{"id":10555,"date":"2020-04-05T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2020-04-05T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T06:40:08","slug":"nature-provides-interesting-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=10555","title":{"rendered":"Nature provides interesting things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Monday, Mar 30 <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-Lise-McGowans-Rainbow-3-30-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"975\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10554\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-Lise-McGowans-Rainbow-3-30-20.jpg 1800w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-Lise-McGowans-Rainbow-3-30-20-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-Lise-McGowans-Rainbow-3-30-20-768x416.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-Lise-McGowans-Rainbow-3-30-20-1024x555.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1-Lise-McGowans-Rainbow-3-30-20-1200x650.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>Above taken by Lise McGowan about 8:00 a.m. published with the following message:  <em>This morning looking out over our valley reminds me &#8220;as we weather this storm there&#8217;s a rainbow no matter how faint!&#8221;  We will get through this!!  Praying for our community and our country!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John left for White Heron before 8:00 a.m., and I went back to sleep to be awakened 20 minutes later by the noise of HAIL hitting the metal roof outside, our morning hail storm on the Naneum Fan.  I called John and surprised him with my news.<br \/>\nI intended to go to the bathroom and go back to sleep, but instead I grabbed my camera and took a bunch of pictures of the hail piled up, followed by a quieter change to snow, and then to rain.  Now it has stopped and we have blue skies, but it\u2019s windy.<\/p>\n<p>He intended to call me when he reached the winery.  It\u2019s now about time.  He called and made it there at 8:57 a.m. with sunshine, so will be pruning today.  They had a nice day without wind.  We had a lot of wind all day, but the sun finally came out.  Below are my complete hail pictures from the Naneum Fan.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2-TheCompleteHail-3-30-20NF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"882\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10553\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2-TheCompleteHail-3-30-20NF.jpg 736w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2-TheCompleteHail-3-30-20NF-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Top: Backyard hailstones (not snow); center: front yard; bottom hail falling out front and as seen from inside bedroom window.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have another shot of the rainbow (to join that viewed above from our valley), but this from the other side of the ridge, same day, which Cameron Fries took from his Mariposa Vineyard, west of Quincy, WA, looking to what they call the Colockum Ridge.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3-Rainbow-3-30-20-over-Nancy-on-Naneum-Fan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10552\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3-Rainbow-3-30-20-over-Nancy-on-Naneum-Fan.jpg 841w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3-Rainbow-3-30-20-over-Nancy-on-Naneum-Fan-263x300.jpg 263w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3-Rainbow-3-30-20-over-Nancy-on-Naneum-Fan-768x877.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>Photo on this day from Mariposa Vineyard, White Heron Cellars (Winery) toward Colockum Ridge by Cameron Fries, Vigneron. <\/p>\n<p>This is the location where John has been traveling to prune wine grapevines with five guys on the pruning crew.<\/p>\n<p>I had intended to sleep in after being up late last night completing the blog.  Now I\u2019m up and might consider an afternoon power nap.  I took a small one late afternoon, and was awakened by a friend without a computer wondering if his bank (U.S. Bank) ATM machine was open.  I don\u2019t use them or have the same bank, but I got online and found out his bank is not open except for the drive-thru window and it operates from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Our bank is open on the inside as well, but limiting customers to 3 at a time.  It is open 9 to 5:00.  So, we are in better shape for going in tomorrow for our need for a Notary to notarize our signatures on two Deed forms.  That will happen whenever we get there.  They have 5 notaries, so it\u2019s not a problem with always having someone able to help us (and freely).<\/p>\n<p>I believe I will pause now at 10:20 a.m. and work an hour off my computer filing a previous year\u2019s tax receipts.  That got messed up with a 21-minute call to Kaiser Permanente to obtain receipts for medications sent by them in the past.  I started finding receipts and realized I did not have the year\u2019s total from the KP Mail order pharmacy as I do from our other pharmacies used.  Reminds me I need to request from a couple more.  I will be in Safeway tomorrow to pick up a medication, and will ask then for last year\u2019s.  I have to sign a form with my information and also for John\u2019s to get the print out for 2019.  <\/p>\n<p>Continuing with the filing later, I realized I also need to call my dentist for our out of pocket costs (not covered by insurance) spent there last year.  I wish this was an automatic process initialized on their end, but instead, I have to remember to request it every year.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to contact Costco Pharmacy for 2019.  I did, and they are sending by email and also by USPS mail as is KP. (for me, with John\u2019s yet to come).<\/p>\n<p>We were busy today; Nancy in the house and John in the yard after returning from White Heron.  He planted onion starts (not as many as yesterday).  Yesterday\u2019s totaled 90!  <\/p>\n<p>REPEATING this again, in case you missed it the past 2 weeks:<br \/>\nIn order to receive the \u2018Nick from Home\u2019 Livestreaming Geology lectures, follow this link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GeologyNick\"><strong><\/p>\n<p>Way to Receive Livestreaming Geology Lectures from Nick Zentner <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You need to Subscribe to his YouTube Channel to be involved.  Once you hit SUBSCRIBE, also to the right of that, click on the BELL icon and choose ALL for all notifications to Nick\u2019s videos.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll have access to previous lectures and to the live one when it is scheduled (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, &#038; Sundays).<\/p>\n<p>Now to let Czar in, and file again, after finishing my drink.  Will have beef stew for lunch when John\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Tuesday, Mar 31 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Called the Pilot Station to hear $2.10.  John can get it for $1.99 in Quincy.  He plans to on his way back from pruning, and will meet me in Ellensburg. <\/p>\n<p>Called Karen Conley at Stoneridge and ask her about credit card payment on our larger fee for transferring deeds, payable to Stoneridge Resort&#8211; it says money order, credit card information or cashier\u2019s check.  I prefer the Credit Card, because we will get a 1% rewards cash return on our VISA card at CITI Bank.  I will send a check for $30.00 to the Bonner County Recorder with my notarized deeds and information on credit card (I hope) to the resort.  They are now closed down as a non-essential business.  That\u2019s not good news.  We have some space-banked units we are going to lose if not used before May 31, 2020.  Hard to use when the Governor has closed down our businesses, now until May 4th.  Better than plans by the Prime Minister in Australia, who says the AU lock-down may last for 6 months!  And a friend there, who works in the airline industry has been laid off.<\/p>\n<p>John called as he was leaving the vineyard a little after noon, and I left about 12:15 to drive to my first place in town to pick up a package of 3 clay pots.  I didn\u2019t realize the size was for seed starters only 3&#8243; high, so I really don\u2019t need them, but I have a friend who will be able to put them to use with her young daughter for planting spices. <\/p>\n<p>I called John as I was leaving there, but he was driving through basalt cliffs on the hill from the Columbia River up to Ryegrass Summit and he had a broken-up connection.  So I called him back a few minutes later from the Safeway parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>He was making good time and would likely be at the bank by 1:30.  Unfortunately, I had scheduled a meeting for 1:30 across the street from the bank, when I thought he wouldn\u2019t be there until closer to 2:00 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>So I had gone to the Pharmacy at Safeway needing to pick up my prescription and I also needed to fill in request forms for the pharmacist on duty, for information on both our expenditures in 2019 for medical prescriptions totaled for the year to have for itemizing deductions for our tax form. <\/p>\n<p>The person I was meeting across the street from the bank is Audra.  From her I purchase my probiotic, which she sells from her business, The Maximus Gym.  That is a business not considered essential and had to close.  So she was coming in to get the capsules from her upstairs business.  <\/p>\n<p>I went back across the street (about being blown away) ~1:40 and met John at Umpqua Bank for notarization of deeds.  We went inside and were the only customers in the bank.  They took care of us, and now we have our notarized papers to put in the mail, but the place they are going to is now closed down.  So who knows when it will be taken care of.  Oh, well there was a 30-day limit on returning the papers, and we\u2019ll make that deadline, whether they are there or not.<\/p>\n<p>John left the bank and went to Bi-Mart to check our numbers and was able to buy me 3 packages of Fisherman\u2019s Friends.  <\/p>\n<p>I left and went for two other planned stops:  Fred Meyer for my PoweradeZero on sale for 59 cents each, if purchased in multiples of 8.   I also stopped by a friend\u2019s house to leave an empty egg carton and to pick up an empty chicken feed bag she was giving me.  She was there in her yard with her 3 dogs and chickens, all working in the wind.  Her business is another one considered non-essential that the governor has closed.  