Monday, July 11
For July 10 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 6 hrs 14 min with AHI=0.00. Events: 0 CSR, 0 H, 10 RERA. No major mask leaks (max= 9 L/min). Oximetry: Excellent all night.
Went to Dr. Cardon for toenails, with medicine compound to show. Screwed up, fiasco, full waiting room, only one doctor with 4 patients inside with him, and people waiting since 9:30. No need to stay for as long as it might be. Others ahead of us for 10:15, 10:30, and we were to be at 10:30 and 10:45. Rescheduled for Aug 8, at 11:15 and 11:30. The clinic is in rented space in EBRG while the doctors and staff are from Yakima. Had we driven to Yakima to be informed their timing was so flawed, there would be no end to the anguish.
I made Toll House & nut cookies to take in the morning to our retired Geography Profs meeting because I could not find the leftovers in the freezer from a previous “forget.” John will stay home to meet our hay broker with 7.5 tons of hay he plans to deliver. Subsequently, we found the old frozen ones, so will use for next month, and our hay broker’s truck broke down, but his call didn’t come until John was out of the house preparing, and I was already at the meeting in town.
Tuesday, July 12 — our 47th wedding anniversary
For July 11 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 7 hrs 46 min with AHI=0.64. Events: 0 CSR, 1 CA, 1 PP, 4 H, 10 RERA. No major mask leaks (max= 19 L/min). Oximetry: Good all night with two blips below 88 for SpO2.
I responded early to some emails and took off for town at 8:20 a.m., taking my container of cookies for the group. We had a guest speaker on politics who is a faculty member at CWU and who writes a column for the local newspaper. We only had 8 members there, but we interacted well with the speaker.
I left to come home and change clothes for my PT appointment. I carried along a box of cherries for the PT folks and another for our Jazzercise teacher. I also took my painkillers in preparation for the session. I met a new therapist and she shared my time with the owner. They gave me quite a work over and made measurements of my range of motion on internal and external rotation. I got there early for my heat treatment at the start, and stayed for my ice treatment at the end. Now a few hours later, I am in pain again. But they say I’m making progress.
I went directly from there to Jazzercise. I got more of a workout for 45 minutes. On home by way of the Food Bank bread room to pick up some stuff for our neighbors and us. We will be having a hamburger with mushrooms for dinner, and I got some nice cheesy rolls to use, along with a loaf of sourdough Boule bread. Boule is the French word for ball, and the bread is cooked in such a shape. Our neighbors received a loaf of cinnamon bread they like and a package of nice large biscuits and also dinner rolls.
Tonight I am going to play music back at the place I started this morning, Hearthstone. I’ll be worn out when I get home, for sure.
Wednesday, July 13
For July 12 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 8 hrs 9 min with AHI=0.74. Events: 0 CSR, 6 H, 14 RERA. No major mask leaks (max= 16 L/min). Oximetry: Looks good all night, 2 blips to 88-89 & on SpO2.
Shirley, Stan, & Gloria are not going with me for 2 weeks to our normal gigs.
John is setting up irrigation water to send to Sherri because her ditches are cleaned, as is the in-between neighbor’s ditch that carries the water down the fan.
My trip to the food bank was good (with good music and food afterwards). I went on to SAIL exercises class afterwards.
We had more cherries to pick, and deer to view and share with as we picked. The deer go for the leaves first. Some of the cherries, if any are on the branches, mostly get eaten too, but there may be other critters doing that.
Thursday, July 14
For July 13 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 5 hrs 33 min with AHI=1.26. Events: 1 CSR, 7 H, 7 RERA. No major mask leaks (max= 14 L/min). Oximetry: Battery died; only an hour’s graph.
We met Dawn (Tjemsland) and Victor Estrella for lunch at the Golden Dragon buffet 11:45, from their walk around the CWU campus, 20 years later. Dawn took Victor to see various places (such as her dorm/apt, Lind Science Hall (where Geography was housed then), and to the Wildcat shop at the new student union building.
She has a few memories she shared on Facebook, but I picked this one.
Dawn with the CWU Wildcat in front of the new SURC (Student Union & Recreation Center).
We spent a nice visit before and with food and had our waitress, Lisa, take our photo at the end on both our cameras. The picture on Dawn’s camera was better that the rest.
John, Nancy, Victor, and Dawn.
We drove to music following at The Meadows Place. Victor joined us on the accordion, borrowed from Gerald Gordon. Dawn was my student about 20 years ago. She now teaches Earth Science in Boise and Victor is a Special Ed teacher. I last saw them in 2007, when I went to a Geography conference in San Francisco, and they were living in San Leandro. They were very gracious to invite me to stay at their home for the duration of the week, and driving me to the BART station for going back and forth to SF. It was while I was there I heard Victor practicing with his band. He plays the bass and the accordion. We couldn’t get him a bass fiddle, but we could obtain an accordion.
Dawn took my camera and made one video (below) and a couple of photos.
Battle Hymn of the Republic by Kittitas Valley Fiddlers & Friends, 7/14/16
After the music, we parted and they went on to Leavenworth for the night. I followed them on Facebook and enjoyed more of their trip, to Washington’s pseudo Bavarian city, an economic development result occurring from a dying forest and railroad town.
They stayed in a Bavarian decor (everything in the town is, including Starbucks, McDonald’s) hotel.
They went out dining and drinking during the evening. My favorite photo was of them fooling around, when they found a photo shop. This sepia capture is my favorite and will keep me chuckling.
I joked with them about singing the Sounds of Music, and how this accordion fits Victor better than the one he played on with our group.
From there they drove to Anacortes for the Ferry to Orcas Island, for the wedding they had originally made the trip for. We on Facebook were able to share their adventures to the wedding, but this was another favorite of them all dressed up for the special event.
