12/12/10
This week starts again with Sunday, but it was a pretty uneventful day (except for playing with kitty) till I left for the Taize’ service. We had a new member join us to play the clarinet. This was the person I had been transposing music for recently. I couldn’t have anything but water after midnight because of having a fasting blood draw Monday morning. That pretty much started the week, and I went to the grocery store while in town, and I went back in the afternoon for my exercise class.
Tuesday we had the farrier out to trim the older horses. While John was out I spent time on my computer emails and should have been working with the music transposition on his computer. Now it is late and I probably won’t do it before dessert and bed.
Wednesday. John got up early today and left to take his Subaru to Yakima for servicing and, while there, went to Costco too. Bought us a bunch of the fruit cakes we liked so well, and now we have to freeze for the year! Per pound these Bundt-pan-shaped treats are only half the cost of those sold in the Ebrg stores. Meanwhile, I met a former student for a small lunch and then went to exercise class, by school, Bi-Mart to get a battery for my watch installed by them. My trip by school today unexpectedly resulted in participating in a thesis defense for one of my former students. I didn’t know about it till I got to the department. The normal announcement was not sent out on email, but was just posted there. Also, filled up my gas tank on the way home, and was not happy at the price/gallon ($3.359 for premium). We are one of the highest in the nation. http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
Schedule for next 4 days: music Thursday at 2:00, Friday, scholarship luncheon, followed by party for exercise teacher (baby shower), followed by potluck/ jam session in the evening; Saturday music at 2:00 , and Sunday music/dinner at 2:00 to 4:30 ? at the Rosewood Retirement Community’s Christmas party. They are feeding us a complete turkey feast for playing music for them (mixed old time dance music with Christmas songs and carols).
We did make some headway on cleaning off the part of a table top so we moved the kitty’s crate into the den with us. Might rename him BB or boots. He has 4 white paws and a white bib and getting more playful with us. He is no longer bony. John sits him in his lap a lot. John also bought him three toys and one, a little ball with beads inside, is the favorite. Kitty loves it, and has been playing with it for a couple of hours. He just changed and took that away and gave him a dumb-bell cloth one, which isn’t as much fun, but he does play with it. At least it is quieter for night.
We just put together a blueberry and strawberry cobbler to take to tomorrow’s parties. (midday). John is making baked apples and heating Stouffer’s frozen lasagna for the dinner.
Now we are getting ready for supper and it is beef stew.
Friday was expected to be a busy day. We made it to town (nice beautiful sunny day) to the first venue, noon at the new student recreation center, for a scholarship luncheon. Our dessert was a hit, and we emptied only one dish. A friend washed the dish and gave use her leftover pink Jell-O/cottage cheese, whipped cream salad. It was great. We took it to the next party at 1:30, with the other full pan of cobbler. Not all was eaten so we have some cobbler for us, and we took the pink salad to our evening potluck/jam session, along with the Italiano Lasagna and baked Cameo apples John fixed. It was a great meal. There was twice as much food there as we needed. After dinner, John left for home to take care of the animals and I stayed for the music jam session. Didn’t get home till after 9:00 p.m.
Saturday: I plowed (pun intended) through a lot of snow to get to play music today at Briarwood, but the trip was worth it, as they made us a wonderful white bean and ham soup. There were bread sticks to go with and also Fritos and rolls. For dessert was the old Nabisco chocolate pinwheels I remember from my childhood, and some other cookies I didn’t try, and the best homemade brownies, with chocolate frosting. I brought home four of those for John to share. We only had 3 people show to play and only a handful, about 8 or 10 show in the audience. It snowed the whole time there, and the drive home was not pleasant. John brushed me a path to get from the car to the front door. He had done the same when I left, but I think it snowed another 4 or 5 inches while I was gone. He had to do the same for me to get back to the house. He was in the 3-cornered shed where I park, moving snow when I got home. I paused, and then couldn’t get started again to get into the shed. I backed up and took a running leap and made it through. Wow, if this keeps on, I will have a tough time getting to the dinner and play time tomorrow. I’m worried that the couple from Thorp with our microphone and amplifier won’t make it. They chose not to come today and it was a good thing. They also play two key instruments, an accordion and guitar. We were pretty “light” without them today. We are having leftover lasagna from the potluck for dinner tonight.
Sunday arrived and I’m almost ready to leave for the play date. John has been shoveling snow and my neighbor drove in the driveway to punch it down. My Subaru should make it out all right. He may come back with a little loader to move some of the 15” out of the drive.
I’m going to send this to John to put on the blog, while I am gone in town to eat and perform at the Christmas Party.
We hope you have a nice week getting ready for the holidays that will be with us quite soon.
Nancy & John