Daily Notes. Almost hit 100 degrees here in Maine. 81 and muggy and damp early this morning.

 1.I have a very itchy, wet spot on the right side of my jaw....I have it covered with a bandaid to keep myself from touching it....getting it infected.  It's also got a special ointment on it.

2. I finished a book, watched tv commentators discuss the "news", watched the end of a soccer game, sorted out my underwear drawer and have a bag full of black athletic wear to offer to daughter and if she says no to take to Goodwill.  Found two more white short sleeved LLBean Camp shirts....Fantastic!!!!- They were under a bunch of stuff I never wear at the bottom of a closet- on the floor actually..  I am in no shape to be pulling on tight black sporty under garments. Just thinking about it exhausts me. Square cotton camp shirts for the win.

3. Up top is one of my index cards- I make a line drawing and then...do nothing...later I color them in. Not all the way as I lose interest in the coloring pretty darn fast....why I like painting...it's faster.  I also stop before I ruin the thing........I'm best at the very start and love that lower right area quite a bit..  After the book and during a news program--I drew designs on a few more cards.    The top and bottom brown areas are the table they sit on.

4. If Son goes out for lunch today- might not as he went out yesterday-----I'll ask for ice cream.  Or frozen yogurt bars.  Or those plastic tubes of fruity ice pops  Even though I only like two of the eight colors in the package...they all disappear.....

5. So hot yesterday I hauled hose and watered the stuff that had been weeded by M.  Mostly the three hydrangea that are making a GREAT EFFORT to produce flowers for the very first time. I wore myself out and spent the remainder of the afternoon recovering.  I do not like HEAT. 

 AND it occurred to me......we STILL have July and August......UGH.  I had forgotten those two months.

6. I have the center square sewn and the edging strips ready to sew around the edges of A square.  Might actually be the best one of all of them.......that's what happens when you make multiples...one of them is actually worth the effort.  Perhaps today I will talk myself into hand sewing one strip to one side.....while watching World Cup Soccer.

Daily Notes--- Tuesday June 24th.. Window AC units in...Short sleeved linen LLBean Camp Shirt ON.

 I drew this a long time ago.  A Self Portrait.   That is my impression of our CAT. 

1. New neighbors across the street put their two AC window units in yesterday and a few hours later, ours got installed.....we had to wait for Daughter to finish work.... the two units take the moisture out of the air and cool it just enough...we might need to replace them later this year or for sure- next year.  Ceiling fans in living room and dining room....both areas had light fixtures in ceiling....I wish there had been a ceiling fixture in the bedroom-  new AC units next year.

2. If I still live here.  I'm counting on long waiting lists for ALL senior living in Maine. Six year wait is typical right now....for the good places.

3. The front porch steps and columns have been repaired....painted and look very very nice (brand new).  I also have a "real" mailbox post (husband stacked cement blocks and set the mailbox on top)......the stick on polka dots have fallen off so...if I can find some white paint in the art closet....acrylic- I'll paint dots on the box...but not when it's sticky hot outside.  Mosquitos are vicious.

4. I might be wrong but I think today would have been my younger brother's birthday.

5. World Cup Soccer continues to occupy my TV watching.

6. I am really comfortable and cool in my vintage thrifted linen camp shirt. May the (few) shirts I have "Live Long and Prosper."  It's like the PERFECT summer wearable.

7. Yes...FARGO and the Chipper!!!!!!!  Son corrected me- it's a comedy not a horror movie.  I recall it being very funny the one time I watched it........and I often get it confused with the Billboards movie. I really need to get Netflix or Prime so I can watch movies.  Old ones.

Daily Notes: Muggy News here in Maine. 80 degrees

You get a drawing I found in a notebook.  I have a few more.....reminded about being artistic in the past..not so much now.  How did that happen?   I assume it was the caregiving I didn't notice was taking up more and more of my Life.  As he was loosing more and more of his.  Decades.

1.I have an itchy rash along the ENTIRE right side of my face.. (one spot is very itchy and most of the skin is bumpy)..Calomine Itch Relief is doing a bit of good. I think I have some tiny allergy pills as well.  Pink also.  This rash might occupy my thoughts and actions most of the day.  If it spreads.  It's also on the inside of my right arm along with two large mosquito bites....I swell up with mosquito bites..

2.  I brought the AC units up in conversation but no one did anything about it...so they are still in the garage.  ( I suggested buying newer more effective ones..).. I have the two ceiling fans going-slowly.  All doors and windows closed. Takes two strong younger than me people to get them in the windows. Daughter is at work...sweating and covered in bugs for sure.

3. Son shared his interpretation of what is going on with Iran.  I recalled - when we lived in the Chicago area and both kids were in college- someone bombing Iran or Iran bombing someone.. or just firing off rockets,.  This might be a repeat performance- but way more dangerous if they have actually made a bomb.  Son says that is MUCH more difficult....... trying not to blow yourself up, I guess.

4. Yesterday's Sunday Pizza was very very good...we get better at it each week.  We discussed various other toppings for Future Summer Sunday Pizza.   I am also being encouraged to bake something with the rhubarb in the freezer.  My fallback position is always a pie.  He suggested some sort of Bundt Cake. I will look for a recipe.

5. No newspaper today....I think I will have cold cereal today- Shredded Wheat and milk.  I have books to read and perhaps catch up on the World Cup Soccer matches. Or just sew....a few more squares... I did have to go into the sewing room and dig thru boxes of "sorted by color" fabric.  What I was looking for was that center square in each of a "special" fabric".... a small 2 inch square...well, I would have to cut it. I was NOT finding it...so I finished reading the Love Haters for the third time. and I also cut out pictures for the desktop calendar under this keyboard.   Most of the space on the calendar is now filled...drawings, newspaper headlines and a big orange and yellow SUN.

6, More World Cup Soccer for today....More calamine lotion on the itchy bits.  And just now the BIG TREE CUTTING WOODCHIPPING TRUCK across the street.  They brought the BIG CHIPPER. What was that movie??????

 

Daily Notes- Sunday June 22nd. What is Actually Going On Here?????

 1. I'll just start with the Five Things.   Mosquito bites....because I hauled the hose out of the weeds and watered things....won't do that again.  (was ten but ..that's too many) Son reports in regards Brown Tail Moth Hairs- extremely itchy.  Hot shower works best on them.  Very HOT.

2. Above is an index card with a Gee's Bend Quilt drawn and colored.  When things get too intense on TV I walk over and draw on a card or two and color them in.  Which leads to sharpening pencils.  Fills TIME. (the missing blue wedge?--wow.)

Instead of seeing a Therapist.  Or taking tranquilizers. Not watching the NEWS is a big help also.

3. Bombing Nuclear Sites--three of them---... just when I thought he'd hit the max on mental weakness.  It Rained On His Parade. so- BOMBS.  Dictator Complex.  Daddy Issues.

4 .I am on the Cusp of Art Work....Drawing and Painting.....not this week as I ate all the pears and didn't buy more...... but I checked the cupboards and I have three kinds of paint, I have paper, the brushes were put away clean.  I have art crayons.   And I can always draw "imaginary pears". I can actually draw imaginary anythings.  I really wasted those years in college thinking I couldn't do ANY of those things.

5.  I sewed strips of cloth around a postage stamp sized center....Two of them so far.  None of them go with any of the others I did years ago. while watching Law and Order.....   Completely random. It's a very pleasant thing to do while watching World Cup Soccer.  A game I do not understand.  But it's busy. and if I mute the sound....not annoying.  I do like the big drums people beat during the games.