Saturday, Aug 4.\u00a0 Morning started with our builder coming for his backhoe for a short\/small job southwest on Look Road \u2013 partly doing a friend a favor.\u00a0 After he left and the gate to the road closed, John let the horses up into the driveway area with grass beneath the orchard trees.\u00a0 The fellow planned to return at noon, but he got here 2 minutes before John got to the road to open the gate at 11:30.\u00a0 John had moved the horses back to their pasture and opened the (second) gate to our work site.\u00a0 I spent much of the day on the blog, paying bills, and cleaning, and we had leftovers for dinner.\u00a0 Now we are waiting to have raspberries on ice cream and go to bed.\u00a0 I hope that the house will cool down tonight because tomorrow will be a very warm day.<\/p>\n
Sunday Aug 5\u00a0 We planned the trip to Costco to get Acetaminophen and a few other necessities, and because at 100-degree temps it is too hot to do anything else outside, other than drive an a\/c car to a store with a\/c and return to our house with a\/c.\u00a0 We did, and spent 5 hours away.\u00a0 For lunch, we had a piece of pizza (large combo) of which I had two little bites, and I had a polish sausage, giving John about a 4-inch piece of the “hotdog.”\u00a0 We had a VERY BERRY Sundae (it’s a cup of soft serve frozen yogurt with LOTS of strawberries mixed in, and more dumped in on the side).\u00a0 All that cost us total $5.14.\u00a0 I guess that’s a decent price for a lunch for two with the dessert and refillable drink (Pepsi\/diet pep mix).\u00a0 We spent $267 dollars (over $7 was tax), but bought $26 worth of stuff for one neighbor and $10 for another.\u00a0 We got red seedless grapes (from Richgrove, CA) and blueberries (from Oregon), and salmon (a bag of pieces that we have had before that is very good), some marinated boneless turkey breast that we’ll have tonight for dinner leaving leftovers for this week, and dog and cat food.\u00a0 We also got 3 colors of bell pepper (red, yellow, orange), bread (Rosemary), and some Crystal Light (I still drink for my drink of choice, after giving up Pepsi, many per day); and toilet paper, which is cheaper than I ever remember.\u00a0 We should have bought two packages! \u00a0Have any of you had those pretzels filled with peanut butter?\u00a0 They’re HK Anderson originally made in PA and we got a huge canister of them under the Kirkland brand.\u00a0 Also some mild German Sausage, frozen beef patties for when we want something quick without a lot of effort.\u00a0 John even bought some large blueberry muffins so we’d have something different for breakfast.\u00a0 Oh, yeah, and my two containers of Acetaminophen I went down there for, along with the gasoline for my car.\u00a0 It was driving on vapors when we arrived, and I saved $3.14 on 14.25 gallons!\u00a0 It cost us $14 to drive the 100 miles, however, (if I’m getting 25 mpg)–oh well.\u00a0 Mostly we make such a stop on a multi-purpose (doctor or car care) trip.<\/p>\n
Oh–I bought one of the $20 phone calling cards to share with John’s sister.\u00a0 We still have $12 left on the one we have, but this one is cheaper and has more minutes than the one she is getting.\u00a0 I called and gave her the numbers to use when hers runs out.\u00a0 John watered the garden and (unrelated) has gone to lie down.\u00a0 I think I will take a nap too.\u00a0 It’s too hot to do anything else, but our a\/c is keeping us cool.\u00a0 John was down for 2 hours and I slept at least that much and maybe more.\u00a0 Guess we really needed it.\u00a0 Yum, turkey tenderloin with squash, onions, peppers for a late dinner and blueberries on ice cream for dessert.<\/p>\n
Monday, Aug 6\u00a0 John picked 5 pounds of lovely yellow (mostly) and green squash this morning, and 9 ounces of yellow beans. \u00a0We have had a few of them and they are wonderful.\u00a0 Also ran out and took some pictures of the building floor, and they came today with a large dump truck full to put in the base of recycled concrete.\u00a0 Two guys are working on screwing the little pieces of board onto the trusses that will be propped up on the poles and cross pieces.\u00a0 John went back out with his camera to take more pictures of the last load of recycled (broken concrete pieces) that will be compacted into the flooring. \u00a0It is 1\/2 as expensive as standard gravel.\u00a0 Clouds moved on and temperatures are up again.\u00a0 At noon, up to 91, and John just came back in, very hot and tired, and frustrated he’s lost his wire fence tool, maybe buried it in the stuff in the back of the pickup where he’s been throwing things.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.etoolsetc.com\/images\/products\/CHA-85.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n A little searching and John found the darned thing was in a bucket in the shed.<\/p>\n I’ve been transferring some You Tube videos up to the web so people can access them. \u00a0More building supplies and machinery delivered this afternoon.\u00a0 John showed them where to put the boards needed and then showed a different guy, later in the afternoon where to leave a piece of machinery they will use to lift the trusses.\u00a0 This is quite an operation.