Daily Notes for Wednesday July 9th. Clouds and chance of rain.

 Today is a Bad Day for Google....Son thinks....I can't move images over to the desktop.

1. I know they aren't Earth Shattering images that I put here but I do like sharing my work or just images that I like.... I was doing images of cloth squares I am making from the tumble of scraps on the ottoman....I started a new one yesterday...off the grid.  Using what was on the ottoman next to me....not "looking" for matching anything in the tubs next to the couch..  I even colored a blank strip with colored pencil.  Because I needed least a few to actually "match".  Being Virgo is a real trial.

2. Cloudy outside and perhaps we'll see some rain... the weather channel has been promising rain for a few days now.  And it hasn't rained. They are also promising flash floods.  Which I am happy to skip as the water table is still pretty close to the surface of my back lawn.. when we moved here any hole my husband dug filled with water.  As he was digging the supports for my fenced vegetable garden.

3. I woke up to very very itchy arms as the red circles on my arms decided to ITCH again. I've stopped thinking they are mosquito bites and now have to admit they are Brown Tail Moth.  Things that float in the air and attach to moist skin.  You touch or rub them and a very itchy rash happens as the thin threads embed themselves in your skin.  Usually very hot water deadens the itch....for a few hours.

4. I also put on a fresh workshirt as the other might have had Moth Hairs on the surface.

5. I keep trying to insert an image....not happening.

6.  Yesterday (and today's) book is Beginner's Luck by Kate Clayborn.  A series about three friends who buy a lottery ticket and win.  Three Books. So far, I am enjoying book one.  The win allows Kit in Book One to work on the very very old house in very very bad condition.....that she has purchased.  2017. I have book two and need to order book three.

7. The Guy in the book is a recruiter and he is trying to get her to interview with a company in Texas.....she is working in the research labs of an underfunded college on the East Coast.  And she is happy there- fixing all the broken old equipment. The Guy is in Town to care for his dad who fell and broke his leg.   Gosh, I've written a book report.

8.  With number 8 I will let you all go for the day...Let's hope it does RAIN here in MAINE and the fertilizer the Tru Green guy put down gets soaked into the soil beneath my less than great looking grass... it will be a quiet day on this Dead End Street.......as usual...but the "New People" across the street might be doing something interesting????????  Yesterday they stood on the driveway staring into their garage......and I watched them DO just that....for a while and then I started making cloth squares out of scrap cloth and reading the book.  BONES wasn't on...hope it's on today.  Now, oatmeal and the paper.

Daily Notes- Tuesday July 8th... Clouds and Hoping For Rain.

1. The ottoman next to my couch...has always been where I keep all my sewing etc supplies.  My reading glasses are to the far right edge south of the Kleenex.   Tru Green came to MY house yesterday- got the right house this time---and applied fertilizer-- I am hoping it rains.... to water it in.

 2. A real estate agent called yesterday to ask if I was interested in selling my house...now or next year.  I said no but am not reconsidering my reply.  I did see myself living in a much smaller one floor house.....intown within walking distance to Grocery, Library and Restaurants on the newly installed flat smooth sidewalks......  Doctor would necessitate a taxi. Or ambulance.

3. The remainder of the book title is Botanical- it's a coloring book (right of the pin cushion)..  My coloring pencils are back and over to the far left.  Next to my left elbow

 4. Sky has darkened.

5. I was very very disturbed by the camp flooding and loss of life in Texas.  As a Scout Leader....I know how that must have felt for the persons in charge.....My eyes are filling with tears just thinking about it. The news (CNN) comments by the man who shall not be named were horrible, unkind and just plain thoughtless.  I shut the tv off....started hand sewing to calm myself.

6.. The cherries I purchased last week have ripened in the fridge...I had a large bowl of them yesterday and look forward to another today.  Possibly pitted and halved with yogurt and bran buds.

7.  My daily problem with itchy red spots on my arms continues...I have decided it's from the netting I put over my annuals out front...which by the way look AMAZING.  I am now going to have a glass of water, sit on the couch close my eyes and think pleasant thoughts....and hope it rains. Waters the fertilizer into the lawn.

8. Thank you for all the replies to 'who is reading" some names are new to me and others old friends. Welcome. To all of you....

Thank you for the comments- replies.... Now that I "know " you are out there- I will write....

Daily notes for Monday July 7th. Sunshine here in Maine....74 degrees at 9am

 I was tempted on this one to travel to the Quilt Room and use the cutting table....to make straight sides. and then I thought-why???   You will see it here (only because a few of you asked) and then..no one but me will see it........ever again 

1. I showered with hot water this morning as the itch on my arms was getting intense.....I think it's going away and it blooms into red swollen spots yet again. I have pink Calomine lotion on my arms now.  Hoping the itch stops.... the spots dry up.

2. A NYT recipe for Protein Bars was full of sugar and negative comments (at the end of the recipe there were 96 negative comments mostly regarding a negative amount of "protein".).  This is the lesser amount on a Sunday NYT's recipe. Usually we hit three digits pretty fast.  Do this, don't do that. Sub this and then this..... it goes on and on.  

3. There was only one NYT's recipe that I actually made- a Vegetable Bean Soup... I used some of the yes comments and all of the no comments to provide myself with a very good soup.  

4. The Calomine is working the ratio of itch has decreased.

5. I am also tempted- if you actually get down here to numeral 5 and IF anyone actually reads this post. To stop publishing these posts.  I will still type them each morning but will hit print instead of publish. I might need to actually send a copy to each of my adult children as proof of Life.  I might send one to Connie.  Because she actually might read the Daily Notes.

6. It seems useless to keep pretending anyone comes here to read this...

Daily Notes- Sunday, July 6th. Sunshine.84 degrees.

 Last set of borders (and everything else) was a bit off...laughing.   I do like it though. Tiny label says Block Party

1. Slept well I think, but my neck is a bit stiff...and I seem to have gotten some ITCH on my neck as well...sigh.  I had Shredded Wheat for breakfast followed by Open Wheel Racing in the Rain somewhere in Europe.  Very very exciting as they slipped and slid into each other.  Not many finished.

2. I have itchy spots on my neck and right arm AGAIN today....The Cortisone-10 works- eventually-- to make the spots stop itching.

3. Pizza later today.  With a Big Salad. (for me)

4. Not much else going on here.

5. I'm days behind on my desk calendar (drawing or pasting art on it.). The last thing I did was on the 2nd day.  I have to look for some art.

6. Will finish A Fall of Marigolds today.  I have a Hallmark Christmas Movie on the tv right now but intend to move on to Soccer as soon as I hit publish.  Not ready for Hallmark or Christmas.

7. Wimbleton is a real SNOOZE this year. And that's all I have for you today.  What's happening with you???