Subtitle: Happy findings about Wilkins Family History in Seattle<\/p>\n
Saturday, July 7.\u00a0 Got the blog out at 4:00 p.m.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 Spent the day as much as possible in the house because of the high temperatures.\u00a0 Supposedly, at the airport, 5 mi. south of us, it got to 100, but it never went above 93 on our front porch.<\/p>\n
To compare locations, put the following coordinates [\u00a0 47.033, -120.53\u00a0 ] into Google Earth and then zoom in (and out).\u00a0 The temperature sensor and other equipment is inside the circle (made of large concrete Jersey-barriers as seen on highways):<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.americanconcrete.com\/commercial\/barriers\/Jersey-Barrier.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/mtr\/cpm\/mmts.php<\/a><\/p>\n There are established standards about the location of these things but many are not properly sited.\u00a0 See here for an example:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.norcalblogs.com\/watts\/2007\/06\/how_not_to_measure_temperature_12.html<\/a><\/p>\n Our small thermometer closely resembles this one:<\/p>\n http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00005NN9E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n . . . with the unit on the right located under the overhang near the front door.\u00a0 By late afternoon shade is all about but there is still lingering heat in the house and concrete from earlier in the day.\u00a0 So, we measure temperature at the house and the airport measures temperature very close to the runways.\u00a0 That makes sense to pilots.\u00a0 If we had a unit that would send a signal about 200 feet we could have one out under the big trees down by the creek.\u00a0 That would be interesting but we don\u2019t live down there.\u00a0 Well, no one lives in that little circle at the airport either, but that\u2019s what the National Weather Service uses to report our Ellensburg temperature:<\/p>\n http:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?CityName=Ellensburg&state=WA&site=PDT&textField1=46.9967&textField2=-120.547&e=0<\/a><\/p>\n So, back to our activities:\u00a0 We finished putting up the strawberries and then had some for dessert on ice cream.\u00a0 Tomorrow, it will be warm again.<\/p>\n Sunday, July 8\u00a0 I expect John will be up early to get the chores done before it gets hot.\u00a0 He was, but it got hot anyway.\u00a0 The high for the day was 104 and lasted over 3 hours at the airport.\u00a0 We never saw the temperatures as high on our front porch; only got to 96 or so.\u00a0 It was a lot hotter in the direct sun.\u00a0 John watered the thirsty raspberry bushes, and they were quite happy ~~ not ours, but soon:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.raspberries.us\/three-raspberries-636.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n We stayed inside during the heat of the day; doing all sorts of things.\u00a0 I spent time writing music for our group. \u00a0Today I finished Hi Li-li, Hi Li-li Hi Lo as well as I Want a Girl (Just like the girl that married dear old Dad.)\u00a0 Those scores were given to me by our banjo player Evelyn, who found them in a songbook she has.\u00a0 Now I’m ready to start I’ll Fly Away.\u00a0 I brought that sheet music back from GA.<\/p>\n Also today, John and I got on separate computers with Google Earth, and found the spot where my grandparents (from GA) raised 3 children while in Seattle, while my granddad worked on construction of the Smith Building (built from 1909 to 1914).\u00a0 Today it’s called the Smith Tower, and once it was the tallest in town.\u00a0 They built their house in southwest Seattle, south and up the hill from Fauntleroy Way (the end of the electric trolley line south from Seattle), on the NE corner of SW 44th Ave and SW 102nd St.\u00a0 My cousin Susan and her husband John (yes there are many Johns in the family) plan to fly to Seattle July 18th and wanted to see the old house.\u00a0 John and I had taken Granny there back when we were still living in Idaho.\u00a0 She flew up, and we drove to Seattle, picked her up at the airport, spent the night in a motel, and then came back to Idaho after showing her around Seattle, and the finding old house.\u00a0 I don’t remember the date, but someday we will turn up the old slides we took and they will have a date on them.<\/p>\n Still hot; but cooling off.\u00a0 There are thunderstorms south of us.\u00a0 The lights are occasionally blinking.\u00a0 Apparently, there were some serious (lightning-ignited) house fires south of us in Yakima.\u00a0 It was colorful and very windy and rainy here. \u00a0I heard from a former student in Moxee that lightning struck some houses. \u00a0Very sad. \u00a0We didn’t have any strikes or even noise here; just lots of flashing lights. \u00a0It beat the neighborhood fireworks on the 4th.<\/p>\n Monday, July 9\u00a0 Wonderful progress on finding out about the house my grandfather built in Seattle. \u00a0I’ll outline what I found out.\u00a0 Here’s the scoop– from what I wrote Susan and John who plan to visit the house next week.\u00a0 I’m sure they were only planning to drive by, but they are thrilled they will get to go inside and see the work of our grandfather, long ago.\u00a0 The house was built in 1913.<\/p>\n I found out the real address of the property is 10122 44TH AVE SW Seattle, WA 98146.\u00a0 You can look that up on Google Maps or Google Earth, and drag the little orange man to get street views.\u00a0 However, be careful, the photos are taken before the garage was built there in 2004 on the old foundation.\u00a0 I got access to the King County Assessor’s records on line, and found\u00a0 many details about the house as well as the owners.\u00a0 My former student Nizar (now working in Renton, WA) sent me the link and then a worker from King County Assessor’s Office called me (in response to an email I sent them).\u00a0 He didn’t know the address, which Nizar had found, so I gave him the information, and he walked me through the extra pictures in their database.\u00a0 I had only found one photo, which was of the garage.\u00a0 Then he gave me the name of the Archive where they put all information from before 1982.\u00a0 I have yet to contact those folks in Bellevue, WA.\u00a0 The Assessor’s office does not have that much room on line to store it.\u00a0 I found the owners’ names in the database records for the parcel, and then I looked them up on switchboard.com finding out where they live and their phone number.\u00a0 Their son is living in the house.\u00a0 I talked to the lady for almost a half hour.\u00a0 She was very happy and interested to hear about the history of the house.\u00a0 Her name is Sue W., and her husband is Roy.\u00a0 Their son is Matt.\u00a0 She is willing to give my cousin Susan and her husband John a tour of the house next week.\u00a0 Ironically, the son is a Carpentry Contractor.\u00a0 My granddad was a carpenter working in construction projects.\u00a0 I find that really ironic.\u00a0 The son added a garage on the old footprint (which had rooms in the back probably used for a chicken house), and he kept the architectural design of the main house.\u00a0 There have been some rooms added in place of the old sun porch out front, and the son uses that as his office space.\u00a0 He also refinished the “fir” floors in the kitchen and has not destroyed the bin-type (tip out) cabinets for potatoes and such off the kitchen, that were built into the space by my granddad. This couple bought it in 1986, for $58,000.\u00a0 [Likely within 2 years of our visit with Granny.]\u00a0 It only has one bedroom, but now has an appraised value (for taxes) of $266,000.