. . .\u00a0 all that goes with it: \u00a0Tax preparation, Easter, gardens, and daffodils:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.cornwall365.co.uk\/cornwall_image\/4,A-Host-of-Golden-Daffodils,_MG_4865_250207.JPG<\/a><\/p>\n Saturday, Apr 7 \u00a0Took it easy today, caring for my cold, however, we loaded three large Honeycrisp apples into the dehydrator.\u00a0 John also finished the blog, while I designed a picture he made of a very large apple (on a scale to measure its heaviness) for putting on the web.\u00a0 We gave you that link in last week’s blog.<\/p>\n Sunday, Apr 8\u00a0 Happy Easter.\u00a0 We will be joining our neighbors for a mid-day feast.\u00a0 Early this morning, while running with the dogs, John had the pleasure of seeing “our Naneum owl” down in the swamp.\u00a0 A couple of years ago he was able to get a photo of a pair.\u00a0 They were in adjacent trees but very close to one another.\u00a0 A student is using one of his photos for her presentation and labeled it the Naneum Owl (That\u2019s because she did a Google Image search and I\u2019d named the photo Owl-Naneum; it picked it up from our newsletter greeting).\u00a0 Here is a link to the type of owl and relevant information:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.kidzone.ws\/animals\/birds\/great_horned_owl.htm<\/a><\/p>\n We are back from a great fun dinner, including ham, potato salad, applesauce, broccoli, green bean casserole with fried onions on top of the mushroom soup mixture, rolls, raw carrots, plums, sweet pickles, and rhubarb blueberry cake for dessert with ice cream if you wanted.<\/p>\n Monday, Apr 9 \u00a0Neat day.\u00a0 I stayed home to recover more from my cold.\u00a0 I’m still coughing but I believe I’m much better.\u00a0 Only sad thing is that John has caught it.<\/p>\n The reason it was neat was that I accomplished quite a bit, as did John.\u00a0 He did his normal feeding for the neighborhood livestock and ours.\u00a0 We went to play with the kitties and talk to Big Sue.\u00a0 They are slightly growing and getting faster on their feet.<\/p>\n Then John spent the afternoon planting trees \u2013 Grand Fir and Ponderosa Pine.<\/p>\n I stayed on my computer going through the tax program and getting questions that I needed responses to from Turbo Tax advisors and from our Mutual Funds Investment counselor in Arizona — (HQ is in Pennsylvania). I reached her on the phone and figured out the answers to those questions about retirement rollovers, and then waited a long time for help from the Turbo Tax advisors (had to speak to two different ones and the wait was longer than the solution).\u00a0 I got my answers I needed so I’m truly on a roll again.\u00a0 Oops, Rascal came in with John from feeding the outside cats and is awaiting some special food himself.<\/p>\n Last week I wrote about the dog Rhu that likely would need a new home but they decided to keep him.\u00a0 They live near Reno and another friend, Sonja, lives in South Lake Tahoe with one of our Brittanys and my childhood-sized (3\/4) violin.\u00a0 They met in between their homes at a convenient place for a longish visit.\u00a0 Then Rhu\u2019s owner, Julie got the violin from Kip\u2019s owner, Sonja, and has now carted it to EBRG for me.\u00a0 I missed seeing her but she was able to drop it off at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 What nice friends I have.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Apr 10\u00a0 I am not busy tomorrow until leaving at 3:30 for a massage appointment and then meeting an Olympia College geographer friend for dinner and then off to play music with The Connections.\u00a0 Will be a busy afternoon and evening.\u00a0 It all went well, but I was very tired and didn’t spend much time awake tonight, going to bed a little earlier than usual.<\/p>\n Wednesday, Apr 11\u00a0 Today started out with all the regular chores, but I stayed in the recliner after breakfast and worked on filing tax receipts.\u00a0 I didn’t spend much time at all on email and the computer.\u00a0 Left for the Soup Kitchen at the food Bank, and played music.\u00a0 Did not sing as much as normal because it would start me coughing.\u00a0 Got through it and then we tried to eat.\u00a0 This was the worst lunch they have ever served there.\u00a0 The meat was a sausage cut in two and fried, with cheese on top and on top of that a piece of lean (mostly) bacon, sort of like ham, with fat attached.\u00a0 Then there was a half of a green pepper stuffed with a mixture of rice (sticky) and cut up veggies, dessert or bread was a thin slice of tortilla (I guess) with sugar and cinnamon on it.