Daily Notes for Thursday November 13th. Cloudy and Damp here in Maine,

 I think this might be a ZEN FOOD CHART.   Oats, eggplant, beans, and tofu.

It's also the last of the new images in the right hand side of the screen where I keep things..... had a second chance at the one slow moving black fly of the day (so far). Got it.  FIFTEEN YESTERDAY. Yes, 15 flies yesterday - an all time high...

I accidentally watched some news out of Washington DC.  Super big mistake.

1.  I had to wait to see the newspaper to know what day of the week it was.....losing my grip.

2.  No Soccer.....Law and Order episodes get deleted as soon as I recall the episode details.... I've watched them all so many times..... I watched 15 minutes of Karate Kid.  Then moved on to Hallmark and  The Angel Tree- GAG.  And then I turned off the TV and started in on Ms Demeanor by Elinor Lipman.  I was super happy to have two Lipman books back to back.  Every Tom, Dick and Harry was a delight.  And I always love Ms Demeanor.

3.  I went into the mostly destroyed Fabric Room- tubs are everywhere etc.  I can get them off the shelving but no way can I lift them back up..... I was looking for a specific color and pattern ...I knew I had that particular fabric in every color variation it was printed in..... I did find yellow.  And eventually pink. I also have it in pale blue and dark blue... and a very lovely pale green.. and a dark green. If I work hard enough I will just make a pile of this particular fabric on the shelf....not in a tub.... and then in a tub when I finish this project....at the pace I am going..that will be never.  I have to make several of each color....sign... I have already run out of a particular  fabric that looked fantastic in the first square I made.  I have enough to add it to one or possibly two more squares...then I have to find something else.

4.  The  prompt for this project was using up what I have and actually like working with.  Dots.  I was tempted to just make the finished square (3) into potholders....but I noticed the gifted ones- are still in pristine condition in the homes they went to.......not used.  The ones in my house get dirty.   This would all be finished if I used the sewing machine....I am hand sewing because I actually prefer it.

Daily Notes for Wednesday, November 12th,

 No time or patience to add a photo.

1.  The Dead Fly totals... Sunday -Eight   Monday - Thirteen . Tuesday- Eight. Wednesday (today) so far.. Five...day is young.  Son read something about a bowl or cup with apple cider vinegar...the flies are attracted and etc.... so Cold Weather Black Flies in the House is "a thing".  Not just ME.

2.   I have the heat going and warming the large spaces up a bit....I have on a fleece pullover- daughter gave me two- she bought for herself and then didn't like them....not loose enough.  I'm not fond of the colors. (fruit pop)- but they are warm and light weight.  And V-neck collars so nothing tight around my neck. Do not like that.  I read it's a "past life " thing.  Creepy.

3.  I managed to get the recycling collected before going to bed....  For this morning.

4.  I have sorted piles of cloth strips for the making of more squares.....I just NEED something good to watch on TV while I SEW.  The Blue and Purple piles have the most likely probability of a really EXCELLENT SQUARE.  Though the orange pile is looking pretty great also.   The Pink pile needs significant additions- weak as it is now. but I have plenty of magenta in the tubs.

5.  I have over a dozen Law and Order episodes lined up in the TiVo.  I watched 10 minutes of two of them and deleted both. Then stopped as once I get in the delete mode- I am not responsible for my choices. ( I'm in a NEGATIVE MIND SPACE right now) I did watch two Hallmark Christmas Movies....all the way thru....some gagging but not as much as usual.

6.  A CATALOG arrived in the mail yesterday...I was BEYOND EXCITED.  I used to get so many and lots of them were cooking related.....the one I got yesterday was okay...not great...but just getting it was so WOW. LLBean no longer sends me catalogs....which is sad.... I'd like a Cooking Supply Catalog- even though I own so much already.   Well, that it from here in Maine this morning...we had some snow on the ground from overnight. But now the grass is green again.

7. Managed to change channels at the exact right time for the very end of Sixteen Candles.  I love the end of that movie when she points to herself and says "me?" and he nods "yes, you!!!"

Daily Notes- Tuesday November 11. Cold and Damp here in Maine- 39 degrees and the sound of the furnace going here in Maine.

 I went looking for an image of a fat lazy black fly.....because they keep gliding slowly past me to the front window where I use the swatter to kill them.  Eight on Monday and eight more yesterday.

Internet says the flies come into the house as the air outside gets cold and then....when we turn up the heat (furnace) here in the house they decide to fly around......slowly. Until I smash them FLAT. I was going to have an image of a fat black fly up top but couldn't find one that wasn't DISGUSTING.

Better News: invited down the street for Thanksgiving Dinner... always a nice warm welcome.....this will be our third Thanksgiving with this lovely neighborhood family.  Son and I had been giving some thought to what to do for ourselves for that meal.  We might still make a few easy things for leftover meals.  I always want to bake a pie and he always says no.

1.  Yesterday and today's book is Every Tom, Dick and Harry by Elinor Lipman.  It's a new book but my second time checking it out.  If I liked it once I'll like it twice (or more)......I never read this author but now that I am ancient- I like her QUITE a LOT.  Plan to buy the book.  It's light hearted and the romance is between older people who liked each in high school but never dated.... I liked a few guys in high school but way too shy and backward to talk to any of them.   Never asked out on a date.

2.  I think we all know why I read romances...now,

3.  Newspaper is so VERY VERY Disturbing......America needs a HERO.  We should all sing that song. While they are out with their No King's banners.   Sing "We Need a Hero"

4.  That's all I've got.....A Dead Fly Count Down.   Needing a Hero sung really LOUD..  And a Good Romance with a very hilarious but happy ending.  And a Frozen Yogurt Bar in the freezer just in case things go south..  And perhaps some Antiques Roadshow.????   Old Lady Stuff.

Daily Notes- Monday, November 10th. Cloudy 51 degrees and 99% humidity. It's been raining.

 Acorns.  None this year.  

1.   I've written a check for the one bill on my desk..... sorted out my checkbook-  double checking myself.

2.   I'll be finishing off my romance book.... and I am tempted to dig out a few other Sarah Adams books from the bookcase.  The motorcycle riding teacher??????  I do enjoy the Hermit and the country music star one also......

3.   I watched two Hallmark Christmas Movies....old favorites.  The Round and Round one is fun. The same day over and over and over again.  I also watched a really vintage one- Cowboy and Astronomer on a bus to New York City.  I liked the actor /cowboy.

4.   I smashed 8 flies in the living room....that time of year again.  Number eight this morning....asleep on the front window.  Or half dead,  I just wish I knew where they came from.....  my son says they are in the living room because I eat food in the living room.  If that was true the flies would be circling me and not the front window which is no where near me and my food crumbs.  And flies like blood...not cookies.

5.   I'm going to finish reading my book.....watch some Antiques Roadshow and heat up a bowl of soup in the afternoon.  And probably eat it while watching the recorded Soccer.  My cell phone is reminding me to take an umbrella with me if I go outside.  I am not going outside.