\u00a0 I forgot to say that the stained glass windows are still in the front room of the house.\u00a0 Susan and John are going to visit the owners next Thursday afternoon\/evening and get an inside tour of the house.\u00a0 How exciting!\u00a0 We have appointments we cannot change, which keeps us from driving over to join them for a few hours and for the tour of the house.\u00a0 Susan assured me she would take her camera and record the event.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, I also managed to call about my violin shoulder pad that didn’t fit my violin (too large), but it fits my viola.\u00a0 I called to see if I could figure out what I should have ordered, and I asked if they sold medical tubing I could use to recover mine that has \u00a0deteriorated over the past 15 years.\u00a0 The sales rep I spoke with said she had the same need awhile ago, and she went and bought two feet for 50 cents.\u00a0 She is in Rhode Island.\u00a0 She was willing to share some with me, and took my name and address to send it.\u00a0 I hope that happens.\u00a0 I am anxiously awaiting it.<\/p>\n I was able to send out 9 jobs today from the jobslist. \u00a0It now has 520 recipients.<\/p>\n John went outside for an hour with our farrier to put the wedges in shoes on Ebony’s front feet to relieve some of the stress on her bowed tendon.\u00a0 John is still doctoring her twice a day.\u00a0 I threw leftovers together for supper while John took care of the horses and cats.\u00a0 It didn’t start cooling down till right before 9:00 p.m. when it finally reached 81, from a high of 105.\u00a0 I haven’t looked to see what’s on tap for tomorrow.\u00a0 I do have to go to town for an appointment at 5:30.\u00a0 I had made it later in the day, to coordinate with music at 6:30 on Tuesday night, but that was cancelled for the month of July (and August).\u00a0 John and I will soon be enjoying raspberries on ice cream (from last year).\u00a0 He picked only five raspberries today, and within a day or so, he’ll be able to start adding to the freezer.\u00a0 Tomorrow may produce some more strawberries for him to pick as well.\u00a0 The strawberries really don’t do well in this much heat.<\/p>\n Tuesday, July 10\u00a0 Nothing till 5:30, a shoulder\/neck massage for Nancy.\u00a0 It was a rather rough session, but I think it was successful.\u00a0 My shoulders are quite affected by the tenseness of the tendons and muscles that control them and are near my neck.\u00a0 I wish I knew the names of them and something about the condition.\u00a0 It seems to be aggravated by my playing fiddle, which is unfortunate considering how much I enjoy doing that.<\/p>\n Wednesday, July 11\u00a0 Noon playtime at the Soup Kitchen\/Food Bank, followed by SAIL exercise.<\/p>\n It was awfully hot (no a\/c) at the noon lunch & play\/sing date, but the food was super–donated by Ellensburg Pasta Company, including spaghetti, tomato sauce w\/ bratwurst pieces and all topped with cheese. \u00a0Quite yummy, and included sides of mixed green salad with tomatoes, watermelon, pears, and garlic bread.\u00a0 Once home John and I had an afternoon snack — a piece of carrot cake covered with strawberries from yesterday evening’s work.\u00a0 John went out this morning and picked about 5 more pounds and he fixed them while I was in town.\u00a0 They haven’t been frozen yet, so we will have some for dinner, and then before bed, we put them in freezer Ziploc bags.<\/p>\n I took in the 3 new songs for Evelyn and me to try out, and we made some changes that I have to do. \u00a0I need to lower Hi-Li-li, Hi-lo to the key of C from G, so we can sing it. \u00a0I also have some note changes and one chord to change in I Want A Girl, and I made up and added a newly created verse, “I want a guy, just like the guy that married dear old Mom.\u00a0 He was a jewel and the only one that Mamma ever had; \u00a0A neat old gentleman with heart so\u00a0true, one who loved nobody else but her.\u00a0 Oh, I want a guy, just like the man that married dear ol’ Mom.<\/p>\n I added two more verses to I’ll Fly Away; there was only one on the music I transcribed from.\u00a0 Evelyn knew at least one more.\u00a0 I found a nice rendition of a You Tube video by Randy Travis, where I got the rest of the lyrics.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bLka8rRyIGg<\/a><\/p>\n However, there is a great story that goes with the original lyrics, written in 1932.\u00a0 I have reproduced it on our new web site, at the link below:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ellensburg.com\/nancyh\/LyricsPlusStoryI’llFlyAway.html<\/a><\/p>\n I really don’t need any more work to do, but it is too hot to do anything anyway… even house cleaning. \u00a0God forbid I should want to do that! \u00a0 I did load the dishwasher when I got home.<\/p>\n Thursday, July 12\u00a0 Our 43rd anniversary.\u00a0 We had a rather busy day.\u00a0 John worked a lot outside on chores including with the horses.\u00a0 I stayed inside most of the morning working on music corrections on the 3 songs we tested yesterday.\u00a0 Today I carried copies for everyone, and we did amazingly well as a group, on the new ones, before we played our regular stuff.\u00a0 Charlie brought their visitor from Belarus (Paulina, till Sept 9th), who is part of the Children of Chernobyl project here in the states.\u00a0 Today’s meeting was 2:00 at the Rehab where I had physical therapy for 7 weeks after ICU in the beginning of 2010.\u00a0 It was amazingly cool in there today.\u00a0 Normally it is very warm.\u00a0 We didn’t have much time after getting home, but we both rested.\u00a0 Then we took off for a 7:00 meeting of our trail riding club. \u00a0A local veterinarian (Sam, for Samantha) spoke on the topic of laminitis in horses.\u00a0 Sadly, we have experienced this twice.<\/p>\n Friday, July 13\u00a0 Nothing much planned but I went to SAIL exercise and took my 86 yr old friend to do some shopping afterward.\u00a0 She needs assistance with reading labels, because of her macular degeneration.\u00a0 John did an amazing amount of yard and animal work yesterday, until late.\u00a0 He was worn out and so I helped put together dinner.\u00a0 That’s about the first time in 3 years for my creating a dinner from scratch.\u00a0 He has been extremely supportive of me forever.<\/p>\n Saturday, July 14\u00a0 This is our day to play music and be fed at Briarwood Commons retirement home (a series of individual apartments at a reduced rate).\u00a0 I picked up my friend again on the way in and she enjoyed visiting with old friends and listening to us play music.\u00a0 She was able to sing along on many songs (we gave them the lyrics to most things we played).\u00a0 There were only THREE of us there today, two violins and a mandolin (occasionally he was on violin).\u00a0 What a nice food spread today!\u00a0 Three plates of little \u00bc -sized sandwiches of tuna salad, chicken salad, and egg salad; a bowl of green salad; a bowl of cut fresh large strawberries; a bowl with cut up pineapple, cherries, and mandarins in a white sugar sauce.\u00a0 Wait, there\u2019s more! Another bowl of a different and very good homemade chicken spread with Triscuits.\u00a0 Some Sun Chips and a whole table full of desserts including a birthday cake for one of the residents.\u00a0 We sang Happy Birthday at the start and at the end to her.\u00a0 Also on the dessert table were homemade chocolate chip cookies, frosted butter-sugar cookies, pound cake, and other goodies. \u00a0One of the residents who sat on the front row with my friend is 99 years old. \u00a0Afterwards, I took my friend to Fred Meyer to pick up her meds.\u00a0 On the way home, it started looking like rain and a few drops fell on me on the way home and for my walk into the house.