Friday, July 20\u00a0 Sent out the blog early, but things still happened after it was published.\u00a0 John went back outside working on removal of the cross pasture fence.\u00a0 My accomplishment for the day was sorting, cleaning, and tossing 10 boxes of paper to be recycled, plus a box of used batteries (such as AA).\u00a0 It was mostly piled on the floor in front of the curved glass china cabinet in the den, in boxes with open tops.\u00a0 I had to clean out the dust, and dog hair using the vacuum, then pack the boxes full, taping them, and writing on the outside with indelible ink: \u00a0Recycle Paper (or Magazines).\u00a0 The last box I opened had materials from my Urban Geography class.\u00a0 I sorted through pullng out books and materials to give to geography colleagues still teaching at CWU.\u00a0 I have already shared all my PowerPoints & notes & books with several for all of my classes, not just Urban.\u00a0 Tons more stuff is still packed.\u00a0 We didn’t get around to eating dinner till right before 9:00 p.m.\u00a0 It was a good stir-fry with pork, cashews, red peppers, onions, all cut up and fried, with cut-up toasted bread the size of croutons on top.<\/p>\n
I took a break while John was in the back of the house either working on the computer or contorting his fingers into guitar chord positions.\u00a0 I spent time washing and picking through drained raspberries and giving them a sprinkling\u00a0 of sugar.\u00a0 We had a generous serving over ice cream and hit the hay.\u00a0 We have a resident doe with twin fawns \u2013 still with white spots.\u00a0 They just went by along the back fence about 30 feet away.<\/p>\n
Saturday, July 21\u00a0 John started the morning by picking more raspberries that I need to clean up and “fix.”\u00a0 Meanwhile, we had lunch and I have been cleaning out more boxes.\u00a0 I found a framed certificate of my standing record bowling at Bowlerama in Moscow, ID (when they closed).\u00a0 My friend Suzanne got it for me and gave it to me after I was in WA.\u00a0 It’s a nice memory.\u00a0 The framed certificate reads:<\/p>\n
Award of Merit<\/p>\n
Nancy Hultquist<\/p>\n
bowled a series of 679 in sanctioned competition<\/p>\n
at Bowlerama during the 1979-80 season.<\/p>\n
This series stands at the highest ever bowled<\/p>\n
at Bowlerama from 1958 through the 1996 season.<\/p>\n
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Once I got to WA in 1988, I quit bowling after many years.\u00a0 I had started in 1957 before I had a social security card and thus could not work for pay, except by bowling and for trade for merchandise or services (free bowling, bowling balls, shirts, and related goods carried there).\u00a0 It was across the street from my house in Atlanta, GA, in the Broadview Plaza Shopping Center.\u00a0 There were 32 lanes.<\/p>\n
Today our day was full.\u00a0 We got home late (after 7:00 pm.) from the fun filled party across the valley.\u00a0 We played a lot of music and had a great audience.\u00a0 We had 5 very small children dancing and keeping time to the music and one little guy was completely entranced.\u00a0 I had the microphone for leading the singing and we had 5 fiddlers, 2 mandolins, 2 guitars, and a bass fiddle.\u00a0 They fed us and it was good.\u00a0 BBQ chicken legs, the biggest I have seen.\u00a0 Normally I’m not a leg fan.\u00a0 Then, salads of all types.\u00a0 Then a table full of desserts.\u00a0 I had my share, for sure.\u00a0 Then we played another hour and finished with a group National Anthem.\u00a0 No music.\u00a0 When we got to \u201cthe bombs bursting in air\u201d there was a fly-over by seven Air Force B-2 Spirits (aka stealth bombers):<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.airforce-technology.com\/projects\/b2\/<\/a><\/p>\n Okay, just kidding there, but it was a good picnic just the same!<\/p>\n John drove the truck and loaded in comfy plastic lawn chairs and my music stuff, plus a chair for me to play music in (my mom’s old kitchen chair with double fold-out steps). \u00a0Had a nice little stool, for putting our drinks on, and a cooler with my lemonade and his Pepsi mixed drink (with soda water).