Saturday, Nov 3 \u00a0Different day.\u00a0 Put out the blog earlier than usual, but didn’t finish all of today’s doings.\u00a0 Finally, Mr. Bulldozer Man arrived to check again on the amount of earth and rocks to be moved.\u00a0 That took awhile, but I stayed inside all day waiting for the phone call.\u00a0 First was at 9:10, but he didn’t return the call until after 3:00, and then came up for the estimate.\u00a0 He spent quite a bit of time.\u00a0 When the weather is better tomorrow, John will take me around with my camera and show me the plans, and the work he has been doing on fencing over the past week+.\u00a0 Several other phone calls today:\u00a0 one from Peggy, John’s sister about going without a phone and Internet for a couple of days after the storm, Sandy.\u00a0 Luckily, she had her cell phone, and then luckier, when she thought she was running out of minutes, she went to the phone to Check Usage, and found out they had added 50 minutes to our plan (we have the same one; 300 mins for $20, now it’s 350 minutes.).\u00a0 I told our other friends with the same company, Consumer Cellular, and they were very happy to hear.\u00a0 They are the ones who originally put us onto the company.\u00a0 It’s less pricey than AT&T where we had ours from 2005.<\/p>\n
Then yesterday I got a better deal from our Internet DSL provider and telephone land line provider for the next two years.\u00a0 We are too rural for the cable company to reach us.\u00a0 Just before John went out to meet the bulldozer man, he put in a pork roast with apples, onions, and water to cook slowly.\u00a0 Boy was it good, and the baked apples were especially good, better than either of us expected.\u00a0 Setting the time back and going to bed.\u00a0 Part of our new “free for 2 years'” service is Caller ID.\u00a0 I surely wish I had had that during the pre-election political phone calls.\u00a0 There is also call waiting, which I used late Friday afternoon this week to switch back and forth between a call to the WA Healthcare benefits system and my family physician’s nurse regarding my blood draw results.<\/p>\n
Sunday, Nov 4\u00a0 John walked me around a sunny pasture to view all the projects he’s been working on and planning. \u00a0I took many pictures of the before, plus the background has some pretty fall colors, backed by a lovely blue sky. \u00a0It will be neat to see the after (next week, not this), as the guy is coming with a truck, bulldozer, and backhoe\/front-end loader (bigger than ours), to move a bunch of rocks (from our alluvial fan), dirt, and rebuild and re-contour some things around the property.\u00a0 It’s not your normal landscaping job but it will serve our needs quite well.\u00a0 This will also make a 2\/3 loop around the house and shed that, when covered with gravel, will provide a nice firebreak.\u00a0 We may finish the loop next fall.\u00a0 While out, I took pictures of our Tamarack (Larch) trees golden with blue sky behind.<\/p>\n
They have cute little cones<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.edwardbach.org\/images\/plantpages\/Larch.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n but are poor seed producers.\u00a0 They are also a needle leaf deciduous tree and in the fall have a nice golden color (locally found on the north facing slopes of the eastern Cascades).\u00a0 Like this:<\/p>\n http:\/\/treespictures.net\/Larch.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n The next link shows a tree above the heading \u201cBig Tree Bob\u201d \u2026 on the road to Haney Meadows \u2013 15 miles north of us.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.conifers.org\/pi\/Larix_occidentalis.php<\/a><\/p>\n One of my pictures looks north to the orchard with a pretty red-leafed cherry tree in amongst the yellow others (apple, cherry, plum) with cottonwoods to the rear.\u00a0 Also, cottonwoods and aspens are in other places in the pictures.\u00a0 Our largest 100 yr old cottonwood has already lost almost all its leaves.<\/p>\n John \u00a0took a bag of dry cat food over for our neighbor and while he was there he unloaded his truck full of split firewood for them into their wood shed.\u00a0 He’s been doing all sorts of other chores about our place today, and it was nice because the temps were around 60 with no rain.\u00a0 A weather change is on the way, however.<\/p>\n We fixed BLTs for supper.\u00a0 I went to the unheated garage and found a proper tomato ripe enough, and John trimmed the worst of the fat from the bacon and started it cooking.\u00a0 I washed some lettuce that is drying and sliced the tomato.\u00a0 Now after the bacon cooks, we can assemble the rest of the award-winning sandwich.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we are eating a fresh pear, a Bosc.<\/p>\n http:\/\/cynthiadavid.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/immature-bosc-pears1.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n Supposedly it only grows in CA, WA and OR (as well as in Australia and Europe); how ’bout that!\u00a0 It is crunchy and tasty and better than a Bartlett.\u00a0 Its flesh is denser, crisper and smoother than that of the D’Anjou pear (a web observation).\u00a0 We also have some D’Anjous.\u00a0 However the D’Anjou pear skin is a pretty purple color.\u00a0 I’m not sure I ever had one while living in the south.\u00a0 We had a huge tree in our backyard where I grew up.\u00a0 It had yellow pears (I assume they were Bartlett).<\/p>\n Monday, Nov 5\u00a0 Awoke to a bunch of deer in the front yard (3 resting in the orchard, doe & 2 fawns) and a doe and 2 fawns up by the house eating mountain ash berries.\u00a0 Then John went to reheat his coffee, saw the horses up where they shouldn’t have been, but still in the pasture.\u00a0 He went out and found he had left a between-pastures gate open when he fed last night.\u00a0 They all followed him back when he loaded the wheelbarrow and put hay in their feeders.\u00a0 We then filled out our voting ballots after a discussion of the issues presented in the WA Voter Pamphlet.\u00a0 We are so happy this election is almost over and the political calls and mail will cease.\u00a0 At least we are not in Ohio or Florida or one of the states where so much effort is being made.\u00a0 And, we don’t watch TV so we are not inundated there. \u00a0The entire State votes by mail \u2013 our County switched in 2008 \u2013 one of the last to do so.\u00a0 The weather is sunny again today, and John is helping a \u00a0chainsaw and splitting maul turn our trash wood into firewood for the neighbors.\u00a0 Then we went to town to deposit the voting paperwork in a big special mailbox like thing at the Courthouse.\u00a0 On to eat a fast food lunch, and back to the grocery store where we loaded up on ice cream at a $3.19\/each carton savings.\u00a0 Got 3 different flavors:\u00a0 cherry with nuts & cherries, Ozark Black Walnut, and Butter Pecan, more canned cat food for Rascal and another bunch of cheaper food for the ferals; filled John’s Subaru with gas, and came on home.\u00a0 John exercised the dogs after pushing the deer out of the route and went to cut and split more firewood.\u00a0 Tomorrow it will get delivered (a second load) to the neighbors.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Nov 6\u00a0 Nothing new here.\u00a0 Nice and sunny, and we’re staying home today on election day.\u00a0 Heard last night there was a storm coming up the east coast and will affect S Georgia.\u00a0 I just read that the storm caused some deaths south of Atlanta, and actually in Tennessee, and many in Atlanta are without power.\u00a0 “Early Tuesday, 132,000 Georgia Power Co. customers were without power, including 48,000 in metro Atlanta.”<\/p>\n Things are shaping up around our place, but they will change a lot next week.\u00a0 A recent photo-making trip around the landscape will act as the “before” pictures, and we’ll have a contrast with pictures taken after all the earth & rock moving occurs next week.\u00a0 What’s worrying me is that by the time the bulldozer man gets here to scrape off and move stuff, it will have snowed again.\u00a0 Today and the past couple of days would have been ideal for the work.\u00a0 Now we may not get photos of finished product until spring.<\/p>\n John’s taken off for the neighbors with another truck load of wood for their woodshed.\u00a0 He’s got room for one more load there.<\/p>\n Okay.. off here, with the hopes of setting up my computer to back up itself on an external hard drive, while I clean up clutter, file, recycle, and otherwise keep busy.\u00a0 Later, reporting:\u00a0 I managed to get my Documents all backed up.\u00a0 That makes me feel a little more secure.\u00a0 This is from my computer that was new in January.\u00a0 Also, while cleaning up stacks, I found some papers to recycle, but first got some stories from them to send to geographer friends still teaching.\u00a0 After John returned from delivering the wood, he moved an old telephone pole used as a barrier and the metal roofing taken from the small barn a couple of years ago.\u00a0 Both things were in the way of some scraping and leveling planned for \u2018soon\u2019.\u00a0 For dinner, John threw together a bunch of leftovers. \u00a0I’ve been watching the map of electoral college votes, throughout the night.\u00a0 But also, I have been taking care of other chores, mostly on email, plus I washed a load of dishes.\u00a0 I think we will have some dessert and fall asleep sooner than normal, even though we were in bed early last night and then awoke earlier than usual.\u00a0 The wind is blowing hard tonight.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Nov 7\u00a0 John spent his day filling the neighbors woodshed–no room for any more–and then, back home, removing old fences and setting up some new temporary ones.\u00a0 This day I had the usual, playing at the Soup Kitchen of the Food Bank and going to exercise at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 Well, it was the usual but with added flavors.\u00a0 I left the house at 11:30 and returned at 4:30 with a virtual lapel decoration of at least 5 gold stars for my good deeds of the day.\u00a0 The Soup Kitchen was fine, and we played and sang for over 1\/2 hour until the servers started leaving their positions to eat.\u00a0 Today had the normal pasta donated by the Ellensburg Pasta Co. (tomato\/ground beef with penne pasta and sauce), green salad, and a wonderful fruit salad, the only thing I had to remove was the grapefruit (not allowed by one of my meds).\u00a0 Sad because I love grapefruit.\u00a0 It was full of cut grapes, apples, pears, mandarins, carrots, garbanzo beans, and probably more.\u00a0 After a nice visit with folks at our table, I went on to the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 I walked in with my fiddle (to keep it out of the cold car), and across the room was the lady in charge, calling my name.\u00a0 I took off my coat, grabbed a chair, and went to see what she wanted.\u00a0 She said our teacher called in sick that she was dizzy, so would I please teach the class.\u00a0 I did, and we had 15 there.\u00a0 Afterwards, I was walking out with a woman who is the mom of one of my former students (back in the 1990s).\u00a0 She lives by herself at Briarwood, and walks everywhere.\u00a0 She doesn’t have a car.\u00a0 She had her grocery cart (pull type with big wheels) with her, and I asked where she was going.\u00a0 She said, “to Super One”–well I know that’s a block away from where we were in SAIL class, and then her home is several quite long blocks down the street from there.