\u00a0 I put on my large sombrero from the car, to act as an umbrella.\u00a0 The clouds never produced much rain, but there was a storm with thunder north of us on the mountains.\u00a0 Now it is cloudy and cooling down.\u00a0 John rested and then went out to work in the yard again, leaving me to finish the blog for this week. \u00a0He is removing a fence between two parts of our pasture where our new pole building will soon be.\u00a0 Film at 11 \u2013 just kidding.<\/p>\n Sunday the high is supposed to be just 78 \u2013 then slowly rising through the week with some thunderstorms in the area.<\/p>\n Hope your week was a good one.<\/p>\n Nancy and John<\/p>\n Still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Subtitle: Happy findings about Wilkins Family History in Seattle Saturday, July 7.\u00a0 Got the blog out at 4:00 p.m.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 Spent the day as much as possible in the house because of the high temperatures.\u00a0 Supposedly, at the airport, 5 mi. south of us, it got to 100, but it never went above 93 on … Continue reading “Summer came”<\/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-1020","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-gs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","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=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![http:\/\/www.americanconcrete.com\/commercial\/barriers\/Jersey-Barrier.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.wrh.noaa.gov\/mtr\/cpm\/mmts.php<\/a><\/p>\nThere are established standards about the location of these things but many are not properly sited.\u00a0 See here for an example:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.norcalblogs.com\/watts\/2007\/06\/how_not_to_measure_temperature_12.html<\/a><\/p>\nOur small thermometer closely resembles this one:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00005NN9E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n. . . with the unit on the right located under the overhang near the front door.\u00a0 By late afternoon shade is all about but there is still lingering heat in the house and concrete from earlier in the day.\u00a0 So, we measure temperature at the house and the airport measures temperature very close to the runways.\u00a0 That makes sense to pilots.\u00a0 If we had a unit that would send a signal about 200 feet we could have one out under the big trees down by the creek.\u00a0 That would be interesting but we don\u2019t live down there.\u00a0 Well, no one lives in that little circle at the airport either, but that\u2019s what the National Weather Service uses to report our Ellensburg temperature:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?CityName=Ellensburg&state=WA&site=PDT&textField1=46.9967&textField2=-120.547&e=0<\/a><\/p>\nSo, back to our activities:\u00a0 We finished putting up the strawberries and then had some for dessert on ice cream.\u00a0 Tomorrow, it will be warm again.<\/p>\nSunday, July 8\u00a0 I expect John will be up early to get the chores done before it gets hot.\u00a0 He was, but it got hot anyway.\u00a0 The high for the day was 104 and lasted over 3 hours at the airport.\u00a0 We never saw the temperatures as high on our front porch; only got to 96 or so.\u00a0 It was a lot hotter in the direct sun.\u00a0 John watered the thirsty raspberry bushes, and they were quite happy ~~ not ours, but soon:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.raspberries.us\/three-raspberries-636.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nWe stayed inside during the heat of the day; doing all sorts of things.\u00a0 I spent time writing music for our group. \u00a0Today I finished Hi Li-li, Hi Li-li Hi Lo as well as I Want a Girl (Just like the girl that married dear old Dad.)\u00a0 Those scores were given to me by our banjo player Evelyn, who found them in a songbook she has.\u00a0 Now I’m ready to start I’ll Fly Away.\u00a0 I brought that sheet music back from GA.<\/p>\nAlso today, John and I got on separate computers with Google Earth, and found the spot where my grandparents (from GA) raised 3 children while in Seattle, while my granddad worked on construction of the Smith Building (built from 1909 to 1914).\u00a0 Today it’s called the Smith Tower, and once it was the tallest in town.\u00a0 They built their house in southwest Seattle, south and up the hill from Fauntleroy Way (the end of the electric trolley line south from Seattle), on the NE corner of SW 44th Ave and SW 102nd St.\u00a0 My cousin Susan and her husband John (yes there are many Johns in the family) plan to fly to Seattle July 18th and wanted to see the old house.\u00a0 John and I had taken Granny there back when we were still living in Idaho.\u00a0 She flew up, and we drove to Seattle, picked her up at the airport, spent the night in a motel, and then came back to Idaho after showing her around Seattle, and the finding old house.\u00a0 I don’t remember the date, but someday we will turn up the old slides we took and they will have a date on them.<\/p>\nStill hot; but cooling off.\u00a0 There are thunderstorms south of us.\u00a0 The lights are occasionally blinking.\u00a0 Apparently, there were some serious (lightning-ignited) house fires south of us in Yakima.\u00a0 It was colorful and very windy and rainy here. \u00a0I heard from a former student in Moxee that lightning struck some houses. \u00a0Very sad. \u00a0We didn’t have any strikes or even noise here; just lots of flashing lights. \u00a0It beat the neighborhood fireworks on the 4th.<\/p>\nMonday, July 9\u00a0 Wonderful progress on finding out about the house my grandfather built in Seattle. \u00a0I’ll outline what I found out.\u00a0 Here’s the scoop– from what I wrote Susan and John who plan to visit the house next week.\u00a0 I’m sure they were only planning to drive by, but they are thrilled they will get to go inside and see the work of our grandfather, long ago.\u00a0 The house was built in 1913.<\/p>\nI found out the real address of the property is 10122 44TH AVE SW Seattle, WA 98146.\u00a0 You can look that up on Google Maps or Google Earth, and drag the little orange man to get street views.\u00a0 However, be careful, the photos are taken before the garage was built there in 2004 on the old foundation.\u00a0 I got access to the King County Assessor’s records on line, and found\u00a0 many details about the house as well as the owners.\u00a0 My former student Nizar (now working in Renton, WA) sent me the link and then a worker from King County Assessor’s Office called me (in response to an email I sent them).\u00a0 He didn’t know the address, which Nizar had found, so I gave him the information, and he walked me through the extra pictures in their database.\u00a0 I had only found one photo, which was of the garage.\u00a0 Then he gave me the name of the Archive where they put all information from before 1982.\u00a0 I have yet to contact those folks in Bellevue, WA.\u00a0 The Assessor’s office does not have that much room on line to store it.\u00a0 I found the owners’ names in the database records for the parcel, and then I looked them up on switchboard.com finding out where they live and their phone number.\u00a0 Their son is living in the house.\u00a0 I talked to the lady for almost a half hour.\u00a0 She was very happy and interested to hear about the history of the house.\u00a0 Her name is Sue W., and her husband is Roy.\u00a0 Their son is Matt.\u00a0 She is willing to give my cousin Susan and her husband John a tour of the house next week.\u00a0 Ironically, the son is a Carpentry Contractor.