(Yes, she has a napkin on her back, we were using it to clean up some of the water she had thrown around and that's where it landed.)
This is what it looks like finally all put together, still getting help with the cord. 
In the meantime, he has suggested I grab one of the keyboards out of his office to use. The keyboard is bigger than the computer, and noisier (no wonder I can hear typing above my head all day long). Plus there really isn't that much room for it on a permanent basis. Right now it is in my lap, but there are several other things that belong there instead. Fortunately, only one of them complains. 
DTY says we might be able to re-rout the "Shift" key below it to be an "Enter" key, but I am not sure my brain is up to learning a new keyboarding style. 
Sometimes there are artifacts of our childhood that bring back great memories. It is interesting how we often acquire similar ones in our adulthood that become the childhood artifacts for the next generation. 
I am hoping that the one from my childhood will get to come live at my house someday. DTE has already told me she wants hers.
Someone got a bit impatient for hers, stole it out of the box, and off it went to do battle. (I am not sure that the cow had been intended for Orebel, but she claimed it right away!) 
I did get it back long enough to get it in the picture with the stuff she sent for the dogs. Boy does she know what to get them! She should though; she has two basset hounds and a set of bloodhound twins! (The red ball with legs makes a loud noise when squeezed, and I think Simon will enjoy figuring out how to run it.)
There are yummy food treats that could be consumed while knitting 
or partaking of the new reading materials she sent; which is loaded with fun things to solve
She made a set of knitting note cards and sent some knitting accessories.
She also sent some really wonderful yarn! Hacho, which I haven't seen before but am really excited to learn about. I am so looking forward to knitting with it, it feels wonderful and the colors are beautiful! 
In addition to all of this, and the box she sent in April, she also sent some Panda Cotton! I feel overwhelmed at her incredible gifts to me! Thank you Gaylen, so much for everything!
I spent a little bit of time in Salt Lake City after I left Idaho Falls before flying home. This is a view of part of the Wasatch Mountain Range, taken at 1300 East and I-80. (I was facing SE, for those not familiar with the area.) 
While there, we (my mom and I) saw several different spots, including the primary parking lot I utilized for some of my years in college. I figured you didn't really need to see the parking part, but this does identify which one it is. Not that it was called anything but Rice Stadiumwhen I was there.
Apparently this is another name for it, though that was a much bigger deal a few years ago (after we moved away).
It is also used for Real Football now, in addition to American football. (Which a lot of you know by now I never watched when I was in school; American football that is. I have been watching soccer since my kids were little.)
with all its sunny beauty. It just sits there in the sun, calling to me. It doesn't care that I have things to do today, it says, "You're awake early and don't have to leave the house until after ten. Come out and keep me company. I don't care if you bring your knitting. Bring your coffee and keep me from being lonely." Yeah right. Only if I bundled up in a sweatshirt and blanket! It is a cold 45°F with a wind chill out there! It is probably a good thing I won't be staying home to have to hear its Siren call.
Maybe by the time I get home for lunch it will be close enough to the predicted high of 66°F to eat lunch outside, in a sweatshirt, in the breeze.
this moved into our driveway. I am sure it is giving my neighbors fits of curiosity, but I am also pretty sure they are much to polite Mid-Westerners to ask. (Have you ever felt that phrase is a misnomer, as I have? I live in neither the mid or the west, and certainly not the Mid-West. I digress, once again.) It "belongs" to my friend Shivery Knits and her husband. 
They have a bit of lag time between closing on their "old" and "new" house. Our driveway/neighborhood is a great place to put a truck for a few days for safe keeping. It did require a tiny bit of rearranging the driveway, but we are more than happy to help out. They aren't moving too far in the big picture of things. I will also have a good reason to go on a road trip to visit when she isn't busy studying.
Apparently the phrase "Build it and they will come" can be paraphrased to "Fill it and they will come." I hadn't seen any 
This morning our weather was (finally)warm and sunny, so I headed out on the deck first thing with my coffee and a baby blanket I am making for a friend of mine. While makeing great progress I got to see all sorts of things like this
(Simon loves being on the deck) 
and this (I didn't manage to catch a picture of the Red-Tails headed into those trees, but that is where they live),
I also had to be careful not to rock onto Sadie. She and Simon were pretty much interchangeable in their positions you see here throughout our session on the deck. 
The blanket really spent a lot more time in my lap, growing, than it did on the back of the chair. (Yep, I headed right out in my pajamas and stayed out there for about two hours, stopping only to refill my coffee cup. If Hubband had been home, I am sure he would have done that for me. He is a super nice guy like that.)
I also stopped in at the grocery store since somehow I was down to only having about two cups of flour in the house. Seriously, how did that happen? That is pretty much all out as far as I am concerned. While I was there, I found this new (at least to me) cool product. It really doesn't have any butter in it, it is just pure maple syrup that has been creamed. Have you ever had molded maple sugar candy (often in the shape of a maple leaf)? Do you remember how the outside is kind of crunchy, but the inside is all smooth and creamy? That smooth and creamy is what this stuff is like. Way yummy! Good thing I have someone coming home tomorrow who likes pancakes; guess I had better get the sourdough out of the fridge to be all ready for Saturday's breakfast.
After getting the groceries put away and a sink of dishes done, my sock finally got to spend some quality time with "The Chair" this evening. 
This is my dad's cat; he is blind in one eye and his name is "Cat." My younger sister found him on the roadside in a snowstorm and figured our dad needed company at his house on a full time basis. (She was right.)
This is my sister's dog, Murphy. He is an absolute sweetheart and if I could have brought him home with me, I might have seriously considered it. (Not that my sister would part with him after all these years.) 
Now for several pictures of the Teton Mountain Range 
A slightly different view 
More Tetons (Please note that each of these are different links to information about the range and the area.)
A couple of things from our drive into the park.
