Saturday, Dec 24\u00a0\u00a0 This was a relatively quiet day because my laptop computer was compromised, and I had none to use in the morning while John was using his (our home computer).\u00a0 I spent the time well, however, going through months of receipts, organizing them, and filing.\u00a0 I\u2019m still very behind, but made an amazing dent.\u00a0 Then after John\u2019s running the dogs and feeding the horses and outside cats, we got a call from his sister in Ohio and talked for an hour. \u00a0An hour later, we called his brother in CA and talked to him and his wife for almost 3\/4 hour.\u00a0 Both were really nice visits.\u00a0 The rest of the afternoon I spent on John\u2019s computer creating the web greeting for 2011 from us, but cannot do anything with it till I get my computer back, which has all the software I need to create necessary files and then to get them on the web.<\/p>\n
Sunday, Dec 25 \u00a0\u00a0Today is a day with our neighbors. \u00a0John is making a dish of Yams to share.\u00a0 They are making a Turkey.\u00a0 It is a smaller group than usual (only 5), as we had a huge Thanksgiving there with 19 people.\u00a0 It is not a white Christmas, is beautiful, sunny, and around freezing temps.\u00a0 Now at noonish, however, it is clouding over. \u00a0Actually we got to our neighbors at 12:45 and it started spitting snow and then snowing BIG flakes.\u00a0 When we left at 4:45 the car was covered with a couple inches of snow.\u00a0 Guess we ended up with a white Christmas after all.\u00a0 We had a nice turkey dinner and a good visit.\u00a0 They presented us with several jars of jam, and containers of frozen strawberry jam, and canned pears (I think the latter was because John helped pick them).\u00a0 Their son gave us a boxed Amaryllis bulb.\u00a0 Add water.\u00a0 Wait.<\/p>\n
Monday Dec 26\u00a0\u00a0 Cleaning kitchen counters, working on greetings newsletter, continuing to clean off disk of virus-infected laptop \u2013all filled up my day.\u00a0 Today was a day for lunch and dinner of leftovers, but all were quite good.\u00a0 John went to bed early because of needing to get started early in the morning.\u00a0 No reason to go to town, so we didn\u2019t.\u00a0 The Adult Activity Center is still closed for Christmas weekend, so no exercise.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Dec 27\u00a0\u00a0 The farrier is coming this morning.\u00a0 John fed the birds, cats, and horses, and set them up for getting their feet trimmed.\u00a0 I spent time on the phone with computer guys and have been doing more repairs on my computer laptop, trying to get it back to \u201cnormal\u201d, whatever that is.\u00a0 Later today, I must take off for acupuncture. — I\u2019m back and I’m sort of beat from the acupuncture.\u00a0 Today I got it on both sides.\u00a0 Started on my back lying face down (hate the pressure with the weight of my head on my face); then turned over on my back with a pillow under my head.\u00a0 My left top arm was still hurting at the end and I complained, so he rubbed on a very smelly oil (Woodlock).\u00a0 I looked it up on the web, it has turpentine (hence the smell) in it. It’s supposed to be an external analgesic (for pain).\u00a0 Well, it did minimize the pain, but not the pain of pungent smells I hate.\u00a0 It rained a lot while I was in the office but not on me getting back to my car or driving home.\u00a0 Late night success freeing space on my laptop.\u00a0 However, still have two pop-up windows, apparently harmless.\u00a0 At least the speed is dramatically increased and my software applications are all working again.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Dec 28\u00a0 early to rise, but not enough time.\u00a0 Cleaned up more on my computer, and got ready to roll for town for playing music at the EBRG Food Bank, where lunch was nicely baked BBQ chicken, a great cold slaw*, beans (several kinds), and apricots with cottage cheese.\u00a0 Went around town doing errands, and then to exercise class.\u00a0 Been doing computer stuff and we had a small dinner of leftovers tonight.<\/p>\n
[*The term “coleslaw” arose in the 18th century as an Anglicisation of the Dutch term “koolsla”, a shortening of “koolsalade”, which means “cabbage salad”. \u00a0It is originally from Ireland and was made from leftovers.\u00a0 <\/em>So says http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coleslaw<\/a>\u00a0 ]<\/p>\n Thursday, Dec 29 \u00a0\u00a0Today began early because of needing to take Nancy to Yakima for a device check (routine every 3 months).\u00a0 John let me off and a favorite tech took a wireless readout of my ICD, printed lots of charts for my file, and pronounced me most copacetic.\u00a0 Meanwhile, John went down the hill to Costco to shop. It was good we did it this way, because we wouldn\u2019t have had enough time to eat lunch in Yakima and get back in time for me to play fiddle with the group at 2:00 p.m.