{"id":652,"date":"2010-10-16T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T04:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=652"},"modified":"2010-10-16T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T04:11:49","slug":"sunday-there-is-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY — There is a time . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy writing each day<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Sunday was a light day mainly used for resting from the week previous and all the exciting things that happened.<\/p>\n

Monday found us going in for a blood culture draw and for other blood lab tests to check on the existence of bacteria or if they had all been eliminated by the two antibiotics.\u00a0 We won\u2019t know the culture results for a few days.<\/p>\n

Tuesday found us on the road to Yakima for almost the whole day, leaving at 8:45 a.m. for a 10 a.m. appointment to have my ICD (device) checked.\u00a0 That was over in 12 minutes, but we had to wait around to see the cardiologist at 11:15 a.m.\u00a0\u00a0 We were late getting in to see him and then he spent over an hour with us, reviewing all that had happened since the last visit (July 21st).\u00a0 Lots surely had transpired.\u00a0 He was very thorough as usual and dictated facts and all his opinions of which we will get a copy.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t get home (ate a lunch there), till 3:30 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I went by myself to play music at 6:30 p.m. at one of the nursing homes.\u00a0 Came home to a dinner cooked by John for me.\u00a0 I\u2019m eating again, finally, so that\u2019s made him very happy.<\/p>\n

Wednesday \u2013 we decided to make some Chocolate Chip cookies, but only made one cookie sheet and put the dough in the frig to cool down for more during the evening.\u00a0 Our main chore of the day was to figure out some of the TIAA-CREF paperwork that never got completed in April.\u00a0 We needed to process the papers to get our money invested there transferred to Vanguard where we have an investment counselor to help us get some income into our checking account for our retirement.\u00a0 There is no \u201cpension\u201d from the university*, but they matched part of our contributions to mutual<\/p>\n

[* from John<\/em> : Years ago we were given the opportunity to opt out of the WA State Public Employees\u2019 Retirement System (PERS) and, instead, our retirement dollars were directed to retirement plans sponsored by TIAA-CREF, Vanguard, and Fidelity.\u00a0 We were warned that once we signed out we would be stuck with our decision.\u00a0 We signed out and never looked back.\u00a0 Nation-wide many state and local plans are now under funded.\u00a0 Can you say \u201cTaxes will go up.\u201d<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n

funds and stocks, over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even when John taught part-time, he was able to put a few thousand aside in a retirement fund.\u00a0 We had an appointment in the afternoon with our helper at the CWU Human Resources department and we saw her to get the forms we had filled in, notarized*, and to check to see we had the correct ones.<\/p>\n

[* from John<\/em> :\u00a0The State of WA assumes a 50-50 split of retirement funds between spouses so a paper has to be signed by the spouse giving consent to move money out of the CWU Plan and the signature has to be witnessed by the plan representative or a notary<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

On the way home we stopped at a nursery and bought 4 small bushes, Rose of Sharon (or Althea, as Nancy remembers it from her childhood in Atlanta). Two are good to 5 below and the others to 10 below.\u00a0 John is going to put them out by the road because he has a vision of a different gate entrance in the future for our home.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the evening we took off for town again, after a bite of dinner, and heard a geology lecture for the community by a CWU Instructor, titled: \u201cThe geology of Mt. Stuart: A closer look.\u201d Washington is a jumble of parts that came from elsewhere. They arrived from who knows where and got plastered onto others and the edge of the old North American Plate.\u00a0 Mt. Stuart is a 93 million year old granitic mountain of unknown origin.<\/p>\n

Thursday will be the normal music at the Rehabilitation Center where I spent 6 weeks getting back on my feet–January and February.\u00a0 It is good to go back now that I can walk again.\u00a0 We sneaked out of the music early to get to the University by 3:05 to hear our newest faculty member, a biogeographer, talk on paleo-ecology found in cores (mud) of lake beds.\u00a0 It was a fascinating lecture.\u00a0 She has done work on lagoons and lakes in Belize and will be doing research here in Washington.\u00a0 She also has cored many lakes in Oregon.\u00a0 After her talk, I went to Out Patient Services at the hospital for a dressing change and flush on my PICC line, and we took some of the cookies to the group of nurses.\u00a0 John and I both went to the Trail Riding club meeting tonight.\u00a0 A busy day.<\/p>\n

Friday. The fast-test for bacteria was negative and today, after extended culture time, none showed their ugly tell-tail presence.\u00a0 Hurrah!\u00a0 We\u2019ll schedule a PICC removal celebration for early next week.<\/p>\n

We have a potluck\/jam session with the music group to practice for our \u201cgig\u201d next Friday night.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been asked to play music for a fund raiser in the Yakima Canyon for the Scenic By-Way.\u00a0 That\u2019s a 22-mile stretch of Nature\u2019s beauty down the Yakima Canyon Road between Ellensburg, WA and Yakima, WA.\u00a0 There are many basalt cliffs, a few Ponderosa pines, black cottonwood, cactus, and big horn sheep occasionally within view.\u00a0 The Yakima River (catch & release) runs the entire stretch along side of the road.\u00a0 It is a very scenic place.<\/p>\n

John spent most of the day planting Rose of Sharon (Althea) trees (small) we bought a day or so ago.\u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019s planting them near the road and the entrance to our driveway, with the hopes getting some pretty flowering trees up there for color.\u00a0 He\u2019s also been cooking pork ribs all afternoon for the potluck tonight.\u00a0 It\u2019s his specialty and everyone loves them.<\/p>\n

Saturday brings more music.\u00a0 The Kittitas Valley Fiddlers and Friends entertained at Briarwood, a retirement community.\u00a0 This is the place where they provide us food after we play and sing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a nice group of people and they normally sing along and some get up and dance.\u00a0 They had sandwich makings today and desserts.\u00a0 There were several types of meat, tomatoes, lettuce, 4 different cheeses and two kinds of bread.<\/p>\n

This morning we hit a couple of yard sales and the bank. There they counted our piggy-bank-change \u2013 actually a plastic gallon bear \u2013 and converted it into cash for us.\u00a0 A few weeks ago John accidentally hit the bear in the nose and the thin plastic shattered and spilled coins onto the dresser and the floor.\u00a0 The time had come to gather the coins and count them.\u00a0 [Ecclesiastes 3]<\/p>\n

Sunday; nothing is planned, except I will go to the Grace Episcopal Church for another music program, to play along with one of my friends.<\/p>\n

Nancy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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