Hello,
I am grateful that I was not scheduled
to work today. I would have considered going, but hopefully would have said it
was not a good idea.
We have had ice followed by snow. Maybe
not so much snow, but the ice is problematic. Leroy and I went out to shovel
this morning. We could get off the snow, but not the ice. It was satisfying to
at least remove the snow, but then there is the question is it safer to walk on
the snow rather than the ice? I am not sure. My boots are fairly good at
gripping.
This afternoon, I went back out hoping
to chop up some of the ice, but it was not very successful so I just figured
that it will be another day before that happens.
Leroy has been “working” on his
stamps. He was pleased to have gone to the neighborhood post office and gotten
quite a few more that he wanted. The man there told him he thought the main
post office had the missing ones. Luckily he can stop there on his way to or
from work.
We are grateful that we did not have
to drive anywhere today.
Yesterday day we went grocery
shopping. I was amazed at the number of shoppers. Friday mornings are usually
slow times at the stores. Finally it occurred to me that people were trying to “beat”
the storm. I said to the checker when leaving, “Are there so many people here
because of the expected storm?”
She grinned and nodded. Then I
commented, “Friday morning is my usual shopping time and I wondered why so many
people are getting into my time.”
Then she laughed.
Paula
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020
Mysteries
Hello,
A recent morning I woke and saw a light on in the office which is next to our bedroom. I thought maybe Leroy could not sleep and had gotten up to just read, however when I felt in his direction I soon touched his warm body.
Why would the light be on? Lying quietly brought no noise to my ears except Leroy’s gentle breathing. I checked the time, noting that it was almost time to get up. Exploring the lighted room I could discover no reason why the lamp had turned on. It is a light that turns on with the lightest of touches. Leroy did have his watch charging in the USB port on that lamp. I thought maybe a paper had fallen, but nothing seemed to make sense.
I was not as nervous as I was when this happened to us when we lived in Missouri Valley, IA. That time I was pregnant with child number three, when I woke to go to the bathroom. I noticed the light downstairs, called to Leroy to tell him he forgot to turn off a light.
He dutifully got up and when down. He stayed down there quite a while. When I asked him about it he said, “That was the last light I turned off before I came up. I am checking around.”
While he was checking the lower levels in this split level home I checked the kids bedrooms, even in the closets. Just what I would have done had I found an intruder, I have no idea.
Leroy and I had been having a spat when we went to bed so we were sleeping as far away from each other as possible. When we got back in bed we were solidly together. Leroy said all the doors were locked and nothing was disturbed.
For some reason we had lights come on in the night at least three more occasions. Once it was the Christmas tree lights, once it was the kitchen and once in the living room.
We never did figure it out, but it was not so frightening on subsequent occurrences.
Paula
A recent morning I woke and saw a light on in the office which is next to our bedroom. I thought maybe Leroy could not sleep and had gotten up to just read, however when I felt in his direction I soon touched his warm body.
Why would the light be on? Lying quietly brought no noise to my ears except Leroy’s gentle breathing. I checked the time, noting that it was almost time to get up. Exploring the lighted room I could discover no reason why the lamp had turned on. It is a light that turns on with the lightest of touches. Leroy did have his watch charging in the USB port on that lamp. I thought maybe a paper had fallen, but nothing seemed to make sense.
I was not as nervous as I was when this happened to us when we lived in Missouri Valley, IA. That time I was pregnant with child number three, when I woke to go to the bathroom. I noticed the light downstairs, called to Leroy to tell him he forgot to turn off a light.
He dutifully got up and when down. He stayed down there quite a while. When I asked him about it he said, “That was the last light I turned off before I came up. I am checking around.”
While he was checking the lower levels in this split level home I checked the kids bedrooms, even in the closets. Just what I would have done had I found an intruder, I have no idea.
Leroy and I had been having a spat when we went to bed so we were sleeping as far away from each other as possible. When we got back in bed we were solidly together. Leroy said all the doors were locked and nothing was disturbed.
For some reason we had lights come on in the night at least three more occasions. Once it was the Christmas tree lights, once it was the kitchen and once in the living room.
We never did figure it out, but it was not so frightening on subsequent occurrences.
