Sunday.\u00a0 Today holds the treat of a potluck with our Trail Riding club, and while we haven\u2019t ridden this year we will join them to eat and for fellowship, however.\u00a0 The temps predicted have been revised downward.\u00a0 Some wind is expected and if not too much will make for a nice day and also keep the bees away from the food.<\/p>\n
Last night, we decided (after the blog was posted), to make the crust for our cherry delight dessert. That starts as a big cookie sheet of a runny mixture. \u00a0Well, it came out thinner on one side and corner than the opposite side.\u00a0 John thinks he pushed it into the oven and the pan road up on the back of the rack. \u00a0It will have to be.\u00a0 This morning brought great news from a friend in Atlanta that she and her beau will be getting married next July 2012.\u00a0 Unfortunately, if I go to my mom\u2019s family reunion in south GA next year, it will be on the weekend two weeks ahead, (June 22), and that is too long for me to be away or so I think right now.\u00a0 John\u2019s already picked raspberries this morning and now has just returned from running the dogs and feeding the horses but returned to the yard to move more of the brush he\u2019s cut.<\/p>\n
Well, just before leaving for the afternoon KVTR potluck, we finished putting together the dessert.\u00a0 We took the lop-sided crust and divided it into three parts.\u00a0 The really thin part John ate.\u00a0 The rest ended up taking two pans (one rectangular and a small pie pan).\u00a0 Yummy–everyone enjoyed it but there were a dozen pies and cobblers and so on, so there was some left.\u00a0 We shared with another couple and so had some for later.<\/p>\n
There were lots of wonderful fresh fruit desserts there, and grilled hotdogs, many salads, beans, and more salads, and quiche.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t eat as much as we could have, but surely enjoyed what we did.<\/p>\n
The temperatures were lower than expected and the wind was blowing.\u00a0 It was actually very pleasant underneath the shade of a shed on the property of one of the members, out northwest of Ellensburg.\u00a0 While there, we bought 18 pounds of blueberries from a club member who raises them south of EBRG in the Yakima Canyon, and brought a few boxes along, in case anyone was interested.\u00a0 Last year John drove to Naches (50 miles) and picked \u2013 started at 8 and quit at 11 when the heat became a bit much.\u00a0 He had 24 pounds.\u00a0 Got a pretty good price, but that place has changed hands, and no longer provides the same service for the good price.\u00a0 Well, you can pick for $2.50 \u2013 3.00\/pound elsewhere.\u00a0 The folks there had plastic buckets and the cost was $1\/lb. up to heaping full which was charged as 10 pounds.\u00a0 About 12 for the price of 10 pounds.\u00a0 Not counting travel time and gas \u2013 just berries \u2013 cost us $0.84 per pound.\u00a0 This purchase yesterday of beautiful already picked boxes of 6 pounds, at $3.00\/ pound was a great savings on John\u2019s time, efforts, and gasoline.\u00a0 Except for 2 pounds, John has frozen the blueberries in 8 oz. packages.\u00a0 Kitty is playing zoom zoom.\u00a0 We were very tired and full from the potluck, so went to bed without supper, and earlier than usual.<\/p>\n
Monday:\u00a0 John worked some on brush cleanup in the yard and pasture.\u00a0 He found another water hemlock plant near where he found the other, and so he dispensed with it.\u00a0 I went to town for exercise class and to buy canned food for Rascal (Tuna & Egg is his favorite).\u00a0 We were down to the last can today.\u00a0 Came home to a bunch of emails, predominantly associated with the jobs list serve I maintain.\u00a0 And we heard from a few others about safe travel home from their summer vacations.\u00a0 Others are still at the beach having fun.\u00a0 We are here in Ellensburg, in the wind, having fun.\u00a0 The temps got to 75 today and tomorrow they are calling for 80.\u00a0 The winds yesterday topped out at 41 mph gusts.\u00a0 Today they are \u201conly\u201d 29 mph.\u00a0 The house is still cool, so we won\u2019t have to use the a\/c. this afternoon and evening.\u00a0 John, kitty, and dogs are napping.\u00a0 I slept in this morning.<\/p>\n
The other thing I forgot to write above is that I received a CD in the mail from a local radio station, and it came postage due for forty cents. \u00a0I’m taking it back to the p.o. tomorrow to complain.\u00a0 It weighs 4 ounces and had 1.48 on it.\u00a0 Guy at the p.o. tried to tell me it couldn’t be thicker than 1\/4 inch.\u00a0 Now I ask you, how could a CD holder envelope with bubble wrap hold a CD case and be only 1\/4 inch.\u00a0 Makes NO sense.<\/p>\n
Tuesday was full of surprises.\u00a0 John mowed on the other side of our back fence, and it looks nice. The idea is to have a no-brush fire-break \u2013 it is not yet as wide as he would like it to be. \u00a0I took off for a foot care appt, stopping first at the post office to question the charge on the CD envelope mailing.\u00a0 I had to pay the 40 cents because it was mailed as a large envelope, first class, and it was really a Parcel, because of its thickness. I should have asked what Media Mail would have cost.\u00a0 So, I called and asked the p.o., and they told me I could check on line.\u00a0 (Pissy, not to give me information I requested.)\u00a0 Then on to an Echocardiogram.\u00a0 It was scheduled for 1:45 and I was there ahead of time, but wasn\u2019t taken in until after 2:00 p.m., and it took the better part of an hour for the Echo, but I\u2019m glad for the test.\u00a0 My cardiologist will be back in Sept and hopefully will interpret the results.\u00a0 That was my request anyhow. \u00a0Then I set up an appt with him for Sept 13 in Yakima.<\/p>\n
While I was gone, John took Annie to the vet to check on her mammary \u201ctumor\u201d.\u00a0 Their recommendation was to have all removed, but, I\u2019m going to get a second opinion from my regular vet.\u00a0 I was planning to breed her at least one more time, because she is the only one who can carry on our lines, now that her brother, Cork, is gone at an early age.<\/p>\n
