Me at two or three years old with Arthur (my brother) who must have been one. We are in front of the original house on the old ranch property on the Williams Fork.
10/19/2008
1956
Me at two or three years old with Arthur (my brother) who must have been one. We are in front of the original house on the old ranch property on the Williams Fork.
The Williams Fork
Once again, Terry and I took a road trip over Knez divide (where we saw a herd of about 20 elk running across the road) and up the Williams Fork River.
This is a picture of a 100 year old house about a quarter mile from the river. The view from the house was spectacular. This is in Routt County.
This is the sign at the top of a dead end road at the Sullivan Ranch, a beautiful, high mountain property that butts up against White River National Forest.
Finally, a roadside marker for two women (one white, one black) who lived in the valley many years (maybe 100) ago. As I understand, they are actually buried in this grave site overlooking the Williams Fork River.
This is a picture of a 100 year old house about a quarter mile from the river. The view from the house was spectacular. This is in Routt County.
This is the sign at the top of a dead end road at the Sullivan Ranch, a beautiful, high mountain property that butts up against White River National Forest.
Finally, a roadside marker for two women (one white, one black) who lived in the valley many years (maybe 100) ago. As I understand, they are actually buried in this grave site overlooking the Williams Fork River.
Book quiz
These are my responses to a survey a friend sent via the Internet. It was a fun and interesting project to think about, so here are my answers (and some of the questions).
1. What was the last book I bought? Hmmmm. Tough question because I run the bookstore; if I want a book, I just take it home. The last one that I bought specifically for me was “Oral History for the Local Historical Society” by Willa K. Baum.
2. A book I have read more than once: “Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder, “The Snow Goose” by Paul Gallico and I re-read sections of “Old Friends From Far Away” by Natalie Goldberg. The Bible and the dictionary.
3. “Braided Lives” by Marge Piercy, and I can’t tell you why. It just affected me; maybe because when I read it, I changed from wanna-be grown-up to real grown-up.
4. How do I choose a book? By reading a review (Denver Post, Bloomsbury Review, Woman’s Day--or similar such thing) or the dust jacket or knowing the author or the genre, and once in a while, I see what sort of endorsements it has received.
5. [Fiction or non-fiction] Non-fiction, except for certain kinds of murder mysteries which I will suck up like a vacuum.
6. In a novel, writing or plot? Beautiful writing because it usually suggests an author who can craft a gripping plot.
7. Most beloved character: Pearl Buck, but she’s an author, not a character.
8. On my nightstand: “ Cold Coffee and Hot Truth”, “Home Land”, “Vagina Monologues”, “Impulse”.
9. Last book read and when: “Scat” by Carl Hiaasen—last night. Another recent book read was “Confessions of a Pagan Nun.”
10. [Have you ever given up on a book halfway through?]I have no problem leaving a book anywhere along the way. I read the beginning and end of “Bonfire of Vanities”; I read “Pigs in Heaven” from back to front, and gave up on “Ascent of Rumdoodle” because it was stupid. Sometimes, I just never go back and pick up a book that I started—it just didn’t catch my attention.
1. What was the last book I bought? Hmmmm. Tough question because I run the bookstore; if I want a book, I just take it home. The last one that I bought specifically for me was “Oral History for the Local Historical Society” by Willa K. Baum.
2. A book I have read more than once: “Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder, “The Snow Goose” by Paul Gallico and I re-read sections of “Old Friends From Far Away” by Natalie Goldberg. The Bible and the dictionary.
3. “Braided Lives” by Marge Piercy, and I can’t tell you why. It just affected me; maybe because when I read it, I changed from wanna-be grown-up to real grown-up.
4. How do I choose a book? By reading a review (Denver Post, Bloomsbury Review, Woman’s Day--or similar such thing) or the dust jacket or knowing the author or the genre, and once in a while, I see what sort of endorsements it has received.
5. [Fiction or non-fiction] Non-fiction, except for certain kinds of murder mysteries which I will suck up like a vacuum.
6. In a novel, writing or plot? Beautiful writing because it usually suggests an author who can craft a gripping plot.
7. Most beloved character: Pearl Buck, but she’s an author, not a character.
8. On my nightstand: “ Cold Coffee and Hot Truth”, “Home Land”, “Vagina Monologues”, “Impulse”.
9. Last book read and when: “Scat” by Carl Hiaasen—last night. Another recent book read was “Confessions of a Pagan Nun.”
10. [Have you ever given up on a book halfway through?]I have no problem leaving a book anywhere along the way. I read the beginning and end of “Bonfire of Vanities”; I read “Pigs in Heaven” from back to front, and gave up on “Ascent of Rumdoodle” because it was stupid. Sometimes, I just never go back and pick up a book that I started—it just didn’t catch my attention.
10/15/2008
Mining Memory--Music
List as many pieces of music as you can from anywhere in your life.
Elaborate on one of those pieces.
Carol’s list:
1. “The Spinning Song” which I learned to play on the piano. I memorized it. Mrs. Rodewald was my piano teacher. I quite taking lessons when she asked me/told me that I had to cut my fingernails.
2. “Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip- Zip.” My father used to sing this to us when we were very young children.
3. “Hush Little Baby.” I sang this to my children; my mother told me, after listening to me sing it, that mother-love would get me through, suggesting that my version of the song was not that good—I think it is my complete inability to carry a tune.
