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Sunday, Feb 24\u00a0 Worked all day on emails, mostly creating a list of my family members to add to the sending out of our 2012 greetings.\u00a0 I also have at least one other list to check for friends who are not currently listed on my Cedaridge account from where I am emailing to a 2012 Greetings Group.\u00a0 I sent requests to a bunch of family members and am receiving feedback with corrected emails.\u00a0 John worked outside, some on digging holes for fence posts, and I do not know what else.\u00a0 Then he came in and worked more, putting up 7 to 8 ounces of walnuts, in the freezer.\u00a0 I cannot wait until he makes them into a praline sauce and roasts them.\u00a0 Then we are going to add to our special Crockpot chocolate (in place of the salted dry roasted peanuts).\u00a0 I continued working on the web page for the reunion last summer, to go out with our 2012 greetings.\u00a0 Most of my work now is with answers to questions, and trying to finalize a good email list for family members.<\/p>\n

Monday, Feb 25 \u00a0Off, with John, to town.\u00a0 Stopped for a burger and fries, and on to drop me off at exercise, and he took off for the grocery store where he bought some frozen Stouffers’ Lasagna on sale.\u00a0 We are having it for supper.\u00a0 Smells really good.\u00a0 I think we are having the spicy version tonight.\u00a0 Been working more on gathering information about my mom’s family for the reunion page.\u00a0 Temperature went to 47 and the wind blew a lot, but now it’s not even 8:00 p.m. and already is down to 35.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Feb 26 \u00a0Stayed home today, working most of the day on the mailing list for my family who were at the reunion last June and those who couldn’t attend.\u00a0 I am merging the unknowns using an old email acct we have had since 1995 and used to use as our only email account.\u00a0 Didn’t have all the accounts that I now have on Gmail.\u00a0 There are some old-reunion-information-gathering ones on there to help me out.\u00a0 The rest of the day we completed some other chores.\u00a0 The biggest was John cleaning out the freezer to put in some choice wholesale meats he bought:\u00a0 beef, chicken, pork, and seafood.\u00a0 This is expensive but everything is fast frozen \u00a0in dense\/thick plastic in portions for 1 or 2.\u00a0 We have been buying in large size packages at the local stores to get the lower price but then stuff has to be repackaged and put in our old chest freezer \u2013 a 1950s model.\u00a0 That\u2019s both a PITA and a cost.\u00a0 Nancy went to an auction in Iowa (we left there in 1974) and out-bid a fellow that wanted this freezer to store worms (night crawlers) for his fishing trips.\u00a0 She only paid $35.\u00a0 Yes, we know it is old and inefficient but it is also in the back of the garage now filled with \u201cstuff\u201d \u2013 so there it stays until its last resting place is nigh.\u00a0 The garage is semi-heated and as the freezer is a solo affair it works fine there (so far).\u00a0 We have a fridge with a large top freezer in an unheated shed.\u00a0 As the temperature in the shed gets to about cold-milk temperature that unit doesn\u2019t get its thermostat triggered and things in the freezer part get too warm.\u00a0 Several 2-liter soda bottles of ice act as a buffer and stay solid but things such as sliced and sugared fruit (Peaches, Strawberries, . . .) begin to soften.\u00a0 Other than turning heat on in the shed, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a way to fix this issue without spending time and money.<\/p>\n

Nancy likes a yellow Plum called Shiro.\u00a0 Plum trees (usually) need a second different chum for pollination.\u00a0 After some local and regional searching to little success, John found an on line source \u2013 and bought a 5 tree package.\u00a0 Oops! \u00a0Now he needs 5 holes. \u00a0This photo shows 2 of the 5 with just the sod removed; on right with markers in the center of circles 4 feet across.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>
John and Shay work on yard chores — Blueberries
uncovered, straw moved, holes for trees started<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He decided to do this inside the existing fence, where the twigs, shoots, and foliage will be safe from the deer, and as they are dwarf trees the promised fruit will be out of their reach, also. \u00a0All fruit trees outside the fence (we call that \u2018the orchard\u2019) are full size trees but pruned by the deer to their browse height. The so called \u201cbrowse line\u201d as shown in this image pilfered from the web.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>
Deer and other animals are “browsers”
This image is from a Texas location<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wednesday, Feb 27 Today, I have had two more responses from family members, and I need to get to work this evening on finishing the email list and get this thing sent off.\u00a0 Yesterday, I had some more input for the reunion web page.\u00a0 Today, I was tired from staying up until after midnight last night, so I slept in this morning and was late with breakfast but had to rush out for playing at the food bank soup kitchen and then go to exercise afterwards.\u00a0 There were VERY few people there today.\u00a0 Usually it fills up, with at least 8 tables (I have never counted them) with 6 chairs at some tables and an extra on the ends of the table in front of us, because we are on one side and need room for our stand and so people don’t walk through and knock it over.\u00a0 On a busy day, there may be 50 to feed, and the servers and we eat too.\u00a0 I am sure there were only about 15 there today.\u00a0 People do sign in but I didn’t count (we are always the last), only the servers are after us.\u00a0 I’m not sure they sign in.\u00a0 Today was an especially good meal, except for one dish I couldn’t eat.\u00a0 The main dish, donated again by the Ellensburg Pasta Co. was Chicken Alfredo with large slices of chicken.\u00a0 The dish I couldn’t eat had kale along with spinach or broccoli (something dark green), with other stuff but I couldn’t have any of, because of the Vitamin K (abbreviated: VitK) in dark green veggies.\u00a0 They had a mixed green salad, with very few spinach leaves, so the server could pick around them for me to just the iceberg or lighter lettuce.\u00a0 It had walnuts and cranberries (which I can’t have, but can easily pick out).\u00a0 For dessert, an in-house cobbler like thing, with large Bartlett pears in a dark brown sugar sauce, with a shortcake\/coconut topping, all nicely cooked.\u00a0 I do not usually like pear pies, but this dessert was really quite good.\u00a0 Okay, back to chores on the addresses compilation.\u00a0 I did try to copy (on our multi-function printer, scanner, copier) some mileages from my car log [John says he will explain this term sometime when I\u2019ve written less] for 2012, but only one page printed and the next went all gray ??\u00a0 I left it and a couple hours later John tried.\u00a0 His first page came out well, but the same thing happened to the second.\u00a0 I hope our printer is not getting ready to die.\u00a0 We use it a lot.\u00a0 [Scan and copy are gone but it still prints.]<\/p>\n

