Sunday, June 3\u00a0 John drove to town in the old ’80 Chevy farm truck for gas.\u00a0 Price today cheapest in town is $4.14 \u2013 our area is served by several refineries that scheduled maintenance and just as they went down a fire at another place took out all the backup.\u00a0 So, as the rest of the nation has seen a price drop, we have gone the other way.\u00a0 We are fixing carrot, walnuts, and toasted marshmallows casserole, and biscuits, for us, along with another couple of friends, to take to dinner tonight.\u00a0 On the menu is elk ribs, salad, and green bean casserole being served at a friend’s house.<\/p>\n
Monday, June 4\u00a0\u00a0 Cheapest gas in town today is $4.11.\u00a0 We awoke to no cat in the trap.\u00a0 We have all three fixed ferals with us being fed and watered every day.\u00a0 We haven’t seen the extra orange cat in days, so if we don’t catch one in the morning, we will quit.\u00a0 We went to the brunch and awards presentations at Dean Hall\/Geography.\u00a0 There were waffles and pancakes, sausage, bacon, much fruit, preserves, and so on.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, June 5\u00a0 We are done with capturing feral cats.\u00a0 We re-caught Cashew this morning.\u00a0 They don’t have bad memories of being caught.\u00a0 I’m sure they have forgotten the connection to going to the vet, and just relate to the 2 weeks in the cage in the house where they were treated like royalty. \u00a0John is currently disassembling it. \u00a0Wind is 40 mph and threatening rain (which we had more of last night).\u00a0 After taking down the cat-holding cage we have a large table again to work on for sorting, wrapping, or even eating.\u00a0 How nice.\u00a0 I spent most of the day completing a large email list announcing the retirement party for my colleague.\u00a0 I have a store of emails for students back to early 1990s.\u00a0 I have kept them current and the only problem is they are in several different places, so I have had to assemble into one list.\u00a0 It’s a lot of work, but will have double value the way I’m using it.\u00a0 I got it mailed tonight, and only had 21 returned for bad email addresses.\u00a0 Not too bad, I suppose.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, June 6\u00a0 The wind is still howling.\u00a0 All the cats were around tonight but this morning Cashew got most of the food.\u00a0 Tonight Cashew was up on the loft and talking with John when he brought food & water.\u00a0 Tonight he actually came to the back patio next to my recliner, sat outside, and talked to me.\u00a0 He has such a deep expressive voice.\u00a0 This morning before noon, I left to go to the Soup Kitchen food bank for music playing, singing, and then eating.\u00a0 They had a great tuna casserole today, a salad of beans (Green, Garbanzo, and Kidney Beans).\u00a0 Also garlic toast, and for dessert a full banana, with chocolate top covering (hard because they cooled the bananas).\u00a0 From there to SAIL exercise class, and on the way, I picked up some free pieces of scrap cabinet plywood from a cabinet shop in town. Maybe we can find a use for it (mostly long narrow pieces), but no rush.\u00a0 The table saw quit (motor or switch) a few years ago and it is now behind multiple stacks of other stuff.\u00a0 That will become an issue if we can clean out the two rooms over which we now have skylights in the roof but not the openings in the ceilings \u2013 the light shaft.\u00a0 Oh, back to this afternoon — I got home and tried to sort through emails.\u00a0 There were several coming as RSVPs for the retirement celebration June 16.\u00a0 John fixed baked chicken, fried mashed potatoes from last night and homemade applesauce from the freezer.\u00a0 Tonight will be our own red raspberries on ice cream, and morning, on cereal.\u00a0 I spent time on the phone this afternoon setting up with the RV place in town, talking to the Service Manager, about adding a\/c to my “new” travel trailer.\u00a0 We’re taking it in on Friday for an evaluation & estimate.<\/p>\n
Thursday, June 7\u00a0 All’s well here; except we lost Dan our Brittany male this morning on his morning exercise with John.\u00a0 He has not showed up and is not dead on the road.\u00a0 NO idea what happened.\u00a0 He was right with him and disappeared into the brush.\u00a0 Don’t know what to do.\u00a0 He has a collar on with our identification and phone number. \u00a0Ideas?\u00a0 Maybe he had a stroke, shot by a neighbor, caught by a cougar \u2026<\/p>\n
Weird and sad.\u00a0 I figured when I went to town for music, and to pick up medicine for Rascal’s tapeworms, that he would be here when I returned.\u00a0 But not so.\u00a0 I wish I knew what to do.<\/p>\n
Spent over an hour on the phone again, with Toshiba about the mini mouse that malfunctioned, and I think I finally have a replacement on the way to me.\u00a0 I’m out the cost of mailing it back to CA with my invoice.\u00a0 I think they should have covered that.<\/p>\n
Twelve hours later, Dan (wayward Brittany) showed up; 9:30 p.m.\u00a0 He was wet, tired, and hungry, but not hurt in any way.\u00a0 Wish he could talk.<\/p>\n
Friday, June 8\u00a0 John\u2019s inside wasting time looking at odd stories from around the globe.\u00a0 Try this:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10811873<\/a><\/p>\n It raises the question:\u00a0 Does the NZ dialect not include the term roast?<\/p>\n He wants to be outside doing something but it is cold and windy.\u00a0 No fun.\u00a0 It got just cold enough early Friday morning (about 5 am) to freeze leaves on a yellow summer squash plant.\u00a0 Not even beans just a few feet away noticed the cold.\u00a0 Today an air mass was swirling by and about every 2 hours it would rain for 5 or 6 minutes.\u00a0 John worked on taking the garbage out of the truck that pulls the trailer, so we could take it in and leave it for an estimate today on adding a\/c and installing it.\u00a0 In addition, we’ll need to get a generator.\u00a0 Turns out, they didn’t want to keep the truck, so moving the trash was unnecessary.\u00a0 John covered it with a tarp during one of the short spurts of rain.\u00a0 Rained on me too on my drive to massage and exercise. \u00a0Oh, while in there, I filled John’s Subaru with gas (and the price had reduced to $4.059, today; guess I should just say $4.06).<\/p>\n Saturday, June 9 \u00a0The only thing on tap is a visit with a former student from Sudan, who will be in town for CWU’s graduation ceremony.\u00a0 I’m happy I don’t have to be there this year, but we will meet with the fellow either before or after the afternoon ceremony.\u00a0 He visited me 3 times (driving from the west side of the Cascades), while I was in the rehab\/ nursing home for 7 weeks.\u00a0 I last saw him in Seattle, last year, when I was there for a conference.\u00a0 He met me with other geographers at a Chinese restaurant and we had a very nice visit.<\/p>\n Guess I’ll finish this and send to John to tweak and post.<\/p>\n Hope your week was a good one.<\/p>\n Nancy and John<\/p>\n Still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, June 3\u00a0 John drove to town in the old ’80 Chevy farm truck for gas.\u00a0 Price today cheapest in town is $4.14 \u2013 our area is served by several refineries that scheduled maintenance and just as they went down a fire at another place took out all the backup.\u00a0 So, as the rest of … Continue reading “Weather is a downer, gas price likewise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}