\u00a0 My granddad was a carpenter working in construction projects.\u00a0 I find that really ironic.\u00a0 The son added a garage on the old footprint (which had rooms in the back probably used for a chicken house), and he kept the architectural design of the main house.\u00a0 There have been some rooms added in place of the old sun porch out front, and the son uses that as his office space.\u00a0 He also refinished the “fir” floors in the kitchen and has not destroyed the bin-type (tip out) cabinets for potatoes and such off the kitchen, that were built into the space by my granddad. This couple bought it in 1986, for $58,000.\u00a0 [Likely within 2 years of our visit with Granny.]\u00a0 It only has one bedroom, but now has an appraised value (for taxes) of $266,000.\u00a0 I forgot to say that the stained glass windows are still in the front room of the house.\u00a0 Susan and John are going to visit the owners next Thursday afternoon\/evening and get an inside tour of the house.\u00a0 How exciting!\u00a0 We have appointments we cannot change, which keeps us from driving over to join them for a few hours and for the tour of the house.\u00a0 Susan assured me she would take her camera and record the event.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, I also managed to call about my violin shoulder pad that didn’t fit my violin (too large), but it fits my viola.\u00a0 I called to see if I could figure out what I should have ordered, and I asked if they sold medical tubing I could use to recover mine that has \u00a0deteriorated over the past 15 years.\u00a0 The sales rep I spoke with said she had the same need awhile ago, and she went and bought two feet for 50 cents.\u00a0 She is in Rhode Island.\u00a0 She was willing to share some with me, and took my name and address to send it.\u00a0 I hope that happens.\u00a0 I am anxiously awaiting it.<\/p>\nI was able to send out 9 jobs today from the jobslist. \u00a0It now has 520 recipients.<\/p>\nJohn went outside for an hour with our farrier to put the wedges in shoes on Ebony’s front feet to relieve some of the stress on her bowed tendon.\u00a0 John is still doctoring her twice a day.\u00a0 I threw leftovers together for supper while John took care of the horses and cats.\u00a0 It didn’t start cooling down till right before 9:00 p.m. when it finally reached 81, from a high of 105.\u00a0 I haven’t looked to see what’s on tap for tomorrow.\u00a0 I do have to go to town for an appointment at 5:30.\u00a0 I had made it later in the day, to coordinate with music at 6:30 on Tuesday night, but that was cancelled for the month of July (and August).\u00a0 John and I will soon be enjoying raspberries on ice cream (from last year).\u00a0 He picked only five raspberries today, and within a day or so, he’ll be able to start adding to the freezer.\u00a0 Tomorrow may produce some more strawberries for him to pick as well.\u00a0 The strawberries really don’t do well in this much heat.<\/p>\nTuesday, July 10\u00a0 Nothing till 5:30, a shoulder\/neck massage for Nancy.\u00a0 It was a rather rough session, but I think it was successful.\u00a0 My shoulders are quite affected by the tenseness of the tendons and muscles that control them and are near my neck.\u00a0 I wish I knew the names of them and something about the condition.\u00a0 It seems to be aggravated by my playing fiddle, which is unfortunate considering how much I enjoy doing that.<\/p>\nWednesday, July 11\u00a0 Noon playtime at the Soup Kitchen\/Food Bank, followed by SAIL exercise.<\/p>\nIt was awfully hot (no a\/c) at the noon lunch & play\/sing date, but the food was super–donated by Ellensburg Pasta Company, including spaghetti, tomato sauce w\/ bratwurst pieces and all topped with cheese. \u00a0Quite yummy, and included sides of mixed green salad with tomatoes, watermelon, pears, and garlic bread.\u00a0 Once home John and I had an afternoon snack — a piece of carrot cake covered with strawberries from yesterday evening’s work.\u00a0 John went out this morning and picked about 5 more pounds and he fixed them while I was in town.\u00a0 They haven’t been frozen yet, so we will have some for dinner, and then before bed, we put them in freezer Ziploc bags.<\/p>\nI took in the 3 new songs for Evelyn and me to try out, and we made some changes that I have to do. \u00a0I need to lower Hi-Li-li, Hi-lo to the key of C from G, so we can sing it. \u00a0I also have some note changes and one chord to change in I Want A Girl, and I made up and added a newly created verse, “I want a guy, just like the guy that married dear old Mom.\u00a0 He was a jewel and the only one that Mamma ever had; \u00a0A neat old gentleman with heart so\u00a0true, one who loved nobody else but her.\u00a0 Oh, I want a guy, just like the man that married dear ol’ Mom.<\/p>\nI added two more verses to I’ll Fly Away; there was only one on the music I transcribed from.\u00a0 Evelyn knew at least one more.\u00a0 I found a nice rendition of a You Tube video by Randy Travis, where I got the rest of the lyrics.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bLka8rRyIGg<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, there is a great story that goes with the original lyrics, written in 1932.\u00a0 I have reproduced it on our new web site, at the link below:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.ellensburg.com\/nancyh\/LyricsPlusStoryI’llFlyAway.html<\/a><\/p>\nI really don’t need any more work to do, but it is too hot to do anything anyway… even house cleaning. \u00a0God forbid I should want to do that! \u00a0 I did load the dishwasher when I got home.<\/p>\nThursday, July 12\u00a0 Our 43rd anniversary.\u00a0 We had a rather busy day.\u00a0 John worked a lot outside on chores including with the horses.\u00a0 I stayed inside most of the morning working on music corrections on the 3 songs we tested yesterday.\u00a0 Today I carried copies for everyone, and we did amazingly well as a group, on the new ones, before we played our regular stuff.\u00a0 Charlie brought their visitor from Belarus (Paulina, till Sept 9th), who is part of the Children of Chernobyl project here in the states.\u00a0 Today’s meeting was 2:00 at the Rehab where I had physical therapy for 7 weeks after ICU in the beginning of 2010.\u00a0 It was amazingly cool in there today.\u00a0 Normally it is very warm.\u00a0 We didn’t have much time after getting home, but we both rested.\u00a0 Then we took off for a 7:00 meeting of our trail riding club. \u00a0A local veterinarian (Sam, for Samantha) spoke on the topic of laminitis in horses.\u00a0 Sadly, we have experienced this twice.<\/p>\nFriday, July 13\u00a0 Nothing much planned but I went to SAIL exercise and took my 86 yr old friend to do some shopping afterward.\u00a0 She needs assistance with reading labels, because of her macular degeneration.\u00a0 John did an amazing amount of yard and animal work yesterday, until late.\u00a0 He was worn out and so I helped put together dinner.\u00a0 That’s about the first time in 3 years for my creating a dinner from scratch.\u00a0 He has been extremely supportive of me forever.<\/p>\nSaturday, July 14\u00a0 This is our day to play music and be fed at Briarwood Commons retirement home (a series of individual apartments at a reduced rate).\u00a0 I picked up my friend again on the way in and she enjoyed visiting with old friends and listening to us play music.\u00a0 She was able to sing along on many songs (we gave them the lyrics to most things we played).\u00a0 There were only THREE of us there today, two violins and a mandolin (occasionally he was on violin).\u00a0 What a nice food spread today!