Sunday, May 6\u00a0 This was a quiet day, home alone, the two of us; John in the yard and me in the house much of the day.\u00a0 Finally, late in the afternoon, I joined him to go see his work over the past day and today.\u00a0 I knew he had been building fence sections with poles from aspen trees he cut down on the edge of the pasture between it and the riparian land.\u00a0 He put them up for moving the horses into different parts of the acreage, as mentioned in last week’s blog, which was now just yesterday.\u00a0 He walked me back to see the gate and clearing and another gate on the backside of our house (the west side that has a roaring creek right now).\u00a0 He fixed it so the horses could drink from the edge of the creek, but not cross it to escape our property.\u00a0 We actually own part of the opposite side of the creek, but it is not fenced.<\/p>\n
I spent most of the day first on the computer, but then turned it off and started tackling the tables and counters in the den.\u00a0 I made incredible progress, but I am by no means done.\u00a0 In fact, if someone else besides John walked in, they would have no clue that anything had been organized, cleaned, or tossed.\u00a0 That’s the way it will be for awhile until we truly make a dent in the build-up of several years.\u00a0 I did find some bills needing paid, so I started a stack of those.\u00a0 I received a few phone calls that took up a fair amount of time, but gave me a chance to get off my feet.<\/p>\n
One of the early things I did was to search for a D string for John’s “new” guitar.\u00a0 I checked our roll-top desk drawer where I had seen one in with our cards, recently, but it was an E string.\u00a0 Then I looked in my own Garcia classical guitar case and found several strings, but the D only had the wrapper and the string was gone.\u00a0 I was on the computer searching for strings and for a case for him.<\/p>\n
I can pay my Costco bill on the web, so I’m ready to do that, after I put his and my driver’s licenses into the application for our horse trailer’s tag that expired in Feb.\u00a0 We really haven’t needed to use it.\u00a0 (I am looking over this on Saturday, and I don’t believe I ever did that.)\u00a0 The trailer has become the parking garage for a used riding mower purchased last fall.<\/p>\n
Monday, May 7\u00a0 We had many things going on today. \u00a0Up at 6:30 to find we had captured two of the feral cats (one, the mother of the recent kitties); the other, a yearling we thought was male. \u00a0Woody turns out to be a female, and she was found to have pyometra. \u00a0Pyometra (pus filled uterus) is a serious and life-threatening infection. \u00a0I am happy we trapped her and got her to the vet when we did. \u00a0We set the traps last night, and first caught our inside\/outside cat. \u00a0Then overnight we caught two, one in the barn where she had the kittens and the other in the haymow where the two yearlings have been eating. \u00a0We had to get them to the vet at 7:30 a.m., and then we went for breakfast (Carl’s Jr) for two sausage, cheese, egg, on biscuits. \u00a0Had a coupon for both for $1.88, which with tax was only $2.03. \u00a0That was a good deal. \u00a0I don’t know what the usual cost is.\u00a0 We both were impressed with the biscuits. \u00a0They were as large as a hamburger bun and very tasty. \u00a0Then across the main N-S street and on to the grocery store and to the pharmacy to pick up my meds.\u00a0 Home for awhile to take care of more chores.\u00a0 Now we need to catch little Sioux (gender unknown but suspect a male). \u00a0“It” just came to the back door and talked to me through the glass patio door.\u00a0 Yesterday John was throwing horse manure on the compost pile and that same cat talked to him.\u00a0 (I hope it is a male).\u00a0 Has the prettiest big yellow eyes like his mom.\u00a0 We were supposed to call at 1:00 p.m. to see about picking up the cats. \u00a0I thought it would be around 2:30 and I needed John along with me to carry the crates and traps. \u00a0Turns out, they didn’t want us to come until 4:30.\u00a0 We did, and carried in John’s guitar because a friend thought she had an old guitar case to give him.\u00a0 She didn’t answer their phone, because they charged it but forgot to turn it back on. \u00a0We decided to go visit anyway, knowing they planned to be home after 1:00. \u00a0We picked up a Pizza Hut pizza using a coupon I had for a free large one. \u00a0We requested three different toppings on each half.\u00a0 Had a nice visit but she had not been able to find the guitar case, so figured it must no longer be in her house, and perhaps she gave it back to her son.<\/p>\n
Finally, we got home and set up the cats in their crates in the barn, with a bowl of water.\u00a0 We cannot let either of them out for at least a week. \u00a0If they have sex, after the spay operation, it can be fatal, because of the sutures \u2013 that would likely burst open. \u00a0They still attract for several days. \u00a0We are going to figure out something in the house to keep them locked in, and that should also allow us to get to know them better and them us, all the while protecting them and giving us insight into how they are doing.<\/p>\n
