I am not sure why people don\u2019t follow my mom\u2019s suggestion of never calling someone before 9:00 a.m. or after 9:00 p.m. We were rudely called at 7:28 a.m. It always scares me receiving a call so early from someone I know well, but upsets me, especially when it is not necessary at all and later this evening <\/strong> would have been okay. On that upset note, I\u2019m up for the day. <\/p>\n We need to sort apples to take to town today for the upcoming Veterans\u2019 Day celebration at the Senior Center (AAC). While sorting, we boxed two small boxes of apples for another friend in town, and John packed a small box of English walnuts for another friend, which we delivered along with some other items for her daughter and friends with young children. When John and I delivered the apples to the AAC, we stayed for my SAIL exercise class.<\/p>\n I called for either of the triage<\/em> nurses, Cody or Lacey, at my PCP\u2019s office, about having my chest x-rays from Feb 2018 available for review regarding a Pneumonia diagnosis, but a PA\u2019s noting I had a hiatal hernia (HH). He pegged the Pneumonia, but I\u2019m concerned about the HH seen (that I couldn\u2019t see), and happy I\u2019m not having any symptoms; yet, I am requesting a re-evaluation of the X-rays by my regular physician at our upcoming annual physical wellness tests (Nov 20 & 27). Lacey returned my call and assured me she would approach it with my MD and get back to me with the verdict. She did a couple days later. It will be possible. I\u2019m grateful for her help outside of her normal calls to me to report my INR results, from monthly blood draws checking my Coumadin dosage. Finished assembling all my meds for the week. <\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct 30 <\/strong> <\/p>\n Staying home today to tend to details for this week, the past, future. Nancy, again: Wonderful brunch John made with an omelet creation loaded with protein and veggies. Here is a shot of the pan minus today\u2019s portions. With my smaller piece, I had toast with Apricot jam. John and Annie left for yard and barn and fence work, and I stayed behind to sort the plates, cups, and other things left over from Friday\u2019s luncheon, and to wash another load of dishes. I\u2019m working on various other chores. I need to combine some photos to send to Audubon folks, and create a Google Photos link to send, from last meeting Oct 18, with the video you have already seen in blog, with another short clip of the speaker\u2019s humor.<\/p>\n Here are the \u201cset-up\u201d photos of the Kittitas Audubon talk of Ken Bevis, Oct 18, which was in last week\u2019s blog (see there for the video of his presentation); meanwhile, check the link below.<\/p>\n Photos during setup, talk by Ken Bevis, Kittitas Audubon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I needed to cut John\u2019s hair, eat dinner, and finish the link sending to the Ice Age Floods (IAF) group. John came in at dark and took a nap. We ate a late dinner, and put off his haircut until later. We had chicken, cauliflower, seasoned fries, and shared a baked Honeycrisp apple. Halloween Card from the Naneum Fan (non-animated) I fixed my lunch salad and sent off the note of planning for tomorrow\u2019s retirement\/rehab music. Afterwards, I went to the Activity Center (Senior Center) for our SAIL exercise class. I came home to cut John\u2019s hair. It didn\u2019t take me as long this time because we didn\u2019t wait as long between haircuts; I think I did it in 24 minutes, and without leaving cowlicks. <\/p>\n I\u2019ll end the day with my friend\u2019s Halloween costumes, which truly supersede mine. Following are two other friends \u2013 Sonja Willitts (known since 1977 in Idaho) now in S. Lake Tahoe, CA and the Ghoulish hand art on Amy Davison\u2019s face (the mom of our friendly ghost, Haley). Amy is our band\u2019s flute player, fiddler, penny whistle, and miniature washboard contributor. Quite the talented gal and also an artist, & baker, who does weddings, parties, and other special events. Thursday, Nov 1<\/strong> <\/p>\n John was up early in the rain to feed the animals, open the gate, and drive to White Heron for bottling (Red Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon & Merlot). He carried along some Jarlsberg cheese to share with at the tasting after the bottling crew finished their work for the morning. Others brought apple-chunk infused sausage for the grill, salad, soft cheese, and crackers. They drink a bit of the wine they worked with, and John brought 3 bottles home. He and I got home about the same time ~ 4:00 p.m. <\/p>\n I worked on cleaning dishes we keep dirtying, and shooing away the Collared Doves and Magpies. Once in the kitchen I slammed the window (I often do) to scare them, and ended up starting John\u2019s “sleeping” computer. On my way to the front door to slam it to get rid of them, I \u201cslept\u201d his computer again.