<\/p>\n Tomorrow is a lighter day.\u00a0 I unloaded two more boxes of stuff today, but these required more thought and decision-making.\u00a0 Have one for recycle, one for me to put elsewhere in a filing cabinet, and a box of books and materials to take to school for my friends.\u00a0 It’s going slowly, but it will get done.\u00a0 Tonight I fixed the raspberries John picked this morning.\u00a0 During the day, a bunch more ripened.\u00a0 After we eat these tonight, we will freeze the remainder because of another couple of pounds being picked tomorrow.<\/p>\n Sunday, July 22\u00a0 Morning included picking another pound of raspberries we shared with friends.\u00a0 We were away from home a lot today.\u00a0 Had to run to town and to deliver the berries, and while there, hit 3 yard sales. \u00a0Nothing at the last two, and at the first, I bought several packages of some wooden sticks (all for 50 cents) that hopefully we can use as chopsticks on the Cajun fiddlesticks songs we will be learning with cross-tuned fiddles.\u00a0 I think they were meant for skewers–wooden things to BBQ veggies & meat on.\u00a0 Don’t know if they are big enough.\u00a0 We’ll see.\u00a0 (They turned out to be very usable, and I shared with everyone in the class who had not brought chopsticks.) \u00a0I will explain the cross-tuning below.\u00a0 Also got some free things; one a large circular Christmas glass platter that will use for a potluck dish such as cookies or a pineapple upside down cake.\u00a0 We went to the school in Kittitas where the music workshop will be to sign in and signed up for some mini-workshops, held after class, later in the day (4:00 to 5:00).\u00a0 The other thing was to buy a tee shirt for me for the week, and we both picked up our name tags.<\/p>\n I’ve been off working on both violins, mandolin, and tuning John’s guitar.\u00a0 I thought of taking a mandolin mini-workshop but decided my knowledge and chording ability was not sufficient to gain anything. There is an aging and arthritic fingers class (mini-workshop) John will be taking.\u00a0 I ended up sitting in on that one too.<\/p>\n I’m taking two violins for the regular classes.<\/p>\n Heard tonight that a woman who plays guitar with our group had a large spruce tree fall on her house in today’s high winds.\u00a0 It didn’t get above 52 mph at the airport, but the firemen told her there were several downed trees in EBRG and that the winds were 60 mph.\u00a0 She’s okay but her house is damaged.<\/p>\n Monday, July 23\u00a0 Today begins the WA Old Time Fiddlers Association summer workshop in Kittitas, WA about 11 miles from our house.\u00a0 We are scheduled to be there for the organizational meeting, first thing in the morning at 9:00 a.m. in the Gym.\u00a0 Things got so busy I have forgotten to make notes on this blog.\u00a0 We both went to our respective classes, and John returned home after his was over at 11:30.\u00a0 I stayed till the end of mine at 3:30, plus then I went to a mini workshop at 4:00 to 5:00.\u00a0 John came back and picked me up.\u00a0 Then that evening I drove back to Kittitas to play in the city’s Gazebo<\/p>\n [Google Earth at:\u00a0 46.98506, -120.41839 ]<\/p>\n Before zooming in to see the Gazebo, note the red-roofed building in the upper part of the image.\u00a0 This is the elementary school where the WOTFA meets.\u00a0 After zooming in to see the Gazebo \u2013 zoom out to see the green irrigated Kittitas Valley and the surrounding hills.\u00a0 Zoom out more and Mt. Rainier will show up to the west, 64 miles from Kittitas.<\/p>\n Anyway, back at the Gazebo, a dozen plus musicians from around the state play tunes for those community members (and ourselves) who showed up.<\/p>\n Tuesday, July 24\u00a0 This morning started with getting ready to leave for the workshop.\u00a0 I had to take two extra fiddles today for use in class (to tune differently to play Cajun and an Appalachian tune we are learning in class).\u00a0 One was my old \u00be size fiddle I had from the 4th<\/sup> grade.\u00a0 The other was loaned to me from a friend in our music group who came out to play at our Gazebo performance.