\u00a0 There were small cubed peaches (canned) for dessert, so I skipped that.\u00a0 It was really weird and I wasn’t alone in my thoughts.\u00a0 The head cook came over to thank us (as we were eating) for playing the music.\u00a0 She leaned over to the two of us (musicians) and said, “What do you think about lunch?\u00a0 No one said anything, so I said, “Well, it surely is different.”\u00a0 She seemed pleased and said, “that’s what I intended.”\u00a0 No one else at my table liked any part of it either.<\/p>\n Went on to Bi-Mart and picked up more canned cat food on sale.\u00a0 Then off to the hospital for a blood draw for the INR test (blood thinning).\u00a0 Turns out it was back down again to 1.7, and they are not happy with that.\u00a0 I complained of my cold symptoms, and the nurse was alarmed I had yellow mucous, so she talked to the doctor, who put me on Amoxicillin at 3\/day for another 10 days.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem that long since I had the same thing prescribed over a month ago.\u00a0 We had an interesting meal tonight of leftovers.\u00a0 Much better than my lunch today.<\/p>\n Thursday, Apr 12\u00a0 Not much today.\u00a0 Still a lot of coughing from me.\u00a0 John\u2019s sneezing is about gone too.\u00a0 John went out to work on chores for the neighbor and to plant our strawberries.\u00a0 He ordered 25 but got 27 (typical for strawberries by mail-order). \u00a0I went to play at the Rehab center and it was a good thing.\u00a0 Only 6 of us showed up.\u00a0 I made it through without coughing, but had taken a mask in case I started.\u00a0 I stopped by the new Carl’s Jr in town and bought a special BBQ bacon\/cheddar\/fried onion hamburger (two for $5). John ate his not realizing it was supposed to have cheese on it.\u00a0 Mine did; his didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Or maybe he had a \u2018senior\u2019 moment.<\/p>\n Spring seems to have sprung.\u00a0 The Willows are blooming . . .<\/p>\n http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/88\/Willow_catkin_2_aka.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n and the Black Cottonwood . . .<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/wildflowers\/plant-of-the-week\/images\/blackcottonwood\/populus_balsamifera_fruit_smcdougal_lg.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n Grasses (and weeds) have grown enough that our neighbor told John to stop feeding the horses on the pastures.\u00a0 Then he decided the six mares could do with about half of what they had been getting.\u00a0 There are a couple dozen mule deer helping with the nibbling of anything green.\u00a0 It has been so cold here this spring that everything, even grass, is late.\u00a0 Two years ago trees were leafed out and flowers were blooming by April 1st<\/sup>.\u00a0 Two severe frosts in the first week of April froze the cherry buds and killed the leaves of the black walnut trees.\u00a0 They did come back but there were no nuts in 2010.\u00a0 Anyway John\u2019s feeding chores have lessened just in time to do some gardening.<\/p>\n Friday, Apr 13 \u00a0\u00a0I started the day not feeling well after wheezing and coughing all night.\u00a0 I wrote an email to my Dr. and called to alert them to its being there.\u00a0 He responded that starting me on a diuretic was not a good idea, and to keep my antibiotics going, and come in Monday or Tuesday if I wasn’t better.\u00a0 Therefore, I stayed home and worked on taxes all day.<\/p>\n Interestingly, last night I only ate half of sandwich, and we had the remainder for lunch today.\u00a0 John had told me last night there was no cheese on his burger, and I said, “Well there was plenty on mine.”\u00a0 When he cut it today to heat up for lunch, he verified there was lots of cheese on mine, but had been none on his.\u00a0 I wanted to call the store, but they don’t yet have a phone number listed.\u00a0 We both went back to work for a couple hours, and he came in to tell me to come out and bring my camera to record what he had done.\u00a0 Today, he was working on a long trench (~20 feet) digging down to just above a rock layer, putting in a layer of dry manure and straw, and preparing where he will plant his 25+ asparagus plants.\u00a0 Then I also got some pictures of the strawberries he planted yesterday, and last year’s strawberries from which he removed the straw cover.\u00a0 They are already showing new light green growth from uncovering two days ago.\u00a0 \u00a0You can see the pictures on the following link below, which I put out Saturday night and John wrote the details on my beginning template.