I have also been taking my Blood Pressure several times a day to give the record to my Cardiologist to combine with the information from my BMP (for electrolytes) lab test, to see if he can “up” \u00a0the Losartan dosage I’m taking to be closer to the clinical tests for good mortality. \u00a0I’m all in favor of that!!\u00a0 He already increased my Metoprolol to a higher dosage to reach the same goal.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, May 8\u00a0 Rather amazing what John and I accomplished today in the den; cleaned everything (piled 3 ft high in places) off a very large sturdy wooden table.\u00a0 He built a wood-frame structure with an opening to put in the litter box, and to clean it out.\u00a0 Has a door to put the cats in and out of the enclosure.\u00a0 In addition, he will cover it with chicken wire tomorrow.\u00a0 Went to have foot care at 2:00; called about acupuncture; only got four appointments approved, and nothing heard yet about massage appointments that were previously denied.\u00a0 Cancelled this week’s massage because I refuse to pay $60 \/ hr, regardless of how much it helps my shoulders and the scar tissue to reconnect the nerves treatment.\u00a0 In the evening, I went with my neighbor back to town to hear a talk by our Attorney about “Getting your Affairs in Order,” which was about planning for your financial future (writing wills, living trusts, etc.).<\/p>\n
Wednesday, May 9\u00a0 \u00a0John is finishing the cat motel. \u00a0Final part is a door for access with width and height just a bit larger than the plastic shipping crates we are using. \u00a0Now they have a piece of Aspen for sharpening claws, a wicker basket bed with towel and\u00a0 cardboard box for hiding in or laying on.\u00a0 We were successful in capturing Little Sioux (Woody’s brother, we think, unless she is also a female) who entered the trap sometime after a morning check. \u00a0John found him in the trap this afternoon, and we’ll take him in the morning.<\/p>\n
I have been very busy too. \u00a0This morning I got up early and was at school at 8:05. \u00a0I handled Jennifer Hackett’s Intermediate GIS lab and gave them the lab, introduced it and myself and stayed with them from 8:30 until 10:50.\u00a0 Long lab, but we all did fine. \u00a0I hadn’t been in that GIS lab in Dean Hall in 2.5 years. \u00a0My account was still there, so I could access the Internet during class while the students worked. \u00a0If they had questions, then I would go help.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun for me!!\u00a0 Although, I DO NOT want to be back there teaching anymore!<\/p>\n
I left the University after the long lab and went directly to the Food Bank Soup Kitchen to play music.\u00a0 After we played, they fed us a nice meal:\u00a0 chicken breast parts wrapped in a great crunchy crust, asparagus (which I found is another veggie I like and cannot eat while on the medication, Coumadin.\u00a0 With that was a slice of Brie cheese, some pasta salad, and a rhubarb cobbler for dessert.\u00a0 I left off the ice cream.<\/p>\n
Sue and Woody (shall we call her Woodee?) are in the house now, still in their dog crates, but on the table, and John is working on finishing putting up the sides and the sliding door. \u00a0We hope (& pray) they will get along together when we move them out of their crates. \u00a0I don’t know why they wouldn’t as they have co-existed a year in the haymow and cat house.\u00a0 Sue is Woody’s mom.<\/p>\n
Thursday, May 10 \u00a0The last one IS AN orange male, now neutered. \u00a0We picked him up at the vet today at 3:15 p.m. and dropped off the 4 traps we have used over the past couple weeks.\u00a0 The girls, Mama Sue and Woodee are resting together well, in their new environment.\u00a0 They are in\u00a0front\u00a0of me as I work on my laptop in my lap from my recliner. Now they are sleeping, but they have an area about 5.5 by 3 feet with litter box, food, and water bowls, and a towel that\u00a0occasionally\u00a0they lay on, but just now they are side by side on the paper, which covers plastic.\u00a0 So Little Sioux is a \u201cBoy named Sue\u201d \u00a0. . .<\/p>\n
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Boy_Named_Sue<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-1BJfDvSITY<\/a><\/p>\n . . . but seems not to have a mean thought in his handsome head.\u00a0 Perhaps, we\u2019ll call him Johnny Cash or just JC (jaysee). [BTW \u2013 the song came out the year we were married.] \u00a0At the moment Johnny Cash is in a large dog crate in the back computer room, where our big pc-tower with double monitors resides.\u00a0 He has a very deep voice and continually tells us how unhappy and upset he is. \u00a0I wish he would calm down as well as the girls now have.\u00a0 Finally finished taking my blood pressure and pulse for a week, and sent off the report (by email) to my Cardiologist’s nurse.<\/p>\n Friday, May 11\u00a0 John’s building a fence out the back patio door to protect the raspberries, patio, and heat pump from the horses, for when he lets them into the back yard to “mow” the grass. \u00a0Heat pumps are costly and so are fresh raspberries (these are an old un-named red; new Yellow Anne planted this spring has one green leaf!). Unlike the Golden Currents (mentioned a few weeks ago) \u2013 horses will eat shoots of red raspberries. \u00a0I spent time this morning putting in my volunteer hours and mileage for the RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) in Kittitas County.