We ended the blog last week with Sunday, so will start this week with Monday for a change and it might be a short week, if we stop on Friday night.<\/p>\n
It was a quiet day, so quiet I don\u2019t remember anything that happened, and I didn\u2019t record anything that day.\u00a0 Oh, I remember!\u00a0 I spent almost the entire day working on the web page for my retirement celebration.\u00a0 It is long and has many pictures, so everyone who accesses it will have to have even more patience than taken to go through our Season\u2019s Greetings newsletter for the year.\u00a0 One must have a high speed Internet connection to view and also a WIDE computer screen to have it format correctly with four photos per line.\u00a0 Here is the link if you want to give it a try:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.elixant.com\/~nancyh\/2010retirementCelebration.html<\/a><\/p>\n The only other things I did were eat, rest, and play with the cat.<\/p>\n We did have the very sad news from Jim & Rosy that (one of our long ago pups) a wonder(ful) Brittany, Brigitte (BG) had crossed the rainbow bridge.\u00a0 She was an incredible positive influence in their lives, as they were in hers.\u00a0 She will be missed terribly.\u00a0 We understand, having lost our Brittany family members through the years.\u00a0 It is never easy no matter how you might try to prepare for it.\u00a0 Brigitte was very special and they were able to give her a new life after a very rocky start with another family, a trip back to our home for a year, until we fortunately found her forever home with them.\u00a0 Brigitte was Jim\u2019s fishing buddy.\u00a0 People on the river knew her by name and others called her \u201cthe dog who fishes.\u201d\u00a0 If you look on the link above about the retirement party, you will see a couple of pictures of BG, and can read how important she was to my life earlier this year when she came for a visit to see me in Ellensburg, in the rehabilitation center.\u00a0 It was a very special day I will never forget.\u00a0 Brigitte jumped up into the chair beside my bed to be petted.\u00a0 Jim and Rosy also came to visit me in ICU, bringing pictures each time, so I was able to show off \u201cour\u201d Brittanys in their loving home to my care-givers.\u00a0 Everyone was always interested.\u00a0 Some of them John posted on the wall curtain so everyone coming in the room could see them, just like a greeting card.<\/p>\n Tuesday, was another less involved day.\u00a0 No trips to town because our neighbor was kind enough to bring us the dozen eggs we forgot Sunday when at the grocery.<\/p>\n Today has been mostly catching up on emails, and playing with the kitty, Sunny.\u00a0 He is getting bolder each day.\u00a0 He loves to climb to high spots in all rooms.\u00a0 \u201cHis room\u201d, now has a clear track he can run to get to the window sill to look out.\u00a0 He launches himself from John\u2019s computer chair (okay- if John is there Kitty uses a leg as a launch pad), to an open filing cabinet drawer with a book placed in it for support, and up to the window. This has been the solution to finding a feeding spot that the dogs can\u2019t get to. \u00a0In the den he is willing to jump up into my recliner, but not on command, yet.\u00a0 He sits beneath me while I\u2019m eating, begging for food as the dogs do.\u00a0 He\u2019s learned that trick fast.\u00a0 They won\u2019t beg from John, because he won\u2019t ever give in, as I do.\u00a0 I finally got tired of it and used a newspaper to threaten him, so now at the end of the week, he just lays on the floor with the dogs and doesn\u2019t climb up.<\/p>\n Dec. 29th<\/sup>, Wednesday was a day for celebrating.\u00a0 This day a year ago was the day of my valve replacement surgery that saved my life.\u00a0 John baked a pecan pie following his mother\u2019s hand written recipe from 40 years ago.\u00a0 Still warm, we carried it into town to a turkey dinner with new friends — with talk about their times in Idaho, remembering our time in Idaho in some of the same places.\u00a0 Returning home, we were greeted by our dogs and kitty.\u00a0 After a moderate month our temperature has chosen this day to plunge.\u00a0 For our return home it was about 15 and heading down.