Sunday, October 30, 2011.\u00a0 No in-town projects, but lots of out of the house (and in-house) projects.\u00a0 Same ole; same ole.<\/p>\n
Monday, October 31, 2011\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0— \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0HAPPY HALLOWEEN\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off to town for a scholarship luncheon.\u00a0 We were each fed a baked potato (Yukon Gold) grown in one woman\u2019s garden. \u00a0She claimed the plants are special because they don\u2019t come from \u201ceyes on seed potatoes.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s not exactly true but these potatoes do have an interesting history.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yukon_Gold_potato<\/a><\/p>\n Their shallow eyes have a rosy pink coloration:<\/p>\n http:\/\/homecooking.about.com\/od\/foodhistory\/a\/yukongoldhistry.htm<\/a><\/p>\n So they say.\u00a0 We have not raised them and photos don\u2019t show much.\u00a0 Let\u2019s all buy a few and have a look.<\/p>\n The luncheon with the Yukon\u2019s was a two-hostesses affair.\u00a0 There were many different toppings provided, and the table was lovely with orange and black plates and many decorations, and a little bag of candy corn for each person to take home.\u00a0 Pumpkin pie was for dessert.\u00a0 I went on to exercise class and then to visit our Geography department secretary (who was there when I arrived in 1988), and before she left, she had in 27 years of service ). \u00a0She lives in one of the retirement centers where our music group plays. \u00a0I took her picture with her cat and picked up a note she wrote for the memory book.\u00a0 I added it and the pictures to her page.\u00a0 We had a very nice visit.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Nov 1 — Not much today.\u00a0 I worked on the memory book; John worked outside, and I went for a massage, for my shoulder (and neck).\u00a0 It seems to be helping.\u00a0 I drank lots of water and was not in as much pain as two weeks ago.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Nov 2 –Today was a trip to town for playing music and eating at the food bank.\u00a0 We had Salisbury steak, milk gravy on it and on mashed potatoes, corn, cut raw carrots, and applesauce. \u00a0John finished digging the ditch for the power cord to the cat house.\u00a0 It might rain or snow soon and an un-dug ditch in nasty weather is a thing to avoid.<\/p>\n I transposed the Marine’s Hymn today for our Clarinet player.\u00a0 We are practicing for Veteran’s Day performance coming up.\u00a0 I looked up Anchors Aweigh and also transposed it for her. (Sadly she missed our play date today; oh, well, it will be ready for her next week.)<\/p>\n There is a big old HOOT owl making noise in the woods north of us. \u00a0 Very loud.\u00a0 Always makes me worry about the cats outside.\u00a0 Well, the big old Hoot owl is very likely the smaller male (young or old ?) of a pair of Bub virginianus<\/em>.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.owlpages.com\/owls.php?genus=Bubo&species=virginianus<\/a><\/p>\n I just put a blanket around my cold feet. \u00a0Jeez, and I have heavy socks plus down booties.\u00a0 And the heat is up to \u00a069 in the hallway. \u00a0However, I\u2019m sitting here in the recliner next to the cold window (patio). Temp now is 42; was only 55 today in town. Going to 30 tonight, and they are calling for snow in the morning. \u00a0BAD\u2014mentally we are not ready for cold \u2013 and some folks think the PNW will be colder than average for the next two weeks:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/predictions\/814day\/814temp.new.gif<\/a><\/p>\n . . .while average for the next 3 months through the end of January.\u00a0 Are we to believe we will have early cold and then not colder than normal afterwards?\u00a0 That will be nice.\u00a0 One winter here it went to 17 below and did not get above zero for 3 weeks.<\/p>\n So back to goings on:\u00a0 When I got home, I cut up and cooked 12 tomatoes.\u00a0 John put them into two containers of 1.5 pounds each.\u00a0 Our tomato seed pack has paid for itself. \u00a0Hurrah!\u00a0 Got yet another letter tonight for the memory book and have processed it, but not yet printed it.<\/p>\n Thursday.\u00a0 Nov 3 was John\u2019s lucky day.\u00a0 He found his black plastic lens cover in the pasture, before being covered by dropping leaves, snow, or deer scat.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36722129@N06\/3474320972\/<\/a><\/p>\n Well, you do know what snow and leaves look like!\u00a0 Next, he decided to clean up the freezer and other stuff from the garage to take to the dump (transfer station).\u00a0 He found the keys to his Subaru that have been lost for at least 6 months.\u00a0 They were in the freezer apparently having fallen from his upper shirt pocket while he was putting something down in the chest freezer.\u00a0 They say luck comes in 3s. \u00a0At the dump, the guy next to him unloaded 7 pieces of unused plywood, each about 3\u2019 by 4\u2019.