Saturday, Mar 3.\u00a0 Late tonight we had a call from John’s sister Peggy that Kathy had been moved to a nursing home, and had a stomach feeding tube inserted.\u00a0 Hearing stories of the move, and all associated problems, brought back bad memories to John and me of my move in January, 2010.\u00a0 Thankfully, I survived and I hope so will Kathy.\u00a0 I wrote her a nice note today and it will get in the mail tomorrow, reminding her to keep her faith and that she will get back on the road, gain use of her muscles, and get out of bed.\u00a0 It’s hard to believe right now, but I saw several people who had had strokes who managed to get back on their feet (from being paralyzed), and walk on\u00a0a walker.\u00a0 One gentleman was 87, so that was a good thought to tell her.\u00a0 He is still\u00a0doing all right, and living at home with his wife, who was my roommate for half the time I was there.\u00a0 She was my inspiration; she kept telling me she was exactly where I was a few weeks ago (unable to walk, get in and out of bed, and potty on her own).\u00a0 She was right, and I still tell her she was my savior telling me I could get back to normal again.\u00a0 The sad thing is that she has had to return to relying on a walker because her Parkinson’s flared up after I was with her.<\/p>\n
Sunday, Mar 4.\u00a0 We departed the last blog comment with one that Saturday was overcast and we found it hard to believe this day would be sunny.\u00a0 Well, it was and a beautiful day.\u00a0 Mid-afternoon we took a trip in the ’89 Ford truck over 1.5 miles and up a mile to check out some new development that John had seen on his last trip to run the truck.\u00a0 We need to keep it going because when it sits it is not good for it.\u00a0 It sits a lot in the winter because it is 2WD and normally used to pull our horse trailer, which we don’t do in the winter.\u00a0 Last Sunday John went by himself because I was too sick to move.\u00a0 Today, however, I was able to climb up on the running board and get into the truck.\u00a0 After seeing that, we went over and back East, once up on the hill, I used my cell phone to call my friend Morris over in Othello.\u00a0 He is doing better.\u00a0 I kept talking to him and we got back to our road, but John decided to turn left and go north on Naneum.\u00a0 We saw two people on horses at Allen Aronica’s place, and so we stopped and drove up to his back porch, where he was cooking chicken on a propane grill.\u00a0 I handed the phone to him to say hello to Morris.\u00a0 Morris has known him (he’s a Yakama Indian) for years and visited with his mom, Ida Nason, doing cultural history type interviews, 25 and more years ago.\u00a0 They live(d) about a mile north of our house.\u00a0 He is also the one who helped us bury two departed horses.<\/p>\n
While cleaning up today I came across the little yellow tablet of notes I took while interred in the nursing home.\u00a0 Some things I had forgotten, but my detailed notes (not always legible) brought back good and mostly bad memories and gave me a laugh or two.\u00a0 All my comments about the food was hilarious.\u00a0 I remembered it was awful, but I have exactly the details in my log.\u00a0 Cannot believe how many sausage patties, tough and gristle filled, and how many times I returned them and refused to eat.\u00a0 I requested they not bring them, but I don’t think they did until the last week I was there. \u00a0I’m surely glad I survived the ordeal.\u00a0 The good part was the physical therapy that got me back on my feet.\u00a0 Both my favorites have left there and gone on to better (I hope) jobs.\u00a0 The head guy PT had worked there for 14 years.\u00a0 Tells you something about the administration, perhaps.\u00a0 Now they just hired a new director, Mar 1. \u00a0Might have been the cause of my nightmares–finding and reading those notes.<\/p>\n
Monday, Mar 5.\u00a0 This morning John\u2019s up early to do the animal chores and then leaving at 7:30 a.m. to prune grape vines at White Heron winery at Trinidad, on the Columbia River.\u00a0 They only put in 3 hours\/day so as to allow everyone to do the other things they need to.\u00a0 And then there is that repetitive hand motion of pruning \u2013 3 hours is plenty.\u00a0 He returned about 2:00 p.m. \u00a0Here\u2019s how it is done now: (except John uses gloves)<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.featurepics.com\/FI\/Thumb300\/20070105\/Grapevine-Pruning-182128.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n And here is the future:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.technovelgy.com\/graphics\/content09\/pruning-robot.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n I did not go to town today.\u00a0 Only had one event (exercise) and decided not to go.\u00a0 Spent much of my day working on plans for going to my mom’s family’s family reunion in Guyton, GA the end of June.\u00a0 What is totally cool is that my cousin Susan and her husband John will donate their air miles to me for the trip from Yakima to Savannah.