Another Monday Post- January 12th at 11:01

 A repeat as I have done NO art so far this year.  This one is nice. Again.

Shower....Washed my hair.....changed my bandage.  Carrying my socks around with me... instead of putting them on.  My neck itches.  My rash might be spreading.  Doctor on Thursday.

My Potato got baked.....after the pizza.  Not together.

Football...I'm not sure if I watched two games or three...but I watched them...the last was the Patriots game- looked really COLD.  Lots of injuries- possibly due to the playing field being frozen???? Or do they have heating elements under the turf?????? I don't need an answer.

I might have forgotten to put cream on my face....feels tight and dry.

Been watching a movie short on my PBS of Roland and Mary....they get calls to pull trucks and cars out of snow banks etc.   While driving they talk...about life.  I like it because it's very obvious how much the two care about each other......and they have struggled to make a life for themselves and their three adult children and grandchildren.....and they park their tow trucks next to each other and eat lunch together.

Mary is called to pick up a UPS truck which is damaged and gathers all the packages etc to put in HER truck so...after dropping off the truck for repairs- he driver can deliver them - with her driving him around (between jobs)... The UPS guy looks at the camera and it's like-"she doesn't have to do this"....but he sure appreciated it.  So the short movie is about love and kindness.  I've watched it three times so far.

I've now mentioned it in blog posts twice....it's better than talking about the NEWS.  Or the Football yesterday.  I went to bed before the New England game got going....no paper...it's Monday so I will ask the Internet.....    (we won)

Sunday January 11th... Cloudy and 35 degrees

 You get a repeat of pencils... freshly sharpened.

I love Art Supplies.... simply love them..... and paper- I adore paper...good paper- the kind I can fold, paint, add more crayon etc.  I also like books of blank paper pages.......any size.

I also love scraps of cloth- trimmed off edges and rolled into balls...and one of those balls of strips and edges is right here on the desk top...  I love it.

Today is Sunday Pizza day...I'll be adding my unbaked potato to the preheat and the bake...  I really love a nicely baked potato....with crisp skin.  I just checked - no sour cream but plenty of butter.

Morning headlines here on the internet...more very very horrific stuff about Epstein and his island.

On that very upsetting note.....mainly imagining parents missing a daughter all this time...enough.

Saturday, January 10th. Ice Covering Everything... Son is salting the steps. 33 degrees.

 The image comes from an article on Baker and Taylor the "new" book supplier to every Library. Image also is good for ice covered steps and sidewalks.  This morning.   I'm sure my son is rethinking living here with me as he salts his way to the street and the morning newspaper-- for me to read.

I recall husband slipping and landing on the front steps- on his face...and the second "trip" being to the Emergency Clinic.  

I used to put down sand...not salt.  But I think we might be out of sand. 

My iPhone is not able to connect to the "weather" info... my iPhone is incredibly OLD.  Right now it has color images of clouds and the time. 8:36.  So helpful.  Ah, also my location.  And the date,  And an encouragement that I upgrade.

My Son and I talked about me using my husband's newer iPhone going forward... wiping it and putting the few items I use on it.  We haven't done that as yet..  I haven't a clue how any of that works.  I take pictures and send them to the blog....that's all I do with the iPhone.  But right now I see the date and time and various colors of sky and clouds moving from left to right on the screen. Along with the date.  That's pleasant.........every so often it stops.....then starts up again.

Magically the fresh today's newspaper is on my placemat along with my daily pills.  That guy (my Son) works wonders. Well, my ankles are chilled and the socks are sitting next to my left hand- so best tuck them onto my feet.  I think I will mend the old quilt some more....today..... and watch some of the many Law and Order episodes I have in the Tivo.  No news.  I might never watch news again... the morning newspaper is enough.

 I tried to follow the words of the Orange Man yesterday as he sat (with his spine collapsed) in his chair. But he wasn't coherent.  And kept switching over to different topics and then a sudden swing back to the message.at hand.......and not being able to stay on message even while reading the words.....  My Son says I do that. 

So...I am certainly NOT competent to be running the United States Government,...and doubt Trump is either.

Daily Notes for Friday, January 9th...2026.

 We might have had this already....but I got tired of waiting for the photo I sent to arrive in the mail box over to my left....  and this image is pretty great.

I FINALLY finished that book- when the lights went out...it's a great book...she wrote a second book but like all things.... I forgot to write it down.

There was some interesting  info regarding Dawn dishwashing soap in this mornings newspaper-- one use they didn't mention was using it to wash greasy oily hair....I used in on my very greasy, oily husband one day and his hair actually had never looked that good.  EVER.....  I washed his hair while he bent over the kitchen sink..... used the dish sprayer.... It could have become a regular thing but he forgot almost as soon as his hair was dry....

I watched a program on PBS last night...about a couple who drive the trucks we call when our battery goes dead,  run out of gas, or when we slide off an icy road into a snow bank etc. Independent and not AAA. I recorded it to watch again....when I do I will write down the title...in case "other" PBS stations are carrying it.

An email from my Library... they will no longer to able to "rent" Baker and Taylor new release books and the Library budget doesn't stretch to cover that many new books... so.....I often wonder what they Do spend money on.....the new book shelving is usually pretty bare....MOST of the books I borrow are from "other" libraries.  Not my local library, which I have to say, has gone downhill since we lost an exceptional Director and got this one.... who "says" she will retire in October.

images are showing up in the sidebar-  now...when I am ready to hit publish....