Well, here we are, Saturday night, and John is at the keyboard posting past happenings. \u00a0I am in the other end of the house starting a fresh report — home after playing music in town and eating.\u00a0 He went along too, to make a few stops, then came by and so did 3 other husbands to share in the food at Briarwood, where we entertained for an hour.\u00a0 John only had several desserts, but I had a roll, 1.5 bowls of 5-bean veggie chili, with Chili Fritos & crackers, and also several desserts:\u00a0 Strawberries and whipped cream on a Bundt spice-type cake, an especially good cookie with fruit and nuts, and a piece of orange cake.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t pushed away from the table yet \u2013 I guess I\u2019m compensating for all the eating issues I went through last year, including eating nothing but very plain chicken salad and yogurt for about 6 weeks. \u00a0Now I don\u2019t wish to touch either.<\/p>\n
They treat us well at Briarwood.\u00a0 We played and sang our hearts out.\u00a0 They joined us on the singing and even a couple of people danced.\u00a0 A fellow who lives in a nearby retirement community brought his C Key- Harmonica and joined us for two songs, and then played Auld Lang Syne.\u00a0 We played along with him, quietly, so he could be heard.\u00a0 It was very neat.\u00a0 Made him happy too.<\/p>\n
I came home and completed transposing 4 songs for our B flat Clarinet player for tomorrow night\u2019s performance at the Episcopal church.\u00a0 I had to fight with kitty, Sunny, who wanted on the desk and printer to help.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s good he is feeling more sociable, but he can be a pain.\u00a0 At least he is doing better about sleeping through the night.\u00a0 However, dogs and we still need to go potty about every three hours.\u00a0 The diuretic medication I\u2019m on doesn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n
Sunday.\u00a0 Snowed at least 4 inches and I drove to town for the Taize\u2019 service.\u00a0 We had a full time of music, silent meditation, some readings, a few prayers, and a nice lasagna meal afterward with peanut butter cookies.\u00a0 I took the remaining birthday cake of John\u2019s and some brownies.\u00a0 Another person brought a bowl of really good veggies, most of which I could eat while on Coumadin.\u00a0 I shy from broccoli but cauliflower is all right.\u00a0 They were cut up small and had an oil of sorts spread throughout the mixture.<\/p>\n
Monday was an interesting day.\u00a0 We worked on various projects before I left for town for exercise class.\u00a0 We made appointments for the cat and the dog to go to the vet.\u00a0 After my class I went by school to read job applications for my job replacement.\u00a0 That was interesting.\u00a0 I returned Tuesday morning to complete them.\u00a0 I wanted to participate but it is a time sink.<\/p>\n
Turns out our vet also cannot tell the gender of our new kitty.\u00a0 We took him in today for shots and deworming, and made an appointment for a neuter, but the vet said it might be a she and require a spay.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ll just have to adjust come 3 weeks from now when hopefully we can tell.\u00a0 Till then, s\/he remains \u201cSunny Kitty\u201d, a genderless name.\u00a0 Years ago in Iowa we had a calico cat show up at our front door that everyone in the apartment complex was calling Sam.\u00a0 Turned out she was Samantha, and we called her Sammy the rest of her life.\u00a0 (She lived to be 20 years old.)<\/p>\n
Wednesday found us with 4 to 5 inches of new snow, but not as much as predicted.\u00a0 The sun is shining and it is a pretty day.\u00a0 We both had eye exams planned and they were executed with good results.\u00a0 Neither of us needs a change in our prescription.\u00a0 While I have some glasses somewhere that give me better than 20\/20 vision and correct for an astigmatism, I have 20\/20 vision with both eyes working together and a little less with my right eye alone.\u00a0 The back of our retinas are okay too.\u00a0 John has the start of possible cataracts, but they haven\u2019t changed recently.\u00a0 I also have a slight membrane that also hasn\u2019t changed in two years, but when it does, I will have it adjusted by laser in the office, not the hospital.\u00a0 I will know it\u2019s time when my distance vision gets fuzzy.\u00a0 That was good news.<\/p>\n
John\u2019s fixin\u2019 a roast beef tonight and it smells so good.\u00a0 He also fixed a piece of a Butternut squash.\u00a0 I spent time in town again this afternoon for my exercise class.\u00a0 Only 10 of us showed, probably because of the snowy weather.\u00a0 We worked hard and tired ourselves out.<\/p>\n
Thursday.\u00a0 Off to play music and then afterward to a talk in the geography department at CWU, to hear a former student talk on the Naneum Forest up the road from us.\u00a0 It was a well done talk.\u00a0 John had his KVTR meeting tonight, but I stayed home.\u00a0 I intended to make headway on organizing and filing tax receipts, but I never got there.\u00a0 I played with kitty and kept him awake so that we might have a good night\u2019s sleep without interruptions from him.\u00a0 One of the dogs will probably get us up in the middle of the night, regardless.<\/p>\n
Friday was a less involved day, with just the exercise class to attend.\u00a0 I went, and John ran errands while I was in class.\u00a0 On the way to town we saw beautiful cloud formations with rainbow colors. There were streamers and streaks and gossamer fabric-like patterns; either of fine droplets or ice crystals.\u00a0 We were heading south and the sky had fluffy clouds and the colored patterns seemed interwoven with the Sun to the upper right.\u00a0 We called some friends as, unfortunately, we did not have our camera.\u00a0 Those with a camera took some photos but we all agreed they did not shine the way the sky had \u2013 and it changed rapidly. We were the ones with the longest view time but all agreed it was fantastic.<\/p>\n
Saturday, it was all day.\u00a0 We had a nice long phone call from John\u2019s brother in California.\u00a0 The rest of the day was spent on chores around the house and yard, although rain started in time to wet John and the dogs when they were outside for the \u00a0horse feeding. The mountains to the west are taking most of the water out of this system with only the highest peaks getting snow.\u00a0 If it stays warm our snow will melt and we will have an early \u201cmud\u201d season.\u00a0 The full snow cover reflects most of the Sun\u2019s energy but the warm ocean-source air flowing our way is still slowly melting the 18 inches of snow we had on the ground.\u00a0 We won\u2019t have to worry about flooding on this (the east) side of the Cascades as the melting is very slow currently.\u00a0 Folks west of the crest are not going to be so lucky.\u00a0 Problems are already being reported.\u00a0 The Puget Sound area is covered with loose glacial deposited material \u2013 designed for flooding, landslides, and trees tipping over in saturated soil.\u00a0 The sky there right now \u2013 not so nice.<\/p>\n
It is time to send this to John.<\/p>\n
Best wishes for a good week, this coming one.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nancy and John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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