\u00a0 That will save much time and beau coups of money, would have been almost $900 to pay for it myself.\u00a0 The cheapest way for me to go was via Atlanta, (still almost $500), but then I would have to find someone there to pick me up and deliver me back to the Airport, and worse, I would have to rent a car and drive the distance to Guyton, GA (30 miles north of Savannah) down and back.\u00a0 My stamina is really not up to that much, I don’t believe.\u00a0 Part of the problem with flights is the rural locations near smaller sized cities on both ends that require either hours of driving or extra links from tiny airports.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Mar 6.\u00a0 What a full day; my first out of the house to town, in over two weeks (except for one day a week ago).\u00a0 I really enjoyed it, but was totally worn out.\u00a0 I’m writing this at 8:30 p.m. and ready to hit the hay.\u00a0 The day began, wishing John well as he left at 7:30 for pruning.\u00a0 Then morning chores were on the computer and in the den and kitchen.\u00a0 Finally got cleaned up and off to town without much to eat, at 1:44.\u00a0 Saw and stopped and talked to John at the end of the driveway as he was returning.\u00a0 Went on to the hospital for a blood draw and from there on to the Sr. Center for foot care.\u00a0 Not bad for a 1\/2 hour of attention for $10.<\/p>\n From there, on to Hospice to do all the paperwork and sign out a 4-wheel walker with a study seat for my 86 yr old neighbor, who broke her hip in 5 places over a month ago.\u00a0 She is doing really well on her physical therapy.\u00a0 I picked out a light but sturdy one, put it in my trunk, and went on to her room in the nursing home.\u00a0 She was so happy to see it and me, and she got up and used it to walk down a short hall, on the north side of the building and then the entire length on the west side of the building.\u00a0 That was a long haul and I was tiring, but she never stopped for a rest.\u00a0 We spoke to the physical therapist and he measured it and it is perfect for her height (5’3″).\u00a0 I had looked through 8 different ones, and decided it was the best fit.\u00a0 Turns out I was right.\u00a0 I’m so happy. \u00a0Then when she sat down (in PT), she realized how far down it was, and so to get\u00a0back up was difficult, but she managed.\u00a0 I went back down the long and short hall with her, and then walked out to my car to retrieve my favorite pillow I used with my walker way back in 2010.\u00a0 I took it back in, and she was thrilled.\u00a0 I know this will be perfect for her.\u00a0 Just having the extra height above the seat will allow her to get up easier.\u00a0 It did for me, so I remembered well and was happy to assist.\u00a0 I received more yesterday and today on the Master’s thesis I’m reviewing.\u00a0 I found some time to put on the new section on statistics (she did in response to my comments).\u00a0 She visited with another prof who is much more up-to-date than I am, and he was most helpful.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Mar 7.\u00a0\u00a0 Up very early, both of us.\u00a0 John had taken care of the neighbors animals before 7:00 a.m. and came home to do ours.\u00a0 I was sitting by the back patio door and looked out to see a ring neck rooster pheasant walking along the backyard fence.\u00a0 He was a dark colored (but with the red head).\u00a0 That is the first time I have seen him, but John has seen him in the ditches out by the road.\u00a0 We have lots of quail, but seldom see a pheasant.<\/p>\n http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3537\/3428347702_4094815106_z.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n For me, today starts at 11:30 on my way to the Soup Kitchen for playing music (and they feed us a nice lunch at the end).\u00a0 Today was something called Goulash, but not my idea of that.\u00a0 It was a nice mixture of meat, noodles, tomatoes, and beans.\u00a0 With it we had garlic bread, and a nice green salad.\u00a0 There was dessert, but I didn’t have any.\u00a0\u00a0 One was a blueberry yogurt type thing, but I decided to skip it with my milk protein “allergy.”\u00a0 \u00a0My voice has returned since I started leaving off chocolate milk, milk, cheese, and ice cream.\u00a0 Interesting that my complaint to two medical doctors (family physician and my cardiologist) had no solution.\u00a0 It took my acupuncturist \/ massage therapist to realize it.\u00a0 I’m very grateful, and so is my music group.\u00a0 Don’t know that my dogs appreciate my voice projection being back, however. \u00a0After that I went to my exercise class at the AAC, and it had been 2 weeks plus a day, \u00a0since I had participated.\u00a0 They greeted me with hugs and happiness to have me back.\u00a0 Very cool. \u00a0From there I went to the grocery store, and because I was pretty weak from doing so much so soon (I was careful and didn’t push it for exercise); but I still decided to get one of the little power carts at the grocery store.