John posted a short note 2 days ago, so go back 1 post if you want to see.
Monday, Aug 14
For Aug 13 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.49. Events: 1 CSR, 2H, 9 RERA. Time on 6 hrs 9 min with (max = 8 L/min). Slept for 2 more hrs.
Breakfast: Piece of omelet (mushroom & onions), ham pieces, and 3/4 slice of toast with Marion-berry Jam, thinly spread.
John put in the beans, onions, and a little beef to the Crockpot to take to tonight’s dinner. We’ll be leaving at 3:30 p.m. for a visit with friends from Eureka, CA we knew here in the 1990s, through Geography teaching, Bruce & Michelle Seivertson. They are staying with Ken & Jo Hammond. Other friends plus the Hammonds’ family will be there.
We put out last week’s blog late (today).
For the appetizers, before dinner, we had wine, crackers, cheese, and conversation. For dinner, marinated beef skewered by Ronnie, (John’s) baked beans, along with fruit salad with blueberries, strawberries, cantaloupe (most of the fruits & veggies were from Ken’s huge garden, green beans/almonds from the Huckabay garden, casserole with eggplant, zucchini, onions, tomatoes, a slaw with carrots, more wine, and a Bruce-made apricot/blueberry pie (I just ate the fruit filling), and we were served Winegar’s Amaretto ice cream. Also was a chocolate zucchini cake. Flowers were the only thing I photographed, early in the evening. One vase was Jo’s Zinnias, and John’s gladioli and dahlias were in another on the table. I hope Michelle shares some of the pictures she took on her phone camera of the people there.
Great visit and dinner tonight, starting at 4:00 p.m. and we got home at 10:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug 15
For Aug 14 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.44. Events: 3 RERA. Time on 6 hrs 51 min with (max =8 L/min).
I worked on music for Saturday morning breakfast (Rodeo/Fair Kick-off Breakfast). Finally, got the music sent out at 4:45 pm. and left soon for Joanie’s and Ken’s for dinner, with another bouquet of flowers. Dinner was ground lamb and eggplant casserole with a fancy topping of cheesy crust, cucumber dish, another side dish of something in yogurt, and potato/olive bread & butter.
Brunch: piece of toast, omelet, strawberries, & 1/2 banana
Went to exercise at AAC (2:00)
Aug 15 FitBit
4312 steps at 11:19
1.82 mi
1706 calories burned
21 min very active exercise
What’s the little exercise man, hands in the air ? 109/250
Wednesday, Aug 16
For Aug 15 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.15. Events: 1 H, 1 PP, 15 RERA. Time on 6 hrs 42 min with (max 11 L/min).
Breakfast: Over easy egg, piece of toast, ham, coffee.
I worked on fixing the music for F.I.S.H. Food Bank Soup Kitchen to take today, picked up Gloria, and we went to SAIL exercise. We got all the parts taken care of, and I made it home to a cool house, and of dirty dishes, and tons of email to process. In addition, I need to get ready for tomorrow’s music planning and number of chairs at Pacifica.
John left for the dentist to get to a 9:00 appointment for cleaning. He made it home after I left the house, but he managed to stop by the grocery store, and go across town to Love’s for filling up his car with the least expensive gasoline in town ($2.659/gallon).
I took music in for our audience singers, and we managed to do 13 songs in 1/2 hour. I also took music for the players there today. We only had a few, but we managed. Reta Hutchinson singing, with her lovely soprano voice (she’s Jeanne Gordon’s younger sister), Dean Allen (voice and harmonica), Joanie Taylor & I (Nancy Hultquist) on violin, Andrew Grove on keyboard (a full 88-key piano), with a prelude of music by Andrew and Joanie of Celtic music – reels, etc., and Rob Fischer on guitar. We missed Evelyn Heflen (banjo), Bob Olsen (guitar & harmonica), and our setup man for chairs and music stands, but Andrew and Ken Matney (Joanie’s hubby) took over for set up and take down).
I was astounded when I was the last to go through the buffet for lunch line, and signed in as #54. That’s the most we have had in my memory of several years. As normal (for the Wednesday lunch), the main dish is donated by the Ellensburg Pasta Company. The staff adds the garlic bread, mixed green salad, today’s treat a cup of raw carrots & a Snow pea with dressing dip, if desired, with a little cake muffin for dessert. Beverage choice: Unsweetened iced tea & milk.
