Friday

Our Internet didn't improve any overnight. I finally went downstairs to the desktop and unplugged the router for a while. When I hooked it back up, everything worked perfectly, and we have our fast Internet connection back. What was I thinking? That was one of the first things I learned when we put in DSL and the home network. Reset the darned router!

Tracy and Paul celebrated their anniversary at a condo in Aspen. She sent me this picture to show me how much Daisy enjoyed the condo!

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I have ambition today! I thought I would clean up the kitchen a bit, but am not sure about that job. Since our hot water heater has been replaced, our water is not so hot, so Barrie is washing dishes before she puts them in the dishwasher. So I can't tell if I should clean out the dishwasher or not.

Maybe I'll put the new duvet on the comforter. It's a king sized down comforter, so it is a job wrestling the new cover on it.

It is 64 degrees upstairs this morning. I left my windows open last night.

Be sure to check out the "Old Picture of the Day" Blog. Link is on the left of this page.
A picture of my dad, grandfather, and great uncles is featured today.

Thursday

We just barely have internet. Some things won't load, and if the page loads, it takes about 15 minutes. So I'm not going to fight it and try to post anything.

Nothing much to write about:

I'm thankful that I don't live in London, and that I live in Pinedale, and that I totally got out of the stock market a few years ago.

I owned some stock in Crocs (shoes) once. Got in at the perfect time, and at one time, had a $10,000 profit. Yeah, really. But I didn't sell then, because I hadn't held it long enough, so the tax on the profit would have been high. So I held on until the day the stock dropped $25 a share. I finally sold, no profit, but no loss, either. I had fun playing around with investing for several years, but it holds no interest for me any more.

I have no interest in anything political or financial. In fact, I don't even reconcile my bankstatement any more.

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I called Doug Strike, and he is going to come look at my dead pine trees today. Barrie had thought maybe she could do it, with her dad's help, but we think now it is a job for a professional.

The branches of the big tree are drooping. Barrie lopped off some of the lower ones so we can get in the front yard. The tree is really disintegrating. When the wind blows, little pieces of it are all over the font yard. Very messy.

A couple more drawings from the old sketchbook, the ex, and a seashell.

Monday

Barrie had to work a little while yesterday afternoon. Kasey said she wasn't ready for a nap and told her mom "I'll go ask Grandma if she wants to paint."

The container of water is also Kat's drinking water. She was not happy with the color of her water!

After KC painted a while, she played on my bed for a time, then decided she was ready for a nap, went downstairs to her own room, and went to sleep.

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Fnished a book called "The Art of Racing in the Rain." yesterday. It's more or less about a race car driver whose wife dies of brain cancer, and grandparents try to get custody of his small daughter. What makes it interesting is that his dog is telling the story. And there's a fun "twist" ending.

Time to sharpen my pencil and get back to the drawing.

Sunday

This is Kasey's new hat. Pretty fancy - all those sequins.

Barrie says this is why she won't let Kasey dress herself for school. Kasey found the shoes at a garage sale and wanted them. She loves to stomp around the house in them.

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Barrie vaccinated the puppies today, and Kasey told her Mom she wanted a shot too, so she wouldn't get sick.

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Watched the movie "Fatal Attraction" last night. I thought I had probably seen it before, years ago, but I had never seen it before. Scary movie!

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Made a big pot of beans and a loaf of sour dough beer bread last night. Had a big slab of warm bread and a bowl of beans. Made the beans in the pressure cooker, and the bread in the bread machine.

I took the sour dough jug out of the refrigerator and "fed it". (Added flour and water). Barrie came home and found it on the kitchen counter. She poured the sour dough into a clean bowl and thoroughly scrubbed the sour dough jug. Hmmm. I thought sour dough jugs were supposed to be grungy. But I admit mine was pretty bad.

Saturday

Haven't completed anything, but here is what is in progress, a pencil drawing of Kat.

Some items from the old memory box. The tallest of these figurines is the rooster, he's about 1 1/2 inches tall. Some are glass, some are plastic, and the little bear might be ivory. There are actually 2 little Scotty dogs, the other is black and was hiding under the edge of a piece of paper when I set them up for the picture. The little dogs were originally magnets, put out by the Black and White Scotch company as advertising.

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I'm going to start closing some windows at night. It's cold up here in the mornings! I think summer is over.

I'm reading the book "Giant" by Edna Ferber. It is very different from the movie.

Thursday

A Calvin cartoon to brighten your day.

This is one of my favorite photos. I took it several years ago. These cows were in a corral right in front of the old Daniel Schoolhouse. I couldn't have arranged them or posed them any better.

The resident elf here cleaned my upstairs while I was out yesterday. Cleaned the bathroom, including littler box, vacuumed, and emptied the trash. What do I do to deserve that kind of treatment? Pretty nice.

Wednesday

Finished - maybe, maybe not. I'll have to look at it for a while to decide. I think I need a few leaves on the branches of the quakies.

Karma likes flowers. It's hard to imagine these roly poly little pups will grow up to be lean, mean, running machines.

Kasey and Karma in one of the dog boxes in the horse trailer, which is now their temporary home. They are starting to fuss about it. They want out in the yard.

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Darci visited us during art time at Rendezvous Pointe this morning. She had her three cute kids with her. She resigned in May because she is expecting her fourth, and just found out it is a girl. Now she'll have two of each. I taught Darci in kindergarten, and she's still a cute kid!

Tuesday

Beautiful sunny day today. My Yahoo weather forecast says 30% chance of rain this afternoon.


Maddy and Shorty have a green nylon rope they play tug of war with. I think Kasey is a little out of her league here. She kind of got thrown around a bit, but she hung on. When the dogs finished with the rope, Kasey kept dragging it around, trying to get them to play with her again.

The pups are getting so playful.

Kasey and Kori
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I watched the movie "Sabrina" the other day. I don't usually watch remakes of old films, but I was never much of an Audrey Hepburn fan. The new one has Harrison Ford in it. I enjoyed it.

I am reading Steinbeck's "Cannery Row". Another book I should have read before, but didn't. In the past few months, I've read "Grapes of Wrath" (which I have read before), "Of Mice and Men", and "Travels with Charley". Steinbeck sure had a way with words.

So quiet here. No music, just the sound of rain on the roof. Wonder how long the power will be off?

This was the funny picture of the day on my computer.

It remindedme of this picture I took several years ago of a dog that lived next to me. He wanted to see out, so he ate the window blinds.

Barrie took Karma to Kasey's day care this morning, and Kasey had "show and tell". Barrie said KC told the kids all about their sled dogs, and how she was going to race them some day.