Wednesday

When Kasey arrived after swimming yesterday, the first thing she wanted to do was watch "The Wizard of Oz" again.  I think she enjoyed it even more the second time around!  There's a reason that movie has been around since 1939.

I read on the Internet that there were 127 midgets on the cast as the Munchkins, and twelve children. 

I put KC on the iPad so I could use the computer.

Kasey helped me make chocolate chip cookies to take to art group today. It's a wonder there were any chocolate chips left in the cookie dough by the time we got them in the oven.  She kept picking them out and eating them.

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Hugh took several art classes in Tucson last winter, and brought some of his work to share with us.

 





Tuesday

Kasey came to spend the afternoon with me after she had her swimming lesson yesterday.  We had a wonderful afternoon.

 

She had a peanut butter sandwich in her backpack for lunch, but I was fixing my "brunch".  So KC helped me make biscuits.  Then she sat down and ate a biscuit, a slice of ham, and two helpings of cooked carrots.   She said, "Grandma, your cooking isn't always bad."

I had met a woman last week who just moved in, and she had a French Poodle, which her Granddaughter was walking for her.  So KC and I went to her apartment, and KC asked her if she could walk her dog for her. 

Good grief!  I talk to my cat, and my granddaughter is walking ugly little dogs!  What's next?  Kasey will be here again this afternoon, and I'm sure she will want to go walk the dog.

Then we watched "The Wizard of Oz" together on the computer. After she read to me, KC was  getting squirmy, so when her mom came to pick her up, I had her outside running up and down the sidewalk as fast as she could go.

Monday

 
 
I visited with Tracy yesterday.  They had been camping and came home to their new backsplash in the kitchen. CLASSY!  Now, if they could get water and electricity in the kitchen, they would be in business.    

 
Kasey told me they got her aquarium moved to her bedroom, and she put a new seashell in it.  So I gave her a shell that had been in with some stuff I moved here.  I love the way she wears her helmet at that rakish angle.  Reminds me of a local cowboy I won't name.
 

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I called Dr. Glenn's office to get the name of the doctor she recommends  in Rock Springs for cataract surgery, but she's not in on Mondays.  I am ready to do it.  I know I can't see very well any more, and there's no point in waiting.

 



 



 

 Don't bug me!



Saturday

Aha!  I have found the culprit that is messing up Blogger.  Seems there are ads right above the Blogger bar, which I don't remember seeing until recently.  And those ads are the ones that won't go to the background when I am editing or writing a new blog.  They cover up all the formatting options.  Today I noticed the ads load just a little slower then the blog text, and when it loads, some of my words turn white!  I messed around a little with the ad banner and discovered it is little app that was somehow installed on my computer.  I went to the Control Panel, found the program, and removed it.  I have no idea how it got on my computer.  You have to be so darned careful about what you download, and this snuck in on me.

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The deer was here again this morning.  She ate, scratched an itch, and laid down for a while.  Taking a picture of wildlife in front of a brick wall is a little disconcerting.

 

 

 

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 I never even knew there was a National Cowboy Day!

 

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Barrie and Kasey stopped by yesterday.  Barrie hung up the big metal sun for me, and changed the location of the Navajo rug I had on the living room wall.  Now I have a place to put up some of my own work.

 

Barrie is feeling better.  She had quit her job to go to Montana, and then Pinedale Properties sold that part of their business.  Chauncey came to see her yesterday and wants her to come back to work, so she is still employed. 

 

 

 

 



Friday

I just read Albert's article on the Common Core State Standards for education.  I respect Albert's view on this.  He has a lot of common sense.  Too bad we don't have more people in government with common sense.
 

 
I found this on the Internet.  The truth!  I once found a quote in the Casper paper years ago that said you can't make a calf gain weight by weighing him.  I made it into a poster and put it up in the teachers' room at school.  The Superintendent happened to be in the building the next week, and took the poster down.  I guess he had no sense of humor!
 

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Kasey brought my NYPD baseball cap for me last weekend.  My son-in-law Paul got this for me several years ago.  I was wearing it while driving through the Fremont Lake Campground.  I stopped to ask the campground host a question, and she said "Oh, you're from New York!  I've always wanted to go to New York!"  I wonder if she thought I was a cop?
 