<\/p>\n http:\/\/elixant.com\/~nancyh\/NaneumFanGarden.html<\/a><\/p>\n The oven\u2019s got chicken thighs baking and in the fridge\u2019 there\u2019s a can of sliced peaches.<\/p>\n Saturday, Apr 14 \u00a0John got his haircut by me this morning.\u00a0 If we had put even $5.00\/haircut in since I began cutting his hair (before we were married), we would have at least $100.\u00a0 We did our separate chores, him outside in the garden and me inside on the computer.\u00a0 Ate a small lunch (for me, not for him), and then both went to town to Briarwood.\u00a0 He shopped while I entertained with a few others.\u00a0 Pretty good turnout of 3 guitars, accordion, two violins, and a viola, with an occasional mandolin.\u00a0 We had a new gal from the college join us today, who plays the banjo.\u00a0 She also plays with the Bluegrass Jam group at the Grange, and likely will tomorrow too, third Sundays of the month, but this is our last this year.\u00a0 There will be a group campout and jam the end of May.\u00a0 Most people, who take this more seriously than I do, go to competitions, festivals, and events through the summer.\u00a0 Back to this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 We surely had an appreciative group who really got involved; one lady got up and did Hawaiian hand movements and dancing to Tiny Bubbles and Pearly Shells.\u00a0 This group of retirees always puts on a great spread for us.\u00a0 Today were ham sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, cut into 4ths, diagonally, three nice salads, and many desserts.<\/p>\n John and I came home and he buried asparagus roots. It is a chore but once done the plants will likely live here as long as we do.<\/p>\n http:\/\/ohioline.osu.edu\/hyg-fact\/1000\/1603.html<\/a><\/p>\n The stores have had Mexico grown asparagus for about $3.50\/pound.\u00a0 The Washington commercial harvest has just started and locally it is sold in road-side stands in boxes of 25 pounds.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t seen this year\u2019s price though.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/2012\/04\/12\/2104569\/asparagus-season-starting-in-tri.html?storylink=fb<\/a><\/p>\n I worked on tax input while John was in the asparagus trench.\u00a0 Then, after he ran the dogs, for their evening exercise, we went to visit the kitties.\u00a0 John pulled them out of their nest and put them on the hay lined floor in front of me (I was sitting on a bale of hay).\u00a0 Mama (Big Sue) watched from the rafters.\u00a0 John laid down and played with them and I picked each of them up and also petted them from above.\u00a0 They are getting more mobile and interested in things.\u00a0 John plans maybe tomorrow to build a little enclosure to give them more light, but high enough to keep them in.\u00a0 In our small hay barn they are well protected from the wind (it was high today) and rain. \u00a0We\u2019ll document the arrival of spring here on Naneum Fan and get some more photos posted for next week\u2019s blog.\u00a0 Meanwhile, check out the garden pictures mentioned above in the blog with a link.<\/p>\n We are thankful we do not live in the mid-west \u2013 storms and tornados all over today \u2013 and wish the best to anyone in that region.<\/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":" . . .\u00a0 all that goes with it: \u00a0Tax preparation, Easter, gardens, and daffodils: http:\/\/www.cornwall365.co.uk\/cornwall_image\/4,A-Host-of-Golden-Daffodils,_MG_4865_250207.JPG Saturday, Apr 7 \u00a0Took it easy today, caring for my cold, however, we loaded three large Honeycrisp apples into the dehydrator.\u00a0 John also finished the blog, while I designed a picture he made of a very large apple (on a … Continue reading “Spring is here and . . .”<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-report-by-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-fI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![http:\/\/www.cornwall365.co.uk\/cornwall_image\/4,A-Host-of-Golden-Daffodils,_MG_4865_250207.JPG<\/a><\/p>\nSaturday, Apr 7 \u00a0Took it easy today, caring for my cold, however, we loaded three large Honeycrisp apples into the dehydrator.\u00a0 John also finished the blog, while I designed a picture he made of a very large apple (on a scale to measure its heaviness) for putting on the web.\u00a0 We gave you that link in last week’s blog.<\/p>\nSunday, Apr 8\u00a0 Happy Easter.\u00a0 We will be joining our neighbors for a mid-day feast.\u00a0 Early this morning, while running with the dogs, John had the pleasure of seeing “our Naneum owl” down in the swamp.\u00a0 A couple of years ago he was able to get a photo of a pair.