Well, here it does!
Sunday, Mar 22
For Mar 21, CPAP. Reported figures. 5 hrs 21 min with AHI = 0.00 Events: none. No major mask leaks (max=8 L/min), after SpO2 added, no change, but 9 hrs, 46 min.
Early morning call at 5:08 AM from my friend who wasn’t feeling up to going along with John today to work on trail on the other side (the alarm had already woke me at 5:00 a.m.). I remained awake until John left at 6:20, and then I attempted to go back to sleep. No longer on my CPAP machine, I was very comfortable, catching up on much needed rest until 9:30, when I finally got up and fed Woody on her outside perch. I managed to do some corrections to last week’s blog that we published late last night. John was having problems with Word Press not inserting my photos he had uploaded to the server, but I am glad he stuck with it, because early morning today, his sister acknowledged it with a nice note about the variety of images last week. I do not know how to add a photo to Word Press (guess I should learn) and there was one I left out. So here it is.
Mario used a smaller flat-bed truck for 2 loads of about 5 tons each, all of which he handled alone. This load is just over 9 tons and he brought a helper and the elevator (orange thing on the top of the hay). The middle photo shows the old red barn on the left and the new pole barn (2012), on the right. The empty trailer with elevator is parked for unloading into the red barn – just finished. The bottom picture is inside the pole barn, where most of the hay is. About 15 bales got put into the red barn.
` ` ` ` I took care of more kitchen stuff. Most importantly, John will be happy to know I finally killed the large fly that has taunted us for several days. Now back to music prep. Realized my tummy was growling, so I fixed (at John’s suggestion as he left), a Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie, with more sodium than I need in a day.
` ` ` ` Whoopee–Dr. Dave found a copy of You Can’t Be True Dear (for you Germans out there: Du Kannst Nickt Treu Sein), and Charlie and Helga will sing a verse in German), at our request. Now I can put it into SongWriter and will be able to change the key so that our clarinet player can join us on the melody. I finally finished that and one other, and I am ready to send off for proofing.
` ` ` ` John made it home, bought gasoline (cash price) for $2.359 in Cle Elum, and it was one cent higher at Costco in Union Gap (Yakima). He did not have enough gasoline to get to George tomorrow to buy at the much better price of $2.219. Maybe on his way home, he can fill up there. He fed the horses, and I walked down into the pasture at the feeding place and gate, so I could doctor Myst’s eye. It is looking fine.
I installed the new SleepMapper App. We’ll know in the morning about its usefulness. (It was okay but is not nearly as useful and informative as the old SleepyHead software I have used since last year.)
Monday, Mar 23
For Mar 22, CPAP. Reported figures. 7 hrs 39 min with AHI = 0.13 Events: 1 H No major mask leaks (max=16 L/min), after the SpO2 added, it was 8 hrs 36 min, with AHI = 0.12
John left at 7:40 a.m. to prune wine grapevines. I spent a lot of time today on music matters for this entire week. Somebody has to be the organizer. Also worked on CPAP data reports, a daily affair, but sometimes more involved. Doctored Myst’s eye and we got her bill for $125 (rounding off). I took a picture of the first limb blossoming on our Nanking Cherries, behind our house. See below for the before (3/23) and after (3/27) picture collage.
Tuesday, Mar 24
For Mar 23, CPAP. Reported figures. 8 hrs 35 min with AHI = 0.12 Events: 1 H No major mask leaks (max=18 L/min), after the SpO2 was added, it was 9 hrs 43 min, with AHI = 0.10
We had a long night of rain and filled our rain barrel. Also it started snowing at some point, and the hills are bright with snow this morning, including snow on all the passes and high spots (Blewett, Snoqualmie, and even Ryegrass hill that John has to go over this morning on his way to prune).
I have downloaded some CPAP data (or uploaded I guess) from my SD card to both my software programs for information tallies. I do not like the new SleepMapper one because it does not provide input for my Oximeter, my main reason for my using the machine nightly. The older SleepyHead is my preferred reporting system. Last night I think my finger (middle) wore the oximeter all night, and I did not change fingers, as I normally do. It was very painful this morning, after 8.6 hrs on.
` ` ` ` Sad news of the brother and son of good friends in the valley who died of a heart attack, at 64.
` ` ` ` Much of the morning spent on computer clean up, dishes, clothes, and paperwork continues. In addition, I worked on the jobs list and a tiny bit on music.
` ` ` ` Searched a little for a tulip flower like tree my neighbor’s sister found in Burien, and they did not know the name. John came back from pruning, searched for 1/2 hr, and found what we think it is, but it is a slightly different type from what he originally thought. It is a Paulownia tree (type, Tarentosa). First, he thought an Empress Paulownia. Here it is:
Wednesday, Mar 25
For Mar 24, CPAP. Reported figures. 7 hrs 1 min with AHI = 0.14 Events: 1 H No major mask leaks (max=9 L/min), after the SpO2 was added, it was 10 hrs 2 min, with AHI = 0.10
Not much time before I take off at 11:00 for the Food Bank. I slept in until 9:30, after John left at 7:40 for wine grapevine pruning. More rain last night and snow on the hills. I need to run some music, but my inks (except cyan) are all down to almost empty. The first to go will not allow me to print anything. I did not realize my Magenta has an exclamation point and so I cannot print anything. I will have to change the cartridge first. I just finished making corrections to Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra for tomorrow. I will need to make some changes for people. Oh, apparently, the magenta is not yet out, just running low. So, I can print for a while.
