Tuesday, May 12

OK, maybe I have to renege on my comments yesterday about DUP. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. Yes, I was as unorganized as I thought. Yes, I was nervous ... very. I even took my sweater off & sat there in my tank top with my "funny" underwear hanging out. But it was warm ... my inner child was having a field day with the matches. But ... the audit went ok. I came out with the right amount.

One of my friends, Jean, had a hitch hiker. She brought her husband Glen's pickup truck to DUP. I asked her to take Mother home, while the DUP finances were being audited. When they went out to get in the truck, a little stray cat that has adopted them, jumped out of the back of the pickup, across the street & into the middle of the block. After Jean took Mother home, she went home & she & Glen drove back to where we had DUP. Jean walked through the backyards calling the cat. It didn't come. Now she's worried about the poor cat. At least she didn't kill it.

Mother said maybe the cat would go home. Well, Jean lives on 4th South & 4th West. Beth lives on 2nd South & 3rd East. That's a long way for a little cat to go. We had a cat that I gave away when we were moving from Woodruff. I wasn't going to make the same mistake with the Woodruff cats that I made with the Grace cats. Just abandon them. I gave Miss Piggy & her kittens away. We took them to a ranch about 15 miles up Monte Cristo. One day, a few days later, I saw a black cat dead on the side of the road almost to the Mountain Fuel Subdivision. I know it was Miss Piggy because there were no houses, ranches around. She was almost home.

Anyway, speaking of pickups. Nick & Don-Mike went to Rigby this afternoon to trade Nick's '69 pickup for a Corvette. It's mid-'70's, they think. The guy doesn't know what year it is. I have a picture of Nick's pickup on the flat bed, perhaps I'll share it later this evening. They are trailering it up. I really liked that pickup. It was classy, but it wasn't a 'Vette, sigh, so therefore, not classy enough.

Lent, Day 16

Saturday, 10:46 p.m. I can't remember what time I got to bed last night. I turned the computer off at 11:30, so it was probably close to midnight by the time I took my meds, folded & hung up my clothes in trying to find the bed. I do know I woke up at 9:02 this morning, sat up in bed & kept dozing off. I had taken off the CPAP mask & turned the machine off, but the next thing I knew, Don was bringing my cell phone in at 10:30 telling me Debbie was on the phone. The only Debbie I know is the lady that works in the church library with us every other Sunday & I knew it wasn't her Sunday, I knew that even waking up, how I don't know. It was Kim, calling me to tell me to disregard her voice message.

I didn't do my Saturday routine of filling med boxes. Nick hasn't gone to bed yet, but he'll soon be coming & asking where his evening meds are. I hope I have enough to fill the med boxes through the weekend for both of us.

Oh, today I went to Franklin to the egg farm to get eggs. Mother wanted to ride with me. On the way back through Franklin we drove past the relic hall & Mother said there were 2 deer on the relic hall lawn. I asked if they were real deer. Around here people put out wire deer for Christmas & a lot of Christmas decorations are still out. She said they looked like real deer to her. So I flipped a U-ie, & sure enough, there were 3 deer. I tried to get some pictures of them with my cell phone, & I did, but not very good ones.

I told her she wasn't blind enough that she couldn't see deer. She's always been good at spotting wild life. When we lived over in Rich County, Utah, she'd say there were some antelope or some deer & I would have totally missed them. One time, still in Woodruff (Utah), I was taking the boys trick or treating & hit a deer. The boys saw it coming but didn't say a word. I hit the deer & promptly had hysterics. I was only going 5-10 mph so I didn't kill it, I hope.

I'll try to remember to download the pictures before 11 p.m. tomorrow & post them.