\u00a0 A young girl in my class borrowed my fiddle for the week.\u00a0 Took my own lunch and stayed till 3:30 when John came to retrieve me and take me to the hospital for a blood draw for my Thyroid test and my INR monthly test.\u00a0 We came home and John fixed an early dinner, and I drove back out for the Gazebo performance again.\u00a0 It was very special because a couple of friends from our trail riding club and a lovely lady and two of her family members came out to watch.\u00a0 The sweet lady was my roommate in 2010 when I was in the rehabilitation center learning how to walk again.\u00a0 She was such an inspiration to me.\u00a0 I sang a song just for her and dedicated it to her (You Are My Sunshine), and she was mine.<\/p>\n Wednesday, July 25 \u00a0Wow, today was another very full day.\u00a0 We started by leaving home at 8:15 for Kittitas and the old time music workshop.\u00a0 I had my class from 9:00 to 3:30 and John\u00a0 took his from 9:00 to 11:30 and went home to take care of the animals. \u00a0In my class today, we learned about playing with \u201cfiddlesticks\u201d to add rhythm to Cajun and Appalachian songs:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=PY2Z3EQzwGE<\/a><\/p>\n The fiddler has to hold one position so the partner keeping time on the neck of the instrument doesn\u2019t have to chase.\u00a0 The tuning of the fiddle strings must be changed to something called cross-tuning.\u00a0 Normally they are tuned from low to high, G D A E, but cross-tuning is G D G B.\u00a0 The A string is tuned to a G an octave higher than the low G string, and the E is tuned down to a B.\u00a0 WHY? asks John.\u00a0 I will try to explain.\u00a0 We used an Open G Tuning.\u00a0 This allows a drone to happen on adjacent strings, and it is easier to play both strings at once.\u00a0 Say your melody is on the A string (G in this case), then you can bow the open adjacent string, usually D, and it will fit fine.\u00a0\u00a0 If you want to learn about the term drone in music, look at Wikipedia, but shortly, here is an idea:\u00a0 a drone is a monophone effect (an accompaniment) in which a note (in this case an open string) is continuously sounded along with the tune on an adjacent string).\u00a0 That\u2019s an explanation for a violin.\u00a0 Drones on a bagpipe are the 3 higher pipes over the piper\u2019s left shoulder.\u00a0 On a five-string banjo the fifth string is a drone.<\/p>\n John returned at 3:30 and we both attended a great mini workshop on planning for shows in the community, and all the warnings about things to consider (is the instrument in tune?).\u00a0 We left there for town to meet my teacher and her daughter for a Chinese dinner.\u00a0 We had a great visit, and didn’t get home till almost 9:00 p.m.\u00a0 It was just before dark, so John could still see to feed the outside animals.\u00a0 I sat down for a 10 minute rest, but spent a lot of time instead on emails.\u00a0 Now I have to get up and put up raspberries that John picked this morning.\u00a0 Early morning picking is in the shade, it\u2019s cool, and there are no bees or wasps.<\/p>\n Thursday, July 26\u00a0 Supposed to be warm today (lower 90s) with no wind.\u00a0 It’s another long day with a performance tonight in the Gazebo, all day classes, and the mini-workshop for “aging fingers, etc.” at 4:00 to 5:00.\u00a0 John’s been trying hard and practicing each night but it is still a very hard “reach” for him to get his fingers on the chords.\u00a0 He is using small<\/em>-chords, such as fretting the first string (on the 3rd<\/sup> fret) for the G note and then using just the 4 strings as D G B G\u00a0 — not doing the low (5th<\/sup> & 6th<\/sup>) strings; those on the left in this diagram:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.play-acoustic-guitar.com\/images\/GMaj-Free-Guitar-Chord-Chart.png<\/a><\/p>\n Well, the workshop on aging was nothing like we expected.\u00a0 It was a little weird, actually.\u00a0 Mostly people were sitting in a circle sharing stories about things wrong with the body that affect music playing.