Animals and Music

Sunday, Mar 15

For Mar 14, CPAP. Reported figures. 7 hrs 59 min with AHI = 0.75 Events: 1 CA, 5 H. No major mask leaks (max=10 L/min), after the SpO2 added, no change.

John and I are staying home today. I must work on paperwork. It rained last night, but he still spent time outside. Good he didn’t go to the wet side or it might have been very muddy trail repair. They received 2.2 inches of rain, breaking a record. I received a note from a pointing dog field trialer friend, who was at Scattercreek grounds for the East Seattle Pointer club’s trial, this weekend. He reported that 3.1 inches fell from Friday midnight to 6am Monday morning (the official total at the Palmer/NOAA weather station in Orting, WA – but the rain was region-wide).

Below is a beautiful greeting I made from California pictures Jeri Conklin put on Facebook of our Brittany, Daisy, in a field of poppies. The leather jacket is Jeri’s in honor of Daisy’s placement. Daisy is admiring the field of flowers and the jacket. Thanks, Jeri, for all you do for our sweet Brittany, officially registered with AKC as Cedaridge Kip’s Camelot Shay Tre’ JH.
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John got a lot of stuff done outside including limbing some of the trees he cut down on the path toward the barns where the access road will be. I paid a few bills, including WTA membership until 4/26/2016. Work on many different projects, set up my meds for the week, did more filing, with much more to do. Have only barely started inputting a little of the computer data records that will be necessary for tallying for taxes. Goodie, going through recent paperwork paid off. I found a cash reward at Costco of $123.03 I can pick up at the warehouse on Tuesday.

Monday, Mar 16

For Mar 15, CPAP report. Reported figures. 8 hrs 13 min with AHI = 0.37 Events: 3 H No major mask leaks (max=5 L/min), no change after the SpO2 added.

Today Dave Hazlett came at 10:00 to trim two horses’ feet, and John stayed home, instead of going to prune wine grapevines. I am glad because it was cold out this morning, 36°. I had a haircut planned at 1:00, at my neighbor’s house a mile away, so I washed my hair while John was fixing lunch. We had left-over (thawed) spaghetti sauce over a croissant roll with cheese. After the cutting, my hair looks much nicer. I had a lot in the lower back that showed in the Friday picture at the party–almost looked as if I had a pageboy haircut or a ducktail flipping up. Celia and I decided this was only 7 weeks between cuts, so I should consider switching next time to 6 weeks. I just wish the hair on top of my head would return, but it is still quite thin. Ended up working most of the afternoon on paperwork. Much to do. I did take some time to follow an on-line free course from The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn), a private university, located in Philadelphia, PA. The course is “Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us,” by Connie B. Scanga, PhD, Professor of Nursing. The first lecture is on the heart. I know a lot about that part of my body, but I still learned several things from the lecture. Here’s a decription about the course: The vital signs – heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, respiration rate, and pain – communicate important information about the physiological status of the human body. In this course we explore the anatomy and physiology underlying the vital signs so that you will develop a systematic, integrated understanding of how the body functions. The next lecture I started watching is on heart valves, very appropriate in my case.

Continuing with medical issues, I checked with my dentist about my bill; the insurance required a $50 deductible, I’d already paid the estimated amount owed, $66.80, but I owe $40 more, because while they would have paid 80% on a stainless steel filling, they won’t on a resin one. So much for insurance loop holes. I probably couldn’t have one anyway because of conductivity between the metals. My total bill was $210, for which they approved $134, but then paid only $27.20. I thought later that when I paid the amount at the time of the work, I would get a 5% discount, and I did not believe that had been applied. Later in the afternoon, I called, and I will have $5.34 credit. Pays to be on top of charges.
Called in and emailed my Metoprolol prescription request to Colleen (my cardiologist’s nurse). Will pick up tomorrow on my way home, along with Micardis and Furosemide.
The professional videotaping of last week’s Gold Mining lecture by Nick Zentner is now produced and was just distributed.TitleSlideGoldMiningVideoLibertyGoldMineGeology-NickZentner
Central Washington University geology professor Nick Zentner discusses gold deposits in the Swauk Mining District at Liberty, Washington. Includes a Question & Answer session with Liberty gold prospector Rob Repin. Zentner reads audience member questions. 250 folks attended the lecture at the Hal Holmes center in downtown, Ellensburg, Washington. March 11, 2015.
Nick explains why there is gold in the region.

