Monday, July 6
Update on remodeling efforts:
This is the changed attached 2-car garage to livable room of our home. The outside front siding is blue painted HardiePlank above stone panels. Part One of the remodel is 99.44% finished.
Nick’s nights off were Mondays and Fridays. Our friend in Nick’s audience presented during those evenings, starting at 5:00 instead of 6:00 p.m. PST. She’s going to continuing musical interludes on the same days, in Nick’s absence (except for NEXT week the Friday will be scheduled to a Thursday, because of her guest’s schedule.
Kathy plays Favorite Funnies Past, as Spike Jones
She’s going to add a playlist of tonight. I kept losing my Internet and was only able to watch parts of it.
She has called for a Party on Saturday to re-watch one of Nick’s livestreams. It will be at the 9:00 a.m. hour, PST. You have to Join via the Nick Fans Facebook site.
Tuesday, July 7
Transferred money from my account to the lumber miller’s at my bank, Umpqua, and then notified the miller Jason and his wife Greta (also his office manager) and Clover Construction Company.
Started late from sleeping in after a late night bedtime and sleep interruptions from cats in the wee hours of this morning. One male cat, Czar, knocked on the window and meowed loudly to be let in, and neither one of us can figure why he didn’t go through the doggie door as he does all the time. The other awakening was from Sue, an outside feral cat, with loud meows and low growls, to let us know she brought us a mouse to the front door. Seems she wants to let us know she earns the store-bought food. She does not use the doggie door; only the two males do.
Finally got up and took my Alendronate on an empty stomach. Plugged in my 5Tb external backup drive for its Noon backup. Been taking care of things with LiveStreaming group.
We had to deal with making an appointment for John at the dentist. Long delayed but cancellations allowed him a next day slot. He had a small bit of tooth (protecting a filling) breakaway, confirmed during the cleaning, with the filling coming out.
Need to finish my note to planning team at CWU Foundation. (James, Charlotte, etc.). I did and the Zoom meeting still awaits a designated time.
Later today we went to town for errands. The first part of our trip was maneuvering a Chip Sealing Operation on the Kittitas Hwy.
Here is an example of the process:
Chip Sealing: The Basics (5 mins)
It was a slow 1.5 mile trip from Ferguson Rd to No. 6 Rd. to turn to access our first stop, 3430 Number 6 Rd to pick up our pots we gave Hens and Chicks to a lady and she planted them this spring.
We went by Bi-Mart to check numbers, picked up Metoprolol from Super 1 Pharmacy, and went on to Fred Meyer for John’s Colas and any Kroger stuff for using our first Tuesday of the month, 10% Senior Discount.
Then out of town by Amy’s to leave box of groceries and some summer squash from our garden. Not much of a crop this year, yet. Guess we’re too high in elevation and with so much wind.
Today we had 43 and 45 mph gusts, making driving difficult with the buffeting, and walking across parking lots even worse.
Wednesday, July 8
Walter Davenport (contractor) was here at 6:45 a.m. working in the new room. He’s got about 5 projects going in the area so the crew moves around as sequencing demands. These things slow completions, and “completion” is what triggers clients needing to pay the balance. Seems this will happen next Monday for the garage conversion.
At 9:00 a.m. there was an impromptu video by Nick Zentner, on a hike to Beverly Creek, where John had assisted Marty Kaatz (now dead) with his debris flow documentation. The storm was a small cell, but intense, thunder, lighting, and rain, above a ridge top at about 6,000 feet elevation. Nick hiked into that basin on a ridge top.
John plans to do chores and then come in for his shower. Today he goes to Tracy for his teeth cleaning, which was postponed 10 weeks because of the COVID-19 business closures.
I spent time with the HELP DESK CWU and Paris to get my computer updated. Need to RESTART at least once/week. That will install needed updates, which are not done any other way.
Called and left a message for Lacey about an upcoming end of July of my teeth cleaning and need for antibiotics, and the problems with INR being raised. I need to know when to have it, before, or after. Later, we decided I needed to have my INR draw the next day, so we could adjust the dosage fast, as it was already a little higher than last month.
Watched a noon Lunch Bag Zoom from the AAC with Roxanne Laush talking today on Inspired Health & Wellness Coaching.
Walter came back just before 11:00 with some boards and to fix the screw in the door. He stayed, working on the outside siding.
I spent a lot of time searching for data to fill in the PDF for Form 4868 to apply for our extension notice for 2019 taxes to get it mailed before July 15. I have the pieces, but need to find a Post Card and tape information to the back so they can date and return the card as acknowledgment it was received. I will include a check to pay estimated tax amount owed.
