Spent the entire afternoon enjoying the sun- and almost stepped on this before I knew it was there. Seems a few of them are still alive and kicking.
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Growing strong
Things I learned today
First and most importantly, I learned that macular degeneration is all kinds of not fun. Not that I wasn’t already aware, but the more details I get, the worse it sounds.
I was at my grandmother’s house, trying to figure out how best to make something to help her remember how the new CD/tape player my uncle got her works. I thought color coding the buttons would be a viable thing, but it turns out she can’t see colors so well anymore. I never realized that the ability to see color was part of the degeneration of vision.(Not long after that, ‘help with the CD player’ turned into ‘completely rearrange the living room- why didn’t you say you couldn’t see the TV from where your chair is??’)
This leads to the next thing I learned, which is those little plastic and foam sliders for moving furniture WORK. My wee self was able to move a sleeper couch around no problem. Reducing friction for the win!
Finally, while on an expedition to Lowe’s*, I learned that Pantone now does paint. This I did not know. I did, fortunately, know that they also venture to declare a ‘color of the year’, otherwise I would have been considerably more sarcastic about the display set up in front of the Pantone paint samples for the color of the year. (Radiant Orchid, seen below at left. Not to be confused with Wild Orchid, shown on right.)
Though I rather resent the notion that only pinks and purples should be called orchids, because my favorite orchids look like this:
*Also, I learned that some businesses are slow in the face of competition. Lowe’s, the Home Depot across the way and the local Tractor Supply both have their seeds and seed starting stuff out already. Get with it!
P365 – Another Thing From the Beach
Not everything I found at the beach was strange and unusual.
Time to think about dinner
On days like this, I am very glad that Homo sapiens has mastered fire (among other things- electricity, extraction of natural gas, and modern materials are also pretty nifty) and it is thus possible for me to be inside, where it is warm, and contemplating a hot dinner.
Winter Wonderland
I played outside in the snow for a while.
Then I sat on the heater for half an hour trying to thaw my butt.
I like looking at snow from inside, where it’s warm.
Baby turtles!
Sorry to disappoint anyone expecting a more weather-related picture today. The weather makes me want to hibernate. Baby turtles don’t.
Time Machine: Monday Jan 21
I suffered technical difficulties yesterday, which I didn’t resolve before the Daily Show started. Thus, P365 is late.
Things I saw today
Occasionally, there are days where I miss taking a photo for P365. Then there are days like this, where I am spoilt for choice. My adventures today started out with this over breakfast (with bonus VW convention in the parking lot):
Then they continued to this 
(with a bald eagle along the way, which was sadly too high for me to get a decent picture of)
and finally ended up with this:
(This was taken in my front yard. I feel it might be a public service to create a warning sign with a deer wearing a dunce cap, thereby warning drivers on the road that this area features really stupid deer. I am in fact about as close as it looks in the picture. Also, this deer couldn’t be arsed to move when the car pulled into the driveway, when he was much closer. I predict he’s roadkill before Memorial Day.)
I can not throw this out
I spent part of the afternoon digitizing recipes from my grandmother’s recipe files. I call them files, but for anyone who knew my grandmother, they were about as filed as you’d expect- scattered throughout recipe books, clippings, and in completely random places. Mostly I’ve been digitizing and then getting rid of the originals. This one I’m keeping. Whoever compiled the 1948 edition of the Metropolitan Cook Book had a serious fixation on peanut butter. There is a recipe for peanut butter soup. No, really. Peanut butter soup. It is exactly what it sounds like- peanut butter turned into soup. I am preserving this for posterity.