Daily Notes- Monday February 16th....Sunshine....33 degrees and a nice hot shower.

 Image of my all time favorite food...pot stickers....I made homemade ones for quite a few years. They were outstandingly good.......my son made them with me on one of his infrequent visits from his home in California.  I have some store bought ones in the freezer- I just got up to check on them- see if I recalled correctly.

I have a bag of mixed vegetables in the freezer- I COULD pick out green beans and have something very much like this photo. Later today.....I just had a bowl of oatmeal so not ready to eat anything...else.

The Curling.....well, nerves are on edge with fatigue.  Not as many smiles anymore.  More mistakes with the stones.... getting them in optimum spaces.

Turbo Tax is making me an Exclusive Offer (email)  Can I just express my deep dislike for TAXES???? Daughter has STILL NOT gotten last year's refund. Trump fired many of the Tax Workers..  I never get a refund.

Second amaryllis bulb has sent up a tiny leaf tip.....giving it the old Team Spirit Award.  The first Amaryllis has four leaves now and a potential flower.  Even when they arrived as a gift- One was slow and one was quick. Taking after son and I from the beginning. I'm the Late Bloomer.

That's it.....I showered this morning and the shower head leak is in a different spot. And Less of a leak. But I am not counting my chickens as yet.   My hair feels all silky and smooth....well as much of that as it can do........I still think the razor cutting pulled out a lot of hair- roots and all.  Seems thin. But could be OLD AGE.....sigh.   Well, I need some time on the couch- all this stuff I did- I'm exhausted...

Daily Notes for Sunday February 15th.....Sunshine in Maine... twenty four degrees.

I did not get flowers.

But this bouquet looks quite lovely.  Minus the big white goofy ones.

Curling was less than spectacular- I am missing British Soccer.   Movies on cable are dismal.  Everything outside is BLINDINGLY WHITE.  And VERY COLD.

Son stopped by the Library after his lunch and brought me a few more library reserve books....I chose one for yesterday but ended up doing "many more things" that did not involve reading....nothing productive. I did watch a cable "news" show that involved using the F word in every sentence sometimes-often- more than once. I was surprised...thought that word was "off limits" for tv....and the more often you use it the less effective it is.

I have a recipe here for a Vegetarian Tamale Pie...vegetables, beans and green chilies  broiled until charred..  pureed tomatoes.  Topped with cornbread. We have no green chilies.  Today is  Pizza......because it's Sunday.

Saturday used to be Chicken Soup.......for husband....I would simmer chicken, carrots, celery and onion in a stock pot and then he would pick the chicken off the bones and pile noodles in a bowl etc. and add the simmering strained broth.....carrots and chicken.  Made four quarts....four days of soup. Kept him hydrated and he had "vegetables".  Well, a carrot.

I made tomato soup for myself....not the Campbells variety...dark rich tomato in the Vitamix...but when I started having acid reflux with EVERYTHING I ATE- my diet got down to RICE and more RICE and we tried bananas but only every two days.  Lots of steroids.   Was NOT GOOD. Once a week at the doctor's office...blood work.....etc.  It took MONTHS but finally went away.  Never really knew why....

 

Happy Valentine's Day.....We have Holiday SNOW here in Maine and temps in the low 30's

Consider this my Valentine to each of you!!!!!   And yes, often my hair looks like this.  Couch Hair.

Curling and then the Arizona Kidnapping.......we are still calling it that....hopefully.  That's how I spend my days.....I STOP and turn off the TV and read an entire book as well....so I am not...as my Son says "rotting my mind out" watching crap 24/7.  What I am doing is waiting for the other "shoe" to drop in the case. It's coming.....

Curling was okay- not the best...the American Women lost.  Today I'll watch the American Men. I REALLY miss the grumpy guys that were the Men's Team forever........these new guys....not sure I will .like them...but giving them a chance...

Read in the Sports section that the new AI robotic cameras are giving people watching on tv the "heaves" as they go down hill and around with the guys on skis.    I can imagine the "ride" in those 4 men sleds going around sideways etc.....do not plan to see if it's that nauseating.......Well, that's it

I didn't even try the Suduko so I should go back and if it a chance... have a great day....eat candy.

 

Daily Notes for Friday, February 13th. I'm up early- well earlier than usual. Today is Library Grocery Day.

I have a couple Valentine images so decided to use one for each day this weekend.  I wish I had a good branch like this in my front yard where I could dangle homemade hearts.....BUT we all know I live on a dead end street and no one drives to the end where I am. So, other than the mail or garbage persons....it's just me seeing anything. And I  NO longer walk down to the mailbox.....in winter..remember I fell down that first winter after my husband died..slipped on ice......bloodied my head and broke my glasses.  No need to repeat that. Son was really upset.

Today is Friday- and Library...but sidewalks are still covered in ice (they were never shoveled)...so....Son will go pick up the requested books and walk there in the street.   I will wait inside the grocery store and then we will shop. The area where I wait has a bench but usually it is occupied.  

The Baked Potato Soup was pretty good....but I don't think I will get another carton of it- I will choose one of the others.  I added cheese to the soup.  Adding something crunchy or crisp would have been good also.  I didn't have those items.

Last week I asked about jelly donuts at the "in store bakery"... the ones they had were heavily coated in powdered sugar....this time, if they have them- I'll ask if they have one or two in the back minus powdered sugar.  I doubt they will....but I can aways ask.  Or scrape the sugar off the ones I buy????  no.

Daughter and I sifted thru another Attic Box.  Mostly McDonald's stuff... a few things might be reusable but perhaps too much trouble finding them new corporate homes.  Everything has logos. She is wanting to empty the Attic of things we (her dad and I) moved from house to house for 50 years. Never really "unpacking" because we would be moving again and again and again.....

Well,  not much else to share with you...I did not send Valentine's this year....my "internal" calendar is off and I missed the postal deadline.  I do have Easter cards so will try and be more "on time" with them. Possibly start sooner.........so MUCH sooner.