wednesday

John called the guy in SJ that we'd been thinking of having do our prints.  Yikes, his prices are so high there is no room for any profit for us!  His price for an 8 x 10 is double what we were charging!  And he just photographs them, doesn't scan so I'm not sure how well they would blow up big.  Guess we'll just have to do mail orders with Alan, his prices are so much cheaper that we can afford to do that!  I decided to try photographing John's latest scratchboard myself and see how it would turn out.  I printed it out, but it's hard to tell, my printers are so much lower in quality than Alan's. 

We went to the dump and shopping this morning.  It's still cold out,

Andy called he is broke down in the valley, we are going to get him and bring the car home.  We drove to Concho and met Brian, following him way the heck out in the boonies to get his trailer, drove back to Concho and on our way to Mesa.  Picked up Jessie, had trouble with the lights and brakes on the trailer, Brian sprayed WD 40 on the plug to "clean" it before we left because it was having trouble connecting to the truck.  We stopped and tried everything to get the lights to work, but nothing would work, put on the extra light harness John brought along, but it didn't want to work right either, I think the WD 40 got in our plug too.  Went on with only the tail lights on the trailer working and hoping no one would rear end us!  Stopped in Globe to gas up and got sandwiches at the gas station so we wouldn't have to stop again, they were yucky!  Made it to Mesa, took a wrong turn off the freeway, finally made it to where the sub was parked, met Andy, Jennifer, Cindy and Hailey there, took an hour or so to winch the car up on the trailer, I was afraid John was going to have a heart attack from all the exertion!  Went to the college where Brandon and Brittany were just getting out of class, visited for a bit and headed for home.  Stopped for gas in Showlow, dropped Andy and Jessie off at the bus stop,where Susan picked them up, and made a slow trip home through elk country.  We did see several groups of animals on the way home, both before we left Andy and Jessie and after.  The guys saw where someone had hit an animal, the animal was still laying in the road and they said we drove through it's blood!  But they were all off the side of the road and we made it safely home about 4 am, exhaused and sore from the long trip.