Monday, December 23rd- Sunshine and Cold here in Maine. 20 degrees

 Daughter took this picture of the daffodils coming up on the North side of the house....by the front steps. The backyard ones are NOT showing up as yet.  Might not have enjoyed the landscaper walking on them while she weeded.

It's very cold here in Maine but the Sun is shining and the streets etc are dry.  I watched football games all day yesterday while sorting scraps of cloth (wastebasket variety scraps) and stitching scraps one to another until I have a square and then added sides etc..... not a clue as to how any of this works together. None of the colors go together....a true SCRAP EXPERIENCE.

And I don't care.......I imagine this is how women with time and a handful of fabric scraps passed the Winter days by the fire.  No TiVo.  Possibly a radio to keep them company. Edith singing in the background.  I also think I have an opera CD.  Big voiced man.....that should be wonderful as well. Son has driven off to drive the car- he has three vehicles to keep charged up......and have lunch somewhere.

I think I watched ALL the Football games plus got to see Arsenal play Liverpool. (soccer) a different sort of football....so a productive - from my standpoint as an elderly woman- day and evening. I just warmed up my morning coffee for a second time and might actually make a second cup....or not.  I can actually FEEL the caffeine in my blood.

Edith is singing...........about love.

Sunday December 22nd. Sunshine and very very cold here in Maine. 14 degrees at 11am.

 I didn't know the birds would be moving in this little item.  Always nice to be surprised.

Football yesterday was very satisfying... The Ravens won.  I dug around in my tub of scrap cloth and stitched a few strips together.  I might be making fresh new potholders.....or I might NOT be making them. I really don't care.  I left the pressing of the hand sewn seams for today.  I do love to press things.

I limited the number of chocolate covered donut balls.....I sort of want to eat them all at once but know I would be sad the remainder of the time until Christmas...minus donut balls.

A shower this morning and clean hair- even though I am quite sure I forgot to comb it after the shower. I also have on clean clothes.....being old...one forgets to add clean clothes to the list of what to remember each day.......My thermal under shirt is bright blue.  My sweater is charcoal grey.  My 25 cent pants are a dark caramel. The waist needs a new button. My Smart Wool socks are brown.

I slept well....no dreams.  Always a wonderful thing.

I might get Edith Piaf going today....her CD always makes me happy... I also have a stack of Christmas CD's...been awhile since they got out of the closet in the hallway.  Jingle Bell Rock.

I am reading a mystery romance trade paper.....Elementary School... Crazy PTA woman, Hot male teacher, Missing (dead?) Principal.  Narrator is a single mother of a precocious second grader......well versed in using technology as they all are these days.  It drags.......too many characters and more added with each chapter.......character additions can kill any good plot. And the many references to tea bags- I can see this might be the way someone is poisoned.  This is WHY I don't like to read RomCom Mysteries.  Tea Bags.

Well, FOOTBALL and then PIZZA and then...........Hallmark????????  I do not have WINE in the kitchen cupboard.......And a Gin and Tonic seems overboard......Patty did offer me her extra Pot Plant but....I really don't think my lungs need that sort of excitement.  Here in Maine residents can have 3 for "personal" use but not four.  Knowing Patty.... the plants were of maximum size. Master Gardener Classmate. (laughing)

My Bad...I forgot to POST!!!! Saturday, December 21st

 I don't have any of these but that is probably a wonderful thing.....no chance of eating them all. I do have a box of chocolate donut holes.....oh, my goodness.  Three a day...my limit.

It's dismal and cold here in Maine...the sunshine is finally gone.  Furnace is starting up more often.

I have a new cloth project going and will have an image tomorrow for you all.  I am using scrap fabric from the cut offs wastebasket.  Long time Readers KNOW I love using waste cloth to make things. The first one went easily as I had just a handful of scraps-- now I have a small TUB of scraps (via my Executive Assistant)....so many choices.  Start with one shape and sew another to it...then another etc.  

Nothing matches.

America Test Kitchen is on tv right now...PBS has finally stopped FUND RAISING...... I just wish they had the Great British Baking Show on..  That always made me happy.

I had to get up and plug in my table top Christmas Tree.  So nice!!!!! Sparkly.

Later as it gets dark outside I will turn on the two porch wreaths.  I was hoping to watch some British Soccer yesterday but obviously I couldn't find the channel. Liverpool.  That's all for now....take care and stay warm......

Daily Notes 0n Friday December 20th. A Dark and 27 degree Friday ( yesterday was sunny and warmish)

 It feels like this on some Maine Evenings  (usually). The streetlights....  This year the grass is still green.

Well, it's chilly in here and the furnace (boiler) is doing its best to warm the house to 64 degrees. I did have it higher last Winter with husband needing warmth and Son still in California mode. 

I watched a Christmas Movie.....and then I watched the PBS program on the bodies found under Notre Dame after the fire.  Ancient burials.  

Today there is a soccer game on some station...Liverpool.  I like their games best as the people in the stadium sing.  And I like hearing that while I stitch.

Groceries today and I am buying more bananas and navel oranges.  My Dental Cleaning went well. We numbed my teeth first with something I swished in my mouth...also numbing my lips.....I have very nervy teeth and cleaning is usually a terrible experience.  My tech was super happy about me bringing her a book......I had anticipated this and selected something very nice for her. In years past I brought her a book list.....of the books I had read and enjoyed....

I discovered a real trove of unused Christmas Cards...now I need to find them a place to live between holidays.  So I don't forget yet again.

I am getting used to the instant coffee.  

I have my bedsheets in the washer....a place near my feet shredded....the fabric falling apart.  I don't think it was me (but I did make it worse)....my husband had very sturdy toenails and I think he shredded the linen.  I now have to consider mending......or- since I sleep alone- putting the shredded area on his side of the bed.....under his pillows.   Easily done.

Well, it's Grocery Shopping Day and seems like Son is getting prepared.....I also have a heavy book bag to return to the Library.  Some of it read and some NOT.  Now that I am interested in stitching scraps of cloth together to make a square....I am not reading as much.... Liverpool is playing Soccer today...I can stitch thru that.  I hope they sing...I love that.