\u00a0 Picked up a few things, particularly milk we needed to make the cherry\/ blueberry\/ walnut cobbler for dessert to take tomorrow to the music group potluck.\u00a0 Then off to my massage therapist.\u00a0 I had a nice one today, plus he gave me on his time at the end of my hour session another 15 minutes of “healing touch” which he had a class in this past weekend.\u00a0 I was impressed and appreciated him working on me with it.\u00a0 It’s rather fascinating and the hands never touch the body.\u00a0 Apparently, it is slowly being accepted in some hospitals as an alternative to calm down and relax patients who are anxious for whatever reason.\u00a0 It’s been 3 weeks since I was in there. \u00a0John and I made the cobbler and it is beautiful.<\/p>\n Thursday, Mar 8. \u00a0\u00a0I continued working on computer correspondence and preparing my music for the order that we will play today, tonight, and Saturday night.\u00a0 Had to take a couple of calls about issues for others and for me.\u00a0 Finally I got ready and went the 2 miles around the block to my neighbor, who cut my hair.\u00a0 It was getting really long and straggly.\u00a0 Came back home and got a bite of tuna fish salad on multi-grain crackers.\u00a0 Took off again for town to play music at the Rehab where I spent so much time in Jan\/Feb 2010.\u00a0 We had a smaller number of people than usual, but we were fine and practiced our music for playing in Yakima Saturday night.\u00a0 There was one person there who won’t be there Saturday, but will be at our potluck tonight, along with two others who will be at the Yakima shindig.\u00a0 To share with folks who have a slow connection and don’t like large emails, I took along CDs of some pictures John took at the Spirit of the West.\u00a0 Another needed a printed map with directions on how to get to the place Saturday night in Yakima.\u00a0 John made the map using internet sources with Google Earth \u201cstreet view\u201d captured images.\u00a0 No one should get lost. \u00a0My Subaru made funny sounds on the way in to town tonight but nothing seemed wrong and it managed to get me home.\u00a0 Tonight at the potluck was the following food:\u00a0 Chicken Ratatouille, apples & cranberries, scalloped potatoes, apple muffins, green salad with blueberries!, chips and homemade salsa\/bean dip, we took a jar of pears (canned by our neighbor), and the cherry, walnut (both ours) blueberry (from our valley) cobbler.\u00a0 We bought some banana split ice cream to put on top, and we warmed the cobbler in their oven.\u00a0 It was the only dessert and very well liked.\u00a0 People couldn’t stop talking about it and eating it. \u00a0John left without dessert to get to our Kittitas Valley Trail Riders meeting.\u00a0 There was a piece of cobbler left to bring home to him.\u00a0 I stayed\u00a0 and we had a jam session after a nice table discussion after dinner.<\/p>\n Friday, Mar \u00a09.\u00a0 I was awake enough to know John was leaving at 7:30 but I went back to sleep for a couple of hours ! I guess I wore myself out the past three days.\u00a0 So, didn’t go in for my class today.\u00a0 Frankly, I didn’t wish to drive the car when John was so far away, yet I will have to on Monday.\u00a0 Still don’t know why it was acting up last night. \u00a0I transposed \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d for our clarinet player, and sorted and filed and 3-hole punched all the EOB (Explanation of Benefits) for all medical payments in 2010.\u00a0 Now I have to sort the checks I paid for each one.\u00a0 There are some discrepancies I need to check up on.\u00a0 John’s home, had a nap, and we need to put together another cobbler for our neighbor\u2019s birthday and welcome back from the nursing home party.\u00a0 I will deliver it tomorrow morning when I go over to change dressings on her son’s foot.<\/p>\n Saturday will be a busy and late day, so tomorrow\u2019s events will lead next week\u2019s report. 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![http:\/\/www.featurepics.com\/FI\/Thumb300\/20070105\/Grapevine-Pruning-182128.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nAnd here is the future:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.technovelgy.com\/graphics\/content09\/pruning-robot.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nI did not go to town today.\u00a0 Only had one event (exercise) and decided not to go.\u00a0 Spent much of my day working on plans for going to my mom’s family’s family reunion in Guyton, GA the end of June.\u00a0 What is totally cool is that my cousin Susan and her husband John will donate their air miles to me for the trip from Yakima to Savannah.\u00a0 That will save much time and beau coups of money, would have been almost $900 to pay for it myself.\u00a0 The cheapest way for me to go was via Atlanta, (still almost $500), but then I would have to find someone there to pick me up and deliver me back to the Airport, and worse, I would have to rent a car and drive the distance to Guyton, GA (30 miles north of Savannah) down and back.