Downtown, she owns and manages all sorts of party rentals and supplies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/partybarnrentals.com\"><strong>Central Party &#038; Costume<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hadn\u2019t visited in a long while, so we enjoyed our meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got home and was hungry.  John carried in all the groceries I had bought and then left to go plant more onion starts, because starting tomorrow, the pruning crew is going to try working from 9:00 a.m. to noon, break for lunch, and continue for another 3 hours.  That will save on gasoline costs for the 4 pruners, and speed up the pruning completion.  They started today, but John couldn\u2019t participate until tomorrow because of our appointment at the bank.  <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the background for tonight\u2019s livestream from Nick\u2019s side yard.  It\u2019s a little tougher because he has not given a downtown lecture I can find on The Olympic Peninsula.  However, he has done a 25-minute Podcast which is radio style, no video images.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to hear his conversation, try going here.<br \/>\nKeep this because you\u2019ll need it again for tomorrow\u2019s lecture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/nickzentner\/sCXr\"><strong>The Nick Zentner Geology Podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You need to look down the list for this:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/4-Nicks-Podcast-24-Olympic-Peninsula.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"183\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/4-Nicks-Podcast-24-Olympic-Peninsula.jpg 565w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/4-Nicks-Podcast-24-Olympic-Peninsula-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 85vw, 565px\" \/>Click on \u201cPlay Now\u201d and you will start the podcast audio about 5 seconds in.  It goes for 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For one more background reference, you can go to something I put in our weekly blog back on Nov 29, 2018.  I\u2019ve retrieved it for use here.  This was a lecture by Bob Carson from Whitman College, on Exploring the Olympic Peninsula, which was given in our local chapter of the Ice Age Floods (IAF) Institute meeting.  I\u2019m the only one videotaping those.  If you are not already on my distribution list for those and want to be, please send me an email request to our joint account, NancyJohnHultquist@gmail.com from where I distribute the IAF lectures and field trip videos.  I hope we will be able to resume those in the future when panic has faded. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rXucDlR7fbM\"><strong>Nick Zentner introduces the IAF Speaker, Bob Carson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EwNs5oORp00\"><strong> Bob Carson: Half a Century of Exploring the Olympic Peninsula<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4VlAflg02Ns\"><strong>Bob Carson Fields Questions<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Zentner\u2019s talk tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sFw3h8OROLU\"><strong>\u2018Nick from Home\u2019 Livestream #11 \u2013 The Olympic Peninsula starts 11 minutes in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicken, cooked cauliflower &#038; cheese, wine, and strawberry lemonade, with fruitcake and Neapolitan ice cream for dessert.<\/p>\n<p>John went to bed at 10:15 but I stayed up another hour to take care of a few conversations with people I had ignored while getting ready for and watching the livestreaming Geology lecture.  I also needed to update this blog about the details of that presentation.  I was too busy to work on tax filing paperwork today, after spending a couple hours on it yesterday.  Maybe I\u2019ll make more time for it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Wednesday, Apr 1 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5-Lise-McGowan-Barn-4-1-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5-Lise-McGowan-Barn-4-1-20.jpg 1275w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5-Lise-McGowan-Barn-4-1-20-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5-Lise-McGowan-Barn-4-1-20-768x452.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5-Lise-McGowan-Barn-4-1-20-1024x602.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5-Lise-McGowan-Barn-4-1-20-1200x706.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>Another image by Lise McGowan, this of her favorite barn<br \/>\nWith her description being appropriate to our troubled times:  &#8220;<em>One of my favorite barns in Kittitas County that reminds us to pray &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; especially during these trying times our country&#8217;s experiencing!  Please stay home and stay safe!!<\/em>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I started this morning quite early at 4:00 a.m. with cat\u2019s needs, and while up, I took my first 2 Acetaminophen of the day and went back to bed.  Up again at 6:00 with morning animal needs, and back to bed.  John arose at 6:30 to start his long day.  He has to feed the horses and get ready to leave at 7:40 for the Mariposa Vineyard. <\/p>\n<p>Called Kaiser Permanente (medical insurance provider) and lost a bunch more time requesting tax information.  Today, I will be receiving an encrypted email from them with our medications history 2019 and need to access individually probably.  I have registered an account for John.