Winter Notes_ Cold Rain this morning. I slept till 11am

 Too Much......I might take a break from News.  Yesterday the Talking Heads were actually saying things I just don't want to think about......I'll do a Scarlett O'Hara.....and think about it tomorrow or never.

I woke up to Wet, Dark Skies outside....and it's cold. Dismal.  Perfect day for eating cookies and reading a good romance.

Son (SUN) perfected his Grilled Toasted Cheese Sandwich today....he uses mayo instead of butter. And got..today..a perfectly grilled sandwich.  And he had it with the "adjusted" Baked Beans.  I added stuff to the canned Baked Beans like I always did when he lived with me.....Like prior to being 16.

I slept late- very late.   And I am having a bit of trouble with the pad and keyboard and had to get help from the computer engineer.....but I can resume typing.  I was inserting the batteries incorrectly.  Backwards.  All the batteries seem to go at about the same time....on the mouse the pad and the keyboard.

I have gotten emails from so many of you telling horror stories of the COST of Assisted Living so I have decided to scratch that OFF my list of Future Possibilities..... I will hire a housekeeper who cooks.  Let him or her do the heavy lifting of keeping the house running....and me fed, clean and entertained.

Yesterday I entertained myself with catalogs for all sorts of wonderful stuff- even gourmet FOOD. Before leaving, my cross the street neighbor collected all the gift catalogs she had in her house and dropped them off....I mentioned I loved them.... finding them in her mailbox...I am collecting her mail while she is away. Well, my son is collecting mail as he is up before I am.

Son has gone for a car ride- to keep the battery charged.....He already ate so he won't be getting take out.

I had breakfast and ate three of the tiny chocolate shortbread dogs we found while cleaning out the pantry. Expired over a year ago....I still ate them... but the remainder of the ramen, rice noodles, canned green beans etc all went out to the compost pile....everything but meat or fat goes into the pile.  A Vegetarian Compost Pile...  Feeding the worms.  Now the rain will soften all of it....A Thanksgiving Feast.

I am still sorting the three boxes of assorted- so very assorted--stuff-- that it makes over two dozen separate piles- of stuff I kept.  Greeting Cards, jingle bells- bright red and shiny-so much stuff.  I love it all and can't seem to be able to talk myself into getting rid of it.  Some will be this year's Christmas Card. the rest...I just don't know....Son says , "if you don't know..then keep it".  He'll carry the boxes to the Attic....

We had been sorting fabric but gave up on that....I will never ,,,in this Lifetime use even 10 percent of the fabric....but whatever I give away will be what I need....it always works that way.