Routine

Sunday, May 10 Mother’s Day

For May 9 CPAP. Reported figures.7 hrs 57 min with AHI = 0.38 Events: 3H No major mask leaks (max=15 L/min). After SpO2 oximetry data added, AHI=0.29 and oximeter was on for 10 hrs 12 min; I was not sleeping all that time, though.

Finished up the long blog of Fire, Floods, and Flowers from last week. We had all sorts of technological problems, but finally got it published and then made some corrections. Word Press (or our not understanding it) was at its worst today, for unknown reasons. Thanks to John for sticking with it. You got flowers twice in the blog for Mother’s Day, because of the problems posting.

My nose has continued flowing today with a few sneezes. I must be allergic to something in the air. Yesterday was worse, but I was able to sleep through the night. Maybe it’s the Mountain Ash in our front yard in full bloom and humming with bees.

Leftover spaghetti for lunch, and in between the problems with the blog, John moved the horses around the back of our house for a couple hours. Now he’s back out to do chores. I finished making the corrections to the blog, and returned to correcting the music that had something wrong with it. That included 9 different songs. Some are more serious than others and won’t require reprinting, but, seven will, so I will likely do them tomorrow, rather than running 12 copies on my printer. I did scan to .pdf all the music corrected over the past week. One song I had to completely change the key on from G to D (Fraulein), because it was too high for all the singers to sing. Now to number my master copy, so they are easily inserted to replace the bad ones. Eventually, I will take time to collect the .pdfs on the computer so I can send to everyone with a computer to have a good version in their collection. I also share with other musician friends around the U.S. If you are reading this and want me to add you to the distribution list, just ask. Once I have the scores for all our repertoire for two months playing, I might as well share.

Finished most of the prep for getting the corrections run off before Thursday’s meeting of the KV F&F music group. Need to run more pages to replace problems found last week… with chords, lyrics, or in one case the key.

Monday, May 11

For May 10 CPAP. Reported figures. 3 hrs 54 min with AHI = 0.00 Events: 0 H No major mask leaks (max=9 L/min). After SpO2 oximetry data added, oximeter was on for 8 hrs 1 min. I purposefully wore it a short time because of a badly chafed nose from blowing it for 2 days. Lowered SpO2 evident about 6:30 a.m.

I met a geographer friend driving through Ellensburg from Olympia, today, for lunch. It was at a new Japanese Sushi/Steakhouse in Ellensburg. The company was great, but I cannot say that I enjoyed the food or the price that much. I had Shrimp Tempura thinking it wouldn’t be Sushi. Was served with a bowl of soup, and came on a bench platter, with only 3 shrimp (should have had chicken teriyaki and gotten 6 pieces as my friend did), also came with a salad, rice, deep fried veggies with shrimp, and some little sushi rolls. Went from there to print my additional music, and on home, not feeling very well.

Tuesday, May 12

For May 11 CPAP. Reported figures. 5 hrs 55 min with AHI = 0.34 Events: 2H, 2CSR “Small but acceptable amount of major mask leakage” (never saw that message before!) Oximetry data not available because the battery died on it at 3:00 a.m., and the record is incomplete.

We took a dozen hand-picked donuts and a cola drink and went to Hearthstone for the monthly meeting of the Emeriti Geographers’ group. We shared many stories. We left the meeting and filled up my empty tank with $2.65/gal gasoline. Later this week, it went to $2.82/gal. On home, but turned around and headed back to town for Jazzercise. I got there early to fill out a form about my heart health before proceeding in the class. It was rather vigorous exercise today. I was on my way home, having missed a message on my cell phone from John, and he called again. I was a mile away from near where I had been, and he needed a “nut’ for the end of a bolt that lost its on his chainsaw bar holder. I got it and checked while on that end of town for coupons from Burger King, as I had not had any lunch. They had a special of 10 chicken nuggets with large fries for $3. I came home and shared a few nuggets, and half the large fries with John. Now I have to leave in 45 minutes to go back to Hearthstone again to play music with The Connections (a religious music group).

John has been out using the chainsaw to drop several small trees and 2 larger ones. This serves both for fire-break clearing and eventual firewood, after drying. I substituted my corrected music for checking out (for Thursday), tomorrow at the Food Bank. Also, this morning I sorted through all the extras and combined to give to the others on Thursday, some who need only the 7 revised. Others not there last week need the whole packet with the corrected ones they can add. I’m not going to take time to do that. Then one more is our clarinet player who has many of the songs already, and won’t have to change the notes in ones we have changed chords in. I only have to print for her the NEW songs or the significantly changed ones, such as changing the key.

Wednesday, May 13

For May 12 CPAP. Reported figures. 8 hrs 34 min with AHI = 0.35 Events: 3H, 2 CSR. No major mask leaks (max=14 L/min). After SpO2 oximetry data added no change, same timing.

Breakfast this morning was neat: This is cornbread with PA family made maple syrup, described in last week’s blog. The egg is from our friends, and the bacon was left over from an earlier meal.

