Saturday, Mar 17.\u00a0 Snowed 4 inches to wake up to, then another inch starting falling at 10:00 am.\u00a0 We both took care of neighbor’s needs.\u00a0 Then picked up a lady and took her with us to the music play time and eating at a retirement community we attend every third Saturday of the month.\u00a0 But, we already told you about that in last week’s blog, because we were running late and didn’t get it out till Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Sunday, Mar 18. \u00a0Started off well, but deteriorated as I got a bug (24 hr intestinal one), about 3:15 in the afternoon, while playing in a bluegrass jam session.\u00a0 I was sick all afternoon and night and really got sick about 7:30 p.m.\u00a0 I stayed ill all night, and finally was slightly better about 6:35 a.m.,\u00a0 but I went back to sleep and slept till 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
Monday, Mar 19 \u00a0I will start where I left off, on yesterday’s report. \u00a0I was getting better, but was weak, so I cancelled out going to town today, and cancelled my appointment tomorrow.\u00a0 I will just work on taxes instead, which I should have been continuing the past few days, but was busy going to music events.\u00a0 Just finished a download on updates for Turbo Tax 2010, and am installing 2011 Turbo Tax.\u00a0 This is on my new laptop and releases me from having to sit at the home computer, and get a sore neck because the table is too high for me, even with a pillow in the chair.\u00a0 [John says: See\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ergonomics<\/a> ] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Talked to my friend in GA who wants to use one of our expiring timeshares, and I helped her through the web page.\u00a0 It is space-banked so can be used anywhere in the world where any opening occurs.\u00a0 We looked in the Key West, Key Largo area, and nothing is available with our purchasing power in prime time and close.\u00a0 However, there are others in Florida.\u00a0 Maybe they can get within reaching distance and drive to Key West.\u00a0 Of course it has been 56 years since I was there, and don’t have a clue how the area has changed.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Mar 20.\u00a0 Have to get up early and John needs to do the chores, before we call over at 7:30 a.m. to see what the weather is there at the vineyard.\u00a0 The weather forecast did NOT looking promising Monday night.\u00a0 It turned out fine, and John made the trip all right.\u00a0 I stayed and worked on the computer and on taxes.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Mar 21 \u00a0What a neat day.\u00a0 Started cloudy, then sunshine, and cooler and now snowing lightly.\u00a0 I managed to work on my computer and coordinated with the Spokane Office of the bank where we have the mortgage on our house.\u00a0 We had not received (or else it didn’t make it to the receipt box) the 1098 form we need for taxes for interest we paid. \u00a0Then off I went to play music at the Soup Kitchen part of the Food Bank.\u00a0 Over 40 people (including the servers) ate today.\u00a0 It was one of the best meals I have had there and they always have a well balanced offering.\u00a0 Today– it was Cajun chicken (baked leg w\/thigh) in a spicy sauce, and quite tender.\u00a0 Along with it, we had a large dinner roll w\/ butter, garlic mashed red potatoes, a mixed greens salad with squash, peppers, and tomatoes (choice of 4 dressings), and a bowl of apricots for dessert.\u00a0 It was so good I cleaned my plate and will not need dinner tonight.\u00a0 Seriously.Then off to exercise class, and by the hospital for a blood draw, after.\u00a0 Got home and managed to hook up a couple (friends) for a Williamsburg, VA timeshare of ours that we don’t have time to use before May 31. \u00a0We couldn\u2019t locate anything in Florida, so they switched their locaton choice, and found a really neat plantation, which would costs $149\/night, yet it will just be $189 for the week.\u00a0 \u00a0Forgot to say, I picked up some bread (day old) they encourage us and everyone there to take from the Food Bank.\u00a0 I got 3 packages for our neighbors and two for us.\u00a0 Went over and visited with my neighbor lady while John fed their horses, and packed more hay into his truck for afternoon and morning feedings for the next couple days.\u00a0 Returned home to work on email and get back onto the tax input.