\u00a0 John asked if he could take it and the guy in charge said, \u201cThis is my first day and I really don\u2019t know but go ahead and I will look the other way.\u201d\u00a0 He wanted to go for 4 lucky things and buy a lotto ticket.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t have time so we still are not rich.\u00a0 He did a lot while I was playing music–filled both tanks of the 1989 Ford truck, shopped at the grocery, taking advantage of a 12-hr. special sale.\u00a0 Nice that he bought some sirloin steaks for only $2.98\/pound.\u00a0 And, he got some bananas for .38\/pound that we intend to dry.\u00a0 Some say sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.\u00a0 Sounds good.\u00a0 Dinner tonight was the steak (tougher than expected), baked potato, and tomatoes (they are thinning out).\u00a0 Fruitcake (frozen last December) with ice cream for dessert.<\/p>\n Friday, Nov 4 — Day that had much stuff happening at the house (yard) with John, and with Nancy in town.\u00a0 Nancy went to a potluck at the Adult Activity Center, stayed over and worked with a gal on a puzzle (only found 3 pieces to put in), and then we both went to afternoon exercise class.\u00a0 I had taken some of John\u2019s homemade applesauce from the Rome apples so it is a lovely red color.\u00a0 The Center fixed a nice bunch of spaghetti with meat sauce, toasted garlic bread, and people brought some neat potluck stuff, including a wild rice\/tomato\/celery salad, a Waldorf salad, a casserole with carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, pearl onions, made with two soups (one a shrimp soup, which gave it some color), plate of red grapes, & cookies and ice cream for dessert.\u00a0 I missed the plate of veggies that came late with someone.\u00a0 For our dinner, John cooked chicken breasts, and I cut up a tomato to have with mine.\u00a0\u00a0 It was neat that he put our Carpathian walnuts in brown sugar with our Acorn squash (bought; not grown in our garden).\u00a0 Getting the walnuts cured was a task.\u00a0 He has worked hard with them spread around the house in flat boxes, and turning them a couple times a day.\u00a0 Now we have to package them up for the freezer too.\u00a0 Perhaps we\u2019ll figure out something neat to do with some of them — a praline candy type item maybe.\u00a0 We still have much fruit to dry.<\/p>\n Saturday. Nov 5 — Waked up to temps of 21\u2026 now at 12:30 p.m. it\u2019s up to 42 and John went outside while the temps are bearable.\u00a0 He was going to do some inside work helping me on dehydrating bananas, but a friend sent a photo of rocks from one of her horseback rides with a \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d tag. \u00a0He gathered some ideas and photo links from the \u2018net\u2019 and then wanted to go outside where the sun was shining. \u00a0I will work on this blog and clean off the table, fill in my Absentee Voter\u2019s Ballot, and wait for him to help with the drying.\u00a0 We now have an extra dehydrator given to us. It is older, square, with metal screen trays, but not the older high metal ones.\u00a0 This looks like a little microwave.\u00a0 I have never seen one like this.<\/p>\n John just came in after working for 2 hours picking up black walnuts that have fallen in our driveway and yard.\u00a0 They are too much trouble to try to keep, although he may pick out 50 of the largest to do something with later in the winter.\u00a0 Problem is having to open them with a hammer; they are not as easy as the English-type walnuts he has harvested this year.\u00a0 He wanted to get them off the ground so the Douglas squirrel will have to go elsewhere for food.\u00a0 It may be she\/he has already left or been killed by the owl we\u2019ve been hearing.\u00a0 We are thinking it has been two months since the critter was in the yard.\u00a0 Meanwhile something has been snacking on the pine nuts from the Ponderosas.\u00a0 Birds maybe? http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44884897@N03\/4448421360\/<\/a><\/p>\n Hope your next week is wonderful.<\/p>\n Nancy & John<\/p>\n still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, October 30, 2011.\u00a0 No in-town projects, but lots of out of the house (and in-house) projects.\u00a0 Same ole; same ole. 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![http:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/predictions\/814day\/814temp.new.gif<\/a><\/p>\n. . .while average for the next 3 months through the end of January.\u00a0 Are we to believe we will have early cold and then not colder than normal afterwards?\u00a0 That will be nice.\u00a0 One winter here it went to 17 below and did not get above zero for 3 weeks.<\/p>\nSo back to goings on:\u00a0 When I got home, I cut up and cooked 12 tomatoes.\u00a0 John put them into two containers of 1.5 pounds each.\u00a0 Our tomato seed pack has paid for itself. \u00a0Hurrah!\u00a0 Got yet another letter tonight for the memory book and have processed it, but not yet printed it.<\/p>\nThursday.\u00a0 Nov 3 was John\u2019s lucky day.