{"id":683,"date":"2010-12-04T22:07:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T05:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=683"},"modified":"2010-12-04T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T05:07:49","slug":"saturday-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY — Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week starts with Sunday morning, Nov 28th<\/sup>, and with wildlife in our front enclosed yard (4\u2019 fence).\u00a0 John looked out the kitchen window and a doe was nibbling on the bottom of our mountain ash tree.\u00a0 He was concerned, because on the front porch under the roof was an open bag of black sunflower seeds he has been giving the birds.\u00a0 Good thing she didn\u2019t find it.\u00a0 He took a couple of pictures of her and then tried to scare her away by \u201cshooing\u201d from the bathroom window.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t react.\u00a0 I was standing at the kitchen window and saw she wasn\u2019t leaving.\u00a0 I slammed the window and she sailed over the fence right behind the white Subaru.\u00a0 The ease with which they jump fences will never fail to amaze me.\u00a0 She stuck around outside the fence and he went and threw her some apples.\u00a0 I suggested that was not good, that she might interpret it as a reward.\u00a0 I think she did, because she was still hanging around behind the back of the car after eating the apples.\u00a0 So he went out and shooed her off to the neighbors and let Meghan out for the morning run.\u00a0 He was coming back for the others, when she returned, or another came, and he had to run that one off too. \u00a0[Others come and go\u00a0 — 14 is the most counted at one time.\u00a0] Finally, he got all 3 female Brittanys out the door and into the pasture, and came back for Dan, who has to be on a retractable leash.\u00a0 John was going to feed the horses and exercise the dogs.<\/span><\/p>\n

I fixed myself an apple fritter and was just sitting down beginning to eat it, when he came back in the front door.\u00a0 That was too soon, and I said, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 He walked on in with a small kitten in his arms.\u00a0 It is a yellow one about the same size as the one we had for 5 days several weeks ago.\u00a0 This one has a very thick coat of hair but is boney.\u00a0 He or she (we haven\u2019t checked yet) was cornered in the barn by Annie, our youngest Brittany.\u00a0 John rescued the kitty and brought it in to me.\u00a0 It was scared and not wanting to be held.\u00a0 John still had all the dogs outside and needed to get back to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

He asked me to sit and hold the kitty till he returned.\u00a0 Before John gave him to me, I put on gloves and a coat, and sat with it in my recliner.\u00a0 He calmed down and actually started to close his eyes.\u00a0 I was rocking him in the recliner but holding him tightly and then petting his head and talking to him.\u00a0 The temperature is up to 31 now on our front porch.\u00a0 He was beginning to accept my lap, but I didn\u2019t want to let go of him.\u00a0 When John got back from exercising the dogs, he looked for the little crate we had had the other kitty in, but couldn\u2019t find it.\u00a0 So, he got a bigger one from outside and wedged it into the space on top of the washing machine.\u00a0 I put the kitty there, and \u201che\u201d was happy to go.\u00a0 Then I found some dishes for water and put some canned kitty food in with him.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, he ate the food, and John gave him more.\u00a0 He ate that.\u00a0 I gave him more, and he ate that.\u00a0 He\u2019s now had about a \u00bd can of kitty food, small sized can.\u00a0 When it\u2019s gone we will switch to a larger can of cat food.<\/p>\n

Don’t know if he has drunk yet, but he has water in a small bowl and a little litter box.\u00a0 He can’t be more than 8 weeks, and has a VERY thick coat of hair (with being outside in sub zero weather, it’s a good thing.)\u00a0\u00a0 I hope we can housebreak him and get him to stay with us.\u00a0 He is orange tabby, with white on all paws.\u00a0 We still don’t know his gender.\u00a0 Maybe it is a little girl.\u00a0 Regardless she has a home with us if she \/ he wants.\u00a0 We’re calling it Sunny for Sunshine, just like the other one who didn’t stay around.<\/p>\n

This one\u2019s eyes look better than the other one we had.\u00a0 I think the other was starving and his eyes were large and out of proportion to the rest of his head.\u00a0 This one is not so bug eyed.\u00a0 It also doesn’t hiss at us when we approach the crate.\u00a0 The other one never got over that, and also would lash out with his paw and claws.\u00a0 We had to reach in with gloves on.\u00a0 This one will rest in John\u2019s lap or on the table in front of his keyboard on the computer.\u00a0 They are quite a team.<\/p>\n