\u00a0 Did I say, she also walks with a cane with 4 footers with tennis balls on them?<\/p>\n http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ne5Lb2SiFHg\/SYiiVPqU2jI\/AAAAAAAAbKM\/_GoVwZgI6Do\/s400\/up+old+guy.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n I told her I would take her and then give her a ride home.\u00a0 At first, I sat outside the store, charging my phone while talking with a bunch of friends I needed to call.\u00a0 Then I realized it had been awhile longer than I had expected, and I started worrying about her.\u00a0 I went inside the store, found her, and I accused her of buying out the store (:-))).\u00a0 She shopped for an hour, buying heavy things such as a gallon of vinegar, pounds of sugar, and other stuff.\u00a0 She was buying ingredients to make baked goodies for the “Christmas Bazaar” coming up at their community center.\u00a0 When we finished putting stuff on the counter and tallying up everything, it totaled $94.29.\u00a0 The no-salt butter, chocolate chips, nuts, and all the other ingredients are pricey.\u00a0 I hope she gets a return on her investment.\u00a0 All the stuff was rung up and the cashier awaited her payment.\u00a0 She was fumbling around, and I realized she did not have any checks in her checkbook.\u00a0 I had left mine in the car, so I went back out and got it and wrote a check.\u00a0 She was embarrassed, and wanted me to take her back home to get the check register of new ones.\u00a0 I said, “No, it’s all rung up, I will pay for it, and you can pay me back.”\u00a0 Finally, we got all the stuff out the door, and I went back in the store for brown paper bags to load the flimsy plastic bags into, not wanting those to fall apart on me. \u00a0I thought I got at least 3, but only had 2.\u00a0 I could have used 4.\u00a0 We got to her apartment that is on the second floor up two flights of steep stairs.\u00a0 I took the first brown bags full to the top where she was with her checkbook ready to write the check.\u00a0 We went back down and I loaded up more of the plastic bags, just carrying them, and carried the heavy vinegar container separately.\u00a0 She wrote the check and told me to leave her stuff there.\u00a0 Oh, I also retrieved her carrier from the back trunk to leave beneath the stairs.\u00a0 I carried the rest of the groceries up one flight of stairs.\u00a0 She insisted she could get it the rest of the way, so I hugged her and left.\u00a0 I was feeling the pull in my legs, but I took it slowly and didn’t push myself.\u00a0 I told her I could not live where she does and manage those stairs every day.\u00a0 Then I drove home, not arriving until 4:30.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I truly believe I earned 5 gold stars today for my efforts.\u00a0 I’m grateful to have my health back to be able to help others.<\/p>\n Thursday, Nov 8 \u00a0Awoke to big fluffy snowflakes, which only lasted 10-15 minutes.\u00a0 It was bright sunshine before noon.\u00a0 When the snow stopped the ground was white.\u00a0 John went out and I left.\u00a0 I was gone for over an hour.\u00a0 Delivered a few pears to the folks who played today.\u00a0 We had a good turnout.\u00a0 Four guitars, two banjos, tambourine, two violins, clarinet, and a vocalist.\u00a0 When we arrived the nursing home\/rehabilitation center was on a lock down, but they let us in to perform music for the residents, asking us not to tell them why the blinds were pulled.\u00a0 It was a happy day, and the residents enjoyed it as much as we did.\u00a0 The reason for the lock-down was a shooting of a teenager in Kittitas, a little town 6 miles east of Ellensburg.\u00a0 Turns out the kid shot himself in the shoulder; he first blamed it on someone else, with a unique description, so at first the police officers and sheriff’s deputies were looking for a person who was not a threat to the community and was not on the loose. \u00a0The shooting took place outside of school grounds.\u00a0 The kid went back to the school to the room of his coach.\u00a0 He had gone to his grandfather’s house, took the gun, shot himself, returned the gun to the cabinet and went back to school (still many unknowns).\u00a0 My friend’s young teenager was in the room across the hall to where the guy returned.\u00a0 The guy collapsed (probably loss of blood), and they carted him off to the hospital on the west side (Harborview).\u00a0 It was not a life-threatening wound.\u00a0 My guess is when he came to later, he told the real story.\u00a0 (Actually, the detectives figured it out from his conflicting facts.)<\/p>\n After a fast dinner, John left for a trail riders club meeting.\u00a0 I stayed home. \u00a0Oh, I forgot.\u00a0 One of the emails I came home to was from a cousin announcing the death of my 91-year-old aunt in south GA.\u00a0 It made me realize how old my own mother would have been if still alive (98).\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Time moves on too fast.\u00a0 I missed seeing my aunt when at the reunion this year because she was too ill.\u00a0 Dessert tonight:\u00a0 John’s homegrown blackberries, with blueberry muffin and cherry\/nut ice cream.<\/p>\n Friday, Nov 9\u00a0 Today it is sunny, but cool.\u00a0 Supposed to go to 22 tonight, so I must get back and print out the instructions for the Travel Trailer.\u00a0 We need to drain the hot water tank.\u00a0 Turns out John already did, and just told me tonight.\u00a0 Today was a full day.\u00a0 Started chilly and got chillier as the day progressed.\u00a0 I grabbed a small lunch and left to get my Subaru filled with gas.\u00a0 I stopped where I heard the gas was cheapest, but I realized the cheaper price was only for cash and I already had put my card in and pumped $1.20 worth.\u00a0 I was running late, so I left and went down the street to another station with the same price but no extra charge for using a card.\u00a0 Too many cars in lines to stop then.\u00a0 The first place was elevating the price 10 cents per gallon.\u00a0 How outrageous!\u00a0 I went on to my exercise class, and realized my teacher was ill and I would have to teach class again.\u00a0 Gave a bag of pears to my friend with macular degeneration.\u00a0 Class began and went well.\u00a0 I left for the grocery to get John some things he needed and then went by the hospital lab for a blood draw to check my INR.\u00a0 While there, I took a little bag of pears in for my favorite phlebotomists.\u00a0 From there off to deliver another bag to a member of the music group who missed yesterday.\u00a0 On to the gas station to fill up and there were no lines!\u00a0 There went $50+.\u00a0 On to the bank to deposit the check for the groceries I\u2019d paid for.\u00a0 While there, I took another bag of pears to our favorite banker.\u00a0 He was thrilled.\u00a0 Drove home and noticed some real ferocious clouds on the hills and in front of them between where I was, near the airport, and our home.\u00a0 It looked like a snowstorm.\u00a0 Well, it was!\u00a0 I left Ellensburg in bright sunshine, but came into a blizzard (at least where there had been one)–John said between 1 and 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 As I got to within 1.5 miles of home, I saw fields of white and much slush on the road.\u00a0 As I came by our mailbox, the door and handle was covered with snow.\u00a0 It stopped snowing giving John time to exercise the dogs, feed the horses and the outside cats.\u00a0 He wasn’t in the house very long until it started snowing again.\u00a0 I imagine we got at least 2 inches this evening.\u00a0 He was very happy that he made so much progress around the yard the past few days, and had taken care of the firewood.\u00a0 When we get a nice day, he will thin a few of the standing trees and let them dry for next year.\u00a0 Dinner included a large skillet of corn (ours) filled cornbread, made by John.\u00a0 Oh, yum.\u00a0 It was a perfect complement to the apples and orange chicken.\u00a0 Then dessert wasn’t bad either, our strawberries on cherry\/nut ice cream with a hot chocolate sauce John made from chocolate chips.\u00a0 Off to bed, now, rather late.<\/p>\n Saturday, Nov 10\u00a0 We seem to be under a snow cloud, an isolated spot, this morning.\u00a0 Nothing around us south or west (nothing in the Cascades) or east has snow.\u00a0 Blewett Pass to our north does.\u00a0 It’s quite weird.\u00a0 We awoke to a winter wonderland with falling snow.\u00a0 It is still “spitting.”\u00a0 Then a surprise arrival at 7:30 of two trucks:\u00a0 a small white one with Diesel gas cans in the back was parked at the entrance off our driveway into the pasture.\u00a0 John saw a larger black truck backing out the driveway.\u00a0 He checked and walked to the road, but didn’t see anything.\u00a0 We figure that the fellow to do the bulldozing decided maybe to start today.\u00a0 He lives about 4 miles south, and perhaps there was no snow there.\u00a0 We haven’t heard back.\u00a0 We sort of expected he might return with the bulldozer, but nothing has happened, and it is after 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 John ate a little breakfast and when out to remove snow from two vehicles and to move the other truck out of the entrance to the place that accesses where the bulldozer will have to be taken.\u00a0 Now he is moving a small Ponderosa pine tree, a baby, he\u2019d planted in what is now the wrong place. \u00a0He moved 2 small firs last week and now has 3 pines in containers.\u00a0 Two of these went into containers in the spring and never were planted.\u00a0 He also put RV antifreeze liquid in the drains and in the shower hose, removed the battery, and got the instructions on the portable generator \u2013 and they say to run the thing until the gas is all gone.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 It holds 1.8 gallons.\u00a0 That\u2019s as crazy as the directions for taking care of a broken curly-tailed light bulb.\u00a0 Mr. Bulldozer man didn\u2019t come back, but called after noon saying he would come after 3:00.\u00a0 I don’t believe he arrived until almost 4:00 and now they are out back hoeing in the almost dark.\u00a0 I still hear the rumble of rocks being moved.\u00a0 Poor John, he’s out in <35\u00b0 weather, supervising.\u00a0 I’m sure the operator of the backhoe is no warmer.\u00a0 They just moved from the first place I saw them over to in front of the pole building on the driveway entrance, which needs to be changed and have some culverts moved into place.\u00a0 Now it has too much of a slant and our travel trailer scrapes on the way in or out.\u00a0 Now he is still here and it is really dark.\u00a0 I doubt John had fed the horses, so will have to don his headlamp and go down.\u00a0 Then come back and feed the ferals.\u00a0 I have turned on the outside backyard light.\u00a0 The cats will be wondering where dinner is.\u00a0 Actually, they have probably been watching the whole sequence from high in their haymow.\u00a0 The first part was over near them in the area of the large round pen.\u00a0 I’ve been doing inside chores all day.\u00a0 Filing receipts, and trying to organize and sort.\u00a0 I turned off my computer for a couple of hours, but then had to check some figures and got back on to take care of some issues.\u00a0 \u00a0Good thing we changed our mind yesterday on going tonight to George, WA for a bluegrass concert by the group, Pickled Okra!\u00a0 Great name, eh?<\/p>\n Hope your week was a good one.<\/p>\n John came in and said they were learning about the structure of the Naneum Fan \u2013 on which we still are. 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![http:\/\/www.edwardbach.org\/images\/plantpages\/Larch.