Sunday.\u00a0 Long hard day with trip home from Portland.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I had left the motel right before 8:00 a.m. and found a free parking space just next to the Marriott’s east entrance.\u00a0 Our presentation went well, and I got out of Portland at 10:22 a.m., got right on I-5, and up and over to I-84.\u00a0 The next bunch of miles was miserable with incredible traffic. I finally stopped for a short relaxation at a rest stop near Rowena and about 10 miles from The Dalles. \u00a0I called John from there to complain.\u00a0 He suggested I cross the Columbia River at The Dalles (right below the dam outflow) on 197 and go north to Hwy 14 and on back through Goldendale, WA.\u00a0 It was a great relief as the only traffic was an occasional car coming out from a winery. \u00a0I took one photo for a geographer friend of the basalt and a picture of Mt. Hood, but I missed some awesome shots from up on the hill above the Columbia River with Mt. Hood in the background.\u00a0 All I was concentrating on was getting home.<\/p>\n
Didn’t make it home until after 3:00 p.m. and I was totally exhausted.\u00a0 So I took 2 acetaminophen and got into my recliner.\u00a0 I went to sleep and slept hard for four hours.<\/p>\n
Last night and the night’s before were not conducive to sleeping, and my sleep was disrupted almost every hour last night.\u00a0 To get up at 6:30 a.m. on little sleep was tough.<\/p>\n
Kitty was in rare form tonight.\u00a0 He (we now know his gender after taking him to the vet for shots & worming) explored all around the den, and up into my recliner to say hello, purr, and knead his feet. (We have not named him yet, because we will let the name evolve to fit his\/her personality).\u00a0 The M on his forehead causes the term, Mackerel tabby, but he also has a bull’s eye on his side and other uniform tabby markings.\u00a0 He is symmetrical and one of the prettiest grey tabbys with white, pale orange, and black. \u00a0He is now able to walk around the dogs as they rest on the floor. That’s great!\u00a0 Or have them run by him without alarm on his part.<\/p>\n
Oh, on the weather.\u00a0 When I left Portland this morning it was a pleasant cloudy 66 degrees.\u00a0 Got warmer into the 80s in the Columbia Gorge.\u00a0 Thankfully I had a\/c in the car and traveled quite comfortably.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_River_Gorge<\/a><\/p>\n The last photo on the Geology description has a slider \u2013 East is to the left.\u00a0 Note all the trees.\u00a0 This is the wet side. The cool\/wet Pacific Ocean influence fades away along the stretch of the Gorge in which I traveled.<\/p>\n Now look here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/biggles1\/2869934012\/<\/a><\/p>\n This is the dry side \u2013 just south of Goldendale, WA.\u00a0 Now those hills are covered with wind towers.<\/p>\n Kitty has\u00a0become\u00a0part of the household and is wandering around the den, up beside my recliner, purring, climbing, investigating, and enjoying life.\u00a0 He loves (just this morning, Monday) sitting by my side on the recliner while I type on the laptop.\u00a0 He wanted to follow the on-screen mouse-pointer, but I wouldn’t let him.\u00a0\u00a0He wandered away and\u00a0is back,\u00a0just\u00a0looked over the back of my recliner, and I took a picture of the \u201cM\u201d on his forehead. \u00a0He’s expressive with meows and exploring.\u00a0 I will get the pix off my camera soon (after I get a cup of coffee & toast), but may have to wait till John returns from running the dogs.\u00a0 He still wants\u00a0to be on the table beside me and I cannot have him there with all the\u00a0stuff piled up.\u00a0\u00a0Just came back and settled down on the right of my chair backed into my\u00a0pad on which the lap top sits. I reach across to the mouse, but now am typing and he is lying against my right arm that’s on the keypad.\u00a0 He is content.\u00a0\u00a0John put Kitty in his bedroom (the computer room) where there is a litter box and food and water, and\u00a0fixed the door open so he can come and go, but the dogs cannot get in to the treats in the litter box.\u00a0 John put him back there while he got the 4 dogs out the door for their morning exercise and to feed the horses. John set this up just this morning, and Kitty already knows how to use the pass through and came back to be with me.