Many of you were not expecting anything to be written this past week till today, but we sneaked some in on you when things starting happening.\u00a0 The end of the week was less eventful, thankfully, on the health, antibiotic infusion part.\u00a0 The rest of the time after the mess on Monday, was pretty smooth sailing.\u00a0\u00a0 Today had a funny note, but the infusion went well.<\/p>\n
The Out-Patient services put in a standing order for me for a milkshake with boost of Glucerna added to chocolate ice cream, two scoops.\u00a0 Yesterday went without a glitch and the kitchen provided my shake.\u00a0 Something got lost from yesterday to today, and first they brought a bottle of Glucerna with a cup, no shake.\u00a0 The people in Med-Surg sent it back requesting a shake.\u00a0 What came next was the Glucerna in a cup with ice as the base.\u00a0 Finally, the third time was a charm, but it was only 10 minutes before I ended for the day.\u00a0 I drank a bit and took the rest with me for the trip home.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see if tomorrow the kitchen gets it right the first time.<\/p>\n
The other nice thing that happened today was a visit with friends, now in Rockville, MD who we have known a very long time \u2013 since starting at the Univ. of Idaho as an undergraduate student, going on through to a Masters, and being involved with me while a GIS manager on the west side, by employing several of my students as interns.\u00a0 He and his family flew to Seattle, rented a car, and were driving over to Spokane, when they stopped off for lunch and a visit with us.\u00a0 We met them at the Deli at Super One in town.\u00a0 That was a good choice because the town is inundated with rodeo and fair goers and all major restaurants probably were packed.<\/p>\n
The rest of our last couple of days was filled with moving hay (John), and playing with the puppy, who has taken a liking to the sofa in the den.\u00a0 He actually made it halfway through the night in the washroom, went out to \u201cpee\u201d at about 2:30, and spent the rest of the night till morning, happily sleeping on the sofa with his mom.<\/p>\n
We do not have any special plans for labor day so doubt there will be any blogs till next weekend, but that\u2019s what we said last week. \u00a0So we will not speak ahead and just keep you informed if anything big happens.<\/p>\n
Much of my time this past week was spent on email, contacting former students and workers who employed my students to invite them to my retirement party.\u00a0 If you didn\u2019t get an invite and are interested, let me know by email (nancyh@ellensburg.com<\/a>) and I will send you the invite, knowing you cannot come but might just be interested in seeing the celebration the Geography Department has planned for me, Oct 2, Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n Former students have responded by email with some good memories that make my day.\u00a0 There are comments from them about their connection to me (and John) that I would never have known.\u00a0 There will be a memories book at the reception, for people to write in, and they also can send to our secretary, for her to include in the memory book.\u00a0 I hope she will just print the emails and save herself \u00a0the effort of writing in the book, and just slip them in the back.\u00a0 Otherwise it might be an impossible task.<\/p>\n Other things have happened this week, on the minor side, but major in my book. \u00a0John had planted some tomatoes, but our temps have been low and the winds high, so we had broken plants and not a lot of ripe tomatoes. \u00a0Yet, this week he has harvest a few small ones and they are wonderful, tasting like tomatoes.\u00a0 What a concept !\u00a0 [from jfh, We have had many clear-sky nights and at 2,240 feet elevation the night temperature will and has dropped well below 50o<\/sup> F.\u00a0 Tomatoes hate that.]<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure I left something out, but not to worry, there is another week.\u00a0 Thank you for your phone calls and birthday and get well cards.<\/p>\n Have a nice week, and we will try to do the same.\u00a0 I still have till September 28 to go daily to the hospital for the infusions, which have decreased this week from two to only one \u2013 30 min., Rochephin.<\/p>\n See you on the blog hopefully only next weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Nancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many of you were not expecting anything to be written this past week till today, but we sneaked some in on you when things starting happening.\u00a0 The end of the week was less eventful, thankfully, on the health, antibiotic infusion part.\u00a0 The rest of the time after the mess on Monday, was pretty smooth sailing.\u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading “SUNDAY — Happenings before Labor Day”<\/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-627","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-a7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}