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nbut are poor seed producers.\u00a0 They are also a needle leaf deciduous tree and in the fall have a nice golden color (locally found on the north facing slopes of the eastern Cascades).\u00a0 Like this:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/treespictures.net\/Larch.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nThe next link shows a tree above the heading \u201cBig Tree Bob\u201d \u2026 on the road to Haney Meadows \u2013 15 miles north of us.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.conifers.org\/pi\/Larix_occidentalis.php<\/a><\/p>\nOne of my pictures looks north to the orchard with a pretty red-leafed cherry tree in amongst the yellow others (apple, cherry, plum) with cottonwoods to the rear.\u00a0 Also, cottonwoods and aspens are in other places in the pictures.\u00a0 Our largest 100 yr old cottonwood has already lost almost all its leaves.<\/p>\nJohn \u00a0took a bag of dry cat food over for our neighbor and while he was there he unloaded his truck full of split firewood for them into their wood shed.\u00a0 He’s been doing all sorts of other chores about our place today, and it was nice because the temps were around 60 with no rain.\u00a0 A weather change is on the way, however.<\/p>\nWe fixed BLTs for supper.\u00a0 I went to the unheated garage and found a proper tomato ripe enough, and John trimmed the worst of the fat from the bacon and started it cooking.\u00a0 I washed some lettuce that is drying and sliced the tomato.\u00a0 Now after the bacon cooks, we can assemble the rest of the award-winning sandwich.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we are eating a fresh pear, a Bosc.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cynthiadavid.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/immature-bosc-pears1.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nSupposedly it only grows in CA, WA and OR (as well as in Australia and Europe); how ’bout that!\u00a0 It is crunchy and tasty and better than a Bartlett.\u00a0 Its flesh is denser, crisper and smoother than that of the D’Anjou pear (a web observation).\u00a0 We also have some D’Anjous.\u00a0 However the D’Anjou pear skin is a pretty purple color.\u00a0 I’m not sure I ever had one while living in the south.\u00a0 We had a huge tree in our backyard where I grew up.\u00a0 It had yellow pears (I assume they were Bartlett).<\/p>\nMonday, Nov 5\u00a0 Awoke to a bunch of deer in the front yard (3 resting in the orchard, doe & 2 fawns) and a doe and 2 fawns up by the house eating mountain ash berries.\u00a0 Then John went to reheat his coffee, saw the horses up where they shouldn’t have been, but still in the pasture.\u00a0 He went out and found he had left a between-pastures gate open when he fed last night.\u00a0 They all followed him back when he loaded the wheelbarrow and put hay in their feeders.\u00a0 We then filled out our voting ballots after a discussion of the issues presented in the WA Voter Pamphlet.\u00a0 We are so happy this election is almost over and the political calls and mail will cease.\u00a0 At least we are not in Ohio or Florida or one of the states where so much effort is being made.\u00a0 And, we don’t watch TV so we are not inundated there. \u00a0The entire State votes by mail \u2013 our County switched in 2008 \u2013 one of the last to do so.\u00a0 The weather is sunny again today, and John is helping a \u00a0chainsaw and splitting maul turn our trash wood into firewood for the neighbors.\u00a0 Then we went to town to deposit the voting paperwork in a big special mailbox like thing at the Courthouse.\u00a0 On to eat a fast food lunch, and back to the grocery store where we loaded up on ice cream at a $3.19\/each carton savings.\u00a0 Got 3 different flavors:\u00a0 cherry with nuts & cherries, Ozark Black Walnut, and Butter Pecan, more canned cat food for Rascal and another bunch of cheaper food for the ferals; filled John’s Subaru with gas, and came on home.\u00a0 John exercised the dogs after pushing the deer out of the route and went to cut and split more firewood.\u00a0 Tomorrow it will get delivered (a second load) to the neighbors.<\/p>\nTuesday, Nov 6\u00a0 Nothing new here.\u00a0 Nice and sunny, and we’re staying home today on election day.\u00a0 Heard last night there was a storm coming up the east coast and will affect S Georgia.\u00a0 I just read that the storm caused some deaths south of Atlanta, and actually in Tennessee, and many in Atlanta are without power.\u00a0 “Early Tuesday, 132,000 Georgia Power Co. customers were without power, including 48,000 in metro Atlanta.”<\/p>\nThings are shaping up around our place, but they will change a lot next week.\u00a0 A recent photo-making trip around the landscape will act as the “before” pictures, and we’ll have a contrast with pictures taken after all the earth & rock moving occurs next week.\u00a0 What’s worrying me is that by the time the bulldozer man gets here to scrape off and move stuff, it will have snowed again.\u00a0 Today and the past couple of days would have been ideal for the work.\u00a0 Now we may not get photos of finished product until spring.<\/p>\nJohn’s taken off for the neighbors with another truck load of wood for their woodshed.\u00a0 He’s got room for one more load there.<\/p>\nOkay.. off here, with the hopes of setting up my computer to back up itself on an external hard drive, while I clean up clutter, file, recycle, and otherwise keep busy.\u00a0 Later, reporting:\u00a0 I managed to get my Documents all backed up.\u00a0 That makes me feel a little more secure.\u00a0 This is from my computer that was new in January.\u00a0 Also, while cleaning up stacks, I found some papers to recycle, but first got some stories from them to send to geographer friends still teaching.\u00a0 After John returned from delivering the wood, he moved an old telephone pole used as a barrier and the metal roofing taken from the small barn a couple of years ago.\u00a0 Both things were in the way of some scraping and leveling planned for \u2018soon\u2019.\u00a0 For dinner, John threw together a bunch of leftovers. \u00a0I’ve been watching the map of electoral college votes, throughout the night.\u00a0 But also, I have been taking care of other chores, mostly on email, plus I washed a load of dishes.\u00a0 I think we will have some dessert and fall asleep sooner than normal, even though we were in bed early last night and then awoke earlier than usual.\u00a0 The wind is blowing hard tonight.<\/p>\nWednesday, Nov 7\u00a0 John spent his day filling the neighbors woodshed–no room for any more–and then, back home, removing old fences and setting up some new temporary ones.\u00a0 This day I had the usual, playing at the Soup Kitchen of the Food Bank and going to exercise at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 Well, it was the usual but with added flavors.\u00a0 I left the house at 11:30 and returned at 4:30 with a virtual lapel decoration of at least 5 gold stars for my good deeds of the day.\u00a0 The Soup Kitchen was fine, and we played and sang for over 1\/2 hour until the servers started leaving their positions to eat.\u00a0 Today had the normal pasta donated by the Ellensburg Pasta Co. (tomato\/ground beef with penne pasta and sauce), green salad, and a wonderful fruit salad, the only thing I had to remove was the grapefruit (not allowed by one of my meds).\u00a0 Sad because I love grapefruit.\u00a0 It was full of cut grapes, apples, pears, mandarins, carrots, garbanzo beans, and probably more.\u00a0 After a nice visit with folks at our table, I went on to the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 I walked in with my fiddle (to keep it out of the cold car), and across the room was the lady in charge, calling my name.\u00a0 I took off my coat, grabbed a chair, and went to see what she wanted.\u00a0 She said our teacher called in sick that she was dizzy, so would I please teach the class.\u00a0 I did, and we had 15 there.\u00a0 Afterwards, I was walking out with a woman who is the mom of one of my former students (back in the 1990s).\u00a0 She lives by herself at Briarwood, and walks everywhere.\u00a0 She doesn’t have a car.\u00a0 She had her grocery cart (pull type with big wheels) with her, and I asked where she was going.\u00a0 She said, “to Super One”–well I know that’s a block away from where we were in SAIL class, and then her home is several quite long blocks down the street from there.\u00a0 Did I say, she also walks with a cane with 4 footers with tennis balls on them?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ne5Lb2SiFHg\/SYiiVPqU2jI\/AAAAAAAAbKM\/_GoVwZgI6Do\/s400\/up+old+guy.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nI told her I would take her and then give her a ride home.\u00a0 At first, I sat outside the store, charging my phone while talking with a bunch of friends I needed to call.\u00a0 Then I realized it had been awhile longer than I had expected, and I started worrying about her.\u00a0 I went inside the store, found her, and I accused her of buying out the store (:-))).\u00a0 She shopped for an hour, buying heavy things such as a gallon of vinegar, pounds of sugar, and other stuff.\u00a0 She was buying ingredients to make baked goodies for the “Christmas Bazaar” coming up at their community center.\u00a0 When we finished putting stuff on the counter and tallying up everything, it totaled $94.29.\u00a0 The no-salt butter, chocolate chips, nuts, and all the other ingredients are pricey.\u00a0 I hope she gets a return on her investment.\u00a0 All the stuff was rung up and the cashier awaited her payment.\u00a0 She was fumbling around, and I realized she did not have any checks in her checkbook.\u00a0 I had left mine in the car, so I went back out and got it and wrote a check.\u00a0 She was embarrassed, and wanted me to take her back home to get the check register of new ones.\u00a0 I said, “No, it’s all rung up, I will pay for it, and you can pay me back.”\u00a0 Finally, we got all the stuff out the door, and I went back in the store for brown paper bags to load the flimsy plastic bags into, not wanting those to fall apart on me. \u00a0I thought I got at least 3, but only had 2.\u00a0 I could have used 4.\u00a0 We got to her apartment that is on the second floor up two flights of steep stairs.\u00a0 I took the first brown bags full to the top where she was with her checkbook ready to write the check.\u00a0 We went back down and I loaded up more of the plastic bags, just carrying them, and carried the heavy vinegar container separately.\u00a0 She wrote the check and told me to leave her stuff there.\u00a0 Oh, I also retrieved her carrier from the back trunk to leave beneath the stairs.\u00a0 I carried the rest of the groceries up one flight of stairs.\u00a0 She insisted she could get it the rest of the way, so I hugged her and left.\u00a0 I was feeling the pull in my legs, but I took it slowly and didn’t push myself.\u00a0 I told her I could not live where she does and manage those stairs every day.\u00a0 Then I drove home, not arriving until 4:30.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I truly believe I earned 5 gold stars today for my efforts.\u00a0 I’m grateful to have my health back to be able to help others.<\/p>\nThursday, Nov 8 \u00a0Awoke to big fluffy snowflakes, which only lasted 10-15 minutes.\u00a0 It was bright sunshine before noon.\u00a0 When the snow stopped the ground was white.\u00a0 John went out and I left.\u00a0 I was gone for over an hour.\u00a0 Delivered a few pears to the folks who played today.