Paula
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Christmas Presents
Hello,
Monday sometime during the day, Leroy found my Christmas present. He did call me at work to let me know because he was so excited he could not contain his joy. Then he put it under my pillow so I found it when I was getting ready for bed.
He also found his stamps the same day. After tai chi, which Leroy now attends, he stopped at the post office to buy many of the stamps that he had not yet gotten for the year 2019. He did say something about all the money he spends on stamps. But as my present to him, I told him, “You do not need to be concerned. After so many years I am used to the idea. Besides there are many more things that I am glad you are not spending money on.”
He did take some duplicate stamps to a stamp club meeting. (The only stamp club still operating in Iowa.) Others also had brought stamps to share so he brought home some as well. Perhaps so I would not think he had too many stamps he told me that two of the members have a room that is full of collected stamps. Leroy basically just has a bookcase full of the albums. So he is perhaps on the slim side of stamp collecting.
The stamp club meeting was in a Presbyterian church. Leroy brought home two poinsettias for me because they invited people to take some, as they were to be thrown out in a day or two. I was pleased to get some as I had not bought one this year as I often rescue too many from our church. This year the rescue did not happen because we are remodeling the sanctuary. Not so many poinsettias were in the building after Christmas. I had been feeling a little regretful, but no more.
Paula
Monday sometime during the day, Leroy found my Christmas present. He did call me at work to let me know because he was so excited he could not contain his joy. Then he put it under my pillow so I found it when I was getting ready for bed.
He also found his stamps the same day. After tai chi, which Leroy now attends, he stopped at the post office to buy many of the stamps that he had not yet gotten for the year 2019. He did say something about all the money he spends on stamps. But as my present to him, I told him, “You do not need to be concerned. After so many years I am used to the idea. Besides there are many more things that I am glad you are not spending money on.”
He did take some duplicate stamps to a stamp club meeting. (The only stamp club still operating in Iowa.) Others also had brought stamps to share so he brought home some as well. Perhaps so I would not think he had too many stamps he told me that two of the members have a room that is full of collected stamps. Leroy basically just has a bookcase full of the albums. So he is perhaps on the slim side of stamp collecting.
The stamp club meeting was in a Presbyterian church. Leroy brought home two poinsettias for me because they invited people to take some, as they were to be thrown out in a day or two. I was pleased to get some as I had not bought one this year as I often rescue too many from our church. This year the rescue did not happen because we are remodeling the sanctuary. Not so many poinsettias were in the building after Christmas. I had been feeling a little regretful, but no more.
Paula
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Company
Hello,
Someone gave me some jelly roll type sweet breads. It was much too much for Leroy and I to eat by ourselves. We invited two couples to come help us eat it up. In addition I cut up some fruit and put plain yogurt on it with some homemade granola for sprinkling on top of the fruit.
All of the bread was eaten except one small slice. Most of the fruit was also eaten. We had a nice time visiting. I know I should do more of this type of thing, but somehow it does not get done.
Ahead of time, we did a bit of cleaning, but otherwise it did not require much effort. There were two people who could not make it so we will have to think of something to have with them. Seems to me in the past I was much more comfortable with just casually having people over. Somehow that idea has changed. It seemed to me that these people were quite pleased to have been asked. Is everyone just sitting around waiting for someone to ask them?
Because Epiphany is tomorrow, Leroy and I put away our Christmas decorations. I only know, at the moment, of one item that was missed, even though we noticed that there was a bit more room in some of the boxes.
Now the big question: where is the star that we hang for the epiphany season? Seems to me we have had this same question in the past. It sometimes went an entire year before we found it, only apparently just to hide it from ourselves once more.
Paula
Someone gave me some jelly roll type sweet breads. It was much too much for Leroy and I to eat by ourselves. We invited two couples to come help us eat it up. In addition I cut up some fruit and put plain yogurt on it with some homemade granola for sprinkling on top of the fruit.
All of the bread was eaten except one small slice. Most of the fruit was also eaten. We had a nice time visiting. I know I should do more of this type of thing, but somehow it does not get done.
