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http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting this week\u2019s blog on Mother\u2019s Day, Sunday.\u00a0 Went to our neighbors for lunch, picking up another neighbor on the way.\u00a0 We had parts of 5 families there, and lots of food.\u00a0 Too much cake (two chocolate with white frosting); pork roast, potato salad, fruit salad, creamed peas, & rolls.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t need any dinner, but I went to play music at Taize\u2019 and had another meal: chicken veggie casserole, salad, and more dessert (chocolate and lemon rolls).\u00a0 No wonder I am gaining weight.\u00a0 While eating I turned my head and thought I was seeing the outside of my intraocular lens replacement but that wasn\u2019t it.\u00a0 I came home and went to bed, hoping to awake in the morning with it gone, but it was still there.<\/p>\n

Monday:\u00a0 Ended up going in this morning to the eye doctor because of the little funny things showing in the corner of my right eye (cobweb floaters).\u00a0 John was really worried about me so I made an appointment with my eye doctor.\u00a0 Turns out it is Posterior Vitreous Detachment (PVD).<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Posterior_vitreous_detachment<\/a><\/p>\n

My pressure was fine in both eyes, and\u00a0 I passed all the severe problems tests on my right eye with the \u201cfloaters,\u201d but I have to keep my head above my heart, not ride horses or do jolting activities, and wait for it to normally heal on its own.\u00a0 I decided against going to my exercise class this afternoon.\u00a0This PVD apparently happens to 75% of people over 65, and for the most part is not very serious and will not be treated, once diagnosed.\u00a0 It has to heal naturally.\u00a0 Still this was a little disturbing.<\/p>\n

It won’t hurt my going to Atlanta, (leaving May 18 till May 25 for my 50th<\/sup> high school reunion), as it’s okay to fly on airplanes.\u00a0 Hopefully, there will be no turbulence to give me a jolt.\u00a0 Once I was on\u00a0a flight from Glasgow to London, and we did have a rapid descent from a downdraft (I guess), and once flying into Lewiston, ID a similar thing happened on landing with winds from the Snake River Canyon.\u00a0 That was like (I imagine) a bucking bronco horseback ride.\u00a0 Had to hold onto the seat in front to stay steady.\u00a0 Seat belts kept us from hitting our heads on the ceiling of the plane. \u263a\u00a0 Good thing in Atlanta, there are no bungee jumps planned.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to put anything in the blog before now, because I wanted to be sure I would be able to make the trip and also, I was afraid I might leave someone out who was reading the blog.\u00a0 I cannot visit everyone I would like to, while down there, so I will have to plan another trip in the future, now that I have my health back.<\/p>\n

Tuesday.\u00a0 Slow day.\u00a0 To town for my feet.\u00a0 Bought some new (expensive) Brooks Addiction walking shoes.\u00a0 They are my only shoe of choice for over a decade.\u00a0 The price has gone up over the years, now to $110, but it\u2019s worth it to me to have comfortable support.<\/p>\n

Wednesday.\u00a0 Well, it threatened all day, but finally the bottom dropped out and it has been raining and blowing.\u00a0 We carried John’s computer in today, because it was very noisy and we thought perhaps the power supply needed replaced.\u00a0 It was very dirty inside (as normal with our house from all the dirt and dust coming in on the dogs\u2019 feet), and so they cleaned it and then took out the one fan that was dying.\u00a0 They turned another fan around that was blowing into the tower, so it would blow out instead.\u00a0 The one that was dying no longer is manufactured, so they couldn’t replace it.\u00a0 They fixed it up and it is quiet and clean now.\u00a0 Cost us $78.\u00a0 John was pleased because he expected a charge over $100.\u00a0 The place is Complete Computer Services and the place that did the set-up for John when he wanted to start this blog back in December of 2009.\u00a0 John was expecting to pay for a new fan or even a new power supply and, as no new parts were needed that kept the fee just to a basic service call.\u00a0 These are a nice bunch of guys but they always make fun of John\u2019s mammoth computer, cobbled together from parts from several on-line retailers.<\/p>\n

Then we picked up our geography department secretary Marilyn and took her to lunch at Pizza Hut with our free pizza.\u00a0 We got 1\/2 half with tomatoes, pepperoni and mushrooms, and the other half with Italian sausage, green pepper and olive.\u00a0 John and Marilyn had the latter and also shared some of “my” half.\u00a0 I had two large pieces and a third of another.\u00a0 We were stuffed.\u00a0 We had stuffed crust (with cheese).\u00a0\u00a0 It would have cost $14.00 but we got it free with my coupon.\u00a0 Cool.<\/p>\n

We then returned Marilyn to school for a 2:00 p.m. meeting \u2013 the purpose of which we knew but she did not.\u00a0 It was a surprise award ceremony for her.\u00a0 She got the Employee of the Month award and will be in the running for the Employee of the Year.\u00a0 She got a check for $125 (before taxes), and a plaque.\u00a0 It was awarded by the President of the University.\u00a0 I had given the department head a picture of her and a lady from town designed it into the frosting of a cake, with edible inks. Okay, that doesn\u2019t sound too appetizing. We do better later.<\/p>\n

