Because I can’t pick up Public Broadcasting System (PBS) with my recent-purchase television antenna, I watch less popular television stations. Last night, channel-surfing, I found Under Suspicion with Liam Neeson. I really, really want to watch Downton Abbey on Sunday evenings but found myself attentive to a film with a different British setting.

In 1959 Brighton, disgraced cop turned P.I. Tony Aaron falsifies adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. His wife pretends to be painter Carlo Stasio’s lover but the pair are killed in a hotel room. The most likely suspects are Angeline, Stasio’s mistress who is set to inherit his house and pictures, and Tony himself, whose story doesn’t seem to add up. Starring Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson (1993 Best Actor in a Leading Role, Schindler’s List) and Laura San Giacomo (TV’s “Just Shoot Me”).

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Not much to write about. However, one “shame, shame”: I didn’t bring “Tommy” (tomato plant) into the trailer last night and temperature dipped to 32 degrees. I was so faithful about moving “Tommy” indoors and outdoors. I goofed!!

Before the day ends, we will enjoy 69 or 70 degrees. The last few sunny days have been delightful!!

One… for the money;

Two… for the show;

Three… to get ready;

and four… go, go, go!!

One: Very little money so items purchased at the Thrift Shops.

Two: The following pictures are “for the show”

Three: I’m getting my square dance wardrobe ready!!

Four: “Go, go, go” to the big square dance event in the Activity Center right here at the Escapee RV Park. (Three days at end of this month.)

Fifty years ago, I had an authentic square dance wardrobe: Dresses with full circle skirts, huge crinoline petticoats, and fancy “pettipants.” ~~ 2014-15: It would be impossible to store that type wardrobe in my trailer home!! ~~ Yesterday, I spent hours meticulously arranging badges–from “yesteryear”–on a recently acquired denim vest. (Both dresses have full skirts.)

Afterthought (after publication): The badges, and fun dangles, were accumulated over a period of a dozen years (1965-1977). “Way back when”… they were displayed on a banner. After decades in a cardboard box they are now a “conversation piece” (at local square dance club)!!
 

Losing my memory is a fear. However, many details of my life experience are vivid!! (Memorable!!!!!!) The movie Paddington is now in theaters. So I checked my T@B Teardrop Travels for this picture of me with this enormous stuffed bear. He was in a unique, wonderful old book store loaded with books, art and collectibles. (Thanks Debbie.)

Click this link to travel to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 31, 2010.

Such a delight to awaken to sunshine!!!! It is almost blinding!!!! The ground was white with frost. No rain until “next Thursday” (22nd) per weatherman. Hallelujah!!

I have about one hundred birds (more or less) in my yard. I must replenish the feeders.

Postscript, Friday, January 16, 2015, 4:30 PM:

I worked in the yard this afternoon. I filled bird feeders, picked up fallen limbs and scattered pine cones. I was delighted to see daffodils poking tiny green spears through soil in a planter. North Carolina daffodils!! They didn’t bloom for me last year because planted too late.

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…on a very dark gloomy day!!

(Received as an email message.)

The Explanation

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much. People do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.  Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so, too, do humans take longer to access information when their brains are full. Researchers say this slowing down process is not the same as cognitive decline.

The human brain works slower in old age, said Dr. Michael Ramscar, but only because we have stored more information over time. The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.

Also, older people often go to another room to get something and when they get there, they stand there wondering what they came for.  It is NOT a memory problem, it is nature’s way of making older people do more exercise.

             SO THERE!!

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names…So, please forward this to your friends; they may be my friends, too.

Did you see the article in AARP Bulletin, Jan-Feb 2015?? Very interesting reading; check it out!!

True to my resolution, I’m reading for an hour (or more) every day. “Health” is a subject close to my heart. (Today, I made a large kettle of homemade [dry] beans with chili powder and ground turkey (and onions, garlic, jalapeno pepper, etc.). Most will be frozen in single-size portions.)  I glanced at numerous publications today and “downsized” them into the waste basket.