\u00a0 Three plates of little \u00bc -sized sandwiches of tuna salad, chicken salad, and egg salad; a bowl of green salad; a bowl of cut fresh large strawberries; a bowl with cut up pineapple, cherries, and mandarins in a white sugar sauce.\u00a0 Wait, there\u2019s more! Another bowl of a different and very good homemade chicken spread with Triscuits.\u00a0 Some Sun Chips and a whole table full of desserts including a birthday cake for one of the residents.\u00a0 We sang Happy Birthday at the start and at the end to her.\u00a0 Also on the dessert table were homemade chocolate chip cookies, frosted butter-sugar cookies, pound cake, and other goodies. \u00a0One of the residents who sat on the front row with my friend is 99 years old. \u00a0Afterwards, I took my friend to Fred Meyer to pick up her meds.\u00a0 On the way home, it started looking like rain and a few drops fell on me on the way home and for my walk into the house.\u00a0 I put on my large sombrero from the car, to act as an umbrella.\u00a0 The clouds never produced much rain, but there was a storm with thunder north of us on the mountains.\u00a0 Now it is cloudy and cooling down.\u00a0 John rested and then went out to work in the yard again, leaving me to finish the blog for this week. \u00a0He is removing a fence between two parts of our pasture where our new pole building will soon be.\u00a0 Film at 11 \u2013 just kidding.<\/p>\nSunday the high is supposed to be just 78 \u2013 then slowly rising through the week with some thunderstorms in the area.<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\nStill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subtitle: Happy findings about Wilkins Family History in Seattle Saturday, July 7.\u00a0 Got the blog out at 4:00 p.m.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 Spent the day as much as possible in the house because of the high temperatures.\u00a0 Supposedly, at the airport, 5 mi. south of us, it got to 100, but it never went above 93 on … Continue reading “Summer came”<\/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-1020","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-gs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","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=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.americanconcrete.com\/commercial\/barriers\/Jersey-Barrier.jpg\"){kind=link}
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only got to 96 or so.\u00a0 It was a lot hotter in the direct sun.\u00a0 John watered the thirsty raspberry bushes, and they were quite happy ~~ not ours, but soon:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.raspberries.us\/three-raspberries-636.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nWe stayed inside during the heat of the day; doing all sorts of things.\u00a0 I spent time writing music for our group. \u00a0Today I finished Hi Li-li, Hi Li-li Hi Lo as well as I Want a Girl (Just like the girl that married dear old Dad.)\u00a0 Those scores were given to me by our banjo player Evelyn, who found them in a songbook she has.\u00a0 Now I’m ready to start I’ll Fly Away.\u00a0 I brought that sheet music back from GA.<\/p>\nAlso today, John and I got on separate computers with Google Earth, and found the spot where my grandparents (from GA) raised 3 children while in Seattle, while my granddad worked on construction of the Smith Building (built from 1909 to 1914).\u00a0 Today it’s called the Smith Tower, and once it was the tallest in town.\u00a0 They built their house in southwest Seattle, south and up the hill from Fauntleroy Way (the end of the electric trolley line south from Seattle), on the NE corner of SW 44th Ave and SW 102nd St.\u00a0 My cousin Susan and her husband John (yes there are many Johns in the family) plan to fly to Seattle July 18th and wanted to see the old house.\u00a0 John and I had taken Granny there back when we were still living in Idaho.\u00a0 She flew up, and we drove to Seattle, picked her up at the airport, spent the night in a motel, and then came back to Idaho after showing her around Seattle, and the finding old house.\u00a0 I don’t remember the date, but someday we will turn up the old slides we took and they will have a date on them.<\/p>\nStill hot; but cooling off.\u00a0 There are thunderstorms south of us.\u00a0 The lights are occasionally blinking.\u00a0 Apparently, there were some serious (lightning-ignited) house fires south of us in Yakima.\u00a0 It was colorful and very windy and rainy here. \u00a0I heard from a former student in Moxee that lightning struck some houses. \u00a0Very sad. \u00a0We didn’t have any strikes or even noise here; just lots of flashing lights. \u00a0It beat the neighborhood fireworks on the 4th.<\/p>\nMonday, July 9\u00a0 Wonderful progress on finding out about the house my grandfather built in Seattle. \u00a0I’ll outline what I found out.\u00a0 Here’s the scoop– from what I wrote Susan and John who plan to visit the house next week.\u00a0 I’m sure they were only planning to drive by, but they are thrilled they will get to go inside and see the work of our grandfather, long ago.\u00a0 The house was built in 1913.<\/p>\nI found out the real address of the property is 10122 44TH AVE SW Seattle, WA 98146.\u00a0 You can look that up on Google Maps or Google Earth, and drag the little orange man to get street views.\u00a0 However, be careful, the photos are taken before the garage was built there in 2004 on the old foundation.\u00a0 I got access to the King County Assessor’s records on line, and found\u00a0 many details about the house as well as the owners.\u00a0 My former student Nizar (now working in Renton, WA) sent me the link and then a worker from King County Assessor’s Office called me (in response to an email I sent them).\u00a0 He didn’t know the address, which Nizar had found, so I gave him the information, and he walked me through the extra pictures in their database.\u00a0 I had only found one photo, which was of the garage.\u00a0 Then he gave me the name of the Archive where they put all information from before 1982.\u00a0 I have yet to contact those folks in Bellevue, WA.\u00a0 The Assessor’s office does not have that much room on line to store it.\u00a0 I found the owners’ names in the database records for the parcel, and then I looked them up on switchboard.com finding out where they live and their phone number.\u00a0 Their son is living in the house.\u00a0 I talked to the lady for almost a half hour.\u00a0 She was very happy and interested to hear about the history of the house.\u00a0 Her name is Sue W., and her husband is Roy.\u00a0 Their son is Matt.\u00a0 She is willing to give my cousin Susan and her husband John a tour of the house next week.\u00a0 Ironically, the son is a Carpentry Contractor.\u00a0 My granddad was a carpenter working in construction projects.\u00a0 I find that really ironic.\u00a0 The son added a garage on the old footprint (which had rooms in the back probably used for a chicken house), and he kept the architectural design of the main house.\u00a0 There have been some rooms added in place of the old sun porch out front, and the son uses that as his office space.\u00a0 He also refinished the “fir” floors in the kitchen and has not destroyed the bin-type (tip out) cabinets for potatoes and such off the kitchen, that were built into the space by my granddad. This couple bought it in 1986, for $58,000.\u00a0 [Likely within 2 years of our visit with Granny.]\u00a0 It only has one bedroom, but now has an appraised value (for taxes) of $266,000.\u00a0 I forgot to say that the stained glass windows are still in the front room of the house.\u00a0 Susan and John are going to visit the owners next Thursday afternoon\/evening and get an inside tour of the house.\u00a0 How exciting!