\u00a0 Tomorrow or soon, they will come out with a load of gravel to smooth out the edges of the base of recycled cement pieces.\u00a0 Good thing John was around to coordinate.\u00a0 I also didn’t go to town this afternoon, so I could use my ears to hear the arrivals.\u00a0 I heard the brakes squeal on the last delivery before the dogs saw the machinery coming down the drive.\u00a0 John was outside when the boards arrived earlier.\u00a0 Tonight, just before dinner, I looked out the window and up and saw the most beautiful Mammatus clouds. Not ours, but here\u2019s one:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mammatus-storm-clouds_San-Antonio.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n We both took our cameras out and starting shooting photographs.\u00a0 We have more color (orangeish) in ours — awesome.\u00a0 I will put the best out on the web one of these days and point you in their direction.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Aug 7\u00a0 Today started very early as expected.\u00a0 The building crew with an extra person arrived at 5:55 to put up the trusses.\u00a0 John and I went out for 1\/2 hour to photograph the work from 6:30.\u00a0 I was very tired, and still am, because of not sleeping well last night.\u00a0 Unusual for me.\u00a0 It got to 59 last night but the house didn\u2019t cool inside as much as desired.\u00a0 Morning has broken and the temps are expected to reach 97 today.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 At 8:15, it is up to 68.\u00a0 Today I go to town to deliver some squash and get a massage for my aching shoulder muscles.\u00a0 I did and went shopping for some CO2<\/sub>-drinks for John.\u00a0 While there I got half my meds order and a sirloin roast on sale (for the Crockpot), so that we don’t have to heat the house using the oven.\u00a0 We are both tired, especially from no afternoon nap.\u00a0 Dinner is late, but we’re eating and going to bed early.\u00a0 John picked raspberries this morning and blueberries tonight and I just finished cleaning, sorting, and sugaring them.\u00a0 Turned out not to go to bed early.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Aug 8 \u00a0I slept in this morning, while John got up and opened the gates for the builders at 6:00 a.m.\u00a0 They worked all morning and left at lunchtime.\u00a0 The temps never got above 85 and the winds were above 33mph up to 38 from early morning.\u00a0 I left for town for playing at the food bank and going to SAIL exercise.\u00a0 They fed us a good lunch today (pasta w\/cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, sausage, chicken salad on large tomato slice with grapes and celery, green salad, garlic bread). \u00a0We played music and had a good time.\u00a0 John stayed home and put the roast in the Crockpot about noon, added tomatoes, onions, carrots, and barley.\u00a0 It was truly scrumptious and served with the red grapes.\u00a0 We went out tonight after it cooled some to take pictures of the building progress, and John explained what they did today.\u00a0 They finished all the top roofing supports and cross pieces having to do with the trusses.\u00a0 Tomorrow the metal will arrive at the builder’s house, be put on his long trailer and he will bring it in the morning for attaching to the roof and sides of the building.\u00a0 It’s beginning to take on a personality, and I like the shape it’s in.\u00a0 Then we picked 9 lbs. of yellow and a few green squash and 10 ounces of yellow beans.\u00a0 We had some of the yellow beans last night and they are very good.\u00a0 The squash have a hard time sucking up enough water in the hot dry air.\u00a0 John splashes their large leaves with water a couple times each day and they seem to applaude that relief:<\/p>\n http:\/\/tinyfarmblog.com\/tag\/summer-squash\/<\/a><\/p>\n Scroll down to \u201cPerfect (market garden) squash!\u201d \u2013 this is what ours look like now.<\/p>\n Thursday, Aug 9\u00a0 Only thing on tap in town is playing at the Rehab where I spent 7 weeks.\u00a0 John is going with me because there is a Thursday 12 hr \u201cproduce sale\u201d at Super One.\u00a0 We took our 9 lbs. of squash in and shared with our music group.\u00a0 Morning was filled with assembling music, taking pictures of the building, and cleaning the kitchen.\u00a0 The building now has its metal roof and one complete side finished with metal.\u00a0 It’s looking nice.\u00a0 After we got home, I spent a lot of time helping students and friends with projects.\u00a0 We got Bing cherries for our neighbor and for us, more red seedless grapes, which we will share with our friends from South Lake Tahoe who arrive tomorrow night.\u00a0 In addition, nice ears of corn that we had one of tonight with beef Crockpot concoction from last night with fresh Bing cherries from Chelan.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-UtoaUVKiNA<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chelan_County,_Washington<\/a><\/p>\n [I think the first one has audio, but a power-outage maybe has knocked that function out here \u2013 something to fix.]