<\/p>\n<p>I slept in until 9:15 a.m. and then started with dishes\u2014emptying rest of clean ones, and starting to sort the dirty ones to soak.  Took my pills, and left to finish my refilled coffee cup.<\/p>\n<p>Rascal cat just arrived at 10:50 a.m. from the back guest bedroom\u2019s Jade Plant Box Bed where he has been napping since early morning.  He\u2019s now in my lap with my laptop; he\u2019s done that since he was little.  The other one was out for a while and is back on his blanket in the den sleeping.  Rascal ate and went out the back door at 11:05.  The weather outside is cloudy.  Temperature on front porch is 44.2\u00b0 and at the airport 5 miles down valley, it\u2019s 44\u00b0.  Usually the difference is more pronounced as cold air drainage. <\/p>\n<p>Just returned from the kitchen, having loaded the dishwasher, but not yet started it yet at 12:13, expecting a call from John about when to expect him home late afternoon.  I need to think about getting myself something for brunch too.  My computer has been beeping at me, the entire time I was in the kitchen, so am back to see what news has come in.<br \/>\nSun has arrived and the temperatures here and at the airport are up to 47\u00b0.  My mail has delivered the encrypted information awaited and I have all my data ready to log on and retrieve it, from Kaiser Permanente.  This HIPAA stuff is a pain when trying to get your own medical records.<\/p>\n<p>1:00 p.m. \u2013 just started graupeling (soft hail or snow pellets) here on the Naneum Fan.  Wow.  Wonder what\u2019s happening over at the vineyard.  <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m having an appetizer for lunch, of my protein drink.  Considering having a Top Ramen Chicken soup follow-up to warm up.  With the graupel still falling, our temperature decreased on the front porch to 45.1\u00b0.  Airport decreased in the last hour from 47\u00b0 to 41\u00b0!  Interesting way to great April, after March went out as a lion.  It\u2019s almost an hour since it started, and is still falling.<br \/>\n This is not an April Fool\u2019s Joke.<\/p>\n<p>Here is proof bounced up on the rug in front of our front porch and front door.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6-graupel-combo-front-porch-rug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10549\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6-graupel-combo-front-porch-rug.jpg 740w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/6-graupel-combo-front-porch-rug-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>This is my coolest photo of today\u2019s graupel.  It was bouncing up 6 inches, to the porch, and onto a gray rug lying in front of our front door.  The dog and cats come in there regularly so it is full of animal hair dander, mostly dog (white) from Annie the Brittany.  This is a combo with the larger view and a subset from the upper left corner (farthest from where it bounced in).<\/p>\n<p>John just called at 1:10, the end of their lunch and they are ready to resume pruning for 3 hours.  They can see the cloud sitting over the ridge in our direction!  So now they know our graupel is still falling.<\/p>\n<p>Our graupel fell until 2:15 p.m. and the temperature dropped to 37.2\u00b0.  Temperature at 3:25 p.m. is back in the 40s on our front porch, and I just finished my late lunch of Chicken Soup.  At the airport reported at 1:53 it claimed a previous temperature was 49\u00b0, but a few minutes later, reported 41\u00b0 at 2:04; finally, the 2:53 reported 41\u00b0, and at 3:53, it was up to 43\u00b0.  John got home about 5:15 p.m. After lunch, the pruning crew were in sunshine.  Started pruning in very cold temperatures over there this morning.<\/p>\n<p>So, I shall continue with stuff here, and when John arrives home about 5:30 p.m., I will already be set up and waiting to catch the beginning of Nick\u2019s livestreaming geology tonight ~ 5:48 p.m.  Hope the weather in Ellensburg allows him to be outside in his yard tonight.  (It did, and the sun even came out near the end of his lecture.)\t<\/p>\n<p>You can also get to Nick\u2019s Podcast (audio only) lecture on the Cascade Volcanoes (see above).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/7-23-Podcast-Nick-Z-Cascade-Volcanoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/7-23-Podcast-Nick-Z-Cascade-Volcanoes.jpg 554w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/7-23-Podcast-Nick-Z-Cascade-Volcanoes-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 85vw, 554px\" \/> Here\u2019s a former lecture 3 years ago on Ancient Cascade Volcanoes by Nick on the KCTS9 channel \u201cNick on the Rocks.\u201d  it&#8217;s only 5 minutes long. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iPUvKeJO78Q\"><strong>Ancient Cascades Volcanoes-12-28-17<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight is a livestreaming video lecture from Nick Zentner on the topic, The Cascades Volcanoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vdqFgV-NLbY\"><strong>\u2018Nick from Home\u2019 Livestream #12 \u2013 Cascade Volcanoes, starts 10 minutes in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Thursday, Apr 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John left at 7:40 a.m. for a full day of pruning wine grapevines in the Mariposa Vineyard at White Heron.  