\u00a0 We have appointments we cannot change, which keeps us from driving over to join them for a few hours and for the tour of the house.\u00a0 Susan assured me she would take her camera and record the event.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, I also managed to call about my violin shoulder pad that didn’t fit my violin (too large), but it fits my viola.\u00a0 I called to see if I could figure out what I should have ordered, and I asked if they sold medical tubing I could use to recover mine that has \u00a0deteriorated over the past 15 years.\u00a0 The sales rep I spoke with said she had the same need awhile ago, and she went and bought two feet for 50 cents.\u00a0 She is in Rhode Island.\u00a0 She was willing to share some with me, and took my name and address to send it.\u00a0 I hope that happens.\u00a0 I am anxiously awaiting it.<\/p>\nI was able to send out 9 jobs today from the jobslist. \u00a0It now has 520 recipients.<\/p>\nJohn went outside for an hour with our farrier to put the wedges in shoes on Ebony’s front feet to relieve some of the stress on her bowed tendon.\u00a0 John is still doctoring her twice a day.\u00a0 I threw leftovers together for supper while John took care of the horses and cats.\u00a0 It didn’t start cooling down till right before 9:00 p.m. when it finally reached 81, from a high of 105.\u00a0 I haven’t looked to see what’s on tap for tomorrow.\u00a0 I do have to go to town for an appointment at 5:30.\u00a0 I had made it later in the day, to coordinate with music at 6:30 on Tuesday night, but that was cancelled for the month of July (and August).\u00a0 John and I will soon be enjoying raspberries on ice cream (from last year).\u00a0 He picked only five raspberries today, and within a day or so, he’ll be able to start adding to the freezer.\u00a0 Tomorrow may produce some more strawberries for him to pick as well.\u00a0 The strawberries really don’t do well in this much heat.<\/p>\nTuesday, July 10\u00a0 Nothing till 5:30, a shoulder\/neck massage for Nancy.\u00a0 It was a rather rough session, but I think it was successful.\u00a0 My shoulders are quite affected by the tenseness of the tendons and muscles that control them and are near my neck.\u00a0 I wish I knew the names of them and something about the condition.\u00a0 It seems to be aggravated by my playing fiddle, which is unfortunate considering how much I enjoy doing that.<\/p>\nWednesday, July 11\u00a0 Noon playtime at the Soup Kitchen\/Food Bank, followed by SAIL exercise.<\/p>\nIt was awfully hot (no a\/c) at the noon lunch & play\/sing date, but the food was super–donated by Ellensburg Pasta Company, including spaghetti, tomato sauce w\/ bratwurst pieces and all topped with cheese. \u00a0Quite yummy, and included sides of mixed green salad with tomatoes, watermelon, pears, and garlic bread.\u00a0 Once home John and I had an afternoon snack — a piece of carrot cake covered with strawberries from yesterday evening’s work.\u00a0 John went out this morning and picked about 5 more pounds and he fixed them while I was in town.\u00a0 They haven’t been frozen yet, so we will have some for dinner, and then before bed, we put them in freezer Ziploc bags.<\/p>\nI took in the 3 new songs for Evelyn and me to try out, and we made some changes that I have to do. \u00a0I need to lower Hi-Li-li, Hi-lo to the key of C from G, so we can sing it. \u00a0I also have some note changes and one chord to change in I Want A Girl, and I made up and added a newly created verse, “I want a guy, just like the guy that married dear old Mom.\u00a0 He was a jewel and the only one that Mamma ever had; \u00a0A neat old gentleman with heart so\u00a0true, one who loved nobody else but her.\u00a0 Oh, I want a guy, just like the man that married dear ol’ Mom.<\/p>\nI added two more verses to I’ll Fly Away; there was only one on the music I transcribed from.\u00a0 Evelyn knew at least one more.\u00a0 I found a nice rendition of a You Tube video by Randy Travis, where I got the rest of the lyrics.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bLka8rRyIGg<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, there is a great story that goes with the original lyrics, written in 1932.\u00a0 I have reproduced it on our new web site, at the link below:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.ellensburg.com\/nancyh\/LyricsPlusStoryI’llFlyAway.html<\/a><\/p>\nI really don’t need any more work to do, but it is too hot to do anything anyway… even house cleaning. \u00a0God forbid I should want to do that! \u00a0 I did load the dishwasher when I got home.<\/p>\nThursday, July 12\u00a0 Our 43rd anniversary.\u00a0 We had a rather busy day.\u00a0 John worked a lot outside on chores including with the horses.\u00a0 I stayed inside most of the morning working on music corrections on the 3 songs we tested yesterday.\u00a0 Today I carried copies for everyone, and we did amazingly well as a group, on the new ones, before we played our regular stuff.\u00a0 Charlie brought their visitor from Belarus (Paulina, till Sept 9th), who is part of the Children of Chernobyl project here in the states.\u00a0 Today’s meeting was 2:00 at the Rehab where I had physical therapy for 7 weeks after ICU in the beginning of 2010.\u00a0 It was amazingly cool in there today.\u00a0 Normally it is very warm.\u00a0 We didn’t have much time after getting home, but we both rested.\u00a0 Then we took off for a 7:00 meeting of our trail riding club. \u00a0A local veterinarian (Sam, for Samantha) spoke on the topic of laminitis in horses.\u00a0 Sadly, we have experienced this twice.<\/p>\nFriday, July 13\u00a0 Nothing much planned but I went to SAIL exercise and took my 86 yr old friend to do some shopping afterward.\u00a0 She needs assistance with reading labels, because of her macular degeneration.\u00a0 John did an amazing amount of yard and animal work yesterday, until late.\u00a0 He was worn out and so I helped put together dinner.\u00a0 That’s about the first time in 3 years for my creating a dinner from scratch.\u00a0 He has been extremely supportive of me forever.<\/p>\nSaturday, July 14\u00a0 This is our day to play music and be fed at Briarwood Commons retirement home (a series of individual apartments at a reduced rate).\u00a0 I picked up my friend again on the way in and she enjoyed visiting with old friends and listening to us play music.\u00a0 She was able to sing along on many songs (we gave them the lyrics to most things we played).\u00a0 There were only THREE of us there today, two violins and a mandolin (occasionally he was on violin).\u00a0 What a nice food spread today!\u00a0 Three plates of little \u00bc -sized sandwiches of tuna salad, chicken salad, and egg salad; a bowl of green salad; a bowl of cut fresh large strawberries; a bowl with cut up pineapple, cherries, and mandarins in a white sugar sauce.\u00a0 Wait, there\u2019s more! Another bowl of a different and very good homemade chicken spread with Triscuits.\u00a0 Some Sun Chips and a whole table full of desserts including a birthday cake for one of the residents.\u00a0 We sang Happy Birthday at the start and at the end to her.\u00a0 Also on the dessert table were homemade chocolate chip cookies, frosted butter-sugar cookies, pound cake, and other goodies. \u00a0One of the residents who sat on the front row with my friend is 99 years old. \u00a0Afterwards, I took my friend to Fred Meyer to pick up her meds.\u00a0 On the way home, it started looking like rain and a few drops fell on me on the way home and for my walk into the house.\u00a0 I put on my large sombrero from the car, to act as an umbrella.\u00a0 The clouds never produced much rain, but there was a storm with thunder north of us on the mountains.