\u00a0 We had a good turnout.\u00a0 Four guitars, two banjos, tambourine, two violins, clarinet, and a vocalist.\u00a0 When we arrived the nursing home\/rehabilitation center was on a lock down, but they let us in to perform music for the residents, asking us not to tell them why the blinds were pulled.\u00a0 It was a happy day, and the residents enjoyed it as much as we did.\u00a0 The reason for the lock-down was a shooting of a teenager in Kittitas, a little town 6 miles east of Ellensburg.\u00a0 Turns out the kid shot himself in the shoulder; he first blamed it on someone else, with a unique description, so at first the police officers and sheriff’s deputies were looking for a person who was not a threat to the community and was not on the loose. \u00a0The shooting took place outside of school grounds.\u00a0 The kid went back to the school to the room of his coach.\u00a0 He had gone to his grandfather’s house, took the gun, shot himself, returned the gun to the cabinet and went back to school (still many unknowns).\u00a0 My friend’s young teenager was in the room across the hall to where the guy returned.\u00a0 The guy collapsed (probably loss of blood), and they carted him off to the hospital on the west side (Harborview).\u00a0 It was not a life-threatening wound.\u00a0 My guess is when he came to later, he told the real story.\u00a0 (Actually, the detectives figured it out from his conflicting facts.)<\/p>\nAfter a fast dinner, John left for a trail riders club meeting.\u00a0 I stayed home. \u00a0Oh, I forgot.\u00a0 One of the emails I came home to was from a cousin announcing the death of my 91-year-old aunt in south GA.\u00a0 It made me realize how old my own mother would have been if still alive (98).\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Time moves on too fast.\u00a0 I missed seeing my aunt when at the reunion this year because she was too ill.\u00a0 Dessert tonight:\u00a0 John’s homegrown blackberries, with blueberry muffin and cherry\/nut ice cream.<\/p>\nFriday, Nov 9\u00a0 Today it is sunny, but cool.\u00a0 Supposed to go to 22 tonight, so I must get back and print out the instructions for the Travel Trailer.\u00a0 We need to drain the hot water tank.\u00a0 Turns out John already did, and just told me tonight.\u00a0 Today was a full day.\u00a0 Started chilly and got chillier as the day progressed.\u00a0 I grabbed a small lunch and left to get my Subaru filled with gas.\u00a0 I stopped where I heard the gas was cheapest, but I realized the cheaper price was only for cash and I already had put my card in and pumped $1.20 worth.\u00a0 I was running late, so I left and went down the street to another station with the same price but no extra charge for using a card.\u00a0 Too many cars in lines to stop then.\u00a0 The first place was elevating the price 10 cents per gallon.\u00a0 How outrageous!\u00a0 I went on to my exercise class, and realized my teacher was ill and I would have to teach class again.\u00a0 Gave a bag of pears to my friend with macular degeneration.\u00a0 Class began and went well.\u00a0 I left for the grocery to get John some things he needed and then went by the hospital lab for a blood draw to check my INR.\u00a0 While there, I took a little bag of pears in for my favorite phlebotomists.\u00a0 From there off to deliver another bag to a member of the music group who missed yesterday.\u00a0 On to the gas station to fill up and there were no lines!\u00a0 There went $50+.\u00a0 On to the bank to deposit the check for the groceries I\u2019d paid for.\u00a0 While there, I took another bag of pears to our favorite banker.\u00a0 He was thrilled.\u00a0 Drove home and noticed some real ferocious clouds on the hills and in front of them between where I was, near the airport, and our home.\u00a0 It looked like a snowstorm.\u00a0 Well, it was!\u00a0 I left Ellensburg in bright sunshine, but came into a blizzard (at least where there had been one)–John said between 1 and 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 As I got to within 1.5 miles of home, I saw fields of white and much slush on the road.\u00a0 As I came by our mailbox, the door and handle was covered with snow.\u00a0 It stopped snowing giving John time to exercise the dogs, feed the horses and the outside cats.\u00a0 He wasn’t in the house very long until it started snowing again.\u00a0 I imagine we got at least 2 inches this evening.\u00a0 He was very happy that he made so much progress around the yard the past few days, and had taken care of the firewood.\u00a0 When we get a nice day, he will thin a few of the standing trees and let them dry for next year.\u00a0 Dinner included a large skillet of corn (ours) filled cornbread, made by John.\u00a0 Oh, yum.\u00a0 It was a perfect complement to the apples and orange chicken.\u00a0 Then dessert wasn’t bad either, our strawberries on cherry\/nut ice cream with a hot chocolate sauce John made from chocolate chips.\u00a0 Off to bed, now, rather late.<\/p>\nSaturday, Nov 10\u00a0 We seem to be under a snow cloud, an isolated spot, this morning.\u00a0 Nothing around us south or west (nothing in the Cascades) or east has snow.\u00a0 Blewett Pass to our north does.\u00a0 It’s quite weird.\u00a0 We awoke to a winter wonderland with falling snow.\u00a0 It is still “spitting.”\u00a0 Then a surprise arrival at 7:30 of two trucks:\u00a0 a small white one with Diesel gas cans in the back was parked at the entrance off our driveway into the pasture.\u00a0 John saw a larger black truck backing out the driveway.\u00a0 He checked and walked to the road, but didn’t see anything.\u00a0 We figure that the fellow to do the bulldozing decided maybe to start today.\u00a0 He lives about 4 miles south, and perhaps there was no snow there.\u00a0 We haven’t heard back.\u00a0 We sort of expected he might return with the bulldozer, but nothing has happened, and it is after 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 John ate a little breakfast and when out to remove snow from two vehicles and to move the other truck out of the entrance to the place that accesses where the bulldozer will have to be taken.\u00a0 Now he is moving a small Ponderosa pine tree, a baby, he\u2019d planted in what is now the wrong place. \u00a0He moved 2 small firs last week and now has 3 pines in containers.\u00a0 Two of these went into containers in the spring and never were planted.\u00a0 He also put RV antifreeze liquid in the drains and in the shower hose, removed the battery, and got the instructions on the portable generator \u2013 and they say to run the thing until the gas is all gone.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 It holds 1.8 gallons.\u00a0 That\u2019s as crazy as the directions for taking care of a broken curly-tailed light bulb.\u00a0 Mr. Bulldozer man didn\u2019t come back, but called after noon saying he would come after 3:00.\u00a0 I don’t believe he arrived until almost 4:00 and now they are out back hoeing in the almost dark.\u00a0 I still hear the rumble of rocks being moved.\u00a0 Poor John, he’s out in <35\u00b0 weather, supervising.\u00a0 I’m sure the operator of the backhoe is no warmer.\u00a0 They just moved from the first place I saw them over to in front of the pole building on the driveway entrance, which needs to be changed and have some culverts moved into place.\u00a0 Now it has too much of a slant and our travel trailer scrapes on the way in or out.\u00a0 Now he is still here and it is really dark.\u00a0 I doubt John had fed the horses, so will have to don his headlamp and go down.\u00a0 Then come back and feed the ferals.\u00a0 I have turned on the outside backyard light.\u00a0 The cats will be wondering where dinner is.\u00a0 Actually, they have probably been watching the whole sequence from high in their haymow.\u00a0 The first part was over near them in the area of the large round pen.\u00a0 I’ve been doing inside chores all day.\u00a0 Filing receipts, and trying to organize and sort.\u00a0 I turned off my computer for a couple of hours, but then had to check some figures and got back on to take care of some issues.\u00a0 \u00a0Good thing we changed our mind yesterday on going tonight to George, WA for a bluegrass concert by the group, Pickled Okra!\u00a0 Great name, eh?<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nJohn came in and said they were learning about the structure of the Naneum Fan \u2013 on which we still are. 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![http:\/\/treespictures.net\/Larch.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nThe next link shows a tree above the heading \u201cBig Tree Bob\u201d \u2026 on the road to Haney Meadows \u2013 15 miles north of us.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.conifers.org\/pi\/Larix_occidentalis.php<\/a><\/p>\nOne of my pictures looks north to the orchard with a pretty red-leafed cherry tree in amongst the yellow others (apple, cherry, plum) with cottonwoods to the rear.\u00a0 Also, cottonwoods and aspens are in other places in the pictures.\u00a0 Our largest 100 yr old cottonwood has already lost almost all its leaves.<\/p>\nJohn \u00a0took a bag of dry cat food over for our neighbor and while he was there he unloaded his truck full of split firewood for them into their wood shed.\u00a0 He’s been doing all sorts of other chores about our place today, and it was nice because the temps were around 60 with no rain.\u00a0 A weather change is on the way, however.<\/p>\nWe fixed BLTs for supper.\u00a0 I went to the unheated garage and found a proper tomato ripe enough, and John trimmed the worst of the fat from the bacon and started it cooking.\u00a0 I washed some lettuce that is drying and sliced the tomato.\u00a0 Now after the bacon cooks, we can assemble the rest of the award-winning sandwich.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we are eating a fresh pear, a Bosc.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/cynthiadavid.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/immature-bosc-pears1.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nSupposedly it only grows in CA, WA and OR (as well as in Australia and Europe); how ’bout that!\u00a0 It is crunchy and tasty and better than a Bartlett.\u00a0 Its flesh is denser, crisper and smoother than that of the D’Anjou pear (a web observation).\u00a0 We also have some D’Anjous.\u00a0 However the D’Anjou pear skin is a pretty purple color.\u00a0 I’m not sure I ever had one while living in the south.\u00a0 We had a huge tree in our backyard where I grew up.\u00a0 It had yellow pears (I assume they were Bartlett).<\/p>\nMonday, Nov 5\u00a0 Awoke to a bunch of deer in the front yard (3 resting in the orchard, doe & 2 fawns) and a doe and 2 fawns up by the house eating mountain ash berries.\u00a0 Then John went to reheat his coffee, saw the horses up where they shouldn’t have been, but still in the pasture.\u00a0 He went out and found he had left a between-pastures gate open when he fed last night.\u00a0 They all followed him back when he loaded the wheelbarrow and put hay in their feeders.\u00a0 We then filled out our voting ballots after a discussion of the issues presented in the WA Voter Pamphlet.\u00a0 We are so happy this election is almost over and the political calls and mail will cease.\u00a0 At least we are not in Ohio or Florida or one of the states where so much effort is being made.\u00a0 And, we don’t watch TV so we are not inundated there. \u00a0The entire State votes by mail \u2013 our County switched in 2008 \u2013 one of the last to do so.