by Judy Handley | Dec 4, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 338: There’s a Moon Out Tonight
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Weather: Sunny, Windy; High Temp 41 Low 13 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
That beautiful full moon tonight is going to bring us the coldest night yet. The forecast says it will get down to 13 degrees F. Now that really is cold.
My day today was a series of meetings, plus taking Ollie to his saxophone lesson. And in between the meetings, I worked on the presentation for Monday night’s workshop. More presentation readiness work tomorrow. But for now, that’s it for the news from here.
by Judy Handley | Dec 3, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 337: Visiting Day and Holiday Decorating
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Weather: ; High Temp 48 Low 34 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
A day with nothing on your schedule is a little like a cleared surface. It quickly fills up. Friends, Midge and Karen sent texts asking if they could drop by this morning to exchange gifts. Who can say no that? After they left, I headed outside to finish getting the garland on the rail fence out front. I have never measured it, but I think it is at least 60-70 feet of rails. Once the garland was wrapped round and round, I then had to wrap the Christmas lights. And then finally, attach the red bows to each upright post. And I forgot, I had to drag the extension cords out of the basement. It is a long way from the house to the street!
Then I got a text from another friend who needed to talk to me about some issues, so she came over late afternoon and then I had invited my new neighbor, Billy over for dinner. That’s how you fill up an empty schedule. It felt great having the time to visit with friends. I still have piles of papers that need to be filed and put in notebooks, and I need to get ready for a workshop I am doing on Monday evening. Hopefully I am more productive tomorrow than I was today.
by Judy Handley | Dec 2, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 336: Rushing to Beat the Rain
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Weather: Overcast and Rainy; High Temp 48 Low 34 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I spent my morning rushing to beat the rain. I didn’t get everything done, but I did get the outdoor holiday greenery planters completed. One on my porch and one delivered to Heather’s front porch.
Once the rain started, I switched to indoor activities. I did some house cleaning and rearranging all the plants that I have brought indoors. Now we will see if I can keep them alive. Then tonight I offered to take Jonah and his two friends Kaiden and Jean Luc to Hyannis for winter soccer practice with the ACI travel team. Heather was going to take them, but I really needed to go to Trader Joe’s for some things I can’t find elsewhere. We got home a little before 9:30 pm and then I caught up with emails from the day.
by Judy Handley | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 335: Welcome December
Date: Monday, December 1, 2025
Weather: Sunny; High Temp 47 Low 29 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
It is the first of December and there are only 30 days until the new year. I have no idea why, but this year seems to have flown by. Things on my To Do list that I thought would be done months ago are still sitting on that list. Thankfully, there is another year on the horizon. Maybe those things will get done in 2026. Do you think?
Every first and third Monday begins with a Falmouth Immigration Rights Coalition Zoom meeting. So, after Shadow and I returned from our Monday morning walk with Shadow’s friend Archie, I joined the FIRC meeting. Afterwards, I ran a few errands, did some baking in the afternoon, started putting the holiday garland on the rail fence up by the street, and then got ready to go out to dinner. My Dining-in group decided to do a dinner out instead of in. We went to Villagio in Cotuit and had a wonderful dinner and exchanged small bags of holiday cheer. This was a great way to usher in the holiday season with good friends.
by Judy Handley | Nov 30, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 334: ‘Tis the Season
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Weather: Sunny and Windy; High Temp 53, Low 36 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
‘Tis the season. With Thanksgiving over, this morning I decided I could begin to focus on the winter holiday season. I really don’t allow myself to think about the December frenzy until Thanksgiving is behind me. But I look forward to December, the month of so many religious holidays … Hanukkah and Christmas and Kwanza. And my very favorite, Solstice. I love December, not because of the religious holidays, but in spite of them. I love the magic of twinkling lights on a Christmas tree, the smell of freshly baked cookies just waiting to be decorated, the lighting of the Menorah, and the thought that goes into choosing what gift to give someone you love.
So, I started my holiday season by cutting greenery from the periphery of the yard, and Heather and Jed’s yard where I came home with an armful of cedar branches to put in outdoor holiday planters for my front porch and for Heather and Jed’s. This idea happened because my friend Jane Woodin asked if she could come over to gather greenery for her outside planters as she did last year and the year before. By the time she arrived, I had holly, fir, pine, and juniper springs, plus the cedar, ready to be chosen. Once Jane had her bags full, we headed inside to have a cup of tea and catch up on life. When she left, I filled my pots with soil, but I didn’t put the greenery in. I should have, because soon it began raining, and now when I look at the weather report for the next week, it is going to be really cold and sunny or warmer and raining. Maybe I’ll bring the greenery inside to do the arrangements.
I spent the rest of the afternoon once again catching up on communications and running errands. December first is just a couple of hours away, so now the race is on.