<\/p>\n I\u2019m getting ready to leave in an hour to go in to the Rehab to play music with 9 others. Ended up being only 8, because one had a migraine and didn\u2019t make it. My early morning call-in for the chair count was met with a strange response. I finally called again after leaving a message on voicemail for the Activity Director, to ask for the Assistant Activity Director I have known since I was a patient there. She told me the Activity Director was not there today; why the original operator put me through to voice mail is unknown. Carol took care of setting us up and having the dining tables removed and enough chairs available. I arrived early to help. <\/p>\n I rushed home to turn around and go back to town with John for a 6:00 p.m. meeting at the Kittitas County Historical Museum, and a presentation from our neighbor, Allen Aronica, about his Native American family background in our valley. Here is the flyer for tonight. Allen Aronica, November 1, 2018 The Kittitas People (main talk)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Allen Aronica, when battery was dying, just 2 mins<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Allen Aronica, Comments and Questions after his Presentation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Here is a link to the Schedule and home page of the Kittitas County Historical Museum, so you can check for next year\u2019s 10 planned lectures.<\/p>\n Kittitas County Historical Museum Description<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n I am currently working on an email list to send to Kittitas County Historical Museum folks that I know were there that night, or might be interested in seeing Allen\u2019s presentation. I have not yet sent anything. <\/p>\n After his talk, we picked up two crispy chicken sandwiches at Burger King, not getting home to eat until after 8:00. Actually, I didn\u2019t look at the time. Friday, Nov 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n We plan to sort apples in the morning to take to the Kittitas Neighborhood Pantry at by 1:00 p.m. We did and went. We did not weigh them in, but we figured it was > 50 pounds. Saturday, Nov 3 <\/strong> <\/p>\n We need to make an early trip to town to Super 1 for a special sale {8 am to 8 pm} of baking items. Because of limits, we\u2019ll take two carts. We made quite a haul. Four dozen eggs at 88\u20b5\/carton; 4 cake mixes and 4 Fudge brownie mixes at 68\u20b5 each, 4 brown sugar (light & dark) packages at 88\u20b5 each, 3 White Bleached Floor at $2.38 each, 4 Butter package @ $2.48 each, and 3 Boneless Bottom Round Roasts for $2.98\/lb. <\/p>\n Early afternoon we will take off for the annual WA Trails Assoc. (WTA) Volunteer appreciation event & awards for various trail maintenance workers. It is being held in a different location, north of the city, at the Mountaineers Program Center. We still had to deal with Seattle traffic, a bit more than most Saturday afternoons because of a university football game. <\/p>\n We had an unpleasant rainy trip over the pass (better than snow, however, which would have kept us home). We left just before 3:00 p.m. and arrived about 5:30 p.m. John drove my Subaru to North Bend, WA, where we paused and changed drivers. I drove the rest of the way with John as my navigator co-pilot. We make a good driving team, from 53 years together, beginning with driving my \u201935 Ford that I drove to Cincinnati, OH, where we met in graduate school. <\/p>\n On the trip home, I drove the entire way, in about 2 hours, 10 minutes. It was tough driving and wore my arms out holding the steering wheel tightly because of standing water on I-90. I was very tired and sore before getting home, but we made it safely about 10:30 p.m. We were able to enjoy some butter pecan ice cream on a cream cheese frosted brownie. We did not stay for a piece of cake at the WTA dinner. <\/p>\n I spent a lot of time backing up on an external disk drive all the movies I have taken over the last year on my little Exilim camera, and charged both batteries, so John can put it on his belt to hike on the field trip tomorrow. <\/p>\n At the WTA party, I had my Nikon camera along and videotaped many of the award presentations and a few other tidbits. The disadvantage to using it, is the bandwidth increases dramatically to upload the video to YouTube. So, 4 minutes of movie costs 2.5 hours of upload time. Such is