Thursday, November 20, 2025  

     I have a new wonderful heater and yet I still turn it off and on, to save money. I am a bully with the heater. Once the house is warm, I turn it off. My house is old and drafty, and has a close relationship with the cold weather outside.  I turn the heater off and on several times during the day. We do sleep with the heater off at night.

     I shower in the late afternoon. I put on my flannel nightgown and warm puffer jacket. I watch an hour of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a great show, and then we watch episode 7 of the MORNING SHOW, a confusing dramatic show. My roommate has zoom meetings most evenings.

     The sky is cold and heavy with clouds when I walk on my deck. Back and forth. Nothing interesting to report. No birds, no high school kids, no wind., no black cat. There is traffic noise and an occasional airplane flying overhead. In the evening the high school stadium lights are on.  I have no idea what is going on.

     I finish reading the novel, MECCA by Susan Straight. This is a book I will think about for a long time. The personal librarian arrives at dust with several more books I have on hold. Such a treat. Reading helps me not focus on today’s urology procedure. But of course ,it is alive some place in my mind.