Friday

Today my LL Bean flannel-lined jeans arrived. I tried them on and they are great! What I need now is cold weather but since this is Vermont, all I have to do is to wait! This morning the weather was gorgeous. The temperature was 47 {up to 48 now} and the sun was {and still is} shining. I went up to the school’s football field and walking track but went round the track only once since the wind made it rather parky. I walked for 50 minutes and when I have finished this, I am off on the afternoon walk. This morning I forgot the telephone. I plugged it in to recharge last night and it was on the floor beside the heater so I didn’t see it. What I need is a check-list before I go out.

Yesterday on both walks I got down stairs in in the street before I realized I was still wearing my looking-at-the-computer glasses. These have a big area for middle distance and a small close-reading area. The other have a reading area and a looking at far-away-things area. I need trifocals really. My previous glasses were progressive and for two years I tried to like them and failed. I could NEVER find the right place for my eyes to be and I felt like the android Data in the earlier “Star Trek: The New Generation” series when he was still trying to behave like a human and was jerkily moving his head all the time. When I get a new prescription in a couple of years, I will definitely go for trifocals WITH the dividing lines. I started wearing bifocals in my early forties and took to them with enthusiam which, as my eye doctor said, was a sure sign that I really needed them!

Today so far I have done the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen which was a pretty big task since I didn’t do it yesterday at all. I have also been for a 50 minute walk. Hmmm, it doesn’t sound like much does it but somehow it has managed to fill up the time from 9:30 until 2:30! In a few minutes I will start the afternoon walk stopping at the library to leave a bag of freecyce stuff to be picked up tomorrow {http://www.freecycle.org} and then up the Main St. hill to take a prescription into the drug store for Fred. Then I will probably cut across to the school , walk around the track at least once and then homeward.

Until later…