Sunday, Mar 25. \u00a0Quiet day as we just had the usual chores and then off for a birthday (#89) dinner party for our neighbor.\u00a0 We carried along some of John’s Red Rome applesauce, two different packages \u2013 smooth and chunky, then mixed.<\/p>\n
Monday, Mar 26 \u00a0I stayed up (after John left at 7:30) \u00a0working on emails, mostly, and then decided to take another hour’s sleep.\u00a0 Once up I worked a little in the kitchen, with the animals, ate, and got back on my computer, doing more tax entries.\u00a0 Found some more figures I needed from hospitals and medical insurance providers, and called for them. \u00a0Spent more time organizing and searching for receipts.\u00a0 Found out I can deduct mileage for all the driving to volunteer music to nursing homes and other such events.\u00a0 I also found I can deduct 14.5 cents\/mile for all medical travel.\u00a0 Boy, that adds up.\u00a0 I skipped going to exercise class today because (and I have said this before), to drive to town at the 4 bucks and up price of gas, I want to have more to do than one 45 minute event.\u00a0 Spent a little of the evening before dinner setting up a timeshare in Oct for our friends from Atlanta to use for their honeymoon.<\/p>\n
John got home and brought me the mail.\u00a0 Interestingly, there was a bill from Yakima Memorial Hospital from June 1, 2010.\u00a0 It was the same bill I was told last Friday would be forgiven.\u00a0 After more time on the phone, it was forgiven.\u00a0 Then I had a call in for the local hospital accountant.\u00a0 She called back late afternoon, and I asked my question. \u00a0I couldn’t figure out why I had $550 of payments (I supposedly paid) at the first of the year.\u00a0 Turns out they were for physical therapy co-pays.\u00a0 I remember paying $25 for 45 minutes and not being happy, but at $550, that means 22 sessions, and I really don’t recall going that many times. [John says: \u2018memory loss\u2019 \u2013 need to watch her more closely!] \u00a0I need to go back and look at my car log journals and calendars, and perhaps credit card accounting because I do not have checks written for them. \u00a0Meanwhile, I put it into my Turbo Tax program because I have in writing that they received the payments from me.\u00a0 Once the last of the calls were in, I got the new long distance prepaid calling card and we called and talked to John’s sister.\u00a0 She said we sounded like we both were shivering.\u00a0 I called a friend in Atlanta and she had the same response.\u00a0 So, perhaps it is the towers of the card ?\u00a0 We used to use Verizon, but they are undergoing changes and come Apr. 17th<\/sup> seem not to want our money, at least on the prepaid long distance cards.\u00a0 I did call and complain and the company said perhaps it was the weather.\u00a0 A call later this week showed that indeed it was clear. \u00a0John put in a blade-roast beef, with carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes, and we had a late dinner that was scrumptious. [That\u2019s a technical term for edible.]<\/p>\n Tuesday, Mar 27.\u00a0 Got up early again for John to do the chores, before we called over at 7:20 a.m. to see what the weather was at the vineyard.\u00a0 We thought last night it would be all right because the incoming storm appeared to have broken up.\u00a0 Sadly, John left but was in rain all the way and it was raining when he got there so he had to turn around and drive home.\u00a0 Good way to waste 2 hours plus of time and no mention of the gasoline.\u00a0 It is 66 miles (depending on the route) over and back.\u00a0 We can go the Interstate or the old Vantage highway.\u00a0 I tried to reach his cell phone 1\/2 hr after he left when the vineyard owner called to say not to come.\u00a0 Three tries but John did not answer. [Because he didn\u2019t hear a ring.] \u00a0I worked on the computer and on taxes more, and he got home, and then we both left to take me to my afternoon massage and by a friend’s house for a microphone and stand he picked up for me at the CWU surplus sale, and then after my massage, we went to the bank, and I cashed a check so we’d have some cash on hand.\u00a0 While I was in the massage, John went to the grocery for lemon juice to dry apples.\u00a0 Today was the first day of classes for Spring Quarter, and I’m so happy I do not have to be preparing for new classes.