It’s worth a watch for higher quality than those I gave you last week that I had captured and put on You Tube.

Tuesday, Mar 17

For Mar 16, CPAP report. Reported figures. 7 hrs 51 min with AHI = 0.25 Events: 2H 1CSR. No major mask leaks (max=7 L/min); no change after the SpO2 added.

John went to White Heron, and I went to Yakima to have laser surgery on my right foot’s toenails. It is slowly proceeding and I go back in a month, because he has starting more aggressively treating it. On my way back, I stopped at Costco, and bought 1/2 tank of gasoline for $2.319/gal. Cheapest in EBRG was $2.459. Phew. John is taking cash along tomorrow to stop off at George where it is $2.219. On the way home on Interstate 82, I called 911 to report large tire-tread pieces in the roadway. Apparently they came from a truck and were huge pieces, blocking the lane. Another truck went out and around that debris, calling my attention to it. I reported it between milepost 19 and 18, after 911 put me through to the State Patrol.

Made it back to EBRG in time to pick up my meds and get to Jazzercise where we had 4 participants for 45 minutes of movements and activities to raise our heart rates and then cool down. We have a leader (Katrina) to call the moves and we do them to music.
Today I wrote this on my Facebook timeline, as a warning:
If any of my Facebook (FB) friends (already friends) get a request from my account with my patriotic picture, do NOT accept the request. Fraudulent “scams” via Identity theft are rampant through FB. Yesterday, a friend requested being my FB friend, and I accepted, thinking I was already her friend, but not enough to call and ask. Results were a conversation (chat) on messages from her account about applying for an IMF grant and she’d just gotten $100,000 cash delivered to her door (for an outlay of money). Bottom line: if it sounds too good to be true, it is false and a scam to get your money. If you want to see the FB conversation, which disappeared this morning from FB messages, I captured it last night and have it. Does anyone know how to report such to Facebook? These crooks are using FB as a vehicle, plus, the link to apply is on FB (I did not).

Off to Royal Vista tonight to play music. Only two instruments there (piano & fiddle), and 3 singers, in addition to me. I got Lorene’s pictures ready and delivered them (from her 89th birthday party 8 days ago). She was pleased. Came home to a late dinner – roast beef cooked 2 days ago.

Wednesday, Mar 18

For Mar 17, CPAP report. Reported figures. 7 hrs 40 min with AHI = 0.00 Events: 1 CSR No major mask leaks (max=10 L/min), after the SpO2 added, 10 hrs 8 min, with AHI= 0.00

There is an eye problem with one of the horses. Called Dan Charlton, our vet, but he cannot come until tomorrow at 4:30. He lives on the road just ½ mile north of us and stops on the way home. Their office is 10 miles south.
Off at 11:00 to the Food Bank. Today we played Irish music and sang some other stuff with the patrons joining in. We had a decent meal, and I picked up some apples for the horses, and a little bread for us.
Tonight was the last lecture of Nick Zentner’s geology presentations. It was great – a bit exciting and scary too, on newest information about earthquakes in WA State. Sadly my battery (back up I charged fully before going), has bitten the dust. It was from a company not associated with the camera manufacturer, at half the price and has been working fine since the early 2000s. Now it’s toast and I lost my chance at videotaping the night’s lecture. My original camera battery was charging and not reached “green” yet when we left. I should have taken it anyway, but didn’t. My fault. On the way home, we bought a tub of vanilla ice cream.

Thursday, Mar 19

For Mar 18, CPAP report. Reported figures. No report; forgot to push in my SD card.
Oximetry was on all night. Minimum after CPAP off was 82 SpO2.