Wednesday.\u00a0 Morning starting slowly, but have just about handled all the incoming emails.\u00a0 Just about; not quite.\u00a0 John is back out after running the dogs and feeding the horses, picking a few pie cherries for putting with blueberries on a dessert to take to friends tomorrow.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 That tree has really produced a lot of cherries this year. \u00a0I must go to the Food Bank Soup Kitchen at noon for music and after to exercise class.\u00a0 We only had 3 people provide music for about 25 folks at lunch.\u00a0 They fed us taco casserole and salad.\u00a0 There was watermelon for dessert, but I cannot eat it. (A childhood event of too much sun and too much watermelon and I\u2019m averted.)<\/p>\n
Thursday. \u00a0John\u2019s just picked the LAST of the raspberries and now is making 3 pie-cherry\/blueberry treats for taking to dinner at others\u2019 houses, tonight and tomorrow, and one for the freezer for the future.\u00a0 I went off to play music at Dry Creek and we had a really good turnout with 8 of our group there.\u00a0 It was a nice fun time, and we even had one lady up dancing to Five Foot Two followed by Yes Sir, That\u2019s My Baby.<\/p>\n
The dinner tonight was interesting.\u00a0 We had a couple of curries and brown rice, and a really yummy shish kabob<\/em>, with marinated beef, peppers and onions.\u00a0 Along with the dessert we took a Cabernet Sauvignon from Texas (gift from a Texas friend).\u00a0 I had a sip but the others said it went well with the grilled beef.\u00a0 John wondered where shish kabob <\/em>came from so here is the link:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kebab<\/a><\/p>\n Friday.\u00a0 Long morning, getting the kitchen cleaned up for the Culligan repairman to check out the unit\u2019s leak and replace filters.\u00a0 Now John is out cutting brush (a wild (Autumn) clematis, choke cherries, wild roses, cottonwoods and a few other unidentified things) under the large Cottonwood tree.\u00a0 It\u2019s good the wind is not blowing and making it dangerous for him to be there. If you search the web for Autumn Clematis you mostly get pictures of pretty white mounds of flowers.\u00a0 Ours is not so nice.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just say that it grows on fences and with our wind and its weight, the plant can destroy a fence in a few years.\u00a0 Try this site:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.arthurleej.com\/a-wildclematis.html<\/a><\/p>\n . . . where the next-to-last paragraph claims our (east of the Cascades) vine in not exactly the same.\u00a0 It is still a pain.<\/p>\n I have mostly been working on the computer on email, but I need to switch to other organizing chores.<\/p>\n We are invited to dinner again tonight.\u00a0 We again are taking along a yummy blueberry \/ tart cherry cobbler that we made (John mostly, who has started calling it 4th<\/sup> of July crumble) yesterday morning.\u00a0 Rascal and the dogs coexisted tonight in the house from 5:45 to 9:45.\u00a0 Long and nice dinner, of roast beef (excellently cooked), vegetables with about 8 different things in it (very, very good), watermelon that I don’t like, but the lady of the house pulled out some purple grapes just for me.\u00a0 How nice!\u00a0 Their daughter and husband were there and we had a lot in common (horses and non-horse medical things) and great conversations.\u00a0 Pretty cool.<\/p>\n Saturday.\u00a0 John\u2019s been working in the yard this morning, watering and sawing a broken top from a pine that was hurt in the wind.\u00a0 Now he is napping, but we have to leave shortly for my playing music at a retirement center, where they feed us when we are done.\u00a0 John will go grocery shopping and drop me off and pick me up.\u00a0 He did, and joined us for the last song, \u201cShe\u2019ll be coming round the Mountain,\u201d and for dessert.\u00a0 The rest of us went ahead and chowed down with a choice of half sandwiches (tuna salad or egg salad), two types of pastas (I passed), a great potato salad I loved, yummy, Mandarin\/orange Jell-O salad, and a card table full of desserts (several types of cookies, cakes and strawberry fixings with Cool Whip on top).\u00a0 Guess who doesn\u2019t need to eat supper tonight.<\/p>\n Missed getting a great picture yesterday of Rascal sharing the chair with Meghan.\u00a0 He cuddled up beside her as he does with John\u00a0and me.\u00a0 This afternoon we didn\u2019t get home till after 4:00 and I was really tired, so I slept until 6:30.\u00a0 It finally cooled down from 93 to 91 (at the airport), and just before 7:00 p.m. it got to 89.\u00a0 Now later tonight it\u2019s down to 67.\u00a0 John was out.\u00a0 He claims he was \u2018reding-up\u2019 things. \u00a0I always thought the term should be spelled, read, because to me it is Making \u201cReady\u201d the room. \u00a0\u201cRed up\u201d is the sixth line in the table here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pennsylvania_Dutch_English<\/a><\/p>\n . . . where line 2 is \u201couten the lights\u201d \u2013 another phrase used in non-Dutch western Pennsylvania, although his mother\u2019s folks claimed German ancestry.\u00a0 Still the folks in Clarion County (PA) have over 200 words and phrases often confusing to outsiders and they sound funny, too!<\/p>\n Nancy and John<\/p>\n still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday.\u00a0 Today holds the treat of a potluck with our Trail Riding club, and while we haven\u2019t ridden this year we will join them to eat and for fellowship, however.\u00a0 The temps predicted have been revised downward.\u00a0 Some wind is expected and if not too much will make for a nice day and also keep … Continue reading “SATURDAY — just 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