{"id":62835,"date":"2019-10-26T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=62835"},"modified":"2019-10-26T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T01:05:32","slug":"in-the-west-life-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/26\/in-the-west-life-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"In the west&ndash;life goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well a lot has happened in the past month or so since I had time to update.&#160; Actually it has been about 6 weeks as I can see.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>First up, yes we got that new car and have put way more miles on it than we anticipated.&#160; In that driving we found that the Navigation lady was super lazy.&#160; We would put in a destination or hit the speech button and ask for a location and sometimes she would talk and sometimes not.&#160; What a crock of crap.&#160; A new car and some of that fancy electronics won\u2019t work.&#160; The navigation worked fine, got the maps and would show directions but the voice behind it might or might not tell us when to turn or other things\u2026 That was somewhat of an ordeal in that we had 3 dealerships look at it and had to contact the Customer Care&#160; and finally got a guy that had been working on that issue and had helped put out a technical service bulletin.&#160; Now knowing just enough about computers to be dangerous I would have suspected it to be software issues but turns out , according to them, it was the amplifier? not sure how that links in but yesterday they replaced that amplifier for the radio system and that thing is located under the center console?&#160; So it took them over 5 h ours to get all the stuff off of it and replace it and get all the stuff back on top\u2026 it worked today when we picked it back up but time will be the telling issue on this problem\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Next up\u2026 the weather out here is pretty fickle this year\u2026 This was the scenes in Mid September..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0217.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-NIK_0217\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-NIK_0217\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0217_thumb.jpg?resize=603%2C403&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"603\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But we have already in October had two snows and pretty large ones at that\u2026and expect another big one coming in later this week from Sunday through Wednesday.. they tell us to expect\u2026WHAT!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Image-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image 2\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Image-2_thumb.jpg?resize=338%2C671&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"338\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week it was about 8 inches here and this next they are saying 6 to 18?&#160;&#160; Well at least the last was on very warm ground so it is pretty much gone now\u2026 so we can put a new layer on top\u2026? 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0495_thumb.jpg?resize=491%2C329&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"491\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On October 4th Sherrie started her ordeal with a cancer treatment.&#160; She opted to start with chemo but after the first treatment and knowing that chemo would only gain a 10% reduction in it coming back she now will not continue chemo and go ahead with the radiation of the area of her leg that they removed the big cancer tumor from\u2026 and wait to see if and where it might return\u2026 at present they can\u2019t find any other signs\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0535.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-NIK_0535\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-NIK_0535\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0535_thumb.jpg?resize=491%2C329&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"491\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The start was to get a port, anticipating more than one chemo trip but after the first nearly wiped her out we won\u2019t do that until absolutely necessary\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>We were just about to get some good color here in early October..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0591.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-NIK_0591\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-NIK_0591\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0591_thumb.jpg?resize=503%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"503\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then a really cold front came down and everything went brown\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>On some brighter notes.&#160; We have 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City\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0642.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-NIK_0642\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-NIK_0642\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0642_thumb.jpg?resize=518%2C347&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"518\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just interesting how they are feathered up and hanging on the mountains\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0644.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-NIK_0644\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-NIK_0644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1-NIK_0644_thumb.jpg?resize=519%2C399&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"519\" 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