Laci ended up in the emergency room last night, she did indeed have strep throat--they loaded her full of antibiotics, steroids and pain pills and she was taken back to her room to sleep. Her roommate Tasha was wonderful in deciding that Laci did indeed need to see a doctor and notifying the Air Force powers in charge.
So, we changed our plans and decided to meet up with her for breakfast which we did about 8:30. Then we said our sad goodbyes--my heart hurts to send her off to that god forsaken country to help fight a war we should never have entered into in the first place. Michael and I totally support our military. This war was a mistake and the lives of many of our military men and women are being lost for an effort that will not have success--where will it end.
Tonight we pray that Laci and other persons in the military will be returned safe to us and their families.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
A Day In Cheyenne
The plan was for Laci to do her Air Force stuff this morning and then call me. I would pick Laci and a friend up at the Holiday Inn and we would go have lunch and go shopping. When I arrived at the HI about 11am, only Laci got in the car and her first question to me was, "Grandma, what does strep throat feel like?" She had white patches on the back of her throat and could hardly swallow, was achy all over and probably had a temperature. Back to the RV for antibiotics, to lunch for some soup and then I took her back to the Holiday Inn to rest. She has a meeting at 5:30pm and then we will go and say our goodbyes. Poor kid, she is miserable and will be flying for 30 hours around the world starting tomorrow afternoon.
I came back out to Larry and Joyce's to find Michael eating ice cream. He and Larry had had no luck in finding an air conditioner cover to replace the one we lost on the way down yesterday. So, we spent the afternoon being bums and it was wonderful. I was asleep on the couch and the rain blowing in the window woke me up--rain was blowing in everywhere.
I was going to make Laci a going away dinner of steaks, potatoes and her favorite salad of mine--lettuce, almonds, mandarin oranges and homemade poppy seed dressing but those plans went by the wayside and now Larry, Joyce, Mike and I will enjoy the above.
Larry and Joyce's Scooter--when we were all down in San Antonio, TX Scooter and Jazz were not fond of each other.
Pete the cat made himself right at home on our steps.
Larry and Joyce have a beautiful home in the country outside Cheyenne.
Emmi and Scooter liked each other.
When we were leaving last night with Laci, Mike noticed a pack rat leaping down out of our engine compartment, the rat must have ridden all the way from Montana with us. We watched with dismay as he jumped up and back into our engine compartment. Well, this morning, Larry came out of the garage carrying a live trap containing a very unhappy pack rat. Larry keeps the trap baited with cat food all the time to catch the feral cats that come around and harass their cat Pete. So Mr. Pack Rat will not get a free ride back to Montana.
I came back out to Larry and Joyce's to find Michael eating ice cream. He and Larry had had no luck in finding an air conditioner cover to replace the one we lost on the way down yesterday. So, we spent the afternoon being bums and it was wonderful. I was asleep on the couch and the rain blowing in the window woke me up--rain was blowing in everywhere.
I was going to make Laci a going away dinner of steaks, potatoes and her favorite salad of mine--lettuce, almonds, mandarin oranges and homemade poppy seed dressing but those plans went by the wayside and now Larry, Joyce, Mike and I will enjoy the above.
Larry and Joyce's Scooter--when we were all down in San Antonio, TX Scooter and Jazz were not fond of each other.
Pete the cat made himself right at home on our steps.
Larry and Joyce have a beautiful home in the country outside Cheyenne.
Emmi and Scooter liked each other.
When we were leaving last night with Laci, Mike noticed a pack rat leaping down out of our engine compartment, the rat must have ridden all the way from Montana with us. We watched with dismay as he jumped up and back into our engine compartment. Well, this morning, Larry came out of the garage carrying a live trap containing a very unhappy pack rat. Larry keeps the trap baited with cat food all the time to catch the feral cats that come around and harass their cat Pete. So Mr. Pack Rat will not get a free ride back to Montana. It is cool and misting rain as we sit here snug as bugs in our motor home.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
We Are In Cheyenne, WY
"The main quilt show is no longer held at the Quilting in the Country site. It is now on the lawn of the Emerson Art Center and is titled "Quilting on the Lawn". There were over 450 quilts outside, 50+ antique quilts inside and about 30 vendors. Classes were held yesterday at the Emerson as well as the QITC site. The Quilting in the Country story has a small display only on the quilt day. I am so sorry you were not here - it was magnificent. Please plan to come again next year - would love to meet you."
