We are having serious problems with getting things into WordPress, including photographs. Some John tried 6 times.
Monday, May 22
For May 21 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=1.46. Events: 2 CSR, 8 H, 15 RERA. Time on 5 hrs 29 min with (max = 13 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 low 87, 1 events <88% with overall avg., 92.4%. Pulse avg. 53.9, low 50.
Today was our 3-month regular trip to our foot doctor for toenail inspection, maintenance, and repair. I’ve had no sign of fungus for many months. It is a benefit of Medicare that we appreciate having. From there we went for beans and beef to make a nice addition tomorrow for our end of year CWU Geography Awards ceremony and potluck with CWU Food Service burgers and hotdogs (wieners, frankfurter, frank or whatever you call them).
This afternoon we left for CWU to attend the Recognition Ceremony & Reception to celebrate promotion, tenure, senior lecturers, and distinguished faculty members (in teaching and research), where several of my colleagues received awards. It was a wonderful event. I am so proud of my friend since 1994, Elaine Glenn, who teaches Geography, as a Senior Lecturer. She received the Distinguished Non-tenure Teaching Award. I wrote a recommendation for her 3 years ago and again this year. She has deserved it for a long while. John and I enjoyed sitting with her family, sharing the award ceremony, and dinner afterwards. Do watch her acceptance speech below. Others from Geography honored we knew there were John Bowen and Elvin Delgado. As well, Patrick Lubinski (Anthropology) won the Distinguished Teaching award for tenured professors. Be sure to watch his acceptance speech below. One other person I know, David Douglas, was promoted to Senior Lecturer. In addition, Clay Arango, formerly our student, was promoted to Associate Professor of Biological Sciences.
Stage for presentations – the Glenn family, Eliza, Elaine, & Dana
Elaine Glenn, CWU Distinguished Teaching Award, 5-22-17
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Pat Lubinski, CWU Distinguished Teaching Award, 5-22-17
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Elvin Delgado, CWU Awarded Stole for Promotion to Associate Professor of Geography, 5-22-16
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John Bowen, CWU Awarded Stole for Promotion to Professor of Geography, 5-22-17
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Clay Arango, CWU Awarded Stole for Promotion to Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, 5-22-17
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The geography faculty members had several people there supporting them. I don’t have photos of everyone there, but I recall seeing, the Bowen family, the Glenn family, Diane & Jim Huckabay, John & Nancy Hultquist, Karl Lillquist, Craig Revels, and Monica Bruya. The promotion and tenure awards are recognized and presented a lot differently from when Morris Uebelacker and I received our tenure and promotion to Professor, and that was in this century!
Here is a collage photo of the Geography honorees, with and without, their scholarly hats.
Elvin Delgado, Elaine Glenn, and John Bowen in Regalia
Tuesday, May 23
For May 22 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.13. Events: 1 H, 1 PP, 13 RERA. Time on 7 hrs 59 min with (max = 6 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 low 88, 0 events <88% with overall avg., 92.1%. Pulse avg. 56.1, low 49.
Today we did chores in the yard and house, and very early morning, John put beef in the slow cooker with tomatoes and BBQ sauce to cook. Later, he added onions, black beans, corn, and other beans with the cut up tender beef. It was a great addition to the table to go with burgers and dogs. People brought salads, cheese, dips, crackers, beans, asparagus, and there was a nice cake the department provided, with chocolate and carrot cake, covered with white and raspberry icing.
Our offering on the left, middle cookies & salads, salsa, and right, mixed green salad, asparagus & eggs, and another veggie dish.
We ate first and then had the scholarship awards. $7000 worth of scholarships was awarded, and five students received their GIS Certificates.
I took some photos, but ran out of memory part way through and needed to delete some from last night (that already were on my computer).
The Macinko Award
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The Brooks-Shaw Award
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I am sorry this was the one I was taping when I ran out of memory on my SD card. I only got the first awardee’s descriptive comments on the video. My apologies to Madison Smith. Recipients of this award are Madison and Emma Leonard. Here they are afterwards displaying their awards, with the donor.
Emma Leonard, Lillian Brooks, Madison Smith
Finally, our award was presented to two students, one a Cultural & Natural Resource Management graduate student, Savannah Bommarito, and the other, an undergraduate Geography major, Emma Leonard, from New Zealand.
The Hultquist Distinguished Service Award
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John and I fund this award for two students each year, preferably a graduate student and an undergraduate, who have demonstrated excellent service to the Geography department, to CWU, and/or to the broader Ellensburg community.
Emma Leonard, Nancy, Savannah Bommarito
Two more awards occurred while my camera was not working, the Stoltman award and the Kaatz award. I did not get a video of either of those, but I did get a photo of Megan presenting to the Kaatz award winner, Savannah Hutchins. Carla Kaatz was there, but had left before I got her picture at the end with the winner.
Savannah Hutchins – winner of Kaatz Award, with Megan Walsh
One more video for you:
This is Jennifer Lipton and John Bowen announcing the Geography faculty awards this week.
Finally, the 2017 graduating Geography class:
Left is the photo of the graduates; here trying to display, C W U
Ending with our future Biogeographer, Lyndie, there with her mom, Megan, who presented all the awards.
Megan (mom) and Lyndie – Future Biogeographer
Wednesday, May 24
Tuesday, May 23 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.65. Events: 1 CSR, 5 H, 16 RERA. Time on 7 hrs 43 min with (max = 10 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 low 86, 2 events <88% with overall avg., 92.0%. Pulse avg. 55.5, low 47.
