Daily Notes for Friday, January 9th...2026.

 We might have had this already....but I got tired of waiting for the photo I sent to arrive in the mail box over to my left....  and this image is pretty great.

I FINALLY finished that book- when the lights went out...it's a great book...she wrote a second book but like all things.... I forgot to write it down.

There was some interesting  info regarding Dawn dishwashing soap in this mornings newspaper-- one use they didn't mention was using it to wash greasy oily hair....I used in on my very greasy, oily husband one day and his hair actually had never looked that good.  EVER.....  I washed his hair while he bent over the kitchen sink..... used the dish sprayer.... It could have become a regular thing but he forgot almost as soon as his hair was dry....

I watched a program on PBS last night...about a couple who drive the trucks we call when our battery goes dead,  run out of gas, or when we slide off an icy road into a snow bank etc. Independent and not AAA. I recorded it to watch again....when I do I will write down the title...in case "other" PBS stations are carrying it.

An email from my Library... they will no longer to able to "rent" Baker and Taylor new release books and the Library budget doesn't stretch to cover that many new books... so.....I often wonder what they Do spend money on.....the new book shelving is usually pretty bare....MOST of the books I borrow are from "other" libraries.  Not my local library, which I have to say, has gone downhill since we lost an exceptional Director and got this one.... who "says" she will retire in October.

images are showing up in the sidebar-  now...when I am ready to hit publish....

Daily Notes- Thursday January 8th. Sunshine here in Maine- 29 degrees 99% humidity.

I'm just going to start typing... the image I had is not showing up in the in box.... I pressed send.

That same book is going really slowly and now the  lead  character is being charged with murder.  Framed for murder.  I was hoping to get further along and actually get to read one of the OTHER books....I have waiting patiently here on the book shelf.... Some renewed once already.

I continue to get crank "Medicare Files" phone calls.  Never using my name.   I listen and then hang up. It's annoying and the only phone calls I get.... 

My ONE a Day cup of decaf coffee has gotten cold....but I will drink it this way and not bother trying to keep it warm....the furnace is chugging away.. 65 degrees..heating up the large tall ceiling in the kitchen/family room. Where I sit in the sunshine reading the paper and doing (not really) the sudoko puzzle...I am very very bad at Suduko.

An email from daughter on the hunt for some books for me... I'm going to reply that she should "forget it" and move on to other things....

I am enjoying the daily emails from Jude on her "new to her" site.  I like seeing what she makes out of small scraps and embroidery floss.  I also visited a few blogs I lost contact with a decade or more ago...something happened.....not sure what...but I got politely shut out of reading those blogs...it was fine.. I am accustomed to not being one of the "popular" girls.   They do what they do.

I have no counter on these posts to see how many people read them...I assume...no one reads the posts.  And I assume I am correct in that assumption....I called in an inhaler prescription refill.  Life in the Older Person "Lifestyle".

I watched three old movies I had in the TiVo Movie File. I watched one ...twice. Christmas.  When I say old I mean old.  I am on the fence about deleting them.....knowing next Christmas I will miss having them but NOT until then....there was one on Lifetime that I loved....but it never showed up this year...the Lifetime movies have the same actors and the same Canadian houses.....but are not as "sweet"... the regular Lifetime Movies are...wow...just really dark and scary.  I did record the hockey player one...I should watch it today.....after soccer.  And after Antiques' Roadshow...

See...I am acting my AGE...almost 80.

Daily Notes. Wednesday January 7th....Overcast, zero sunshine and 20 degrees.

 No images...  

Still reading that same book....endless. only 2/3rds of the way into it....even after a few hours of reading.

I called in for a refill of my inhaler...might or might not get filled...things are getting "loose" here in Maine as nothing is a "sure thing" - Health Care Wise  and my annual appointment is on the 15th.........we'll see what happens.

Watched an episode of One Strange Rock - it's Will Smith and Earth. Set the remainder of the series to record.... I've recorded them a few times....and enjoy watching One Strange Rock. How is it that you and I live on this strange one of a kind rock????

I have nothing to say- just that I will try and read my book and eventually watch a recored soccer game. And I might sew a few more strips to the old quilt top.  I have a PEAR for my fruit today.  Other than that the fridge is pretty bare....I do have Ham and Cheese for a Roll Up.  I might buy navel oranges for Fruit of the Week when we shop on Friday.

Got nothing else to share....house lights are on- A Dark Day.

Daily Notes- Tuesday, January 6th. Bill Paying.....Sunshine and 25 degrees.

 1.  No image today.... daughter took down the tabletop Christmas Tree... I now have a glass vase with fake flowers and sock monkeys where the tree was....

2.  My Very Very nice German full length navy dress coat is on its way to the dry cleaner.  Will come home clean and dust free and in a protective bag.  I recall wearing the coat to Women's Club meetings (in Germany). I was also carrying a Louis Vuitton briefcase.  Which is VINTAGE LV now and in the closet. I'm also Vintage and Not in the Closet.

3.  Now I wear 25 cent mended faded LLBean corduroy pants (much looser these days), a thermal shirt and an acrylic pullover. And wool socks and men's slippers....men's are so much better than the women's variety.  Less pink.

4.  I've had my oatmeal and a banana so far today- coffee is still too hot to drink.  I am going to stop typing and have an 8 ounce glass of water and my vitamin pills.  I have to do things as soon as I recall them...  done.

5.  Annual doctor's visit coming up...I can see it in the rearview mirror.   Blood work and shots- no idea what shots but I always get at least two...one in each arm.. I already had my COVID and Flu... shots at the grocery store. 

6.  Worked on the old quilt....most of the shredded strips are brown fabric...weird.  I have very little in the color brown in the Quilt room....  so I am using pale pink.  And I have little of that color also. But more than enough for this quilt....repair.  I am using the fabric wrong side up to look as faded as the original looks.

7.  I wrote two checks and Son is walking out to the mailbox by the road with them.... I've stopped watching the news...watching a mentally ill person in charge of things.... not good for MY mental health. I wonder if there is a White House Betting Pool...on when the big bloated guy nods off permanently.

8.  Reading- still- the Night The Lights Went Out.  It's slow going...everyone is dressing up for a party/dance /social event.  The cheating husband is now reconsidering his bad choices.....coming by and asking the ex to have dinner with him and their two kids....she said no.  Didn't want the two children to have false hope.  The Carpenter is a much better choice these days.  The scary stuff in the woods is getting closer to the house every day.

9..Various women (in the book) have made chocolate chip cookies (not needing the recipe) and I DO HAVE EVERYTHING here to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies.... I even have the cheat sheet to tell me HOW the oven works. No one wants cookies.

10...About a DOZEN British Soccer games in the TiVo... ready to watch. Also perhaps a half dozen Antique's Roadshow....also recorded.  49 episodes of Law and Order ready to go also.  

But I am reading and mending......