Rained a lot yesterday and last night and still raining this morning. John’s emptied all the barrels and set up more 5-gallon containers to capture runoff from our front roof, which goes on the concrete or the wood deck and bounces back into the alcove at the front porch. Anything of value cannot be put there because of the odd chance it will rain and blow from the east. We have mentioned this front (wet) issue before and think it is now on the to-do list – in another month or so.

I left just after 11:00 for the Food Bank, where we had pasta with Swedish meatballs, salad, and applesauce for dessert. On by the bank and to SAIL exercise class. I came home to work on music chores for tomorrow and dish washing. John worked outside most of the rest of the afternoon, but had spent time inside cleaning house while it rained. He moved a lot of buckets of water today.

Thursday, May 14

For May 13 CPAP. Reported figures. 7 hrs 48 min with AHI = 0.13 Events: 1H No major mask leaks (max=4 L/min). After SpO2 oximetry data added, AHI=0.11, and my oximeter was on for 9 hrs 28 min.

Picked up (near the end of Naneum Rd at Vantage Hwy) a 5-gal bucket with a top, from a gal on the Buy Nothing Ellensburg site. She brings them home from her work at the hospital, cleaning floors. This was my first from her, but I will likely get more.

Our group played at Rehab today, and I left there to go by CWU for 4:00 talk in 103 Dean, by a retiring geographer. It was interesting to hear about his last 20 years of research as a cultural geographer. He’s moving to Tennessee to be close to family, fishing lakes, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

One of our guitar players, who lives in the Hidden Valley area, was going to Cle Elum yesterday, and he picked up an Emergency Preparedness Backpack left at the fire station for me from a lady in the regional Red Cross office in Yakima. We met her at the Fire-Wise workshop May 2 and visited for awhile about our community service. I sent her links to the videos I made of the day, (still have more to do), and she gifted me this emergency preparedness collection – a grab and go thing if your are to evacuate from fire or other disaster. John is going to a Red Cross workshop session Sunday 9:00 to 3:00 p.m. in North Bend, WA put on by the WTA for their assistant crew leaders, called Crew Leader College. (He will go Sat., too, but will be doing other things.) This is Basic First Aid and CPR – highly recommended for all assistant crew leaders. John did one a couple of years before I got ill so he is not now certified. (It is supposed to be every 2 years.) It is also, now, part of the Forest Service requirements for becoming a certified crosscut sawyer. Years ago when John did the crosscut certification the first aid training was not required. Holly Chambers is a certified First Aid/CPR instructor for the American Red Cross and will be running the class. She is part of the King County Search and Rescue. John can take (my) Emergency Preparedness Backpack along to show the class. It is full of neat items, including an AM/FM radio (bright yellow so not easily lost) with batteries, a 2-cell flashlight with batteries, water, food, protein bars, and a first aid kit. Duck tape (45m), a collapsible 5-gal water bottle with spigot, emergency first aid guide, emergency blanket, tape & gauze, antiseptic swab, emergency hooded plastic poncho, toiletries including toothbrush, washcloth, soap, body lotion, pocket tissues, shampoo, deodorant, moist towelettes, hand sanitizer, face mask, emergency rations (pressed hard as rocks), emergency drinking water in 1/8 qt., 4 packets.

Friday, May 15

For May 14 CPAP. Reported figures.7 hrs 39 min with AHI = 0.39 Events: 3H, CSR No major mask leaks (max=7 L/min). Oximeter off same time — no after report.

We went to town early for our friend’s yard sale and the one next door. Found a nice western shirt for John for $1 – Plains Western Wear (made in China), sold a few years ago at WalMart for about $14., now no longer available. This appears to have never been worn. Then back to town to Safeway for drinks. John found Pepsis on a special Friday sale, for $.25/can. While there, he bought some mushrooms. On the way, we saw a sign for a yard sale on Vista (up the road from Royal Vista nursing home where I play music). Turns out the yard sale was at the house of a man I recognized (a minister) who comes to Royal Vista to give devotionals to the residents. He follows us in on the first Wednesday of the month, there, and loves our ministry of music as well. We found some stuff at their sale and as we were leaving, we saw a new 1×4 for $1. John picked it up to add to the pile, and the gentleman said, I have some more wood out back that are 2x6s. Off John went with him to look, and I stayed out with our things, but finally figured they were visiting too long and so moved it over near the cashier to go find John. I gave her $4 for two Pyrex dishes and a large measuring cup (pint), a new wooden holder for paper towels, a large roll of shelving paper with a smaller one both for $1, the 1×4 for a buck, and a free bread knife and spatula.

Here’s the going cost for new lumber, so not knowing any count, except seven 2x4s, which is worth over twice as much as we paid for all the wood. Current prices at a local lumber yard are: 1x4x8 pine =$ 3.05; 2x4x8 Doug fir =$ 2.99; and, 2x6x8 Doug fir= $ 4.43. There was much more in the pickup load he brought home. We gave the fellow $10 he asked, and we told them he’d bring his truck back to get them after noon. I was quite surprised to see the amount of lumber we acquired.

Stopping here so John can publish this tonight. He will be gone all day for Saturday and Sunday.

Hope your week was fine.

Nancy and John

Still on the Naneum Fan