As a result of getting out during the latter afternoon yesterday and running a couple of errands afoot, I had no time to make a post here, although I did make an entry in my older private blog.
Thanks to yesterday's four-mile round trip hike, I now have a birthday card and two bottles of merlot to add to the $20 scratch lottery ticket that I had gotten my wife the day before ─ her birthday is coming up on Saturday.
I had gotten on my way no later than 4:05 p.m. and was back home by 5:46 p.m.
My younger brother and I watched T.V. shows via our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box until into the midnight hour before calling it a night. My wife was still not home by the time I had fallen asleep.
I checked the time once or twice overnight during wakeful periods, but I always returned to sleep readily enough. I didn't notice if I was still alone in bed, however.
When I made a final check of the time at 5:12 a.m., I did bother to peer over to her side of the bed ─ she was there. Obviously, I have no idea just when she showed up.
She had worked a long day yesterday at her friend's Thai restaurant, and would be doing so again today. Her usual start time is 11:00 a.m., but she likes to try and be up from bed by 10:00 a.m. to ready ─ and have time enough for the rather long drive.
I rose, and was soon enough continuing the foundational work of a new post at one of my six hosted websites. My eldest stepson dutifully rose ahead of 6:00 a.m. to begin readying himself for his workday; his younger brother had only gone to bed shortly after I rose.
I never did finish laying that post foundation ─ I needed to seek some further sleep. It was 8:00 a.m. when I bedded down here on the floor in front of my computer in order not to disturb my sleeping wife by returning to our bed.
I keep my computer in a small room next to our bedroom.
My cellphone's alarm was set for 9:59 a.m. to ensure that my wife did rise for work, for sometimes she has trouble doing that.
I feel that I napped unusually well on the floor for a change, and never felt particularly uncomfortable. Also, my cellphone's alarm did alert me ─ sometimes I am so uncomfortable that I find myself getting up before it sounds.
When I emerged from this room, I found that my wife was already up and confined in the bathroom. So I went downstairs and got some hot water boiling for my day's first hot caffeinated beverage ─ my wife would be needing to make a hot, reviving drink of her own.
Since my younger brother was already involved watching T.V., I joined him. I used our Android TV Box to fetch up a movie: The Witch.
My brother and I have nothing positive to offer concerning the movie, although I will confess to finding young Thomasin as portrayed by actress Anya Taylor-Joy to be wholesomely comely.
Until I read the Wikipedia article about the movie, I had no comprehension of some of the plot elements or events that it describes ─ some of those details were completely lost or unnoticed by me, as I am sure they were by my brother.
It was well into the noon-hour when my brother sought his bedrest ere taking off for the afternoon. I had myself a light breakfast, and then sometime after 1:00 p.m. also returned to my bed. By then, it was snowing thickly.
When finally I revived and rose, my brother was gone.
I have some photos to post, but first I want to trot forth a couple of health-related topics.
Many of us wish our brains were sharper than they are ─ especially as we get older.
Apparently there is a plant that has historically long been reputed to offer this sort of protection and even enhancement:
HSIonline.com
I did an Amazon search at the top of this post just to see what would turn up in relation to Nardostachys jatamansi, and it seems abundantly available as both a dried herb and as an essential oil.
You can learn much more about the therapeutic use of the plant at the following two websites, if you are interested:
- Examine.com: Nardostachys jatamansi
- SelfHacked.com: 15 Amazing Health Benefits of Nardostachys Jatamansi
Going in hand with the threat to seniors of cognitive decline are the telling details of a very recent study these two articles report on:
JacksDailyDose.com
ScienceDaily.com
Frailty is a state that I have striven to avoid all of my life. I just wish that I was not as tied down as I am to this computer and my home as a result of feeling helplessly hemmed in by my overdeveloped environment and my own economic insufficiency that keeps me a prisoner here.
And now those photos.
I am leading off with four that I took yesterday morning after my wife had left the house to undertake her drive to work ─ it was 10:25 a.m.:
Now today, I took these first three photos at 3:57 p.m. - 3:58 p.m.:
I told you that it was snowing thickly.
These final three photos were taken at 4:05 p.m. as my youngest stepson headed up the alley beside our home ─ I thought he was bound for work, but I reckon that he was only going to a nearby convenience store:
Now I must make haste and create a post at my private blog.
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