Howdy!

Hey everybody! Today is Donna's Birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DONNA. Love ya, Granny.

Cloudy

Phillip planted this bush last year. Smell so good.

Cloudy today so I didn't get a chance to paint.. Working on 2 small
ones right now. Thinking about another prospector painting. Haven't
made up my mind for sure yet. A lot of things affect my mood to
paint, and what to paint. Same thing with my mood to write. It took
me a while to get in the mood to write my short book, "New Beginnings"
an 3 years to write it.. I gave Bob a copy of it. I wanted to put it
on the blog here a few pages at a time, but don't know how to take it
from a Microsoft works and do it. I have even been thinking about
adding to the story about Sonny, in " So You Want To Be A
Prospector?". Oh well, I should live so long.
Granny.

Flowers

Wildflowers are blooming up here in the mountains now. These are a few
we have got pictures of.
Granny

Painting.

Finished, But who will see it?

Hey!

Hey you guys, to day is David's birthday.

Granny

Done.

Finished the miner painting. Naming it, " We are doing great, Buddy".

Still have to get a pic, then I'll post it here.

Granny

Saturdaty

One of those dreary days Cloudy and drizzly. I did get the dog
sketched in the miner painting I'm working on, but no good light to
paint. Just piddled around on the computer and listened to Phillip
talk about a rock he found yesterday. It is about the size of a large
grapefruit. Weighs about 10 pounds or more. Bright sparkly material
with quartz and pyrites in it. Not magnetic. I say silver, but I
don't know for sure what it is. Interesting though.
Granny

gold

Took this a couple of years ago. This is an area where Phillip has
been getting good gold every time he goes up there. Lots of flour
gold, about a gram or so along with about 3 grams of fines plus a few
pickers.. Every now and then he comes up with a real nice nugget. We
don't think most people even realize how much fine and flour gold
there is still in that river. Harder to recover it if you don't use
mercury. He most likely go back up again next week some time. We had
some more rain, and the water level came back up again.

Supposed to be mostly cloudy today, so can't paint. I have put a lot
of time into the painting I'm working on now, and it still isn't done.
Almost though.

Have a nice day all, Love ya, Granny.

Arrrgh!

Another one of those nights. Going to have to take a nap.
Granny

Yep!

And he ain't kidding.

Cloudy day.

Ouch!! That's bound to smart a bit. That is what could happen to a
person if they aren't careful where they step. You don't always have
to be down on the desert to meet up with a rattler. Phillip almost
stepped on one up where he was panning in the mountains last fall. He
said the darn thing didn't even make a sound, or a move to let him
know he was laying on that log Phillip wanted to step over. It was
early in the morning and the snake was still lethargic from the cool
night. Damn good thing too.
I remember when we were kids in Utah and we went picking wild
blackberries with my Grandmother. There was a rattlesnake coiled up
on a blackberry branch we wanted to pick, and he wasn't about to leave
it for us. I guess he was just laying around waiting for some
unsuspecting critter to want blackberries. I doubt he would ever eat
them himself.

Speaking of panning, that's where Phillip is today. I thought I was
going to paint, but unpredicted clouds same in to spoil the idea.

The miner painting got me o thinking about good old Joe Bloe (aka
known as Sonny,), up there at the Blue Mountain Mining co. in Montana.
Wonder just how he is doing. Might have to pay him a visit here on
the blog again. Don't know for sure if anyone was interested in him?

Take care all, Love ya, Granny

Dumb

Real dumb, they all pull over to watch the thing come to get them?

Yummmm.

Chicken and dumplings....That's what's for supper.
Granny

More pics.

Flowers! The wild kind, don't cha know?

Tuesday, all day,

Wow! Thunder, lightning, and much need rain Woke me up last night.
No sunshine, so I won't be doing any painting today. Got the miner
painting almost done.
Still have to get the miner in there before I can really call it a
miner painting. Changed my mind about what to make the miner look
like. Still debating. A lot depends on just where I put him. Think
Granny, Think.

Have a nice day folks, Love ya, Granny

Beautiful Day.

Was very nice today. Maybe a bit of rain tomorrow. I hope so, we can use it.
Hope you all had a nice day too.
Love ya, Granny

Sunday Night

Not much longer til I hit the bed myself. Got to refill my med case first.

Good Night all, love ya, Granny

Yep!

Good deal this week at Walmart. Chicken hindquarters at 59 cents a
pound. Phillip cooked them up. Lots of good chicken and dumplings,
chicken pot pies, chicken a-la-king. Yum, yum. Can't beat that now,
can you?
Granny

Good morning.

Sending them via email. Enjoy.
Granny

Something new.

Never too old to learn something new.  Today I read in  Geology.com,  that the Ogden Dinosaur Museum  has added two new residents.  A Utahraptor and a Tanystropeus.
They are making the models after the fossils found there in Utah.
The raptor is 7 feet plus tall and had feathers.  Looks like a big chicken.  The other dino has a very long neck.  Interesting.  One can learn a lot on Geology.com.
Granny

Weekend.

Up and at em you guys.  It's a beautiful day today.  Sun shining like it has a right to. Maybe I can get some painting done today.  The miner is about half done now.  Working on a couple of small paintings too.

Hope some of the rest of the family will join in on the blog.  Got on facebook myself and neglected to do any posting , so I guess I can't blame you.

Love ya'll, Granny

Well, well well.

I let all of you know I got kicked off facebook.  Have to pester you all through the blog.  Hope you join in.

This is where we were today.  I sat in the shade, read, watched the squirels and the birds.
Phillip went down to the river and panned.  Got lots of fine gold, but no big nuggets.  Too bad.  He did say the water had gone down some and wasn't so cold.  Area where he is working has scads of fine gold.  Have to have a good sucker tube to get it though.  He said someone else has been up there and dug a deep hole in the bank, but he panned some out of their old hole and didn't even get color.  Somebody must have seen him go up there and thought they would find gold too. They would have better luck if they had panned the grass roots.  Lots of fine stuff there.

Granny