life. <\/p>\n Even though I was very tired, I still stayed up until after 1:00 a.m. (non-daylight saving time). <\/p>\n Sunday, I will work on uploading the videos, but will cover some of them here, because they occurred tonight. I still haven\u2019t downloaded all I took from my camera because I need to free up some space on my computer. It\u2019s reaching its capacity. <\/p>\n WTA Preliminary Statistics for 2018 Trail Volunteer work, presented by Jen Gradisher. <\/p>\n Title slide (only estimates through October, more figures arriving) showed ~150,000 volunteer hours of work on 254 trails, by ~4,500 Volunteers. <\/p>\n WTA Trail Volunteer Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a> Hats off to ACLs 2018<\/strong><\/a> Crosscut Saw Award<\/strong>, presented by Tim Van Beek, Volunteer Vacation manager (‘week longs’) to the only one present tonight, Jim Langdon. This is WTA\u2019s best award [a 2″ slab of Ponderosa Pine with an engraved segment of a crosscut saw], for reaching >500 days working with WTA trail crews. John will likely never reach that, but he did make it to >300 this year and will get a label to put on his orange hard hat. He has completed all the previous milestones receiving nice award gifts, in addition to making good friends along the way.<\/p>\n Top WTA Volunteer Award \u2013 Crosscut Saw Award<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sunday, Nov 4 <\/strong> <\/p>\n John left for Nick Zentner\u2019s Field Trip to the Mattawa Ash Fall Tuff, to be there soon after 10:00 a.m. to get a seat in the lead CWU Van with Nick and Karl. He succeeded. The trip visited 3 sites where volcanic ash fell about 11.8 Million years ago. The source was southwestern now-Idaho, where the Yellowstone hot spot was then located. I stayed home because of the 30-minute plus uphill hike I am not able to do. We both realize that. I cleaned off my camera memory for John to make videos of Nick\u2019s talks, and he took his own camera for still photos along the trip. <\/p>\n It\u2019s getting dark at 4:33 p.m. John had called from Mattawa, at 4:14 that they\u2019re on their way home. I imagine it will be very dark before he arrives. He was standing in an orchard waiting for the leaders to return to the van. He got home about 5:30 p.m. <\/p>\n I don\u2019t have enough space left on my C drive to transcribe the videos I took last night, let alone what John took today, so all those will have to wait.<\/p>\n We first have to leave in the morning for me to get an Echocardiogram. And, John will go to Costco, fill my car with gasoline, and buy a few groceries and anything else that looks interesting.<\/p>\n This won\u2019t be published until late on Monday. I\u2019ll save Monday to start week 2 with for November.<\/p>\n Hope your week was fine.<\/p>\n Nancy and John Nancy’s title was: “Never a dull moment in our lives”, but that doesn’t fit on the WordPress title line \u2013 so I shortened it. 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\nI have my lab records in order to request a follow-up on my Thyroid annual blood test as requested by Dr. Lisa Stone, the Endocrinologist in Wenatchee whom I saw originally the end of 2017. In April this year, I had a follow-up set of blood tests, which she reviewed, and suggested having another done the end of this year. I also have to set up my annual PFT (Pulmonary Function Test) to check my lungs to be sure they are not being scarred by the Amiodarone medication (taken successfully, for atrial fibrillation, since 2010.).<\/p>\n
\nIt is cool, with sunshine and a slight wind that calmed down as the day proceeded.
\nI did take some photos of the fall colors of our Mountain Ash tree out front, with many of the yellow leaves having been blown away.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-CollageTop10-30vsBottom10-24-18MtAsh.jpg\")
Top photos were taken today, Oct 30, but the bottom photo was on 10-24-18 without blue skies.
\n\u2192 [John says: If I cut the berry bunches off and throw them over the fence, the deer will eat them. At this time of year birds ignore them. They know (How?) the pretty fruit is sour (has an acid, Sorbic, I think). The fruit will hang on the tree during the winter and becomes more to their liking. I am trying to find out what happens. During spring, birds will find the fruit and over about 4 days, it will all be eaten.] <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2-Snip-of-Royal-Omelet-10-30-18-300x208.jpg\")
Day-before-Halloween omelet: chocked full with cubed smoked turkey, colorful peppers, tomatoes, purple onion, cheese, 6 eggs.<\/p>\n
\nUsed some of our new honey from Kauai, HI that was brought back by a friend.
