Sunday, October 23, 2011.\u00a0 Today was a busy morning for John finishing up the 22 year moving of the pump house to beside our house.\u00a0 I got some more pictures this morning, and now have to take another in the house\u2019s new location.\u00a0 I have been working all morning on notifications about a Reecer Creek Restoration project (one canyon west of us), and I\u2019m notifying students and others in the area about the need for volunteers to plant trees.\u00a0 John is now cleaning out the truck and will next load with firewood to take to our neighbors.\u00a0 I have actually also been sitting with a nicely warmed (in the microwave) bag of flaxseed on my left shoulder pain.\u00a0 It is feeling much better.\u00a0 I need also to clean up the kitchen before he returns and wants to dry fruit.\u00a0 He just gave me a chore to cut the bad spots off some of our tomatoes and cook the rest to freeze for using in sauces this winter. \u00a0I did it, and then later when he returned he cooked them down and froze them. \u00a0Later this week he used some in a chili he made.\u00a0 He also worked more on applesauce and fixed a great dinner:\u00a0 pork roast, candied carrots, baked apples, and a baked potato we forgot to eat.\u00a0 Will have it tomorrow night for dinner with leftovers.<\/p>\n
Monday, October 24, 2011\u00a0 Nothing much new today.\u00a0 John made good progress on the \u201ccat house\u201d getting it off the skids.\u00a0 He also worked on cleaning up beyond the walnut trees where we used to have a patch of raspberries.\u00a0 He finished the applesauce, but we didn\u2019t get to do any drying of fruit yet.\u00a0 I started by going to my neighbor\u2019s 2 miles away for a much needed haircut.\u00a0 She was running late because she got a 4 point buck over the weekend, in a canyon east of us. \u00a0For Eastern folk that\u2019s an 8 point:\u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.ifish.net\/board\/archive\/index.php\/t-174943.html<\/a><\/p>\n I went to town and to exercise class, got\u00a0 a couple of gallons of expensive gas to get us to Yakima tomorrow, to Costco and to Yakima Heart Center to see my Cardiologist. \u00a0I picked up my lab results from last week at the hospital.\u00a0 Went by the P.O. to send two letters our postal carrier failed to pick up on Saturday morning.\u00a0 I\u2019m still upset about that.\u00a0 Also stopped at a yard sale and bought two barely used captain chairs each in a heavy \u201cnylon\u201d sack and large umbrella, all for $5. The guy also had a lot of insulation unused and packaged, but we are not yet ready for that.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Oct 25\u00a0 \u00a0Somehow I was too busy to write anything in the blog on this day.\u00a0 It started with getting up early to take off for my 10:55 appointment with my Cardiologist in Yakima.\u00a0 We left our house at 9:30 and got to the chainsaw (Stihl) dealer in time to buy a couple gallons of the bar-oil for John\u2019s chainsaw.\u00a0 Then on to the doctor\u2019s office just in time for my appointment.\u00a0 I had to fill out the normal prerequisite form and was resting when called in at 11:12.\u00a0 The nurse takes all the vitals and then leads you to the office where the doctor arrives in awhile.\u00a0 He apologized for being late, but then spent over an hour with us.\u00a0 John goes to my appointment with me.\u00a0 We left there starved for lunch at Costco, sharing 3 things:\u00a0 polish sausage, chicken bake , and a strawberry sundae.\u00a0 Probably not the kind of lunch for a low cholesterol diet. \u00a0\u00a0Ha ha.<\/p>\n Then a shopping spree which filled up our cart and the car.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad we didn\u2019t have much to buy for friends (just two bottles of wine vinegar), or we would have had to pile the dog food on the luggage rack !! \u00a0\u00a0On home, and we got delayed for a few minutes in a cattle drive on the road with no way around, 2.5 miles from our house.\u00a0 Drove in the driveway quickly, not even stopping for the mail.\u00a0 I jumped out, ran into the house for the keys, and back into my Subaru to drive back to town for my acupuncture appointment at 4:00 p.m.\u00a0 John stayed home to unpack all the stuff from Costco, and to feed the horses, cats, and exercise the dogs.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get back home till almost 6:00 p.m..\u00a0 We had a late supper.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Oct 26\u00a0 –another day another $1.\u00a0 Not really, I collected some money today but didn\u2019t spend any.\u00a0 Went to the Food Bank at noon for playing music in exchange for a meal from the Soup Kitchen.\u00a0 It is really a nice community effort for those who need the help.\u00a0 It is free.\u00a0 Today\u2019s lunch was homemade Turkey Noodle soup, salad (greens and all colors of pepper, and about 7 different dressings to choose from), garlic bread, and a little piece of chocolate cake with choc frosting.\u00a0 Nice meal, oh, and tomato juice (a large cup) to drink.\u00a0 On from there to Exercise class.\u00a0 Good time there.\u00a0 Home to work on the computer.\u00a0 It is getting colder, having gone well below freezing last night. The already yellow leaves of the black walnut trees . . .<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autumn_leaf_color<\/a><\/p>\n had a peak \u201cabscission\u201d event \u2013 leaves separating from the stems —<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.absoluteastronomy.com\/topics\/Abscission<\/a><\/p>\n and covered the ground.\u00a0 Most of the nuts are still hanging but we have 5 gallons (Want some?) John collected to keep away from the resident Douglas squirrel<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Squirrel<\/a><\/p>\n who makes such a mess of our big shed (insulation) and car motors if he gets underneath the hood from below).\u00a0 Without the luxury of so many walnuts perhaps he\/she will return to the nearby pine trees.<\/p>\n Thursday.\u00a0 Oct 27\u00a0 Hopefully getting caught up with drying fruit before any more spoils.\u00a0 Well, if tomatoes are a fruit and not a vegetable, then I caught up by cleaning up 15 of them and cooking down for sauce use.\u00a0 Then music in the afternoon and while I\u2019m busy John will go shopping for a few things.\u00a0 They had a tea \/ apple cider and cookies for us at the end of playing.\u00a0 Then off to the University to deliver the \u00be bushel basket to the prof now teaching Economic Geography.\u00a0 Kids nowadays do not know what a bushel is, and many of the agricultural statistics are still reported in bushels. Pictures of bushel baskets often show them heaped but, in fact, for shipping they had tops. Shown on this site:<\/p>\n http:\/\/housmancrabbingsupplies.com\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n And the filling of a railroad car with stacked bushels is described here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.cumminsnursery.com\/reefers.htm<\/a><\/p>\n Today apples and other fruit is shipped in corrugated cardboard, as shown here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.globebag.com\/corrugated.html<\/a><\/p>\n On home to more emails and John had more outside chores.\u00a0 Nice late dinner of chicken alfredo<\/em><\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fettuccine_alfredo#Alfredo_sauce<\/a><\/p>\n with pork, bacon, and cooked Rome apples added.\u00a0 John bought a little oil heater, electric, small one to put in the outside cats\u2019 house to keep it warm for them this winter.\u00a0 The cost of the small heater was only a bit more than a heated water bowl and that alone would not keep the space warm.\u00a0 Searched for cat and dog heat pads and related items.\u00a0 $$Ouch!<\/p>\n Friday, Oct 28 \u00a0Got cancelled out of today\u2019s scholarship luncheon; put off till Monday because the two people in charge have the awful bug that is rampant around campus and town.\u00a0 John worked a bit on the cat house.<\/p>\n He pulled off the 30 year-old shingles and replaced those with cut pieces of metal roofing we took off of the hay shed (barn) when it got a new roof.\u00a0 I went to town late for a 4:30 party\/dinner at Briarwood, of two soups (both very good), and cornbread, rolls, and several desserts.\u00a0 I filled up for sure.\u00a0 Just drove in and back — 17 mi roundtrip.\u00a0 They were happy to see me.\u00a0 So, I’m glad I went.<\/p>\n Oh.. I forgot to say, that my favorite cousin (always thought she was my aunt, because she was older), that I got to see in a nursing facility in Marietta, GA while there in May, died today. \u00a0She had pneumonia for the past couple of weeks, but she was really in bad shape with dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s, and not (for some time) communicating very well.\u00a0 Her eldest daughter is 74, \u00a0so she must have been in her mid-nineties.\u00a0 I held her hand and told her about my memories and I thought she recognized me and smiled and responded.\u00a0 I was glad I made the visit. \u00a0Most of the family couldn’t stand to visit her in such a deteriorated condition, but I’m very glad I did. \u00a0Her house was where I learned to ride horses when I was a youngster. \u00a0They took me in as family when my dad was ill and my mom had to work.\u00a0 I was there for 2 weeks with the Chicken Pox.\u00a0 I had a light case and was out riding horses.\u00a0 \u201cBlackie\u201d liked to swim and took me into a nearby lake.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have any scars from the wetted pox.<\/p>\n Saturday. Oct 29 \u00a0\u00a0It is sunny and cool.\u00a0 We have had to destroy (give to the deer), a few pears that went bad before we had time to dehydrate them.\u00a0 We still have some left and many apples to work on.\u00a0 John will be finishing putting screws on the metal roof of the cats\u2019 house.\u00a0 He\u2019s worried at not seeing the cats this morning, after all the time he has spent moving the old pump house it into our backyard and refurbishing and.\u00a0 While he is outside, I will go back and print off a bunch of letters for the Memory Book.<\/p>\n Last night we both had terribly realistic dreams that kept us from having a decent rest.\u00a0 Must have been the chocolate covered cashews and ice cream?<\/p>\n There is a snow storm back east where we have family and friends.<\/p>\n Here in Washington the snow level has not yet gotten down to our (2,240 ft.) elevation. \u00a0Hope your weekend is wonderful.\u00a0 Snow if you want.\u00a0 Or none, if that suits you.<\/p>\n Nancy & John<\/p>\n still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, October 23, 2011.\u00a0 Today was a busy morning for John finishing up the 22 year moving of the pump house to beside our house.\u00a0 I got some more pictures this morning, and now have to take another in the house\u2019s new location.\u00a0 I have been working all morning on notifications about a Reecer Creek … Continue reading “SATURDAY — Fall projects continue”<\/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-882","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-ee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}