Dots and dust

Hi everyone.  How is the year going so far?

Mine has been expensive.  The 231 for dental visit, extraction/graft will be 1032, Eliquis was 641 (tier 3 for seniors, tier 2 for others), 175 for scan (that's a good deal), and the fridge died (that's a biggie).  Repairs in 2025 didn't hold.  What's next?  A partial.  Damn.  We're not even two weeks into 2026!

I enlarged and colored the Spinney chart section, tested and pulled through threads, started, stopped.  Too much going on with brother and others, not sure I want to stitch.  But if I calm down enough, a single color is my best bet.  Maybe two.  Three at the most.  No confetti.  Spinney calls for many colors as it should be so not a good start right now.

The dots ....

I have three medications that are round white same size pills.  They don't make them in the needed dose, so each must be cut on the score, a royal PITA especially being small to begin with. My arthritic and numb fingers sometimes cause one of the halfs to fall at the wrong time.  Pill stamp is barely visible once cut.  So  I decided to mark them (and the bottles) with a fine tip marker.  Such a tiny amount, I doubt it would do harm.  Taking them all twice a day allows a second chance to confuse, but now, problem solved.  Weekly pill cases are guaranteed correct!

The dust .....

Amazon offers these washable dusters to use in place of disposables.  What a great product for wood floors.  Every cat hair, my hair, speck of dust ... gone.  No water, no cleaners, just dry for dusting floors and it works great.  They collect so much dust that I use the vacuum nozzle on them before throwing in the washer.  No dryer as with all microfiber.  Love them!

We had a female fox running through the yard, followed four minutes later by a large male after her.  Both panting excessively.  An hour later, still chasing.  Mating season.

Hope your weekend was good.

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