Daily Notes... Tuesday. March 24th. Sunshine and Snow. 32 degrees

 Colder..  Sunny but colder with snow on the ground. I'm not sure this is typical March weather.  Even for Maine.  

I have five more carved dog images for the posts...just so you know.

Dinner down the street with Good Neighbors was lovely as usual...and the food was excellent. Dessert was ice cream sandwiches out of the freezer... quite delightful...everyone really enjoyed them... The Corned Beef was super tender and delicious.  

I have a half dozen or so index cards here on the actual desk covered in ideas..  for a "maybe" vegetable garden. Out back and also for the decorative flower planters out front.  The largest problem out back is watering. Late Husband's  arrangement of hose connections up by the house and then over the lawn is no longer usable. Never was that easy to use and leaked quite a bit.  Almost all the hose connections leak. 

I might use the connection from the garage instead... or just use containers on the driveway. And a watering can.  I did do that in the last few years....that I grew tomatoes etc.

Finished the Paradise Problem and I am now reading  Runaway Groomsman.  Listening to the furnace go on and off.  The sunshine outside makes me think it's warmer than it actually is...the house itself feels rather "chilled" but eventually we will reach the temp I chose.  64 degrees. 

The morning paper was enough bad news for an entire week.... so..I think reading, British Soccer and some hand sewing of squares and rectangles in assorted fabric will keep me occupied.  I will bury my head in the sand - no news is good news?????

Daily Notes for Monday, March 23rd, Clouds, Snow. Son hopes he shoveled for the last time????

Stealthy.

Well, Son is not a "Happy Camper" after shoveling snow yet again.  Late March and one would hope the snow would transition to Rain by now.  But nothing in 2026 is "as one would expect it to be" especially the Government.

My oatmeal this morning was quite good.....it happens all by itself...being good.  Nothing I did to anticipate a better outcome.  Just oats and water in the microwave for 3 minutes.  Has to be the random amount of oats and the even more random amount of water.  Random should be my middle name....if I had a middle name.  Which I don't...

Watched some "Talking Heads" discuss the "Mess Trump has Made".......and if there is a way out without a huge death toll for our military.  Trump's entire cabinet would have to come down with stomach flu and the trots in order for someone SMART to get us the hell out of this war.  Use up Trump's diapers.

Perhaps that dog up top is also looking for a "way out".

I have my book to finish reading before we go to dinner....down the street.  I also need to wear something green....and will need to iron it before wearing whatever it is.  

I found some more art supplies...in a drawer while looking for something else.  Nice stuff.   Art Supplies tucked away in every drawer and closet.

I still haven't written to Gretchen for a list of things she will have in her new garden.  That big old fenced garden out back of my house is sitting empty and needs a few things....herbs????  New Blueberry bushes?  The ones back there aged out.  Rhubarb never took hold.  Grapes?   Still covering the wooded frame with leaves but stopped making grapes long long ago.  I used the left over ones to make a very very nice blue dye bath.....such a lovely blue.   Well.time to reheat my coffee and get on with reading my book,

 

Daily Notes for Sunday March 22nd. Sunday Pizza is in the line-up. Clouds and Snow Coming Down.

 Winter is holding on with quite the grip.  I see green grass every other day it seems and recently two days in a row.   British Soccer games cheer me up (green turf) and so is the book I am reading again...but with fresh new eyes....I am recovering..I am happier, less angry.  It's a relief to let it all the unhappy stuff go...little by little.

Today is Sunday Pizza.  With some sort of Sport on the TV--- usually, for me it's British Soccer.  Which is on the telly right now as I type...   The crowd is departing the stadium....before the game is over.  Soccer Despair.  My son tells me Soccer is the most popular of all the SPORT.   In the World.  

I like watching with my daughter who played College Soccer...she explains what they do right and what they do wrong.... which helps in my enjoyment of future games...

Storage Wars last evening....I know it's all fakery but it's so darn weird....  

One guy on the pitch on his knees and a good long look at his muscular tattooed thigh.  Usually I just admire their haircuts. For some reason I don't get to see any of the Irish games.  Liverpool.  Son says it might be a licensing agreement.  Oh,   They missed the goal yet again.

We are having dinner out tomorrow down the street....an invite came in the emails... more Corned Beef.

Well, I have coffee to drink, soccer to watch and a book to finish reading.  The Sunday paper was good enough and the Suduko and Jumble puzzles above my pay grade.   As usual.

The one team just got another score and it's being described as an easy, too easy score.  The crowd is SINGING!!!!!!!

Daily Notes for Saturday, March 21st. Clouds in my Coffee.

 Having just read Dee's post...I have tears in my eyes over the loss she is suffering.  Nothing I type will be of any help but her sorrow will be with me today and for quite awhile.