<\/p>\n Friday, Aug 10 \u00a0Most of last evening and this morning was helping proof and provide content suggestions to a gal from CWU who is applying for a job gotten from an announcement on “my” jobs list serve.\u00a0 We were getting help from my geographer friend, Miriam, in Indiana on vacation.\u00a0 John picked yellow beans this morning, and we are taking them by to friends with more squash.\u00a0 We traded one person for some of her tomatoes.<\/p>\n It was a crazy day, and as we were fixing dinner, our power went off, and stayed off for 2 hr 22 min.\u00a0 We were frying “babies” (yellow squash), and sausage to have with beef leftovers that had not yet been warmed. \u00a0\u00a0I’ll let John tell that story of fried babies.\u00a0 [In the early 1900s, my mother\u2019s family lived on a farm with very little dollar income and a big distance to the nearest store.\u00a0 The young girls used yellow squash as \u201cbaby dolls\u201d to dress and play with.\u00a0 My thought is that they used the \u2018extra\u2019 ones (perhaps larger and tougher).\u00a0 The best for eating are tender and when scraped will ooze liquid that is slightly sticky (sugar?).\u00a0 These squash, sliced to half-inch rounds and fried in butter, are a treat.\u00a0 Thus, \u201cfried babies.\u201d]<\/p>\n We needed to go to town to meet our friends from Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 We didn’t leave until almost 8:00 P.M. and then didn’t return ’til after 11:00.\u00a0 It was scary to come into the house and smell hot iron skillets — we had left turned on and not thought to turn off when the electricity went off.\u00a0 Luckily they were both heavy cast-iron!! And, nothing flammable was nearby.\u00a0 See Point #2, here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.macheesmo.com\/2010\/07\/ten-reasons-for-cast-iron\/<\/a><\/p>\n The few pieces of squash we had not taken out were quite crisp.\u00a0 So the stove and all the lights \u2013 including all those indicators on the stove back \u2013 went out when a tree fell from the wind.\u00a0 About this — John\u2019s going to make a suggestion to the power company for their monthly booklet.<\/p>\n Saturday, Aug 11\u00a0 Morning started with waiting for a phone call from our friends \u2013 mother, daughter, and daughter\u2019s friend (both recent H.S. grads) from South Lake Tahoe, CA.\u00a0 We were going to meet them and take them to breakfast at the Wagon Wheel in Kittitas.\u00a0 We got there about 9:50.\u00a0 Had a nice breakfast and brought home a doggie bag with pancakes, sausage, English muffin, and sourdough toast.\u00a0 Sent them off to have a tour of the Wildhorse Wind Farm a few miles east \u2013<\/p>\n http:\/\/pse.com\/inyourcommunity\/kittitas\/Pages\/Wild-Horse.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n but haven\u2019t heard if they stopped or what they thought.\u00a0 They are headed for Rathdrum, ID, from where they will leave tomorrow for a raft trip on the West Fork of the Clark Fork River in Montana.\u00a0 It was a nice visit.\u00a0 It’s been about 7 years since they were here for a visit.<\/p>\n After we ate, we drove home by way of a yard sale with horse things just a mile north and west of us.\u00a0 We purchased a large professionally constructed round pen (used very little), and with perfect bottoms on the panels to prevent horse injury. \u00a0Somewhat like this one:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.hideawayfarm.co.uk\/H-Images\/images\/Round_Pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n Search images for [ \u201cround pen\u201d +horse\u00a0 ] and see the variety.<\/p>\n We have one we put together a bunch of years ago, but it is unsafe at any speed.\u00a0 Like this:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.wyattlivestock.com\/horse-round-pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n If a horse caught a foot in the lower rail making up the “foot stand for the panels,” it could easily break a leg.<\/p>\n You can find videos on horse training using a round pen on the net.\u00a0 Have at it \u2013 interesting stuff.\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhRq2AiegC8<\/a><\/p>\n John had already decided to move the panels in our current round pen to encircle the new pole building to protect it from the horses messing up the metal sides, or getting to the hay inside.\u00a0 The lady’s son has a 20′ flatbed trailer and in the cool of the morning (Sunday) he and friends will\u00a0 dismantle it and bring it to us.\u00a0 He claimed he only needed some beer to convince his buddies to come along and help him and John with the move.\u00a0 I know what you are thinking.\u00a0 Did we win the lottery?\u00a0 Nope, but we have a couple of bank CDs about due with a 4% rate about to roll over to an actual rate of just above zero and an effective rate below zero.\u00a0 Also, we had a bit of individual stock in companies that were doing zilch, so we sold those too.\u00a0 And our bank is so thrilled to loan us money they make it easy — we have a \u2018protection equity\u2019 (house; almost paid for) loan attached to our checking account that prevents our checks from bouncing and we get stuff and they get their money back in monthly installments and our interest \u2013 and that is still tax deductible.