4. “Gooseberry Goose is out on the loose.”
5. So many lovely hymns.
6. “Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens and every congregation I’ve ever heard sing it.
7. All the songs on the sound track from “The Horse Whisperer”—Robert Redford called that album the “best American music.”
Elaborate on one of those pieces.
Carol’s list:
1. “The Spinning Song” which I learned to play on the piano. I memorized it. Mrs. Rodewald was my piano teacher. I quite taking lessons when she asked me/told me that I had to cut my fingernails.
2. “Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip- Zip.” My father used to sing this to us when we were very young children.
3. “Hush Little Baby.” I sang this to my children; my mother told me, after listening to me sing it, that mother-love would get me through, suggesting that my version of the song was not that good—I think it is my complete inability to carry a tune.
4. “Gooseberry Goose is out on the loose.”
5. So many lovely hymns.
6. “Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens and every congregation I’ve ever heard sing it.
7. All the songs on the sound track from “The Horse Whisperer”—Robert Redford called that album the “best American music.”
10/12/2008
Only in Craig....
...do people name their sons Cannon and Magnun OR Bow and Hunter (twins).
How about Chane (pronounced Chain)?
How about Chane (pronounced Chain)?
10/09/2008
Adam and Rebecca
Adam Jacobson (26) and Rebecca Pratt (25) will marry in May 2009. Adam is the son of Carol Jacobson of Craig and Art Jacobson of Denver. He is the grandson of Loita Mauer (Hayden) and Lou Wyman (Craig). Rebecca is the daughter of Joyce Pratt and Ari Avraham of Somerset, Massachusetts. They will marry in Dartmouth, Massachusetts and make their home in Denver.
This voting thing
Dear Editor,
About this time every four years, I get a bit baffled and bewildered by the onslaught of information, mis-information and biased attack ads leaking through television, radio, print media and the Internet about political candidates, amendments, initiatives, and referendums.
There is so much out there to absorb that I no longer know what to believe about presidential candidates—Obama and McCain.
I think about the questions a friend asked me: how is my life better under the last eight years of Republican rule? And what am I afraid of if Obama is elected? If McCain is elected?
I think about my life, here, in Craig in 2008, as a businesswoman, landowner, citizen.
I am opposed to the war in Iraq and the one in Afghanistan; too many young men and women are dying for . . . oil? world peace? revenge? world destruction?
The world view of the U.S. is not so good; it seems that we are seen as a bully.
U.S. currency is so devalued that we—Americans—cannot afford to travel abroad.
China, as a rapidly developing economy, is sucking up lots of the U.S. supply of
concrete and is buying U.S. firms/farms/technologies at record rates..
I pay way too much money for gas (although, until I’m paying what the world average is, I’m not sure I can complain).
I am very concerned about ice: ANWAR, the shifting north pole, the melting sea ice around Antarctica.
I, regrettably, under Republican rule, have had to learn what water-boarding is, where Guantamo is and have taken a hard look at what passes for our justice system.
So, is my life better?
No.
Not really.
Food and fuel prices are rising. The wars go on, and we are facing an historically catastrophic financial crisis.
Do I think one man (and a vp) will make a difference? Yes, but only if he surrounds himself with the best and the brightest. McCain’s choice of a running mate has me wondering if he can do that.
I don’t think Obama is a wonder-worker, but he seems reasonable and smart and even courteous. And while courteous may not be the first quality we want in a president, it seems like a good first step back toward civility.
I think I’m ready for something different.
Carol Valera Jacobson
About this time every four years, I get a bit baffled and bewildered by the onslaught of information, mis-information and biased attack ads leaking through television, radio, print media and the Internet about political candidates, amendments, initiatives, and referendums.
There is so much out there to absorb that I no longer know what to believe about presidential candidates—Obama and McCain.
I think about the questions a friend asked me: how is my life better under the last eight years of Republican rule? And what am I afraid of if Obama is elected? If McCain is elected?
I think about my life, here, in Craig in 2008, as a businesswoman, landowner, citizen.
I am opposed to the war in Iraq and the one in Afghanistan; too many young men and women are dying for . . . oil? world peace? revenge? world destruction?
The world view of the U.S. is not so good; it seems that we are seen as a bully.
U.S. currency is so devalued that we—Americans—cannot afford to travel abroad.
China, as a rapidly developing economy, is sucking up lots of the U.S. supply of
concrete and is buying U.S. firms/farms/technologies at record rates..
I pay way too much money for gas (although, until I’m paying what the world average is, I’m not sure I can complain).
I am very concerned about ice: ANWAR, the shifting north pole, the melting sea ice around Antarctica.
I, regrettably, under Republican rule, have had to learn what water-boarding is, where Guantamo is and have taken a hard look at what passes for our justice system.
So, is my life better?
No.
Not really.
Food and fuel prices are rising. The wars go on, and we are facing an historically catastrophic financial crisis.
Do I think one man (and a vp) will make a difference? Yes, but only if he surrounds himself with the best and the brightest. McCain’s choice of a running mate has me wondering if he can do that.
I don’t think Obama is a wonder-worker, but he seems reasonable and smart and even courteous. And while courteous may not be the first quality we want in a president, it seems like a good first step back toward civility.
I think I’m ready for something different.
Carol Valera Jacobson
10/04/2008
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