\u00a0 I’m pretty tired so may hit the hay a little earlier than the past several nights.<\/p>\n Thursday, Mar 22 \u00a0Most of the morning was spent calling accountants or customer service at hospitals (two in Yakima and one in EBRG, doctor offices (heart-cardiologist, surgeon), lung (infectious disease specialists), eye, family physician, and dentist, CWU payroll, and human resources.\u00a0 I needed a copy of their records for how much I personally had to pay over and above what Medicare and Group Health covered.\u00a0 The most interesting finding was at Yakima Memorial Hospital where I was for two times in 2010.\u00a0 There was one payment of $139.90 that was never billed to me.\u00a0 It was a remainder of something early in the year that wasn’t covered.\u00a0 Because I never was notified, I never paid it.\u00a0 When the accountant found it today, she said she would forgive it because that was too long ago to request a payment now.\u00a0 Suits me just fine. Finally, I got out just minutes after John returned home from pruning, to drive to town to play music at Hearthstone.\u00a0 We had a lot of conflicts today, and I essentially was the only fiddler.\u00a0 We had 4 guitars, a mandolin, banjo, and clarinet.\u00a0 My arm is quite sore from all the activity of playing.\u00a0 I left and got home for a couple hours but had to take off for a dinner with two friends at a restaurant in town. It was a free steak dinner to listen to a talk on energy saving attic blankets to go over roof insulation, made from a NASA development for the space station.<\/p>\n Friday, Mar 23 \u00a0\u00a0John went pruning, and I slept in.\u00a0 Skipped my exercise class this afternoon because I didn’t want to make that trip to town for only 50 minutes time, and round-trip it takes another 50 minutes.\u00a0 Multipurpose trips are needed.\u00a0 My Subaru wants the expensive fuel but runs fine on mid-grade.\u00a0 And here\u2019s a question:\u00a0 Why do stations still call it \u201cunleaded?\u201d http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gasoline#Tetraethyl_lead<\/a><\/p>\n I spent almost all the day working on taxes or being on the phone requesting medical back up paperwork for expenses, including for medical insurance we paid out, some from my CWU payroll check.\u00a0 I also worked on proofing a former student’s application for grad school and giving some suggestions on her resume and statement of purpose. \u00a0John went to bed early, after serving a simple dinner of pizza and apple slices, plus cut up chicken breast. \u00a0The other excitement was talking by phone with John’s cousin on her 94th birthday.\u00a0 And, we had a nice conversation with her daughter in Brookville, PA, where John’s sister is spending the weekend after attending the funeral on Friday.\u00a0 I think she said 18 people showed up at the graveside in Scotch Hill, PA.\u00a0 That doubled the population count for the \u201ctown\u201d for the day.\u00a0 Peggy and John’s oldest brother and his wife are dead, but all their kids came along with other non-sorted (how does this differ from \u2018assorted\u2019?) relatives and friends, so it was like a family reunion.\u00a0 There is a small community building at the cemetery and reunions have been held there.\u00a0 The attraction is walking the rows of graves and reading the tombstones \u2013 paying respect to the ancients.\u00a0 The service crew intended to wait-out the attendees before covering the vault but having been assured no one would be offended and that many would be \u201creading tombstones\u201d for awhile, they then went about their business.<\/p>\n Saturday, Mar 24 \u00a0After a slow start to the morning, we drove to Yakima to Costco for not much and to fill my car with gasoline.\u00a0 It was running on empty, so we detoured through EBRG to get 2.4 gallons worth at $4.07\/gal. \u00a0With coupons, we also bought a sandwich from Wendy’s to eat on the road.\u00a0 I had a nice Cod sandwich and John had a cheeseburger, with one left to bring home.\u00a0 (It was a special, two cheeseburgers for $4., and mine was free with the purchase of a small coke and fries ($3.18) which we could share just fine. \u00a0Got down to Costco and only had to pay, $3.71\/gal., so we filled it there.\u00a0 Got some good stuff in the store on several special sales, includng:<\/p>\n http:\/\/addictedtocostco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jarlsberg_cheese.