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 Govt., taxes, rules \u2013 the head spins. \u00a0Besides, our government spends money it doesn\u2019t have, creates more, making ours less valuable and encouraging purchasing things now that will be worth more of the funny money they are creating.\u00a0 Or, something like that!<\/p>\n Temperatures are high enough (max. of 98 at the airport) this afternoon to keep us in the house.<\/p>\n Hope your week was a good one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nancy and John<\/p>\n Still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday, Aug 4.\u00a0 Morning started with our builder coming for his backhoe for a short\/small job southwest on Look Road \u2013 partly doing a friend a favor.\u00a0 After he left and the gate to the road closed, John let the horses up into the driveway area with grass beneath the orchard trees.\u00a0 The fellow planned … Continue reading “Building, old & new friends, summer”<\/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-1034","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-gG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","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=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![http:\/\/www.etoolsetc.com\/images\/products\/CHA-85.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nA little searching and John found the darned thing was in a bucket in the shed.<\/p>\nI’ve been transferring some You Tube videos up to the web so people can access them. \u00a0More building supplies and machinery delivered this afternoon.\u00a0 John showed them where to put the boards needed and then showed a different guy, later in the afternoon where to leave a piece of machinery they will use to lift the trusses.\u00a0 This is quite an operation.\u00a0 Tomorrow or soon, they will come out with a load of gravel to smooth out the edges of the base of recycled cement pieces.\u00a0 Good thing John was around to coordinate.\u00a0 I also didn’t go to town this afternoon, so I could use my ears to hear the arrivals.\u00a0 I heard the brakes squeal on the last delivery before the dogs saw the machinery coming down the drive.\u00a0 John was outside when the boards arrived earlier.\u00a0 Tonight, just before dinner, I looked out the window and up and saw the most beautiful Mammatus clouds. Not ours, but here\u2019s one:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mammatus-storm-clouds_San-Antonio.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nWe both took our cameras out and starting shooting photographs.\u00a0 We have more color (orangeish) in ours — awesome.\u00a0 I will put the best out on the web one of these days and point you in their direction.<\/p>\nTuesday, Aug 7\u00a0 Today started very early as expected.\u00a0 The building crew with an extra person arrived at 5:55 to put up the trusses.\u00a0 John and I went out for 1\/2 hour to photograph the work from 6:30.\u00a0 I was very tired, and still am, because of not sleeping well last night.\u00a0 Unusual for me.\u00a0 It got to 59 last night but the house didn\u2019t cool inside as much as desired.\u00a0 Morning has broken and the temps are expected to reach 97 today.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 At 8:15, it is up to 68.\u00a0 Today I go to town to deliver some squash and get a massage for my aching shoulder muscles.\u00a0 I did and went shopping for some CO2<\/sub>-drinks for John.\u00a0 While there I got half my meds order and a sirloin roast on sale (for the Crockpot), so that we don’t have to heat the house using the oven.\u00a0 We are both tired, especially from no afternoon nap.\u00a0 Dinner is late, but we’re eating and going to bed early.\u00a0 John picked raspberries this morning and blueberries tonight and I just finished cleaning, sorting, and sugaring them.\u00a0 Turned out not to go to bed early.<\/p>\nWednesday, Aug 8 \u00a0I slept in this morning, while John got up and opened the gates for the builders at 6:00 a.m.\u00a0 They worked all morning and left at lunchtime.\u00a0 The temps never got above 85 and the winds were above 33mph up to 38 from early morning.\u00a0 I left for town for playing at the food bank and going to SAIL exercise.\u00a0 They fed us a good lunch today (pasta w\/cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, sausage, chicken salad on large tomato slice with grapes and celery, green salad, garlic bread). \u00a0We played music and had a good time.\u00a0 John stayed home and put the roast in the Crockpot about noon, added tomatoes, onions, carrots, and barley.\u00a0 It was truly scrumptious and served with the red grapes.\u00a0 We went out tonight after it cooled some to take pictures of the building progress, and John explained what they did today.\u00a0 They finished all the top roofing supports and cross pieces having to do with the trusses.\u00a0 Tomorrow the metal will arrive at the builder’s house, be put on his long trailer and he will bring it in the morning for attaching to the roof and sides of the building.\u00a0 It’s beginning to take on a personality, and I like the shape it’s in.\u00a0 Then we picked 9 lbs. of yellow and a few green squash and 10 ounces of yellow beans.