\u00a0 I’m really spoiled now that I’m retired.\u00a0 I certainly would have to cut back on all the volunteer activities and medical visits (those are slowing down considerably).\u00a0 Now it’s just a device check every 3 months (in Yakima), and annual exams by my cardiologist and by my family physician .. and lung function tests for the one med I\u2019m on for atrial fibrillation.\u00a0 An occasional (once a year now) echocardiogram, chest X-rays, and EKG.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Mar 28 \u00a0Spent the morning searching rci.com for hook-ups with my friends in Michigan to use a timeshare.\u00a0 Left to play music at the Soup Kitchen part of the Food Bank. \u00a0Boy, a good offering today again.\u00a0 Baked chicken, garlic mashed potatoes with milk gravy, corn, tomatoes (fresh and cut up into wedges), with peaches for dessert.\u00a0 Picked up some cereal, eggs. and bread for my neighbors and some bandages.\u00a0 Then off to exercise class.\u00a0 We had 23 there today.\u00a0 I think that is the most in my two years of attending (I started going there after losing interest in paying physical therapy at the hospital $25 for 45 mins .. mentioned above).\u00a0 Rushed home by way of the neighbors to drop off their goodies.\u00a0 Back home to work with timeshare stuff; still no luck.\u00a0 Then tonight two more people responded and are interested in a time share use in Cuzco, Peru.\u00a0 I don’t know if that will work or not, but I’ll try a search in the morning.\u00a0 I have another search going on for the Michigan\/Indiana folks, and likely will have another start for Klamath Falls, OR–that one isn’t usable because it is not available for exchange but only by rental for the week ($800).\u00a0 I think not.<\/p>\n Thursday, Mar 29 \u00a0This morning I worked mostly on the computer but took time out to clean up the mess in the kitchen from days of neglect.\u00a0 John got home 1\/2 hr early because they got rain late in the morning.\u00a0 We played at Mt. View Meadows today, where we only play when there is a 5th Thursday in a month (only happens 4 times\/ year).\u00a0 Relatives of two members of our group are there, and so it is special.\u00a0 They’d like us to come more often, but there are not enough days in the month for all the Ellensburg facilities where we volunteer. \u00a0\u00a0We both had eye appointments.. John at 3:00 and me at 3:30.\u00a0 On my way there after playing, I dropped by Wendy’s for two coupon specials for our supper tonight.\u00a0 Came on home and started back on the computer.\u00a0 Now I have finished all that and need to enter more medical mileage receipts in my Excel spreadsheet.\u00a0 I brought some more in from my 2004 Subaru, this afternoon.\u00a0 I had been entering trips in the 2009 Subaru.\u00a0 Now I’m set for tonight.\u00a0 It is still raining and John had to go feed horses (ours and the neighbors’) in the rain. \u00a0 \u00a0I forgot to say that John found Big Sue in the back of the barn with 5 orange kittens, without their eyes open yet. \u00a0This set is the wrong color, but almost this age:<\/p>\n http:\/\/desicolours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/09new-born-animals.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n He took her feed and water out there.\u00a0 He figures we can go in and handle them so they won’t become wild, and hopefully she won’t move them on us as she did with Woody and Little Sioux, last year.\u00a0 She knows him better now from feeding in the “cat house”, so she crawls up the bales of hay onto the rafters and looks down on him when he is looking at and handling the kittens.\u00a0 We’d like to capture her somehow and get her spayed.<\/p>\n Friday, Mar 30 \u00a0John got up early and it was raining but it stopped and he left.\u00a0 It started again just as he left. \u00a0He got to Vantage (30 mins \u2013 once on I-90 at Kittitas there is not a legal place to turn around going down the hill) before he decided it wasn’t going to be nice.\u00a0 He called from his cell phone and I gave him the phone of the vineyard owner, and they decided to cancel for today.\u00a0 We had talked early in the morning and thought it was going to be all right over there.\u00a0 I stayed and did more tax input (mileage for medical and volunteer trips).\u00a0 Also petted Rascal several times in my lap, watched him and little Sioux (yellow cat) out the back door, when they climbed the ladder trying to get to the bird feeder.