On my new food intake menu, I cannot eat most of the meal, but I had a large amount of salad, the carrot/pea cup, and my own box lunch (banana, 3 yellow Shiro plums from our tree, mixed nuts), and iced tea. Fine lunch and quite filling. Gloria and I went on to the SAIL exercise class, where Katrina led our class with about 15 people.
The temperature only got to a high of 89° today, but it felt a whole lot hotter in the sun and walking from the car to the building from the parking lot, and back, at two places.
Lunch: described above.
Supper: Baked chicken thighs, onions, mushrooms, and 2 of our tasty tomatoes.
FitBit readings at 11:40
3651 steps
1.54 mi
1,633 calories burned
14 min hard exercise
Thursday, Aug 17
For Aug 16 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.14. Events: 1 H, 21 RERA. Time on 6 hrs 54 min with (max 19 L/min).
John’s out to make ready to receive hay from Mario.
Dinner: We went to the annual Audubon End of summer party at the Lindstrom’s house on Hansen Rd for a wonderful array of food: Hamburger, squash, onions, Cole slaw, fruit salad, lettuce & tomatoes, stir fried (on a grill) onions, and a couple bites of desserts, John shared – one the yummy insides of a blueberry apricot pie. Met some old friends, and made new. We carried 3 bottles of wine from White Heron, one Rose’ of Syrah, the pick of them, by Gloria Lindstrom, for their 66th anniversary (today). Their shady yard with plants and trees of many sorts was the location. To share with the group there, we also took a bottle of Roussanne (fine white Swiss grape) and a bottle of Syrah.
Night report on FitBit:
10:50
3093 steps
1.31 mi
1,566 calories burned
28/250 I need to find out what that means.
Need to take my BP, meds, and hit the hay. John beat me there, ’cause he leaves early for a WTA trip in Mt. Rainier, he has to go the long way around to get to, because a lightning caused fire that is burning east of Chinook Pass (HWY 410).
Called the Norse Peak Fire, it is 1 of 2 burning close enough to us that we can see smoke. The road is mostly 2-lane through a forest and with trucks and fire fighters there, they don’t need more people. The few small settlements nearby still have access and are not in danger.
Friday, Aug 18
For Aug 17 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.18. Events: 1 H, 10 RERA. Time on 5 hrs 25 min with (max 9 L/min). Slept a much-needed 3 hrs more.
John and the WTA web page do not communicate well. He thought there were no Sat. and Sun. trips, just Friday. So – John left at 5:15 a.m. for Mt. Rainier. Having to by-pass Chinook Pass wildfire adds about 15 minutes to his trip. [He found the glitch in the communication issue, and so then signed up for Sunday, too.]
Leaving soon for Food Bank – busy doing last minute stuff for tomorrow’s gigs, & getting stuff ready to take various places in town.
I stayed longer in town than desired, but accomplished a lot. I went to the food bank for lunch and thought I would stay to make sandwiches and fill paper lunch bags (35 they do), but they were well ahead of me and had already finished when I arrived. John picked yellow squash and I donated 6# to the Food Bank for distribution to their patrons. They were happy to receive it. I stopped in the bread room and got some whole grain bread for a friend’s family.
I went by the bank to cash a medical refund check I’d unexpectedly received yesterday. I’ve no idea why. I saw a yard sale on my way to Amy’s to drop off some stuff and pick up a bag of old-fashioned clothespins to use on our music in the wind (good thing we had it both venues on Saturday). They were donated free on one of the free giving Facebook sites, by a friend of Amy’s and dropped off on her front porch, saving me a trip to the country.
I hit the yard sale on my way home, and got a nice heater for winter and a 3-Crockpot set with a hot plate that holds the smaller Crockpots. Now we can do meat in one, veggies in another, and ?? in another, or just use one or two. Finding a flat spot will be the challenge (maybe the top of our chest freezer where we use our 5-quart one from when we married). Both were at extremely low prices, so I figured I couldn’t lose. She had another carrier I decided to buy, very light (came with her from Hawaii), and they are moving back there to take care of her parents. She gave me a deal off the price she had marked, which was already a great price.
Saturday, August 19
For Aug 18 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.00. Events: 1 CSR, 1 PP, 6 RERA. Time on, 5 hrs 32 min with (max =9 /min).
Rodeo breakfast: We got to Umpqua Bank parking lot before 7:00 a.m. and over to the stage. It was cold, and then became windy. Had to use the clothespins I packed for several people’s music. We played for an hour, with a few interruptions. I was handed the microphone and asked to introduce the group. John carried my fiddle and music to the car, and we had breakfast.