\u00a0 They were in adjacent trees but very close to one another.\u00a0 A student is using one of his photos for her presentation and labeled it the Naneum Owl (That\u2019s because she did a Google Image search and I\u2019d named the photo Owl-Naneum; it picked it up from our newsletter greeting).\u00a0 Here is a link to the type of owl and relevant information:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.kidzone.ws\/animals\/birds\/great_horned_owl.htm<\/a><\/p>\nWe are back from a great fun dinner, including ham, potato salad, applesauce, broccoli, green bean casserole with fried onions on top of the mushroom soup mixture, rolls, raw carrots, plums, sweet pickles, and rhubarb blueberry cake for dessert with ice cream if you wanted.<\/p>\nMonday, Apr 9 \u00a0Neat day.\u00a0 I stayed home to recover more from my cold.\u00a0 I’m still coughing but I believe I’m much better.\u00a0 Only sad thing is that John has caught it.<\/p>\nThe reason it was neat was that I accomplished quite a bit, as did John.\u00a0 He did his normal feeding for the neighborhood livestock and ours.\u00a0 We went to play with the kitties and talk to Big Sue.\u00a0 They are slightly growing and getting faster on their feet.<\/p>\nThen John spent the afternoon planting trees \u2013 Grand Fir and Ponderosa Pine.<\/p>\nI stayed on my computer going through the tax program and getting questions that I needed responses to from Turbo Tax advisors and from our Mutual Funds Investment counselor in Arizona — (HQ is in Pennsylvania). I reached her on the phone and figured out the answers to those questions about retirement rollovers, and then waited a long time for help from the Turbo Tax advisors (had to speak to two different ones and the wait was longer than the solution).\u00a0 I got my answers I needed so I’m truly on a roll again.\u00a0 Oops, Rascal came in with John from feeding the outside cats and is awaiting some special food himself.<\/p>\nLast week I wrote about the dog Rhu that likely would need a new home but they decided to keep him.\u00a0 They live near Reno and another friend, Sonja, lives in South Lake Tahoe with one of our Brittanys and my childhood-sized (3\/4) violin.\u00a0 They met in between their homes at a convenient place for a longish visit.\u00a0 Then Rhu\u2019s owner, Julie got the violin from Kip\u2019s owner, Sonja, and has now carted it to EBRG for me.\u00a0 I missed seeing her but she was able to drop it off at the Adult Activity Center.\u00a0 What nice friends I have.<\/p>\nTuesday, Apr 10\u00a0 I am not busy tomorrow until leaving at 3:30 for a massage appointment and then meeting an Olympia College geographer friend for dinner and then off to play music with The Connections.\u00a0 Will be a busy afternoon and evening.\u00a0 It all went well, but I was very tired and didn’t spend much time awake tonight, going to bed a little earlier than usual.<\/p>\nWednesday, Apr 11\u00a0 Today started out with all the regular chores, but I stayed in the recliner after breakfast and worked on filing tax receipts.\u00a0 I didn’t spend much time at all on email and the computer.\u00a0 Left for the Soup Kitchen at the food Bank, and played music.\u00a0 Did not sing as much as normal because it would start me coughing.\u00a0 Got through it and then we tried to eat.\u00a0 This was the worst lunch they have ever served there.\u00a0 The meat was a sausage cut in two and fried, with cheese on top and on top of that a piece of lean (mostly) bacon, sort of like ham, with fat attached.\u00a0 Then there was a half of a green pepper stuffed with a mixture of rice (sticky) and cut up veggies, dessert or bread was a thin slice of tortilla (I guess) with sugar and cinnamon on it.\u00a0 There were small cubed peaches (canned) for dessert, so I skipped that.\u00a0 It was really weird and I wasn’t alone in my thoughts.\u00a0 The head cook came over to thank us (as we were eating) for playing the music.\u00a0 She leaned over to the two of us (musicians) and said, “What do you think about lunch?\u00a0 No one said anything, so I said, “Well, it surely is different.”\u00a0 She seemed pleased and said, “that’s what I intended.”\u00a0 No one else at my table liked any part of it either.<\/p>\nWent on to Bi-Mart and picked up more canned cat food on sale.\u00a0 Then off to the hospital for a blood draw for the INR test (blood thinning).\u00a0 Turns out it was back down again to 1.7, and they are not happy with that.\u00a0 I complained of my cold symptoms, and the nurse was alarmed I had yellow mucous, so she talked to the doctor, who put me on Amoxicillin at 3\/day for another 10 days.