2026 Life Logs, Day 09: Family Dinner, Ice Cream Cake, and Football
Date: Friday, January 9, 2026
Weather: Mixed, Some Sun, Some Clouds, Some Misty Rain; High 52, Low Temp 21 degrees F
Location: At Home with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
My day was dedicated to planning for an Indivisible Falmouth monthly meeting on Monday night, but my evening was dedicated to family. This is Sam’s last night at home before he returns to university life in the Netherlands. He wanted duck and mashed potatoes for dinner and wanted to watch the college football semi-final between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Oregon Ducks. So, we ate duck and watched ducks! He also loves Smitty’s ice cream cake, so I arranged to get one for him even though Smitty’s closed in October. Thank you, Smitty. Sam will not be here for his birthday on January 21, so we put candles on the cake and sang happy birthday.
And being the Goldstones, Heather was working a puzzle while watching the game and everyone played a new building game something like Jenga. But with this game, each person gets a pattern and races to see who can sucessful build their pattern in the shortest time. It was a fun evening, but the football game was very one-sided. The final score was 55 to 22. Ouch! The Hoosiers will play the U of Miami in the final next week. Sam will watch that from the Netherlands as his good friend Robert plays in the Miami marching band.