Thursday.. normal \/ plus music day.\u00a0 Played at the Rehab center (where I spent so much time last year) and then we went to a music group potluck.\u00a0 Lots of people, musicians and good food there.\u00a0 John and I took lasagna (prepared by a well known company) but we added cut and pre-fried circles of Bratwursts on top and covered with two types of cheese.\u00a0 Yummy.\u00a0 I stayed to play in the jam session afterward.\u00a0 A brother of our guitarists\u2019 wife is visiting from Germany.\u00a0 He and his wife will be in the USA for 3 weeks. John had to eat and leave to get to his Kittitas Valley Trail Riders meeting.\u00a0 I made it home after 9:30.<\/p>\n

Friday… what a crazy day.\u00a0 Started with a trip to town to get a shoulder massage at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 Followed by a short trip a few blocks, maybe a mile, to play music and eat lunch at the Food Bank Soup Kitchen.\u00a0 Boy was it good today:\u00a0 ham-cheese-onion quiche, cut apples, a bran-type cake bread with butter, and some sort of blueberry \/ something mixed fruit drink.\u00a0 Then back to a rummage sale at the Catholic Church where I have gotten nice stuff in the past, but nothing today.\u00a0 On to my SAIL exercise class, but we didn\u2019t have a teacher show and there were 10 of us.\u00a0 At a few classmates\u2019 urging, I led the class in our various exercises.\u00a0 They seemed to like what I did, and thought it was good because of my humor and making it fun.\u00a0 Then off to pick up my meds, and to go to the bank for some cash.\u00a0\u00a0 On the way home, I passed but did not pass-by a couple of yard sales.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t find too much, and still need to try on a new-condition pair of jeans I got for $1.\u00a0 Also got a wooden salad bowl as from the 70s (although I guess you could put fruit in it as well).\u00a0 After a 20 minute search of the internet, John gave up trying to find a similar bowl.\u00a0 These bowls are made of wood chips and something (resin) pressed into various shapes.\u00a0 Too cheap and too many apparently \u2013 no one seems to care.\u00a0 I also found a nice square frying pan (Teflon coating), in excellent condition.\u00a0 The last two items were 50 cents each.\u00a0 Came home and worked on the computer and then walked out to survey John\u2019s work for the day.\u00a0 He built a \u201cguarded water walkway\u201d with two 27 ft. telephone poles, along the sides of our irrigation ditch. The water passage allows the horses to move from one pasture with little grass to another with more grass and, in the process learn to cross water obstacles in a calm manner.\u00a0 The three older horses will do this from training a few years ago.\u00a0 The water channel between the poles is about 3 feet wide, 4 inches deep and 27 feet long.\u00a0 The original set up was with fence panels and only 10 feet long.<\/p>\n

Saturday.\u00a0 Wow, last night we were awakened by flashes of lightning, clashes of thunder and finally rain.\u00a0 We don\u2019t often get thunderstorms here, so it was interesting.\u00a0 This morning we had nearly twenty tons of hay delivered (340 bales; 39,940 pounds)) and put into our hay shed, without John having to do anything except make the place ready, open the gates, write a check, and then put up barricades so the horses cannot get to it. I left for a play date at Briarwood this afternoon where they feed us.\u00a0 On my way I stopped at two yard sales.\u00a0 At one I got two Mannheim Steamroller CDs (both Christmas music) for a dime each.\u00a0 This is one fantastic group, and my friends from West Yakima brought me one of their Christmas CDs while I was in the ICU in 2009.\u00a0 Their energy was to flow into me and bring me back to life.\u00a0 So I grabbed these today and then played one around town and all the way home.\u00a0 One more stop at a retirement home was another great choice of the day.\u00a0 They were having an in-house yard sale at Dry Creek, just up the road from where I was going to perform and eat.\u00a0 A lady had clothes (mostly blouses) hanging on plastic hangers.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking for something that is 100% cotton, so I don\u2019t die in polyester while in Hotlanta.\u00a0 She was charging a whole quarter for each item.\u00a0 They are my size and so I grabbed 6 things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited.\u00a0 At least two\/maybe 3 will work for my trip.\u00a0 Made it to the music venue in plenty of time, and there were 7 of us there.\u00a0 We played and sung our hearts out and the audience loved us and participated.\u00a0 They are the ones who always feed us.\u00a0 The food will take care of my dinner tonight.\u00a0 We had two casseroles, (one, chicken with noodles, sauce, peas and corn), the other had rice, tomatoes, cheese, bacon, sausage, and was rather Mexican tasting), rolls w\/ butter, several desserts, and a huge salad of different types of lettuce, tomatoes, and onions.\u00a0 Oh, and there were two different kinds of chips and salsa and 3 other dips.\u00a0 I don’t need to eat till tomorrow noon.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we are going to our neighbors again to celebrate another birthday.\u00a0 It\u2019s nice for them to include us in the family gatherings.<\/p>\n

John just returned from checking on the horses.\u00a0 Just as he got out there another storm started with wind tearing leaves from trees, then rain and thunder.\u00a0 He sent the three horses down through the waterway to the larger pasture and let the newer horses out via a gate.\u00a0 With the storm and darkness the horses don\u2019t need additional stress.<\/p>\n

Next weekend with Nancy in Atlanta we are unsure of access to a computer for her and so what we will do for a blog posting is unknown.<\/p>\n

All our best,<\/p>\n

Nancy and John on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n

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