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Sunday, Jan 27 \u00a0Good morning; nothing scheduled away from home. \u00a0We awoke to more silver frost lightly covering vegetation and lots of other things.\u00a0 The sky is alternating blue and overcast.\u00a0 Enjoyed some of John’s bread toasted.\u00a0 We need to take a picture of the cut loaf to share on the blog.\u00a0 (We did and published it late, so look below).\u00a0 Meanwhile, I’m spending most of my time on the web page about the 2012 Wilkins family reunion to put a link to in our annual greetings newsletter.\u00a0 Stopped for a piece of fruitcake and cup of coffee to warm up.\u00a0 Covered John with a blankie for his afternoon nap, and lost mine for my feet.\u00a0 So, I went and found another to cover him with and got mine back.\u00a0 Finally, the temperature went up to a 28 high at 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 Pizza for dinner; I’m still working on the computer.<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan 28 \u00a0Did not go to town for exercise; with only one reason for going and using gasoline for a round trip of 25 miles.\u00a0 Spent the day on the computer, paying bills, fixing music for our group, email and so on. The temperature went way up.\u00a0 Will be in the 40s till Friday.\u00a0 I spent a lot of time working on the reunion (June 2012) page, cropping photos, identifying relatives in them, and asking for help from a few relatives in the southeast.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Jan 29\u00a0 Nice to see out the back window early that the 4 turkeys were back roosting in the trees.\u00a0 We haven’t seen them for a few days.\u00a0 They haven’t been around eating the songbirds’ feed today, however.\u00a0 Nothing really on tap (in town).\u00a0 It’s John’s sister’s birthday, so we tried a phone call this morning, but she must have been out to lunch (so to speak) celebrating her special day.\u00a0 Tried again in the afternoon with no connection.\u00a0 John meanwhile made a chocolate cake we can have here to celebrate her birthday.\u00a0 I finally finished (I think) preparing music for February, a playlist of new songs to give out Thursday.\u00a0 People need to get their paper copies of music in order so as to not fumble around between songs.\u00a0 Still it happens.\u00a0 Now it’s back to working on the reunion page after tackling a bunch of receipt-filing still for 2012 and now starting a new one for 2013.\u00a0 Need to plow through more stacks on the counters.\u00a0 It would help to stay home some to tackle those chores.\u00a0 It just hit me that I should take some of the filing cabinet space I have empted from course materials of the past, replace with file folders for each task, and put things in EVERY TIME I bring some thing home.\u00a0 What a concept!\u00a0 By 3:00 p.m. today, the temperatures were up to 45 and the wind gusts to 41 mph.\u00a0 Two quail (a pair) just came to the back porch and chowed down on black oil sunflower seeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A pair of Quail with Sunflower seeds with soft
afternoon sunlight in late January<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Black oil in contrast to striped<\/a>.
\nOr these fancy red sunflowers<\/a>.
\nWho knew?
\nThe picture above, I\u2019ve now added to my continuing page of frost and birds<\/a>, given last week.<\/p>\n

John made a dinner of fall-apart-tender slow-roast pork, baked potatoes, cut apples, and red peppers.\u00a0 In honor of Peggy we’ll have ice cream atop our cake (it got frosted with icing begun with chocolate chips).<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Jan 30 \u00a0Noon food bank soup kitchen playing, and afterwards, SAIL exercise. \u00a0Nothing new; spent most time today in my recliner with laptop doing computer projects and watching little birds chow on black oil sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n

Thursday, Jan 31 \u00a0Today is a rare 5th Thursday of the month.\u00a0 Only happens about 3 times a year, but this year we have 4.\u00a0 There is one assisted living home, Mt. View Meadows, which is our 5th Thursdays’ location for playing.\u00a0 We have more than 4 facilities in EBRG which is more than the Thursdays in most months.\u00a0 We went to town a little early for gasoline (and made a bad mistake).\u00a0 The first place was only $3.14, and was full, and we were in a hurry.\u00a0 Went on to another store (passing by others without checking), going to one where it’s normally the cheapest in town.\u00a0 Not today.\u00a0 It was $3.24.\u00a0 Found out later (via a computer check), there were 6 others in town costing less than what we paid.\u00a0 Phooey.\u00a0 But we got there in time to have John help our wrenched-back bass player move his bass fiddle in from his car.\u00a0 And then John stayed around and carried it out again.\u00a0 We had a nice turn-out and the music sounded great.<\/p>\n

Friday, Feb 1\u00a0 <\/strong>Today was a potluck\/music at the Adult Activity Center (I just sang along with the audience and a piano player), and then went through a hellacious exercise class.\u00a0 We were all sweating.\u00a0 On our feet a lot.\u00a0 Just as well, to get rid of the calories consumed at lunch.\u00a0 It was whole-wheat spaghetti (never had), and the best meatballs of my life, no joke, cooked in a nice tomato sauce.\u00a0 All sorts of salads, fruits, and desserts.\u00a0 I took my neighbor’s canned pears (a quart), and unfortunately brought some home.\u00a0 Most of my time the past couple of days (weeks) has been working on the family reunion page.\u00a0 It’s progressing but also getting very involved. \u00a0Oh well, I don’t have to go anywhere the next couple of days, and I’m relieved.\u00a0 There is a scholarship dinner (donation) at the Grange, but we’re not participating this year.\u00a0 Will just donate and stay home.\u00a0 Oh, the coolest thing I did today was carry along my Kindle Fire and for the time between the food & fun and exercise class, I logged on to the free WIFI at the Adult Activity Center and checked my email on two accounts.\u00a0 I’m not yet sure how to send a message but I can read and reply, and today I figured how to add a second Gmail account.\u00a0 Good, because I had a message from the geography department secretary asking for information, which I was able to get back to her even being away from home.\u00a0 John and I grew up when a phone call meant talking to an operator, so all this high-tech stuff is a bit like magic.\u00a0 Remember Ernestine<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Okay.. back to work.\u00a0 I will do some more on the family reunion page, but have to allow some time for the jobs list I haven’t done anything on today (never got to it, so it will happen this weekend).\u00a0 Hot cornbread and chili for supper.\u00a0 Now we’re ready for dessert, but it’s not time.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Feb 2\u00a0 I was quite tired from yesterday, and coughed a lot during the night, so I slept in. \u00a0John has done all the morning chores, and came back to tell me to get the blog to him, so I’m signing off and sending it for his review, additions, and posting.<\/p>\n

Hope your week was great.<\/p>\n

Nancy and John<\/p>\n

Still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, Jan 27 \u00a0Good morning; nothing scheduled away from home. \u00a0We awoke to more silver frost lightly covering vegetation and lots of other things.\u00a0 The sky is alternating blue and overcast.\u00a0 Enjoyed some of John’s bread toasted.\u00a0 We need to take a picture of the cut loaf to share on the blog.\u00a0 (We did and … Continue reading “Sloppy outside \u2013 snow is melting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-j7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}