Daily Notes on Sunshine Morning here in Maine. Box suggesting 7 Google searches they would like to start.

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1.  The Sun is shining but it's neither humid nor cloudy.  Not really warm either.  My mouse needed to get charged up. I no longer have one of those little square things to use to move the little arrow around.

2.  Haven't read the daily news as yet or chosen a breakfast cereal.......a very slow start to the day. Summer is driving past us here in Maine at quite a fast speed...and soon I will  compost whatever flowers are still alive in the planter boxes and get someone to help me empty them (soil) and return them to their Winter Storage places. Something I did all by myself for decades. and could possibly still do, if allowed to try.

3.  I have to finish this quickly so I can plug the mouse into the computer to charge it.

4.  Watched Will Trent last night...a repeat that is possibly two years old...and still listed as new in the paper.   I like the Will Trent in the books so much better than this guy- who is great but is not Will Trent.

5.  I have to hurry and eat some breakfast before it is officially NOON.   And time to eat Lunch.  I am hoping for a British Soccer Game or some Antique's Roadshow.  But I do have books to read.....

6.   I went thru my Kurland book list and WOW did I make a mess of it that first go round.   I now have 8 book titles I need to buy.... As my Son has mentioned I need to get over my of dislike Amazon- just wiring that about needing books has opened a Google Search for 10 or 11 things they say I need.  Just got another one.....This didn't begin until I purchased a book.

7. The Female character in my latest book was excited about leaving the past and getting home to  Toll House Cookies....I found a recipe and actually own all the ingredients........ I can't promise I will actually make cookies but it's nice to know it's POSSIBLE.

8.  That's all....had a good long talk with myself this morning- out loud- and feel like a bunch of emotional garbage has been bagged up.....  Garbage- Baggage...same difference.  Moving on. Hopefully.

Daily Notes for August 26th. Sunshine here in Maine. Robo Calls all day long.

 Another odd index card.  Looks like a game machine.

1. Dentist was lovely...my teeth feel all smooth... the X-rays were not so nice.

2.  The outdoor containers; plant netting had a very large BEE caught... I shook it out.  Plants are getting a bit raggedy.....I clip off the flowers going to seed.  In another part of my Life: I would have saved the flower seeds and used them to grow my own plants. Some parts of my Life were quite interesting.

3.  Someone is getting Propane.  Not us.  The only Propane run item we have is the super expensive  Whole House Generator....  I read somewhere that open flame items contribute to asthma in children. And I think make adult asthma worse.  So my lovely new stove is electric.

4.  DEBL recommended Moonstruck to me... the OPERA in that one is very very nice. And like DebL- reminds me of myself summer in New York. I have it in my TiVo.... When I watch it I always wish I had had a family like that.....to sit down for every meal...argue, care for each other etc. There's a lot of LOVE in that movie.

5.  The first book in Kurland's  Middle Ages MacLeod series is still churning along.  They are all about to walk across a certain area of grass and walk into the Future.  And James MacLeod will be driving a dark green Jag instead of riding a horse going forward.  Not everyone survives that last battle, though. Next up is The Very Thought Of You.  

6.  BLT for lunch yesterday and today it's HOT DOGS......can't wait.  I might even have baked beans.

Daily Notes on a Cloudy Early Morning in Maine. it might have rained a bit. things look wet.

 Something a bit different today.... a strange new index card bird.

1.  .Daughter is having MUCH needed plumbing work done in the basement at her house....and some work on her bathroom.  She is off to buy herself a new toilet which the guys will install..  I showed her ours and she took a picture.  Her father was sent off to buy new toilets when the guys were doing the floor tile in our own two bathrooms.... and had removed the old toilets and tossed them in the construction bin.  With my permission.

2..Writing checks for large amounts...I think of husband at these times....he would do anything for his girl.

3.  I will be having my teeth cleaned and polished this afternoon......I have sensitive teeth so this will NOT be pleasant.  I usually call '"time out" several times during the cleaning.  They do put something on my teeth to make them less sensitive but it doesn't really knock back the sensitivity much.

4.  I am (still) enjoying Book One of the Kurland series----  Dance Through Time. The"bad guys" have just set an old woman on fire -alive- because they think she might be a witch.   I WAS enjoying the book until those few pages...and being tossed in the "pit"- read this as an early Septic Tank with snakes.---GAG.  

5.  Like the lead woman in the book- I also would have shoveled the garbage off the stone floor and scrubbed it clean. And also taken over the kitchen.  Bread with rocks in it?????  No underwear?  It makes my old couch and the fridge sound like Heaven....oh, and a flushing toilet.  Double Heaven. A Hot Shower????- Triple Heaven.

6.  I am counting the days until my birthday and the Tiramisu Cake from the bakery.  It's still a long ways away.

7.  I caught the end part of Pretty Woman on TV and then set the TiVo to record the movie when it started up again. One channel will do that...run a movie and then run it again.  It's been decades since I saw that movie.  It's sort of like reading one of my romances. I cried during the opera part.  I always do if any movie has opera. I have several opera CD's and cry thru them as well..........I also like that French woman who makes me cry when I listen to her CD- Edith something that stars with P.  I'd go find the CD and the name- but........then I would want to start listening to it...best as something AFTER the TEETH... 

Daily notes on a breezy, sunny Sunday in Maine.

1.  I had to play "fool the Computer" to get the photo where I wanted it and text where I wanted it.

2,  Reading another Kurland from the Library Collection..A Dance Thru Time. Very very vague reminders that I read this once, a LONG time ago.  Even owned the book a long time ago before it got burned up in an apartment fire- not my apartment.

3.  I thought I wasn't going to like the book- but I was WRONG.

4.  Reading the first of any series is sort of like turning over the puzzle pieces after you emptied the box on the table.   You see the beginning....you see the threads of the other stories.  All the pieces are there just jumbled up.

5.  My LL Bean watch has finally been fitted out with a fresh new battery.  So now I can attach it to my purse strap and know what time it is.  I rarely wear anything on my person.  No rings.  No nothing. I have ALL of that and it's all quite lovely......but I don't wear it.  After reading so many time travel books I have a certain feeling that in some other Life...NOT wearing rings was important. Or. a more recent life (this one) where wearing the rings was meaningless.  And knowing what time it was....not necessary.

6.  Soccer has already started and I need to get the tv going.  The newspaper was fine.... the Suduko difficult.

7.  Pizza today at 4 pm....  I really would like a square of whatever that is pictured at the top.