\u00a0 My stamina is really not up to that much, I don’t believe.\u00a0 Part of the problem with flights is the rural locations near smaller sized cities on both ends that require either hours of driving or extra links from tiny airports.<\/p>\nTuesday, Mar 6.\u00a0 What a full day; my first out of the house to town, in over two weeks (except for one day a week ago).\u00a0 I really enjoyed it, but was totally worn out.\u00a0 I’m writing this at 8:30 p.m. and ready to hit the hay.\u00a0 The day began, wishing John well as he left at 7:30 for pruning.\u00a0 Then morning chores were on the computer and in the den and kitchen.\u00a0 Finally got cleaned up and off to town without much to eat, at 1:44.\u00a0 Saw and stopped and talked to John at the end of the driveway as he was returning.\u00a0 Went on to the hospital for a blood draw and from there on to the Sr. Center for foot care.\u00a0 Not bad for a 1\/2 hour of attention for $10.<\/p>\nFrom there, on to Hospice to do all the paperwork and sign out a 4-wheel walker with a study seat for my 86 yr old neighbor, who broke her hip in 5 places over a month ago.\u00a0 She is doing really well on her physical therapy.\u00a0 I picked out a light but sturdy one, put it in my trunk, and went on to her room in the nursing home.\u00a0 She was so happy to see it and me, and she got up and used it to walk down a short hall, on the north side of the building and then the entire length on the west side of the building.\u00a0 That was a long haul and I was tiring, but she never stopped for a rest.\u00a0 We spoke to the physical therapist and he measured it and it is perfect for her height (5’3″).\u00a0 I had looked through 8 different ones, and decided it was the best fit.\u00a0 Turns out I was right.\u00a0 I’m so happy. \u00a0Then when she sat down (in PT), she realized how far down it was, and so to get\u00a0back up was difficult, but she managed.\u00a0 I went back down the long and short hall with her, and then walked out to my car to retrieve my favorite pillow I used with my walker way back in 2010.\u00a0 I took it back in, and she was thrilled.\u00a0 I know this will be perfect for her.\u00a0 Just having the extra height above the seat will allow her to get up easier.\u00a0 It did for me, so I remembered well and was happy to assist.\u00a0 I received more yesterday and today on the Master’s thesis I’m reviewing.\u00a0 I found some time to put on the new section on statistics (she did in response to my comments).\u00a0 She visited with another prof who is much more up-to-date than I am, and he was most helpful.<\/p>\nWednesday, Mar 7.\u00a0\u00a0 Up very early, both of us.\u00a0 John had taken care of the neighbors animals before 7:00 a.m. and came home to do ours.\u00a0 I was sitting by the back patio door and looked out to see a ring neck rooster pheasant walking along the backyard fence.\u00a0 He was a dark colored (but with the red head).\u00a0 That is the first time I have seen him, but John has seen him in the ditches out by the road.\u00a0 We have lots of quail, but seldom see a pheasant.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3537\/3428347702_4094815106_z.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nFor me, today starts at 11:30 on my way to the Soup Kitchen for playing music (and they feed us a nice lunch at the end).\u00a0 Today was something called Goulash, but not my idea of that.\u00a0 It was a nice mixture of meat, noodles, tomatoes, and beans.\u00a0 With it we had garlic bread, and a nice green salad.\u00a0 There was dessert, but I didn’t have any.\u00a0\u00a0 One was a blueberry yogurt type thing, but I decided to skip it with my milk protein “allergy.”\u00a0 \u00a0My voice has returned since I started leaving off chocolate milk, milk, cheese, and ice cream.\u00a0 Interesting that my complaint to two medical doctors (family physician and my cardiologist) had no solution.\u00a0 It took my acupuncturist \/ massage therapist to realize it.\u00a0 I’m very grateful, and so is my music group.\u00a0 Don’t know that my dogs appreciate my voice projection being back, however. \u00a0After that I went to my exercise class at the AAC, and it had been 2 weeks plus a day, \u00a0since I had participated.\u00a0 They greeted me with hugs and happiness to have me back.\u00a0 Very cool. \u00a0From there I went to the grocery store, and because I was pretty weak from doing so much so soon (I was careful and didn’t push it for exercise); but I still decided to get one of the little power carts at the grocery store.\u00a0 Picked up a few things, particularly milk we needed to make the cherry\/ blueberry\/ walnut cobbler for dessert to take tomorrow to the music group potluck.\u00a0 Then off to my massage therapist.\u00a0 I had a nice one today, plus he gave me on his time at the end of my hour session another 15 minutes of “healing touch” which he had a class in this past weekend.