<\/p>\n Ok\u00a0now\u00a0John\u00a0is back.\u00a0 Kitty has\u00a0run under the sofa while the dogs rushed in,\u00a0but now John has gone for an hour to pick tart cherries and Kitty is back by my side watching the dogs eat.\u00a0 I will end this and go fix my breakfast.\u00a0 He is\u00a0doing just fine, and so are we, and very happy to have him.\u00a0 The rest of the day was quiet, pretty much.<\/p>\n Tuesday.\u00a0 Slept in again.\u00a0 Still catching up from the sleepless nights in Portland.\u00a0 John finished up his trail riders newsletter and we both spent time assembling 50 of them, putting on stamps, folding, taping, and boxing.\u00a0 This is supposedly the last of hard copies, as they are going to try to put it on the website.<\/p>\n Back from the vet\u2019s and Kitty has the first set of shots, worming for round and tape worms, and an appointment for future work.\u00a0 He needs us to determine a name different from \u201cKitty.\u201d<\/p>\n We had to visit the vets twice today.\u00a0 Annie needed to have two pieces of cheat grass seeds removed (under Anesthesia).\u00a0 They were embedded in her ear drum, or very close.\u00a0 We brought kitty home and returned for Annie at\u00a0 5:30 p.m..<\/p>\n Kitty is a male, so we are calling him Rascal for the moment. [ Later in the week we decided that is an appropriate name and I guess it will stick.]<\/p>\n Wednesday.\u00a0 Today John went with me to the Food Bank Soup Kitchen where I and two others play music, at noon, and are fed lunch as a thanks.\u00a0 John took along some of his yellow squash to donate to the food bank, and while there early, he helped set up tables and chairs.\u00a0 We had a nice lunch today of Chili (with cheese), salad, cornbread, and peaches.\u00a0 Then he dropped me off at the exercise class and went shopping, but he forgot to get Dream Whip for the Cherry Delight for this weekend\u2019s potluck.\u00a0 There\u2019s always tomorrow or Friday.\u00a0 We were gone 4 hours and the kitty, Rascal, slept the entire time.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know where he is now.\u00a0 Just found him in the back computer room with John.\u00a0 I sat down and copied a few pictures John tidied up for me from Portland and of Rascal, and stayed long enough for Rascal to get out of his \u201cbox\u201d by the computer and get up on the top of the filing cabinet, drink some water and eat some food.\u00a0 He\u2019s got this all figured out.\u00a0 Smart little guy.\u00a0 While there I ate some sweet cherries mostly Bings and then came back to the den where my laptop is.\u00a0 He followed me and is now beside me resting.<\/p>\n John went out to take pictures of a plant he found by the irrigation ditch this morning.\u00a0 It is a Water Hemlock.\u00a0 That is deadly to horses, so he has now gone out to get rid of it.\u00a0 The horses right now are closed out of the place in the pasture where John found the plant.\u00a0 I believe he is going to check the rest of the ditch down through the pasture to be sure there is none.\u00a0 He dug it out as best he could, including the roots, which are even deadlier.\u00a0 Ours is Water Hemlock (Cicuta douglasii<\/em>)<\/p>\n http:\/\/ars.usda.gov\/Services\/docs.htm?docid=9996<\/a><\/p>\n . . . where Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum<\/em>) is mentioned.<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conium#Socrates<\/a><\/p>\n A bit more of the story of Socrates is here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.age-of-the-sage.org\/greek\/philosopher\/phaedo.html<\/a><\/p>\n Regardless, ours is in a box in the back of the old Chevy pick-up and will go to the landfill at some future time.<\/p>\n Thursday.\u00a0 Put out a page of information about the Water Hemlock now blooming in our valley, and at our house (- ((\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (very sad face).<\/p>\n Check out the page at:<\/p>\n http:\/\/elixant.com\/~nancyh\/WaterHemlock2.html<\/a><\/p>\n Today John spent some time clearing more of the brush along the ditch. \u00a0Hasn\u2019t found anything else poisonous but has located two wasps (?) nests near the edge of the pasture.\u00a0 He\u2019s taken the cut brush to a large pile of similar things \u2013 larger old logs and stumps on the bottom provide open space within \u2013 and thus quail cover.