Sunday has started out a nice day.\u00a0 I am resting after cutting John\u2019s hair (much needed). \u00a0He\u2019s out in the yard working.\u00a0 Today I go in to hear a family group play and sing blue grass and Celtic-inspired songs.\u00a0 All eight children play musical stringed instruments and the mom too.\u00a0 Should be nice.\u00a0 It will be a good break from being a performer to just sit and listen and enjoy.\u00a0 I did manage to load the dishwasher, but that\u2019s the extent of my housework thus far.\u00a0 Need to wash clothes and to clean up stacks of papers.\u00a0 Maybe later. after the concert.\u00a0 Nope, I\u2019m back and have just been sitting and resting since.\u00a0 The concert was fantastic.\u00a0\u00a0 Eight kids (oldest 22, youngest 10) played and sang.\u00a0 It was really a fine concert and went on for 1.5 hours.\u00a0 Many of the family members play more than one instrument.\u00a0 One fellow played a guitar, mandolin and violin; another played the drums and a violin; another played the Bass Fiddle and a Bass guitar; many of them sing as well.\u00a0 One gal played a cello and a violin.\u00a0 Their mom joined them to sing two songs.\u00a0 What a talented family.\u00a0 If they are in the vicinity again, I will return.<\/p>\n
Sunday night I was editing a friend\u2019s book and my computer was invaded by a nasty virus that tried to take over my system and lure me into buying some software (a SCAM).\u00a0 I knew enough not to buy it, but I didn\u2019t know how to rid my computer of the virus.\u00a0 It had been missed on my Antivirus program.\u00a0 I thought maybe when I rebooted the next morning all would be well, but it wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 So, after a frustrating hour with my laptop, I called and took it to the computer gurus in town to doctor my system.\u00a0 It took them all day and till noon Tuesday to rid it and install two more malware programs to keep an eye out for these horrid things.\u00a0 They only charged me for an hour of their time, so that was very nice.<\/p>\n
Monday had three trips to town.\u00a0 First to deliver the computer, with a short stop to see my friend in the nursing home.\u00a0 Back in the early afternoon to exercise class, and to the store for supplies and my meds.\u00a0 John took the car in at 4:00 to go to the dentist and grocery store.<\/p>\n
Tuesday began with a call from the dentist to see how John was doing and a request for me to fill a slot that freed up at 10:30 am for a teeth cleaning I very much needed.\u00a0 I went in and John went along with me to confirm that the location of the local radio station had not changed during or since weather data were collected there during the period 1954 to 1974.\u00a0 He learned that the location is the same but the current crew is too new to remember that activity.\u00a0 With those chores done we went to the grocery store for needed things and then by to pick up my virus-free computer.\u00a0 Wow… it\u2019s nice to have it back.<\/p>\n
Then later in the afternoon I went back again to town, this time for a \u201ctea party\u201d — not that Tea Party! \u00a0 It was given by a friend (in music in the valley) for her visiting sister from New York City.\u00a0 The sister has taught at Juilliard Music School for 40 years.\u00a0 My friend wanted to introduce her to women in music in Ellensburg.\u00a0 There were many of us there, some from the choral groups in town, several from bands and orchestras, and a few friends who supported the \u201ctea\u201d by making sandwiches and cookies and serving tea.\u00a0 We had Scones, nuts, little \u201ccocktail\u201d sandwiches, sugar mints, and two types of tea (Earl Grey and a special \u201corganic\u201d market spice tea).\u00a0 I had the latter and enjoyed it a lot, especially the taste of orange.\u00a0 I spent much time on the backyard patio in the lee of the house, with a view of the Columbines and large red Poppys in the garden.<\/p>\n
Wednesday started with a bunch of chores, and this afternoon I will join my SAIL exercise class.\u00a0 I hope I don\u2019t have to lead it today.\u00a0 That\u2019s much harder work.\u00a0 Now, later, I can say I didn\u2019t have to lead the exercises but I\u2019m still worn out.\u00a0 The wind was really blowing again today, with high gusts of 45 mph, and several over 40, with sustained winds on average for several hours of 32 mph.<\/p>\n
Tonight John made some awesome chicken soup for dinner.\u00a0 We found out our trip planned for Friday to Leavenworth needs to be Thursday instead.\u00a0 Good thing our cat and dogs are using the doggie door John set up yesterday.<\/p>\n