\u00a0 I was impressed and appreciated him working on me with it.\u00a0 It’s rather fascinating and the hands never touch the body.\u00a0 Apparently, it is slowly being accepted in some hospitals as an alternative to calm down and relax patients who are anxious for whatever reason.\u00a0 It’s been 3 weeks since I was in there. \u00a0John and I made the cobbler and it is beautiful.<\/p>\nThursday, Mar 8. \u00a0\u00a0I continued working on computer correspondence and preparing my music for the order that we will play today, tonight, and Saturday night.\u00a0 Had to take a couple of calls about issues for others and for me.\u00a0 Finally I got ready and went the 2 miles around the block to my neighbor, who cut my hair.\u00a0 It was getting really long and straggly.\u00a0 Came back home and got a bite of tuna fish salad on multi-grain crackers.\u00a0 Took off again for town to play music at the Rehab where I spent so much time in Jan\/Feb 2010.\u00a0 We had a smaller number of people than usual, but we were fine and practiced our music for playing in Yakima Saturday night.\u00a0 There was one person there who won’t be there Saturday, but will be at our potluck tonight, along with two others who will be at the Yakima shindig.\u00a0 To share with folks who have a slow connection and don’t like large emails, I took along CDs of some pictures John took at the Spirit of the West.\u00a0 Another needed a printed map with directions on how to get to the place Saturday night in Yakima.\u00a0 John made the map using internet sources with Google Earth \u201cstreet view\u201d captured images.\u00a0 No one should get lost. \u00a0My Subaru made funny sounds on the way in to town tonight but nothing seemed wrong and it managed to get me home.\u00a0 Tonight at the potluck was the following food:\u00a0 Chicken Ratatouille, apples & cranberries, scalloped potatoes, apple muffins, green salad with blueberries!, chips and homemade salsa\/bean dip, we took a jar of pears (canned by our neighbor), and the cherry, walnut (both ours) blueberry (from our valley) cobbler.\u00a0 We bought some banana split ice cream to put on top, and we warmed the cobbler in their oven.\u00a0 It was the only dessert and very well liked.\u00a0 People couldn’t stop talking about it and eating it. \u00a0John left without dessert to get to our Kittitas Valley Trail Riders meeting.\u00a0 There was a piece of cobbler left to bring home to him.\u00a0 I stayed\u00a0 and we had a jam session after a nice table discussion after dinner.<\/p>\nFriday, Mar \u00a09.\u00a0 I was awake enough to know John was leaving at 7:30 but I went back to sleep for a couple of hours ! I guess I wore myself out the past three days.\u00a0 So, didn’t go in for my class today.\u00a0 Frankly, I didn’t wish to drive the car when John was so far away, yet I will have to on Monday.\u00a0 Still don’t know why it was acting up last night. \u00a0I transposed \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d for our clarinet player, and sorted and filed and 3-hole punched all the EOB (Explanation of Benefits) for all medical payments in 2010.\u00a0 Now I have to sort the checks I paid for each one.\u00a0 There are some discrepancies I need to check up on.\u00a0 John’s home, had a nap, and we need to put together another cobbler for our neighbor\u2019s birthday and welcome back from the nursing home party.\u00a0 I will deliver it tomorrow morning when I go over to change dressings on her son’s foot.<\/p>\nSaturday will be a busy and late day, so tomorrow\u2019s events will lead next week\u2019s report. 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![http:\/\/www.technovelgy.com\/graphics\/content09\/pruning-robot.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nI did not go to town today.\u00a0 Only had one event (exercise) and decided not to go.\u00a0 Spent much of my day working on plans for going to my mom’s family’s family reunion in Guyton, GA the end of June.\u00a0 What is totally cool is that my cousin Susan and her husband John will donate their air miles to me for the trip from Yakima to Savannah.\u00a0 That will save much time and beau coups of money, would have been almost $900 to pay for it myself.\u00a0 The cheapest way for me to go was via Atlanta, (still almost $500), but then I would have to find someone there to pick me up and deliver me back to the Airport, and worse, I would have to rent a car and drive the distance to Guyton, GA (30 miles north of Savannah) down and back.\u00a0 My stamina is really not up to that much, I don’t believe.\u00a0 Part of the problem with flights is the rural locations near smaller sized cities on both ends that require either hours of driving or extra links from tiny airports.<\/p>\nTuesday, Mar 6.\u00a0 What a full day; my first out of the house to town, in over two weeks (except for one day a week ago).\u00a0 I really enjoyed it, but was totally worn out.