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3-Pumpkin-Plate-150x150.jpg\")
\n Wednesday, Oct 31
\nHAPPY HALLOWEEN !<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n(See link below to the Jacquie Lawson real thing (with animation) I sent to a few people and then captured the one I sent to John, but I wanted to share the link to a neat card and story from Jacquie Lawson, to our blog readers who might not have been on the original list delivered Oct 30th.
\nThe link is below, please follow: but, PLEASE BE SURE to IDENTIFY yourself on the reply<\/span>, because it will only come as if from us to us at our joint account, where we are notified a person saw it and replied. Thanks! It is culturally and artistically very interesting. Yes, I realize this is now LATE in coming.
\nSpooky Halloween Card \u2013 2018<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Food Bank was special today on Halloween when many dressed up in \u201ccostumes\u201d. We had pumpkins (me, sorta), a witch, a cute little hat (Evelyn) the banjo player, and other things on different people serving the Senior Nutrition program folks.
\nThe tables and centerpieces were decorated, and one can be seen below in the second set of photos.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/4-Collage-Nancy-Evelyn-my-shirt-Pumpkins-Food-Bank.jpg\")
Here I am in my Pumpkins in Love<\/em> sweatshirt. Note my hat (actually John\u2019s rain hat I gave him), and Evelyn\u2019s cute little hat atop her head. My necklace has a few lights that turn on. I removed the blinking option (gotten on the first 2 switch clicks).
\nWe had a special request from the Senior Nutrition Lunch table for I\u2019ll Fly Away<\/em>, and then at the end for Amazing Grace<\/em>. In between we did all sorts of different songs in our normal weekly folder.
\nI took my salad and added to it a cup of fruit cocktail mixed with yogurt, given to the Sr. Nutrition table. I also brought home a big pumpkin cookie to share with John for our dessert tonight. They had tables all decorated and we had great fun with the folks there. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5-collageFBAAC-Halloween2018.jpg\")
These were on my camera, the others above were taken on a \u201cclient\u2019s\u201d Smartphone and emailed to me. Left is at Food Bank, taken with a flash (behind the table centerpiece), and right is at the AAC (Sr. Center) after my SAIL exercise class. The pumpkin weighed 127#. Members could guess the weight to win it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/6-Collage_CarlyHaley.jpg\")
First, the 5-yr olds, Ladybug Haley with her butterfly friend, Carly, and then a night costume for downtown, Ghost Haley. Their kindergarten allowed no masks, (hence the left photo costumes).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/7-CollageSonjaWillittsAmyDavison.jpg\")
Sonja Willitts and Amy Davison in Halloween dress.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8-Allen-Aronicas-Talk-Nov-1-KC-Historical-Museum.jpg\")
I videotaped his presentation. I videoed it but my first battery ran out of power at the end of a little over an hour. I replaced it and lost a couple minutes of interesting follow-up on one of the family cemetery stories. <\/p>\n
\nJohn went to bed at 10:35 and I\u2019m not far behind. <\/p>\n
\nThey had us go through for a few things \u2013 some mushrooms, a yellow pepper, a couple of pears, two desserts (brownies frosted with cream cheese frosting & 4 eclairs), two little packages of cat treats, and two cans of peaches. From there we went around to the clothing bank to deliver some Honeycrisp apples to the volunteer workers. While there, I picked out a pair of white corduroy slacks for me I\u2019m wearing tomorrow night with my black WTA emblem shirt, and a pair of brown corduroy slacks size 8 for my banjo playing friend (see her photo above on Wednesday).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/9-Collage_JenGradisher-300x143.jpg\")
Trail Programs Director, Jen Gradisher <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/10-Collage-ACL-John-Hultquist-300x115.jpg\")
I\u2019m using John as my model for when all of the ACLs were asked to stand. We were on the front row, so John is turning to face his many “Orange Hat” colleagues.<\/p>\n
\npresented by Zach McBride, Puget Sound Field Manager<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/11-CollageNov4FTPlanningTrip.jpg\")
Left was taken on the field trip; John in brown jacket walking up the one mile trek with others; Right was taken on Nick\u2019s spring reconnaissance trip, better than with the blowing dust of Sunday. <\/p>\n
\nStill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"