Ahead of time, we did a bit of cleaning, but otherwise it did not require much effort. There were two people who could not make it so we will have to think of something to have with them. Seems to me in the past I was much more comfortable with just casually having people over. Somehow that idea has changed. It seemed to me that these people were quite pleased to have been asked. Is everyone just sitting around waiting for someone to ask them?
Because Epiphany is tomorrow, Leroy and I put away our Christmas decorations. I only know, at the moment, of one item that was missed, even though we noticed that there was a bit more room in some of the boxes.
Now the big question: where is the star that we hang for the epiphany season? Seems to me we have had this same question in the past. It sometimes went an entire year before we found it, only apparently just to hide it from ourselves once more.
Paula
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Grrrrr!
Hello,
This morning I decided to follow some advice that I have seen in several places about identify theft. We have never had a problem, but I thought I would go to all three of the companies listed and follow directions. It took some time to get to the place I wanted with the first company. I even read some of their terms and conditions before clicking on the proceed box. They also wanted my SS number and that made me seriously uncomfortable. After discussion with Leroy, I added that. The last step was that they sent me a page that they recommended that I print and save. Well printing was not a breeze. Because it was a PDF file, our printer wanted to print it as a picture on those picture paper sizes. We could not get it to switch to just regular paper. Grrr!
Finally I saved it to a flash drive, course that took some time to find the drive and then to make sure it really was saved on there. Leroy needed to check in at work today, something about his time sheet. So he took the drive and printed the document there. There are some advantages to continued work.
I combined job time and end time which I learned long ago (while Leroy was at seminary, about 45 years in the past) is something that does not make for peace and happiness. That means that you either say I will work on this for an hour or I will keep at it until it, or a part, is finished. I had thought I would have all of this done in an hour. Sometimes I believe I am a slow learner or I just revert to old habits.
For the rest of the day I am going to work harder to keep things in their proper thought process for a positive outcome.
Paula
This morning I decided to follow some advice that I have seen in several places about identify theft. We have never had a problem, but I thought I would go to all three of the companies listed and follow directions. It took some time to get to the place I wanted with the first company. I even read some of their terms and conditions before clicking on the proceed box. They also wanted my SS number and that made me seriously uncomfortable. After discussion with Leroy, I added that. The last step was that they sent me a page that they recommended that I print and save. Well printing was not a breeze. Because it was a PDF file, our printer wanted to print it as a picture on those picture paper sizes. We could not get it to switch to just regular paper. Grrr!
Finally I saved it to a flash drive, course that took some time to find the drive and then to make sure it really was saved on there. Leroy needed to check in at work today, something about his time sheet. So he took the drive and printed the document there. There are some advantages to continued work.
I combined job time and end time which I learned long ago (while Leroy was at seminary, about 45 years in the past) is something that does not make for peace and happiness. That means that you either say I will work on this for an hour or I will keep at it until it, or a part, is finished. I had thought I would have all of this done in an hour. Sometimes I believe I am a slow learner or I just revert to old habits.
For the rest of the day I am going to work harder to keep things in their proper thought process for a positive outcome.
Paula
Friday, January 3, 2020
Good Things
Hello,
Just tonight Leroy sounds so much better. He did take a long walk with me this afternoon, but he was not racing me as usual. But now I believe he would walk at the usual Bradway pace.
I am happy that he is feeling so much better. However it is just a week’s time and that seems quite normal for a cold or virus. He was getting a bit down from not feeling good for so long.
Yesterday when I was brushing my teeth with the electric toothbrush I noticed that there was an odd feeling in my mouth. When I took the brush out I saw one bristle that was about twice as long as the others. It did not move when I pulled on it. Because I had a spare I got it out. This afternoon, I contacted the company via online chat. I questioned if I could cut off the bristle and then use it. She did not recommend that at all. The agent wanted to see a picture of the brush. I told her I could take one with my phone, but not with the computer. However I checked the apps on the laptop and found that I could take a picture which I managed to do. Then I had to tell her I had the picture, but did not know how to get it to her. She suggested that I email it to myself and then save it to the desktop. I did that and she sent me a link so I could drag and drop. That all worked like a charm. They are going to send me an amount of money that will allow me to not only replace the brush, but get at least two more besides. I am pleased. And I did throw that almost new brush away.