\u00a0 Of course, when the birds see them coming, they fly away.\u00a0 John and I went to town today, and he shopped while I went to exercise class.\u00a0 He also picked up 5 Ponderosa pines and 5 grand fir trees (little ones) at the Conservation District. \u00a0Total price was $17.20. \u00a0Most of the trees along our driveway came from there, over the past decade or more.\u00a0 They have grown to be big and beautiful specimens.<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grand_Fir<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ponderosa_pine<\/a><\/p>\n The Ponderosa fits best in our location when starting with bare-root plants 18 inches or less.\u00a0 They don\u2019t do well in shade or against competition from grass but, once they become established they can grow 2 feet in a year.\u00a0 Some like to double-crown as shown in this photo:<\/p>\n http:\/\/spot.colorado.edu\/~mitton\/images\/Ponderosa%20Bear%20Lake%20CA.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n Grand Firs are found in our area but more to the west and higher in elevation.<\/p>\n When John and I got home, he took me to show me the new litter of kittens in the back of our barn, in the hay.\u00a0 He reached down and pulled them all out.\u00a0 A couple don’t have their eyes open yet, and another has only one really open, and a couple have opened eyes–slightly more than slits.\u00a0 They are all orange but sexes unknown and unknowable.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t tell with Rascal and he was much older (even our vet wasn’t sure).\u00a0 At least one has a little white in special places, on the tummy and chin\/neck, but not much.\u00a0 Sunshine (last year\u2019s now deceased kitty, had the same mom, who is also the mom of Woody and little Sioux. \u00a0Sunshine had white feet plus white elsewhere.\u00a0 Different father?\u00a0 John’s favorite pastry from our grocery bakery consists of old fashioned donuts with chocolate frosting and nuts on top.\u00a0 They had their old fashions on sale today for $3.98\/dozen.\u00a0 Our friend in the bakery pulled a whole box of them for John.\u00a0 She might have doctored them up because normally they don’t make more than 4 chocolate covered ones with nuts.\u00a0 Normally donuts there cost $5.98\/doz.<\/p>\n Then we had a nice long talk with John’s sister Peggy. \u00a0My right shoulder\/upper arm is hurting — guess I need to take another couple of acetaminophen.\u00a0 Probably exercised it too much today and it was used a lot the previous two days playing my fiddle. \u00a0Oh, I got a \u201cthank you volunteer\u201d award (certificate) today from the Adult Activity Center, and an invite to a Lasagna dinner, but I already had been invited from service to the community (nursing homes, etc.) for our music group, the Kittitas Valley Fiddlers & Friends.\u00a0 As you have heard, I also play music once a week at the Soup Kitchen of the Food Bank, with only our banjo player and occasionally a lady who sings with us.\u00a0 What\u2019s cool is we have a fan club and they join in singing while eating their lunch and sometimes stay after they are done eating.\u00a0 The servers also chime in, so it\u2019s really cool.\u00a0 We often get applause from a few people in the room (there were 40 there this week), and we even occasionally have requests.\u00a0 Mostly, they like the fast tunes.<\/p>\n Saturday, Mar 31 \u00a0We woke to an inch of wet snow, mist, and clouds.\u00a0 And mud.\u00a0 With 10 trees to plant we were hoping for a nice weekend.\u00a0 But hope is a poor plan and this time it didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 We have NOTHING this weekend, so we will dry some of these huge honey crisp apples (they weigh a pound each).\u00a0 John has done the morning chores (in the snow).\u00a0 It has stopped now, but still overcast and drippy; after I wrote that, it started snowing again.\u00a0 He will have to drive to town for gasoline for the old farm truck (he uses for feeding all the neighbors’ 10 horses and bull.<\/p>\n Hope your week was a 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![http:\/\/desicolours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/09new-born-animals.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nHe took her feed and water out there.