Thursday

I didn't even get to take my own bag to art group yesterday.  Kasey insisted on pulling it, then lowered the handle and grunted while she lifted it into the pickup.  (It's heavy.)  She did let me load it in the pickup when we went home.

We stopped at the Recycling Center when we came home.  Kasey loves to check  out the books box, and found one she wanted. 

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I read an article about the five oldest company logos, and the Levi Strauss familiar patch was one of them.  Most of the other logos seemed to be beer or liquor logos.

 

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There are ten men working on the concrete that was just poured this morning at the front entrance of the  new apartments.  I can tell you exactly what time these guys start work in the mornings, because of the blasted beep-beep-beeps that sound every time they put something in reverse.

 

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I just received my new dish drainer and new silverware tray for the drawer.  I figure I have used that old dish drainer for at least thirty years.  It's got to be full of old germs, bacteria, and stuff.  The silverware tray was pretty, but had open spaces where the silverware just slid out. 

 







Tuesday

I will be going to art group in style tomorrow.  I bought a rolling bag to carry all my supplies.  I never had one before because I would have to navigate two flights of stairs with it.  Not impossible, but just not worth the trouble.  Am looking forward to packing it up and using it.

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Kasey asked me this morning if I had ever heard of Tarzan.  She is watching a Tarzan cartoon on Netflix.  I imagine  most people have some recollection of the history of Tarzan.  I Googled him to refresh my mind.  I'm sure that kids would be amazed to know that he was a fictional character invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912 in magazine articles, and later in numerous books, radio, TV and movies.  Tarzan has come a long way since 1912! I just ordered the series of 8 books by Burroughs for my Kindle for 99¢. 

 

There is even a book named "Erotic Adventures of Jane in the Jungle".  NOT by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

 

 

I looked up to see this little guy staring at me from my living room window.  He later jumped down on the ground, and I saw one of his parents come in and feed him. 

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Do you ever need to type the symbol for degrees, or how about the ¢ sign?  I keep this chart on my desktop and refer to it every now and then to type those special symbols that aren't on the keyboard.

Monday

When I turned the water on in the kitchen sink yesterday, the sprayer blasted me in the face.  I fiddled with it and even tried WD40, but it was stuck open.  Ken came in this morning, and replaced it with a new one.

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I looked out this morning to see a big swallowtail butterfly feeding at the humming bird feeder.  Wish I had been quick enough to get a picture of it.  Kasey brought the feeder in later, we washed it and filled it with a fresh solution.  After she took it back out, a humming bird came to feed.  I might get hummingbirds yet this summer.

 

A very lazy day, all I have done is read.  I went through my files and found two pictures I took during the month of July in years past, and decided to use them on my blog just to make it a little more interesting.

 

 

 Sunset one July evening from my yard.

 

This is the only good photo I ever got of the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row.  But now that I look at it, I realize it had to have been taken in the fall. 

 



Sunday

 

Judi asked for a picture of "snow on the mountain".  It about 8 inches tall, and does great here.  It spreads, and sometimes even chokes out grass.  It makes a wonderful ground cover.  Some of the plants send up a nondescript flower stem.  I have a large patch of it at the house. 

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Oh Dear!  Poor Mr. Joyful, the balloon man, is wasting away.  I don't think he's long for this world.

 

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I just put some banana muffins in the oven.  The batter was much thicker than I thought it should be, but what do I know?  I've never made very good muffins.

 

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Four of the five caterpillars are hanging from the top of the cup and turning into a chrysalis.  The last one is alive, but hasn't gone to the top yet.  Kasey will be so surprised when she sees them.



Saturday

 

This columbine is growing on the north side of the building.  It is the only one, and growing in a thick patch of snow-on-the-mountain. 

 

 

When I went out to take a picture of the columbine, Missy and her owner came by on their walk.  Well, Missy walks, anyway - her owner doesn't.  I'm not a fan of French Poodles, but this little dog is very friendly. 

 

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Kevin finished assembling my new bathroom shelves.  Now I can't seem to figure out how to get the towel rack out, which is where I want to put the shelves.  Would you believe there are at least a dozen YouTube videos on the Internet on how to remove a towel bar?  I just don't want to damage the wall too badly, so maybe I'll wait and have Kevin damage it. Then he can fix it!

 

 

They are doing a lot of work on the exterior of the new apartments, putting on siding and the rock face on the front.  Still haven't put the metal roof on this part, though. 

 

And I am still swaying, stay or go?  I hate the idea of moving, but it is tempting. 

 

 

No one would believe this if I told them, so I took a picture to prove it.  My cat really does like me a little bit.  My feet is where she chose to take a nap this morning!  That would be nice in the winter, but I don't think I can count on it being a regular occurrence.









