We are at that time of the year when the daylight hours are increasing and the weather is more conducive to being outside \u2013 sort of.\u00a0 Last week three days of 45 mph wind didn\u2019t help and now it is cool and slightly wet.\u00a0 I still have 7 Ponderosa Pines to plant and lots of other things to do outside.\u00a0 I mention this because during the winter (when Nancy was in critical care) there wasn\u2019t much I could do, and so I grasped at all the information about her condition and treatment, and using the internet, tried to figure out what was happening, and then shared it with any that cared to read about it here.\u00a0 There was a daily immediacy to the events and I began very unaware of all the medical possibilities and it was a steep learning curve. \u00a0So, I put lots of details in my winter reports.<\/p>\n
There is less now on a daily basis to report and while we are very busy with all sorts of things, many are not exciting, and none are life threatening unless you count driving on narrow roads with right-angled turns every little bit (a consequence of our square survey grid). My (and our) reports now are more abbreviated but I still hope that on the medical issues I provide a good summary and appropriate links and key words that if you want to explore the issues more fully you will find it easy to do so.<\/p>\n
I chose not to open this thing up to comments initially knowing it would be difficult for me to deal with personal issues (talking on the phone was an even more wrenching experience).\u00a0 In one respect allowing comments would have made it easier for us to learn about what has been going on in the lives of others had you wished to share publicly but e-mail does work and we are learning a lot.\u00a0 We thank you for updating us and we find it somewhat appalling that we have failed to keep up with all the goings on in your lives.\u00a0 There have been accidents, hip replacements, surgeries, deaths, and new partners, and new grand children and many other things.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0\u00a0 [ nancyh@ellensburg.com ]<\/p>\n
During last Saturday morning\u2019s swing through the garage sale circuit John bought a pair of work shoes and an 18 inch pipe wrench.\u00a0 Nancy bought a tear-dropped shaped mountain dulcimer (4 strings with C or D fretting).\u00a0 You can look it up \u2013 I have no idea.<\/p>\n
Nancy writes:<\/p>\n
I want to put this next part in, because in this new exercise class I\u2019m in, is a woman who had BOTH hips replaced less than a year ago.\u00a0 She is doing really well in the class.\u00a0 Maybe that will be encouraging to those of you with hip problems or replacements.\u00a0 There are also people in the class who have knee replacements and they are up on their feet doing well.\u00a0 We heard yet another family member just had one of those.\u00a0 I\u2019m still having trouble lifting my own body from a sit to stand without using my hands, but I\u2019m told I will be better and able to do that at the end of three months.\u00a0 I\u2019m ready for that.<\/p>\n
The program I joined is called SAIL\u2014not as Sailing with the wind, but is an acronym for S<\/span>tay A<\/span>ctive & I<\/span>ndependent for L<\/span>ife.\u00a0 I joined a SAIL class, at the Adult Activity Center in Ellensburg.\u00a0 It is an exercise class, developed by two women in the State of Washington.\u00a0 It meets 3 days \/ week MWF from 1:30 to 2:30 and costs $3.00 for 3 months.\u00a0 It is low impact aerobic stretching, balance, and strengthening exercises sitting or standing behind your chair, or walking around the room of chairs\u2026 to music.\u00a0 We have a certified leader.\u00a0 Today (Monday) \u00a0there were 21 people in attendance.\u00a0 The oldest is 93 years young, and she \u201cruns\u201d \/ \u201cwalks\u201d circles around most of us.<\/p>\n I\u2019m still sorting through the clothes I bought at an estate sale.\u00a0 Some low cut blouses (because of my heart surgery scar I don\u2019t want to show) I\u2019m giving to my neighbor.\u00a0 My older bigger clothes, I\u2019m portioning out to friends who can wear them.\u00a0 I will never be in 2X again; that I know for sure.\u00a0 I even had a few 3X blouses.\u00a0 Now they swallow me.<\/p>\n One night last week we went to an orchestra presentation at the new music building where the acoustics are lovely; almost perfect from every seat in the house, and the Symphonetti from Rexburg, ID gave a great performance for about 1.5 hrs.<\/p>\n While I went to my normal nursing home music venue on Thursday afternoon with the Kittitas Valley Fiddlers and Friends, (I fiddle and sing), John planted trees, and cut off a matted (too bad to separate) tail of one of the new horses (Cheyenne).\u00a0 I also attended a thesis defense for one of the REM graduate students who was in my class last fall.\u00a0 So while I have retired, I still can find time to support some of the student activities that are meaningful to them and their families.<\/p>\n John reported I bought a dulcimer that I now have to learn to play.\u00a0 A year ago I got\u00a0 mandolin \u2013 also used much in old time music.\u00a0 John says when we win the lottery and build a mansion with a great-stone room with a fireplace we can hang all the musical instruments we don\u2019t play on the wall next to a large window looking out on the horses we don\u2019t ride. 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