“Alzheimer’s” is a disease that frightens me!! My faltering effort to maintain good health may not be sufficient?? I cook in stainless steel utensils (I never use aluminum cookware). Some health professions have attributed the disease to aluminum because patient numbers have skyrocketed since sales of Club Aluminum and Kinney Ware, etc., in the 1940’s and 50’s. Likewise, I don’t use Teflon fry pans (frankly, I don’t “fry” anything). I don’t use microwave ovens. 

Well, the reader may be amused… and wonder why I bothered to write this blog message. Answer: This is a topic I’m challenged by and wanted to bring the article to your attention. (At the CARE Center, we have Adult Day Care and several who attend suffer from Alzheimer’s. Furthermore, the spouse of several of our CARE residents suffer from the disease.)

I seldom go to the movie theater. However, I’m considering the movie “Still Alice.”

Here is an album of pictures regarding my 2003 Carriage 5th-wheel trailer before I moved into it (with my overabundance of “stuff”). Check this blog message showing delivery and set-up on January 10, 2014.

I still have “an attitude of gratitude”—and more so!! People living in nearby recreation vehicles (RVs) have experienced a severe mold and mildew problem due to condensation. I have not had a single moment of condensation!! Apparently this trailer is so well insulated that moisture does not collect on the windows. In fact, maybe the glass is thicker, or tempered, because I do not feel cold air when I put my hand next to the glass (indoors).

Today will not be particularly warm but I moved the tomato plant and Honeysuckle plant outdoors. They were hogging my already crowded living room!! The weather forecast predicts warmer temperatures within a few days. Everyone is so anxious for Spring!!

Yesterday, I browsed the garden department of Walmart. I couldn’t help myself!! I purchased another planter; I couldn’t help myself!! I’m so eager to work in my yard!!

From an RVer camping on the desert near Yuma, a blog message I could empathize with. Included were these sage words:

The first thing I read this morning was from Timber Hawkeye at Buddhist Boot Camp: “Your job isn’t to go around trying to save people, or to drag them kicking and screaming with high hopes that in the end they will thank you… all you can do is live a healthy life yourself, trusting that those with eyes to see will pay attention and then save themselves. Your life is your message, so LIVE your message. Actions are way louder than words.”   Boy did that hit me hard! I have been thinking about it all day, and can see where I have pushed my idea of what is healthy or right pretty hard on my siblings and my mom.  OK, on everyone that I love. Even those who aren’t speaking to me right now.

Nancy, oh Nancy, how true!! “Your [my] job isn’t to go around trying to save people, or to drag them kicking and screaming with high hopes that in the end they will thank you [me]… all you [I] can do is live a healthy life yourself [myself], trusting that those with eyes to see will pay attention and then save themselves. Your [my] life is your [my] message, so LIVE your [my] message. Actions are way louder than words.” That must be uppermost in my mind because I plan to live the rest of my life at the Escapees CARE Center. I’ve alienated so many people this past year, talking about health and nutrition.

Temperature still in the mid-forties at two PM (and 98% humidity). It rained most of the night and morning. While “channel surfing,” I found the movie Rain Man. I don’t think I ever saw the movie. Extremely interesting (IMHO).

We won’t see any sunshine, nor have pleasant weather, until next weekend (according to forecast).

Everyone is suffering from S.A.D. ~~ That was a new-to-me disease; I learned about it last week at the laundry room (chatting with an RVer). It’s curious to me that I’ve been very conscious of health (and nutrition) for over thirty years but never heard of SAD.

This weekend, I’ve waded through a year’s accumulation of magazines and newsletters. They were spilling out of two large baskets. So I separated them into categories–scattered all over the floor. Some magazines (Vegetarian Times, and Mother Earth Living) went back into the basket for later investigation. AARP and AAA magazines have been handled, glanced at, and moved to the wastebasket. An eight-inch-tall stack of health and nutrition newsletters await my attention. I’m feeling good about the accomplishments of the weekend (especially starting and finishing income tax preparation).

If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you know I prefer to work outdoors. I’ve neglected projects inside my trailer home. With our miserable weather, staying indoors, I’ve made progress on ignored tasks. With another week of disagreeable weather ahead, I hope to get a lot accomplished!! Keeping my fingers crossed (LOL).

New Year’s Resolution:

Discipline myself to spent at least one hour each day reading magazines, and books, that are important to me.