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem that long since I had the same thing prescribed over a month ago.\u00a0 We had an interesting meal tonight of leftovers.\u00a0 Much better than my lunch today.<\/p>\nThursday, Apr 12\u00a0 Not much today.\u00a0 Still a lot of coughing from me.\u00a0 John\u2019s sneezing is about gone too.\u00a0 John went out to work on chores for the neighbor and to plant our strawberries.\u00a0 He ordered 25 but got 27 (typical for strawberries by mail-order). \u00a0I went to play at the Rehab center and it was a good thing.\u00a0 Only 6 of us showed up.\u00a0 I made it through without coughing, but had taken a mask in case I started.\u00a0 I stopped by the new Carl’s Jr in town and bought a special BBQ bacon\/cheddar\/fried onion hamburger (two for $5). John ate his not realizing it was supposed to have cheese on it.\u00a0 Mine did; his didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Or maybe he had a \u2018senior\u2019 moment.<\/p>\nSpring seems to have sprung.\u00a0 The Willows are blooming . . .<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/88\/Willow_catkin_2_aka.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nand the Black Cottonwood . . .<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/wildflowers\/plant-of-the-week\/images\/blackcottonwood\/populus_balsamifera_fruit_smcdougal_lg.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nGrasses (and weeds) have grown enough that our neighbor told John to stop feeding the horses on the pastures.\u00a0 Then he decided the six mares could do with about half of what they had been getting.\u00a0 There are a couple dozen mule deer helping with the nibbling of anything green.\u00a0 It has been so cold here this spring that everything, even grass, is late.\u00a0 Two years ago trees were leafed out and flowers were blooming by April 1st<\/sup>.\u00a0 Two severe frosts in the first week of April froze the cherry buds and killed the leaves of the black walnut trees.\u00a0 They did come back but there were no nuts in 2010.\u00a0 Anyway John\u2019s feeding chores have lessened just in time to do some gardening.<\/p>\nFriday, Apr 13 \u00a0\u00a0I started the day not feeling well after wheezing and coughing all night.\u00a0 I wrote an email to my Dr. and called to alert them to its being there.\u00a0 He responded that starting me on a diuretic was not a good idea, and to keep my antibiotics going, and come in Monday or Tuesday if I wasn’t better.\u00a0 Therefore, I stayed home and worked on taxes all day.<\/p>\nInterestingly, last night I only ate half of sandwich, and we had the remainder for lunch today.\u00a0 John had told me last night there was no cheese on his burger, and I said, “Well there was plenty on mine.”\u00a0 When he cut it today to heat up for lunch, he verified there was lots of cheese on mine, but had been none on his.\u00a0 I wanted to call the store, but they don’t yet have a phone number listed.\u00a0 We both went back to work for a couple hours, and he came in to tell me to come out and bring my camera to record what he had done.\u00a0 Today, he was working on a long trench (~20 feet) digging down to just above a rock layer, putting in a layer of dry manure and straw, and preparing where he will plant his 25+ asparagus plants.\u00a0 Then I also got some pictures of the strawberries he planted yesterday, and last year’s strawberries from which he removed the straw cover.\u00a0 They are already showing new light green growth from uncovering two days ago.\u00a0 \u00a0You can see the pictures on the following link below, which I put out Saturday night and John wrote the details on my beginning template.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/elixant.com\/~nancyh\/NaneumFanGarden.html<\/a><\/p>\nThe oven\u2019s got chicken thighs baking and in the fridge\u2019 there\u2019s a can of sliced peaches.<\/p>\nSaturday, Apr 14 \u00a0John got his haircut by me this morning.\u00a0 If we had put even $5.00\/haircut in since I began cutting his hair (before we were married), we would have at least $100.\u00a0 We did our separate chores, him outside in the garden and me inside on the computer.\u00a0 Ate a small lunch (for me, not for him), and then both went to town to Briarwood.\u00a0 He shopped while I entertained with a few others.\u00a0 Pretty good turnout of 3 guitars, accordion, two violins, and a viola, with an occasional mandolin.\u00a0 We had a new gal from the college join us today, who plays the banjo.\u00a0 She also plays with the Bluegrass Jam group at the Grange, and likely will tomorrow too, third Sundays of the month, but this is our last this year.\u00a0 There will be a group campout and jam the end of May.