Not sure why, but I get rather nervous when doing these types of things. So I am happy with the results and my ability to make myself get this done.
Paula
Just tonight Leroy sounds so much better. He did take a long walk with me this afternoon, but he was not racing me as usual. But now I believe he would walk at the usual Bradway pace.
I am happy that he is feeling so much better. However it is just a week’s time and that seems quite normal for a cold or virus. He was getting a bit down from not feeling good for so long.
Yesterday when I was brushing my teeth with the electric toothbrush I noticed that there was an odd feeling in my mouth. When I took the brush out I saw one bristle that was about twice as long as the others. It did not move when I pulled on it. Because I had a spare I got it out. This afternoon, I contacted the company via online chat. I questioned if I could cut off the bristle and then use it. She did not recommend that at all. The agent wanted to see a picture of the brush. I told her I could take one with my phone, but not with the computer. However I checked the apps on the laptop and found that I could take a picture which I managed to do. Then I had to tell her I had the picture, but did not know how to get it to her. She suggested that I email it to myself and then save it to the desktop. I did that and she sent me a link so I could drag and drop. That all worked like a charm. They are going to send me an amount of money that will allow me to not only replace the brush, but get at least two more besides. I am pleased. And I did throw that almost new brush away.
Not sure why, but I get rather nervous when doing these types of things. So I am happy with the results and my ability to make myself get this done.
Paula
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Leroy Dragging
Hello,
That is the first time I have written that new date. Happy New Year to all.
Leroy and I are having a quiet day. It is a good thing because he is not feeling so well. Now it is mostly stomach discomfort rather than the head cold type of stuff. He did work yesterday. He came home feeling a bit tired, but otherwise fine. Before he went to bed his stomach was gurgling and carrying on. Apparently the night was not so restful. He has been lying around all morning.
I will be taking a long walk this afternoon since I have not moved around so much this morning. I did put away the advent wreath because two of the candles had burned to the end. That also led me to put away the Christmas card holder and organize myself for sending out cards next year. We leave the other decorations up until January 6, or Epiphany.
I also cleaned out our humidifier. I do not do that very often so it was a good task. Maybe our air will be cleaner.
Yesterday I finished the book, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-year-old man, by Jonas Jonasson. I laughed out loud more than once. Now I am moving on to a more serious book, A Mind Unraveled: a memoir, by Kurt Eichenwald. It is well written so it has captured my attention almost from the beginning. Course I am still at the beginning really.
Leroy is watching a movie now. I tried to bring home those that he would like. He thought maybe he had seen one of them before, but he might watch it again. I took more DVDs than I am allowed to take, but I have that privilege of overriding the stop on it. When I no longer work at the library there are certain bonuses that we will miss, however then Leroy will take himself to the library so he can choose his own and that will be a plus. Like much of life there are pluses and minuses.
Paula
That is the first time I have written that new date. Happy New Year to all.
Leroy and I are having a quiet day. It is a good thing because he is not feeling so well. Now it is mostly stomach discomfort rather than the head cold type of stuff. He did work yesterday. He came home feeling a bit tired, but otherwise fine. Before he went to bed his stomach was gurgling and carrying on. Apparently the night was not so restful. He has been lying around all morning.
I will be taking a long walk this afternoon since I have not moved around so much this morning. I did put away the advent wreath because two of the candles had burned to the end. That also led me to put away the Christmas card holder and organize myself for sending out cards next year. We leave the other decorations up until January 6, or Epiphany.
I also cleaned out our humidifier. I do not do that very often so it was a good task. Maybe our air will be cleaner.
Yesterday I finished the book, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-year-old man, by Jonas Jonasson. I laughed out loud more than once. Now I am moving on to a more serious book, A Mind Unraveled: a memoir, by Kurt Eichenwald. It is well written so it has captured my attention almost from the beginning. Course I am still at the beginning really.
Leroy is watching a movie now. I tried to bring home those that he would like. He thought maybe he had seen one of them before, but he might watch it again. I took more DVDs than I am allowed to take, but I have that privilege of overriding the stop on it. When I no longer work at the library there are certain bonuses that we will miss, however then Leroy will take himself to the library so he can choose his own and that will be a plus. Like much of life there are pluses and minuses.
Paula
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