Daily Notes- Monday September 15th... Sunshine and cool temps

 Took a bit of time to get the image here...This is off my desk Calendar where I add art all month..then I put the used page in the box with the calendar pages from several years.....  I've covered up the majority of spaces on this month's calendar......and still have half a month to go.

1.  The NYTimes had something about horoscopes....or really what sign you are born under...I am on the cusp of Leo as Time Goes By....more so than the Virgo I always was as the constellations move and change.  Both my children are Leo.  Perhaps this is why nothing feels familiar anymore. Not Virgo. I'll start reading the Leo horoscope with breakfast from now on.  

2.  Yesterday's Pizza was excellent and the football wasn't too awful.... then I finished reading my book.

3.  Haven't chosen a book for today as yet...hoping for some Antiques Roadshow on PBS.  They continue to Fundraise  (weekends) selling the same stuff they sold 10 or 20 years ago....  same cookbooks, same tapes and cd's. I imagine the fundraising was actually recorded (decades ago) and they just hit the play button  and everyone stays home.and off the payroll.  

4.  I haven't selected a book to read as yet.  For today.  I might read book one in the three book Lottery Winning series...I liked the characters very much.  Or Charm City Rocks.....I do love that book. And I might find a CD in the box over yonder with piano music.....The guy in Charm City plays the piano..and I could listen while I read.

Daily Notes on another Sunny Day in Maine. September 14th.

Yesterday's Colored.

The "eyes" seem to be noticing the nose running ........

1.  Sunday Pizza.  And yes, the pasta was delicious. and plenty more......in the fridge.

2.  Reading and watching British Soccer took up most of the day.  I finished eating my cold fried chicken nuggets.  I tried to watch a Hallmark Movie but after 15 minutes I was done......even with fast forwarding.

3.  I snagged a few images of "Make Ahead" breakfast ideas...I would actually be eating them for lunch. Breakfast will always be oatmeal or shredded wheat for me.  And even though I like the idea of a fried or poached egg with a runny yolk---there is not ANYway those items will be made at home....by me.

4.  Electric Bill.  Even higher without the AC units running.  How odd is that??????

5.  I also got my WHOPPING property tax bill.  More like buy a new CAR. And giving it to the Town. Every year.

6.  Watched three British Soccer Matches....also watched the fans get up and walk out mid game as it wasn't going as they had hoped.......yep whole sections of the seats- empty. I'd seen it happen, infrequently, with US Football Games....but not like that. And not even half time.

7.  Well, I have my book to read....and wait for the lovely last page......where it ends like every Hallmark movie ever made. Whomever left...comes back.  Perhaps in my Next Life someone will come back for me.

 

Daily Notes- September 13th....Sunshine here in Maine and very cold at night.. Delightful.

 New line drawings.  Found on Little Something's blog post yesterday.. actual art is by JOEL ESCALONA.  My line drawings are just that and if you want to see the real thing- please visit his site. Or Little Somethings which might be in my sidebar?????

I freehanded the sculptures as line drawings....looking forward to coloring them in.

1.   Made red sauce and spaghetti yesterday... I didn't have a large piece of beef or pork to simmer in the sauce all day....I had a package of Ground Angus Beef.  I added mushrooms and the remainder of an onion from Sunday's pizza.  I hadn't had spaghetti in a really long time so it was delightful. Will be again later today.  Next thing:  Eggplant Parm...homemade.

2.   Watched all the recorded PBS mystery series I had in the TiVo.  No reading...just tv watching.

3.   I have European Soccer to watch today.  I will skip American Football.

4.   I may read and I may not.....I feel, most of the day, like I need a nap.  You know...like Old People.. A Nap.  My Dad fell asleep if he held an eye blink too long.  Must have been nice. To sleep like that.

5.   Skipping news until the recent shooting gets boring and they stop talking about it.

6.   PBS is Fund Raising (AGAIN) and showing 20 or 30 year old things to 80- and 90-year olds who forgot they already bought the tapes and CD's. and crappy cookbooks..... So no Saturday Cooking Shows.  I have mostly GIVEN UP on Public TV. (other than Antique's Roadshow).....  I have British Soccer games to watch.  12:30 and 3 pm. 

7.  I have a book over on the couch to read and a few others on the shelf... I am seriously considering getting the paints and brushes out and doing some watercolors.  I have a PEAR that would make a nice model.  And some RED PLUMS..  I watched something about Leonardo yesterday that I had recorded weeks ago and it got me thinking about mixing color. Painting.  Holding something in my hand and making marks on paper.  Sort of like this post.

Friday September 12th. Sunshine and not as cool or as warm as it has been lately.

 The pink didn't get any white crayon.  Oops.

Grocery Shopping....I've lost interest in eating...I do eat but it's more a "snack" thing than a plate of food. I was making soup on the regular last winter and spring......and enjoying it very much...but it doesn't seem cold enough for soup YET.

1.  I do....have on corduroy pants. Today. And wool socks.  I was tired of capri pants, tee and long sleeved work shirts.  I have on a tee shirt and a long sleeved (rolled up) linen shirt.

2.  I had mouth wash on the grocery list but forgot to write down the other things I needed in my bathroom.   Sigh....Son asked if I was drinking enough water as I was getting loopy again.  I tend to have a glass every time I enter the kitchen and since the kitchen is on the path to everywhere....I drink quite a bit of water each day.  (I hadn't know I had stopped being loopy). (thought it was permanent). The water drinking takes the place of opening the fridge and staring at the contents. Then closing the fridge door.

3. I haven't walked in a while- more than a week....because I don't feel secure in my impression of how the walk will go.  And whether I will tip over and fall on the street. And no one will notice.

4.  I hadn't ordered more than two books so I had to walk in the stacks looking for books....since they added mystery to fiction- I can't find anything.  Or I thought I couldn't I did actually find the book I was looking for.  Charm City Rocks.  Moments after I just decided to "give up"......FATE.  Top shelf at the end of a row.  And top shelf is really high.......and guess what....I have a copy on my book shelf at home ....DUH!!!!

5.  In fact I keep telling myself to READ OUT OF THE BOOKCASE........I even have a half finished "new" Middle Ages Romance here on the desk I haven't finished reading...the book my Lunch buddy ordered from the Big A.  As my son has pointed out- my attention span is short circuiting.

6.  One prescription arrived- the tiny statin...the other- the inhaler- no.

7.  I'm about to enter the kitchen to make red sauce.  Been years since I made any....but...I will... Something good to eat for the week.  Something that isn't peanut butter on bread or a flour tortilla wrapped around cheese.  I will be changing my shirt FIRST.  It's a very nice pale yellow linen shirt. One of my favorites even though most of these favorites are too large now.  The corduroy pants went on easily and actually buttoned at the waist.....oddly enough. I might take them off as well.  Capri pants sound nicer.

8...Rock on.