Supper: John made a casserole dish with Lasagna in one side, and butternut squash, brown sugar, and pecans in the other. He had dessert of Cherry Pie and ice cream. I passed on that. I drank orange juice with my dinner.
Thursday, July 9
Shoes on and go out with camera. Back at 10:10. John showed me all around the front of the house and explained the plans and the progress I had not yet seen. He also took me to the garden for some more information and photos of the onions primarily. Then on to the red barn to show me the storage and stacking of the lumber and posts resulting from the milling team. While out there, we went into the hay barn (after shooing out Dawn). Didn’t see her bambi, but imagine it was close by. John wanted to show me a box he said had a photo packed in it with Fondue pots, meant for Sonja Willitts, on their next trip north from South Lake Tahoe. Before that handoff happens we have to locate the box of shot syringes meant for the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care in South Lake Tahoe, where Kevin volunteers his veterinarian experience. Some photos of this walk to follow in next week’s blog.
New flight with Maria Langer (pilot), posted 7-5-20. Overall description by Maria: a tour of the Columbia River Valley downriver from Wenatchee, WA. This is the 7th part of our 2nd flight together and we start just downriver from Wanapum Dam and head upriver, making our way back to Wenatchee. Along the way, we make a detour up Rock Island Creek and over Badger Mountain before landing at the airport. The nosecam footage is stunning and Nick points out many geological features along the way. This is the last (and longest) part of a multi-part series.
Places mentioned in this video: – Wanapum Dam and Lake – Sunrise Highway – Frenchman’s Coulee – Gorge Amphitheater – Mouth of Lower Moses Coulee – Rock Island Dam – Rock Island Creek – Badger Mountain – Pangborn Bar
Helicopter Flight: Nick Over the Rocks Part 7 (33 mins)
Supper: baked chicken thighs and cheesy scalloped potatoes, and yellow squash from our garden.
Friday, July 10
Today is Dee Eberhart’s 96th birthday! We met in 1988 at CWU.
We went to Joanie Taylor and Ken Matney’s house for our invitation to a celebration lunch of Tuna Patty Melts. She served it with Cole slaw and beets, and two pies for dessert: Mincemeat and another new creation cream pie with strawberries and plums.
Go to Super 1 for eggs (special 98₵, only one allowed, for 18 eggs). John also bought ground beef at a good price, and other stuff I don’t yet know about, except I think potato chips and Frito Scoops.
Kathy Williams-DeVries is on tonight at 5:00 p.m.
Kathy speaks with early music specialist Shaun Wigley
Saturday, July 11
Guess we didn’t do much today other than the usual.
I’ll start today with a barn photograph:
Barn is on S. Willow St, photo by Barb Bailey with permission. She posted this on Kittitas County Visual Delights.
I’ll end with this:
Comet Neowise over Denmark Pond, by Evie Mae Schuetz
Roy Spencer’s Comet Neowise Timelapse
Sunday, July 12 Happy Anniversary Us!
Taken at the Senior Center last year – explanation in link below.
Complete story to go with this photo of our 50th anniversary 2019
John’s back in the house fixing our brunch. He watered pine trees along the driveway. Brunch was an anniversary special.
Mine had a little too much maple syrup on the pancake, topped with cream and strawberries, and bacon on the side.
Supper: Meatloaf and fried cauliflower.
Hope your week was fine.
Nancy and John
Still on the Naneum Fan
I have lots to do, but still I may build a couple of these. Not fond of all white. Either red/white/blue or just natural wood.
Etched sketches and wildlife on paneling: Farmhouse, windmill, turkeys, geese and deer. 
Mom doe and twins top; twins and one single below
My winning Bingo game card was the likeness of a railroad; only using the I and G, from BINGO. I already had the Free in the middle circled before the pattern we were seeking was called.
Right with Brittany, is Charles (Mick) McBride holding FC/AFC Sher-loc Shay-Dee Holly, one of our Brittanys, born in 1986. Fun visiting with him after so many years.
John’s photo from 2019. John went up the driveway early to hang our flag on the post by the road.
There’s our flag flying in the wind last year, with me as we came back from playing patriotic music at the Senior Center. We did not have that early celebration this year because of COVID-19.
Photo by EvieMae Schuetz in Kittitas, WA (where fireworks are legal), displaying beautiful colors again this year, without wind!
Photo by Lise McGowan with her added commentary: Rising of the Independence Day full moon looking east!! Fireworks to the west!! The end to a blessed day! God bless America! He is watching over us!
Top: Early in the milling process with Ernest and Jason Ireland; bottom the posts and boards cut with slabs in the back.
Igneous intrusion pluton granite dome carving on north side. Located near Atlanta, GA-Confederate Memorial Carving.