` ` ` ` Today we had two singers with us and Evelyn created a nice songbook for the Food Bank bunch. They were very appreciative and many sang along. Today, we had a very nice meatloaf, quite colorful potatoes (purple, brown, yellow–all small with mushrooms), large green salad, but no dessert. It was to be apple cobbler, but when they were removing it from the oven, it fell and went all over the floor. I came home and had a donut. I went by the bank to cash a check. John has been buying apples (cash needed) & food in Quincy, and needs cash in George for gasoline that is much cheaper than in Ellensburg. I am tempted to have him drive my car and fill up at the lower price. (Unfortunately, their price went up a dime and so he did not take my car).
Guess I need to get the cat’s food ready, and change my shoes to doctor Myst’s eye.
` ` ` ` Got some great pictures today from my friend from long ago, Anne Bennett, and our maid of honor, who, with her hubby, went as our representatives to a dinner honoring the two David Bederman scholars from the Emory Law School (for which we had donated money in his honor). David died from cancer, at 50, in 2011. In his own right, he was a scholar and an excellent teacher, I am sure he was taking after his dad, Sanford Bederman, who was my first Geography professor in 1962, at Georgia State University. Sandy’s wife, Jolayne, and I were friends early on, and I babysat David when he was a youngster. Sandy and Jolayne guided a Geography field trip to Europe, for 9 weeks, in 1965. We visited 17 countries with 19 girls and 4 guys, studying the geography before and during the trip. We each took the Geography of Europe class spring quarter, picked a research topic, and presented our report while on the trip. It was a memorable experience that I have carried with me throughout my life and teaching career, which Sandy was also very instrumental in supporting. On that trip was my friend, mentioned above, Anne Bennett, so it seemed appropriate that she and Richard go to the event. Richard was kind enough to take some pictures for us and the Bederman family. Here is one of the three of them for our memories: Anne Bennett is between Sandy and Jolayne Bederman.
Thursday, Mar 26 Special Irish tea today
For Mar 25, CPAP. Reported figures. 6 hrs 36 min with AHI = 0.30 Events: 2 H No major mask leaks (max=14 L/min).
Early morning call at 7:45 a.m. from Dave Lundy, to say he was in town and would be playing with us today. This is our normal day for playing music at Hearthstone, but the facility decided (without our knowledge) to make it into a community event. Ninety people were invited into a very small space. We could barely hear ourselves play. Meanwhile, here is a collage without our group (we were squeezed into a long narrow line to the right near the windows and sadly, we could not hear one another). Luckily, one of our players brought her Irish drum, and was able to keep time for us to hear. The collage below shows the community invitation and a couple of photos I took before the start. Description is below the picture.
The flyer distributed around town caused the large number in the audience. The Kittitas Valley is left off the front of our Fiddlers & Friends name. The top right photo is of our friends Mary Ann Macinko standing near center, with George behind), who are residents there. The bottom right photo shows a table setting, with an offering of fruit (blackberries, strawberries, cantaloupe, little mocha chocolate cupcakes, and cranberry scones). A bartender was there to add some whiskey to those wanting a real Irish tea. All the extra visitors made for a very raucous hour.
` ` ` ` It was a very stressful day, all around, and I was very tired from so little sleep and so much activity that I came home and took almost a 2-hr nap. I know I needed it. I have not taken afternoon naps in many, many months.
Friday, Mar 27
For Mar 26, CPAP. Reported figures. 7 hrs 28 min with AHI = 0.54 Events: 4 H,1CSR. No major mask leaks (max=21 L/min), after the SpO2 added, it was 8 hrs 48 min, with AHI = 0.45
John went to his last day of pruning wine grapevines. He and Cameron (owner) worked the last 2 days without others – one to PA and one to TN on trips, the timing of which they could not control. They might be faster workers if they didn’t take so much time watching trains and train-track repair/replacement – massive machines this week. They get to see (and hear) fighter jets going through the Columbia River Canyon on training flights, and there are also BNSF trains carrying Boeing planes from Wichita to Seattle.
A web sourced photo near the vineyard.
Here’s a video of the machinery and folks fixing track: Click here.
No SAIL today but a potluck & practice session tonight. We’ll eat at 6:00 PM. I worked some getting music ready. We played about 1.5 hrs and found some more problems I have to fix tomorrow, and print out for the evening’s dinner music for the 40th Anniversary Dance of the Blue Agates Round and Square Dance Club of the valley. A regular caller will be there for the dance part.
Saturday, Mar 28
For Mar 27, CPAP. Reported figures. 8 hrs 32 min with AHI = 0.12 Events: 1 H No major mask leaks (max=17 L/min).
We are both working on the blog today, and I am finishing music corrections for our playing tonight, where a few of our group are playing instrumental music for dinner at the 40th anniversary dance of the Blue Agate Square & Round Dance Club’s celebration.
Hope your week was fine.
Nancy and John
Still on the Naneum Fan