Sunday, July 15\u00a0 It’s a little cooler here today and windy again.\u00a0 John has returned from several hours of outside work, including picking raspberries, Rainier cherries, and working on the pasture fence demolition. \u00a0John’s resting now and then we will tackle putting up the berries.\u00a0 We just had a nice long telephone visit with his sister Peggy in Ohio.\u00a0 I just got off my computer and have thrown a bunch of clothes that have piled up, in for a wash.\u00a0 Most of the first load is John’s clothing that gets dirty and sweaty from his outside work.\u00a0 We are concerned we haven’t seen Rascal since yesterday morning.\u00a0 It’s not like him not to return a couple times a day for food, a sleep, and cuddling.<\/p>\n
Early morning has in store leaving for a trip to Yakima.\u00a0 We need to have John\u2019s root canal checked after 6 months and to take the \u201909 Subaru for its oil change and lube (maybe for a 48,000 mile warranty thing, or we might have to go back for that).\u00a0 We have 49,500 miles on the car now.\u00a0 I almost always drive it and leave the \u201904 sit in the driveway because it uses (or likes) higher priced gas.\u00a0 [The \u201809\u2019s next major shop-time is at 60,000 miles, not now.\u00a0 Good thing, as that one will be about $1,000.]\u00a0 While we are in Yakima, we will cross the street into the town of Union Gap and go to Costco.<\/p>\n
We left for Yakima this morning at 8:45 and didn’t get home till after 2:00. Kitty Rascal was awaiting our return on the bed when we got home. \u00a0 This is so unlike him.\u00a0 We figured he was coyote, cougar, or owl dinner. \u00a0He appears in good shape, just very, very tired.\u00a0 I wondered if he went across the creek on a limb or bridge, and couldn’t find his way back without swimming. \u00a0We had storms in the hills that raised the water level a lot.\u00a0 We’ll never know.\u00a0 John thinks he\u2019s found a friend, maybe north of us a bit.\u00a0 I rubbed him all over, talked to him, and told him how happy I was to see him, and asked where he’d been for 3 days. \u00a0He didn’t respond, except to yawn, knead his feet, stretch, and roll over. \u00a0Dang, it is nice to have him back. \u00a0He has NEVER done this in the time we have had him (since August 2011), when he was small. We all slept for two hours this afternoon.\u00a0 Rascal slept hard himself and has eaten a lot of canned food.\u00a0 We put up about 5 pounds of strawberries tonight.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, July 17\u00a0 Light day, except for a concentrated shoulder massage and check up from last week to see if the work helped.\u00a0 The verdict is that my 4 muscles controlling my rotator cuff are in bad shape.\u00a0 They\u2019re called the S.I.T.S. (stands for Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, Teres minor, and Subscapularis) muscles.\u00a0 There is also involvement with my Deltoid muscle.\u00a0 If you follow this link, you\u2019ll get a good explanation of the anatomy.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotator_cuff<\/a><\/p>\n along with this link:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deltoid_muscle<\/a><\/p>\n My light day turned into more stops.\u00a0 Needed to pick up thyroid meds for our sweet Shay (oldest Brittany).\u00a0 In addition, I contacted the Better Life Natural Foods store in EBRG to see about the samples of the popped wheat berry products (of our friends in Condon, OR) that I took by for them to consider adding to their inventory with an order.\u00a0 See this link to see the description:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.wheatspringsbakery.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Wednesday, July 18 \u00a0Back to the regularly scheduled Soup Kitchen, Food Bank stint, at noon followed by SAIL exercise.\u00a0 Today’s food was good again, being donated by the Ellensburg Pasta Company.<\/p>\n http:\/\/ellensburgpasta.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n The opening page has a slide show that changes every 6 seconds.<\/p>\n It was a tube like pasta \u00a0called penne<\/em>, with tomato sauce and sliced bratwurst; garlic bread, green salad (too much dark green for me and my need not to have Vit K stuff such as spinach), and cranberry cake for dessert, also which I cannot have. \u00a0But when I got to the AAC for exercise, they put out some nice chocolate frosted chocolate cookies and I had one big one.\u00a0 While there, I heard about the mud\/rock slides in the canyon that have closed off Hwy 821 again, from Selah north about 17 miles.\u00a0 Seems to be at highway mileage marker 20 where the last one\/two were in 1998.\u00a0 There are two reports on the web from the Daily Record (Ellensburg) and the Yakima Herald.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.dailyrecordnews.com\/free\/top_story\/landslide-in-yakima-river-canyon-closes-state-route\/article_a9bb1d2e-d0ff-11e1-9e8b-0019bb2963f4.html<\/a><\/p>\n And, at:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.yakima-herald.com\/stories\/2012\/07\/18\/landslide-closes-yakima-river-canyon-road\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n Finally tonight at 9:00 p.m. it is down to 76 degrees.<\/p>\n Thursday, July 19\u00a0 We had the 2:00 gig at Dry Creek this week.\u00a0 It was fun to see my friends living there, plus all the new folks we have met through the years, with playing our music.\u00a0 They love it and often we have a couple of people dancing.\u00a0 Everyone sings along and appreciates our being there. \u00a0We give them a book of lyrics.\u00a0 John and I are driving to the other side of the valley tonight to load the horse trailer with hay.\u00a0 We did, and have 30 more bales of really nice hay, for $10\/bale.\u00a0 They are quite heavy but the loading chore was mostly done by David Hammond, son of our friend and Geog. Dept. colleague Ken (also retired now).\u00a0 Thanks, David.<\/p>\n Friday, July 20.\u00a0 This morning I slept in late after having a rough sleepless night.\u00a0 John took a lot of time and unloaded all 30 bales into the runway of our old barn.\u00a0 I have been taking care of stacks of mess in the den, very slowly.\u00a0 We had a (small, short, fast) hail-rainstorm this afternoon, and the wind is still blowing, but the sun is out, and the storm has moved on to the northeast.\u00a0 I thought about going to Kittitas to check in and buy a tee shirt, but decided I’ll wait till Saturday or even Sunday.\u00a0 Starting Monday next week, is the WA Old Time Fiddler’s Workshop and camp out.\u00a0 John will be taking a 1\/2 day beginning guitar class, and I will take my usual Intermediate & Advanced fiddle class with Roberta Pearce (She of Nampa, ID.).\u00a0 I have been in her class since she started and we think that was at least 15 years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019ve written of her and daughter Katrina previously:<\/p>\n http:\/\/bluegrasstoday.com\/29406\/left-handed-fiddler-katrina-pearce\/<\/a><\/p>\n Katrina will be teaching an advanced class call Hot Shots.<\/p>\n Saturday, July 21\u00a0 We have nothing truly planned until leaving about 3:10 to go across the valley for a Mormon celebration with grilled chicken, veggies, potluck, and our group providing the music, from 4 to 6:00 p.m. and we are invited to come, play, and eat free along with our spouses. This is being held at the (public) Damman School [Google Earth:\u00a0 46.9703, -120.5705 ] for reasons unknown to us \u2013 if we find out why, we\u2019ll add it next time.<\/p>\n Now it is still Friday, but I’m going to pass this along to John to put on the blog, because we will be busy tomorrow at the time we would normally do so.<\/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":" Sunday, July 15\u00a0 It’s a little cooler here today and windy again.\u00a0 John has returned from several hours of outside work, including picking raspberries, Rainier cherries, and working on the pasture fence demolition. \u00a0John’s resting now and then we will tackle putting up the berries.\u00a0 We just had a nice long telephone visit with his … Continue reading “Boring stuff & Cat went cattin\u2019”<\/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":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-gw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","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=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}