The comment above was left on our blog and I am so embarrassed--I obviously didn't read the flyer I saw at the quilt shop in Big Timber very well. And very disappointed that I didn't get to see all the quilts, very disappointed. Carol, who left the comment--I would love to know who you are and thank you so much for educating me for next year. I am always amazed at the number of people who read my blog and the places they are from.
We left home about 6:30am headed for Cheyenne and 12 hours later pulled into the driveway of our friends Joyce and Larry whom we met while camped at Lake Medina in Texas. We had stopped at the Holiday Inn and picked up Laci on the way to our friends. Needless to say it shouldn't have taken us 12 hours to travel from Big Timber to Cheyenne but we are still working the kinks out of this motor home.
We visited with Larry and Joyce watching their dog Scooter terrorize Emmi then Laci and the two of us went and had a late supper. After supper we dropped Laci back at the HI and we came home to Emmi and our bed--very tired.
It was so incredibly hot today and the dash air conditioning is not working--sure am glad I am married to a guy who can fix things!
The comment above was left on our blog and I am so embarrassed--I obviously didn't read the flyer I saw at the quilt shop in Big Timber very well. And very disappointed that I didn't get to see all the quilts, very disappointed. Carol, who left the comment--I would love to know who you are and thank you so much for educating me for next year. I am always amazed at the number of people who read my blog and the places they are from.
We left home about 6:30am headed for Cheyenne and 12 hours later pulled into the driveway of our friends Joyce and Larry whom we met while camped at Lake Medina in Texas. We had stopped at the Holiday Inn and picked up Laci on the way to our friends. Needless to say it shouldn't have taken us 12 hours to travel from Big Timber to Cheyenne but we are still working the kinks out of this motor home.
We visited with Larry and Joyce watching their dog Scooter terrorize Emmi then Laci and the two of us went and had a late supper. After supper we dropped Laci back at the HI and we came home to Emmi and our bed--very tired.
It was so incredibly hot today and the dash air conditioning is not working--sure am glad I am married to a guy who can fix things!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Quilt Show
This was to have been our hottest day of the year and I think it might have been but this afternoon the thunder and lightening arrived and it is significantly cooler.
I decided to take in a quilt show today, a highly advertised one at Quilting in the Country in Bozeman, MT. The quilt shop is located in a gorgeous setting among old buildings and barns on a former dairy farm. There are flower and vegetable gardens everywhere, large old cottonwood trees and green lawns. The fabric and other quilting items are located in two different buildings. But--the quilt show was a disappointment--it was advertised as having 500+ quilts on display, classes and vendors. There might have been 20 quilts on display outside of the samples the store had made up and there were maybe 2-3 vendors and 1-2 classes going on.
A stop at Petsmart and Costco and I was headed home. We finished loading the RV, gave Emmi a bath and had a quick supper.
This plaque was hanging on one of the porches at the quilt show.
Emmi and her duck in the background. She wouldn't be still enough for me to get a photo of her with the duck in her mouth, the duck is almost as big as she is although Emmi is growing by leaps and bounds.
I decided to take in a quilt show today, a highly advertised one at Quilting in the Country in Bozeman, MT. The quilt shop is located in a gorgeous setting among old buildings and barns on a former dairy farm. There are flower and vegetable gardens everywhere, large old cottonwood trees and green lawns. The fabric and other quilting items are located in two different buildings. But--the quilt show was a disappointment--it was advertised as having 500+ quilts on display, classes and vendors. There might have been 20 quilts on display outside of the samples the store had made up and there were maybe 2-3 vendors and 1-2 classes going on.
A stop at Petsmart and Costco and I was headed home. We finished loading the RV, gave Emmi a bath and had a quick supper.
This plaque was hanging on one of the porches at the quilt show.
Emmi and her duck in the background. She wouldn't be still enough for me to get a photo of her with the duck in her mouth, the duck is almost as big as she is although Emmi is growing by leaps and bounds.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Summer Came Back
Whew, this is probably our hottest day so far this summer, over 90 but no humidity. I've got the ceiling fans going and the awning out to shade the front of the house--it is comfortable in here.
