Friday

Now playing on my iPod, Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots are Made for Walkin':

No Black Friday shopping for me.  I ordered two new art books online yesterday.  Besides, where would I go shopping?  Ridleys?

I finished this watercolor of a buffalo yesterday.  Maybe he needs more shadow under him.  I wanted to paint some sagebrush, but couldn't pull it off.

A couple years ago, Barrie, Kasey and I were in West Yellowstone for a sled dog race.  We were in the race headquarters for the drivers' meeting, and there was a mounted buffalo head on the wall.  Some woman from Minnesota had Kasey on her lap and was talking to her.  She pointed to the buffalo head, and told Kasey, "See the bison?  That's a bison."

Kasey looked at her like she was nuts and said "That's a buffalo." 

Chloe came to visit yesterday and finished off the dish of cat food.  Kat watched her, then reached out with her front paw and swatted Chloe on the head.  Chloe laid her ears back, but didn't pay any more attention to her.

Thursday

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

Tuesday

Am I off the hook, Roger? Here are some pictures of Kasey.

Kasey is reading "The Pokey Little Puppy" on my iPad.

And now for Grover and "The Monster at the End of This Book.  For the fourteenth or fifteenth time.  The Grover book is interactive - she can tickle his tummy, or touch the knots he tied so sho couldn't trun the page, and the knots come undone.  She loves it, and Grover is very loud, and I needed a break from him.



Looks like I put Barrie in the dryer and shrunk her.

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As soon as I finished the order for a new lapatop and came upstairs, I tried this one again, and it booted right up.  And it ran better and faster than it has for a long time.  Hmmm, kind of spooky, don't you think?  I saw a movie once where a computer had human traits.  It's almost like this one was telling me, Okay, I'll be good.  I didn't turn it off after that - left it in sleep mode all night.

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Kasey came running upstairs the other night to tell me Chloe was here.  She was so excited.  Barrie heard a cat in the garage and thought it was probably her, couldn't get her to come out of hiding.  She was up in the loft of the garage.  So she sent Kasey in the garage, Kasey called her, and Chloe came right to her.  We don't know how long she was in there, but she was kind of hungry and thirsty.

Kasey said "Chloe likes me, but Kat doesn't."  Don't feel bad, kiddo.  Kat doesn't like anybody.  Well that's not quite true.  She sleeps  on my feeet and rubs on my ankles, but she won't let me touch her.

Computer died

I just finished ordering a new laptop computer.  My laptop has died, dead, gone.  I'm going with a Dell this time, giving up on HP.  I've known for some time it was going down.  Wouldn't boot up sometimes, and was so slow,  When I was typing, it was always about five or six words behind me. 

Haven't decided yet whether to take it to Mike and see if it can be fixed.  Our other HP, the one Barrie uses, had a hard drive failure, just a couple of days after the warranty ran out.  Mike talked to HP and convinced them to send a new hard drive, free of charge. 

I did back up the files not long ago, so won't lose much.  But it's a hassle to reinstall programs.

Had a yard full of deer yesterday.  The front gate was open, and they came in, six or seven of them.  Something under the snow must have been really good.

The other deer left, and this poor little guy couldn't remember where the gate was where he came in.  He finally found it.

The magpies are still working on the rib cage of the deer on the ditchbank.



Sunday

A cold gray day outside. Looks like it wants to snow.
I am reading "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. That guy sure goes into detail.  For some reason, I thought that was the only book he wrote, but I checked on Amazon, and he's authored several books.  I was surprised to see he wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

I was looking through some National Geographic photos online the other day, and found this picture of a snowy owl.  Wow!  Breathtaking photo, isn't it?

XM Radio already has a channel for Christmas music.  I'm not listening, it's too early.  Besides, I have a playlist of my favorite Christmas songs on my iPod.  I just don't care much for most of the new music.  Give me Bing Crosby any day, singing "White Christmas".

Saturday

We had some new snow, and Barrie plowed our driveway.  She loves plowing snow, says all the other "snow plowers" wave at her.  Sounds like a good way to pick up guys, doesn't it?

Did another little 4" x 6" painting in the little Moleskine book.  I have only 12 pages left in the book.  Don't ask what that is on the right, because I don't have a clue.  Maybe a fence?

Poor kid was not "politically correct." 

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Had much better luck shopping on the Internet yesterday.  Found flannel pajamas at JC Penney for a reasonable price.  For some reason, I refuse to spend $70 or $80 for a pair of flannel pajamas.