This morning something special appeared on Facebook on the Central Washington University page in Facebook, under the following picture:
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There we are behind Nick’s right ear.
(John says: looks like Nick is the youngest person in the room. There is often a teenage girl that comes but she doesn’t show here, and I did not see her this evening.)
The following comments appeared below the picture on the Central Washington University Facebook site (there are more, but I chose to share only the first two).
Amanda H. S. Taub (says): Great pic of 2 former professors of mine – Nick Zentner and Nancy B. Hultquist.
Nancy B. Hultquist (says): Thank you, eagle-eyed Amanda H. S. Taub. Yep, John and I were on the front row behind Nick, for the last of this year’s fantastic Zentner community geology lectures, at the City Library, Hal Holmes Center, Ellensburg, WA, on “New Discoveries – Earthquakes in Washington.” We and the rest of the community look forward to his next set. Attendance was the highest last week for Liberty Gold Mine Geology, with 250 happy folks.

Before I left for our play date at Dry Creek today, I set up copies of music and prepared for today a new edition of the lyrics of Mountain Dew (we did in Part II below).
John left at 7:40, for White Heron, and wine grapevine pruning. I left at 1:00 for Dry Creek. I carried all our music for the audience (19 copies) and handed them all out. Some people had to share. Once there, I set up my old camera whose battery wasn’t working last night, but today the other one was fully charged. I made a couple of videos. They are not the best because I didn’t have a place I could set it up, and no one to “run” the camera. But we have something for the season of St. Patrick’s Day week. We play this list throughout March and April.
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Irish Music by KV Fiddlers & Friends, 3-19-15, Part I

Other music by KV Fiddlers & Friends, 3-19-15, Part II

Myst’s eye evaluation occurred at 4:30 p.m. by vet Dan Charlton. Thankfully, it was not a sty, but an injury from a sliver, no longer there. Being less serious of an injury he was able to work on Myst without using a tranquilizer and she behaved well. The Charltons (family long in the Valley) have a cabin up where the fire went through last year. They had time to wet the area and there isn’t large vegetation close to it so the place did not burn. We wrote last summer of a cabin near there that did go up. Dan said the explosions were propane tanks. The fire came fast and hot and melted the brass fittings while also generating high pressure in the tanks. The design is for it to leak (vent) and burn (so we heard), but it didn’t have time to do that.
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Myst’s Eye Injury, Visit by Vet, 3-19-15

Click on the line above to see the video of the examination and treatment, which now we are doing twice a day. It’s much better as of Saturday evening.

Friday, Mar 20

For Mar 19, CPAP report. Reported figures. 7 hrs 34 min with AHI = 0.26 Events: 2H, 1 CSR No major mask leaks (max=16 L/min), after the SpO2, 9 hrs 20 min, with AHI= 0.21
Today, we had 9.81 more tons of hay delivered (total is just over 21 tons and should last about 15 months +). The money to pay for it has been in the checking account doing nothing, so that, now, is no longer a burr under John’s saddle.
Before John left for White Heron at 7:40 a.m., we walked down in the pasture for me to put ointment in Myst’s eye while John held her head. She likes apples and is enough interested in the apple that she hardly notices the treatment.

I went to a Scholarship luncheon today in Bouillon (where my old office was from 1997 to 2008–before that my office was in Lind Hall from ’88, and that’s how I got to know Nick Zentner so well). We had two salads, one Chinese chicken pasta, and the other broccoli (I am not supposed to have because of high Vitamin K content), large red grapes, cheese, and turkey bacon bits (homemade). Quite good. We had a V8 fusion drink peach/mango that had carrots in it. For dessert, a super cake, a peppermint one – 3 layers, dark chocolate crumbs similar to Oreo cookies, a layer of creamed sweetness, and a frosted pink top.

Then off to SAIL, where I got a call from our hay broker that he would be at the house after 1:30 (when John was due back). We received the last 9.81 tons of hay into our barns, to keep the other 11.44 tons of previously delivered hay, company. We are short one horse, so this should be plenty for this year and well into next.

I came home by way of the fence building crew up the road a ½ mile north & west, that we heard about last night from the vet, and went up to check it out. The builder and a co-worker were there today, and I got their information, and told him why we were interested. He’s 6 weeks out on being able to do anything, and we won’t be ready either until we get the land re-contoured and the property boundaries verified. When we are ready, we can call him for an estimate.