\u00a0 The weather is sunny again today, and John is helping a \u00a0chainsaw and splitting maul turn our trash wood into firewood for the neighbors.\u00a0 Then we went to town to deposit the voting paperwork in a big special mailbox like thing at the Courthouse.\u00a0 On to eat a fast food lunch, and back to the grocery store where we loaded up on ice cream at a $3.19\/each carton savings.\u00a0 Got 3 different flavors:\u00a0 cherry with nuts & cherries, Ozark Black Walnut, and Butter Pecan, more canned cat food for Rascal and another bunch of cheaper food for the ferals; filled John’s Subaru with gas, and came on home.\u00a0 John exercised the dogs after pushing the deer out of the route and went to cut and split more firewood.\u00a0 Tomorrow it will get delivered (a second load) to the neighbors.<\/p>\nTuesday, Nov 6\u00a0 Nothing new here.\u00a0 Nice and sunny, and we’re staying home today on election day.\u00a0 Heard last night there was a storm coming up the east coast and will affect S Georgia.\u00a0 I just read that the storm caused some deaths south of Atlanta, and actually in Tennessee, and many in Atlanta are without power.\u00a0 “Early Tuesday, 132,000 Georgia Power Co. customers were without power, including 48,000 in metro Atlanta.”<\/p>\nThings are shaping up around our place, but they will change a lot next week.\u00a0 A recent photo-making trip around the landscape will act as the “before” pictures, and we’ll have a contrast with pictures taken after all the earth & rock moving occurs next week.\u00a0 What’s worrying me is that by the time the bulldozer man gets here to scrape off and move stuff, it will have snowed again.\u00a0 Today and the past couple of days would have been ideal for the work.\u00a0 Now we may not get photos of finished product until spring.<\/p>\nJohn’s taken off for the neighbors with another truck load of wood for their woodshed.\u00a0 He’s got room for one more load there.<\/p>\nOkay.. off here, with the hopes of setting up my computer to back up itself on an external hard drive, while I clean up clutter, file, recycle, and otherwise keep busy.\u00a0 Later, reporting:\u00a0 I managed to get my Documents all backed up.\u00a0 That makes me feel a little more secure.\u00a0 This is from my computer that was new in January.\u00a0 Also, while cleaning up stacks, I found some papers to recycle, but first got some stories from them to send to geographer friends still teaching.\u00a0 After John returned from delivering the wood, he moved an old telephone pole used as a barrier and the metal roofing taken from the small barn a couple of years ago.\u00a0 Both things were in the way of some scraping and leveling planned for \u2018soon\u2019.\u00a0 For dinner, John threw together a bunch of leftovers. \u00a0I’ve been watching the map of electoral college votes, throughout the night.\u00a0 But also, I have been taking care of other chores, mostly on email, plus I washed a load of dishes.\u00a0 I think we will have some dessert and fall asleep sooner than normal, even though we were in bed early last night and then awoke earlier than usual.\u00a0 The wind is blowing hard tonight.<\/p>\nWednesday, Nov 7\u00a0 John spent his day filling the neighbors woodshed–no room for any more–and then, back home, removing old fences and setting up some new temporary ones.\u00a0 This day I had the usual, playing at the Soup Kitchen of the Food Bank and going to exercise at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 Well, it was the usual but with added flavors.\u00a0 I left the house at 11:30 and returned at 4:30 with a virtual lapel decoration of at least 5 gold stars for my good deeds of the day.\u00a0 The Soup Kitchen was fine, and we played and sang for over 1\/2 hour until the servers started leaving their positions to eat.\u00a0 Today had the normal pasta donated by the Ellensburg Pasta Co. (tomato\/ground beef with penne pasta and sauce), green salad, and a wonderful fruit salad, the only thing I had to remove was the grapefruit (not allowed by one of my meds).\u00a0 Sad because I love grapefruit.\u00a0 It was full of cut grapes, apples, pears, mandarins, carrots, garbanzo beans, and probably more.\u00a0 After a nice visit with folks at our table, I went on to the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 I walked in with my fiddle (to keep it out of the cold car), and across the room was the lady in charge, calling my name.\u00a0 I took off my coat, grabbed a chair, and went to see what she wanted.\u00a0 She said our teacher called in sick that she was dizzy, so would I please teach the class.\u00a0 I did, and we had 15 there.\u00a0 Afterwards, I was walking out with a woman who is the mom of one of my former students (back in the 1990s).\u00a0 She lives by herself at Briarwood, and walks everywhere.\u00a0 She doesn’t have a car.\u00a0 She had her grocery cart (pull type with big wheels) with her, and I asked where she was going.\u00a0 She said, “to Super One”–well I know that’s a block away from where we were in SAIL class, and then her home is several quite long blocks down the street from there.\u00a0 Did I say, she also walks with a cane with 4 footers with tennis balls on them?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ne5Lb2SiFHg\/SYiiVPqU2jI\/AAAAAAAAbKM\/_GoVwZgI6Do\/s400\/up+old+guy.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nI told her I would take her and then give her a ride home.\u00a0 At first, I sat outside the store, charging my phone while talking with a bunch of friends I needed to call.\u00a0 Then I realized it had been awhile longer than I had expected, and I started worrying about her.\u00a0 I went inside the store, found her, and I accused her of buying out the store (:-))).\u00a0 She shopped for an hour, buying heavy things such as a gallon of vinegar, pounds of sugar, and other stuff.\u00a0 She was buying ingredients to make baked goodies for the “Christmas Bazaar” coming up at their community center.\u00a0 When we finished putting stuff on the counter and tallying up everything, it totaled $94.29.\u00a0 The no-salt butter, chocolate chips, nuts, and all the other ingredients are pricey.\u00a0 I hope she gets a return on her investment.\u00a0 All the stuff was rung up and the cashier awaited her payment.\u00a0 She was fumbling around, and I realized she did not have any checks in her checkbook.\u00a0 I had left mine in the car, so I went back out and got it and wrote a check.\u00a0 She was embarrassed, and wanted me to take her back home to get the check register of new ones.\u00a0 I said, “No, it’s all rung up, I will pay for it, and you can pay me back.”\u00a0 Finally, we got all the stuff out the door, and I went back in the store for brown paper bags to load the flimsy plastic bags into, not wanting those to fall apart on me. \u00a0I thought I got at least 3, but only had 2.\u00a0 I could have used 4.\u00a0 We got to her apartment that is on the second floor up two flights of steep stairs.\u00a0 I took the first brown bags full to the top where she was with her checkbook ready to write the check.\u00a0 We went back down and I loaded up more of the plastic bags, just carrying them, and carried the heavy vinegar container separately.\u00a0 She wrote the check and told me to leave her stuff there.\u00a0 Oh, I also retrieved her carrier from the back trunk to leave beneath the stairs.\u00a0 I carried the rest of the groceries up one flight of stairs.\u00a0 She insisted she could get it the rest of the way, so I hugged her and left.\u00a0 I was feeling the pull in my legs, but I took it slowly and didn’t push myself.\u00a0 I told her I could not live where she does and manage those stairs every day.\u00a0 Then I drove home, not arriving until 4:30.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I truly believe I earned 5 gold stars today for my efforts.\u00a0 I’m grateful to have my health back to be able to help others.<\/p>\nThursday, Nov 8 \u00a0Awoke to big fluffy snowflakes, which only lasted 10-15 minutes.\u00a0 It was bright sunshine before noon.\u00a0 When the snow stopped the ground was white.\u00a0 John went out and I left.\u00a0 I was gone for over an hour.\u00a0 Delivered a few pears to the folks who played today.\u00a0 We had a good turnout.\u00a0 Four guitars, two banjos, tambourine, two violins, clarinet, and a vocalist.\u00a0 When we arrived the nursing home\/rehabilitation center was on a lock down, but they let us in to perform music for the residents, asking us not to tell them why the blinds were pulled.\u00a0 It was a happy day, and the residents enjoyed it as much as we did.\u00a0 The reason for the lock-down was a shooting of a teenager in Kittitas, a little town 6 miles east of Ellensburg.\u00a0 Turns out the kid shot himself in the shoulder; he first blamed it on someone else, with a unique description, so at first the police officers and sheriff’s deputies were looking for a person who was not a threat to the community and was not on the loose. \u00a0The shooting took place outside of school grounds.\u00a0 The kid went back to the school to the room of his coach.\u00a0 He had gone to his grandfather’s house, took the gun, shot himself, returned the gun to the cabinet and went back to school (still many unknowns).\u00a0 My friend’s young teenager was in the room across the hall to where the guy returned.\u00a0 The guy collapsed (probably loss of blood), and they carted him off to the hospital on the west side (Harborview).\u00a0 It was not a life-threatening wound.\u00a0 My guess is when he came to later, he told the real story.\u00a0 (Actually, the detectives figured it out from his conflicting facts.)<\/p>\nAfter a fast dinner, John left for a trail riders club meeting.\u00a0 I stayed home. \u00a0Oh, I forgot.\u00a0 One of the emails I came home to was from a cousin announcing the death of my 91-year-old aunt in south GA.\u00a0 It made me realize how old my own mother would have been if still alive (98).\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Time moves on too fast.\u00a0 I missed seeing my aunt when at the reunion this year because she was too ill.\u00a0 Dessert tonight:\u00a0 John’s homegrown blackberries, with blueberry muffin and cherry\/nut ice cream.<\/p>\nFriday, Nov 9\u00a0 Today it is sunny, but cool.\u00a0 Supposed to go to 22 tonight, so I must get back and print out the instructions for the Travel Trailer.\u00a0 We need to drain the hot water tank.\u00a0 Turns out John already did, and just told me tonight.\u00a0 Today was a full day.\u00a0 Started chilly and got chillier as the day progressed.\u00a0 I grabbed a small lunch and left to get my Subaru filled with gas.\u00a0 I stopped where I heard the gas was cheapest, but I realized the cheaper price was only for cash and I already had put my card in and pumped $1.20 worth.\u00a0 I was running late, so I left and went down the street to another station with the same price but no extra charge for using a card.\u00a0 Too many cars in lines to stop then.\u00a0 The first place was elevating the price 10 cents per gallon.\u00a0 How outrageous!\u00a0 I went on to my exercise class, and realized my teacher was ill and I would have to teach class again.\u00a0 Gave a bag of pears to my friend with macular degeneration.\u00a0 Class began and went well.\u00a0 I left for the grocery to get John some things he needed and then went by the hospital lab for a blood draw to check my INR.\u00a0 While there, I took a little bag of pears in for my favorite phlebotomists.\u00a0 From there off to deliver another bag to a member of the music group who missed yesterday.\u00a0 On to the gas station to fill up and there were no lines!