Found the perfect bookshelf for upstairs.  I have books stacked on tables and corners of the room. 

Also found a boot rack I like.  It's wall mounted, holds four pair of boots upside down.  We can put it up right over the heater vent in the dining room. 

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I don't want to read any more media coverage about the scandal at Penn State, and no more "Occupy" stories.



Magazine cover

The Sublette County Magazine and Real Estate Guide has been printed, and one of my paintings is on the front cover.  Gives me a good feeling, and maybe a shot in the arm to get busy and keep my brushes wet!

 And Barrie has pictures and an article she wrote about dog sledding in the magazine.  We will probably have autograph seekers pounding at the front door!

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Tried to do some Internet shopping today.  Grrrr!  Finally ordered one pair of flannel pajamas.  Then I tried to find a coat rack.  I looked at hundreds of them, and was getting really frustrated.  The only ones I even half-way liked were two or three hundred dollars.  (We have some big nails in the basement.)

And then I got a brain fart, and found these neat looking coat hooks.  The wall is knotty pine, so they won't be hard to put up.  Barrie can do it easily with her handy dandy cordless drill.  (Notice I always say "Barrie will do it.") They won't be out in the room like a coat rack would be, and we can put boots and shoes on the floor under the hooks.  Still thinking about a boot rack. 

Thursday

This is the watercolor I started at Art Group yesterday.  It has possibilities.  I do a lot of pencil drawings of animals, but have never been able to paint them.  I figure the only way I will learn is to just jump in and do it.

I'm using my Daniel Smith watercolors again.  Just can't get used to them.

Les and I were the  only ones at art group, then Conley and Dorothy showed up.  Conley is working on a paining of a fish, Les was working on his Big Horn Sheep painting, and Dorothy is painting peppers, onions, etc. 

Barrie had the bakers rack from the dining room down in the driveway when I got home.  Gina wants it and said she would come pick it up today.

My nice neat dining room is already a mess.  Don't have a coat rack  or boot rack yet, so coats are hung on the backs of chairs, and boots and shoes are just there.  And I have a pile of magazines and cookbooks on a chair to go to the recycling center and/or the Food Basket.  And a large box was delivered by Big Brown yesterday, still sitting on the floor.  Why in the heck do I have so many cookbooks when I can't even cook?  And millions of recipes are available on the Internet anyway.

My flannel pajamas have a split on the back and another on a sleeve.  Guess I will get on the Internet and find some new flannel pajamas today.  Also look for coat racks and boot rack.  By the time I'm done with all that shopping, I will probably just have to relax with a good book and watch it snow.

Tuesday

This will be a quick post.  Have nothing to say, and no pictures to post.

Barrie and Kasey got home yesterday, and the boyfriend left with Barrie's bootprint on his rear.  Oh well.  Barrie is okay, she says she likes her dogs better anyway.

Beautiful sunny day today.  Barrie plowed snow all day.  She's plowing and shoveling different properties all over town.  There are plenty of places to clean, but she would rather plow snow. She's related to her father.

More or less got caught up on the word count for the book today.  I'm about half way through, and have run out of story.  Time to dig deeper.

I'm so ready to read or watch a movie.  I thought about cooking, but maybe tomorrow.  I think Barrie will make our "Ridley's Run" tomorrow.  I have a list, and big plans.

Monday

Got to get the furnace fixed!  I had to go to the basement yesterday afternoon and start it, and again this morning.  Have a gas  log fireplace in the living room that needs cleaned or adjusted or something, and same with my gas log stove upstairs.  Brrr. My hands are cold. Kat is following the patches of sunshine around on the floor, making sure she sleeps in the sun.

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The interstsate was closed for a while yesterday, and no light trailer traffic allowed.  So Barrie and Kasey did not come home yesterday.  She called last night. Kasey talked to  me and asked if I got anything new for the iPad.

Tracy called yesterday, and wanted suggestions for Kasey for Christmas.  I told  her KC liked little tiny things.  We were both on our computers, and Tracy found this fun stuff on Amazon.  She was sort of looking for Polly Pockets.

These are some  of The Littlest Pet Shop critters.  Tracy got  her the 10 piece collectors starter kit.

And I got her a little pink car and a tree house for her critters.  

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Don't worry any more about Pinedale power outages, because I have fixed it.  I finally remembered to bring my little battery powered lantern upstairs, so if I'm now ready for it, we know the power won't be going off.