Dear Friends (writes Joan),<\/p>\n
\t\u201cSo it\u2019s January 2011.\u201d The weather has been seasonal, down to -36 F downtown, often 14 degrees warmer at the homestead. <\/p>\n
Joan has been \u201c enjoying hearing Alice\u2019s Restaurant for the 100th time… enjoying eating also;
\n\tknitting,
\n\tseeing wildlife out the window, like chickadees, grouse, woodpeckers, ravens, moose,
\n\t\tand recently tracks (maybe porcupine);
\n\tdoing crossword puzzles,
\n\tjigsaw puzzles,
\n\tvisiting Niilo at Pioneers Home,
\n\tgoing bowling,
\n\tplaying cards,
\n\tsinging and visiting on sauna nights.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tNiilo has declined in the past year, waking little, and rarely communicating. Alex & Heather go with Joan to visit him several times a week, Hospice volunteer DeVonne visits him weekly, and others visit him occasionally. He ceased being able to stand to transfer to a vehicle in the fall, so has not been able to visit the homestead or attend Quaker meeting, so Quakers join him at the Pioneers Home occasionally for meditation.<\/p>\n
\tChena spends time with Joan at the homestead 3 days a week; Alex continues bowling and movies with her 3 times a week; Heather in a room at the homestead spends time every day.<\/p>\n
\tThe homestead had major construction in summer 2010 with re-insulation of a large section of roof and other parts; Chena and Gary oversaw this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Friends (writes Joan), \u201cSo it\u2019s January 2011.\u201d The weather has been seasonal, down to -36 F downtown, often 14 degrees warmer at the homestead. Joan has been \u201c enjoying hearing Alice\u2019s Restaurant for the 100th time… enjoying eating also; knitting, seeing wildlife out the window, like chickadees, grouse, woodpeckers, ravens, moose, and recently tracks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koponenalaska.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}