\u00a0 Most people, who take this more seriously than I do, go to competitions, festivals, and events through the summer.\u00a0 Back to this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 We surely had an appreciative group who really got involved; one lady got up and did Hawaiian hand movements and dancing to Tiny Bubbles and Pearly Shells.\u00a0 This group of retirees always puts on a great spread for us.\u00a0 Today were ham sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, cut into 4ths, diagonally, three nice salads, and many desserts.<\/p>\nJohn and I came home and he buried asparagus roots. It is a chore but once done the plants will likely live here as long as we do.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/ohioline.osu.edu\/hyg-fact\/1000\/1603.html<\/a><\/p>\nThe stores have had Mexico grown asparagus for about $3.50\/pound.\u00a0 The Washington commercial harvest has just started and locally it is sold in road-side stands in boxes of 25 pounds.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t seen this year\u2019s price though.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/2012\/04\/12\/2104569\/asparagus-season-starting-in-tri.html?storylink=fb<\/a><\/p>\nI worked on tax input while John was in the asparagus trench.\u00a0 Then, after he ran the dogs, for their evening exercise, we went to visit the kitties.\u00a0 John pulled them out of their nest and put them on the hay lined floor in front of me (I was sitting on a bale of hay).\u00a0 Mama (Big Sue) watched from the rafters.\u00a0 John laid down and played with them and I picked each of them up and also petted them from above.\u00a0 They are getting more mobile and interested in things.\u00a0 John plans maybe tomorrow to build a little enclosure to give them more light, but high enough to keep them in.\u00a0 In our small hay barn they are well protected from the wind (it was high today) and rain. \u00a0We\u2019ll document the arrival of spring here on Naneum Fan and get some more photos posted for next week\u2019s blog.\u00a0 Meanwhile, check out the garden pictures mentioned above in the blog with a link.<\/p>\nWe are thankful we do not live in the mid-west \u2013 storms and tornados all over today \u2013 and wish the best to anyone in that region.<\/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":". . .\u00a0 all that goes with it: \u00a0Tax preparation, Easter, gardens, and daffodils: http:\/\/www.cornwall365.co.uk\/cornwall_image\/4,A-Host-of-Golden-Daffodils,_MG_4865_250207.JPG Saturday, Apr 7 \u00a0Took it easy today, caring for my cold, however, we loaded three large Honeycrisp apples into the dehydrator.\u00a0 John also finished the blog, while I designed a picture he made of a very large apple (on a … Continue reading “Spring is here and . . .”<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-report-by-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-fI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.cornwall365.co.uk\/cornwall_image\/4,A-Host-of-Golden-Daffodils,_MG_4865_250207.JPG\"){kind=link}
![http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/88\/Willow_catkin_2_aka.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nand the Black Cottonwood . . .<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/wildflowers\/plant-of-the-week\/images\/blackcottonwood\/populus_balsamifera_fruit_smcdougal_lg.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nGrasses (and weeds) have grown enough that our neighbor told John to stop feeding the horses on the pastures.\u00a0 Then he decided the six mares could do with about half of what they had been getting.\u00a0 There are a couple dozen mule deer helping with the nibbling of anything green.\u00a0 It has been so cold here this spring that everything, even grass, is late.\u00a0 Two years ago trees were leafed out and flowers were blooming by April 1st<\/sup>.\u00a0 Two severe frosts in the first week of April froze the cherry buds and killed the leaves of the black walnut trees.\u00a0 They did come back but there were no nuts in 2010.\u00a0 Anyway John\u2019s feeding chores have lessened just in time to do some gardening.<\/p>\nFriday, Apr 13 \u00a0\u00a0I started the day not feeling well after wheezing and coughing all night.\u00a0 I wrote an email to my Dr. and called to alert them to its being there.\u00a0 He responded that starting me on a diuretic was not a good idea, and to keep my antibiotics going, and come in Monday or Tuesday if I wasn’t better.\u00a0 Therefore, I stayed home and worked on taxes all day.<\/p>\nInterestingly, last night I only ate half of sandwich, and we had the remainder for lunch today.