of old Nancy Sinatra songs, Johnny Cash Burl Ives, Sons of the Pioneers, Peter, Paul and Mary, etc.

Have a Web Cam on this computer. I turned it on last night for KC, and we about died laughing at her watch herself on the screen. She kept trying to hide from it, but then would come back to look.

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Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

Doing well with getting the new computer up and running. Even got my MS Office activated. It has been installed on several computers (now dead) so had to do it over the phone. Never talked to a real person, but the nice mechanical lady got me taken care of.

Poor Barrie had to find the CDs for the programs I needed to install. I hate to tell her there are some more I need.

I always think I'm never going to get a movie uploaded, but I hope this is here. KC is going on with her dance class, and last night showed me some animal imitations. Hope her mother doesn't see her jumping around with a sucker in her mouth.

She came upstairs a couple nights ago and asked me I wanted some rice (Barrie was cooking). I told her "No, but save me some leftovers, and I'll eat them tomorrow." So she went down and told her mom. Barrie told her to come ask me if I needed anything else, and Kasey said, "I'll ask her tomorrow."

I was able to get my Kindle to connect to the internet by making my home network unsecured. Couldn't before, because my old laptop wouldn't connect unless the network was secured. So now, if you park in my driveway, I guess you can use my broadband.