They served blueberry pancake(s), sausage links (I had 5 and ate only the inside of the pancake where the most blueberries were concentrated. For a drink, I had orange juice. It was still cold in the shade, so I went back for coffee to warm my hands! Then, we watched the kid’s cowboy/cowgirl contest, and Haley Davison won a blue ribbon. As usual, her mom had her dressed in a cool shirt and skirt with a red cowboy hat & carrying a horse on a stick.
After visiting with a few folks, we walked to the Farmer’s Market. I met and visited with Gary Cox, from the Cox Canyon Vineyards, where we used to take our summer class, Wine: A Geographical Appreciation to on their first field trip intro only a few miles down on the Yakima River Canyon Road, from Ellensburg. Gary also visited our class through the years as a guest lecturer on the meaning of Terroir, in wines. Also visited with Steve Verhey, while there, and bought a box of gorgeous peaches he grows in Royal City. He had my mom’s old wind-up 60-minute timer, he offered to fix, and he never succeeded. He still has it and told me he was hoping for the guts of one so he could try to switch them. I have one that I will give him to see if he can manage to fix the very old one. At least I know where to find him now on Saturday mornings.
John put a couple of photos in the placeholder of us at the morning music – so I will wait until next week when Evie should have the video processed that her friend Gene took of us playing. In that placeholder, John called them, my group, but officially, we are the Kittitas Valley Fiddlers & Friends. The group has been in the valley since the 1950s, and one original founding member still plays guitar and sings with us.
I need to remember to send Gary and Suzy Cox information on our timeshare so they can plan a trip to Canada coming soon.
We ate a snack before we left; sharing a peach we bought this morning at the Farmer’s Mkt. It was excellent and the size of a softball.
Briarwood. John picked and took a beautiful bouquet of flowers, and Lee Keisel fixed them gorgeously in a big cut glass vase. She put it in the kitchen of the office for everyone to enjoy. We told her to take them home with her. She is the organizer for all our 3rd Saturdays at Briarwood, providing a meal for us after we play for an hour.
We played outside for at least an hour dodging the sun and trying to stay in the shade. Finally, we stopped in time to eat before all the food was gone. They offered grilled polish sausage, hamburgers, orange juice, onions, relish, mustard, and ketchup. I just had a hamburger, no bun. I came home and have low blood pressure (88/41, pulse 64), so I sat down to rest. John’s out taking care of outside chores. We stayed and visited with members of the group, and had a very good afternoon with two gigs. Just starting at 7:00 a.m. was quite the trick, but we made it through with lots of compliments. The wind blew both places.
Thanks to Evie, Charlie, Gerald, Kevin, and Dean for our back row group on a tight stage, and Anne, Amy, Joanie, Nancy, Roberta, & Tim, for the front row crew. We played for the folks to eat grilled breakfast: blueberry pancakes, link sausages, with chocolate or white milk, orange juice, or coffee. Quite a nice spread.
Great email from my friend Elise in NJ. She walks in the park as often as possible and today took a photograph, collage below, of the beginning of a Monarch Butterfly. Cool or what?
10:10 pm FitBit Charger 2
4489 steps
1.90 mi
1675 calories burned
8 min vigorous exercise
Sunday, August 20
For Aug 19 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=0.17. Events: 1 CSR, 1 H, 8 RERA. Time on 6 hrs 0 min with (max = 13 L/min). I slept in for another ~ 3 hrs!
We thought this was not going to find John at Mt. Rainier for the first Sunday in awhile, but he went on Friday and learned he needed to be there today, so is going.
He took off early, dropped off some plums to friends his trip to the mountain (at the end of their driveway). Some were tree fall from yesterday’s winds while we were away in the afternoon, and one little box of yellow Shiros we shared that we picked last night late. He also carried some on ice in a cooler for the end of the day for the crew. WTA provides cookies and drinks.
Here is John’s special for the day:
Mt. Rainier shed a mass of snow and ice from near her top on Sunday. Our work site is about 6.5 miles away and at half the top’s elevation.
There was a loud, almost explosive, sound.
Here is an image with a few reference points: “A” including 2 pointers, and “B” just a marker.
At the ends of the pointers, there is a snow/ice cap on this, the north facing side of the Mountain. A curving shadow is showing between the two end points. The shadow is a vertical face or side of the remaining ice/snow. “B” is how far down where we could still see the cloud of particles coming up out of the valley.
