House party for Jared Polis

The party for Jared Polis on Wednesday, the 24th went very
well. We had 27 people there, including Jared and his
assistant, Sam Lopez. Jared spoke well and had a lively
question and answer session after he spoke. I was pleased
that I could fully support his position on all of the issues
and to see him answer questions directly and forthrightly
even when it was clear that the person asking might not
agree with his position. He never wavered. For more
information please follow this link:

http://www.polisforcongress.com/
Jared Polis for Congress


Carl and Martha did yeoman duty in the kitchen including a
lot of clean up before they left. I did more clean up
yesterday and then went to the Carnegie Library to do my
stint at scanning photographs. I am working on old glass
plate negatives and it is really difficult to see the
picture until it is scanned. Marti decided that she would
scan them. It is a VERY slow process, but she has work she
can do on the computer while the scanner is doing it's
thing. I then use Photoshop to clean up the pictures and add
the watermarks and move them to the virtual library. It is
much faster for me, certainly and more interesting than
sitting waiting for the scanner.

Robert met me at 3 PM and we went together to NCAR to Dick
Valent's retirement party. It was fun. I saw a lot of
people I hadn't seen in years and was happy to realize that
Ann Cowley, as I was known at NCAR, is still remembered.
And a couple of speakers in reciting the history of the
Computing Project, of which Dick has been the leader the
last few years, my name was mentioned as the one who
initiated the project so many, many years ago. It must have
been about 1974 when I wrote the proposal to my boss.

Yesterday, e-mail from Amanda with some catch-up including
a picture of their new
boat (ship?, yacht?).
It is in Portugal and
as she said, that presents
a slight problem of getting
it to Seattle. See attached
photo. But, they are doing well.
She also sent a picture of
Alyssum in front of her cabin









and a picture of Carrie at her graduation last June at which time she
received a Masters degree
in Mathematics. Yea, Carrie.

The first snow

So, the house is clean. I should plan a party
every fall. That way I have the drive to really clean the
house before it gets too cold to do the bed room and the
guest room. I have also washed all the glasses. We have a
dozen "water" glasses and another dozen "wine glasses" and a
another dozen "juice" glasses." All are now clean and ready
to be juice, water or wine glasses.

Matson called this morning to ask to "borrow" enough wood to
get through the day. The house is cold and the wood he had
ordered wasn't coming until later in the week. I told him
Robert was in the barn and he'd have to ask him. He
couldn't leave the kids, nor would he, I gather, bring the
kids down to ask Robert. How would he get the wood, if he
wouldn't leave the kids by themselves. Were we supposed to
cart the wood up to him? Anyway, he apparently found
someone to give him some wood because when I called back and
said he could borrow the wagon (again) and take a load of
wood to his house he didn't answer the phone. I am
wondering how he and the kids will get through the winter.
He is so unorganized and so unknowing as to how to do
things. He should never have bought a house up here.

We went to a blue grass concert at the schoolhouse last
night. It was mediocre. The lead player had written all
the songs and was really into himself. He one-by-one at
various times introduced the other players, except he forgot
one of them. The music was all the same. It was as if they
played the same music over and over, but with a variation on
the words.

It snowed today and was cold, but not yet freezing. We had
hoped for more snow.

Tomorrow I go to Dr. Roberts to have my eyes check and to
schedule my next cataract surgery.