Yo to all,
Looks like it has been a month since I last wrote. Here is the scoop on
happenings around here in the last month:
- Zack and Jessica got back from the 5 day Montana visit. Too short, but
they had a good time. They brought back 4 baby kittens from the farm. Very
cute, but also very not keepable.
- As soon as Zack got back, I went on my vacation to Montana. Had a good
time visiting parents and Mal & Kim's family. Mom and Kim did very well on
a 16 mile hike up to a Spanish peak lake near Bozeman. The next week Luke,
Cassy, Mal and I hiked up Froze to Death mountain up past Mystic Lake. Very
pretty. Did some work at the cave (ran over a rattler snake ... everyone
took a taste of snake meat!) and got the Winter House West control center
computers all tuned up.
- Donna (Laurie's Mom) road back with me (in our 'hot' little Eclipse ...
no air conditioning on 100+ degree roads). She split her time between our
house and Laurie's apartment.
- Donna and I came back to a house that looked like it had been lived in by
a passel of boys for a couple of weeks with no concept of garbage cans or
garbage collection days. They did manage to run the dishwasher a couple of
times. They said 'you should have seen it before we cleaned up the dishes'.
We got it whipped into shape pretty quick. Whenever Donna visits, we
somehow magically get new stoves and ovens. At least they all look new by
the time she leaves (cleaning pads are somehow magically attracted to her).
- While I was gone, they had 5 cats in the house (the older non-name brown
cat, and the 4 cute new little ones ... the 2 Jessican had didn't get to
stay at her house for very long). For a while, they were roaming, till
they started leaking in spots I'm still discovering. Then Zack quarantined
them to the basement, where he sleeps. Then he decided that was a bit
much, so he talked some friends into taking all but 2 of them.
- Donna and Laurie left back for Montana last Sunday. Laurie visited
various folk and is now on her way to Taos, New Mexico where she will have a
week long poet conference with the national Poet Laurie-t Billy Collins.
Then she visits friends in Oregon and elsewhere then heads home end of
August.
- Last Monday, Zack and the last 2 cats headed back to Montana for a few
weeks of work on Mike and Tracey's ranch/farm. Since it was work related,
I agreed to let him take the Eclipse, which he spent days on fixing up. He
also took our power washer out with him so he could wash it whenever it got
dirty. I had visions of him stopping at rest stops every 100 miles and
firing it up, but I think he resisted till he got out there.
So the last week have been pretty quiet again with just Nick and myself
lurking about. Happily cat free :)
Love Bruce
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