\u00a0 He\u2019ll investigate the nests on some cold morning.<\/p>\n I went to town to play music (at the old Rehab center where I spent so much time last year), and on to the grocery store for eggs and Dream Whip\u00ae for our cherry delight<\/p>\n http:\/\/justapinchassets.com\/images\/photo\/1\/5\/7\/0\/2\/large.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n we are taking to the KVTR (horse trail riding club) potluck this Sunday afternoon. \u00a0This picture is in a pie pan, but we will make it on a large cookie sheet.\u00a0 The crust is made from saltines and nuts, and baked.<\/p>\n I came home and rested some, played with Rascal, and now he is sleeping again, charging up to keep us awake during the night. \u00a0Might close him in his room so we don\u2019t have to deal with it when we should be sleeping.<\/p>\n Funny guy, and quite a kitty.\u00a0 He plays zoom, zoom, just like Sunshine, and wanted to get on my chest this afternoon in my recliner, but he doesn’t yet know how to control his claws completely, so that doesn’t work well.\u00a0 He is a purrer and very affectionate, however.<\/p>\n John is fixing baked chicken for dinner.\u00a0 It was good, with potatoes, and green lima beans, and John\u2019s chunky naturally-pink apple sauce.<\/p>\n Friday.\u00a0 Started out with a good night\u2019s sleep finally, by closing Rascal up in \u201chis room.\u201d\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 Then I managed to succeed in getting our PowerPoint on the Portland Urban Heat Island compressed (the images), so instead of 36 megabytes it is now just over 12.\u00a0 Thanks to my friend Jennifer for this knowledge and the use of her Gigabyte mail site for me to use to distribute large files.\u00a0 After a small breakfast I played some with Rascal and then took off for a massage at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 My back and shoulder muscles were particularly tense today.\u00a0 Guess it\u2019s been a long two weeks, since I last saw her.\u00a0 (This is a free service; she donates 20 minutes to a half hour to folks there twice a month).\u00a0 She said today she really would love to get me on a table for a full body massage, (rather than in the chair I\u2019m in there), so that something could be done with heat and arm pressure to get the blood flowing through my tense muscles.\u00a0 She is not a preferred provider for Group Health, which I have, so she recommended someone else here in town who could help me.\u00a0 I will need to get a reference from my doctor, and when I know more about what to ask for, I will.<\/p>\n On the way home I stopped by a yard sale and loaded up on cool stuff for John, and for my music group.\u00a0 The lady had a ton (well, more than 10 large 3-ring binders which work well for storing music).\u00a0 She gave them all to me for 50 cents.\u00a0 Then she gave me some metal poles that fit together in a triangle or square to put around plants such as tall flowers to tie them up and give them strength.\u00a0 New, these were covered with green plastic but now much of the iron is exposed.\u00a0 Good for half-dead plants, I think.\u00a0 And then most of a container full of an Ortho chemical for insects in sensitive areas, which might work someplace.\u00a0 John will have to investigate the active ingredient and its proper use \u2013 in his spare time.\u00a0 The new strawberries are being attacked by something and maybe . . . or maybe not!<\/p>\n The yard-sale-lady had an old bushel basket which I got, and will offer to one of my colleagues.\u00a0 When I taught Economic Geography the kids had no clue what a bushel basket or a bushel of anything was.\u00a0 I would take a small one (a peck, a quarter of a bushel) to class to show them, and show them a picture of a bushel basket.\u00a0 Remember the old song, \u201cI love you a bushel and a peck, a b & a p, and a hug around the neck\u201d \u2026\u00a0 You don\u2019t!<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3p7PKP9lBE&feature=player_embedded<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.allmusicals.com\/lyrics\/guysanddolls\/bushelandapeck.htm<\/a><\/p>\n This one is for crabbing but has the lid \u2013<\/p>\n http:\/\/housmancrabbingsupplies.com\/images\/Wooden2.