\u00a0 I’m writing this at 8:30 p.m. and ready to hit the hay.\u00a0 The day began, wishing John well as he left at 7:30 for pruning.\u00a0 Then morning chores were on the computer and in the den and kitchen.\u00a0 Finally got cleaned up and off to town without much to eat, at 1:44.\u00a0 Saw and stopped and talked to John at the end of the driveway as he was returning.\u00a0 Went on to the hospital for a blood draw and from there on to the Sr. Center for foot care.\u00a0 Not bad for a 1\/2 hour of attention for $10.<\/p>\nFrom there, on to Hospice to do all the paperwork and sign out a 4-wheel walker with a study seat for my 86 yr old neighbor, who broke her hip in 5 places over a month ago.\u00a0 She is doing really well on her physical therapy.\u00a0 I picked out a light but sturdy one, put it in my trunk, and went on to her room in the nursing home.\u00a0 She was so happy to see it and me, and she got up and used it to walk down a short hall, on the north side of the building and then the entire length on the west side of the building.\u00a0 That was a long haul and I was tiring, but she never stopped for a rest.\u00a0 We spoke to the physical therapist and he measured it and it is perfect for her height (5’3″).\u00a0 I had looked through 8 different ones, and decided it was the best fit.\u00a0 Turns out I was right.\u00a0 I’m so happy. \u00a0Then when she sat down (in PT), she realized how far down it was, and so to get\u00a0back up was difficult, but she managed.\u00a0 I went back down the long and short hall with her, and then walked out to my car to retrieve my favorite pillow I used with my walker way back in 2010.\u00a0 I took it back in, and she was thrilled.\u00a0 I know this will be perfect for her.\u00a0 Just having the extra height above the seat will allow her to get up easier.\u00a0 It did for me, so I remembered well and was happy to assist.\u00a0 I received more yesterday and today on the Master’s thesis I’m reviewing.\u00a0 I found some time to put on the new section on statistics (she did in response to my comments).\u00a0 She visited with another prof who is much more up-to-date than I am, and he was most helpful.<\/p>\nWednesday, Mar 7.\u00a0\u00a0 Up very early, both of us.\u00a0 John had taken care of the neighbors animals before 7:00 a.m. and came home to do ours.\u00a0 I was sitting by the back patio door and looked out to see a ring neck rooster pheasant walking along the backyard fence.\u00a0 He was a dark colored (but with the red head).\u00a0 That is the first time I have seen him, but John has seen him in the ditches out by the road.\u00a0 We have lots of quail, but seldom see a pheasant.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3537\/3428347702_4094815106_z.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nFor me, today starts at 11:30 on my way to the Soup Kitchen for playing music (and they feed us a nice lunch at the end).\u00a0 Today was something called Goulash, but not my idea of that.\u00a0 It was a nice mixture of meat, noodles, tomatoes, and beans.\u00a0 With it we had garlic bread, and a nice green salad.\u00a0 There was dessert, but I didn’t have any.\u00a0\u00a0 One was a blueberry yogurt type thing, but I decided to skip it with my milk protein “allergy.”\u00a0 \u00a0My voice has returned since I started leaving off chocolate milk, milk, cheese, and ice cream.\u00a0 Interesting that my complaint to two medical doctors (family physician and my cardiologist) had no solution.\u00a0 It took my acupuncturist \/ massage therapist to realize it.\u00a0 I’m very grateful, and so is my music group.\u00a0 Don’t know that my dogs appreciate my voice projection being back, however. \u00a0After that I went to my exercise class at the AAC, and it had been 2 weeks plus a day, \u00a0since I had participated.\u00a0 They greeted me with hugs and happiness to have me back.\u00a0 Very cool. \u00a0From there I went to the grocery store, and because I was pretty weak from doing so much so soon (I was careful and didn’t push it for exercise); but I still decided to get one of the little power carts at the grocery store.\u00a0 Picked up a few things, particularly milk we needed to make the cherry\/ blueberry\/ walnut cobbler for dessert to take tomorrow to the music group potluck.\u00a0 Then off to my massage therapist.\u00a0 I had a nice one today, plus he gave me on his time at the end of my hour session another 15 minutes of “healing touch” which he had a class in this past weekend.\u00a0 I was impressed and appreciated him working on me with it.\u00a0 It’s rather fascinating and the hands never touch the body.\u00a0 Apparently, it is slowly being accepted in some hospitals as an alternative to calm down and relax patients who are anxious for whatever reason.\u00a0 It’s been 3 weeks since I was in there. \u00a0John and I made the cobbler and it is beautiful.<\/p>\nThursday, Mar 8. \u00a0\u00a0I continued working on computer correspondence and preparing my music for the order that we will play today, tonight, and Saturday night.