\u00a0 He figures we can go in and handle them so they won’t become wild, and hopefully she won’t move them on us as she did with Woody and Little Sioux, last year.\u00a0 She knows him better now from feeding in the “cat house”, so she crawls up the bales of hay onto the rafters and looks down on him when he is looking at and handling the kittens.\u00a0 We’d like to capture her somehow and get her spayed.<\/p>\nFriday, Mar 30 \u00a0John got up early and it was raining but it stopped and he left.\u00a0 It started again just as he left. \u00a0He got to Vantage (30 mins \u2013 once on I-90 at Kittitas there is not a legal place to turn around going down the hill) before he decided it wasn’t going to be nice.\u00a0 He called from his cell phone and I gave him the phone of the vineyard owner, and they decided to cancel for today.\u00a0 We had talked early in the 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![http:\/\/spot.colorado.edu\/~mitton\/images\/Ponderosa%20Bear%20Lake%20CA.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nGrand Firs are found in our area but more to the west and higher in elevation.<\/p>\nWhen John and I got home, he took me to show me the new litter of kittens in the back of our barn, in the hay.\u00a0 He reached down and pulled them all out.\u00a0 A couple don’t have their eyes open yet, and another has only one really open, and a couple have opened eyes–slightly more than slits.\u00a0 They are all orange but sexes unknown and unknowable.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t tell with Rascal and he was much older (even our vet wasn’t sure).\u00a0 At least one has a little white in special places, on the tummy and chin\/neck, but not much.\u00a0 Sunshine (last year\u2019s now deceased kitty, had the same mom, who is also the mom of Woody and little Sioux. \u00a0Sunshine had white feet plus white elsewhere.\u00a0 Different father?\u00a0 John’s favorite pastry from our grocery bakery consists of old fashioned donuts with chocolate frosting and nuts on top.\u00a0 They had their old fashions on sale today for $3.98\/dozen.\u00a0 Our friend in the bakery pulled a whole box of them for John.\u00a0 She might have doctored them up because normally they don’t make more than 4 chocolate covered ones with nuts.\u00a0 Normally donuts there cost $5.98\/doz.<\/p>\nThen we had a nice long talk with John’s sister Peggy. \u00a0My right shoulder\/upper arm is hurting — guess I need to take another couple of acetaminophen.\u00a0 Probably exercised it too much today and it was used a lot the previous two days playing my fiddle. \u00a0Oh, I got a \u201cthank you volunteer\u201d award (certificate) today from the Adult Activity Center, and an invite to a Lasagna dinner, but I already had been invited from service to the community (nursing homes, etc.) for our music group, the Kittitas Valley Fiddlers & Friends.\u00a0 As you have heard, I also play music once a week at the Soup Kitchen of the Food Bank, with only our banjo player and occasionally a lady who sings with us.\u00a0 What\u2019s cool is we have a fan club and they join in singing while eating their lunch and sometimes stay after they are done eating.\u00a0 The servers also chime in, so it\u2019s really cool.\u00a0 We often get applause from a few people in the room (there were 40 there this week), and we even occasionally have requests.\u00a0 Mostly, they like the fast tunes.<\/p>\nSaturday, Mar 31 \u00a0We woke to an inch of wet snow, mist, and clouds.\u00a0 And mud.\u00a0 With 10 trees to plant we were hoping for a nice weekend.\u00a0 But hope is a poor plan and this time it didn\u2019t work.\u00a0 We have NOTHING this weekend, so we will dry some of these huge honey crisp apples (they weigh a pound each).\u00a0 John has done the morning chores (in the snow).\u00a0 It has stopped now, but still overcast and drippy; after I wrote that, it started snowing again.\u00a0 He will have to drive to town for gasoline for the old farm truck (he uses for feeding all the neighbors’ 10 horses and bull.<\/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":"Sunday, Mar 25. \u00a0Quiet day as we just had the usual chores and then off for a birthday (#89) dinner party for our neighbor.\u00a0 We carried along some of John’s Red Rome applesauce, two different packages \u2013 smooth and chunky, then mixed. 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