Your problem is common. You're at the point where you need to start writing things down. Then don't forget where you put the paper you wrote it on. Laurel is right, it's often best to carry a little notepad with you in your pocket or purse so you can write stuff on it. When you've finished the appointment, or whatever it was you wanted to remember, tear out the page and throw it away. I have to do this. For a long time I'd forget where my notepad was. So now I keep one in my purse, and one on the end table next to my Lazyboy chair. I also need to keep one next to the computer. If it's not on one of those lists, it doesn't get done. And, get this, I absolutely HATE making lists and doing any organizational efforts. I'm a big concept gal, and hate to trouble myself with details. But I've found, that if I don't do it, sooner or later I end up embarrassing myself and looking like an idiot. So I just have to do it. I've found, it didn't kill me, even though I was sure it would. Like you, I can remember the latin name of nearly any plant species on the planet, but I keep calling my husband by the dog's name. Some things we just have to chuckle about, lest we cry. Lainey

I bring my one year olds to to a protected area to avoid accidental freezing and let them shed the leaves in the protecetd area. I leave my older plants in the open to shed the leaves (or start changing colour and close to shedding the leaves) and then bring the pots to the safety of the garage and keep them there until the temperatures regularlyy stay around/under 25F for longer periods and then take them down to the dark cellar. That is my routine. Hopefully someone else may mention a safer routine.

It's been jogged!! LOL

OK, Kids, I watched it almost all the way through last night. I missed one section of it...when Nora starts her affairs, after the one she had while they were on vacation, but I think I saw most of it. It was OK. They did not follow the book exactly. I was waiting to see how they worked in Pauls' Breakdown in Pittsburg. As I remember that breakdown triggered his quest/need to find his childhood home and all the sadness and squaller he grew up in. That's when he met the girl, brought her back to Lexington where she lived in his house for a while. They also left out all that jogging he did. Wasn't that how and when he died in the book...jogging? Or do I have that wrong? Anyway, I'm glad I made myself watch.