Daily Notes- September 9th

From a recent catalog.  I have a bed like this and took this image to remind me of how the bed was "staged" with the small table and chair nearby.  I have a wall lamp but no bedside table.  Husband has a table on his side for the alarm clock and phone.  To explain why I have this picture here today--in this same catalog they has a black side table which I liked very much- $999 each and I would need two. I have decided not to order them.  Thousand dollar side tables.  When did that get to be a "thing"?

My recent feelings regarding the blog were shaken up a bit when I actually visited the stats report in my sidebar in New Blogger for the first time. Yesterday's post had 190 views.  539,909 views over 3258 posts.

I average 1.5 comments per post over the lifetime of the blog.  And I sort of thought that meant very few people were reading.  I was wrong.  So- whatever I am doing- I will keep doing.  I was never going for a popularity contest anyway- as the original premise was to let my two children and any family and friends know I was okay and what I was doing during the day.  Nothing to earn a Pulitzer Prize. And I was not in it to make money but I know blogs are income streams for many bloggers (which is fine and good).

So- let's just keep going.  I write- you read.

The COVID totals for that wedding here in Maine- 158 cases of the virus and 3 deaths now.  Spreading to new locations like the American Legion Hall and the local Fire Station.  Our doctor in charge: "sustained community level transmission".  School started this week.  They should be closing by Monday. That is the way it's all trending. Even for the colleges here in Maine.  Open and then closing or finding containment spaces for infected students.

We had some excitement here yesterday as husband had a blistered itchy outbreak on his neck and arms- poison ivy we think.  He was out in the weeds next to his workshed.  Daughter and her co-worker have been battling poison ivy all summer on the ocean front properties where they have been working.  Dawn to the rescue.  So, husband had a very hot shower using Dawn as his shower soap.  I did four loads of laundry with his clothing, the bed sheets and stuff from his exercise space.  Anything he may have touched or worn.  After collecting all the stuff for the washer- I washed my arms with hot water and Dawn.  Things seem okay.  I am guessing the oil removal properties of Dawn- removes the poison ivy oils as well.

I purchased a medicine for acid reflux and took it for the first time yesterday.  It worked.  Which is good for two reasons.  One- it was actually acid reflux and not something more serious. 

Daughter found two pairs of pants for me at Goodwill.  One long pair of LLBean outdoor pants and one flowery pair of stretchy capris.  Spandex like.  Very weird but comfortable.  I restocked the summer pants on the shelf.  I have on a pair of black linen Bean capris.  Very nice.  I had forgotten I owned them. Older- I have new ones for "special events" like Music theater etc.  Which didn't happen this Summer. She also got me a copy of Where the Crawdad's Sing.  Which I can now read whenever I want- or need to read.