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.

 

Daily Notes for Wednesday November 11th. Heating Oil was delivered...

 Meatball Soup.  I won't be making this...ever.  Even though it does look delicious.

Well, putting my socks on is a very very painful experience these days. With that muscle pull in my upper right thigh. Got myself a bit lightheaded...  Really hurts.   My right hand hurts more..a broken blood vessel and something else...it BURNS. I use my right had quite a bit. 

So...Oil Delivery....we can now raise the temperature in the rooms??????  154.9 gallons and $677 dollars.

I had two projects to work on.......yesterday we got my Medicare Advantage Program set up.  It's twenty dollars more per month but I can deal with that.  It's my same program I signed up for at the very very beginning and has never disappointed me...  not available everywhere in Maine but locally..yes.

I watched an Operatic Space Program on PBS yesterday evening....very moving so I checked the listing and set a repeat of it to record. on my TiVo...I liked the images and the music.  Very emotional towards the end. I had forgotten how many of the early manned space capsules exploded or crashed....I was also amazed that one rocket was stories high.. the Atlas I think..skyscraper tall.

So.....that's it from me...perhaps something interesting has happened in your Life???

Tuesday, November 10th....Cloudy and 49 degrees here in Maine. An Abundance of Leaves on the lawn.

My picture file is full of images of food for the coming holiday.  I may save the dessert ones and delete the others.  Or not.  We still have lots of time before the Big Feast. And may have used this one already.

I have never been one to heavily stitch pieced work.  I do run the machine over handmade potholders I give as gifts... but that is more in keeping with usage and machine washing... potholders--quilted or not-- have a short lifespan.  Or perhaps they do not???  The lovely ones I make to give as gifts are never used.

I served myself a Baked Sweet Potato yesterday for the mid day meal. I added Swiss Cheese to it. I have one left but will have something else today for mid day.   Not a clue what it might be as I have yet again NOT made soup.  I had intentions but they failed me.  Toasted Cheese Sandwich sounds good.  But I have a grocery store container of SOUP..and I might enjoy that today...

I am going to blame what ever is wrong with my right leg ....up by the hip joint... which hurts...when I lift that right foot off the Earth... getting up into my high four poster bed (I feel I may have already whined about this ) is not a great thing...it hurts.  Son has added a kitchen step stool... to help me get into bed.  A nice flat wooden box would possibly be a better choice??? Lifting my leg up onto the ottoman where I read (on the couch) is really painful.  I have started to blame every thing going wrong on that leg pain.

 Getting the leg up on the ottoman is OH MY GOODNESS PAINFUL..... once up..it's fine.  The heating pad helps.  Walking, Standing, Sitting and then Not Sitting is just like usual.

There is a bit of a chill here in the house..but it could be me...I'm old. I am going to grab my shawl and bunch it up around my neck.  See if that makes me think I am warmer????  On the couch I cozy up to my heating pad.....under a down lap blanket.

Still reading Soulmate Equation.  Still love the book. After all these years.

Well, the mystery of my not being able to open my fresh new mouthwash bottle was explained by Son who also couldn't get it open.  Little security tabs.  "Over the Top Security on the Mouthwash" these days. And it's alcohol free.... so no buzz.