Daily Notes for Sunday December 28th.... Sunshine but still very very cold. 34 degrees.

 My Three Pears....

Still cold here in Maine but not snowing... the second card I sent arrived in Wisconsin...yesterday. The reason being a NEW Post Office sorting center.....so..... wonder about the other 14????

The bright spot on the photo is from the skylight...shining on the counter.

I've just rolled some thin sliced baked ham and Swiss cheese up and that's my lunch...we'll make pizza at around 4pm....

A friend sent me a video of Lidia (PBS) making Squash Soup. No sound.

I renewed all the books on my shelf via the internet....in case....we don't get to the Library this week.

Daughter has promised to take me (Monday) to pick up the book she ordered for me and then Staples to buy a new desk top calendar... so I have a Daily Arts And Crafts Project... which I find to be something I look forward to each day....pasting and drawing and coloring on the desk under the keyboard. Even though I will cover up the daily handwritten weather report.....

The repair work on the old quilt goes slowly....the patch strips get folded lengthwise into 1/2 inch wide or a bit more-strips...and sewn to the neighboring strips by hand....with no stitches showing..  Just maneuvering the quilt around takes more energy than the sewing.  I am FAR from done.  I decided to use any fabric in the color of the original but back side up...so it looks faded.

Well, I am sitting here getting cold...and I have a book to read and some football to watch...so I'd best "get on with it"...4 pm we make Sunday Pizza.  Right on schedule.

Daily Notes for a Bright White Saturday in Maine....December 27th. Warmed up to 19 degrees.

 Holiday With The Family.

I watched Groundhog Day yesterday before going to bed....always a delight but as I get older and skip a few years between viewings....it changes...becomes sweeter and funnier...very relatable to my own life.. Now.  In past years the guy choking on his food always reminded me of my husband.  Less now.

We are still buried in snow.   One of my nice tall shrubs is bent to the ground and the major stem is surely going to snap in half sooner rather than later.  I can go out- but I wouldn't be of any use in deep snow other than to fall down and freezer to death (Maine is solidly frozen in the single digits weather wise).  Before being noticed and taken to the Emergency Room. 

I think about the Emergency Room often.  How I do NOT want to visit it.

I've had two possibly three small glasses of water so far today...I am noticing better cognitive capacity if I remember to drink my water. Hydrate.  I had oatmeal for breakfast.  Son fried some of the leftover pierogi with butter and onions for his lunch.... Now the house is very "fragrant".

Daughter and I decided on a Time Out yesterday...after she went thru my cupboards taking out "expired" items.... her father was demented for years before he died....a real "handful" as they say...keeping track of where he was and what he was doing.....and not using a five pound bag of white flour...... was NOT really something I needed to talk about.  Or be reminded of.  

I lost so many of MY remaining years while taking care of him.. I won't be getting a refund....what's gone is gone.... I dumped the flour into the garbage can and walked away.  

Friday, December 26th.... The Day After the All Day Cooking and Eating Experience.

Image is of a tiny Lego Greenhouse KIT.  That I contemplated buying for 5 minutes or so... My Wire something feed had  "what happens to Amazon Returns" as a story today..  OMG!!!

We Three cooked together and ate together and it was one of our all time Best Holidays. 

The Pierogi were perfect.  And plenty for leftovers....  And three cooks in the kitchen- quite delightful. Hope your Christmas was as nice as ours was..... we found and used the Apple Dishes.  

We still have large amounts of snow...the sun is shining so we'll be "enjoying" lots of shiny ICE as the day goes on....today we are have Tacos.   And I can hardly wait....

I need to eat breakfast... read the paper and find my socks.... do a load or two of laundry.

Merry Christmas to All.....25 degrees and 90 percent humidity. In Maine @ 9 am.

 One of the Sock Monkeys....daughter keeps finding more ornaments for the tree.

The Grass Cutting Guy showed up.......at 8 pm and plowed the huge pile of ice and snow out of the driveway to street opening...  we can actually leave home if necessary now...in the car..in an emergency.. He did this out of the kindness of his heart....after a long day at work.....and I hope he sends an invoice...

The new to us whole house generator worked smoothly on its first chance to do so since it was installed. Previous to buying the generator...the power went out quite a lot.  When Son arrived he started up the small generator many times...just a few items- a few lights, the furnace, the fridge..hot water.  This one powers the entire house.  I didn't even notice when the power came back on and the generator stopped.

My new motto- perhaps embroidered on linen....if anyone shows up with propane or oil....say yes. Don't even think about it.

I watched an old favorite Christmas movie yesterday- Angels and Ornament.  It was on the Hallmark list and is also in my personal TiVo collection (which I will lose when TiVo goes away). I am trying to watch the many movies in the TiVo Files-perhaps for the last time.   And I also have recorded  49 episodes of Law and Order if I get tired of Christmas Movies and British Soccer.  January is a LONG month.

I didn't purchase even one gift.  Everyone, these days, buys what they want when they want it.  I cannot think of anything I need or want.....I would say art supplies but I have plenty.  And my bookcase is full of good books.....I have lots of nice wool socks....my cashmere sweaters are heavily mended...but from what we have noticed in shops- new ones are not as nice. And often smell weird.

And that's all because I am starving and need to eat breakfast and read the NEWS.....try the Daily Suduko.. And get on with my day....I have the furnace running and cold air surrounding my legs and feet....Maine. Love it or Leave it.