Thursday

On this day in 2007:

 

This picture was taken from my back yard.  Who remembers this event?  It was during the fires up Horse Creek, and sometimes there was so much smoke in town the streetlights turned on.

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A lazy day for me today.  No Kasey, the apartment has been cleaned, and I have a good book and a new movie.  Also, listening to Tom T. Hall on my iPod.

 

 



This brings back memories.  I hope Ronnie's teacher gives this to Ronnie's mother, confidentially,  to put in his baby book.  It's a keeper.

When I was teacher, one of my little kindergarten girls brought me a note.  It said to excuse her from recess because it was so cold outside.  It was so obviously written by her second grade sister! I saved it and gave it to her parents when they came to conference.  I made them promise to not even mention it to the girls, but to save it and show it to them when they were adults. 

And yes, the little girl went outside for recess that morning, because I had recess duty and told her she had to go with me!

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Wednesday

Kasey and I went to art group this morning.  Two of Judi's grand daughters from Texas were there too.  The girls were all so good - sat at the tables and worked on art projects.  They did go out and play ping pong in the big room for a little while.

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We decided to make these "spaghetti dogs" for lunch.  This picture is NOT what we made.  Ours didn't turn out quite so well.

 

 

KC is inserting a strand of spaghetti into a piece of hot dog.  I should have put them in a large pot to boil, but instead I put them in a gadget that cooks pasta in the microwave.  I wasn't able to cover them with enough water.  But it worked.

 

 

And this was the best way we could figure out to eat them.  It worked fine, and we had a fun lunch.

 

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I was watching the men work over at the new apartments over the weekend.  It appears the "hard hat" rule doesn't apply on weekends.  They were wearing shorts and ball caps.

  







Tuesday

It will be a quiet day today, as Kasey is going to work with her mom.

She brought a package of balloons yesterday, and that pretty much occupied her day.  She can blow them up by herself, but has a hard time tying the end.  I finally made her quit because her index finger (the one she wraps the end around) was turning black from cutting off the circulation.

I tied a few for her, and this is what she created.

 

She named him "Mr. Joyfull".

After that, she decided she wanted to make water balloons, but we couldn't figure out how to get water in the balloons.  I'm sure I have made them in the past, but didn't have a clue how to get the water in and the air out!  She squirted water all over the bathroom, and I squirted water all over the kitchen, trying to use the faucet.  She finally went outside with some balloons and her water bottle and discovered she could squeeze (or stomp on) the water bottle to force water in the balloon.  She finally got four small water balloons made.

Afterwards, I googled how to make water balloons, and that is exactly the way they showed it on a couple of YouTube videos.

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Barrie took this picture through the windshield of her pickup at the gate she has to open to get to her dog lot.  Yes, those are hungry mosquitoes.

Sunday

 

Kasey and Barrie took me out for breakfast to Rock Rabbit this morning. Had a very yummy breakfast burrito.  I've never eaten in there before. 

It's been a very  long time since I used to buy Tracy "Buster Brown" socks and pants in the upstairs of that building (old Variety Store". 

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 Yay!  I had one hummingbird at the feeder late yesterday afternoon.  She kept coming back to it until it got dark, but I haven't seen her today. 

 

This morning Kat was watching something on the ground out the window.  When I stood up to look, I saw a little mouse-like creature duck out from under the bush and back under again.  I just got a glimpse, so I'm not sure what it was.  Could have been a vole, but I think they are smaller.  Kat would be in seventh heaven if we had mice get in the building!

 

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Kasey took her dead butterfly home with her.  Meanwhile, the caterpillars are growing, and are very active.   

 



Friday

I'm pretty sure the big swallowtail butterfly is dead, but the five little caterpillars we got are very active.  When they are all in the pupa stage, we will take them out of the little cup and put them in the butterfly house.  The little cup has fabric across the top, and when they are all hanging on that, we will take it out and hang it in the top of the butterfly house.

Judi found a butterfly book for KC at the Food Basket, and brought it by this morning. What a thoughtful friend!

 

This is such a good thought, but somehow, I can't seem to incorporate it into my life!

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Just finished a leftover lunch.  Things from the refrigerator that don't even go together.  Threw more leftovers in the garbage, and really need to get the trash out of my kitchen now.  Yes, some things had a little white fuzzy stuff growing.

 

 

Kasey was here yesterday afternoon and decided she wanted to take her box outside.  She played with it over an hour.  Of course all the scotch tape came loose.  She decided she wanted some duct tape.

 

I think that symbol on the Amazon boxes means "this side up", but to me, it looks like a smiley face.