Daily Notes- Tuesday, February 18th-- Sunshine....Lots of snow and still a chance for WIND.

Cake.

Well, I know I have a cold and feel a bit under the weather...but I did a few things yesterday that I don't recall doing.   I was honest about the not remembering when my Son asked me about it.  

Could be the cold or could be that I am starting to forget.  I often wondered about what that would be like. Forgetting.....but it feels like nothing.  Just nothing.

The newspaper was dull....NO one has stepped UP to being our Government Hero as yet.. I don't expect a cape or anything but a sharp sword would be of some help.   A Mutiny.  That's what always worked when the Pirates took over a ship at sea....a mutiny...unless they were all thrown overboard.  I am thinking that would cause any Hero second thoughts.

Well, I am still lightheaded from my "cold" or whatever it is bothering me...  I couldn't read yesterday so I watched...well, I think I watched something....don't recall what and perhaps I did some reading but no book is sitting here with a bookmark....I do know that I fell asleep.  And I don't ever do that.

I also cooked something and ate it...meatloaf.  A precooked meal.  I fried the meatloaf patty in the pan..much better than the microwave.   I am now out of food so I should start chopping vegetables for SOUP.  I got everything at the grocery to make soup.  Sigh....This is a lot to take in.....forgetting.

Wow.

 

Monday Morning...February 17th. Sunshine, Snow, 20 degrees. I have a cold.

I adore baked potatoes....

Especially if the skins get all crispy.  So happy to see this image in the cooking feed from NYT.  If these were in the house I would have one or more of them for breakfast......

They aren't.

In the House.  so I will be have microwave oatmeal.....No paper on Monday....No clue as to if the generator went on last night....you know...a power outage from ICE and WIND.

I fell asleep at 4 pm and eventually went o bed much later and then woke up at 5 am.... and fell asleep again and here it is- 10:14 and I haven't made oatmeal yet...  

My nose is stuffy and I am coughing....I think I picked up germs at the grocery store yesterday- lots of people had on masks....but it's their hands that spread germs.....HANDS;

Generator didn't go on last night but this afternoon- 50 mile an hour gale force winds...Old trees- gonna be exciting.  I have to eat, hydrate and medicate.... and I think take a nice NAP.
 

Sunday. February 16th...20 degrees, cloudy......still have power....

Same as yesterday....

I watched British soccer games yesterday..  the crowd cheered until they realized they had zero chance of winning and then they got up and left......

I haven't found anything to read that holds my interest....I enjoyed the Laura Dave book- The Last thing He Told Me.  But Eight Hundred Grapes?....not so much.  Same author.  I got another of her books...after I try and slog thru another dozen pages of Grapes- I'll give up.

When I turned off the lights and went to bed last night I could see snow falling under the street light ... just really light snow ...perhaps the BIG HORRIBLE PART comes later in the day?????

I was up around 5am.... thinking I heard the next door generator which they thoughtfully placed near our bedroom windows.   I don't even think they are in Maine right now..last year they went to Colorado for the entire Winter and early Spring.  

After popping oatmeal into the microwave I will work On pulling my wool socks onto my feet....bending over and not face planting on the floor- it's my new routine.

I watched a science show on PBS about aging....it included an artificial heart that beats....they added human something to the materials used to build the heart and the stuff multiplied into heart muscle.  As my Son says- If you are really interested in something you should actually pay attention....and then I might remember- growth hormones.....see I did remember.  From a newborn, I think.  Not all hormones are the same...each organ or muscle group has its own...specific ones.  My body was programed to be as tall as I am- before I was born.  In fact, everything about me was pre loaded before birth.  I'm pretty sure that's what they said.  Nothing I did as a child or adult changed anything.

 

Daily Notes- Saturday February 15th... Sunshine here in Maine- Storm Approaching.

My desktop calendar,

We got The Saturday paper bundled with the Sunday edition....that's how BAD the powers that be think the weather will........this might be the Maiden Voyage for the new whole house generator.  Everyone reading this- cross your fingers!!!!!!

We have Sunshine right now and 24 degrees. Snow, Rain and then Ice.  Ice always knocks out the power as most lines are still above ground here in Maine.  Hanging near old easily busted up tree branches. Cause WHY put them underground like intelligent folk do??????  Why?

I have some Soccer games to watch....so this post will be short as I think I missed the first half of the Arsenal Match.   But...let's hope I set it to record.

I cooked yesterday.  Made a pot of jasmine rice.   Today I have a grocery store meatloaf dinner... includes mashed potatoes....I love mashed potatoes.  Sunday...with the Generator going-- pizza as usual.  Brave New World here @ My House.  Every house on the street--all 14 of us---have whole house generators now.  Gonna be hella noisy.........when they All start up.

So.....Arsenal....My book. Eight Hundred Grapes.  Down Lap Comforter.... Big hot mug of sweet tea. I might miss some of the PBS Cooking Shows or I can record them.....whatever,,,,