They have switched yesterday to pruning from 9:00 to noon, breaking for an hour\u2019s lunch with wine, and resuming until 4:00 p.m. They can finish today \u2013 maybe. That puts him home about 5:20, just in time for me to be starting setup to watch Nick Zentner\u2019s Livestreaming YouTube presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Just started snowing here at 11:15 a.m. (not heavily) and did not last long.  I thought it was clouding over.  The sun had been brightly shining in the window at 7:10 this morning.  Oh, update, the sun has been shining now since noon and the sky is blue.  <\/p>\n<p>Next arrival from Evie of daughter Franka\u2019s colored pencil artwork (pictured side by side with original):<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8-ComboTigerPrint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"901\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10547\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8-ComboTigerPrint.jpg 901w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8-ComboTigerPrint-300x98.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8-ComboTigerPrint-768x251.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>And, here is Franka\u2019s description of the grid method art process she used, with the times taken to create her drawing.<br \/>\n\u201cShe said it took thirty minutes to create the grid.  Five hours to complete the drawing.  The size of the grid was 3 blocks by 4 blocks.  Each block is 3 inches by 3 inches.  So 12 x 9 is the size of the finished piece.  She didn&#8217;t take any photos of the process. She did it during the night when the rest of the family were all asleep.  And on the right above is the reference photo she used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked up Grid Method Art, and found a good description:  The grid method involves drawing a grid over your reference photo, and then drawing a grid of equal ratio on your work surface (paper, canvas, wood panel).  Then you draw the image on your canvas, focusing on one square at a time, until the entire image has been transferred.<br \/>\nBut here is a nice explanation you may enjoy following: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.art-is-fun.com\/grid-method\"><strong>The Grid Method (in Art is Fun)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good timing on John\u2019s call after they had lunch, 1:07 p.m.  I was in the kitchen fixing my soup.  They have decided to go long today and hopefully finish the pruning so they do not have to go tomorrow.  John called and was home by 4:10 with 3 cases of wine: Red, White, and Rose\u2019.  Being done is a good thing, as it will lower our gasoline costs.  One pruner drives in from Soap Lake, one from Moses Lake, and one from Quincy.  John\u2019s about 60 miles away, or 1 hr, 20 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the crew on the last day:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9-PruningCrew2020ErikTomJohnMark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1290\" height=\"623\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9-PruningCrew2020ErikTomJohnMark.jpg 1290w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9-PruningCrew2020ErikTomJohnMark-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9-PruningCrew2020ErikTomJohnMark-768x371.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9-PruningCrew2020ErikTomJohnMark-1024x495.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/9-PruningCrew2020ErikTomJohnMark-1200x580.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>Erik Nelsen, Tom Snyder, John Hultquist, Mark Amara <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the photographer, Vigneron, and Vintner, Cameron Fries\u2019 comment on the above placed on his Facebook site (White Heron Cellars):  &#8220;<em>Last day of pruning with my intrepid crew.  Notice the social distancing enforcer.  We don&#8217;t mess around out here &#8211; you invade somebody&#8217;s space it&#8217;ll be the last thing you do.  Each row is 2 meters apart.  On a more serious note, we&#8217;re done pruning and ready for spring, always a great feeling.  Cheers!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now switching to Nick Zentner\u2019s Livestreaming Geology lectures, with tonight\u2019s on Ghost Volcanoes (his coined term for volcanoes no longer &#8220;live&#8221; but which have left behind remnants of their past eruptive nature).<\/p>\n<p>Background to this lecture below:  Then check Nick\u2019s past lecture, two years ago, at the Hal Holmes Center in Ellensburg, WA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6H18xVnb14I\"><strong>Ghost Volcanoes in the Cascades 2-28-2018<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick tonight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Lk57el9Exs0\"><strong>\u2018Nick from Home\u2019 Livestream #13 \u2013 Ghost Volcanoes starts @ 10 mins in<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong> Friday, Apr 4 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I was very tired and slept in, after being up with the cats and dog at 5:00 a.m.  John was up early and fed the horses.<\/p>\n<p>I worked on filing tax receipts most of the day.<\/p>\n<p>No livestreaming video lecture from Nick Zentner tonight; his day off (with Monday).<\/p>\n<p><strong> Saturday, Apr 4 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning at 10:00 a.m. is a livestreaming video lecture from Nick Zentner on the topic, Great Earthquakes.  