 

Thursday

Blogger is being weird.  Maybe it's just on my computer, but some of the words don't show up after I publish.  They are there, they are just white.  And when I try to edit, the advertisements overlay the editing page, so it's difficult to see what I am doing. 

They had a wonderful ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the new apartments, and served a free lunch to a good sized crowd.  I went to Ridley's after art group, then when I got home, I took off my shoes, and my feet wouldn't allow me to put them back on.  So I missed it.

 

 

No deer came to eat outside my window yesterday, but Rollie and Judi did!

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Wednesday

 

This is what I was doing yesterday while the residents here gathered for a cocktail party.  Darn!  Missed it again. (Freudian slip??)  I decided I had placed my bedroom furniture wrong.  I had a huge space in the middle of the floor I wasn't using for anything.  By trading the bed and dresser around, the bed takes up most of that space, and it all looks more "put together".  The bed wasn't that hard to push around, but I had to take all the drawers out of the dresser before I could move it. I had already moved it before I remembered to take this picture.  It is behind the headboard of the bed.

Stay tuned tomorrow.  I'll post a photo of what I ended up with.

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The deer returned yesterday afternoon, and brought a friend with her.  This magpie followed her around, and finally just jumped up on her back. 

 

I've been told the groundskeepers here sometimes spray the plants with something that is offensive to deer and moose.  I think I'll protest.  They are constantly trying to come with activities to keep the residents from being bored and lonely.  Why not encourage the deer and moose to come in and look in the windows at them.  I bet no one would be bored by that!  I'd much rather watch a deer or moose up close than play Bingo.

 

That 's the reason I have said I don't want to be buried in the Pinedale cemetery - they have fenced all the deer and moose out. 

 

 





Tuesday

My friend Judi is a first class detective.  She has located Marvin, or at least someone who says she knows where he is.  Marvin is wrapped up and inside the Road & Bridges building at the Daniel Y. She also found the story about how Marvin came to be.  See her blog for the link. 

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I made a pizza (from scratch) yesterday.  So I had pizza for breakfast this morning, and will probably have pizza tonight.  And maybe tomorrow for lunch?  It was good, but not that good!

 

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I haven't seen the buck that was hanging around here lately, but this pretty little doe rested for a while outside my window, after trimming some of the flowers and bushes.  Maybe she has a fawn stashed somewhere near.

 

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I just ripped up a watercolor painting I started a while back.  I always use Arches watercolor paper, but am having problems with the 11" x 14" block.  The paper buckles when it gets wet, and doesn't flatten again.  I guess I will have to wet it, stretch it, and staple it to my board before I can paint on it.

 







So where the heck IS Marvin?

Judi posted on Facebook wondering if anyone knew the location of Marvin.  There was  plenty of speculation, but it appears no one knows for certain where Marvin is.  (See yesterday's blog.) Maybe someone should notify the Sheriff's Department that Marvin is missing!

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There was a plastic bag under the art table I thought contained things that needed to be put away in the medicine cabinet.  When I emptied it this morning, I found my missing mechanical pencils, my missing pocket knife, and some more items from the art room.  I knew these things would turn up, because I already have a new pocket knife and two new mechanical pencils.

 

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Kasey is showing me where she lost two teeth. 

 

A lean, mean, pedaling machine! 

 

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It got very warm here yesterday - in the 80's, but I never even turned the fan on.  For some reason, my apartment never got too hot.  Nice.

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So, will someone please tell me why I have a sense of accomplishment when I make a list, when I haven't really accomplished anything?



 

 





Saturday

My blog yesterday sparked a discussion about "Marvin".  Remember Marvin, the controversial large sculpture of a cowboy's head that was full of holes.  Many didn't consider the sculpture "art" at all, and I have to admit I wasn't real impressed with him.  There was a debate whether or not to leave him out in view, and eventually he was stored "somewhere" while they were landscaping or something.

Well, Marvin never appeared in public again in Pinedale, and some of us are wondering what became of him.  Betty thought maybe he was in Big Piney, maybe at the fairgrounds?

Anyone know where Marvin is?

 
Poor Marvin!  Gone but not forgotten!

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"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"   On this day in 1969.  I remember watching this on TV when I was in summer school in Laramie.  First step on the moon!