\u00a0 Now it is cloudy and cooling down.\u00a0 John rested and then went out to work in the yard again, leaving me to finish the blog for this week. \u00a0He is removing a fence between two parts of our pasture where our new pole building will soon be.\u00a0 Film at 11 \u2013 just kidding.<\/p>\nSunday the high is supposed to be just 78 \u2013 then slowly rising through the week with some thunderstorms in the area.<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\nStill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subtitle: Happy findings about Wilkins Family History in Seattle Saturday, July 7.\u00a0 Got the blog out at 4:00 p.m.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 Spent the day as much as possible in the house because of the high temperatures.\u00a0 Supposedly, at the airport, 5 mi. south of us, it got to 100, but it never went above 93 on … Continue reading “Summer came”<\/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-1020","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-gs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","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=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00005NN9E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\"){kind=link}
![http:\/\/www.raspberries.us\/three-raspberries-636.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nWe stayed inside during the heat of the day; doing all sorts of things.\u00a0 I spent time writing music for our group. \u00a0Today I finished Hi Li-li, Hi Li-li Hi Lo as well as I Want a Girl (Just like the girl that married dear old Dad.)\u00a0 Those scores were given to me by our banjo player Evelyn, who found them in a songbook she has.\u00a0 Now I’m ready to start I’ll Fly Away.\u00a0 I brought that sheet music back from GA.<\/p>\nAlso today, John and I got on separate computers with Google Earth, and found the spot where my grandparents (from GA) raised 3 children while in Seattle, while my granddad worked on construction of the Smith Building (built from 1909 to 1914).\u00a0 Today it’s called the Smith Tower, and once it was the tallest in town.\u00a0 They built their house in southwest Seattle, south and up the hill from Fauntleroy Way (the end of the electric trolley line south from Seattle), on the NE corner of SW 44th Ave and SW 102nd St.\u00a0 My cousin Susan and her husband John (yes there are many Johns in the family) plan to fly to Seattle July 18th and wanted to see the old house.\u00a0 John and I had taken Granny there back when we were still living in Idaho.\u00a0 She flew up, and we drove to Seattle, picked her up at the airport, spent the night in a motel, and then came back to Idaho after showing her around Seattle, and the finding old house.\u00a0 I don’t remember the date, but someday we will turn up the old slides we took and they will have a date on them.<\/p>\nStill hot; but cooling off.\u00a0 There are thunderstorms south of us.\u00a0 The lights are occasionally blinking.\u00a0 Apparently, there were some serious (lightning-ignited) house fires south of us in Yakima.\u00a0 It was colorful and very windy and rainy here. \u00a0I heard from a former student in Moxee that lightning struck some houses. \u00a0Very sad. \u00a0We didn’t have any strikes or even noise here; just lots of flashing lights. \u00a0It beat the neighborhood fireworks on the 4th.<\/p>\nMonday, July 9\u00a0 Wonderful progress on finding out about the house my grandfather built in Seattle. \u00a0I’ll outline what I found out.\u00a0 Here’s the scoop– from what I wrote Susan and John who plan to visit the house next week.\u00a0 I’m sure they were only planning to drive by, but they are thrilled they will get to go inside and see the work of our grandfather, long ago.\u00a0 The house was built in 1913.<\/p>\nI found out the real address of the property is 10122 44TH AVE SW Seattle, WA 98146.\u00a0 You can look that up on Google Maps or Google Earth, and drag the little orange man to get street views.\u00a0 However, be careful, the photos are taken before the garage was built there in 2004 on the old foundation.\u00a0 I got access to the King County Assessor’s records on line, and found\u00a0 many details about the house as well as the owners.\u00a0 My former student Nizar (now working in Renton, WA) sent me the link and then a worker from King County Assessor’s Office called me (in response to an email I sent them).\u00a0 He didn’t know the address, which Nizar had found, so I gave him the information, and he walked me through the extra pictures in their database.\u00a0 I had only found one photo, which was of the garage.\u00a0 Then he gave me the name of the Archive where they put all information from before 1982.\u00a0 I have yet to contact those folks in Bellevue, WA.\u00a0 The Assessor’s office does not have that much room on line to store it.\u00a0 I found the owners’ names in the database records for the parcel, and then I looked them up on switchboard.com finding out where they live and their phone number.\u00a0 Their son is living in the house.\u00a0 I talked to the lady for almost a half hour.\u00a0 She was very happy and interested to hear about the history of the house.\u00a0 Her name is Sue W., and her husband is Roy.\u00a0 Their son is Matt.\u00a0 She is willing to give my cousin Susan and her husband John a tour of the house next week.\u00a0 Ironically, the son is a Carpentry Contractor.\u00a0 My granddad was a carpenter working in construction projects.\u00a0 I find that really ironic.\u00a0 The son added a garage on the old footprint (which had rooms in the back probably used for a chicken house), and he kept the architectural design of the main house.\u00a0 There have been some rooms added in place of the old sun porch out front, and the son uses that as his office space.\u00a0 He also refinished the “fir” floors in the kitchen and has not destroyed the bin-type (tip out) cabinets for potatoes and such off the kitchen, that were built into the space by my granddad. This couple bought it in 1986, for $58,000.\u00a0 [Likely within 2 years of our visit with Granny.]\u00a0 It only has one bedroom, but now has an appraised value (for taxes) of $266,000.\u00a0 I forgot to say that the stained glass windows are still in the front room of the house.\u00a0 Susan and John are going to visit the owners next Thursday afternoon\/evening and get an inside tour of the house.\u00a0 How exciting!\u00a0 We have appointments we cannot change, which keeps us from driving over to join them for a few hours and for the tour of the house.\u00a0 Susan assured me she would take her camera and record the event.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, I also managed to call about my violin shoulder pad that didn’t fit my violin (too large), but it fits my viola.\u00a0 I called to see if I could figure out what I should have ordered, and I asked if they sold medical tubing I could use to recover mine that has \u00a0deteriorated over the past 15 years.\u00a0 The sales rep I spoke with said she had the same need awhile ago, and she went and bought two feet for 50 cents.\u00a0 She is in Rhode Island.\u00a0 She was willing to share some with me, and took my name and address to send it.\u00a0 I hope that happens.\u00a0 I am anxiously awaiting it.<\/p>\nI was able to send out 9 jobs today from the jobslist. \u00a0It now has 520 recipients.<\/p>\nJohn went outside for an hour with our farrier to put the wedges in shoes on Ebony’s front feet to relieve some of the stress on her bowed tendon.\u00a0 John is still doctoring her twice a day.\u00a0 I threw leftovers together for supper while John took care of the horses and cats.