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9-1-1: Good ep! ( spoilers )


Matlock: Have seen the first two eps and they were both good, though you probably can already guess my caveat. ( spoilers )



Tracker: Good ep! ( spoilers )

After not paying any attention to Hallmark/Hallmark Mystery, I have been posting about them a lot lately. AND this weekend I watched two shows/movies that I’d like to share with you.


1. Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C is the second movie in the Haunted Harmony Mysteries. In the first movie Murder in G Major, Gethsemane moves to Ireland where she meets the ghost of a musical composer and helps to solve not only his murder, but the murder of his wife. (This is not a spoiler, it’s right there in the description of the movie and she meets the ghost rather quickly.)

Gethsemane is played by Tamera Mowry-Housley and the ghost Eamon is played by Risteard Cooper. The friendship that forms between the two of them is wonderful. In the second movie, Gethsemane and Eamon team up to solve another murder, and her brother appears, so we get to learn more about her background. The only thing I don't care for is the love triangle. At this point Gethsemane denies that there's any 'love', just friendship, but it's obvious that the two men in question are competing. (Yes, I do have a favorite in this competition.)

I enjoyed both of these movies and would recommend them. Obviously, since I’m making this post. o_O


2. Mistletoe Murders stars Sarah Drew (as Emily Lane) and Peter Mooney (as Detective Sam Wilner). The six episode first season aired on Hallmark+, but is currently airing on Hallmark Mystery before season two (which will also air on Hallmark Mystery). The first two eps of season one aired on Friday and I just watched them last night. I enjoyed them quite a lot. I especially like Emily as she is very competent and has a secret past (which has not been fully explained, but it appears that she has all the tools she needs to help solve murders). I like the growing relationship between Emily and Sam, but I especially like the relationships between Sam and his daughter Violet, and between Emily and her friend June. Oh, and between Emily and her two cats. *g*

I hope the rest of season one, and then season two, live up to these first two eps.


Have you seen either of these? If so, what did you think? If not, have I made them sound interesting enough to try?

(I should add that I watched these movies/shows without needing the emotional support of my phone.)

I took mom’s car to Pip’s garage to have two new tires put on. I also spent a lot of time napping. So tired. As with yesterday (Thursday), I woke with little pain, but the longer I walked on the leg, then sat on it, the pain returned. It’s ~less painful than yesterday, but still very uncomfortable because it is constant.

One thing I noticed tonight and last night was that, when I lay down in bed (and sometimes when I’m sitting in bed at night) the pain radiates from the middle of my buttock over to my tail bone. Years ago (over 27 years) I fell coming down the stairs in the apartment where we lived and landed right on my tail bone. That sucker hurt ~forever. With the radiating pain, it almost feels like I’ve fallen all over again. Definitely not pleasant.

I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for a walk with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. AND I started on a spaghetti sauce for tomorrow’s supper.

I watched 9-1-1 and some HGTV programs.

Temps started out at 31.1(F) and reached 57.2. There was sun, which made it ~appear nice out. Seriously, this is the time of year when you can’t believe what you see.


Mom Update:

Mom seemed to be doing okay today. ( more back here )

I had another chiropractic appointment this morning. I had a nice few minutes when I woke up, because there was less pain. (It wasn’t gone by any means, but it radiated down my leg less. Unfortunately, that meant it felt sharper right in the middle of my butt cheek.) The good feelings about this went away when I had to sit in the car, because putting any kind of pressure on it made it hurt more. I did ice it again before leaving the house.

The chiropractor touched the same spots as yesterday, and only two of them hurt now, so the icing has helped the inflamation go down. He said those were the two areas he had to adjust, and told me he believed that’s where the pinch happened. He thinks I did something to screw up the sacrum, but I can’t think of a single thing. You’d think it would have to be something major, but maybe it doesn’t have to be, given that the whole area is a bit screwed up already. I’m scheduled to see him again three times next week (he’s not open on Friday, sadly, so a whole three days without another adjustment).

I iced again when I got home, then put together an escalloped potatoes and ham dish for supper, and then took a short nap. I delivered the checks I wrote out for my aunt and had my annual eye appointment. I had to have my eyes dilated, which is never fun. I thought I’d be getting new lenses (there have been itty bitty changes each year and I’ve had these glasses since 2021 already), but it turns out she thought we could put it off again another year. So that was good news. The bad news is that I now have a cataract. Nothing to be worried about ~yet, but something to keep an eye on.