We spent a large portion of the morning moving equipment down to the barn on our former place. Joe and Tammy are allowing us to rent the building in exchange for our help such as turning the water on and off into their house, spraying weeds and cleaning the house right before they are due to arrive. We are storing the dually truck, tractors, motorcycles, etc. It will be nice to have all that stuff inside during the winter.
After lunch I spent some time getting meals ready for our trip we are starting on Sunday. Our granddaughter Laci seen here over a year ago when she graduated from high school---
is deploying to Iraq on Tuesday of next week out of Cheyenne, WY and we are going down to send her off. It makes me sick to think of her going over there but she is in the military, we can only hope and pray that she and her fellow soldiers stay safe.
More recycled photos, sure hope Canon hurries up with my camera!
Burros in Custer State Park in September last year.
Buffalo in Custer State Park.
And, a little snow to cool us off on this hot day.
We spent a large portion of the morning moving equipment down to the barn on our former place. Joe and Tammy are allowing us to rent the building in exchange for our help such as turning the water on and off into their house, spraying weeds and cleaning the house right before they are due to arrive. We are storing the dually truck, tractors, motorcycles, etc. It will be nice to have all that stuff inside during the winter.
After lunch I spent some time getting meals ready for our trip we are starting on Sunday. Our granddaughter Laci seen here over a year ago when she graduated from high school---
is deploying to Iraq on Tuesday of next week out of Cheyenne, WY and we are going down to send her off. It makes me sick to think of her going over there but she is in the military, we can only hope and pray that she and her fellow soldiers stay safe.More recycled photos, sure hope Canon hurries up with my camera!
Burros in Custer State Park in September last year.
Buffalo in Custer State Park.
And, a little snow to cool us off on this hot day.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
No Camera
I may have to go back and recycle photos for a week or so. Our ATV trip to Blue Lake a week ago was hard on my not even a year old Canon Powershot camera. I began to notice that I could not see images or the menu through the viewfinder. But, wow, what great customer service--I called Canon today and got an English speaking person who e-mailed me instructions for sending my camera in for repair. When Mom and Chuck left today, they took the camera to Big Timber and sent it off via UPS.
Emmi was a hit with Mom and Chuck of course and she has been so good the last three days we have decided we may keep her.
Michael did some wiring out in the garage today and created for me a paper towel holder for the motor home.
I got two more rows quilted today and have only one more row to go on the log cabin quilt. Wouldn't you know it, a box arrived from my Aunt today containing four more quilt tops. Guess a quilter's work is never done, either.
Mom and Chuck stayed for lunch today and I tried my hand at making homemade pizza with some of the bread dough from that great cookbook, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. It was OK, I need to refine the recipe, for sure.
The temperature warmed up today, in fact it got downright warm this afternoon!
So, here are some recycled photos. This is from the spring when I had so many birds I was filling the feeders twice a day. I think all my birds must have migrated north to Al and Kelly's.
Thought a snow photo might be nice here in August.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Town and Visitors
I managed to get some quilting done this morning while Emmi napped, I'm almost finished with this queen size log cabin quilt.
Michael spent the morning fixing fence, our neighbors have cows in their pasture that borders ours and the cows had been pushing the fence--our grass must be greener--so Michael decided he better reinforce it before the cows helped themselves to our grass.
After lunch we headed into town to run errands and once again Emmi was the star attraction, I think the ladies in the bank are going to kidnap her. Michael hit it lucky today at the courthouse, he needed to renew his driver's license and today was the one of the two days the driver's license person for the state comes to Big Timber per month. I did have time to grab a coffee with my friend Jill.
These two youngsters posed so prettily yesterday morning.
Our friend Dortha sent us this photo she took of Emmi last weekend while we were in Hungry Horse.
Michael spent the morning fixing fence, our neighbors have cows in their pasture that borders ours and the cows had been pushing the fence--our grass must be greener--so Michael decided he better reinforce it before the cows helped themselves to our grass.
After lunch we headed into town to run errands and once again Emmi was the star attraction, I think the ladies in the bank are going to kidnap her. Michael hit it lucky today at the courthouse, he needed to renew his driver's license and today was the one of the two days the driver's license person for the state comes to Big Timber per month. I did have time to grab a coffee with my friend Jill.
These two youngsters posed so prettily yesterday morning.
Our friend Dortha sent us this photo she took of Emmi last weekend while we were in Hungry Horse.
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