The mass of snow and ice broke away from up there and fell thousands of feet, from about 13,500 feet to 9,800 feet.
This is not quite a vertical drop, but after dropping 3,700 feet there is a change in slope where the Carbon Glacier begins. You can see what this area – the Glacier’s accumulation zone – looks like by clicking:
See the landing area
When the sound reached us, the WTA crew stopped and watched. It took me, John, about 15 seconds to remember I had a small point and shoot camera hanging on my belt, and another 15 seconds to get a picture.
Here is a wider angle view of the scene (more of the same photo). 
On the left of the photo are the tops of the Emmons and Winthrop Glaciers. The ridges and valleys across the 6+ miles do not show in this photo.
Below shows Eric digging out a rock – 15% showing. On the right is one showing moving of a rock. Note the iron bars under it so that it will slide without friction from the ground.
I paused to use John’s camera to take photos of a very young and thin skunk who returned through the fence to eat the dry cat food at our front door. It was 1:40 p.m. and during a shady part of the day. I didn’t have the heart to send him away. Pix are still on John’s camera. We have now moved the food to a cable table, where we think he cannot climb.
Brunch: Egg & Chicken Salad (homemade here), with 3 different types of plums (Yellow Shiro, dark purple something, and lighter purple something). We will show and name next week when they are riper. I also could have had a tree-fall couple we found when we came home yesterday afternoon, but I’ll save them for supper. Also had to load my meds for the week, and take today’s “morning” dose.
Finally, I’m back after a long wait for a late brunch, and then putting together more of the videos from 8-12-17 at the 50th Anniversary party at the Lundy’s at the Bar 14 Ranch. I’m getting Tim Henebry’s help identifying the songs I videotaped of Scottish/Irish/French tunes played by a group, consisting of Barb Riley & Isabel Robertson (using my violin), with Tim Henebry on guitar and his wife Roberta Clark on a Bodhrán (Irish drum) and autoharp.
Folks who are interested in listening to the Scottish Music of the evening. Here is a glimpse; I’m still working on the details, but I need to check some things with Barb Riley. I’m going to leave it that anyone interested in the whole bunch, please write me an email at “Nancy-Music Hultquist” (nancymaps@gmail.com) for a list and I will return the rest of the evening (as below).
(2) “Arran Boat Song”/“Swallowtail”
(6) (dedicated to Linda and Dave Lundy for their 50th Anniv). Irish tune by Bill Cunningham.
(9) A Scottish/Irish Set — Consisting of “Da Full Rigged Ship,” “Da New Rigged Ship,” and “The Gravel Walk”. I didn’t know the first two songs, but I once learned Gravel Walk in Roberta Pearce’s WOTFA Summer Workshop class for Intermediate & Advanced Violin.
(10) Final Best Wishes to the Lundys: Their daughter Alisa introduced the Lundys, Linda introduced members of their wedding party (Maid of Honor, Best Man, Bridesmaids, Groomsmen, and others; and Alisa’s husband, Christopher, introduced and provided the devotional at the end. I’m sorry I missed getting any part of the ceremony and Bible reading, after all the well-wishers crowded forward.
11:26 pm FitBit charger 2, 8-20-17
lower than normal, because I charged it most of the day
970 steps
0.41 mi
1,352 calories burned
0 min vigorous exercise
86/250
The really good news of my day came from CA.
Daisy placed 4th in an Open Limited Gun Dog Field Trial in a large stake, in CA. She handled 4 birds and had 2 honors (backs on another dog’s point).
I’ll just put the photo here I received yesterday from Jeri Conklin (my co-owner) of Cedaridge Kip’s Camelot Shay Tre’ (Daisy) JH 
Handler, Scott Azevedo with Jeri Conklin, & Daisy
Monday August 21 SOLAR ECLIPSE across the USA
For Aug 20 CPAP. Reported figures. AHI=1.65. Events: 9 H, 1 PP, 14 RERA. Time on 5 hrs 26 min with (max = 13 L/min) + 3 hrs.
Breakfast: 2 eggs, bacon, plums, toast (1/2 piece), 1/2 a large peach.
Lunch: chicken salad, plums, nuts
Between the BBC and KOMONEWS, and dimmed darkness here, we ate breakfast during the solar eclipse. Now to try to finish the blog before we are over a week behind.
Skipping SAIL – no time today. Must run to town for some essentials.
Hope your week was fine.
Nancy and John
Still on the Naneum Fan