This is on Orcas at Eastsound, WA.
On their way out Sunday, they toured a special park on the island, Moran State Park. I am sure this has been a fun trip for them.
Continuing with the music theme, our friends also in the Boise area in Nampa, have some celebrating to do. Katrina Nicolayeff is the daughter of my violin teacher at the WA Old Time Fiddlers Workshop for 22 years, Roberta (Bobbie) Pearce. Katrina is a left-handed fiddler. This video below only can be viewed by those with Facebook accounts, but I’m putting it in anyway.
Katrina recently won the championship at Weiser for the third time:
Katrina
If you can see this video, the little girl is her on the violin at 3 and not her red-haired daughter, Chloe.
Here are some photos of her at Weiser this year.
Katrina on left holding the trophy – at first I thought it was a bottle of wine, and her “diploma.” On the right we see the top of the fiddling trophy. So kewl. Katrina Nicolayeff is everyone’s favorite left-handed fiddler. She is having a CD release party on July 30th in Boise, for her new CD. We were invited, but we have conflicts that day. We will arrange with her to get a copy, “signed.”
Finally, from being on Facebook collecting information about the CD release and party, I picked up a few pictures of the family:
Left, Stampede Breakfast this weekend. Fiddlers got in free to enjoy pancakes; Katrina had her CDs there to sell. Middle her patriotic kids, and Chloe on the right. What a cutie.
Here is her new CD.
I hope you can see the list of songs included. #13, Orange Blossom Special, is John’s favorite fiddle tune.
Friday, July 15
For July 14 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 6 hrs 5 min with AHI=0.16. Events: 0 CSR, 1 H, 7 RERA. No major mask leaks (max= 19 L/min). Oximetry: Fairly even all night long.
John left at 6:30 a.m. to help repair a broken railing on a log bridge (Annette Lake Trail) but did not know what he would be doing when he left here. See the 2010 photo at this link:
A recent tree fall took out about ¾ of the rail or almost all of what appears in the photo.
I slept in for another couple hrs, and then did some stuff. Last thing before I left was to pick a 5-gallon bucket full of purple and white and with purple Dahlias John has grown (just this year). I had promised to bring dahlias for the going-away party for Olivia Estill, working for AmeriCorps for the past two years here at our Ellensburg Adult Activity Center (the senior center). She participated in leading three exercises classes: SAIL, Yoga, and Tai Chi. She was helpful in all the activities of the center, and went along on field trips from the center throughout the state. She has helped manage the Facebook presence on line. If you are on Facebook, you can find their account at Ellensburg Adult Activity Center, and get an idea of all the activities happening there. I only talk about a few of my favorites in this blog.
I don’t have a photo of the 5-gallon carrier, but I have the before shots in the garden and the after in the vases (and in some of the pictures).
The two left are from the garden a week ago, but the ones I took are mostly lighter with dark purple highlights. The two vases spent most of the party beside the trivia game board. However, if you look below, you’ll see the one pitcher in my hands during the photo session. Olivia was going to take the flowers home with her to enjoy over the weekend.
Once I got there, there we found two vases and put the dahlias in them. I found a place to sit where I could do some picture-taking. This was a going away party for our AmeriCorps worker for the past 2 years, whom we all have grown to love. She is from Kentucky, and will returning to work on a Masters degree in Exercise Physiology.
Olivia Estill’s going away party was well attended. We had homemade macaroni and cheese casserole, with 3 different types of cheese. It was excellent, and that statement comes from a non-pasta liker. Green salad, and a root beer float for dessert.
Two videos below – at the beginning and at the end of the event:
Katrina Douglas With Olivia Estill – Going Away Party, 7-15-16
Olivia – You are My Sunshine – Nancy’s Comments 7-15-16
Carly, Nancy, Olivia, and Dorothea.
Hugs and dancing with Olivia.
Saturday, July 16
For July 15 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 5 hrs 26 min with AHI=0.18. Events: 0 CSR, 1 H, 8 RERA. No major mask leaks (max= 7 L/min). A ringing doorbell in my sleep awakened me at just before 6:00 a.m., but I went back to sleep for a couple of hours without machines on. Oximetry: seemed to be okay but had some glitches at the end-maybe the battery died an hour before I awoke, and turned off the oximeter. Strange.
John started by working on the computer on a WTA trail report and then took care of re-routing irrigation water and other chores – getting ready for 15 tons of hay, watering plants, and feeding cats. Now the temperatures have increased into the 70s.
Going tonight to Charlie’s and Helga for a potluck with the Belorussian visitor. We took two pieces of cooked (by John) Alaskan salmon given to us by our neighbor, written up earlier in this blog. His son caught them. In addition, we took a 1.25-gallon ice cream container of fresh cherries. We came home empty-handed. But full bellied. Should have grabbed a few cookies or raspberry pie for John. We actually will have fresh raspberries on our coconut cream pie tomorrow night.
Sunday, July 17
For July 16 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 7 hrs 46 min with AHI=0.64. Events: 0 CSR, 5 H, 16 RERA. No major mask leaks (max= 11 L/min). Oximetry: just fine throughout.
I spent the day working on the blog and on dishes and music projects. John spent his out hours mowing, moving hay, killing weeds, and other minor chores.
Late afternoon a thunder and rain storm went eastward across the valley to our south. It only rained slightly here. Friends down in the Badger Pocket area likely were more impressed. My friend in Thorp got dumped on, along with fireworks as well.
To end this day, I will post a photo taken Friday at the Gorge, with a concert by Phish. The photo is gorgeous, and was taken by my friend, Hannah Gillick, from Ellensburg.
The location is 9 miles south of where John prunes grapes at Mariposa Vineyard.
Hope your week was fine.
Nancy and John
Still on the Naneum Fan