Daily Notes and an Update.... Got my vaccines- Flu and COVID. Yesterday.

I woke up with a stiff neck, a painful arch on right foot and neck bones that are snapping and popping.. welcome to being 80 in Maine,..it's also cold here this morning...Sun is shining.  I have on a nice red wool sweater..soft and cozy- but I need something on my neck as my neck is very cold.

Daughter stopped by to tell me her house and pet sitting job is NOW completed....so she will be over to take me to VOTE...and pay my Property Taxes.  She also has three VERY good Landscape Jobs to keep her employed Spring and Summer of next year..  She looked happy..Which is a very good thing.

I've just taken my three pills with lots of water... My right shoulder was painful this morning...I think that was the Flu shot acting up...yesterday the COVID shot was acting up in my left shoulder.  No fever this time around.  My right foot is not doing good this morning.....bones are noisy and painful. My neck hurts.

My hands are freezing cold.  House is at 60 so I added a few digits to the thermostat. 

I am excited about dumping myself onto and into the couch....PBS has stuff to watch...Cooking. And then I'll read. Perhaps to sleep????  I got myself into a repeat reading of Agnes and the Hitman.  He just found a ticking bomb attached to the underside of his black Defender.....I had one of those....loved it. And then POOF it was gone..... the Defender not the bomb.

So...it hasn't snowed as yet.....the sun is shining but cold.  The new guy across the street made a big pile of leaves for his toddler grandson to jump into.... I laughed....
 

Daily Notes- Friday, October 9th. Grocery Store list to get two shots...Flu and Covid

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I'd like to be wearing my thermal long sleeved shirt but..."shot day" so I need short sleeves.  I may add a warm vest to my outfit.   I had the flu once...long ago when still working at the greenhouse.....once was more than enough..... not sure about having COVID...ever. My Lunch Buddy had COVID several times and it was awful. She said. Mostly because she had herself and husband to care for....alone. I'd have been in same situation with husband and myself if we'd both been sick.

The news lately has been terrifying....which we should expect with a mental case in charge. Now he wants to put people on boats (ships) and send them out into the ocean. Never to return, I guess.  I think he should send himself out first as a sort of trial run for a year or two.....if he likes it...make it a regular thing. Could glue fake gold things all over the boat. Fancy it up.

I had more to say but I doubt ...with the way things are going...that my comments would be welcome.

I.haven't been up long enough to have any interesting thoughts.  And it's very very cold in my house and I just turned up the temp on the furnace.  It will take quite a while to warm this large open roomed house up. Should have had more doors installed.  It's more of a warm weather place than winter place.....cause Mainers go to Florida in the Winter.  Almost all of them...the bakery people making the fantastic jelly donuts go to Florida every October and come back in April.  All tan and happy. Son gets me a jelly donut on the first day they have them after getting back. From Florida.

A very very large building on Maine Street (across from the donut place) is being taken down....a Dry Cleaning establishment.  So many tonic forever things having to be taken care of.... It's a very large building...and was doing dry cleaning for decades before I moved here 20 years ago????  I think apartments are going to fill the space in a few years.  With under the building parking?????  Plans often do not work out.... the area is very close to the river.....under water parking????????

Well, an hour or so under my down blanket before going to get my SHOTS.....to warm up... I might fall asleep.

Daily Notes for Thursday October 8th. Clouds and Damp here in Maine...49 degrees

 I'm okay with Damp.... we needed rain here in Maine...   the front over fertilized lawn is still brown. Might actually be quite dead. Tru Green Hell. Covered in acorns. Back yard is very very green and lush.  Has more shade as there are lots of tall old trees out back. Zero acorns. 

No matter what I wear or how I set the temp in here..I am cold.  I have a thermal long sleeved shirt on. Corduroy pants and wool socks...  I'm going back to my room for a sweater. After I write to you.  Because writing to you is my favorite part of the day...until lunch..... very late lunch as I just finished breakfast (11am).  I do enjoy lunch at around 3 pm.. Even though it's the same every day.  Peanut Butter Sandwich.  Never with jelly.   

Ah, the SUN has arrived.  (for approximately 20 minutes)

I haven't found ANY of my library books of GREAT interest to me. I am reading Ten Rules for Faking It right now ....I read all my Good Books once a year. So third or fourth year for this book.  As I age, different plot points are noticed....some irritate me...some surprise me.  I often wish the books could be edited again and re-issued.  Fresh.   2020 not that old. But old.

I am going to need to go back to my room and get a sweater....eventually. If I leave now, I might get sidetracked by something or anything and not finish the post....an 80 year old brain cannot be trusted to stay focused.  It goes where it goes.

So...The Sun is NOW HERE!!!!!!  Very bright .... Sort of blinding in the back yard. (now gone)

What do I plan on doing today?????? Glad you asked....Read.....Watch TV.  ZERO NEWS!!!!!. I have small piles of cloth strips that are color matched to look nice together....I might sew them...into squares. None of the finished squares look good together......that worries me.  But not enough to stop making them. It's Busy Work.....plain and simple..... Idle Hands and all that..... I refuse to turn the squares into potholders.  Been There Done That. Requires Batting...I have none... and no one sells it here anymore. 

Well, I have scraps that might total a square yard or more...that's it. If I piece them together.

Well, that's enough nothing for today's post...I need to go find my sweater as my neck feels chilled...and perhaps I should comb my hair again...try for some semblance of neatness.  Yesterday I inserted a handful of bobbie pins into the mass of hair....got it flattened....but needed to re-insert pins as the day matured. I do have a nice elastic band........that could hold the majority of the hair in one place for longer than the pins do....they give up so easily... perhaps they are unionized?????

Daily Notes for Wednesday October 7th. Chilly here in Maine....thermal long sleeved shirt and wool sweater.

 And I'm still cold.  There are no pumpkins here in the house..And I doubt we will buy any Halloween candy again this year....  The big neighborhood down the road is packed with houses..so the kids go there. This dead end street is just that...  any kids who lived here are grown and gone.

I set the temp higher so the furnace will go on.  One degree higher.... take the edge off the chill here in the living room.  The kitchen dining room is being warmed by the sun shining in the windows... this side of the house gets only shade.

I did sleep with my window open last night.  I don't think I will be doing that again?????  I have a deluxe down comforter....very very nice.

Political news is either mean spirited, weird or just boring...  I do plan to vote.  Not that it matters.  My politics and Maine are not a good match....I didn't match well in Chicago either.  Or Ohio....  I did have a chance in Atlanta, Georgia....... but also not a great match.

So that's it for me....I am shivering...in a thermal long sleeved shirt and a wool sweater.... I might have trouble being 80 in Maine...in the Winter.  Getting my first real understanding of why the older Mainers head for Florida.......or are already there by now.  But...not a fan of Florida.....been there done that...of course NOW I could afford central air.......and an ocean view. And I could spend afternoons drinking. But I think I'd prefer reading.

Well, I need to find a book for today and talk my Son into taking me into Town to pay my Property Taxes and VOTE......then come home and sit on the couch and read another book......out of the bookcase. Try not to read one that makes me cry.  I'd rather read one that makes me laugh. Yesterday's book made me cry.