\u00a0 We had some of the yellow beans last night and they are very good.\u00a0 The squash have a hard time sucking up enough water in the hot dry air.\u00a0 John splashes their large leaves with water a couple times each day and they seem to applaude that relief:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/tinyfarmblog.com\/tag\/summer-squash\/<\/a><\/p>\nScroll down to \u201cPerfect (market garden) squash!\u201d \u2013 this is what ours look like now.<\/p>\nThursday, Aug 9\u00a0 Only thing on tap in town is playing at the Rehab where I spent 7 weeks.\u00a0 John is going with me because there is a Thursday 12 hr \u201cproduce sale\u201d at Super One.\u00a0 We took our 9 lbs. of squash in and shared with our music group.\u00a0 Morning was filled with assembling music, taking pictures of the building, and cleaning the kitchen.\u00a0 The building now has its metal roof and one complete side finished with metal.\u00a0 It’s looking nice.\u00a0 After we got home, I spent a lot of time helping students and friends with projects.\u00a0 We got Bing cherries for our neighbor and for us, more red seedless grapes, which we will share with our friends from South Lake Tahoe who arrive tomorrow night.\u00a0 In addition, nice ears of corn that we had one of tonight with beef Crockpot concoction from last night with fresh Bing cherries from Chelan.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-UtoaUVKiNA<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chelan_County,_Washington<\/a><\/p>\n[I think the first one has audio, but a power-outage maybe has knocked that function out here \u2013 something to fix.]<\/p>\nFriday, Aug 10 \u00a0Most of last evening and this morning was helping proof and provide content suggestions to a gal from CWU who is applying for a job gotten from an announcement on “my” jobs list serve.\u00a0 We were getting help from my geographer friend, Miriam, in Indiana on vacation.\u00a0 John picked yellow beans this morning, and we are taking them by to friends with more squash.\u00a0 We traded one person for some of her tomatoes.<\/p>\nIt was a crazy day, and as we were fixing dinner, our power went off, and stayed off for 2 hr 22 min.\u00a0 We were frying “babies” (yellow squash), and sausage to have with beef leftovers that had not yet been warmed. \u00a0\u00a0I’ll let John tell that story of fried babies.\u00a0 [In the early 1900s, my mother\u2019s family lived on a farm with very little dollar income and a big distance to the nearest store.\u00a0 The young girls used yellow squash as \u201cbaby dolls\u201d to dress and play with.\u00a0 My thought is that they used the \u2018extra\u2019 ones (perhaps larger and tougher).\u00a0 The best for eating are tender and when scraped will ooze liquid that is slightly sticky (sugar?).\u00a0 These squash, sliced to half-inch rounds and fried in butter, are a treat.\u00a0 Thus, \u201cfried babies.\u201d]<\/p>\nWe needed to go to town to meet our friends from Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 We didn’t leave until almost 8:00 P.M. and then didn’t return ’til after 11:00.\u00a0 It was scary to come into the house and smell hot iron skillets — we had left turned on and not thought to turn off when the electricity went off.\u00a0 Luckily they were both heavy cast-iron!! And, nothing flammable was nearby.\u00a0 See Point #2, here:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.macheesmo.com\/2010\/07\/ten-reasons-for-cast-iron\/<\/a><\/p>\nThe few pieces of squash we had not taken out were quite crisp.\u00a0 So the stove and all the lights \u2013 including all those indicators on the stove back \u2013 went out when a tree fell from the wind.\u00a0 About this — John\u2019s going to make a suggestion to the power company for their monthly booklet.<\/p>\nSaturday, Aug 11\u00a0 Morning started with waiting for a phone call from our friends \u2013 mother, daughter, and daughter\u2019s friend (both recent H.S. grads) from South Lake Tahoe, CA.\u00a0 We were going to meet them and take them to breakfast at the Wagon Wheel in Kittitas.\u00a0 We got there about 9:50.\u00a0 Had a nice breakfast and brought home a doggie bag with pancakes, sausage, English muffin, and sourdough toast.\u00a0 Sent them off to have a tour of the Wildhorse Wind Farm a few miles east \u2013<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/pse.com\/inyourcommunity\/kittitas\/Pages\/Wild-Horse.aspx<\/a><\/p>\nbut haven\u2019t heard if they stopped or what they thought.\u00a0 They are headed for Rathdrum, ID, from where they will leave tomorrow for a raft trip on the West Fork of the Clark Fork River in Montana.\u00a0 It was a nice visit.\u00a0 It’s been about 7 years since they were here for a visit.<\/p>\nAfter we ate, we drove home by way of a yard sale with horse things just a mile north and west of us.\u00a0 We purchased a large professionally constructed round pen (used very little), and with perfect bottoms on the panels to prevent horse injury. \u00a0Somewhat like this one:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.hideawayfarm.co.uk\/H-Images\/images\/Round_Pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nSearch images for [ \u201cround pen\u201d +horse\u00a0 ] and see the variety.