\u00a0 John had told me last night there was no cheese on his burger, and I said, “Well there was plenty on mine.”\u00a0 When he cut it today to heat up for lunch, he verified there was lots of cheese on mine, but had been none on his.\u00a0 I wanted to call the store, but they don’t yet have a phone number listed.\u00a0 We both went back to work for a couple hours, and he came in to tell me to come out and bring my camera to record what he had done.\u00a0 Today, he was working on a long trench (~20 feet) digging down to just above a rock layer, putting in a layer of dry manure and straw, and preparing where he will plant his 25+ asparagus plants.\u00a0 Then I also got some pictures of the strawberries he planted yesterday, and last year’s strawberries from which he removed the straw cover.\u00a0 They are already showing new light green growth from uncovering two days ago.\u00a0 \u00a0You can see the pictures on the following link below, which I put out Saturday night and John wrote the details on my beginning template.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/elixant.com\/~nancyh\/NaneumFanGarden.html<\/a><\/p>\nThe oven\u2019s got chicken thighs baking and in the fridge\u2019 there\u2019s a can of sliced peaches.<\/p>\nSaturday, Apr 14 \u00a0John got his haircut by me this morning.\u00a0 If we had put even $5.00\/haircut in since I began cutting his hair (before we were married), we would have at least $100.\u00a0 We did our separate chores, him outside in the garden and me inside on the computer.\u00a0 Ate a small lunch (for me, not for him), and then both went to town to Briarwood.\u00a0 He shopped while I entertained with a few others.\u00a0 Pretty good turnout of 3 guitars, accordion, two violins, and a viola, with an occasional mandolin.\u00a0 We had a new gal from the college join us today, who plays the banjo.\u00a0 She also plays with the Bluegrass Jam group at the Grange, and likely will tomorrow too, third Sundays of the month, but this is our last this year.\u00a0 There will be a group campout and jam the end of May.\u00a0 Most people, who take this more seriously than I do, go to competitions, festivals, and events through the summer.\u00a0 Back to this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 We surely had an appreciative group who really got involved; one lady got up and did Hawaiian hand movements and dancing to Tiny Bubbles and Pearly Shells.\u00a0 This group of retirees always puts on a great spread for us.\u00a0 Today were ham sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, cut into 4ths, diagonally, three nice salads, and many desserts.<\/p>\nJohn and I came home and he buried asparagus roots. It is a chore but once done the plants will likely live here as long as we do.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/ohioline.osu.edu\/hyg-fact\/1000\/1603.html<\/a><\/p>\nThe stores have had Mexico grown asparagus for about $3.50\/pound.\u00a0 The Washington commercial harvest has just started and locally it is sold in road-side stands in boxes of 25 pounds.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t seen this year\u2019s price though.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/2012\/04\/12\/2104569\/asparagus-season-starting-in-tri.html?storylink=fb<\/a><\/p>\nI worked on tax input while John was in the asparagus trench.\u00a0 Then, after he ran the dogs, for their evening exercise, we went to visit the kitties.\u00a0 John pulled them out of their nest and put them on the hay lined floor in front of me (I was sitting on a bale of hay).\u00a0 Mama (Big Sue) watched from the rafters.\u00a0 John laid down and played with them and I picked each of them up and also petted them from above.\u00a0 They are getting more mobile and interested in things.\u00a0 John plans maybe tomorrow to build a little enclosure to give them more light, but high enough to keep them in.\u00a0 In our small hay barn they are well protected from the wind (it was high today) and rain. \u00a0We\u2019ll document the arrival of spring here on Naneum Fan and get some more photos posted for next week\u2019s blog.\u00a0 Meanwhile, check out the garden pictures mentioned above in the blog with a link.<\/p>\nWe are thankful we do not live in the mid-west \u2013 storms and tornados all over today \u2013 and wish the best to anyone in that region.<\/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":". . .\u00a0 all that goes with it: \u00a0Tax preparation, Easter, gardens, and daffodils: http:\/\/www.cornwall365.co.uk\/cornwall_image\/4,A-Host-of-Golden-Daffodils,_MG_4865_250207.JPG Saturday, Apr 7 \u00a0Took it easy today, caring for my cold, however, we loaded three large Honeycrisp apples into the dehydrator.\u00a0 John also finished the blog, while I designed a picture he made of a very large apple (on a … Continue reading “Spring is here and . . .”<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-report-by-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-fI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/88\/Willow_catkin_2_aka.jpg\"){kind=link}