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n most web images don\u2019t show the lid:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.groworganic.com\/1-bushel-basket-with-2-handles.html<\/a><\/p>\n We got interested in weights and measures while teaching the wine class because of the historical carry-overs and then the switch to the metric system.\u00a0 There is a little of that history here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bushel<\/a><\/p>\n Many of the agricultural statistics are still reported in bushels\/acre.\u00a0 Also, measurements are appropriate such as the weight of a bushel of a product:\u00a0 Wheat (60 lbs.), Cotton (32 lbs.), Timothy Grass (45 lbs.), Sudan Grass (28 lbs.), Soybeans (60 lbs.), Apples (48 lbs.), Muscadines [grapes] (50 lbs.), Okra (26 lbs.), Tomatoes (53 lbs.), Onions (57 lbs.).\u00a0 My source on the grains is the Univ. of Missouri\u2019s Agronomy Dept. and for the fruits and vegetables, the Georgia Farm Bureau.\u00a0 I put in the Timothy Grass and Sudan Grass, because those are baled here in our valley, and exported to Japan and other Pacific Rim countries.\u00a0 Back to the yard sale: There was also a container with miscellaneous stuff John will be able to use, including a couple of pieces of agate (one that seems to be an Ellensburg Blue).\u00a0 If so, maybe I will have a ring made from it.\u00a0 (We have been here since 1988 and never found one).\u00a0 Another 5-gallon bucket and metal strap:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.hardwarestore.com\/pop-print\/larger-image.aspx?prodNo=40464<\/a><\/p>\n Everything totaled $6. Not bad, so I just drove home without attending any more yard sales or staying for exercise class, and I have been on the phone to set up a future full therapeutic massage through my insurance.\u00a0 The cost for an hour is $60, but hopefully Group Health will pay for most of that.\u00a0 I\u2019m working through my primary care provider (family doctor) now for the referral.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited because I was not ready to go to an orthopedic surgeon, but I have really had a loss of flexibility and range of motion in my arms, particularly the left after the device surgery June 2010.\u00a0 I was not allowed to move my arm above my shoulder for 8 weeks, and any movement I had gotten back from physical therapy, I lost.<\/p>\n Hot here; a\/c has been cycling on for over an hour.\u00a0 It\u2019s 85 here and 5 miles south at the airport is 90!\u00a0 Our potluck Sunday may be 88-90.\u00a0 At least we\u2018ll have shade.<\/p>\n John just brought me a taste of tapioca-thickened tart cherries he is fixing for our potluck item, Cherry Delight (his mom\u2019s recipe with saltine crackers and chopped nuts in the crust).\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty tart but also quite tasty.\u00a0 He\u2019s making his own \u201cpie\u201d filling, or in this case, topping.<\/p>\n Well, it\u2019s Saturday, and I have spent the morning on the computer, doing dishes, and playing with Rascal.\u00a0 John worked outside moving hay, more brush work, and watering six Blue Spruce \u2013 those planted near the edge of our property so as to block an ugly building put up by a neighbor. \u00a0They have to grow a lot, though, and they don\u2019t grow fast.\u00a0 They are one of a half-dozen species of needle-leaf trees he has around the place.\u00a0 Now he is in the kitchen working on berries and cherries.\u00a0 He was a pound of Pie Cherries short, so went back out and picked them.<\/p>\n Nothing else much happening here, so I will send this to John to put on this week\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n Hope you all have a grand week.<\/p>\n Nancy and John<\/p>\n on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday.\u00a0 Long hard day with trip home from Portland.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I had left the motel right before 8:00 a.m. and found a free parking space just next to the Marriott’s east entrance.\u00a0 Our presentation went well, and I got out of Portland at 10:22 a.m., got right on I-5, and up and over to I-84.\u00a0 … Continue reading “SATURDAY — Post-Portland & \u201cRascal\u201d”<\/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-841","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-dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![http:\/\/justapinchassets.com\/images\/photo\/1\/5\/7\/0\/2\/large.