Daily Notes for Sunday November 15th. A Somber Looking Morning here in Maine.

 Seems like I also selected images of Pie for the posts.......this one looks amazing.

My right wrist is acting up this morning...  a pinched nerve or a broken blood vessel or who knows what. As I mentioned in other posts it burns.  I wanted a shower this morning but decided I would wait until after breakfast and when I had notified my Son I was going to try to take a shower....right now it seems impossible...I'm trying to recall how to turn on the water.

Taking a shower is one of those things you don't think about....and if you do start thinking about it...nothing comes to mind...it's a mystery....so later after breakfast and the newspaper...I will see what happens.  Getting old is really a struggle.......right now.  I know it's anxiety and not forgetfulness.

But breakfast and the topics coming out of Washington DC (the newspaper headlines) are waiting for me. As soon as I get my bowl of oatmeal in the microwave and heat water for my instant coffee.  And find my socks.  Oh, right here on the desktop. The daily pulling on of the socks is the first battle I face each morning with that shooting, burning pain in my upper thigh area. (pinched nerve- Son looked it up).  First rule.... Socks...NOT while sitting in the desk chair with the rolling wheels.

I shut the TV down yesterday evening and got my book and read... Runaway Groomsman.  It's a good book.  Lots of pages.  

The Sun just came out and it's like lights have gone ON everywhere...  Sunday Pizza and after the pizza comes out of the oven my two sweet potatoes will go in to bake.... I have lettuce for a nice salad to eat alongside my sides of pizza....need to see what football games I want to watch.  Busy Day.

Daily notes for Saturday, November 14th.

 

Something scenic...before I start adding Thanksgiving food pictures to the posts.  I also, oddly enough, have a bunch of advent calendar images.  Last year daughter got me one with shortbread miniature cookies each day... One of the ones I have on the desktop is a pickle advent calendar.

My "pinched nerve" leg was just fine until I sat down here to type.  I did have the usual problem getting my foot into the pant leg of my brown corduroy pants....always. But not as much.  It's Saturday and I am looking forward to my Saturday Cooking Shows.... one is being recorded right now.

I didn't get to read much yesterday as there were some interesting things on tv.  Especially the Guy explaining the Air Plane/Airport problem in a very unzipped flight jumper and..bare chest.... he started in and then got off track and talked about what an exceptional President we had.....I changed the channel.  I kept thinking he might have been someone's idea of a joke...

Well Grocery Shopping was fine after we got going...yesterday at home was not comfortable...I was having quite a bit of discomfort with my leg.  Today, so far, knock on wood......things feel better.  I recall thru-out my life that things get worse and them better...

My Morning Wake up Call.....this time from Social Security...I hung up.  I was told by Social Security that they do NOT call.....they send letters..

So the Sun just broke thru here in Maine.  Should warm up the house...  Cooking shows will be watched from the rolling desk chair...then I'll move to something else and them move again  until it's time for the rolling desk chair again...Son says that will help.  This is fine for tv but not good for Book Reading... and I have some great old favorites to read this week.  

And yesterday I got zero reading time for the Runaway Groomsman.

I have been wanting a waffle... the local bar in this book serves Breakfast for Supper and it all comes on a waffle.  I think I need yeast for a waffle...and I don't have any.

Daily Notes for Friday November 13th. It's a pinched nerve....

 Blueberry Loaf Cake

Image is still (was still) on the desktop.  Now in the trash.  I will look to see if I have the NYT recipe. I do not have it here so will need to go hunting.

My aches and pains are pinched nerves which is why they are quiet and then shouting....when I try to do something that aggravates them.  I have no trouble sleeping...but putting on my socks...not a fun activity. Getting second leg into my corduroy pants is also not great. Anything that involves lifting my foot off the surface of the Earth. 

I also have no trouble walking so I have been doing less tv watching and more wandering around the house looking for "long lost items".  I just moved the heel of my right slipper to the top of one of the rolling chair wheels...felt great.    I did get the sock on.... Son suggests more time in the desk chair and less on the saggy couch.  

I should trade the under-used couch in the living room with the one here by the tv...they are the same but one is used and the other isn't.  I wonder if this is true in most homes...the living room furniture hardly ever used if the TV is elsewhere.

Son has gone out to lunch and when he gets back we will do grocery shopping.   I had a late start and then was busy looking for things.... looking for lost items is much more interesting than just wandering around the house.  And then there was my hair..

I had oatmeal and then a while later a banana.  Now I need liquids.  So...I will get liquids and talk to you tomorrow... 

Daily Notes for Thursday November 12th. Cloudy, Leaves everywhere, plus Deer foraging.

Peanut Noodles.

Well, I slept well and enjoyed my breakfast oatmeal...still working on my cup pf tea- it needs a reheat. I answered an email before starting in on the Morning Post here.  And tea got cold.  I got a few numbers in the empty boxes of today's Suduko.   But only a few.

These noodles look interesting...I'm a great fan of pasta... (understatement)....and peanuts.

Son and Daughter have gone somewhere together to buy a new rake...Son was  not happy with the existing rake.  I guess.  We have a tremendous amount of leaves on the front and back lawns.  Deer eating things off the back lawn.  Should have been trolling the front lawn for edibles. 

I have to gather my hair into a small bundle...then secure runaway bits with pins.  I woke up this morning to a very wide mass of white...Hair gone wild. And even trying for some curl...which I encourage.  Eight bobby pins.  One elastic band. And it still escapes.  And when I was little my mother thought I would be bald my entire life.  Just a slow start.

Got nothing else for you today...I watched the Space Race to the Moon on PBS and recorded it.   I recall holding a newborn and watching on tv with the nurses.....but might have been one of the earlier trips.