Daily Notes- Sunday, January 4th. overcast, zero sunshine 14 degrees

Okay, I figured out the curser placement... it wanted center yet again...I did not.  Chair was taken out of my paper collection and trimmed down...  I have more...but all the same chair as this one...

1.  Well, I did some first aid on myself....some ointment, then a sterile gaze pad and then tape.  All from husband's Heart Surgery Box of Supplies.  I did need to cross the hallway for scissors for the tape. I have this itchy swollen patch of skin over my breastbone.... Which in 11 days the doctor will examine. See what it's all about.  I'll just be keeping it covered.

2.   I keep thinking I see people walking around outside...at 14 degrees I don't think it's a great idea.

3.   Soccer yesterday....everyone looks exhausted... ready for the season to be over.  I think I saw someone punch another player yesterday but was too lazy to rewind and see if I actually did see that.  No Hands!!!

4.   We have now gone from a Republic to a Dictatorship...taking over other countries..etc.. When is Congress going to Shut Him Down???  I want to type something else here but it could get me arrested. Like everyone else ......and I do have to keep the itchy spot bandage dry and clean.

5.  So that's it...Soccer to watch and possibly some Football.  And the Sunday Pizza.  I didn't find my favorite screw top wine at the grocery (again) so I'll have lemonade.  I have wine with corks but...I'm OLD and not much good at getting corks out of wine bottles.  Never was..and would feel kinda strange walking around to neighbors and asking them to open my wine bottles....  I can hear it now..".that old woman is coming up the drive with another bottle of wine....."

6.  Well the Sunday Paper won't read itself....
 

Oksy...took awhile to get this up and working....Saturday, January 3rd....sunshine and snow.

Here we are and I can't get the text to start over to the left...It happens and I have no idea why or how to make it stop.  Yesterday turned out to be a great day....

1.  I found the squares I was looking for...I had tucked them in a plastic tub for "safe keeping." and they were really safe...from me finding them...

2.  I watched two movies Pretty Woman and after than Sweet Home Alabama?  Pretty Woman is always in my recorded box...But Sweet Home wasn't..  Reading the credits Richard Gere actually was playing the piano and wrote the music he was playing.... I also got the name of the opera from the credits and chose to believe--until proven wrong --that I have a disc with that opera.

3.   I have several British Soccer Matches to watch today as I sew one piece of cloth to another... I sorted a stack of pages I had ripped from magazines...when the library had magazines in the lobby we could "feel free to take home". I don't think anyone is publishing magazines anymore.  If they are..I don't see them.

4. The big truck that picks up green buckets of compostable garbage from the neighbors is driving past...they empty the weekly bucket in an open trailer...lots of green buckets on the truck...in return ...I think...you get a bucket of compost...freshly composted???  I do have two large squares out back- using wooden pallets...and both are full of compost...no where for it to go as yet.....  weeds and plants sometimes start growing in the Spring...I uproot them and let them "compost"... One year I had many many worms... I try not to repeat that year.  I know worms are a good sign but..not a Fan.

5. Well. I am going to stop typing and start watching tv.  Do some hand sewing...  ignore the uneven margins.

Daily Notes for Friday January 2nd....Cold...16 degrees. Bright Sunshine.

1.  I have to work on the desktop images...like...GET SOME.

2.  It's Friday and I won't be going to the Library- The street between the grocery parking lot and the Library does NOT get shoveled...and it melts and freezes and is not a SAFE walk for an old woman. The grocery parking lot gets salted...like every day and is always 100% ice free. I'll see if Son thinks me going the grocery is a "good idea'....... He just asked if I was ready to go to the store-- yeah!!!!!

3.  I want to go to the grocery so I can pay for the groceries.... I took a shower this morning so my hair would look nice...if I wear my hat- it won't really matter.  But...it's nice to go out in public with clean hair.

4.  I have been searching for the black and brown squares I hand sewed....Can't find them...Been looking.  I did find some kits for ABC Samplers.  I bought them but never did start any- cross stitch. I have two complete kits and one very incomplete one...no chart. Scarlet Letter Kits...  I might see if they are still in business... even if it's been forever since I purchased them...

5.   A Vintage Sampler- hand embroidery seems like a good Winter Afternoon Project... an alternative to reading if the books I have aren't that great.  I'm also considering reading the entire Louise Penny series.. I have them all (here) in hardback- thanks to my daughter....I purchased the newest book on the last book store visit (in person). I won't be "in person" again until Spring.

Daily Notes from Maine....Thursday January first...Sunshine and Snow on the ground. 27 degrees

Snowdrops.

I had these in my perennial beds for many years...I think the squirrels dug them up...every year so I stopped planting them...

One thing I can always count on- squirrels..

I have two Soccer Matches to record.....I watched three episodes of Time to Come Home on Hallmark yesterday. I had seen all three in many years past....I don't need to see them again for another five years or more. But it was nice to know "second chances" are aways available .... but not for me, I guess.

My book is one I read awhile back and forgot...Karen White's "the night the lights went out".  Set in the area around Atlanta.... it has that Southern sweetness about it.....like sweet tea.   And reminds me of happy days living in Georgia.  If I was ever to move away from Maine ...it would be to Georgia.  Both my children were born there.  We left the Atlanta suburbs to move to Florida...The first of many many moves...  

I forgot we had a sunporch loaded with toys and furniture and a large painting my brother sent me...none of it got packed or missed for decades....... when we were quickly transferred to Chicago and our fourth home.  And then to Germany a few years later.

Southern food is being cooked...tomatoes are being left on doorsteps...sweet tea is being made. All things I did when living there,  having babies.... being happy.....so of course husband had to move us to Florida. Where I was alone and miserable and he was working in the Virgin Islands.  Anyway...I am reliving my Georgia Happiness...with this book.... Previous book was set in Florida....by the water... Might look for a Chicago book next- any suggestions?????

Happy 2026...My new desk calendar fits perfectly...already have things pasted on it...