My parents would take us to Warren, PA for 4th of July activities.
we couldn’t. We circumnavigated the lake where the wind was minimal.
Erik, Ray, John, Tanja, Cameron. Very left Erik upends boxes of new bottles and sets them under the fillers. Ray takes full bottles off the line and places them one at a time in the corker. John snags them from the corker and places them on the table to his right. Tanja places heat-shrink caps, then passes the bottles to Cameron who is running the label(s) applicator. Wine, in clear bottles, is Rose’ of Syrah. 
Photos by Jen Evans Yenter, ~9:15 p.m. (bottom is a panorama)
Jason Ireland, and co-worker came late morning and stayed to about 5:30. They cut our pile of logs into 8 ft. sections and stacked them for tomorrow’s make-lumber session. John also had them take out the 3 Tamarack trees that remained – close to the future car-park. Note that the closest tree is dead and cut off, and not in the way.
This final program lasted 2 hours. Longest and most attended lecture since March 17, 2020, when Nick started this series.
Top is Nick Zentner with the front cover, a painting by Patrick Swan, a 6 yr. old student who was always at the front of the class with his questions of Nick at the end of the lecture. His mom is Theresa Swan, who with the help of 9 others, put this book together in a very short time, and a lot of work. They constructed the maps above too. The bottom photo has friends from Sedro Woolley, WA (Steve, the crafter of the Cozy Fort), John and I at White Heron Cellars Mariposa Vineyard overlooking West Bar, where the Giant Current Ripples are that we had a livestream field trip to a week ago, and in the bottom right is Elizabeth and her pet rat, Zeke. She was raised in Eastern WA but now lives in Cardiff, Wales. 
Our 20 ft. ledger board is attached to strong structural parts of the house just above windows.
“Mr. Nash” rose and Checkered White Butterfly
Right side photo is from: 
John took me outside to see a baby deer in our garden. I got two pix before it jumped and scurried off. I wish I’d reacted fast enough to start a movie of the exit. Another deer has been hanging around, who was a twin born here in our barn. It was late in the season, and we thought the female twin was not going to make it through the winter, so we started feeding her and her brother. We named the twins, and Dawn is still hanging around, but she’s never had a baby. We wonder if she is the mom. A couple days later we saw them together, so now we know. 
Lovely farm near Kittitas, WA photographed by Evie Mae Schuetz
Sunset by Tonieka Kokjer in Kittitas County Visual Delights FB
I took my Alendronate on an empty stomach and ate a half hour later. Started checking with CWU library looking for access to Library Archived Faculty documents. I figured out the location of the research on debris flows in the Teanaway that Marty Kaatz did research on, but am unable to gain access because the library is closed. I talked to my friend in the Reference Department and he gave me the email to write to request a scanned copy, from the Archives, but no one there got back to me by phone, or email. Eventually she did. And sent me much information.
6-18-20, Noctiluscent cloud by Theresa Vandenberg, ~10:00 p.m., looking toward NW, from S. Ruby St, Ellensburg, WA 
Representative memory of Lost Rock Hammer incident at Drumheller Channels Columnar Basalts
Nick on top with his rock hammer
LiDAR image of field area reported on this morning
Wild Buckwheat – – most of ours are under a foot tall
Mock Orange (left, bush 12 feet) and Lupine (1 to 2 feet)
This photo looks a bit busy. The main thing relates to the future covered walkway. The 4 posts went up Thursday. I’m anticipating the pouring of concrete mid-to-late next week. There are numerous animals that could walk on the fresh concrete, so I am (a) building a temporary fence, and (b) a temporary ramp over a 2 ft. deep trench. Both of these are incomplete in this photo. However, the entrance ramp is usable. It is near right-center, next to the house.
John’s photo. Particulars of size, age, gender unknown. It is not little. Neighbor Allen has seen one recently and it compares with a large one killed (2019) up on the hill north of him (and us).
Photo by Kyle Olson, in Kittitas County Visual Delights
Heron & Moon, North Beach, Maryland, photo by George Hall, Getty Images
The view, looking south, is backed by the Columbia River, and top right over the backhoe is the sandy West Bar with Giant Current Ripples.
Sunrise after the storm–5:04 a.m. east of Kittitas by Evie Schuetz
inclined covered walkway, sized for wheelchair use. The covering will match the roof of the house and shaped as in the small illustration to the right. So far we only have four holes with concrete “footers” so there is no picture. The front overhang will only be 2 feet and the 2 front poles will have cars approaching them. The roof will go back 20 feet and attach to the house.
Panic2020 has caused New York City to close all the options that have offered places to pee to those in need. Peeing in public isn’t even a crime anymore. In 2017, NYC introduced the Criminal Justice Reform Act, which decriminalized low-level offenses.