My Sunday evening Taize’ music service was canceled tonight, so I didn’t have to change clothes and drive to town.\u00a0 Suits me just fine. <\/span><\/p>\n

Monday \u2013 day with kitty and trying to clean off space on a picnic table in the den\/dining room to put the crate for kitty.\u00a0 Not making very fast headway.\u00a0 There is so much dust on everything and then it has to be sorted.\u00a0 I can only work for so long and have to sit down and rest.\u00a0 I did leave after lunch to go to my exercise class.\u00a0 (Now at the end of the week, it is still not completed).\u00a0 Too much other stuff going on.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, home with intentions to clean off the table and counters some more, but never got to it till late.\u00a0 John went alone to town (it snowed all day) for supplies for us and for the kitty.\u00a0 I needed meds.\u00a0 The kitty needed food.\u00a0 I spent time on emails on the computer, and talking on the phone with friends.\u00a0 John has sat with her in his lap twice today, and every day this week, as it turns out. <\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, will be another exercise class and then in the evening we are going to CWU for a lecture by the new biogeographer.\u00a0 The title of her talk is: \u201cVegetation Change and Fire History in the Pacific Northwest since the Missoula Floods.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday will be time to go play music again, and John will go along and we will leave early for the Geography Department afternoon lecture series, at 3:00 start.<\/p>\n

We heard a nice talk from another geographer this afternoon entitled: \u00a0“Global Currents, Local Landscapes: Notes from the Americas and Europe,\u201d but he said it is really, “What I did on my summer vacation.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Friday was fun and full of parties.\u00a0 I started at 11:30 a.m. at the Adult Activity Center in town.\u00a0 I joined a bunch of people for a potluck, and the center provided lemon meringue pie (baked there by the staff), and a wonderful turkey soup.\u00a0 I took some of John\u2019s applesauce. \u00a0There were other yummy things people made such as salads, potato rolls, and cornbread.\u00a0 At noon, I got out my violin and joined a lady on her accordion, to play and sing Christmas songs.\u00a0\u00a0 Before we played, Santa Claus arrived and we were given presents and a number.\u00a0 No one could open gifts till after we played.\u00a0 Then everyone did, and the staff started calling numbers.\u00a0 A person could trade for another gift if they wanted.\u00a0 I traded candy canes for a tine with chocolates and more candy canes in it.\u00a0 Then they took pictures of anyone who wanted with Santa Claus.\u00a0 My friend\u2019s husband was there, and both of us had the same surgeon for a valve replacement (him two years ago and me last year).\u00a0 We had our picture taken so we could take it as a Christmas Thank You card to our surgeon in Yakima.<\/p>\n

Then we had our exercise class.<\/p>\n

We went back in to the Anthropology\/Geography Christmas party, Friday night, and then by the hospital to visit our neighbor who is back in for Pancreatitis and severe pain, to see if they can relieve it.<\/p>\n

Saturday could have been a light day, except John had to put in a bunch of work to get the last newsletter of the year out before the Dec 12th<\/sup> Christmas Party of the Kittitas Valley Trail Riders.\u00a0 We won\u2019t be going this year because I have to participate with my music group at the same exact time, at the Rosewood Community Christmas Party.\u00a0 They are treating us to dinner with them, and then we will play for an hour or so, using a mixture of old time dance music and Christmas music.<\/p>\n

John did complete the newsletter (48 of them printed, folded, stamped, and I helped him seal them with piece of tape on 3 sides).\u00a0 By the time he finished, it was too late to have the postal person pick them up from our mailbox at the end of the driveway, so he had to drive to town to the P.O.\u00a0 While in town he shopped for needed (and un-needed) groceries.<\/p>\n

I suppose I should end this and have John place it out on the blog for this week.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a slow day, except for my going to play music in town in the evening. <\/span><\/p>\n

As to \u201cWho Knew?\u201d – – – today\u2019s heading – – – that one year after John\u2019s first entry on this site that the activity would still be going on?\u00a0 Happy anniversary to Occasional Updates on Nancy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Next week will again be full of events.\u00a0\u00a0 We hope you have a nice week getting ready for the holidays. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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