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nwe are taking to the KVTR (horse trail riding club) potluck this Sunday afternoon. \u00a0This picture is in a pie pan, but we will make it on a large cookie sheet.\u00a0 The crust is made from saltines and nuts, and baked.<\/p>\nI came home and rested some, played with Rascal, and now he is sleeping again, charging up to keep us awake during the night. \u00a0Might close him in his room so we don\u2019t have to deal with it when we should be sleeping.<\/p>\nFunny guy, and quite a kitty.\u00a0 He plays zoom, zoom, just like Sunshine, and wanted to get on my chest this afternoon in my recliner, but he doesn’t yet know how to control his claws completely, so that doesn’t work well.\u00a0 He is a purrer and very affectionate, however.<\/p>\nJohn is fixing baked chicken for dinner.\u00a0 It was good, with potatoes, and green lima beans, and John\u2019s chunky naturally-pink apple sauce.<\/p>\nFriday.\u00a0 Started out with a good night\u2019s sleep finally, by closing Rascal up in \u201chis room.\u201d\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 Then I managed to succeed in getting our PowerPoint on the Portland Urban Heat Island compressed (the images), so instead of 36 megabytes it is now just over 12.\u00a0 Thanks to my friend Jennifer for this knowledge and the use of her Gigabyte mail site for me to use to distribute large files.\u00a0 After a small breakfast I played some with Rascal and then took off for a massage at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 My back and shoulder muscles were particularly tense today.\u00a0 Guess it\u2019s been a long two weeks, since I last saw her.\u00a0 (This is a free service; she donates 20 minutes to a half hour to folks there twice a month).\u00a0 She said today she really would love to get me on a table for a full body massage, (rather than in the chair I\u2019m in there), so that something could be done with heat and arm pressure to get the blood flowing through my tense muscles.\u00a0 She is not a preferred provider for Group Health, which I have, so she recommended someone else here in town who could help me.\u00a0 I will need to get a reference from my doctor, and when I know more about what to ask for, I will.<\/p>\nOn the way home I stopped by a yard sale and loaded up on cool stuff for John, and for my music group.\u00a0 The lady had a ton (well, more than 10 large 3-ring binders which work well for storing music).\u00a0 She gave them all to me for 50 cents.\u00a0 Then she gave me some metal poles that fit together in a triangle or square to put around plants such as tall flowers to tie them up and give them strength.\u00a0 New, these were covered with green plastic but now much of the iron is exposed.\u00a0 Good for half-dead plants, I think.\u00a0 And then most of a container full of an Ortho chemical for insects in sensitive areas, which might work someplace.\u00a0 John will have to investigate the active ingredient and its proper use \u2013 in his spare time.\u00a0 The new strawberries are being attacked by something and maybe . . . or maybe not!<\/p>\nThe yard-sale-lady had an old bushel basket which I got, and will offer to one of my colleagues.\u00a0 When I taught Economic Geography the kids had no clue what a bushel basket or a bushel of anything was.\u00a0 I would take a small one (a peck, a quarter of a bushel) to class to show them, and show them a picture of a bushel basket.\u00a0 Remember the old song, \u201cI love you a bushel and a peck, a b & a p, and a hug around the neck\u201d \u2026\u00a0 You don\u2019t!<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3p7PKP9lBE&feature=player_embedded<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.allmusicals.com\/lyrics\/guysanddolls\/bushelandapeck.htm<\/a><\/p>\nThis one is for crabbing but has the lid \u2013<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/housmancrabbingsupplies.com\/images\/Wooden2.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nmost web images don\u2019t show the lid:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.groworganic.com\/1-bushel-basket-with-2-handles.html<\/a><\/p>\nWe got interested in weights and measures while teaching the wine class because of the historical carry-overs and then the switch to the metric system.