![http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/wildflowers\/plant-of-the-week\/images\/blackcottonwood\/populus_balsamifera_fruit_smcdougal_lg.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nGrasses (and weeds) have grown enough that our neighbor told John to stop feeding the horses on the pastures.\u00a0 Then he decided the six mares could do with about half of what they had been getting.\u00a0 There are a couple dozen mule deer helping with the nibbling of anything green.\u00a0 It has been so cold here this spring that everything, even grass, is late.\u00a0 Two years ago trees were leafed out and flowers were blooming by April 1st<\/sup>.\u00a0 Two severe frosts in the first week of April froze the cherry buds and killed the leaves of the black walnut trees.\u00a0 They did come back but there were no nuts in 2010.\u00a0 Anyway John\u2019s feeding chores have lessened just in time to do some gardening.<\/p>\nFriday, Apr 13 \u00a0\u00a0I started the day not feeling well after wheezing and coughing all night.\u00a0 I wrote an email to my Dr. and called to alert them to its being there.\u00a0 He responded that starting me on a diuretic was not a good idea, and to keep my antibiotics going, and come in Monday or Tuesday if I wasn’t better.\u00a0 Therefore, I stayed home and worked on taxes all day.<\/p>\nInterestingly, last night I only ate half of sandwich, and we had the remainder for lunch today.\u00a0 John had told me last night there was no cheese on his burger, and I said, “Well there was plenty on mine.”\u00a0 When he cut it today to heat up for lunch, he verified there was lots of cheese on mine, but had been none on his.\u00a0 I wanted to call the store, but they don’t yet have a phone number listed.\u00a0 We both went back to work for a couple hours, and he came in to tell me to come out and bring my camera to record what he had done.\u00a0 Today, he was working on a long trench (~20 feet) digging down to just above a rock layer, putting in a layer of dry manure and straw, and preparing where he will plant his 25+ asparagus plants.\u00a0 Then I also got some pictures of the strawberries he planted yesterday, and last year’s strawberries from which he removed the straw cover.\u00a0 They are already showing new light green growth from uncovering two days ago.\u00a0 \u00a0You can see the pictures on the following link below, which I put out Saturday night and John wrote the details on my beginning template.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/elixant.com\/~nancyh\/NaneumFanGarden.html<\/a><\/p>\nThe oven\u2019s got chicken thighs baking and in the fridge\u2019 there\u2019s a can of sliced peaches.<\/p>\nSaturday, Apr 14 \u00a0John got his haircut by me this morning.\u00a0 If we had put even $5.00\/haircut in since I began cutting his hair (before we were married), we would have at least $100.\u00a0 We did our separate chores, him outside in the garden and me inside on the computer.\u00a0 Ate a small lunch (for me, not for him), and then both went to town to Briarwood.\u00a0 He shopped while I entertained with a few others.\u00a0 Pretty good turnout of 3 guitars, accordion, two violins, and a viola, with an occasional mandolin.\u00a0 We had a new gal from the college join us today, who plays the banjo.\u00a0 She also plays with the Bluegrass Jam group at the Grange, and likely will tomorrow too, third Sundays of the month, but this is our last this year.\u00a0 There will be a group campout and jam the end of May.\u00a0 Most people, who take this more seriously than I do, go to competitions, festivals, and events through the summer.\u00a0 Back to this afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 We surely had an appreciative group who really got involved; one lady got up and did Hawaiian hand movements and dancing to Tiny Bubbles and Pearly Shells.\u00a0 This group of retirees always puts on a great spread for us.\u00a0 Today were ham sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, cut into 4ths, diagonally, three nice salads, and many desserts.<\/p>\nJohn and I came home and he buried asparagus roots. 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