Other things accomplished today include: did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, went for a walk with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, filled the gas tank, and scooped kitty litter. When I got home from all my errands, I iced again and took another nap. A long one; I just got up to put the escalloped potatoes in the oven and went back for more nap time. I don’t know if I’m so tired because my body is healing, or because I’m dealing with the chronic pain of it all. Or both.

Temps started out at 37.6(F) and reached 54.1. Despite the temp being above freezing when we woke up, it must’ve been much cooler overnight because there was frost on the towels Pip put over the mums.


Mom Update:

Mom seemed to be doing okay today. ( more back here )

I had a chiropractic appointment this morning. It was an exam plus the adjustment, which was fortuitous timing, because he could get a better look at what’s going on with my darned nerve. He did have to do some adjustment in the sacrum area. After the adjustment he said he was going to touch me to see if it was tender; he touched about a dozen spots, only two of which were not tender. He said there’s a lot of inflammation in that area and to ice it.

No one had ever told me about the inflamation before, or suggested I ice the area. I spent much of the day alternating between icing, napping, and doing a chore. We scheduled another appointment for tomorrow morning, and I expect I’ll be seeing him more often until this is cleared up.

I hit the Pharmacy while I was downtown. I hand-washed dishes, went for a couple walks with Pip and the dogs, baked chicken for the dogs’ meals and cut up some of it for said meals, scooped kitty litter, wrote out checks for my aunt, paid a bill over the phone, and showered. I grilled steak for Pip’s supper.

Temps started out at 52.5(F) and reached 56.1. I don’t love the days where the temperature barely fluctuates from morning low to afternoon high.


Mom Update:

I did not go visit mom, but I talked to her on the phone a couple of times and she sounded good. ( more back here )

Coyotes visited again last night. Pip said that Ti was still half asleep when he gave them a warning howl.

I woke up in the middle of the night (unrelated to coyotes) and started thinking about things like mom’s radiation treatments (we still don’t have any idea when they’ll be) and other things that kept me awake for awhile.

Today was a no-shopping day. I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, went for a walk with the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, placed an online order, and scooped kitty litter.

In breaking news, the ‘muscle pull’ ~is apparently a sciatica flare up. *head desk* Why, body, why?!!

I read more in Winging It with You, watched an HGTV program, and attended Ireland’s soccer game.

Temps started out at 48.6(F) and reached 54.5. It was still raining when we I left the house in the morning, which made me wonder whether the soccer game would be canceled (I don’t know how wet the field has to be for it to be ‘too’ wet).


Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay. ( more back here )

I hit Walmart while I was downtown, and Stewart’s on the way home. I did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, swept the kitchen, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, clipped Pip’s hair, and scooped kitty litter. You didn’t miss it, there were zero walks. Rainy and cold and damp, so I just didn’t wanna.

We went to Texas Roadhouse with friends for supper. (I had noticed previously that their rolls were about half the normal size, and now their house salad, which I normally rave about, was skimpy and the chicken tenders serving was about half what I got before. Hmm.) I also read a little bit more of Winging It and watched an HGTV program.

In less fun news, I seem to have pulled a muscle; the upper hamstring just below my buttock. I have no idea how or when I did it, but it started aching while I was sitting on the bed with Midnight on my lap before bed. It does not feel good today. And I’m hoping it’s a muscle pull and NOT my sciatica acting up again.

Midnight story: A while after we got home I was looking for Midnight. He’d eaten some soft food, but I hadn't seen him in a while. I didn’t see him in his cage (a dog cage where we keep his food, water and litter box away from the dogs), in his bed, or in two of his favorite spots. I asked Pip and he was like, oh, he’ll show up. Then I was like, wait, did you close him in the closet (when he hung up the jacket he wore out)? Oh no, couldn’t have, never saw the cat. Guess where the cat was? Yep, inside the closet. Busy cleaning himself and seemed as if he had no care about being closed in, thankfully. *g*

Temps started out at 48.4(F) and was still only 48.9 at 3pm. It had gone up a teensy bit more to 49.6 by the time we got home (6:30pm). A whole degree! It rained all day, some light, some quite heavy. We got the half inch they predicted.


Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay today. ( more back here )