\u00a0 There is a little of that history here:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bushel<\/a><\/p>\nMany of the agricultural statistics are still reported in bushels\/acre.\u00a0 Also, measurements are appropriate such as the weight of a bushel of a product:\u00a0 Wheat (60 lbs.), Cotton (32 lbs.), Timothy Grass (45 lbs.), Sudan Grass (28 lbs.), Soybeans (60 lbs.), Apples (48 lbs.), Muscadines [grapes] (50 lbs.), Okra (26 lbs.), Tomatoes (53 lbs.), Onions (57 lbs.).\u00a0 My source on the grains is the Univ. of Missouri\u2019s Agronomy Dept. and for the fruits and vegetables, the Georgia Farm Bureau.\u00a0 I put in the Timothy Grass and Sudan Grass, because those are baled here in our valley, and exported to Japan and other Pacific Rim countries.\u00a0 Back to the yard sale: There was also a container with miscellaneous stuff John will be able to use, including a couple of pieces of agate (one that seems to be an Ellensburg Blue).\u00a0 If so, maybe I will have a ring made from it.\u00a0 (We have been here since 1988 and never found one).\u00a0 Another 5-gallon bucket and metal strap:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.hardwarestore.com\/pop-print\/larger-image.aspx?prodNo=40464<\/a><\/p>\nEverything totaled $6. Not bad, so I just drove home without attending any more yard sales or staying for exercise class, and I have been on the phone to set up a future full therapeutic massage through my insurance.\u00a0 The cost for an hour is $60, but hopefully Group Health will pay for most of that.\u00a0 I\u2019m working through my primary care provider (family doctor) now for the referral.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited because I was not ready to go to an orthopedic surgeon, but I have really had a loss of flexibility and range of motion in my arms, particularly the left after the device surgery June 2010.\u00a0 I was not allowed to move my arm above my shoulder for 8 weeks, and any movement I had gotten back from physical therapy, I lost.<\/p>\nHot here; a\/c has been cycling on for over an hour.\u00a0 It\u2019s 85 here and 5 miles south at the airport is 90!\u00a0 Our potluck Sunday may be 88-90.\u00a0 At least we\u2018ll have shade.<\/p>\nJohn just brought me a taste of tapioca-thickened tart cherries he is fixing for our potluck item, Cherry Delight (his mom\u2019s recipe with saltine crackers and chopped nuts in the crust).\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty tart but also quite tasty.\u00a0 He\u2019s making his own \u201cpie\u201d filling, or in this case, topping.<\/p>\nWell, it\u2019s Saturday, and I have spent the morning on the computer, doing dishes, and playing with Rascal.\u00a0 John worked outside moving hay, more brush work, and watering six Blue Spruce \u2013 those planted near the edge of our property so as to block an ugly building put up by a neighbor. \u00a0They have to grow a lot, though, and they don\u2019t grow fast.\u00a0 They are one of a half-dozen species of needle-leaf trees he has around the place.\u00a0 Now he is in the kitchen working on berries and cherries.\u00a0 He was a pound of Pie Cherries short, so went back out and picked them.<\/p>\nNothing else much happening here, so I will send this to John to put on this week\u2019s blog.<\/p>\nHope you all have a grand week.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\non the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday.\u00a0 Long hard day with trip home from Portland.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I had left the motel right before 8:00 a.m. and found a free parking space just next to the Marriott’s east entrance.\u00a0 Our presentation went well, and I got out of Portland at 10:22 a.m., got right on I-5, and up and over to I-84.\u00a0 … Continue reading “SATURDAY — Post-Portland & \u201cRascal\u201d”<\/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-841","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-dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/justapinchassets.com\/images\/photo\/1\/5\/7\/0\/2\/large.jpg\"){kind=link}