\u00a0 John and I BOTH expected something entirely different–such as simpler ways to finger a chord if your hands were stiff and arthritic like (as the above explanation).\u00a0 Nothing like that.\u00a0 I don’t even think I will try to describe it entirely.\u00a0 I guess a few people there enjoyed it and shared some similar dietary and pain control items, but many of them were into the need for no caffeine, no sugar (yet they all ate fruit in some form, so John and I both wonder how they rationalize the natural sugars there).\u00a0 Also, we were advised to avoid red meat and even chicken, maybe allowed some fish.\u00a0 Nothing from the \u201cnightshade\u201d family that includes potatoes and tomatoes.\u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.whfoods.com\/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=62<\/a><\/p>\n We weren\u2019t convinced. \u00a0We got home about 5:30, did the usual chores, and fixed a late dinner of stir-fry “red” meat (beef), red peppers, sweet potatoes, and toast.\u00a0 It was wonderful.\u00a0 I went back in to the park Gazebo tonight and had a really nice time.\u00a0 Several of our friends were there, and we got to visit a little before and a little after.\u00a0 John stayed home to take care of the animals.\u00a0 Tomorrow is our last day of the workshop.\u00a0 We’ll have morning classes, and then the all week class recital will occur starting at 1:00 p.m.\u00a0 Those are always fun.<\/p>\n Friday, July 27 \u00a0Well we both made it through the week.\u00a0 Hard to keep up with the 10-yr old hot shot in my class, but I made it and memorized our play tune medley for class.\u00a0 It was very well done, but I failed to start the video on my camera.\u00a0 I turned the camera on, but didn’t hit the button– duh.\u00a0 So I did not get our performance on video.\u00a0 Dang.\u00a0 I had a great place set up on the table out front with the sound controls that would have captured the whole group.\u00a0 I did get one in the classroom on our last practice session.\u00a0 So all is not lost, but I failed to get the recital and Roberta Pearce and her daughter Katrina Nicolayeff played the Cajun cross-tuned fiddle piece together, Fiddlesticks, with Katrina hammering on the strings with the “fiddlesticks” (chopsticks).\u00a0 I had hoped to put this out for folks to see, and because that is not possible, the one linked to above will have to do.\u00a0 That will come later when I get some of them out on You Tube and fix up a web page linking to them.\u00a0 All that takes time I do not have a lot of.\u00a0 We didn’t get home till 3:30; gone since 8:10.\u00a0 The dogs and Rascal (cat) got along fine without us.\u00a0 All of them go in and out of the house through the “doggie door.”\u00a0 That was good.\u00a0 John took them for a run soon as we got back, and I went through the mail.\u00a0 Our building permit (for a pole building) was delivered, but with restrictions (two) to the design criteria.\u00a0 I would have never thought to call and be sure that a copy had gone to the contractor, but John said I should call the County and ask.\u00a0 Sure enough.\u00a0 Ours was sent and there was a copy in the file, but the contractor was not sent a copy.\u00a0 Wouldn’t you think?\u00a0 We certainly cannot revise and resubmit the specs about the height of the building (above 16′) or the Truss plan change.\u00a0 Jeez.\u00a0 I got on the phone to the County and reached the contractor on his cell before 5:00 p.m. so I could tell him about the required changes. The county had sent him a copy of the letter although they said they had not.\u00a0 The reviewer apparently did not turn the pages over because what he wanted had been submitted (truss plans and specifications, properly stamped) \u2013 he just didn\u2019t \u201csee\u201d them.\u00a0 And we were wanting an 18 foot clearance but must have an architect review and stamp plans for heights over 16 feet.\u00a0 That used to be 24 feet in the code.\u00a0 Nothing much would be gained to have the extra 2 feet but it would cost a fee and delay of about 3 weeks.\u00a0 No thanks.