10/2024 Måndag the 14th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

 

Indigenous People Day

I refuse to celebrate Columbus Day.  The indigenous people were here first.  Then the Swedes.  Columbus was only lost & a truly bad person.

Today's Name Day:  Stellan

    I had an ok day.  Did not accomplish much.  Did get mail in & sorted.  That was it.  I did not take trash out today.  I do not have much.  But my back hurts.  Just did not feel like carrying the bags.  Just make my back worse.  Best to not too irritate it.  The joy of living alone.

    Great weather.  Got really cool last night,  Good sleep.  I left my heat as it was today but it got too stuffy this afternoon,  Ran the AC for a bit.  Have a freeze warning for wednesday morning.  Great.  Wish the weather would stay like this.

    Still have rain forecast but they have moved it to sunday & monday instead of friday & saturday.  Does not bode well for us.  Wanna bet they end up deleting it all together???  So sad.

    JR got 2 photos of my great niece in a volleyball match.  She did not play long so he only got 2 but her parents were so pleased.  She is not home so has not seen them yet.

    Ancestry.com has updated my DNA.  Fun.  I am mostly Swedish.  Second is English.  And I have 2 new areas.  Germanic Europe & Netherlands.  Cool.  I do not use Ancestry but I had to get a new password to sign in to see my updated info.  Always fun when one of my DNA tests updates.

    I worked on some genealogy.  There is one cousin with an unhappy life for many reasons,  But I had no info on her.  She had a husband & 2 sons.  One son was a pilot & died in a plane wreck.  His wife sued the air line.  No idea how that turned out.  She died in a car wreck.  Cannot find the name of her husband.  I will keep digging.  I do not think I ever met her.  She had health problems.  Only knew her parents.  They lived in Kentucky.  Both are gone now.

    Cinder stayed in today.  She heard me on the porch opening boxes & tossing them away.  When I came in both cats were near the front door,  I opened the door & they ran.  Cinder never came back to ask to go out.  Good.

    My eyes are better today.  Still some itchiness & pain.  But better.  What a relief.  If my body could just follow suit.  Hahaha.  )-;

    Photos are some spooky ones & several on what national day it is today.  There are several nice ones.  Yesterday I did not like any of them.  The spooky photos are free ones from Unsplash.  Great site.

                                

10/2024 Söndag the 13th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

Falling Leaves 

Leaves are starting to turn here.

Today's Name Day: Berit, Birgit

    Had a good day.  Took a long nap but Cinder just went hid.  Odd.   But she was cuddly at other times.

    Weather is chilly.  Got down to 48 last night.  The high today was 70.  Right now it is 52.  I left the heat on all day.  This morning it was 69 inside the house.  Turned it up a bit now.  I was a bit chilly.  Loving it!!!  Finally around 74 in the living room.

    No communication with anyone today.  Except a long email from a friend in California.  Always like hearing from her.

    I feel ok today. Some normal hip/back pain.  But I slept ok.  A put on a pain cream every time I got up all night.  Keeps me going.  Better during the day,  Or I tolerate the pain better.

    My eyes may never recover.  They itch constantly.  And they hurt constantly.  My eye drops helped more than usual today.  Hope things improve soon,

    We ate supper at Pizza Hut.  I just had ;garlicl bread.  It does not hurt my stomach.  Then we had ice cream as a dessert.  We both had Cotton Candy ice cream.  It is different. Almost had to turn the heater on eating it!!!  ⛄

    We bought some groceries before going home.  Cinder had a short list!!!  😺  I had a couple of things I needed.

    Photos are free Autumn ones & 3 edited ones ----- spooky spiders!!!

                            

10/2024 Lördag the 12th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

 

National Farmer's Day

October 12 offers much-deserved praise to the hard-working farmers across the nation. In the midst of harvest-season, the day pays tribute to the men, women, and families who put food in the grocery stores and on our tables every day. 

I also would like to include all the hard working farm workers from this country & others.  They do not get enough credit for all they do. Or paid fairly.

Today's Name Day: Manfred, Valfrid

Manfred is a special name to me.  Had a great uncle named that.  He was a very unique man.

    Had a good day.  There is a FB site I read daily.  It has a daily message from angels.  They are all nice messages.  Today mine was to totally relax & recover.  And that is what I did.  The best was a healing nap with Cinder on my chest.  She does me so much good.  I got a photo of me with my cat I had when in junior high.  I cannot share it as it makes me cry from pain.  I dearly loved that cat.  And it was cruely taken away from me.  And there was no one person or family member that cared what I might be suffering inside.  Still today no one who cares how I  felt.  No wonder I have issues with trust & being loved.  Was I loved back then?  Probably not much.

    I offered Cinder to outside but she just looked at me.  No problem.  I like having her inside.  No worries then.

    Pretty warm today.  Almost made 90.  Hate summer weather.  Tomorrow a cold front hits.  Good deal.  Maybe rain late in next week.  We can hope.

    TV was really bad today.  No channel was interesting.  By accident I found a good channel tonight with Expidition Unknown.  I love these shows.  This is one I do not remember.  It is in Egypt in a pharaoh's grave inside a pyramid that is all flooded.  Cool.  So interesting.