![http:\/\/housmancrabbingsupplies.com\/images\/Wooden2.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nmost web images don\u2019t show the lid:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.groworganic.com\/1-bushel-basket-with-2-handles.html<\/a><\/p>\nWe got interested in weights and measures while teaching the wine class because of the historical carry-overs and then the switch to the metric system.\u00a0 There is a little of that history here:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bushel<\/a><\/p>\nMany of the agricultural statistics are still reported in bushels\/acre.\u00a0 Also, measurements are appropriate such as the weight of a bushel of a product:\u00a0 Wheat (60 lbs.), Cotton (32 lbs.), Timothy Grass (45 lbs.), Sudan Grass (28 lbs.), Soybeans (60 lbs.), Apples (48 lbs.), Muscadines [grapes] (50 lbs.), Okra (26 lbs.), Tomatoes (53 lbs.), Onions (57 lbs.).\u00a0 My source on the grains is the Univ. of Missouri\u2019s Agronomy Dept. and for the fruits and vegetables, the Georgia Farm Bureau.\u00a0 I put in the Timothy Grass and Sudan Grass, because those are baled here in our valley, and exported to Japan and other Pacific Rim countries.\u00a0 Back to the yard sale: There was also a container with miscellaneous stuff John will be able to use, including a couple of pieces of agate (one that seems to be an Ellensburg Blue).\u00a0 If so, maybe I will have a ring made from it.\u00a0 (We have been here since 1988 and never found one).\u00a0 Another 5-gallon bucket and metal strap:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.hardwarestore.com\/pop-print\/larger-image.aspx?prodNo=40464<\/a><\/p>\nEverything totaled $6. Not bad, so I just drove home without attending any more yard sales or staying for exercise class, and I have been on the phone to set up a future full therapeutic massage through my insurance.\u00a0 The cost for an hour is $60, but hopefully Group Health will pay for most of that.\u00a0 I\u2019m working through my primary care provider (family doctor) now for the referral.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited because I was not ready to go to an orthopedic surgeon, but I have really had a loss of flexibility and range of motion in my arms, particularly the left after the device surgery June 2010.\u00a0 I was not allowed to move my arm above my shoulder for 8 weeks, and any movement I had gotten back from physical therapy, I lost.<\/p>\nHot here; a\/c has been cycling on for over an hour.\u00a0 It\u2019s 85 here and 5 miles south at the airport is 90!\u00a0 Our potluck Sunday may be 88-90.\u00a0 At least we\u2018ll have shade.<\/p>\nJohn just brought me a taste of tapioca-thickened tart cherries he is fixing for our potluck item, Cherry Delight (his mom\u2019s recipe with saltine crackers and chopped nuts in the crust).\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty tart but also quite tasty.\u00a0 He\u2019s making his own \u201cpie\u201d filling, or in this case, topping.<\/p>\nWell, it\u2019s Saturday, and I have spent the morning on the computer, doing dishes, and playing with Rascal.\u00a0 John worked outside moving hay, more brush work, and watering six Blue Spruce \u2013 those planted near the edge of our property so as to block an ugly building put up by a neighbor. \u00a0They have to grow a lot, though, and they don\u2019t grow fast.\u00a0 They are one of a half-dozen species of needle-leaf trees he has around the place.\u00a0 Now he is in the kitchen working on berries and cherries.\u00a0 He was a pound of Pie Cherries short, so went back out and picked them.<\/p>\nNothing else much happening here, so I will send this to John to put on this week\u2019s blog.<\/p>\nHope you all have a grand week.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\non the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday.\u00a0 Long hard day with trip home from Portland.\u00a0 Phew.\u00a0 I had left the motel right before 8:00 a.m. and found a free parking space just next to the Marriott’s east entrance.\u00a0 Our presentation went well, and I got out of Portland at 10:22 a.m., got right on I-5, and up and over to I-84.\u00a0 … Continue reading “SATURDAY — Post-Portland & \u201cRascal\u201d”<\/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-841","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-dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/housmancrabbingsupplies.com\/images\/Wooden2.jpg\"){kind=link}