\u00a0 We won\u2019t get above 20 until about the 5th<\/sup> of January.\u00a0 John says \u201cI intend to turn the oven on, warm the house up, and bake a cake on the 4th<\/sup> \u2013 my birthday some 38 years ago.\u201d [Nancy says that last number is bogus.]<\/p>\n Thursday:\u00a0 scheduled to play music at Mt. View Meadows Assisted Living Home.\u00a0 It went well, with an appreciative audience and a new addition to our group (a guitarist who sings).\u00a0 She was my student 15 years ago and now is a biologist here in town.\u00a0 She sent me a job-announcement to distribute to my jobs list, and I sent her back a thank you and a link to our Christmas newsletter.\u00a0 She was back to me in a few minutes saying she didn\u2019t know I played the fiddle (violin) and that she plays the guitar and had been wishing for a group to play with.\u00a0 She fit right in and was thrilled to join us, and we were happy to have her too.<\/p>\n I went by the bank, deposited a check, and visited with people there over a cup of coffee.\u00a0 They were so happy to see the condition I’m now in.\u00a0 I had on my velvet black vest today with the white snowmen on it, and people really were cheered up by it.\u00a0 Also went by the hospital to donate some money to their \u201cfoundation\u201d.\u00a0 It seemed like the right thing to do after all they have done for me over the past year and a half.<\/p>\n Oops!\u00a0 Amazingly, I went to look for something in the retirement celebration web page, and found several errors.\u00a0 I corrected those and changed a few more words in the text.<\/p>\n [John says my errors are inconsequential.\u00a0 He suggests this web page:<\/p>\n The \u201coops\u201d list:\u00a0 http:\/\/micom.net\/oops\/<\/a> ]<\/p>\n I had cereal for lunch because I didn’t want leftover beef stew.\u00a0 Guess I\u2019m getting picky again.\u00a0 Better stop that or John will quit cooking for me.\u00a0 We had a nice roast (with onions & tomatoes), acorn squash and leftover rolls brought home from last night’s dinner.\u00a0 We split one small piece of pecan pie (added ice cream) we brought home from the dinner last night.\u00a0 Yum.<\/p>\n Friday: Well, nothing much happened today. The temperature struggled up to about 14, then gave up and started down again. I wasn\u2019t going out anyway. John had to bundle up twice to check on and feed the horses. I did download another music program for transposing music for my friend that plays the clarinet.\u00a0 Last one I used for 30 days and it expired.\u00a0 There were some things I could not do with it, so now I’m evaluating a more expensive copy and one that will allow me to do some of the more advanced things (such as changing the time signature in the middle of a tune).\u00a0 I had to change from 4\/4 time to 2\/4 time for only one measure, and I couldn’t do that with the old software.\u00a0 The first only cost $10 but this will be $50.\u00a0 I think it will be worth it.\u00a0 I can do a few more things.\u00a0 I maybe could have gotten along with the smaller version, but what the heck ?\u00a0 I might as well give myself a nice gift.\u00a0 It also has a way of inputting notes from the keyboard.\u00a0 I will have to learn that trick.\u00a0 Right now it is just putting in a note at a time by selecting-&-dragging the type of note I need and placing it on the music staff.\u00a0 I did one page of music before I ran out of energy this afternoon.<\/p>\n Now it is New Year\u2019s Eve.\u00a0 In addition to the cold it has been very quiet out here.\u00a0 Past tense. Was. \u00a0The neighbors started setting off fireworks, early.\u00a0 That upset the dogs, even though they are bird dogs and used to gun shots. Not for years, though.<\/p>\n I\u2019m ready to turn this over to John for corrections, additions, and posting on the WordPress servers. He will post this early Saturday \u2013 in the new year.<\/p>\n Nothing big is planned for Saturday or Sunday this week, the first two days of twenty-eleven or 2011.<\/p>\n So, Happy New Year.<\/p>\n May you enjoy spectacular sunrises and sunsets; babies\u2019 smiles, and funny antics of puppies, kittens, and your human friends. 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