Thursday will be music at Dry Creek, and I will run home to get John and hit the road for Leavenworth.\u00a0 We pick them up at their motel at 6:00 p.m.\u00a0 Our friends are on a cross-country Tandem bicycle trip.\u00a0 We left at 4:20 and drove through awful traffic and insane idiot drivers on a mostly 2-lane mountain road, but reached Leavenworth<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.leavenworth.org\/modules\/pages\/index.php?pageid=1<\/a><\/p>\n in front of their motel at 5:40.\u00a0 We had planned to meet them at 6:00.\u00a0 We visited, saw their tandem bike (named Alto), and then walked downtown for dinner.\u00a0 It was a nice German restaurant and we enjoyed, rouladen, \u00a0Schnitzels and cabbage rolls.<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rouladen<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schnitzel<\/a><\/p>\n Had a nice visit too, and John and I pulled out of Leavenworth about 7:40.\u00a0 We had a slower trip back home, but almost no traffic and no deer seen on the road or side of road.\u00a0 We had seen one small in-velvet buck going up.\u00a0 We got home just before 9:00 p.m. and the dogs and cat were fine.\u00a0 They had access to the house and the backyard through the previously mentioned doggie\/kitty door.\u00a0 Turns out the German food did not agree with me.\u00a0 Either a spice or the red cabbage and sauerkraut (?).\u00a0 But I was miserable the rest of the night burping and awoke in the middle of the night, itching all over.<\/p>\n Friday mid-morning, I am better but the lack of sleep is not good.\u00a0 Anyway, I went to the food bank and played music.\u00a0 There were just two of us.\u00a0 We had a nice spaghetti dinner and salad and a cinnamon roll type cake with white frosting.\u00a0 Then I went to exercise class, but I was tired.\u00a0 Checked out a couple of garage sales, but they were expensive and junk (or both).\u00a0 Went back for Bingo but only had 3 people show, and we needed at least 6.\u00a0 However, the 3 of us there were fed pie and ice cream before leaving.\u00a0 I had a small piece of Cherry and also Apple, with chocolate ice cream with choc chips.\u00a0 It was quite good, and they even gave me two pieces of the Cherry Pie to bring home to John.\u00a0 Then on home I came.\u00a0 I’m sitting in my recliner checking email and thinking about the leftovers from Leavenworth. I had some of the Wiener\u00a0 Schnitzel<\/em> (Viennese Schnitzel), with toast, but not any cabbage.<\/p>\n Now it\u2019s Saturday and a quiet day, except for the wind blowing hard again.\u00a0 John\u2019s out preparing his fence around the garden for solid panels on the bottom on the west (prevailing winds) side.\u00a0 Last year, we took metal off the roof of the small barn and replaced it with asphalt shingles and \u201ctorch down\u201d on the \u201cwing\u201d or less steep part.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lep0_624CwM<\/a><\/p>\n The plan is to have the solid barrier reduce the damage to plants from the wind.\u00a0 Yesterday, John brought in a 36\u201d blackberry cane (one of his thorn-less ones) broken off from the wind.\u00a0 He came in just now to say the center shoot (leader) of a Ponderosa Pine has been snapped off on a young (but too high to fix) tree beside the driveway.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting ready to do inside chores.\u00a0 I have been putting them off all week, so I must show John that I really can do them.\u00a0 He told me this morning that I kept saying it but never did.\u00a0 Well, this weekend we have NO events to attend, so that will give me more time . . . (sound of phone ringing<\/em>) . . . Uff da !<\/em> We\u2019ve just been invited to Father\u2019s Day lunch tomorrow.\u00a0 I\u2019ll get to those chores another time.\u00a0 (Actually, John wrote the last couple of sentences, because he answered the phone.\u00a0 I have done a few chores since, but stopped to come back and \u201cproof\u201d this blog.)\u00a0 Now I will go back to the den and report next week on progress there.\u00a0 Hope you all have a nice week.<\/p>\n All our best regards<\/p>\n Nancy and John<\/p>\n in the Valley of the West Wind<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday has started out a nice day.\u00a0 I am resting after cutting John\u2019s hair (much needed). \u00a0He\u2019s out in the yard working.\u00a0 Today I go in to hear a family group play and sing blue grass and Celtic-inspired songs.\u00a0 All eight children play musical stringed instruments and the mom too.\u00a0 Should be nice.\u00a0 It will … Continue reading “SATURDAY — Friends, food, wind . . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-cR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}