{"id":13444,"date":"2024-06-30T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13444"},"modified":"2024-06-30T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T23:25:20","slug":"a-slightly-busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13444","title":{"rendered":"A slightly busy week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although not significant, I had to think about money this week. I consult with a Vanguard rep a few times each year and the latest call was delayed until June 25th. I had to change the original date because of the Geography Department&#8217;s spring awards ceremony. Next, a new hire at the CWU foundation is making appointments with donors so he can learn about folks and how he will interact with us. That happened Friday morning.<br \/>\nCameron has been trying to bottle wine (a small 2-hour deal), but his crew wasn&#8217;t cooperating. A Thursday morning plan was shot-down, as was a Friday morning attempt because of my 9:00 am meeting.<br \/>\nWe got it done starting at 1:30pm on Friday.<br \/>\nNot bottling on Thursday allowed me to meet Kathy &#038; Fran in EBRG as they traveled east on I-90. They bought lunch at Smokey&#8217;s Bar-b-Que. They are a busy couple and family, so it is always entertaining to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>After the bottling and some wine and snacks we held our first P\u00e9tanque event [throwing <em>boules<\/em> at the small target ball, officially called a <em>cochonnet<\/em>]. We were a little rusty. There were three interruptions of folks wanting to visit the winery \u2013 to not much reward. Three times, 4 bottles of wine.<br \/>\nI talked with one young lady, up from Redding CA to attend a concert at the Gorge-at-George.   [Noah Kahan, guitar; unknown to me.]  She sipped wine in the shade while we played. She had a fancy pickup with a large generator in the bed. Hmm? I&#8217;m guessing she had other stops planned. Redding is 700 miles from here.<\/p>\n<p>A neighboring place to the winery is selling cherries, so I detoured over there and bought 2lb each of Rainier ($2\/lb) and Bings ($1.50\/lb). <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cherries-Rainier-and-Bing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"284\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13443\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cherries-Rainier-and-Bing.png 681w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Cherries-Rainier-and-Bing-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n I stayed for supper and got home just at dark; with most of my purchased cherries.<br \/>\nThe Cleveland Clinic claims cherries are high in antioxidants and nutrients, and can help you sleep better and run faster! I should have bought more!<\/p>\n<p>At home, the wind continues to blow and I (sometimes) do a little outside or inside chores.<br \/>\nThe National Weather models proclaim 86 degrees on Independence Day and into the 90s into the middle of July. No 3-digit days in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping Track<br \/>\non the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not significant, I had to think about money this week. I consult with a Vanguard rep a few times each year and the latest call was delayed until June 25th. I had to change the original date because of the Geography Department&#8217;s spring awards ceremony. Next, a new hire at the CWU foundation is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=13444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A slightly busy week&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3uQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444","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=13444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13446,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}