Super Bowl

 Super Bowl Sunday

 Intention for the day: Do my best to remain upbeat as I sort through my stuff.  The goal is to find things to part with.

Happy things for today:

  • With the weather still bitterly cold, I walked three miles on the treadmill this morning.  Yay, steps!
Looking outside to the cold.


  • Music has really lifted my spirits today.  
  • April is National Poetry Month.  I looked that up after unpacking a poetry book.  I'll be hiking much of April.  I like writing little rhymes and hope to find inspiration to do that, maybe one every day for April?  Anyhow, I sat and read some of the poems in the book I unpacked.  I'm going to try keeping it close that I might remember and pick it up from time to time and randomly read a poem.  One of the poems I read today was “The Barefoot Boy” by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).  Mr. Whittier is  supposedly a distant cousin?  It's a good poem.  I admit to having to look up a few of the words.  Some things are just not in common use anymore.

The above book, has the below inscription inside.  That is kind of cool.



  • Later in the day I visited with my friend Amy.  She asked me over to watch the Super Bowl.  We watched some of the Olympics and then the Super Bowl.  I'm not really much of a sports fan, but Amy is.  I do enjoy being with friends as they enjoy something.  
  • Leaving Amy's house, Orion was starting to set behind her neighbor's house.  There are trees on the west-ish side of the new house property so no setting Orion from there when I got home.
Orion's Belt is the three stars making a line over the house.

End of day intention wrap up:  I was hoping to be able to empty a box.  That didn't happen.  The box I chose has papers to be filed in it.  I sorted through some of it and put those things away.  I took a small box and turned it into a shred/burn box.  So some things are going away and I was upbeat while I sorted what I did.  

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Continued listening to: Nobody Wants Your Sh*t, by Messie Condo. 

Thank you for being here and being part of my daily happy things. Stay safe!


Comments

  1. UnknownFebruary 9, 2026 at 7:27 AM

    It's good to know that Grampa Sargent was not absent or tardy when he was a school boy. LOL Too bad it is not dated. It has to be in the late 1800's though. Judy

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  2. Weft a noteFebruary 10, 2026 at 12:12 PM

    The book was published in 1880.

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