\u00a0 There went $50+.\u00a0 On to the bank to deposit the check for the groceries I\u2019d paid for.\u00a0 While there, I took another bag of pears to our favorite banker.\u00a0 He was thrilled.\u00a0 Drove home and noticed some real ferocious clouds on the hills and in front of them between where I was, near the airport, and our home.\u00a0 It looked like a snowstorm.\u00a0 Well, it was!\u00a0 I left Ellensburg in bright sunshine, but came into a blizzard (at least where there had been one)–John said between 1 and 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 As I got to within 1.5 miles of home, I saw fields of white and much slush on the road.\u00a0 As I came by our mailbox, the door and handle was covered with snow.\u00a0 It stopped snowing giving John time to exercise the dogs, feed the horses and the outside cats.\u00a0 He wasn’t in the house very long until it started snowing again.\u00a0 I imagine we got at least 2 inches this evening.\u00a0 He was very happy that he made so much progress around the yard the past few days, and had taken care of the firewood.\u00a0 When we get a nice day, he will thin a few of the standing trees and let them dry for next year.\u00a0 Dinner included a large skillet of corn (ours) filled cornbread, made by John.\u00a0 Oh, yum.\u00a0 It was a perfect complement to the apples and orange chicken.\u00a0 Then dessert wasn’t bad either, our strawberries on cherry\/nut ice cream with a hot chocolate sauce John made from chocolate chips.\u00a0 Off to bed, now, rather late.<\/p>\nSaturday, Nov 10\u00a0 We seem to be under a snow cloud, an isolated spot, this morning.\u00a0 Nothing around us south or west (nothing in the Cascades) or east has snow.\u00a0 Blewett Pass to our north does.\u00a0 It’s quite weird.\u00a0 We awoke to a winter wonderland with falling snow.\u00a0 It is still “spitting.”\u00a0 Then a surprise arrival at 7:30 of two trucks:\u00a0 a small white one with Diesel gas cans in the back was parked at the entrance off our driveway into the pasture.\u00a0 John saw a larger black truck backing out the driveway.\u00a0 He checked and walked to the road, but didn’t see anything.\u00a0 We figure that the fellow to do the bulldozing decided maybe to start today.\u00a0 He lives about 4 miles south, and perhaps there was no snow there.\u00a0 We haven’t heard back.\u00a0 We sort of expected he might return with the bulldozer, but nothing has happened, and it is after 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 John ate a little breakfast and when out to remove snow from two vehicles and to move the other truck out of the entrance to the place that accesses where the bulldozer will have to be taken.\u00a0 Now he is moving a small Ponderosa pine tree, a baby, he\u2019d planted in what is now the wrong place. \u00a0He moved 2 small firs last week and now has 3 pines in containers.\u00a0 Two of these went into containers in the spring and never were planted.\u00a0 He also put RV antifreeze liquid in the drains and in the shower hose, removed the battery, and got the instructions on the portable generator \u2013 and they say to run the thing until the gas is all gone.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 It holds 1.8 gallons.\u00a0 That\u2019s as crazy as the directions for taking care of a broken curly-tailed light bulb.\u00a0 Mr. Bulldozer man didn\u2019t come back, but called after noon saying he would come after 3:00.\u00a0 I don’t believe he arrived until almost 4:00 and now they are out back hoeing in the almost dark.\u00a0 I still hear the rumble of rocks being moved.\u00a0 Poor John, he’s out in <35\u00b0 weather, supervising.\u00a0 I’m sure the operator of the backhoe is no warmer.\u00a0 They just moved from the first place I saw them over to in front of the pole building on the driveway entrance, which needs to be changed and have some culverts moved into place.\u00a0 Now it has too much of a slant and our travel trailer scrapes on the way in or out.\u00a0 Now he is still here and it is really dark.\u00a0 I doubt John had fed the horses, so will have to don his headlamp and go down.\u00a0 Then come back and feed the ferals.\u00a0 I have turned on the outside backyard light.\u00a0 The cats will be wondering where dinner is.\u00a0 Actually, they have probably been watching the whole sequence from high in their haymow.\u00a0 The first part was over near them in the area of the large round pen.\u00a0 I’ve been doing inside chores all day.\u00a0 Filing receipts, and trying to organize and sort.\u00a0 I turned off my computer for a couple of hours, but then had to check some figures and got back on to take care of some issues.\u00a0 \u00a0Good thing we changed our mind yesterday on going tonight to George, WA for a bluegrass concert by the group, Pickled Okra!\u00a0 Great name, eh?<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nJohn came in and said they were learning about the structure of the Naneum Fan \u2013 on which we still are. 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![http:\/\/cynthiadavid.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/immature-bosc-pears1.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nSupposedly it only grows in CA, WA and OR (as well as in Australia and Europe); how ’bout that!\u00a0 It is crunchy and tasty and better than a Bartlett.\u00a0 Its flesh is denser, crisper and smoother than that of the D’Anjou pear (a web observation).\u00a0 We also have some D’Anjous.\u00a0 However the D’Anjou pear skin is a pretty purple color.\u00a0 I’m not sure I ever had one while living in the south.\u00a0 We had a huge tree in our backyard where I grew up.\u00a0 It had yellow pears (I assume they were Bartlett).<\/p>\nMonday, Nov 5\u00a0 Awoke to a bunch of deer in the front yard (3 resting in the orchard, doe & 2 fawns) and a doe and 2 fawns up by the house eating mountain ash berries.\u00a0 Then John went to reheat his coffee, saw the horses up where they shouldn’t have been, but still in the pasture.\u00a0 He went out and found he had left a between-pastures gate open when he fed last night.\u00a0 They all followed him back when he loaded the wheelbarrow and put hay in their feeders.\u00a0 We then filled out our voting ballots after a discussion of the issues presented in the WA Voter Pamphlet.\u00a0 We are so happy this election is almost over and the political calls and mail will cease.\u00a0 At least we are not in Ohio or Florida or one of the states where so much effort is being made.\u00a0 And, we don’t watch TV so we are not inundated there. \u00a0The entire State votes by mail \u2013 our County switched in 2008 \u2013 one of the last to do so.\u00a0 The weather is sunny again today, and John is helping a \u00a0chainsaw and splitting maul turn our trash wood into firewood for the neighbors.\u00a0 Then we went to town to deposit the voting paperwork in a big special mailbox like thing at the Courthouse.\u00a0 On to eat a fast food lunch, and back to the grocery store where we loaded up on ice cream at a $3.19\/each carton savings.\u00a0 Got 3 different flavors:\u00a0 cherry with nuts & cherries, Ozark Black Walnut, and Butter Pecan, more canned cat food for Rascal and another bunch of cheaper food for the ferals; filled John’s Subaru with gas, and came on home.\u00a0 John exercised the dogs after pushing the deer out of the route and went to cut and split more firewood.\u00a0 Tomorrow it will get delivered (a second load) to the neighbors.<\/p>\nTuesday, Nov 6\u00a0 Nothing new here.\u00a0 Nice and sunny, and we’re staying home today on election day.\u00a0 Heard last night there was a storm coming up the east coast and will affect S Georgia.\u00a0 I just read that the storm caused some deaths south of Atlanta, and actually in Tennessee, and many in Atlanta are without power.\u00a0 “Early Tuesday, 132,000 Georgia Power Co. customers were without power, including 48,000 in metro Atlanta.”<\/p>\nThings are shaping up around our place, but they will change a lot next week.\u00a0 A recent photo-making trip around the landscape will act as the “before” pictures, and we’ll have a contrast with pictures taken after all the earth & rock moving occurs next week.\u00a0 What’s worrying me is that by the time the bulldozer man gets here to scrape off and move stuff, it will have snowed again.\u00a0 Today and the past couple of days would have been ideal for the work.\u00a0 Now we may not get photos of finished product until spring.<\/p>\nJohn’s taken off for the neighbors with another truck load of wood for their woodshed.\u00a0 He’s got room for one more load there.<\/p>\nOkay.. off here, with the hopes of setting up my computer to back up itself on an external hard drive, while I clean up clutter, file, recycle, and otherwise keep busy.\u00a0 Later, reporting:\u00a0 I managed to get my Documents all backed up.\u00a0 That makes me feel a little more secure.\u00a0 This is from my computer that was new in January.\u00a0 Also, while cleaning up stacks, I found some papers to recycle, but first got some stories from them to send to geographer friends still teaching.\u00a0 After John returned from delivering the wood, he moved an old telephone pole used as a barrier and the metal roofing taken from the small barn a couple of years ago.\u00a0 Both things were in the way of some scraping and leveling planned for \u2018soon\u2019.\u00a0 For dinner, John threw together a bunch of leftovers. \u00a0I’ve been watching the map of electoral college votes, throughout the night.\u00a0 But also, I have been taking care of other chores, mostly on email, plus I washed a load of dishes.\u00a0 I think we will have some dessert and fall asleep sooner than normal, even though we were in bed early last night and then awoke earlier than usual.\u00a0 The wind is blowing hard tonight.<\/p>\nWednesday, Nov 7\u00a0 John spent his day filling the neighbors woodshed–no room for any more–and then, back home, removing old fences and setting up some new temporary ones.\u00a0 This day I had the usual, playing at the Soup Kitchen of the Food Bank and going to exercise at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 Well, it was the usual but with added flavors.\u00a0 I left the house at 11:30 and returned at 4:30 with a virtual lapel decoration of at least 5 gold stars for my good deeds of the day.\u00a0 The Soup Kitchen was fine, and we played and sang for over 1\/2 hour until the servers started leaving their positions to eat.\u00a0 Today had the normal pasta donated by the Ellensburg Pasta Co. (tomato\/ground beef with penne pasta and sauce), green salad, and a wonderful fruit salad, the only thing I had to remove was the grapefruit (not allowed by one of my meds).\u00a0 Sad because I love grapefruit.\u00a0 It was full of cut grapes, apples, pears, mandarins, carrots, garbanzo beans, and probably more.\u00a0 After a nice visit with folks at our table, I went on to the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 I walked in with my fiddle (to keep it out of the cold car), and across the room was the lady in charge, calling my name.\u00a0 I took off my coat, grabbed a chair, and went to see what she wanted.\u00a0 She said our teacher called in sick that she was dizzy, so would I please teach the class.\u00a0 I did, and we had 15 there.\u00a0 Afterwards, I was walking out with a woman who is the mom of one of my former students (back in the 1990s).\u00a0 She lives by herself at Briarwood, and walks everywhere.\u00a0 She doesn’t have a car.\u00a0 She had her grocery cart (pull type with big wheels) with her, and I asked where she was going.