New time to keep people from around the world from having to arise in the middle of their night to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the background for this morning\u2019s lecture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UJ7Qc3bsxjI\"><strong>Great Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest, Feb 10, 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QSEXlb7Fp6M\"><strong>4-4-20 \u2018Nick from Home\u2019:  #14 \u2013 Great Earthquakes, starts 14 minutes in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s been alternating between garden leveling and fencing, and taking stuff from the house to the hay shed.  Also, horses, wild birds, and cats need fed, and Annie now wants John to be with her or she won&#8217;t go far nor get much exercise.  Showing her age.<\/p>\n<p>I have been washing dishes, and filing tax receipts, plus contacting people on line.  This morning John located a huge book (Coffee table one, ~4#).  I apparently brought it back from a conference after 2000.  That\u2019s the date of publication.  It\u2019s on the Klamath Basin Balancing Water: Restoring the Klamath Basin Hardcover \u2013 April 2000 by authors: Tupper Ansel Blake, Madeleine Graham Blake, and William Kittredge.  I just had a message from a former Geology major master\u2019s student from our time in Idaho, on whose thesis I served as a committee member, that she had continued her research, after leaving Idaho, in the Klamath Basin.  I was getting information from her to share with Nick Zentner, as this is the location in Oregon, in which Crater Lake exists.  It covers the region all the way to the California border.  We will give the book to Nick, as she doesn&#8217;t need it, and mailing it across the country is pricey.<\/p>\n<p>Before I could go to bed, I had to put in all my medications for the week, to take my night pills and capsules.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Sunday, Apr 5 <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>I was up at 5:00 with the cats and dog, took my 2 morning pills, and went back to bed.  <\/p>\n<p>This link: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bridge_of_the_Gods_(land_bridge)\"><strong>landslide<\/strong><\/a> will take you to the Wikipedia page regarding the topic of Nick&#8217;s presentation today. If one searches for Bridge of the Gods, the main site is about a  steel truss cantilever bridge that spans the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Bonneville-Landslie-NW-of-Cascade-Locks-OR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1046\" height=\"886\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Bonneville-Landslie-NW-of-Cascade-Locks-OR.jpg 1046w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Bonneville-Landslie-NW-of-Cascade-Locks-OR-300x254.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Bonneville-Landslie-NW-of-Cascade-Locks-OR-768x651.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/10-Bonneville-Landslie-NW-of-Cascade-Locks-OR-1024x867.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><br \/>\nThis morning at 10:00 a.m. is a livestreaming video lecture from Nick Zentner on the topic, Bridge of the Gods.  By starting at the new time, Nick hopes to help keep people from around the world from having to arise in the middle of their night to watch.  I think it helped because today, we had 600 people watching, but we also had some technical difficulties (maybe with WiFi), which left many of the people buffering around the world and not hearing or seeing the lecture.  Once Nick realized what was happening, he moved inside his house and went for another 34 minutes.  So, the replays are two below.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my suggested BACKGROUND for this morning\u2019s lecture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FVZYzHGvDX4\"><strong>Bridge of the Gods Landslide \u2013 Mar 14, 2018<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SU48AuUTHoY\"><strong> Dec 28, 2017 Bridge of the Gods Landslide | Nick on the Rocks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAnd, here\u2019s this morning\u2019s lecture (in two parts):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZAHHjhYF_XI\"><strong>4-5-20 \u2018Nick from Home\u2019:  #15-A \u2013 Bridge of the Gods, starts 11 minutes in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uCgT8EYkyEc\"><strong>4-5-20 \u2018Nick from Home\u2019:  #15-B \u2013 Bridge of the Gods, starts right away<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am going to end this week with a Geology Rock Hammer Blooper by none other than Nick Zentner on Columnar Basalt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qJWtgvsm_ms\"><strong> Geology Rock Hammer Blooper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supper tonight is spaghetti, with White Heron\u2019s Arvine (white) wine.  Thanks, John.<\/p>\n<p>We are expecting a cool and dry week. Other places are having nasty weather.<\/p>\n<p>Hope your week was fine.<br \/>\nNancy and John<br \/>\nStill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, Mar 30 Above taken by Lise McGowan about 8:00 a.m. published with the following message: This morning looking out over our valley reminds me &#8220;as we weather this storm there&#8217;s a rainbow no matter how faint!&#8221; We will get through this!! Praying for our community and our country!!! 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