Today was music and food at the F.I.S.H. Food bank and SAIL exercise afterwards.
Thursday, May 25
For May 24 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=2.53. Events: 7 CSR, 18 H, 1 OA, 19 RERA. Time on 7 hrs 31 min with (max = 13 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 low 87, 1 event <88% with overall avg., 92.7%. Pulse avg. 52.2, low 49. Although the AHI is high, the SpO2 is excellent; my only concern.
I’ve been working on photos and videos taken Monday night and Tuesday nights, and still have to finish some made last Friday to send to the participants of the CWU Recreation & Tourism program.
I went for my blood draw today and lucked out getting my favorite phlebotomist, Kim. My results were reported to me before I got home by a message on my cell phone, while I was playing music. My INR was right on at 2.5, so no dosage change and will come back in a month; my potassium was okay too at 4.9. Good to have this in time for my June 7 appointment in Yakima with my principal cardiologist, Dr. Kim.
Hearthstone today in the front room was cozy and nice, with good acoustics, room, and comfortable over-stuffed chairs for the audience. We enjoyed ourselves too, and had a nice program, with many people singing along and giving us a bunch of thanks at the end. We had the following players there: tambourine, flute/penny whistle/washboard, bass guitar, mandolin, fiddle, 12-string guitar, 6-string guitar, fiddle, banjo, Dobro, guitar, harmonica, and our young 4 yr old singer/dancer, Haley. Wow, a Baker’s Dozen! The residents absolutely love Haley, as she is outgoing, participates in the music, and is helpful with handing out and picking up music.
I received a gift from Peru from my friend Anne Engels, and brought it home to share opening with John. Then I left it in my music bag in the car. So will have to retrieve tomorrow and see what it is.
Friday, May 26
For May 25 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.32. Events: 1 CSR, 2 H, 16 RERA. Time on 6 hrs 15 min with (max = 15 L/min). Slept another 2 hrs w/o CPAP & Oximetry: SpO2 low 88, 0 events <88% with overall avg., 93.0%. Pulse avg. 53.0, low 49.
Received a call from John’s sister, Peggy, that their brother Richard (Dick), in California, was not doing well, and after a brief stay in the hospital, is in a rehabilitation center to have professional help with physical therapy. His wife, Kit, called Peggy and asked her to inform family members. Their four kids are close by and can help with visiting him, so all the stress is not placed on Kit. He’s 11 years older than John, but his health has been complicated by Parkinson’s.
Otherwise, today was a banner day, as Jeri Conklin’s photos made it to the banner of the Lancaster Photography Association’s web page. You saw her winning pictures, and the one of our Brittany, Daisy, in a field of poppies, in last week’s blog.
Nothing planned here today, except household and yard projects. We have plenty of those, and need to take days like this to stay home to accomplish them. I worked on dishes, medications for the week, organizing bills, and John watered plants, planted some, and kept busy with Annie helping. He came in and fixed a grilled ham & cheese sandwich, which we had with a Honeycrisp apple. While he was in the house, I went out to the car to get my gift from Anne. What a beautiful surprise! As you can see below, it is a lovely colorful woven winter hat, complete with ear muff-like covers. It was in a cool-wrapped package I waited to show John before opening. THANK YOU! Anne and Glenn for the memory of your Peruvian trip.
The package had an interesting ribbon on it, and inside was a Peruvian knitted hat made with fine wool from an Alpaca, with designs including birds (Condor probably) and Alpacas. Come next winter, I will be the hit of EBRG.
I am continuing daily tasks with creating my CPAP and Oximetry data reports, and working on the blog, which we have to publish tomorrow night, because John will be gone all day Saturday and Sunday working on trails. Actually, I need to finish working on the photos I took this week at two CWU events.
If you have a Facebook account, you can visit an interesting educational video about Wine grapevine “Shoot Thinning” by Paul Vandenberg at Paradisos del Sol in Zillah, WA located in the AVA, Rattlesnake Hills. Paul’s wife, Barbara Sherman, posted the video this morning.
Saturday, May 27
For May 26 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.54. Events: 1 CSR, 3 H, 15 RERA. Time on 5 hrs 34 min with (max = 11 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 low 87, 2 events <88% with overall avg., 92.3%. Pulse avg. 53.7, low 49.
John left very early to be in Ellensburg to meet at 5:45 with a WTA friend, Bill, to travel to Dorothy Lake. Bill drives a comfy Chevy truck. The trip off the highway to the trail head is 13 miles in on a potholed gravel road. They’ll probably be early, but not likely get home until after 6:00 p.m.
John did not expect to see Dorothy Lake, but they did get to view it. The area near the Lake is still much snow covered with meltwater covering many of the open spots. They found a sunny dry place at the top of a knoll for lunch. I pulled this off the web last night. Apparently, the trail is very rough and wet and has a lot of high steps, making it hard going uphill and downhill. John’s legs wanted to cramp at the end of the long drive home.
Dorothy Lake in the Alpine Wilderness, ~3,060 ft. elevation
I slept in and have started the day with washing clothes.
I also have to work in time this weekend on music for July that I must have ready the end of June so we can play at the Adult Activity Center for their annual 4th of July celebration we have done for over a decade. This year it is on June 30.
I meant to put the following links in last week’s blog (goes back to April 1, but I just received it last week).
Music:
KV Fiddlers (&) Friends 2017
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You can get to that anytime on your computer (or smart phone) ,
Dancers: Blue Agate Round & Square Dance Club
Hope your week was fine.
Nancy and John
Still on the Naneum Fan