\u00a0 I only recently joined, because they wanted me to report hours for their funding requests.\u00a0 I had for April 256 miles and 11.5 hours of volunteering time (all music at different places around town).\u00a0 Then went to exercise class and on to a volunteer appreciation at the Rehab place where I spent 2 months in 2010, recovering, with physical therapy to learn to walk again and get in and out of bed and a chair.\u00a0 It was a nice celebration of thanks to many volunteers there at the Rehab.\u00a0 Three members of our fiddlers & friends group went.\u00a0 They provided make your own sundaes with toppings such as strawberries, walnuts, small Oreo cookie pieces, little colorful sweet things, and sauces (caramel & chocolate).\u00a0 Then they gave each of us a flower pot of Celosia flowers (blooming), with a number on the bottom.\u00a0 (John planted it in our planter in the front yard with the pansies and marigolds, and the frost last night, killed everything except the pansies.)\u00a0 That number on the bottom of the plant container was for a raffle for the Tiger Lilies on the tables, and for a drawing for four baskets of goodies.\u00a0 I didn’t win anything this time.\u00a0 John drove into town and brought my violin, picked me up at the Rehab, and we drove down the Yakima Canyon to a Bluegrass Camp Out Jam Session that goes from Wed the 9th through Mother’s Day, located at the Big Pines Campground.\u00a0 (It\u2019s free until the season begins May 15.<\/p>\n http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5222\/5613501525_d054bc6c2d_z.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ycda.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/visual-tour\/6-yakima-river-canyon-cliffs.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n Our friends are camping there all the days in their RV.\u00a0 I may go back tomorrow, but definitely will go back on Sunday when there is a potluck from 2:00 to 5:00.\u00a0 I jammed with a few others for a little over an hour.\u00a0 John listened and visited with my fiddling friend’s husband and their dog.\u00a0 The other thing I honchoed this morning was finding a buyer for my friend’s truck.\u00a0 That was my good deed for the day.<\/p>\n Saturday, May 12 \u00a0John started the morning with feeding neighbor’s horses & bull, moving ours into the back yard where he built a fence yesterday already described, cleaned out all the litter boxes of the 3 feral cats, now in the house.\u00a0 They are using them and eating food.\u00a0 Then he took the dogs for a run, unfortunately one of the mutts returned smelling of skunk.\u00a0 When the 4 dogs came back into the house I almost died from the scent.\u00a0 It is incredibly overpowering.\u00a0 John ushered them back to the front yard, and later sprayed all soiled parts of them with \u2018409\u2019 cleaner and took them to the irrigation ditch to wash off the oil.\u00a0 I hope that that will work.<\/p>\n Then my day continued with a trip to town to fill a medications I had run out of. While there, I was considering going to the canyon for more jamming, and had taken my violin along.\u00a0 Once through the pharmacy, I called my friend’s wife to see how he was proceeding from a probe yesterday into his lung to remove a wedge of a suspected cancerous nodule.\u00a0 I am almost to Yakima at that end of the canyon, so figured I could drive to Costco for gasoline and get something for the potluck tomorrow, and come back by the hospital for a visit if he was willing.\u00a0 He was and I visited almost an hour.\u00a0 I lost track of time.\u00a0 His attitude is good and he is looking well, but wants out of there ASAP.\u00a0 On up the canyon to visit again with friends and their friends who had joined them.\u00a0 I went over and joined a group with one Double Bass,<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.guitarrepairsuk.com\/double_bass_on_bike.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n one mandolin, one guitar, and another fiddler.\u00a0 We played for an hour, and I drove the 32 miles home.\u00a0 John had cream-corn-corn-cake (aka corn pone or Johnny Cake)\u00a0 –made with a can of cream style corn.\u00a0 \u201cPone\u201d apparently is a Powhatan word meaning bread from the area we now call Virginia.\u00a0 This was to accompany chili.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.andfam.net\/kimblog\/blogpix\/pone.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n We cut up one of our large Honeycrisp apples to have along with it.\u00a0 We only had a few slices each and that was a lot of apple!\u00a0 And there is a lot left.\u00a0 I’m late getting this to John to design for the blog and submit.\u00a0 Most of you won’t likely see this until Mother’s Day or after.\u00a0 So Happy Mother\u2019s Day.<\/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":" Sunday, May 6\u00a0 This was a quiet day, home alone, the two of us; John in the yard and me in the house much of the day.\u00a0 Finally, late in the afternoon, I joined him to go see his work over the past day and today.\u00a0 I knew he had been building fence sections with … Continue reading “More exciting things ~~”<\/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-988","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-fW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5222\/5613501525_d054bc6c2d_z.