\u00a0 She said, “to Super One”–well I know that’s a block away from where we were in SAIL class, and then her home is several quite long blocks down the street from there.\u00a0 Did I say, she also walks with a cane with 4 footers with tennis balls on them?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ne5Lb2SiFHg\/SYiiVPqU2jI\/AAAAAAAAbKM\/_GoVwZgI6Do\/s400\/up+old+guy.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nI told her I would take her and then give her a ride home.\u00a0 At first, I sat outside the store, charging my phone while talking with a bunch of friends I needed to call.\u00a0 Then I realized it had been awhile longer than I had expected, and I started worrying about her.\u00a0 I went inside the store, found her, and I accused her of buying out the store (:-))).\u00a0 She shopped for an hour, buying heavy things such as a gallon of vinegar, pounds of sugar, and other stuff.\u00a0 She was buying ingredients to make baked goodies for the “Christmas Bazaar” coming up at their community center.\u00a0 When we finished putting stuff on the counter and tallying up everything, it totaled $94.29.\u00a0 The no-salt butter, chocolate chips, nuts, and all the other ingredients are pricey.\u00a0 I hope she gets a return on her investment.\u00a0 All the stuff was rung up and the cashier awaited her payment.\u00a0 She was fumbling around, and I realized she did not have any checks in her checkbook.\u00a0 I had left mine in the car, so I went back out and got it and wrote a check.\u00a0 She was embarrassed, and wanted me to take her back home to get the check register of new ones.\u00a0 I said, “No, it’s all rung up, I will pay for it, and you can pay me back.”\u00a0 Finally, we got all the stuff out the door, and I went back in the store for brown paper bags to load the flimsy plastic bags into, not wanting those to fall apart on me. \u00a0I thought I got at least 3, but only had 2.\u00a0 I could have used 4.\u00a0 We got to her apartment that is on the second floor up two flights of steep stairs.\u00a0 I took the first brown bags full to the top where she was with her checkbook ready to write the check.\u00a0 We went back down and I loaded up more of the plastic bags, just carrying them, and carried the heavy vinegar container separately.\u00a0 She wrote the check and told me to leave her stuff there.\u00a0 Oh, I also retrieved her carrier from the back trunk to leave beneath the stairs.\u00a0 I carried the rest of the groceries up one flight of stairs.\u00a0 She insisted she could get it the rest of the way, so I hugged her and left.\u00a0 I was feeling the pull in my legs, but I took it slowly and didn’t push myself.\u00a0 I told her I could not live where she does and manage those stairs every day.\u00a0 Then I drove home, not arriving until 4:30.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I truly believe I earned 5 gold stars today for my efforts.\u00a0 I’m grateful to have my health back to be able to help others.<\/p>\nThursday, Nov 8 \u00a0Awoke to big fluffy snowflakes, which only lasted 10-15 minutes.\u00a0 It was bright sunshine before noon.\u00a0 When the snow stopped the ground was white.\u00a0 John went out and I left.\u00a0 I was gone for over an hour.\u00a0 Delivered a few pears to the folks who played today.\u00a0 We had a good turnout.\u00a0 Four guitars, two banjos, tambourine, two violins, clarinet, and a vocalist.\u00a0 When we arrived the nursing home\/rehabilitation center was on a lock down, but they let us in to perform music for the residents, asking us not to tell them why the blinds were pulled.\u00a0 It was a happy day, and the residents enjoyed it as much as we did.\u00a0 The reason for the lock-down was a shooting of a teenager in Kittitas, a little town 6 miles east of Ellensburg.\u00a0 Turns out the kid shot himself in the shoulder; he first blamed it on someone else, with a unique description, so at first the police officers and sheriff’s deputies were looking for a person who was not a threat to the community and was not on the loose. \u00a0The shooting took place outside of school grounds.\u00a0 The kid went back to the school to the room of his coach.\u00a0 He had gone to his grandfather’s house, took the gun, shot himself, returned the gun to the cabinet and went back to school (still many unknowns).\u00a0 My friend’s young teenager was in the room across the hall to where the guy returned.\u00a0 The guy collapsed (probably loss of blood), and they carted him off to the hospital on the west side (Harborview).\u00a0 It was not a life-threatening wound.\u00a0 My guess is when he came to later, he told the real story.\u00a0 (Actually, the detectives figured it out from his conflicting facts.)<\/p>\nAfter a fast dinner, John left for a trail riders club meeting.\u00a0 I stayed home. \u00a0Oh, I forgot.\u00a0 One of the emails I came home to was from a cousin announcing the death of my 91-year-old aunt in south GA.\u00a0 It made me realize how old my own mother would have been if still alive (98).\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Time moves on too fast.\u00a0 I missed seeing my aunt when at the reunion this year because she was too ill.\u00a0 Dessert tonight:\u00a0 John’s homegrown blackberries, with blueberry muffin and cherry\/nut ice cream.<\/p>\nFriday, Nov 9\u00a0 Today it is sunny, but cool.\u00a0 Supposed to go to 22 tonight, so I must get back and print out the instructions for the Travel Trailer.\u00a0 We need to drain the hot water tank.\u00a0 Turns out John already did, and just told me tonight.\u00a0 Today was a full day.\u00a0 Started chilly and got chillier as the day progressed.\u00a0 I grabbed a small lunch and left to get my Subaru filled with gas.\u00a0 I stopped where I heard the gas was cheapest, but I realized the cheaper price was only for cash and I already had put my card in and pumped $1.20 worth.\u00a0 I was running late, so I left and went down the street to another station with the same price but no extra charge for using a card.\u00a0 Too many cars in lines to stop then.\u00a0 The first place was elevating the price 10 cents per gallon.\u00a0 How outrageous!\u00a0 I went on to my exercise class, and realized my teacher was ill and I would have to teach class again.\u00a0 Gave a bag of pears to my friend with macular degeneration.\u00a0 Class began and went well.\u00a0 I left for the grocery to get John some things he needed and then went by the hospital lab for a blood draw to check my INR.\u00a0 While there, I took a little bag of pears in for my favorite phlebotomists.\u00a0 From there off to deliver another bag to a member of the music group who missed yesterday.\u00a0 On to the gas station to fill up and there were no lines!\u00a0 There went $50+.\u00a0 On to the bank to deposit the check for the groceries I\u2019d paid for.\u00a0 While there, I took another bag of pears to our favorite banker.\u00a0 He was thrilled.\u00a0 Drove home and noticed some real ferocious clouds on the hills and in front of them between where I was, near the airport, and our home.\u00a0 It looked like a snowstorm.\u00a0 Well, it was!\u00a0 I left Ellensburg in bright sunshine, but came into a blizzard (at least where there had been one)–John said between 1 and 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 As I got to within 1.5 miles of home, I saw fields of white and much slush on the road.\u00a0 As I came by our mailbox, the door and handle was covered with snow.\u00a0 It stopped snowing giving John time to exercise the dogs, feed the horses and the outside cats.\u00a0 He wasn’t in the house very long until it started snowing again.\u00a0 I imagine we got at least 2 inches this evening.\u00a0 He was very happy that he made so much progress around the yard the past few days, and had taken care of the firewood.\u00a0 When we get a nice day, he will thin a few of the standing trees and let them dry for next year.\u00a0 Dinner included a large skillet of corn (ours) filled cornbread, made by John.\u00a0 Oh, yum.\u00a0 It was a perfect complement to the apples and orange chicken.\u00a0 Then dessert wasn’t bad either, our strawberries on cherry\/nut ice cream with a hot chocolate sauce John made from chocolate chips.\u00a0 Off to bed, now, rather late.<\/p>\nSaturday, Nov 10\u00a0 We seem to be under a snow cloud, an isolated spot, this morning.\u00a0 Nothing around us south or west (nothing in the Cascades) or east has snow.\u00a0 Blewett Pass to our north does.\u00a0 It’s quite weird.\u00a0 We awoke to a winter wonderland with falling snow.\u00a0 It is still “spitting.”\u00a0 Then a surprise arrival at 7:30 of two trucks:\u00a0 a small white one with Diesel gas cans in the back was parked at the entrance off our driveway into the pasture.\u00a0 John saw a larger black truck backing out the driveway.\u00a0 He checked and walked to the road, but didn’t see anything.\u00a0 We figure that the fellow to do the bulldozing decided maybe to start today.\u00a0 He lives about 4 miles south, and perhaps there was no snow there.\u00a0 We haven’t heard back.\u00a0 We sort of expected he might return with the bulldozer, but nothing has happened, and it is after 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 John ate a little breakfast and when out to remove snow from two vehicles and to move the other truck out of the entrance to the place that accesses where the bulldozer will have to be taken.\u00a0 Now he is moving a small Ponderosa pine tree, a baby, he\u2019d planted in what is now the wrong place. \u00a0He moved 2 small firs last week and now has 3 pines in containers.\u00a0 Two of these went into containers in the spring and never were planted.\u00a0 He also put RV antifreeze liquid in the drains and in the shower hose, removed the battery, and got the instructions on the portable generator \u2013 and they say to run the thing until the gas is all gone.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 It holds 1.8 gallons.\u00a0 That\u2019s as crazy as the directions for taking care of a broken curly-tailed light bulb.\u00a0 Mr. Bulldozer man didn\u2019t come back, but called after noon saying he would come after 3:00.\u00a0 I don’t believe he arrived until almost 4:00 and now they are out back hoeing in the almost dark.\u00a0 I still hear the rumble of rocks being moved.\u00a0 Poor John, he’s out in <35\u00b0 weather, supervising.\u00a0 I’m sure the operator of the backhoe is no warmer.\u00a0 They just moved from the first place I saw them over to in front of the pole building on the driveway entrance, which needs to be changed and have some culverts moved into place.\u00a0 Now it has too much of a slant and our travel trailer scrapes on the way in or out.\u00a0 Now he is still here and it is really dark.\u00a0 I doubt John had fed the horses, so will have to don his headlamp and go down.\u00a0 Then come back and feed the ferals.\u00a0 I have turned on the outside backyard light.\u00a0 The cats will be wondering where dinner is.\u00a0 Actually, they have probably been watching the whole sequence from high in their haymow.\u00a0 The first part was over near them in the area of the large round pen.\u00a0 I’ve been doing inside chores all day.\u00a0 Filing receipts, and trying to organize and sort.\u00a0 I turned off my computer for a couple of hours, but then had to check some figures and got back on to take care of some issues.\u00a0 \u00a0Good thing we changed our mind yesterday on going tonight to George, WA for a bluegrass concert by the group, Pickled Okra!\u00a0 Great name, eh?<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nJohn came in and said they were learning about the structure of the Naneum Fan \u2013 on which we still are. 