\u00a0 It didn’t start cooling down till right before 9:00 p.m. when it finally reached 81, from a high of 105.\u00a0 I haven’t looked to see what’s on tap for tomorrow.\u00a0 I do have to go to town for an appointment at 5:30.\u00a0 I had made it later in the day, to coordinate with music at 6:30 on Tuesday night, but that was cancelled for the month of July (and August).\u00a0 John and I will soon be enjoying raspberries on ice cream (from last year).\u00a0 He picked only five raspberries today, and within a day or so, he’ll be able to start adding to the freezer.\u00a0 Tomorrow may produce some more strawberries for him to pick as well.\u00a0 The strawberries really don’t do well in this much heat.<\/p>\nTuesday, July 10\u00a0 Nothing till 5:30, a shoulder\/neck massage for Nancy.\u00a0 It was a rather rough session, but I think it was successful.\u00a0 My shoulders are quite affected by the tenseness of the tendons and muscles that control them and are near my neck.\u00a0 I wish I knew the names of them and something about the condition.\u00a0 It seems to be aggravated by my playing fiddle, which is unfortunate considering how much I enjoy doing that.<\/p>\nWednesday, July 11\u00a0 Noon playtime at the Soup Kitchen\/Food Bank, followed by SAIL exercise.<\/p>\nIt was awfully hot (no a\/c) at the noon lunch & play\/sing date, but the food was super–donated by Ellensburg Pasta Company, including spaghetti, tomato sauce w\/ bratwurst pieces and all topped with cheese. \u00a0Quite yummy, and included sides of mixed green salad with tomatoes, watermelon, pears, and garlic bread.\u00a0 Once home John and I had an afternoon snack — a piece of carrot cake covered with strawberries from yesterday evening’s work.\u00a0 John went out this morning and picked about 5 more pounds and he fixed them while I was in town.\u00a0 They haven’t been frozen yet, so we will have some for dinner, and then before bed, we put them in freezer Ziploc bags.<\/p>\nI took in the 3 new songs for Evelyn and me to try out, and we made some changes that I have to do. \u00a0I need to lower Hi-Li-li, Hi-lo to the key of C from G, so we can sing it. \u00a0I also have some note changes and one chord to change in I Want A Girl, and I made up and added a newly created verse, “I want a guy, just like the guy that married dear old Mom.\u00a0 He was a jewel and the only one that Mamma ever had; \u00a0A neat old gentleman with heart so\u00a0true, one who loved nobody else but her.\u00a0 Oh, I want a guy, just like the man that married dear ol’ Mom.<\/p>\nI added two more verses to I’ll Fly Away; there was only one on the music I transcribed from.\u00a0 Evelyn knew at least one more.\u00a0 I found a nice rendition of a You Tube video by Randy Travis, where I got the rest of the lyrics.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bLka8rRyIGg<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, there is a great story that goes with the original lyrics, written in 1932.\u00a0 I have reproduced it on our new web site, at the link below:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.ellensburg.com\/nancyh\/LyricsPlusStoryI’llFlyAway.html<\/a><\/p>\nI really don’t need any more work to do, but it is too hot to do anything anyway… even house cleaning. \u00a0God forbid I should want to do that! \u00a0 I did load the dishwasher when I got home.<\/p>\nThursday, July 12\u00a0 Our 43rd anniversary.\u00a0 We had a rather busy day.\u00a0 John worked a lot outside on chores including with the horses.\u00a0 I stayed inside most of the morning working on music corrections on the 3 songs we tested yesterday.\u00a0 Today I carried copies for everyone, and we did amazingly well as a group, on the new ones, before we played our regular stuff.\u00a0 Charlie brought their visitor from Belarus (Paulina, till Sept 9th), who is part of the Children of Chernobyl project here in the states.\u00a0 Today’s meeting was 2:00 at the Rehab where I had physical therapy for 7 weeks after ICU in the beginning of 2010.\u00a0 It was amazingly cool in there today.\u00a0 Normally it is very warm.\u00a0 We didn’t have much time after getting home, but we both rested.\u00a0 Then we took off for a 7:00 meeting of our trail riding club. \u00a0A local veterinarian (Sam, for Samantha) spoke on the topic of laminitis in horses.\u00a0 Sadly, we have experienced this twice.<\/p>\nFriday, July 13\u00a0 Nothing much planned but I went to SAIL exercise and took my 86 yr old friend to do some shopping afterward.\u00a0 She needs assistance with reading labels, because of her macular degeneration.\u00a0 John did an amazing amount of yard and animal work yesterday, until late.\u00a0 He was worn out and so I helped put together dinner.\u00a0 That’s about the first time in 3 years for my creating a dinner from scratch.\u00a0 He has been extremely supportive of me forever.<\/p>\nSaturday, July 14\u00a0 This is our day to play music and be fed at Briarwood Commons retirement home (a series of individual apartments at a reduced rate).\u00a0 I picked up my friend again on the way in and she enjoyed visiting with old friends and listening to us play music.\u00a0 She was able to sing along on many songs (we gave them the lyrics to most things we played).\u00a0 There were only THREE of us there today, two violins and a mandolin (occasionally he was on violin).\u00a0 What a nice food spread today!\u00a0 Three plates of little \u00bc -sized sandwiches of tuna salad, chicken salad, and egg salad; a bowl of green salad; a bowl of cut fresh large strawberries; a bowl with cut up pineapple, cherries, and mandarins in a white sugar sauce.\u00a0 Wait, there\u2019s more! Another bowl of a different and very good homemade chicken spread with Triscuits.\u00a0 Some Sun Chips and a whole table full of desserts including a birthday cake for one of the residents.\u00a0 We sang Happy Birthday at the start and at the end to her.\u00a0 Also on the dessert table were homemade chocolate chip cookies, frosted butter-sugar cookies, pound cake, and other goodies. \u00a0One of the residents who sat on the front row with my friend is 99 years old. \u00a0Afterwards, I took my friend to Fred Meyer to pick up her meds.\u00a0 On the way home, it started looking like rain and a few drops fell on me on the way home and for my walk into the house.\u00a0 I put on my large sombrero from the car, to act as an umbrella.\u00a0 The clouds never produced much rain, but there was a storm with thunder north of us on the mountains.\u00a0 Now it is cloudy and cooling down.\u00a0 John rested and then went out to work in the yard again, leaving me to finish the blog for this week. \u00a0He is removing a fence between two parts of our pasture where our new pole building will soon be.\u00a0 Film at 11 \u2013 just kidding.<\/p>\nSunday the high is supposed to be just 78 \u2013 then slowly rising through the week with some thunderstorms in the area.<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\nStill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subtitle: Happy findings about Wilkins Family History in Seattle Saturday, July 7.\u00a0 Got the blog out at 4:00 p.m.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 Spent the day as much as possible in the house because of the high temperatures.\u00a0 Supposedly, at the airport, 5 mi. south of us, it got to 100, but it never went above 93 on … Continue reading “Summer came”<\/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-1020","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-gs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","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=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.raspberries.us\/three-raspberries-636.jpg\"){kind=link}