Thursday, Feb 28 \u00a0How did I miss writing anything about the day?\u00a0 Must have been too busy with things.\u00a0 Major trip of the day was with John to town for me to play violin with the group at Hearthstone, and to visit with friends afterwards, who came to listen and participate.\u00a0 It was Glenn Engels (now living in Ellensburg), and his mom, Anne from Montana.\u00a0 Anne worked as a nurse and corresponded with John when I was very ill.\u00a0 She had come over to visit with her son and give him support and help for his eye surgery last week, in Pasco.\u00a0 It was a success.\u00a0 He lives across the street in an apt. right near where we were playing, so they could walk over.\u00a0 We stayed after and had cookies and hot chocolate and a nice visit.\u00a0 Then John and I went to the grocery store to take advantage of the specials that happen all week but also some are only for Thursdays.\u00a0 Finally, they had restocked the bulk Sweet & Low on the shelf.\u00a0 I met two friends in the store so got to visit while John looked for things.<\/p>\n

Friday, March 1<\/p>\n

[or, 1. M\u00e4rz in German] \u00a0\u00a0Absolutely no trips away today.\u00a0 John got a lot of chores outside done.\u00a0 The first was cleaning dog poo from the now snow-free backyard and bringing straw into the yard to cover bare spots.<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a>
Straw carried in the up-side-down wire cage
used for Blueberry plant protection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Straw<\/a>
Piles of straw in dog yard ready to be spread
on bare spots. A thin cover is already in place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To protect blueberry plants from cold and dry winter air he filled their protective wire containers with straw. \u00a0So he up-ended these, turning them into wire baskets, and filled them with the straw to be carried to the yard.\u00a0 (photo at left)<\/p>\n

I took a couple of pictures for the record, and later he spread it around the back to cover the mud (photo below) which might otherwise happen, before the grass grows. \u00a0I spent almost the entire day working on emails, help with proofing for some people, organizing events for future music contributions by our group, distributing jobs via the jobs-list, and continuing building the email address directory for sending our 2012 greetings, soon.\u00a0 Also, I got involved early with a mistaken email announcing the AWG (Assoc of WA Geographers meeting) this spring to be held at CWU hosted by the Geography Department.\u00a0 I knew about it and have been in on the planning and of course, I’m on the email list.\u00a0 The president sent out a note to everyone on the list telling them to keep dates in the first week of April on their calendar.\u00a0 She was mistaken and I realized the dates were given wrong and should have been the first week in May.\u00a0 I got back to the person in charge (John Bowen), and he got back to me and then sent a rejoinder to the list with the correction and attached the program of planned events.\u00a0 I’m glad I caught it early.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Mar 2 \u00a0Nothing special today.\u00a0 John will be working on outside projects and me on inside ones.\u00a0 I plan to finally give him much-needed haircut. \u00a0Just struggled through it without proper clipper attachment combs that fit my Oster machine.\u00a0 I know I have them somewhere, but wouldn’t have them before he needs his next haircut.\u00a0 I just called Drs. Foster & Smith (pet supply place) for a couple, hoping they are the right size.\u00a0 The ones I have been using fit an old Wahl one, which died right after I finished his last haircut.\u00a0 I thought they would fit on my other clippers, but they don’t.\u00a0 So, for $12 (less that the cost of a haircut), I will get two .. one a 3\/16 and the other a 1\/16 inch cut.\u00a0\u00a0 Hope that works.\u00a0 I should have ordered a couple of dog collars.\u00a0 The shipping is $5.99 regardless of what you get up to $49, and then free after that.\u00a0 At least coming from Wisconsin, I do not have to pay 8.1% (or higher) tax.\u00a0 Right before 7:00 p.m. the temp went to 49 from a high of 58 today but now the winds are gusting to 37 mph.<\/p>\n

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

Nancy and John<\/p>\n

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