    This afternoon I watched a Zoom presentation on a local historical man from my town.  Given by the Old Mill.  The presenter is a friend.  He gave this talk a couple of years ago but I missed it.  It was a great presentation.  I missed the first Zoom one they did a month ago but I can still look at it now.  I set my alarm so I would not forget today!

    Only got some texts from MM.  Everyone else must be too busy.  Typical day for me..

    Photos are a mix of autumn, winter, edited, Halloween.

                            

Playing with a photo of mine

Cool photo

Want snow

Swedish made car.  If I had an extra Million $$$ I would buy one.  Saw a show about this car.  It is beyond awesome.  I cannot explain all it can do.  Wow!!!

    

    

10/2024 Fredag the 11th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

 

National Sausage Pizza Day 

Love pizza.  Get hungry just looking at this photo.

Today's Name Day: Erling, Jarl

    Had a pretty nice day.  Went to bed around 1030.  I was just tired.  Slept pretty good..  Felt ok today.

    Went to bed & after severe pain the wednesday night I had little pain in bed. Odd.  Had a moment or two of pain but did not last long.  Not too bad today.

    We have smoke here from Wyoming, Montana, etc.  The skies are hazy often.  I have not smelled it but some do.  Make beautiful sunsets!!  But today my eyes are hurting & lots of tears.  I gave up on my usual eye makeup.  Hard to focus at work.  Did not get better.  Plus I have some allergies.  Think both are bothering me.  😔

    I finished Folder  "O"  this afternoon.  Then I started on Folder "P".  Lots more photos in this folder.  I got half of the tiny ones scanned.  Anxious to get back on Wednesday to continue.

    Had trouble with scanner today.  It was a mess.  I rebooted the entire system.  As it came back on I noticed something that is never selected had been marked.  I changed it back to where it should be.  Then it scanned better.  Later I got another error.  I could not turn off the scanner & kept getting an error message.  AP had to help.  Thank goodness he was there.  Fixed it.  What a day!!

    Mexican for supper.  Then to the Barnyard Creamery,  I tried a new ice cream they have.  It is called Cotton Candy.  Tastes just like real cotton candy even has the little pieces of crunchy sugar.  I really like it!!

    I got home & opened the front door & Cinder ran out the door.  I could not have stopped her if I wanted to.  Now I worry if she will come home for bedtime.  😱

    The weather just said we have rain coming for this friday & saturday.  Hard to believe them.  I am not getting excited.

    Need to make an appointment to get my flu shot & Covid shot at our pharmacy.  JR needs his Covid shot.  Next week I hope.

    Photos are from my memories today.  A mix of autumn, winter, Christmas, etc.

                            

Painting done by a Swedish friend, Lars Bäckman.

A. tree in Lindsborg several years ago

Me at work

10/2024 Torsdag the 10th - Wandering & Capturing Moments

 

National Angel Food Cake Day

Today's Name Day: Harriet, Harry

    I got little sleep last night so I rested & napped today.  Cinder never asked to go out & I never offered.  She was skittish when outside yesterday.  Makes me worry.

    I had a project I worked on today.  I saw a picture someone had done & I wanted to do one similar.  And I got one I like but it is a bit different.  I am posting them both next.

Not mine.

Mine.  Different but similar.

      

    Not much change in the weather  We had 50s & 80s.  Hotter tomorrow & saturday.  Then a big cold front hits.  Slight chance of frost.  I can dream.  And later a slight warm up.  Chances of rain in a week & a half.  Yea, sure, yea betcha.

    Cinder has cuddled with me often today.  Not begging for anything, just loving.  Maybe she can sense my depression was worse.  Better than most people then.

    Yesterday was just not a good day in the end,  I got very depressed thanks to how someone treated me.  And needing help was all but told "absolutely no way".  Alone is difficult.  I thought about Willie a lot last night.  Maybe because his birthday is soon.  Wish he was here to keep me company & help me when I needed him.

    My cousin in Denver has dementia & is in a home.  Her house got sold today.  Made me so sad.  I can only imagine how her daughter must feel.  I remember a special Thanksgiving there & then a cool wedding, the dogs they had,  her husband, my Aunt Martha, such good times.  I ended up in tears.  Glad the home won't sit empty.  Nice house & neighbourhood.  Wish I could see my cousin one last time.  I am sure she won't know me but I would know her.  But no way to get there.  Driving there would be so-so but handling traffic in Denver would not be good.  Stay home alone & be sad.  I won't talk about how I feel. again.  Does no good.  No one listens.  I doubt anyone cares.

    We had an earthquake of 3.2 this morning around 930am.  I was asleep.  I never mentioned it on FB.  No one cares anymore,  I am on an earthquake app so I know.  And it did make the news tonite.

    McPherson had a bad event today.  Someone called the courthouse & told the person who answered a bomb was going to go off in 3 minutes.  Yikes!!  Everyone left & the building was searched.  Nothing was found.  Glad all are ok.

    Photos are a mix from my memories.  None are edited.

                            

Maybe from the White Peacock years ago

Maybe the White Peacock

Dalahäst in Lindsborg

Dalahäst & Lucia in Lindsborg.  And snow.  Oh to have snow this year.

My bird feeder when I fed the birds