Katchina Crossing the Bering Straits No. 3

Last evening, Erin Cooper and her husband Sean visited and picked up Katchina Crossing the Bering Straits No. 3. She had paid for it months ago when she last visited Anchorage from Cordova.

November 7, 2009

I’ve been trying to update the Windows XP on my mac for a couple of weeks now. (They put a reminder on the toolbar everyday that it needs updating. I can now remember the error code by heart now: 0×700800B). And the web pages are filled with ways to kill this error code. I fell for a couple of them — no regrets though — the apps are good for other things too.

Catherine is still in a lot of pain. Our house is a mess and we eat out a lot. My left foot is still swollen but slowly, SLOOOOOWLY!, is getting back to normal, if having metal and screws in your leg is normal.

I am slowly edging up to learning how to upload pictures to this. Yesterday I learned how to downsize all my iphoto pics so they could easily be attached to this and that.

November 03, 2009

Weird. Time is slipping by and I have forgotten how to get into my own blog site. (I wanted to add it to my various desktops so that I can more easily accews it) I have been leaving little notes here and there as I enabled various applications and websites. From here on, I need to be more dilligent and more enabled myself!

Catherine will see her Principal to get paperwork done for her extended leave situation from work. She has been in a lot of pain. (More than anybody I have witnessed so far — laid out on bed for a month or so.) Her L1 is fractured is what she learned from an X-ray ordered by Rick Abbott.

Southern California

Hi: We are here at Catherine’s folks’ house since Saturday. We flew from Anchorage to Seattle on Friday, June 29th and stayed at a near-the-airport Radisson Hotel. The hotel room was very middle f the road, and adequate for our purposes of an over-night rest there..

We were sleepless in Seattle (Ha!) due to our underworked leg muscles cramping up in the night due to lugging our heavy packs (we decided to not check in our bags).

Chris has put me on his network since last night. Much faster than the unsecure  neighborhood stuff.

We are here for the memorial services of Grace Hamilton Coffin, Cate’s mother. I’m reading one of the Psalms selections at this afternoons services. Saturday we had Grace’s graveside burial ceremony.

Catherine is struggling with her statement for this afternoon’s service. Last night we were joined by Jenny Carter and Jeff Hamilton, Grace’s niece and nephew by her brother’s, Frank’s first marriage to Betty Carter, I’m not totally sure about Jenny’s last name here. Donna, Chris’s wife, prepared lamb shanks and Catherine made the salad.

Yesterday I got a haircut at Toni’s and Guys at Fashion Island. A sixty dollar haircut, still under What’s-his-name’s (Democratic Presidential candidate last summer) famous (or infamous) six hundred dollar treatment.

I joined Twitter today — Why? Don’t know yet.

Plus I set it up to somehow go on to the cellphone.

We weent to Joannie’s Birdcreek Easter fireside chat yesterday. Well, she admits to being an ex-Menonite and on her unteenth year as a hotdog stand person at the Saturday Market downtown. Pulus we get to catch up with old firends who have been going to the Easter egg-hunt, barbeque and bonfire happening at Birdcreek annually for many years now.

William joined us with Audie, his dog. Audie had quite a pawful with a young male husky who looks bred for the Iditerod type races.

Technorati Claim-a-blog

How do I do this? I’ll try and blog on my Word Press blog, enter it and copy the URL. OKK.

internet struggles

The other day my MSN program was unusually difficult; so I had composed a blog entry which I thought was pretty witty concerning the difficulties.

Needless to say all of it got erased and forgotten during the attempts to save it and post it.

Internet blues. Why is it that these things get so difficult?

I type and hope that this will work. It doesn’t work so I try something else.

It stays at “Not Responding” and “do you want to save this?”

Then I give up and what I wrote is all gone.

A Month Gone By

Today is February 17th; more than a month gone by… Well, Catherine and I have been busy with getting ready for our art exhibit at The Artworks, Fairbanks. I’ve just been doing drawings mostly. And mostly on Catherine’s almost daily watercolor backgrounds. We have enough now for a good exhibit. I first started a head drawing at Kayla Kosoglad’s house in Seattle. We past through their and spent the evenings at our other friend’s extra basement bedroom.

The head drawing was done with my trusty ball point pen (which I absent-mindedly left at Kayla’s dinner table). She had to send it to me and also sent a gift hat from Ben. Now I have to do an art statement. I was going to do it earlier today but forgot about it until now. So I’ll sign off and work on it.

January 10th, 2009

Two days ago, Jennifer’s reconditioned HP desktop computer arrived at her apartment. When we got back from Chicago and Seattle, on January 2nd, there were Buy.com e-mails to me and telephone calls which wanted me to confirm that my credit card was rightly charged for the order.

So now, after ten days or so of calls and e-mails, it is an order finally filled. I talked with Jenny yesterday and she and David are waiting for David to be available today to do the unpacking and assembly. Their old computer was nearly full from years of computing and they couldn’t rely on it to do a Skype call with grandkids and Jenny. For some reason, Jenny thought Dell would be a good enough computer for them but since this was a good season for low pricing on other brands, I thought that upgrading to a reconditioned HP and a recertified Vista program would be better than a computer I have known other people had (Dell) and frequently experienced crashes, sometimes with disastrous results. And I am pretty familiar with HP with my dv2000 laptop.

Leaving Seattle tomorrow morning

We are now in Seattle visiting friends and shopping at the Daniel Smith Art Supply Store. Haven’t had the time to go to Hartwicks, aHatterdashery, nor any junk shops. But we did have fun. Went to bed early or considerably early last night and missed all the fun (or the chores) of ushering in the New Year last night. We had dinner at Kayla’s last night with a couple who are also artists and friends of Kayla and John Webber a fine potter friend.

Tonight we were treated to an East Indian restaurant dinner by John and Susan Capps. Their son from Ithaca New York was there also.

We miss home as usual but it will be a cold homecoming at below 0 weather. Erk!