Day 303 Week 44 October 2026

My new to me way of down sizing creates interesting thoughts. Any change is bound to feel different. Whether or not it blips on our emotional radar makes a difference.

Clothes. Instead of donating by pulling out the garments I don’t wear, I keep what I will use. In doing that, I have days of liking everything. That feeling of looking stylish makes me happy. Mind you, I am totally comfortable dressed like a slob. Artists have a free license to look slovenly. 

It is weird for me to have clothes lifting my spirits. I hope I don’t turn into a fashion snob. 😂

Have a fashion fun weekend!

Bake peach cobbler

Have lunch with an aunt or uncle

Shop for nifty mittens 

Draw a pine tree grove

Visit a grave

Wash windows indoors

Watch videos of ducks

Review cloud formation names

Read about local forests

A Why Is It?

Arriving home from doing errands, you feel a wave of exhaustion as soon as you step inside the door. 

Is the comfort of being home that major? It’s not like there’s wild anmals out there chasing you, coughing covid people or just ran a marathon.

As expected, the Google search assistant has an explanation as well as ways to help. The majority of regular search results are for being tired after work. 

Mental fatigue appears to be the main reason. It puzzles me because just yards away from my door, I did not feel tired.

Maybe it is a leftover memory from my working days. I know that in the late afternoon, after 5 PM, I am ready to change into comfy lounging clothes or pajamas. Those hours are mentally the end of the day for me. 

Do you feel an end of the day?

Frost

Vermont Frost 8:05 AM EDT 
28 October 2026

The first hard frost on the backyard lawn this season. 

It looks to me that October is ready to  pass the baton to November.

Email Maintenance

Sorting through email addresses that have blogs attached can be a nightmare. 

If you don’t completely sign out beyond the Sign out of all accounts, then the default gmail might block access to the account blog you signed into. 

After Sign out of all accounts, scroll down to manage the account, click on that and scroll down to the “sign out” at the bottom. 

Then you can sign in clear to the gmail address with the blog you want to manage.

I post about this at least once or twice a year.

So as it goes, logging into your emails every month, is I feel, a good idea. How long doing email address maintenance depends on how many you have. 

The blogs you may have that are or aren’t published should be noted next to the email address in your written password book.

On your Google account through Blogger, you can have up to 100 blogs. Online search results indicate world wide there are 600 million blogs. 

Check out blog statistics for 2026 on wix.com. 

 

Crafts you’ve wanted to do for ages

There are bins at a local thrift store with hardware for all sorts of things. 

Early 2000 I made a wall coat rack that was too large to hang on a wall. Slow forward to this week, another rack is in the works using drawer knobs as hooks on a piece of kiln dried pine. Where will it go? 

On a repurposed picture frame. The necks of the drawer pulls aren’t long enough for coats. I don’t like hanging sweaters on one hook. Thus, it is now a necklace hanger. 

Putting aside projects for one reason or another is not a bad thing to do. It is more fun, though, to bring them forward. Taking a break from the list of things that need to be done is like sitting the porch to take in fresh air.

Still on my put aside list is learning how to make biscuits, quilted exercise mat cover, and how to knit socks. 

What’s on your put aside list?