\u00a0 He found his black plastic lens cover in the pasture, before being covered by dropping leaves, snow, or deer scat.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36722129@N06\/3474320972\/<\/a><\/p>\nWell, you do know what snow and leaves look like!\u00a0 Next, he decided to clean up the freezer and other stuff from the garage to take to the dump (transfer station).\u00a0 He found the keys to his Subaru that have been lost for at least 6 months.\u00a0 They were in the freezer apparently having fallen from his upper shirt pocket while he was putting something down in the chest freezer.\u00a0 They say luck comes in 3s. \u00a0At the dump, the guy next to him unloaded 7 pieces of unused plywood, each about 3\u2019 by 4\u2019.\u00a0 John asked if he could take it and the guy in charge said, \u201cThis is my first day and I really don\u2019t know but go ahead and I will look the other way.\u201d\u00a0 He wanted to go for 4 lucky things and buy a lotto ticket.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t have time so we still are not rich.\u00a0 He did a lot while I was playing music–filled both tanks of the 1989 Ford truck, shopped at the grocery, taking advantage of a 12-hr. special sale.\u00a0 Nice that he bought some sirloin steaks for only $2.98\/pound.\u00a0 And, he got some bananas for .38\/pound that we intend to dry.\u00a0 Some say sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.\u00a0 Sounds good.\u00a0 Dinner tonight was the steak (tougher than expected), baked potato, and tomatoes (they are thinning out).\u00a0 Fruitcake (frozen last December) with ice cream for dessert.<\/p>\nFriday, Nov 4 — Day that had much stuff happening at the house (yard) with John, and with Nancy in town.\u00a0 Nancy went to a potluck at the Adult Activity Center, stayed over and worked with a gal on a puzzle (only found 3 pieces to put in), and then we both went to afternoon exercise class.\u00a0 I had taken some of John\u2019s homemade applesauce from the Rome apples so it is a lovely red color.\u00a0 The Center fixed a nice bunch of spaghetti with meat sauce, toasted garlic bread, and people brought some neat potluck stuff, including a wild rice\/tomato\/celery salad, a Waldorf salad, a casserole with carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, pearl onions, made with two soups (one a shrimp soup, which gave it some color), plate of red grapes, & cookies and ice cream for dessert.\u00a0 I missed the plate of veggies that came late with someone.\u00a0 For our dinner, John cooked chicken breasts, and I cut up a tomato to have with mine.\u00a0\u00a0 It was neat that he put our Carpathian walnuts in brown sugar with our Acorn squash (bought; not grown in our garden).\u00a0 Getting the walnuts cured was a task.\u00a0 He has worked hard with them spread around the house in flat boxes, and turning them a couple times a day.\u00a0 Now we have to package them up for the freezer too.\u00a0 Perhaps we\u2019ll figure out something neat to do with some of them — a praline candy type item maybe.\u00a0 We still have much fruit to dry.<\/p>\nSaturday. Nov 5 — Waked up to temps of 21\u2026 now at 12:30 p.m. it\u2019s up to 42 and John went outside while the temps are bearable.\u00a0 He was going to do some inside work helping me on dehydrating bananas, but a friend sent a photo of rocks from one of her horseback rides with a \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d tag. \u00a0He gathered some ideas and photo links from the \u2018net\u2019 and then wanted to go outside where the sun was shining. \u00a0I will work on this blog and clean off the table, fill in my Absentee Voter\u2019s Ballot, and wait for him to help with the drying.\u00a0 We now have an extra dehydrator given to us. It is older, square, with metal screen trays, but not the older high metal ones.\u00a0 This looks like a little microwave.\u00a0 I have never seen one like this.<\/p>\nJohn just came in after working for 2 hours picking up black walnuts that have fallen in our driveway and yard.\u00a0 They are too much trouble to try to keep, although he may pick out 50 of the largest to do something with later in the winter.\u00a0 Problem is having to open them with a hammer; they are not as easy as the English-type walnuts he has harvested this year.\u00a0 He wanted to get them off the ground so the Douglas squirrel will have to go elsewhere for food.\u00a0 It may be she\/he has already left or been killed by the owl we\u2019ve been hearing.\u00a0 We are thinking it has been two months since the critter was in the yard.\u00a0 Meanwhile something has been snacking on the pine nuts from the Ponderosas.\u00a0 Birds maybe? http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44884897@N03\/4448421360\/<\/a><\/p>\nHope your next week is wonderful.<\/p>\nNancy & John<\/p>\nstill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, October 30, 2011.\u00a0 No in-town projects, but lots of out of the house (and in-house) projects.\u00a0 Same ole; same ole. 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