Thursay

These little tomatoes are growing in my dining room window. Pretty tasty. There's supposed to be a pepper plant in there, and I see it's got one bloom on it. But I think it's been kind of crowded out by the tomatoes. This is in one of those AeroGrow gardens. I'm going to Colorado for the weekend to see Paul and Tracy. Charmian is going to Frisco (CO) to see some friends, and invited me to ride along.

A long time ago, I used to enjoy a cartoon in the newspaper, but couldn't think what it was called. Thanks to dreaming about it and Google, I found a few samples of the cartoon. "Droodles" (doodle/riddles) were created in the 1950s by humorist Roger Price.

Maybe no one else sees the humor in these, but they still make me laugh.

A ship coming too late to rescue a drowning witch.

Four elephants sniffing an orange.

An egg, sunny side down.

A worm on roller skates.

A pig coming out of the fog.

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What is this from?

"Keep your stick on the ice."

Tuesday

I,m sure this is at least a six foot fence. Maybe more.

This is Panda, Barrie's newest dog. This reminds me of those pits or whatever they call them - that kids skate board in

I tried to upload a video Barrie took from her dog sled the other day, but I finally gave up. Maybe the file is too large. She posted it on Facebook. Maybe I will too.

Barrie sent Kasey upstairs to ask me if I was hungry. When Kasey came up, she started telling me about a dead bird at Grandad's house and forgot about breakfast. Barrie gave up and just yelled to me upstairs.

She fixed me a wonderful plate of sausage, eggs, and hash browns. I showed my appreciation by dribbling egg yolk down the front of my shirt.

Monday

Judi had a picture of these mailboxes up Horse Creek, and I knew I had an old photo somewhere. I finally found it, and you'll never guess where - yeah, in the basement. I have an antique oak dresser down there that was my grandmothers. Seems Barrie filled one of the drawers with good stuff

Had my own darkroom back then, and I think probably Barrie developed the film and printed this herself. The mailbox on the left is for Boroff, Roberts, and Thompson. A couple of them are old refrigerators.

I had these two pen and ink drawings in frames. I decided today to take them out of the frames and put in some of the colored pencil drawings I did of Barrie's sled dogs. Maybe Barrie will hang them up.

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Barrie and I actually cooked together last night. She fried hamburger steaks, and I made fresh french fries. Yumm - peeled and cut up the potatoes and fried them in my deep fryer. What? Eating healthy you say? Forget it!

Saturday

Some time ago, I asked Cat for a good photo of Rant, one of her sheep guard dogs. I finished this colored pencil drawing of him and put it up on the wall in the Art Room at Rendezvous Pointe. I e-mailed Cat and told her it was there. She went in to look at it and nabbed it.

She posted this drawing to Stephen Bodio's blog (she is a regular contributor there.) Here's the link if you would like to see Stephen's blog and see what Cat wrote about the picture.

Nice compliment!

http://stephenbodio.blogspot.com/2011/03/rants-work-of-art.html

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What a hard day I've had! Had to go downstairs and make my own coffee. Then I found the WD40 and sprayed the plunger on my water spray bottle. Then I made some changes on my playlists and synchronized my iPod.

Maybe I'll make my bed . . . . later.

Friday

Barrie took her camera with her when she and Kasey went to feed the dogs yesterday. I stole some pictures.

There's a small girl child in there somewhere.

Notice the frost on Jarvi's hair.

Kasey and Tank.

Kasey and Nellie.

Kasey and Moose. He looks like he's enjoying this.

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My uncle Bill (Mom's brother) died yesterday in Torrington. He would have been 98 this summer. He ranched all his life. He gave up his ranch at Hawk Springs and was living in a nursing home in Torrington.

Now playing on my iPod, Bobbie Gentry, "Ode to Billy Joe".

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I've never understood that song. What did she and Billy Jo throw off the Tallahache Bridge? So I googled it. First, Bobbie Gentry admitted she did't have anything in mind when she wrote the song. She didn't even know what they threw off. The most popular idea seemed to be a baby. But now I find they made a movie of this. Billy Jo was black, and he was gay.

Okay, I'm not sure I want to know any more about the story.

A long time ago, I visited Paul and Tracy when they lived in Aspen. President Bush and Margaret Thatcher came to town, and I bought this commenorative envelope. I stood out on the highway and watched the cars come in. I'm sure Bush and Thatcher were in one of the black limosines, but the windows are dark and you can't see in them.

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Got my income tax finished and e-filed today. I think I better rest now.

The people in the humor writing class have talked about a writer named Dave Barry. I downloaded one of his books to my Kindle and finished it last night. I laughed all the way through it. The name of the book I read is "Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys." It's a good read.

New Artwork on display

Vicky's beautiful rabbit.

Terry's colors in her snow picture are incredible.

Wow! Linda just whipped this one out during art group this morning. She should be proud.

Les has three beautiful oil paintings up on the wall.

Isn't this a gorgeous fish? Another one of Conley's paintings.

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My horoscope just told me in so many words to stop shopping. Darn! I want a new tube of paint - that beautiful red color Linda used on her bird.

Took this picture out my upstairs window yesterday. Typical spring day in Pinedale, right? I think Winnie the Pooh would describe this as a "blustery" day.

And she's not even Irish! Kasey tells me that Mamma painted her nails green because everyone would pinch her if she wasn't wearing pink and green.

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Tracy called yesterday. She and Paul are planning their summer trip to Pinedale the 4th of July week, and have a campsite at the lake reserved. While we were talking, she was on her computer and reserved a campsite for me the last week in August. They had that site reserved last year, and then weren't able to come. So Barrie put a tent up, and she and Kasey stayed up there, and I went up during the days.

Judi spent some time up there too. Maybe this year some of us can get together and do some pleine air painting .

When I told Kasey we had the campsite, she informed me we can't go camping until it quits snowing.

Monday March 21

Now playing on XM Radio - Alabama, "If You're Gonna Play in Texas, You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band."

First Day of Spring

A lot of noise and laughter was coming from downstairs, so of course I had to get down there and check it out. Kasey and Barrie were telling Jarvi to "bring the boots." Barrie and I used to do this with her when she was just a pup.

Barrie's big white Sorrels were in the bathroom. Jarvi brought gloves, hats, toys and whatever else she could find. When she finally brought one boot, we all cheered and clapped for her. After she brought the second boot, she laid down and panted. Poor old girl! She's still a pup at heart, even though she's 15.

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The ABC News on my Yahoo page listed three news items, all videos.

• Watch: Child Killed in Family Park Accident
• Watch: College Student Gets Sucker Punched
• Watch: Tiger Woods New Girl Friend

I think I can live without watching any of those.