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![http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ne5Lb2SiFHg\/SYiiVPqU2jI\/AAAAAAAAbKM\/_GoVwZgI6Do\/s400\/up+old+guy.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nI told her I would take her and then give her a ride home.\u00a0 At first, I sat outside the store, charging my phone while talking with a bunch of friends I needed to call.\u00a0 Then I realized it had been awhile longer than I had expected, and I started worrying about her.\u00a0 I went inside the store, found her, and I accused her of buying out the store (:-))).\u00a0 She shopped for an hour, buying heavy things such as a gallon of vinegar, pounds of sugar, and other stuff.\u00a0 She was buying ingredients to make baked goodies for the “Christmas Bazaar” coming up at their community center.\u00a0 When we finished putting stuff on the counter and tallying up everything, it totaled $94.29.\u00a0 The no-salt butter, chocolate chips, nuts, and all the other ingredients are pricey.\u00a0 I hope she gets a return on her investment.\u00a0 All the stuff was rung up and the cashier awaited her payment.\u00a0 She was fumbling around, and I realized she did not have any checks in her checkbook.\u00a0 I had left mine in the car, so I went back out and got it and wrote a check.\u00a0 She was embarrassed, and wanted me to take her back home to get the check register of new ones.\u00a0 I said, “No, it’s all rung up, I will pay for it, and you can pay me back.”\u00a0 Finally, we got all the stuff out the door, and I went back in the store for brown paper bags to load the flimsy plastic bags into, not wanting those to fall apart on me. \u00a0I thought I got at least 3, but only had 2.\u00a0 I could have used 4.\u00a0 We got to her apartment that is on the second floor up two flights of steep stairs.\u00a0 I took the first brown bags full to the top where she was with her checkbook ready to write the check.\u00a0 We went back down and I loaded up more of the plastic bags, just carrying them, and carried the heavy vinegar container separately.\u00a0 She wrote the check and told me to leave her stuff there.\u00a0 Oh, I also retrieved her carrier from the back trunk to leave beneath the stairs.\u00a0 I carried the rest of the groceries up one flight of stairs.\u00a0 She insisted she could get it the rest of the way, so I hugged her and left.\u00a0 I was feeling the pull in my legs, but I took it slowly and didn’t push myself.\u00a0 I told her I could not live where she does and manage those stairs every day.\u00a0 Then I drove home, not arriving until 4:30.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I truly believe I earned 5 gold stars today for my efforts.\u00a0 I’m grateful to have my health back to be able to help others.<\/p>\nThursday, Nov 8 \u00a0Awoke to big fluffy snowflakes, which only lasted 10-15 minutes.\u00a0 It was bright sunshine before noon.\u00a0 When the snow stopped the ground was white.\u00a0 John went out and I left.\u00a0 I was gone for over an hour.\u00a0 Delivered a few pears to the folks who played today.\u00a0 We had a good turnout.\u00a0 Four guitars, two banjos, tambourine, two violins, clarinet, and a vocalist.\u00a0 When we arrived the nursing home\/rehabilitation center was on a lock down, but they let us in to perform music for the residents, asking us not to tell them why the blinds were pulled.\u00a0 It was a happy day, and the residents enjoyed it as much as we did.\u00a0 The reason for the lock-down was a shooting of a teenager in Kittitas, a little town 6 miles east of Ellensburg.\u00a0 Turns out the kid shot himself in the shoulder; he first blamed it on someone else, with a unique description, so at first the police officers and sheriff’s deputies were looking for a person who was not a threat to the community and was not on the loose. \u00a0The shooting took place outside of school grounds.\u00a0 The kid went back to the school to the room of his coach.\u00a0 He had gone to his grandfather’s house, took the gun, shot himself, returned the gun to the cabinet and went back to school (still many unknowns).\u00a0 My friend’s young teenager was in the room across the hall to where the guy returned.\u00a0 The guy collapsed (probably loss of blood), and they carted him off to the hospital on the west side (Harborview).\u00a0 It was not a life-threatening wound.\u00a0 My guess is when he came to later, he told the real story.\u00a0 (Actually, the detectives figured it out from his conflicting facts.)<\/p>\nAfter a fast dinner, John left for a trail riders club meeting.\u00a0 I stayed home. \u00a0Oh, I forgot.\u00a0 One of the emails I came home to was from a cousin announcing the death of my 91-year-old aunt in south GA.\u00a0 It made me realize how old my own mother would have been if still alive (98).\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Time moves on too fast.\u00a0 I missed seeing my aunt when at the reunion this year because she was too ill.\u00a0 Dessert tonight:\u00a0 John’s homegrown blackberries, with blueberry muffin and cherry\/nut ice cream.<\/p>\nFriday, Nov 9\u00a0 Today it is sunny, but cool.\u00a0 Supposed to go to 22 tonight, so I must get back and print out the instructions for the Travel Trailer.\u00a0 We need to drain the hot water tank.\u00a0 Turns out John already did, and just told me tonight.\u00a0 Today was a full day.\u00a0 Started chilly and got chillier as the day progressed.\u00a0 I grabbed a small lunch and left to get my Subaru filled with gas.\u00a0 I stopped where I heard the gas was cheapest, but I realized the cheaper price was only for cash and I already had put my card in and pumped $1.20 worth.\u00a0 I was running late, so I left and went down the street to another station with the same price but no extra charge for using a card.\u00a0 Too many cars in lines to stop then.\u00a0 The first place was elevating the price 10 cents per gallon.\u00a0 How outrageous!\u00a0 I went on to my exercise class, and realized my teacher was ill and I would have to teach class again.\u00a0 Gave a bag of pears to my friend with macular degeneration.\u00a0 Class began and went well.\u00a0 I left for the grocery to get John some things he needed and then went by the hospital lab for a blood draw to check my INR.\u00a0 While there, I took a little bag of pears in for my favorite phlebotomists.\u00a0 From there off to deliver another bag to a member of the music group who missed yesterday.\u00a0 On to the gas station to fill up and there were no lines!\u00a0 There went $50+.\u00a0 On to the bank to deposit the check for the groceries I\u2019d paid for.\u00a0 While there, I took another bag of pears to our favorite banker.\u00a0 He was thrilled.\u00a0 Drove home and noticed some real ferocious clouds on the hills and in front of them between where I was, near the airport, and our home.\u00a0 It looked like a snowstorm.\u00a0 Well, it was!\u00a0 I left Ellensburg in bright sunshine, but came into a blizzard (at least where there had been one)–John said between 1 and 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 As I got to within 1.5 miles of home, I saw fields of white and much slush on the road.\u00a0 As I came by our mailbox, the door and handle was covered with snow.\u00a0 It stopped snowing giving John time to exercise the dogs, feed the horses and the outside cats.\u00a0 He wasn’t in the house very long until it started snowing again.\u00a0 I imagine we got at least 2 inches this evening.\u00a0 He was very happy that he made so much progress around the yard the past few days, and had taken care of the firewood.\u00a0 When we get a nice day, he will thin a few of the standing trees and let them dry for next year.\u00a0 Dinner included a large skillet of corn (ours) filled cornbread, made by John.\u00a0 Oh, yum.\u00a0 It was a perfect complement to the apples and orange chicken.\u00a0 Then dessert wasn’t bad either, our strawberries on cherry\/nut ice cream with a hot chocolate sauce John made from chocolate chips.\u00a0 Off to bed, now, rather late.<\/p>\nSaturday, Nov 10\u00a0 We seem to be under a snow cloud, an isolated spot, this morning.\u00a0 Nothing around us south or west (nothing in the Cascades) or east has snow.\u00a0 Blewett Pass to our north does.\u00a0 It’s quite weird.\u00a0 We awoke to a winter wonderland with falling snow.\u00a0 It is still “spitting.”\u00a0 Then a surprise arrival at 7:30 of two trucks:\u00a0 a small white one with Diesel gas cans in the back was parked at the entrance off our driveway into the pasture.\u00a0 John saw a larger black truck backing out the driveway.\u00a0 He checked and walked to the road, but didn’t see anything.\u00a0 We figure that the fellow to do the bulldozing decided maybe to start today.\u00a0 He lives about 4 miles south, and perhaps there was no snow there.\u00a0 We haven’t heard back.\u00a0 We sort of expected he might return with the bulldozer, but nothing has happened, and it is after 10:00 a.m.\u00a0 John ate a little breakfast and when out to remove snow from two vehicles and to move the other truck out of the entrance to the place that accesses where the bulldozer will have to be taken.\u00a0 Now he is moving a small Ponderosa pine tree, a baby, he\u2019d planted in what is now the wrong place. \u00a0He moved 2 small firs last week and now has 3 pines in containers.\u00a0 Two of these went into containers in the spring and never were planted.\u00a0 He also put RV antifreeze liquid in the drains and in the shower hose, removed the battery, and got the instructions on the portable generator \u2013 and they say to run the thing until the gas is all gone.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 It holds 1.8 gallons.\u00a0 That\u2019s as crazy as the directions for taking care of a broken curly-tailed light bulb.\u00a0 Mr. Bulldozer man didn\u2019t come back, but called after noon saying he would come after 3:00.\u00a0 I don’t believe he arrived until almost 4:00 and now they are out back hoeing in the almost dark.\u00a0 I still hear the rumble of rocks being moved.\u00a0 Poor John, he’s out in <35\u00b0 weather, supervising.\u00a0 I’m sure the operator of the backhoe is no warmer.\u00a0 They just moved from the first place I saw them over to in front of the pole building on the driveway entrance, which needs to be changed and have some culverts moved into place.\u00a0 Now it has too much of a slant and our travel trailer scrapes on the way in or out.\u00a0 Now he is still here and it is really dark.\u00a0 I doubt John had fed the horses, so will have to don his headlamp and go down.\u00a0 Then come back and feed the ferals.\u00a0 I have turned on the outside backyard light.\u00a0 The cats will be wondering where dinner is.\u00a0 Actually, they have probably been watching the whole sequence from high in their haymow.\u00a0 The first part was over near them in the area of the large round pen.\u00a0 I’ve been doing inside chores all day.\u00a0 Filing receipts, and trying to organize and sort.\u00a0 I turned off my computer for a couple of hours, but then had to check some figures and got back on to take care of some issues.\u00a0 \u00a0Good thing we changed our mind yesterday on going tonight to George, WA for a bluegrass concert by the group, Pickled Okra!\u00a0 Great name, eh?<\/p>\nHope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nJohn came in and said they were learning about the structure of the Naneum Fan \u2013 on which we still are. 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