\u00a0 Had to take a couple of calls about issues for others and for me.\u00a0 Finally I got ready and went the 2 miles around the block to my neighbor, who cut my hair.\u00a0 It was getting really long and straggly.\u00a0 Came back home and got a bite of tuna fish salad on multi-grain crackers.\u00a0 Took off again for town to play music at the Rehab where I spent so much time in Jan\/Feb 2010.\u00a0 We had a smaller number of people than usual, but we were fine and practiced our music for playing in Yakima Saturday night.\u00a0 There was one person there who won’t be there Saturday, but will be at our potluck tonight, along with two others who will be at the Yakima shindig.\u00a0 To share with folks who have a slow connection and don’t like large emails, I took along CDs of some pictures John took at the Spirit of the West.\u00a0 Another needed a printed map with directions on how to get to the place Saturday night in Yakima.\u00a0 John made the map using internet sources with Google Earth \u201cstreet view\u201d captured images.\u00a0 No one should get lost. \u00a0My Subaru made funny sounds on the way in to town tonight but nothing seemed wrong and it managed to get me home.\u00a0 Tonight at the potluck was the following food:\u00a0 Chicken Ratatouille, apples & cranberries, scalloped potatoes, apple muffins, green salad with blueberries!, chips and homemade salsa\/bean dip, we took a jar of pears (canned by our neighbor), and the cherry, walnut (both ours) blueberry (from our valley) cobbler.\u00a0 We bought some banana split ice cream to put on top, and we warmed the cobbler in their oven.\u00a0 It was the only dessert and very well liked.\u00a0 People couldn’t stop talking about it and eating it. \u00a0John left without dessert to get to our Kittitas Valley Trail Riders meeting.\u00a0 There was a piece of cobbler left to bring home to him.\u00a0 I stayed\u00a0 and we had a jam session after a nice table discussion after dinner.<\/p>\nFriday, Mar \u00a09.\u00a0 I was awake enough to know John was leaving at 7:30 but I went back to sleep for a couple of hours ! I guess I wore myself out the past three days.\u00a0 So, didn’t go in for my class today.\u00a0 Frankly, I didn’t wish to drive the car when John was so far away, yet I will have to on Monday.\u00a0 Still don’t know why it was acting up last night. \u00a0I transposed \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d for our clarinet player, and sorted and filed and 3-hole punched all the EOB (Explanation of Benefits) for all medical payments in 2010.\u00a0 Now I have to sort the checks I paid for each one.\u00a0 There are some discrepancies I need to check up on.\u00a0 John’s home, had a nap, and we need to put together another cobbler for our neighbor\u2019s birthday and welcome back from the nursing home party.\u00a0 I will deliver it tomorrow morning when I go over to change dressings on her son’s foot.<\/p>\nSaturday will be a busy and late day, so tomorrow\u2019s events will lead next week\u2019s report. Hope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\nstill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, Mar 3.\u00a0 Late tonight we had a call from John’s sister Peggy that Kathy had been moved to a nursing home, and had a stomach feeding tube inserted.\u00a0 Hearing stories of the move, and all associated problems, brought back bad memories to John and me of my move in January, 2010.\u00a0 Thankfully, I survived … Continue reading “Nancy\u2019s back”<\/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-957","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-fr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.technovelgy.com\/graphics\/content09\/pruning-robot.jpg\"){kind=link}
![http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3537\/3428347702_4094815106_z.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nFor me, today starts at 11:30 on my way to the Soup Kitchen for playing music (and they feed us a nice lunch at the end).\u00a0 Today was something called Goulash, but not my idea of that.\u00a0 It was a nice mixture of meat, noodles, tomatoes, and beans.\u00a0 With it we had garlic bread, and a nice green salad.\u00a0 There was dessert, but I didn’t have any.\u00a0\u00a0 One was a blueberry yogurt type thing, but I decided to skip it with my milk protein “allergy.”\u00a0 \u00a0My voice has returned since I started leaving off chocolate milk, milk, cheese, and ice cream.\u00a0 Interesting that my complaint to two medical doctors (family physician and my cardiologist) had no solution.\u00a0 It took my acupuncturist \/ massage therapist to realize it.\u00a0 I’m very grateful, and so is my music group.\u00a0 Don’t know that my dogs appreciate my voice projection being back, however. \u00a0After that I went to my exercise class at the AAC, and it had been 2 weeks plus a day, \u00a0since I had participated.\u00a0 They greeted me with hugs and happiness to have me back.