Happy New Year!
I'm excited about a new crochet project, and it is a sort of a motivation tool for something else. I'll be posting later about it. Overall, it will reduce my time wasting internet scrolling, pointless social media scrolling (looking for recipes, patterns, exercises are all good scrolling minutes, he he!), procrastination station, and endless him-hawing. Not to change the subject, but I mean some scrolling is needed to avoid endless days of shopping in stores looking for something my husband suggested we buy.
I found one close to what he feels we need at Harbor Freight, but it's wall mounted, and runs on batteries.
Does it even exist? I'll be searching for it, but we may have to buy battery charged or a rechargeable light. He wants a solar chargeable, motion sensor, small table light (sort of the brightness of a nightlight) for the bathrooms. We lack outlets by the toilet, and do not want to put in a floor strip light, or wall mount solar lights. Most motion sensor lights for indoors run on batteries or or rechargeable. We want the motion sensor, so the light only comes on at night if needed. I'll update later on this, after we have located and made a decision.
Okay, back to the post....
Sunday it rained all day long. Last year we had warm enough weather the same time in December, that I was washing bedding and putting it on the clothesline. We are pretty much flooded this year.
We decided together, that it was a good weekend to take down our Christmas tree. Normally, we would leave it up for New Year's Eve. The holidays this year hit mid-week, and I would much rather have help with it, than wait for an entire week to take it down and put it all back in storage.
Well, the tree is still up, ha ha! We had a few returns to take care of, some grocery shopping for fresh vegetables and fruit, and other errands. I forgot to look for a plant for my planter, but we are also very limited with selections in the winter time. I may be planting an herb for indoor winter cooking.
Before decorations get packed back up, I decided it was time to toss out some very very old Christmas decorations, and donate others. I added one book to the newest donation box, as my husband gifted me a new book too.
My husband gifted me a new bathrobe, so the old one was literally tossed out (not even worth donating ha ha!). Sort of feels good to go into a new year with so many completed home projects, and a more organized homestead.
It's been a year since we have baked cookie cut-outs, so when I dug out the container, I purged those before returning them to storage. Good gravy! I had cutters from when the kids had birthday parties in elementary school. Whew! Someone will be enjoying those, as they are being donated.
January is my month to focus on my health even more than ever. It will be a long wait to see the doctor, but I thought about that too. It gives me a month to do specific exercises. I really did a number on myself when I tripped twice later, after my stairway fall back in April of this year. Anyway, every day I work on myself, is one day closer to back to normal or even better than normal. Per a conversation on the phone with the doc's nurse, I am to avoid "heavy lifting" and have been the last two weeks. It's a tough one, as a bag of chicken feed is not light weight. I have learned how to lift more properly, so there is that.
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For the advent gifts, because I was silly and made the countdown containers 25 knitted baby socks pinned to twine, they aren't vey big. Some days there are actually gifts small enough to fit, like a chapstick, etc. Other days the gift is too big so it's wrapped and in a basket just below the advent string. Those days there is a piece of candy in the stocking too. Some days there is no actual "gift", it's just the candy in the stocking. We do have a lot of fun with it. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy