{"id":848,"date":"2011-08-26T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=848"},"modified":"2011-08-26T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T00:30:32","slug":"friday-restaurants-%e2%80%93-only-at-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY   &#8212;   Restaurants \u2013 only at the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night after we posted the blog, we had another patriotic dessert:\u00a0 Red Raspberries, Blueberries and White Vanilla ice cream.\u00a0 Yum yum.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday.\u00a0 Will be a very light day, we hope.\u00a0 Nothing planned at all in town.\u00a0 John did get some gasoline in the Subaru, however, so we won\u2019t run out if we do decide to go somewhere.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it will start out with John feeding the horses, and exercising the dogs.\u00a0 Kitty and I will stay inside.\u00a0 Good thing we did.\u00a0 It is getting to be a scorcher today.\u00a0 Imagine &#8212; it\u2019s nice we don\u2019t have any outside activities planned.\u00a0 Just stay in the cool house and do chores inside.\u00a0 Many need to be done.\u00a0 High temp of 89 predicted today, and it is well on its way there at noon being 83.<\/p>\n<p>Monday.\u00a0 Was supposed to not be as hot today, but it got to 86, and then clouded over, and now is 76.\u00a0 So, John went outside in the back to cut brush.\u00a0\u00a0 This morning we had to take our Annie (5 yr old Brittany) to the vet for a second opinion from my regular vet.\u00a0 Annie has a mammary tumor.\u00a0 The vet said it was best for her to spay her and remove the tumor, because the hormones from the ovaries would keep it going and she would likely have incurable cancer and die sooner than otherwise.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so sad that\u00a0this &#8220;ends&#8221; our breeding program started in the 1970s.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in\u00a0a pretty saddened, funky mood. \u00a0She&#8217;s the one who had puppies last year that we raised when I was so sick. \u00a0I&#8217;m glad we went ahead with having those puppies (from the accidental breeding). \u00a0The extra\u00a0sad thing is that her brother, Cork, the one we just lost to heat stroke, was the only other place we\u00a0could carry on our bloodlines. \u00a0Well, maybe not quite. \u00a0My friend in S. Lake Tahoe has Cork&#8217;s full brother, and so we might consider someone breeding their Brittany with him. \u00a0I think John is ready to be out of breeding, but I&#8217;m really not quite there yet.\u00a0 Yes, we are getting older, but, when you have been in this as long as we have, it&#8217;s hard to give up easily.\u00a0 At least that\u2019s my story for now.\u00a0 We take Annie in for her surgery this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday.\u00a0 Morning during cool temps, John has been cutting brush.\u00a0 Now he\u2019s running the dogs and feeding the horses, plus giving the strawberry plants a dose of chemical to kill the little bugs that come out at night and punch holes in the berries.\u00a0 Then we will be taking off for a trip to Costco.\u00a0 We did and have returned now.\u00a0 It was a good trip and we loaded up on a lot of things we will use for several months. \u00a0We had a nice lunch, and then bought out the store (spent over $300), but with rarely purchased items such as color cartridges for the printer, and a container of 100 CDs, and a Verizon long distance card with 700 minutes on it, and we just spent an hour of it talking to John&#8217;s sister in Cleveland.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t feel the earthquake.\u00a0 I need to get on Fox News and read about it.\u00a0 John was on looking but I haven&#8217;t yet.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch was interesting, inexpensive and good.\u00a0 We shared a Polish Sausage (I had about 4 bites), and we shared a Chicken Bake.\u00a0 It was very interesting.\u00a0 A wrap that must have been deep fried with chicken breast (lots of big pieces), and the roll was 12 inches long.\u00a0 The chicken was in some cheese sauce, I guess, and there was cheese on the outside of the closed &#8220;roll wrap&#8221;.\u00a0 I thought there were little pieces of ham, but John said that wasn\u2019t listed on the menu.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how to describe it. \u00a0But now I do, because I just found the recipe on line:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdkitchen.com\/recipes\/recs\/512\/Costco_Chicken_Bake42333.shtml\">http:\/\/www.cdkitchen.com\/recipes\/recs\/512\/Costco_Chicken_Bake42333.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see there &#8212; these INGREDIENTS:<\/p>\n<p>6 ounces pizza dough<br \/>\n4 ounces grilled, sliced and seasoned white <a title=\"chicken\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdkitchen.com\/recipes\/tiptip.php?keyterm=chicken\">chicken<\/a> breast<br \/>\n1 ounce mozzarella-provolone blended shredded cheese<br \/>\n1\/2 ounce cooked and chopped bacon<br \/>\n1\/2 ounce chopped green onion<br \/>\n1 ounce Caesar dressing (per bake)<br \/>\n1\/2 ounce Parmesan cheese<br \/>\nand the instructions for preparation are on that site.\u00a0 They are BAKED truly as said and not deep-fried.\u00a0 They have a LOT of calories, however.<\/p>\n<p>We also got a 20 ounce refillable Pepsi with the Polish.\u00a0 Also shared something called a Very Berry Sundae. \u00a0It is a large cup (I don&#8217;t know ounces), full of vanilla frozen yogurt and an incredible number of strawberries (in a sauce).\u00a0 It only costs 1.65.\u00a0 In fact that whole meal was under $7.00, and yesterday we had for the same price from Jack In The Box, a much LESS quality and quantity meal.\u00a0 We had fries (small), a small coke, we split a spicy chicken sandwich (no bigger than a small hamburger roll), and John had two greasy Tacos (I cannot even stand to taste them).<\/p>\n<p>Today, we brought home a pan of Chicken Alfredo that will last four meals for the two of us, and was marked down $3.00.\u00a0 It was $14.74, I think, so $11.74 divided by 8 is not too bad, $1.47\/ meal.\u00a0 Surely couldn&#8217;t go out to eat for that!\u00a0 And all we have to do is heat it.\u00a0 John added cashews to the part he fixed tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday.\u00a0 Last night John encountered two kitties by the back woods where he was cleaning brush.\u00a0 He took them food and water, and the food was gone this morning, so he replenished it.\u00a0 It\u2019s just in a cleaned out path behind our large shed.\u00a0 He retrieved empty dishes and replaced with a bowl of food, but they haven\u2019t yet found it. Perhaps they are out hunting and will return tonight to sleep and check out the food bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Plans changed again, but John started the day by taking Annie to the Vets.\u00a0 My noon meeting was canceled and so I decided I would skip today\u2019s blood draw and exercise class, and do the blood draw tomorrow when I\u2019m in town.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I have worked on taxes.\u00a0 Got a couple more months done and am starting on another.<\/p>\n<p>We heard from the Vet at noon that Annie went through her operation fine, and it was good we did it, as she had a large, nasty tumor.\u00a0 My vet and her assistant were pleased we made the choice we did.\u00a0 Me too.\u00a0 As several of our friends (many of you included) said, she will have several years more of quality time making us happy.<\/p>\n<p>We are awaiting a phone call from a former student moving back to EBRG and needing help unloading his moving van into a storage locker.\u00a0 The later the better.\u00a0 It&#8217;s damned hot here.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday.\u00a0 We missed them last night, and this morning, but they got unloaded and we might join them tonight with pizza, beverages, and tomatoes.\u00a0 We did run back to town tonight, buy a pizza add tomatoes (washed them) from my friend (just put them on a plate).\u00a0 They are tiny Romas, and very very tasty.\u00a0 Also threw in a box of Costco cookies (there were three different types: choc chip, snicker doodles, and white choc\/nut chip cookies (my favorite).\u00a0 We took beer, lemon lime, Pepsi, and my old standby, Crystal Light (lemonade).\u00a0 It was a nice visit.<\/p>\n<p>It started out cool this morning but got terribly hot by afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 John put fly spray on all six horses, including the 3 new horses (we&#8217;ve now had for a year), and rasped all four feet of Jazz.\u00a0 Jazz has two issues.\u00a0 He won\u2019t allow our regular farrier anywhere near him \u2013 must be the full Santa Claus beard.\u00a0 Next, he \u201cforges.