1. Making lists is helping my focus and memory. I think I took care of everything I needed to today: I fed Gibbs and Copper twice, including Copper's medication; I fed Gibbs his probiotic pills and his enzyme pill; I remembered to put ointment on Gibbs where he needs it;I bought the right items at Yoke's; I fixed a Strawberry Balsamic salad for family dinner (I forgot to put "include green onions in the salad" on a list and, wouldn't you know it, I forgot to put green onions in the salad); I started a regimen of moisturizing creams, one cream for my feet, another for my lower legs and arms and other skin that might be dry; I did laundry; I remembered to take both rounds of my medications; I scooped clumps out of Copper's litter box. There might be more.
My point is that I need the daily list or lists to keep myself focused and to help out my memory which is slower and duller than when I was younger.
2. Paul, Carol, Christy, and I met at Christy's house late this afternoon and enjoyed a comforting family dinner together. Carol and Paul brought cracker, fruit, cheese, and pickled asparagus plates and I brought the Strawberry Balsamic salad. Christy mixed pear cocktails and before long we plunged into Christy's pot of vegetable chowder soup, a most reliable recipe she secured from the sisters working the kitchen at Mount St. Michael north and east of Spokane. I don't know what Christy called the toasty tasty bread she served, but it was sure good. We capped off dinner with a spider trifle for dessert thanks to Carol.
3. We had plenty to talk about during dinner. Discussing a documentary Carol saw on the world of songwriting and making music in Nashville delighted me as we talked about great musicians and songwriters in the worlds of Nashville country music and branched out a bit to the world of outlaw country -- definitely one of my favorite genres of music.
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