Here’s an example of their work, a mile northwest of our house.
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This collage I made with 3 different pictures. The Sweetwater property is owned by doctors from the west side. Kittitas County Fencing is installing the fence. We do not plan a fancy gate such as that, and it has been there awhile. We would like a similar fence, however. The shot above (top) is the long view along Charlton Road, and the lower left is the work in progress, actually east of the other two pictures, but on the same property. Note that while the fence is near the road, the gate is set in far enough that a pickup with horse trailer can get completely out of the traffic lane. The in-set is shaped like a ‘V’ so that wide turns by big trucks, into the lane, are possible. When we first arrived at out place the gates were in-the-fence-line and not wide enough for a big rig.

Saturday, Mar 21

For Mar 20, CPAP report. Reported figures. 8 hrs 22 min with AHI = 1.20 Events: 10H,1CSR leaks (max=20 L/min), after SpO2 added, 8 hrs 46 min, with AHI = 1.14

This morning early, I went with John to feed the horses, doctor Myst’s eye, and walk back by his work on reassembling the round pen. Then he went out and dug/pulled 5 more posts from the old fence along the driveway. Now I don’t know what he’s doing. He took a break and came in to fix a cheese & mushroom omelet. We had toast and locally made rope-style sausage.

P12366019322B is the serial # for my Philips Respironics. Sometime this weekend, I have to make time to install a new CPAP review program for my SD card. John found an article on CPAP machines and a doctor in North Carolina, who wrote an “app” for individuals to check their parameters collected each night on an SD card. I told my friend (who previously told me about the Sleepyhead software he’d been using, and taught me how), he downloaded it a couple days ago, and he sent me some suggestions about being sure I had all my information correct the first time, because it couldn’t be corrected (at least not easily). I will do it right the first time, thanks to him. First, I have to finish this blog, so John can get to it today, as he leaves at 6 AM for WTA trail work again on Poo Poo Point trail, Tiger Mountain. It’s supposed to be almost-dry until late in their work day. Hope that remains the case. He’s taking along my former student again, who lives here in the valley about 15 min. south of us.

I’m going to Briarwood for music (and food) today, and will take some onions to give away, and also 3 large HoneyCrisp apples for them to cut and share with the people there. This is always a fun play date every month. They go all out for us. We had several conflicts for players today so the crew of musicians was small.
I decided to take my camera with a rejuvenated battery, and capture today’s event.
So, this is the music presented by Maury, Gerald, Charlie (on guitars), Nancy on fiddle), and Anne (on tambourine) for the group.
Note the start is with Happy Birthday singing to celebrate two birthdays. One was our main cook today (Lee, at 83, last Thursday), and “Weed,” at 92, next Tuesday.
Then watch 23:40 minutes in for “Weed” dancing with Margo to Let Me Call You Sweetheart.

Briarwood music on 21 March 2015

They returned thanks by feeding us a nice holiday feast, of three salads (green chiffon with Mandarins, Broccoli, Potato), deviled eggs, and chicken salad sandwiches, to go with a birthday cake for Lee, and other goodies with pineapple juice and lime/orange sherbet, zucchini bread, chocolate covered peanut butter bars, a strawberry frosted Bundt cake, and fig newtons.
Here’s a collage of the afternoon’s fun. I’ll explain below.
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The top picture starts with desserts and punch. The birthday cake has “Happy Birthday, Lee”– she’s the one at the top right, with the burnt rolls (she laughingly asked me to document that). I wish I had a picture of her split pea & ham & carrot soup. It was scrumptious. On the bottom is the main table with 3 salads, sandwiches, and deviled eggs. The lady in the middle in blue is Collette, who just returned from surgery at Swedish hospital (Seattle) (for cancer in her back). She has recovered well from that, and just found out yesterday she has cancer in her throat, but they don’t know what type yet. She requested prayer from us all at the end. We’ll all keep her in our prayers, and seek others to add to their prayer chains as well. The couple dancing on the right is the other birthday gal, “Weed,” (in green) with Margo, in purple. They were dancing to Let me Call you Sweetheart. They had been dancing to the Anniversary Waltz, but were out of the view of the camera. You’ll have to watch the video about 23 min. in to see them dancing. The snag above from a low resolution video does not work well for clarity. We all had a good fun time today, darkened by Collette’s news, but she was happy to be there and very much enjoyed herself, thanking and re-thanking us for coming.
I had enough to eat I don’t need dinner. I brought home two desserts for John and me to have later, after his dinner.

Hope your week was fine.

Nancy and John
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