\u00a0 [Unloading hay from a Harobed with 18 feet is easier, but can be done at 16.]<\/p>\n Then we turned around and went back out to the evening performance.\u00a0 I had not signed up with anyone, because I didn’t expect I would have the energy to return, but right before 7:00, John asked if I felt as if I wanted to go.\u00a0 I had invited some friends and I thought, well, why not.\u00a0 We did, and it was interesting.\u00a0 I carried my violin, and I could have joined a group at the end for the last two songs, I’ll Fly Away, and Red Wing, if I had had a clue they were going to do that.\u00a0 By the time I realized it, they were well into the first song, which I thought was the last.\u00a0 It wasn’t — so next year I will know to put together a small group of friends for our own performance, and then play at the end with others.\u00a0 Live and learn.\u00a0 We got home late but before dark so John could feed the horses and the cats, but we hadn’t eaten dinner.\u00a0 He fixed a frozen pizza \u2013 after a week of running back and forth to places the fridge was depleted of fresh food.\u00a0 Nothing special is happening with us for a few days, but we have plenty to do around the house, yard, and garden.<\/p>\n It is Jazz in the Valley weekend, but I am not interested.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.jazzinthevalley.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Several years ago my friends and I would perform in the Kittitas County 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![http:\/\/www.play-acoustic-guitar.com\/images\/GMaj-Free-Guitar-Chord-Chart.png<\/a><\/p>\nWell, the workshop on aging was nothing like we expected.\u00a0 It was a little weird, actually.\u00a0 Mostly people were sitting in a circle sharing stories about things wrong with the body that affect music playing.\u00a0 John and I BOTH expected something entirely different–such as simpler ways to finger a chord if your hands were stiff and arthritic like (as the above explanation).\u00a0 Nothing like that.\u00a0 I don’t even think I will try to describe it entirely.\u00a0 I guess a few people there enjoyed it and shared some similar dietary and pain control items, but many of them were into the need for no caffeine, no sugar (yet they all ate fruit in some form, so John and I both wonder how they rationalize the natural sugars there).\u00a0 Also, we were advised to avoid red meat and even chicken, maybe allowed some fish.\u00a0 Nothing from the \u201cnightshade\u201d family that includes potatoes and tomatoes.\u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.whfoods.com\/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=62<\/a><\/p>\nWe weren\u2019t convinced. \u00a0We got home about 5:30, did the usual chores, and fixed a late dinner of stir-fry “red” meat (beef), red peppers, sweet potatoes, and toast.\u00a0 It was wonderful.\u00a0 I went back in to the park Gazebo tonight and had a really nice time.\u00a0 Several of our friends were there, and we got to visit a little before and a little after.\u00a0 John stayed home to take care of the animals.\u00a0 Tomorrow is our last day of the workshop.\u00a0 We’ll have morning classes, and then the all week class recital will occur starting at 1:00 p.m.\u00a0 Those are always fun.<\/p>\nFriday, July 27 \u00a0Well we both made it through the week.\u00a0 Hard to keep up with the 10-yr old hot shot in my class, but I made it and memorized our play tune medley for class.\u00a0 It was very well done, but I failed to start the video on my camera.\u00a0 I turned the camera on, but didn’t hit the button– duh.\u00a0 So I did not get our performance on video.\u00a0 Dang.\u00a0 I had a great place set up on the table out front with the sound controls that would have captured the whole group.\u00a0 I did get one in the classroom on our last practice session.\u00a0 So all is not lost, but I failed to get the recital and Roberta Pearce and her daughter Katrina Nicolayeff played the Cajun cross-tuned fiddle piece together, Fiddlesticks, with Katrina hammering on the strings with the “fiddlesticks” (chopsticks).