\u00a0 We made it but only because I had driven my car to town and left it at a friend\u2019s, so John could drop me off and continue home to unpack, run the dogs, and feed the horses.\u00a0 I stayed in town after music, going to the post office and then to my massage therapist.\u00a0 It was dark and raining hard as I exited.\u00a0 Better than snow at this point.<\/p>\n Friday, Dec 30\u00a0\u00a0 We received a 7:30 a.m. phone call from our neighbor Kenny that 3 of our horses were out along the road.\u00a0 John got them to come back.\u00a0 They followed him down the 300\u2019 driveway and through a gate he had opened.\u00a0 A bit later he went to warm up the car for me \u2013 then came back to get keys for a different car.\u00a0 The one I intended to take had a broken side window. (more below<\/em>)<\/p>\n This morning is the follow-up mammogram to check out the micro-thingies mentioned last week. \u00a0Foggy and cool.\u00a0 Icy roads going to town and in town and in the parking lot at the hospital.\u00a0 My nine X-rays went all right.\u00a0 I had a different person who is much more considerate, careful, slow, and with a gentle touch.\u00a0 I complimented her at the end and told her it was much better than I had anticipated, based on my experience last week.\u00a0 She thanked me for telling her, and also said, “I feel it is important to take time with each patient.”<\/p>\n Back to the horse story–Sometime overnight, they were running around our front yard and down\/up the driveway.\u00a0 There was a bit of low fence and my big Frosty will sometimes lean into such things and then carefully step over.\u00a0 Others, if they are watching, may follow \u2013 less carefully, and in seconds the fence gets flattened.\u00a0 Three were out.\u00a0 In the dark and fog one horse turned in the narrow space between our recently repaired white car and the front fence.\u00a0 Something, a knee, head, or rump, bumped into the back door passenger side and bent it in, and broke the window.<\/p>\n One of our friends, when he heard about the car injury, and that I hadn\u2019t tried to reach my agent in Spokane, WA suggested I call the 24\/7 number for the company.\u00a0 I looked up and called the claim\u2019s number for Safeco and told what happened.\u00a0 He said \u201cno problem\u201d (even asked if the horses were okay), and gave me a claim number, and I will go by to get an estimate next Tuesday. \u00a0It will cost us $100 (the deductible for our comprehensive policy).\u00a0 This follows the encounter with the deer back on September 12 \u2013 same car, same side.<\/p>\n On a brighter note, I am sitting here enjoying watching birds feeding on top of a garbage can turned upside down about 25 feet from where I sit.\u00a0 John spreads seeds there.\u00a0 There are Purple Finches (Cassini, I think), sparrows, black capped Chickadees and Oregon juncos.\u00a0 The occasional Blue Jay will come.<\/p>\n Okay.. We are doing apples.\u00a0 I just sat down for John to catch up.\u00a0 He washes and slices, cleans out the seeds, dips in lemon juice, and then I take them and put them on the shelves of the dehydrator.\u00a0 Two of the bottom ones are filled with “banana” apples, which are good “keepers”.\u00a0 We will try to get more of them next year… because our time is limited getting to these chores.<\/p>\n Snowed tonight and now we have had very high winds for the past couple of hours.\u00a0 The highest gust at the airport 5 miles southwest of us measured at 47 mph, and in the last hour it has gone down to 38 mph.<\/p>\n Saturday, December 31\u00a0\u00a0 Happy New Year\u2019s Eve!<\/p>\n After a bunch of work over the past several weeks, and recently this week giving a lot of attention to putting it on a web page for inclusion as a link in our 2011 newsletter (still under construction), here is a story for you to check out at the end of the year about our construction of a Cat House.\u00a0\u00a0 What a run on sentence that last was!<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.elixant.com\/~nancyh\/2011cathouse.html<\/a><\/p>\n I spent most of the day writing letters and filling out forms for 3 of my prior students, and I’m only done with one of them.\u00a0 I need to print out a letter for another, get it in an envelope and mail it next week, and the other I have an hour or so of work left on, but I talked to her on the phone today, and she is gone until tomorrow afternoon, so I have more time.<\/p>\n John went out to feed the horses.\u00a0 I was working on the computer and got a phone call from Atlanta, GA from the 52-year old daughter of my 3rd cousin (77) who is dying of cancer.\u00a0 Really very sad. \u00a0What a wicked disease. \u00a0Happily I visited her while in Atlanta in May.\u00a0 A newly made friend in my exercise class since 2010 just died from the same disease.<\/p>\n Now John is working on slicing apples again (all Red Romes), and I will join him in a minute to place 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