We had a grand holiday time with Diane here. Storms delayed her departure for Tacna, Arizona to 6 January 2008. It stormed that day too, but she had a deadline for the restart of school to meet, so with a blessing and our prayers she left about 7:30 AM. To alleviate our anxiety, she called us from Hendersen, Nevada, letting us know that she had passed through the brunt of the storms and would likely see no more snow as she finished her journey on into Tacna. That was most pleasing.
I mentioned in an earlier blog that one of the things Diane gave us at Christmas was a mobile made from range wire found in the desert. She designed the wire into different appearing fish that represented every member of this clan from my generation to the great grand children. It was sort of like a pedigree chart laid out horizontally
. Under each fish Diane identified the person represented with their first name twisted in script from soft copper wire. It was not complete on Christmas morning, and Diane worked feverishly much of the time she was here to get it completed. She got every individual completed and attempted to string them together to hang in space as a mobile. This takes lots of fine tuning and adjustments. Saturday night before she left, she got it precariously strung together. Clarine and I got to see it all together on Sunday morning before she left. Later that day as we went down to the lower level where she had assembled it, it had collapsed and was strung all the way from the top of the wide door where it was originally constructed to the bottom of the door where much of it was lying in a heap. Diane had predicted that just might be what would happen. She said that the finality of it might have to take place while she is visiting this summer. So be it. We did get one shining glimpse of what to expect. NICE! The top three fish pretty well stayed in place. They represent Carol, George and Clarine. The copper names can be seen. I have to say that I am ready for it all to be reassembled into a permanent state and to be on display. It will take a little care to keep all of the pieces secure. Thank you Diane. It is a most superb creation!
. Under each fish Diane identified the person represented with their first name twisted in script from soft copper wire. It was not complete on Christmas morning, and Diane worked feverishly much of the time she was here to get it completed. She got every individual completed and attempted to string them together to hang in space as a mobile. This takes lots of fine tuning and adjustments. Saturday night before she left, she got it precariously strung together. Clarine and I got to see it all together on Sunday morning before she left. Later that day as we went down to the lower level where she had assembled it, it had collapsed and was strung all the way from the top of the wide door where it was originally constructed to the bottom of the door where much of it was lying in a heap. Diane had predicted that just might be what would happen. She said that the finality of it might have to take place while she is visiting this summer. So be it. We did get one shining glimpse of what to expect. NICE! The top three fish pretty well stayed in place. They represent Carol, George and Clarine. The copper names can be seen. I have to say that I am ready for it all to be reassembled into a permanent state and to be on display. It will take a little care to keep all of the pieces secure. Thank you Diane. It is a most superb creation!Clarine was to the podiatrist yesterday. Her fractured foot is 90% healed. Her pneumonia has stayed under control. So we are happy to start the new year in quite a nice state of well-being.
I am toying with the idea of getting started on filing my income tax. There is a lot of information to accumulate and prepare before filing. I will do it myself. I am not of a mind to pay someone to do it when the most difficult part of it is collecting the data for the filer to use any way.
I am quite happy to see the amount of daylight increase with each passing day. I haven't noticed any moderating of temperatures yet, but I think that can not be too far off. Just like "the signs of the times" are all around us, the harbingers of spring will soon become plentiful. (I want the flowers to come out and bloom in all of their wonderful colors.) I don't even mind mowing the lawn and edging it all that much.
I shall post another blog in due time. gwh.
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