\u00a0 Very cool. \u00a0From there I went to the grocery store, and because I was pretty weak from doing so much so soon (I was careful and didn’t push it for exercise); but I still decided to get one of the little power carts at the grocery store.\u00a0 Picked up a few things, particularly milk we needed to make the cherry\/ blueberry\/ walnut cobbler for dessert to take tomorrow to the music group potluck.\u00a0 Then off to my massage therapist.\u00a0 I had a nice one today, plus he gave me on his time at the end of my hour session another 15 minutes of “healing touch” which he had a class in this past weekend.\u00a0 I was impressed and appreciated him working on me with it.\u00a0 It’s rather fascinating and the hands never touch the body.\u00a0 Apparently, it is slowly being accepted in some hospitals as an alternative to calm down and relax patients who are anxious for whatever reason.\u00a0 It’s been 3 weeks since I was in there. \u00a0John and I made the cobbler and it is beautiful.<\/p>\nThursday, Mar 8. \u00a0\u00a0I continued working on computer correspondence and preparing my music for the order that we will play today, tonight, and Saturday night.\u00a0 Had to take a couple of calls about issues for others and for me.\u00a0 Finally I got ready and went the 2 miles around the block to my neighbor, who cut my hair.\u00a0 It was getting really long and straggly.\u00a0 Came back home and got a bite of tuna fish salad on multi-grain crackers.\u00a0 Took off again for town to play music at the Rehab where I spent so much time in Jan\/Feb 2010.\u00a0 We had a smaller number of people than usual, but we were fine and practiced our music for playing in Yakima Saturday night.\u00a0 There was one person there who won’t be there Saturday, but will be at our potluck tonight, along with two others who will be at the Yakima shindig.\u00a0 To share with folks who have a slow connection and don’t like large emails, I took along CDs of some pictures John took at the Spirit of the West.\u00a0 Another needed a printed map with directions on how to get to the place Saturday night in Yakima.\u00a0 John made the map using internet sources with Google Earth \u201cstreet view\u201d captured images.\u00a0 No one should get lost. \u00a0My Subaru made funny sounds on the way in to town tonight but nothing seemed wrong and it managed to get me home.\u00a0 Tonight at the potluck was the following food:\u00a0 Chicken Ratatouille, apples & cranberries, scalloped potatoes, apple muffins, green salad with blueberries!, chips and homemade salsa\/bean dip, we took a jar of pears (canned by our neighbor), and the cherry, walnut (both ours) blueberry (from our valley) cobbler.\u00a0 We bought some banana split ice cream to put on top, and we warmed the cobbler in their oven.\u00a0 It was the only dessert and very well liked.\u00a0 People couldn’t stop talking about it and eating it. \u00a0John left without dessert to get to our Kittitas Valley Trail Riders meeting.\u00a0 There was a piece of cobbler left to bring home to him.\u00a0 I stayed\u00a0 and we had a jam session after a nice table discussion after dinner.<\/p>\nFriday, Mar \u00a09.\u00a0 I was awake enough to know John was leaving at 7:30 but I went back to sleep for a couple of hours ! I guess I wore myself out the past three days.\u00a0 So, didn’t go in for my class today.\u00a0 Frankly, I didn’t wish to drive the car when John was so far away, yet I will have to on Monday.\u00a0 Still don’t know why it was acting up last night. \u00a0I transposed \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d for our clarinet player, and sorted and filed and 3-hole punched all the EOB (Explanation of Benefits) for all medical payments in 2010.\u00a0 Now I have to sort the checks I paid for each one.\u00a0 There are some discrepancies I need to check up on.\u00a0 John’s home, had a nap, and we need to put together another cobbler for our neighbor\u2019s birthday and welcome back from the nursing home party.\u00a0 I will deliver it tomorrow morning when I go over to change dressings on her son’s foot.<\/p>\nSaturday will be a busy and late day, so tomorrow\u2019s events will lead next week\u2019s report. Hope your week was a good one.<\/p>\nNancy and John<\/p>\nstill on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, Mar 3.\u00a0 Late tonight we had a call from John’s sister Peggy that Kathy had been moved to a nursing home, and had a stomach feeding tube inserted.\u00a0 Hearing stories of the move, and all associated problems, brought back bad memories to John and me of my move in January, 2010.\u00a0 Thankfully, I survived … Continue reading “Nancy\u2019s back”<\/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-957","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-fr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","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=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3537\/3428347702_4094815106_z.jpg\"){kind=link}