\u201d \u00a0When he walks there is a clicking sound as the same-side front and back feet touch.\u00a0 Here is an explanation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bwfa.net\/93forging94_referred_to_as_clicking.html\">http:\/\/bwfa.net\/93forging94_referred_to_as_clicking.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With all the other things we\u2019ve been doing John has neglected Jazz\u2019s forging and other horse issues.\u00a0 Once he starts working with a horse it is poor practice to stop until something positive is accomplished and the horse is \u201ccomfortable or happy\u201d with the outcome.\u00a0 Thus, one doesn\u2019t start with a time deadline.\u00a0 After everyone got some fly spray, John used a new (and very sharp rasp) to remove material from the front of the front feet of Jazz.\u00a0 This web-photo illustrates the idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.photobucket.com\/image\/horse%20rasp%20front%20feet\/Parellihorses\/feet\/fredrf.jpg\">http:\/\/media.photobucket.com\/image\/horse%20rasp%20front%20feet\/Parellihorses\/feet\/fredrf.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and this \u2013 see the last picture &#8212; shows the activity:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourhorse.org\/2011\/01\/trimming-hooves\/\">http:\/\/knowyourhorse.org\/2011\/01\/trimming-hooves\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you can get the horse to hold the position with a foot on a stand, then you can rasp off quite a bit, with the front a little flattened or \u201csquared-off\u201d (as in the first link) and than that foot will \u201cbreak-over\u201d more easily as the horse moves forward.\u00a0 Try this, put your own hand flat on a table with palm down and fingers forward. Now tip your hand forward (pivot over the straight out fingers) until your knuckles (top) are laying on the table top. Now tuck your finger tips under your palm (make a fist) and again rock your hand forward.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot easier to do without your fingers sticking out in front. It is much easier for the horse too, without the hoof sticking out in front.\u00a0 John\u2019s not doing anything extreme here \u2013 just helping the horse a little.\u00a0 Jazz will stand \u201cground tied\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equisearch.com\/uncategorized\/tied-nothing\/\">http:\/\/www.equisearch.com\/uncategorized\/tied-nothing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>for John while this work goes on.\u00a0 Soon we\u2019ll try a trained farrier without a beard, actually a female, and get the correct angles and shoes on this guy.\u00a0 Now, back to our regular programming . . .<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t pick up Annie till Sunday morning.\u00a0 I called today and she is doing well, and everyone likes her and is \u201cloving up&#8221; on her.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s back at his computer, in the other end of the house.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting tired, no nap today, and it was a fairly busy day.\u00a0 We played music and it was TOO DAMNED hot in the nursing home.\u00a0 Even the residents were complaining, but they sang along and enjoyed themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Went for a blood draw (my INR was a little low, so my dosage has been upped).<\/p>\n<p>My friend in the music group went to a surplus sale at CWU (my old school) and bought a Dulcimer case for $5.\u00a0 Incredibly it fits mine PERFECTLY.\u00a0 And the case is hard, which is nice. I have been storing mine in a folding-chair holder (nylon), and I did buy a keyboard padded case for at a yard sale, but it still is soft.\u00a0 This will protect it a lot better.\u00a0 Also got a cute little doll for my fiddle teacher from Nampa, ID who collects dolls.\u00a0 This is a pretty little girl with \u2018Monday\u2019 written across her shirt, big blue eyes, a nice white straw hat with purple flowers, and dressed nicely (total size about 8 inches).\u00a0 I hope she likes it.<\/p>\n<p>Friday.\u00a0 Not much going on other than maybe checking out a garage sale on my way to or from the exercise class. \u00a0Just talked in person (phone) to my vet.\u00a0 She said it was a hairy operation and she had another tumor on her ovary, so our decision was definitely the right one.\u00a0\u00a0 She said it might have been iffy if we had bred her.