\u00a0 I had hoped to put this out for folks to see, and because that is not possible, the one linked to above will have to do.\u00a0 That will come later when I get some of them out on You Tube and fix up a web page linking to them.\u00a0 All that takes time I do not have a lot of.\u00a0 We didn’t get home till 3:30; gone since 8:10.\u00a0 The dogs and Rascal (cat) got along fine without us.\u00a0 All of them go in and out of the house through the “doggie door.”\u00a0 That was good.\u00a0 John took them for a run soon as we got back, and I went through the mail.\u00a0 Our building permit (for a pole building) was delivered, but with restrictions (two) to the design criteria.\u00a0 I would have never thought to call and be sure that a copy had gone to the contractor, but John said I should call the County and ask.\u00a0 Sure enough.\u00a0 Ours was sent and there was a copy in the file, but the contractor was not sent a copy.\u00a0 Wouldn’t you think?\u00a0 We certainly cannot revise and resubmit the specs about the height of the building (above 16′) or the Truss plan change.\u00a0 Jeez.\u00a0 I got on the phone to the County and reached the contractor on his cell before 5:00 p.m. so I could tell him about the required changes. The county had sent him a copy of the letter although they said they had not.\u00a0 The reviewer apparently did not turn the pages over because what he wanted had been submitted (truss plans and specifications, properly stamped) \u2013 he just didn\u2019t \u201csee\u201d them.\u00a0 And we were wanting an 18 foot clearance but must have an architect review and stamp plans for heights over 16 feet.\u00a0 That used to be 24 feet in the code.\u00a0 Nothing much would be gained to have the extra 2 feet but it would cost a fee and delay of about 3 weeks.\u00a0 No thanks.\u00a0 [Unloading hay from a Harobed with 18 feet is easier, but can be done at 16.]<\/p>\nThen we turned around and went back out to the evening performance.\u00a0 I had not signed up with anyone, because I didn’t expect I would have the energy to return, but right before 7:00, John asked if I felt as if I wanted to go.\u00a0 I had invited some friends and I thought, well, why not.\u00a0 We did, and it was interesting.\u00a0 I carried my violin, and I could have joined a group at the end for the last two songs, I’ll Fly Away, and Red Wing, if I had had a clue they were going to do that.\u00a0 By the time I realized it, they were well into the first song, which I thought was the last.\u00a0 It wasn’t — so next year I will know to put together a small group of friends for our own performance, and then play at the end with others.\u00a0 Live and learn.\u00a0 We got home late but before dark so John could feed the horses and the cats, but we hadn’t eaten dinner.\u00a0 He fixed a frozen pizza \u2013 after a week of running back and forth to places the fridge was depleted of fresh food.\u00a0 Nothing special is happening with us for a few days, but we have plenty to do around the house, yard, and garden.<\/p>\nIt is Jazz in the Valley weekend, but I am not interested.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.jazzinthevalley.com\/<\/a><\/p>\nSeveral years ago my friends and I would perform in the Kittitas County Historical Museum, but they have gone to more commercial groups being brought in.\u00a0 It’s not our cup of tea, metaphorically.\u00a0 Other drinks will be abundant in EBRG these 3 days \u2013 a good reason to stay out of town.\u00a0 They are going to have nice weather \u2013 well, out-of-town visitors may sense some wind, but for EBRG folks, gusts under 30 mph go unnoticed.<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\nStill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, July 20\u00a0 Sent out the blog early, but things still happened after it was published.\u00a0 John went back outside working on removal of the cross pasture fence.\u00a0 My accomplishment for the day was sorting, cleaning, and tossing 10 boxes of paper to be recycled, plus a box of used batteries (such as AA).\u00a0 It … Continue reading “A week of Music in 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