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n Nice clean road trip (sunny weather) down to Yakima, a round trip total of 104 miles; including the EBRG side-trip. \u00a0I drove down and John drove back, so I was able to talk to his sister Peggy on the phone, before we descended into the canyons of basalt between Yakima and Ellensburg.\u00a0 The reception is blacked out in some places along that segment.<\/p>\n Back home, it’s beautiful and sunny, and the birds are singing \u2013 waiting for a turn at the feeder.\u00a0 Our dogs did not get their morning run because there were too many deer sleeping under the big Cottonwood tree.\u00a0 So, they had to wait for their run till we got back from Yakima. \u00a0With that done, John has driven back to town primarily to run the old 1989 truck and to pick up 7 gallons of gasoline to put in the 1980 Chevy \u2018farm\u2019 truck.\u00a0 And, he planned to buy some soft drinks on sale, some tuna fish for me, and ended up with a beef roast (first in many moons) and a dozen apple fritters for my sweet tooth.\u00a0 Now we have plenty, because we got two containers of fruit\/cream cheese pastries at Costco.\u00a0 We just got invited for a birthday dinner for our neighbor tomorrow.\u00a0 It’s his 90th. \u00a0On the menu is beef roast \u2013 we\u2019ll have to freeze the one we just bought.\u00a0 Otherwise, life is good.<\/p>\n If you have time for a break, watch this 8 minute video of slow motion things.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html<\/a><\/p>\n Hope your week was a good one.<\/p>\n Nancy and John<\/p>\n still on the Naneum Fan<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday, Mar 17.\u00a0 Snowed 4 inches to wake up to, then another inch starting falling at 10:00 am.\u00a0 We both took care of neighbor’s needs.\u00a0 Then picked up a lady and took her with us to the music play time and eating at a retirement community we attend every third Saturday of the month.\u00a0 But, … Continue reading “Weather \u2013 our March Madness”<\/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-964","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-fy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![http:\/\/addictedtocostco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jarlsberg_cheese.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nNice clean road trip (sunny weather) down to Yakima, a round trip total of 104 miles; including the EBRG side-trip. \u00a0I drove down and John drove back, so I was able to talk to his sister Peggy on the phone, before we descended into the canyons of basalt between Yakima and Ellensburg.\u00a0 The reception is blacked out in some places along that segment.<\/p>\nBack home, it’s beautiful and sunny, and the birds are singing \u2013 waiting for a turn at the feeder.\u00a0 Our dogs did not get their morning run because there were too many deer sleeping under the big Cottonwood tree.\u00a0 So, they had to wait for their run till we got back from Yakima. \u00a0With that done, John has driven back to town primarily to run the old 1989 truck and to pick up 7 gallons of gasoline to put in the 1980 Chevy \u2018farm\u2019 truck.\u00a0 And, he planned to buy some soft drinks on sale, some tuna fish for me, and ended up with a beef roast (first in many moons) and a dozen apple fritters for my sweet tooth.\u00a0 Now we have plenty, because we got two containers of fruit\/cream cheese pastries at Costco.\u00a0 We just got invited for a birthday dinner for our neighbor tomorrow.\u00a0 It’s his 90th. \u00a0On the menu is beef roast \u2013 we\u2019ll have to freeze the one we just bought.\u00a0 Otherwise, life is good.<\/p>\nIf you have time for a break, watch this 8 minute video of slow motion things.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/louie_schwartzberg_the_hidden_beauty_of_pollination.html<\/a><\/p>\nHope 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 17.\u00a0 Snowed 4 inches to wake up to, then another inch starting falling at 10:00 am.\u00a0 We both took care of neighbor’s needs.\u00a0 Then picked up a lady and took her with us to the music play time and eating at a retirement community we attend every third Saturday of the month.\u00a0 But, … Continue reading “Weather \u2013 our March Madness”<\/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-964","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-fy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/addictedtocostco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/jarlsberg_cheese.jpg\"){kind=link}