<\/p>\nWe have one we put together a bunch of years ago, but it is unsafe at any speed.\u00a0 Like this:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.wyattlivestock.com\/horse-round-pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nIf a horse caught a foot in the lower rail making up the “foot stand for the panels,” it could easily break a leg.<\/p>\nYou can find videos on horse training using a round pen on the net.\u00a0 Have at it \u2013 interesting stuff.\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhRq2AiegC8<\/a><\/p>\nJohn had already decided to move the panels in our current round pen to encircle the new pole building to protect it from the horses messing up the metal sides, or getting to the hay inside.\u00a0 The lady’s son has a 20′ flatbed trailer and in the cool of the morning (Sunday) he and friends will\u00a0 dismantle it and bring it to us.\u00a0 He claimed he only needed some beer to convince his buddies to come along and help him and John with the move.\u00a0 I know what you are thinking.\u00a0 Did we win the lottery?\u00a0 Nope, but we have a couple of bank CDs about due with a 4% rate about to roll over to an actual rate of just above zero and an effective rate below zero.\u00a0 Also, we had a bit of individual stock in companies that were doing zilch, so we sold those too.\u00a0 And our bank is so thrilled to loan us money they make it easy — we have a \u2018protection equity\u2019 (house; 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![http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mammatus-storm-clouds_San-Antonio.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nWe both took our cameras out and starting shooting photographs.\u00a0 We have more color (orangeish) in ours — awesome.\u00a0 I will put the best out on the web one of these days and point you in their direction.<\/p>\nTuesday, Aug 7\u00a0 Today started very early as expected.\u00a0 The building crew with an extra person arrived at 5:55 to put up the trusses.\u00a0 John and I went out for 1\/2 hour to photograph the work from 6:30.\u00a0 I was very tired, and still am, because of not sleeping well last night.\u00a0 Unusual for me.\u00a0 It got to 59 last night but the house didn\u2019t cool inside as much as desired.\u00a0 Morning has broken and the temps are expected to reach 97 today.\u00a0 Bummer.\u00a0 At 8:15, it is up to 68.\u00a0 Today I go to town to deliver some squash and get a massage for my aching shoulder muscles.\u00a0 I did and went shopping for some CO2<\/sub>-drinks for John.\u00a0 While there I got half my meds order and a sirloin roast on sale (for the Crockpot), so that we don’t have to heat the house using the oven.\u00a0 We are both tired, especially from no afternoon nap.\u00a0 Dinner is late, but we’re eating and going to bed early.\u00a0 John picked raspberries this morning and blueberries tonight and I just finished cleaning, sorting, and sugaring them.\u00a0 Turned out not to go to bed early.<\/p>\nWednesday, Aug 8 \u00a0I slept in this morning, while John got up and opened the gates for the builders at 6:00 a.m.\u00a0 They worked all morning and left at lunchtime.\u00a0 The temps never got above 85 and the winds were above 33mph up to 38 from early morning.\u00a0 I left for town for playing at the food bank and going to SAIL exercise.\u00a0 They fed us a good lunch today (pasta w\/cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, sausage, chicken salad on large tomato slice with grapes and celery, green salad, garlic bread). \u00a0We played music and had a good time.\u00a0 John stayed home and put the roast in the Crockpot about noon, added tomatoes, onions, carrots, and barley.\u00a0 It was truly scrumptious and served with the red grapes.\u00a0 We went out tonight after it cooled some to take pictures of the building progress, and John explained what they did today.\u00a0 They finished all the top roofing supports and cross pieces having to do with the trusses.\u00a0 Tomorrow the metal will arrive at the builder’s house, be put on his long trailer and he will bring it in the morning for attaching to the roof and sides of the building.\u00a0 It’s beginning to take on a personality, and I like the shape it’s in.\u00a0 Then we picked 9 lbs. of yellow and a few green squash and 10 ounces of yellow beans.\u00a0 We had some of the yellow beans last night and they are very good.\u00a0 The squash have a hard time sucking up enough water in the hot dry air.\u00a0 John splashes their large leaves with water a couple times each day and they seem to applaude that relief:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/tinyfarmblog.com\/tag\/summer-squash\/<\/a><\/p>\nScroll down to \u201cPerfect (market garden) squash!\u201d \u2013 this is what ours look like now.<\/p>\nThursday, Aug 9\u00a0 Only thing on tap in town is playing at the Rehab where I spent 7 weeks.\u00a0 John is going with me because there is a Thursday 12 hr \u201cproduce sale\u201d at Super One.\u00a0 We took our 9 lbs. of squash in and shared with our music group.\u00a0 Morning was filled with assembling music, taking pictures of the building, and cleaning the kitchen.