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.ycda.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/visual-tour\/6-yakima-river-canyon-cliffs.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nOur friends are camping there all the days in their RV.\u00a0 I may go back tomorrow, but definitely will go back on Sunday when there is a potluck from 2:00 to 5:00.\u00a0 I jammed with a few others for a little over an hour.\u00a0 John listened and visited with my fiddling friend’s husband and their dog.\u00a0 The other thing I honchoed this morning was finding a buyer for my friend’s truck.\u00a0 That was my good deed for the day.<\/p>\nSaturday, May 12 \u00a0John started the morning with feeding neighbor’s horses & bull, moving ours into the back yard where he built a fence yesterday already described, cleaned out all the litter boxes of the 3 feral cats, now in the house.\u00a0 They are using them and eating food.\u00a0 Then he took the dogs for a run, unfortunately one of the mutts returned smelling of skunk.\u00a0 When the 4 dogs came back into the house I almost died from the scent.\u00a0 It is incredibly overpowering.\u00a0 John ushered them back to the front yard, and later sprayed all soiled parts of them with \u2018409\u2019 cleaner and took them to the irrigation ditch to wash off the oil.\u00a0 I hope that that will work.<\/p>\nThen my day continued with a trip to town to fill a medications I had run out of. While there, I was considering going to the canyon for more jamming, and had taken my violin along.\u00a0 Once through the pharmacy, I called my friend’s wife to see how he was proceeding from a probe yesterday into his lung to remove a wedge of a suspected cancerous nodule.\u00a0 I am almost to Yakima at that end of the canyon, so figured I could drive to Costco for gasoline and get something for the potluck tomorrow, and come back by the hospital for a visit if he was willing.\u00a0 He was and I visited almost an hour.\u00a0 I lost track of time.\u00a0 His attitude is good and he is looking well, but wants out of there ASAP.\u00a0 On up the canyon to visit again with friends and their friends who had joined them.\u00a0 I went over and joined a group with one Double Bass,<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.guitarrepairsuk.com\/double_bass_on_bike.jpg<\/a><\/p>\none mandolin, one guitar, and another fiddler.\u00a0 We played for an hour, and I drove the 32 miles home.\u00a0 John had cream-corn-corn-cake (aka corn pone or Johnny Cake)\u00a0 –made with a can of cream style corn.\u00a0 \u201cPone\u201d apparently is a Powhatan word meaning bread from the area we now call Virginia.\u00a0 This was to accompany chili.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.andfam.net\/kimblog\/blogpix\/pone.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nWe cut up one of our large Honeycrisp apples to have along with it.\u00a0 We only had a few slices each and that was a lot of apple!\u00a0 And there is a lot left.\u00a0 I’m late getting this to John to design for the blog and submit.\u00a0 Most of you won’t likely see this until Mother’s Day or after.\u00a0 So Happy Mother\u2019s Day.<\/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, May 6\u00a0 This was a quiet day, home alone, the two of us; John in the yard and me in the house much of the day.\u00a0 Finally, late in the afternoon, I joined him to go see his work over the past day and today.\u00a0 I knew he had been building fence sections with … Continue reading “More exciting things ~~”<\/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-988","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-fW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5222\/5613501525_d054bc6c2d_z.jpg\"){kind=link}
![http:\/\/www.ycda.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/visual-tour\/6-yakima-river-canyon-cliffs.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nOur friends are camping there all the days in their RV.\u00a0 I may go back tomorrow, but definitely will go back on Sunday when there is a potluck from 2:00 to 5:00.\u00a0 I jammed with a few others for a little over an hour.\u00a0 John listened and visited with my fiddling friend’s husband and their dog.\u00a0 The other thing I honchoed this morning was finding a buyer for my friend’s truck.\u00a0 That was my good deed for the day.<\/p>\nSaturday, May 12 \u00a0John started the morning with feeding neighbor’s horses & bull, moving ours into the back yard where he built a fence yesterday already described, cleaned out all the litter boxes of the 3 feral cats, now in the house.\u00a0 They are using them and eating food.\u00a0 Then he took the dogs for a run, unfortunately one of the mutts returned smelling of skunk.\u00a0 When the 4 dogs came back into the house I almost died from the scent.\u00a0 It is incredibly overpowering.\u00a0 John ushered them back to the front yard, and later sprayed all soiled parts of them with \u2018409\u2019 cleaner and took them to the irrigation ditch to wash off the oil.\u00a0 I hope that that will work.<\/p>\nThen my day continued with a trip to town to fill a medications I had run out of. 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