\u00a0 Now she is doing all right, but still healing, and she has a hematoma that our Vet\u2019s decided to check out next Tuesday, but not to do anything to for now.\u00a0 She said it was messy in there and they had to \u201ctie\u201d off a bleeder. \u00a0Annie is doing fine and eating.<\/p>\n<p>I just called to see how she was, and the receptionist said she thought she was fine but would check.\u00a0 Dr. Thea came back on the phone to talk to me in person.<\/p>\n<p>Other thing done this morning was taking a few photos of things around the house that I needed to send to various people.\u00a0 I took a picture of the case that looks custom made for my Dulcimer. \u00a0Also took a picture of a painting John\u2019s dad did of a slide I made in 1965 looking toward Helsingborg, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helsingborg\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helsingborg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a friend (Osa) who was born in Sweden and whom I met and had dinner with in Portland, and want to include it with a picture taken of her and me at the NCGE banquet. Also took pictures of 2 other paintings of Brittanys in our past:\u00a0 FC Simons Ruff-Shod O\u2019Dee, given to us by Ethel Moore (artist \u2013 Huston), and another of Lovely Wistful Lady (Wisty), our first Brittany we got in Iowa.\u00a0 She had beautiful brown, wistful eyes.\u00a0 John\u2019s dad painted Wisty in front of a cascading stream from a picture he had taken in Cook Forest State Park near where the family lived. \u00a0Dad\u2019s picture looked about like #13406 on this page: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaltenbaughphoto.com\/cookforest\/page5.cfm\">http:\/\/www.kaltenbaughphoto.com\/cookforest\/page5.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a typical birddog portrait but from a person that really didn\u2019t like dogs, it is special reminder of both father and dog \u2013 both now long gone.<\/p>\n<p>On another topic:\u00a0 Our friends\u2019 cross-country tandem bicycle trip is nearing the end.\u00a0 Their blog can be found at the following link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.me.com\/kpcc2011\/CCat140\/Cross_Continent_2011.html\">http:\/\/web.me.com\/kpcc2011\/CCat140\/Cross_Continent_2011.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>if you are interested.\u00a0 The past week included Niagara Falls and the Erie Canal.\u00a0 They will end their journey in Maine.\u00a0 Hopefully, they are not impacted by the hurricane.\u00a0 They are concerned about a son in Virginia Beach close to the water.\u00a0 They will be visiting him before returning to Marysville, WA, and then to New Mexico.\u00a0 We have enjoyed sharing the trip through their blog.<\/p>\n<p>John\u2019s going with me today to shop at the grocery, while I go to my exercise class.\u00a0 He will pick up apple fritters for me.\u00a0 This morning about 7:45 a.m. I got a call from the bakery that the fritters were of the quality I prefer and did I want a dozen.\u00a0 Of course, please.\u00a0 John was amazed and said I was probably the only person in the world to receive such custom service from a grocery store bakery.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mind being spoiled.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorta used to it, with all John has done for me.<\/p>\n<p>We are headed to the \u201cWet Side\u201d on Saturday for a birthday party and to pick blackberries on the property of our friends.\u00a0 Actually, it is expected to be a nice day and the berries are \u201cready.\u201d\u00a0 Blackberries are classed as invasive weeds in the Puget Sound region and the patches are considered enter-at-your-own-risk entanglements \u2013 take flares, cell phones, and first aid kit.\u00a0 It will be a long day with a 1.5-hour drive each way.\u00a0 Sunday we have to be at the Vets at 10 AM to pick up Anne.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we are posting on Friday evening \u2013 thinking it might be Monday before we get back to this wordsmithing thing.<\/p>\n<p>So, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy and John<\/p>\n<p>on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night after we posted the blog, we had another patriotic dessert:\u00a0 Red Raspberries, Blueberries and White Vanilla ice cream.\u00a0 Yum yum. 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