\u00a0 The building now has its metal roof and one complete side finished with metal.\u00a0 It’s looking nice.\u00a0 After we got home, I spent a lot of time helping students and friends with projects.\u00a0 We got Bing cherries for our neighbor and for us, more red seedless grapes, which we will share with our friends from South Lake Tahoe who arrive tomorrow night.\u00a0 In addition, nice ears of corn that we had one of tonight with beef Crockpot concoction from last night with fresh Bing cherries from Chelan.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-UtoaUVKiNA<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chelan_County,_Washington<\/a><\/p>\n[I think the first one has audio, but a power-outage maybe has knocked that function out here \u2013 something to fix.]<\/p>\nFriday, Aug 10 \u00a0Most of last evening and this morning was helping proof and provide content suggestions to a gal from CWU who is applying for a job gotten from an announcement on “my” jobs list serve.\u00a0 We were getting help from my geographer friend, Miriam, in Indiana on vacation.\u00a0 John picked yellow beans this morning, and we are taking them by to friends with more squash.\u00a0 We traded one person for some of her tomatoes.<\/p>\nIt was a crazy day, and as we were fixing dinner, our power went off, and stayed off for 2 hr 22 min.\u00a0 We were frying “babies” (yellow squash), and sausage to have with beef leftovers that had not yet been warmed. \u00a0\u00a0I’ll let John tell that story of fried babies.\u00a0 [In the early 1900s, my mother\u2019s family lived on a farm with very little dollar income and a big distance to the nearest store.\u00a0 The young girls used yellow squash as \u201cbaby dolls\u201d to dress and play with.\u00a0 My thought is that they used the \u2018extra\u2019 ones (perhaps larger and tougher).\u00a0 The best for eating are tender and when scraped will ooze liquid that is slightly sticky (sugar?).\u00a0 These squash, sliced to half-inch rounds and fried in butter, are a treat.\u00a0 Thus, \u201cfried babies.\u201d]<\/p>\nWe needed to go to town to meet our friends from Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 We didn’t leave until almost 8:00 P.M. and then didn’t return ’til after 11:00.\u00a0 It was scary to come into the house and smell hot iron skillets — we had left turned on and not thought to turn off when the electricity went off.\u00a0 Luckily they were both heavy cast-iron!! And, nothing flammable was nearby.\u00a0 See Point #2, here:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.macheesmo.com\/2010\/07\/ten-reasons-for-cast-iron\/<\/a><\/p>\nThe few pieces of squash we had not taken out were quite crisp.\u00a0 So the stove and all the lights \u2013 including all those indicators on the stove back \u2013 went out when a tree fell from the wind.\u00a0 About this — John\u2019s going to make a suggestion to the power company for their monthly booklet.<\/p>\nSaturday, Aug 11\u00a0 Morning started with waiting for a phone call from our friends \u2013 mother, daughter, and daughter\u2019s friend (both recent H.S. grads) from South Lake Tahoe, CA.\u00a0 We were going to meet them and take them to breakfast at the Wagon Wheel in Kittitas.\u00a0 We got there about 9:50.\u00a0 Had a nice breakfast and brought home a doggie bag with pancakes, sausage, English muffin, and sourdough toast.\u00a0 Sent them off to have a tour of the Wildhorse Wind Farm a few miles east \u2013<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/pse.com\/inyourcommunity\/kittitas\/Pages\/Wild-Horse.aspx<\/a><\/p>\nbut haven\u2019t heard if they stopped or what they thought.\u00a0 They are headed for Rathdrum, ID, from where they will leave tomorrow for a raft trip on the West Fork of the Clark Fork River in Montana.\u00a0 It was a nice visit.\u00a0 It’s been about 7 years since they were here for a visit.<\/p>\nAfter we ate, we drove home by way of a yard sale with horse things just a mile north and west of us.\u00a0 We purchased a large professionally constructed round pen (used very little), and with perfect bottoms on the panels to prevent horse injury. \u00a0Somewhat like this one:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.hideawayfarm.co.uk\/H-Images\/images\/Round_Pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nSearch images for [ \u201cround pen\u201d +horse\u00a0 ] and see the variety.<\/p>\nWe have one we put together a bunch of years ago, but it is unsafe at any speed.\u00a0 Like this:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.wyattlivestock.com\/horse-round-pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nIf a horse caught a foot in the lower rail making up the “foot stand for the panels,” it could easily break a leg.<\/p>\nYou can find videos on horse training using a round pen on the net.\u00a0 Have at it \u2013 interesting stuff.\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhRq2AiegC8<\/a><\/p>\nJohn had already decided to move the panels in our current round pen to encircle the new pole building to protect it from the horses messing up the metal sides, or getting to the hay inside.\u00a0 The lady’s son has a 20′ flatbed trailer and in the cool of the morning (Sunday) he and friends will\u00a0 dismantle it and bring it to us.\u00a0 He claimed he only needed some beer to convince his buddies to come along and help him and John with the move.\u00a0 I know what you are thinking.\u00a0 Did we win the lottery?\u00a0 Nope, but we have a couple of bank CDs about due with a 4% rate about to roll over to an actual rate of just above zero and an effective rate below zero.\u00a0 Also, we had a bit of individual stock in companies that were doing zilch, so we sold those too.\u00a0 And our bank is so thrilled to loan us money they make it easy — we have a \u2018protection equity\u2019 (house; 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![http:\/\/www.hideawayfarm.co.uk\/H-Images\/images\/Round_Pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nSearch images for [ \u201cround pen\u201d +horse\u00a0 ] and see the variety.<\/p>\nWe have one we put together a bunch of years ago, but it is unsafe at any speed.\u00a0 Like this:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.wyattlivestock.com\/horse-round-pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nIf a horse caught a foot in the lower rail making up the “foot stand for the panels,” it could easily break a leg.<\/p>\nYou can find videos on horse training using a round pen on the net.\u00a0 Have at it \u2013 interesting stuff.\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhRq2AiegC8<\/a><\/p>\nJohn had already decided to move the panels in our current round pen to encircle the new pole building to protect it from the horses messing up the metal sides, or getting to the hay inside.\u00a0 The lady’s son has a 20′ flatbed trailer and in the cool of the morning (Sunday) he and friends will\u00a0 dismantle it and bring it to us.\u00a0 He claimed he only needed some beer to convince his buddies to come along and help him and John with the move.\u00a0 I know what you are thinking.\u00a0 Did we win the lottery?\u00a0 Nope, but we have a couple of bank CDs about due with a 4% rate about to roll over to an actual rate of just above zero and an effective rate below zero.\u00a0 Also, we had a bit of individual stock in companies that were doing zilch, so we sold those too.\u00a0 And our bank is so thrilled to loan us money they make it easy — we have a \u2018protection equity\u2019 (house; 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![http:\/\/www.wyattlivestock.com\/horse-round-pen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nIf a horse caught a foot in the lower rail making up the “foot stand for the panels,” it could easily break a leg.<\/p>\nYou can find videos on horse training using a round pen on the net.\u00a0 Have at it \u2013 interesting stuff.\u00a0 Example:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NhRq2AiegC8<\/a><\/p>\nJohn had already decided to move the panels in our current round pen to encircle the new pole building to protect it from the horses messing up the metal sides, or getting to the hay inside.\u00a0 The lady’s son has a 20′ flatbed trailer and in the cool of the morning (Sunday) he and friends will\u00a0 dismantle it and bring it to us.\u00a0 He claimed he only needed some beer to convince his buddies to come along and help him and John with the move.\u00a0 I know what you are thinking.\u00a0 Did we win the lottery?\u00a0 Nope, but we have a couple of bank CDs about due with a 4% rate about to roll over to an actual rate of just above zero and an effective rate below zero.\u00a0 Also, we had a bit of individual stock in companies that were doing zilch, so we sold those too.\u00a0 And our bank is so thrilled to loan us money they make it easy — we have a \u2018protection equity\u2019 (house; almost paid for) loan attached to our checking account that prevents our checks from bouncing and we get stuff and they get their money back in monthly installments and our interest \u2013 and that is still tax deductible.\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 Govt., taxes, rules \u2013 the head spins. \u00a0Besides, our government spends money it doesn\u2019t have, creates more, making ours less valuable and encouraging purchasing things now that will be worth more of the funny money they are creating.\u00a0 Or, something like that!<\/p>\nTemperatures are high enough (max. of 98 at the airport) this afternoon to keep us in the house.<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\nStill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, Aug 4.\u00a0 Morning started with our builder coming for his backhoe for a short\/small job southwest on Look Road \u2013 partly doing a friend a favor.\u00a0 After he left and the gate to the road closed, John let the horses up into the driveway area with grass beneath the orchard trees.\u00a0 The fellow planned … Continue reading “Building, old & new friends, summer”<\/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-1034","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-gG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","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=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.wyattlivestock.com\/horse-round-pen.jpg\"){kind=link}