Daily Notes for Thursday September 3rd. Clouds and what looks like RAIN.. Wet sidewalks.

 One of my Favorite Things.... for lunch.  With pickles.

On this cloudy, cool, damp day in Maine....might just fire up the stove and make one of these.  I might even make some "adapted" canned  baked beans....I add stuff....makes plain canned beans into something wonderful.

My lawn has NO CLUE as to what to make of this wet damp day.  Now I know why the lawn guys came earlier in the week.  Prepping the lawn for watering.

My car didn't pass inspection yesterday... A long ago Honda recall and repair wasn't done right and now...and now I need to have what wasn't done right taken care of.  It looks expensive.  But NOT as expensive as a new car would be.  And at my advanced age...new isn't something worth the expense. 

I think my Son scheduled an appointment for the work to be done....it's drivable. And it's the only one of two cars I can get into and out of.... for grocery and library.  And perhaps eventually doctor..

I had to get up and turn on lights....  The bones in my neck are snapping and cracking and making so much noise.  I'm looking forward to hitting publish and making it over to the couch for the remainder of the day. 

I discovered all the books I checked out this week at the library..... have BEEN READ by me in previous decades...and they were NOT GREAT the first time.  Time for a deep dive into the HOME bookcase. One or both bookcases.  I could watch a few more Hudson and Rex episodes.  Or if it's find-able-  Storage Wars. I do not want to watch anything that requires my brain functioning at high capacity..  I sorted cloth scraps yesterday.... nothing needed my attention or a threaded needle.....perhaps there will be more interest on my part today?????  So many tubs full of still folded brand new fabric....and I enjoy using scraps.....

Well, it's 3 days into September and I haven't changed my desk calendar....sigh.

Daily Notes for Wednesday September 2nd. Sunshine here in Maine. 75 degrees

Yesterday's book was Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood.   Same FBI guy as the book with the alligator and black snakes.  An earlier book before Garwood "hit her stride" as they say....I'm giving up on page 83.

I have one more Garwood on the shelf but it seems very old as well. With vintage tiny type.....I have stuff in the bookcase to read.  Killjoy will go into the return bag unopened..

I have three older Jane Green books on the shelf-- Mr Maybe is the one I chose for today..... We'll see if I have outgrown that book as well as the others.  Plenty in the bookcase here at home.  Bet Me is calling my name....and has been but the swampy alligator book..I might just have to read that one out of the bookcase.

Why not????

Son has taken my car to be inspected....he'll do computer stuff while he waits and also have lunch.  The new tires were necessary in order to pass inspection also the Town Tax Sticker.  Maine is an Expensive State.  Lots of stickers.  Coming up soon is the tax I pay to LIVE in my HOUSE..... October. 

Well, I have cooling tea sitting here by my right elbow and the couch waiting behind where I am sitting... I have to choose a book or a TV program and get started....... my cup of tea was double sugared so it's Georgia Sweet Tea and I like it.  Take care...perhaps tomorrow's post will be more interesting.

Daily Notes for Tuesday September First.. Sunshine and not a cloud in sight.

 Postcard from Provence.

Last of the Oranges.   Will it EVER Rain?????

My hair is wild and wide from the recent shampoo.  I did a load of wash yesterday and got it all out of the dryer this morning...folded and back in the drawers.  My hair has gone rogue.   I can't make it do anything but what it wants..

I found papers (in a box yesterday while "cleaning") I purchased copies of the Declaration of Independence etc. while visiting Washington DC. Long ago.  I also found a stack of directions for making small quilts...they came with cards I could send to friends etc.  When I had friends I sent things to.  I lost the friends along with the cards...perhaps misplaced both..... 

Moving so often...packing up household and never actually returning......I lost more than a few packing boxes....I lost friends...I lost roots and memories that connected myself to others.  I was left with just myself for company.

It has to be enough.....but was it?????   I am trying to finished reading the Garland book I started so long ago. I brought home 50 pounds (exaggerating) of books yesterday.  I have books to read...so why do I spend so much time looking out the windows??????

Daily Notes number 5461. I've written that many. Sunshine here in Maine....

 Postcard from Provence.

Today is Library Monday.   New books...nothing was ordered so it's going to be a difficult visit.  Searching for things to read. On shelving packed with both fiction and mystery ...there is often nothing "new" on the "new books" shelving...they spent over a million on knocking out walls and ZERO on books..  

We now have a very very large empty space library ...sound echos.

I spent some time yesterday looking things up...authors etc.  I don't recall keeping the list.

I added another round of strips to the red rectangle.  Not a Square.  Something "new".   The strip of dark cranberry picked up on a small line of the same color in the mostly red rectangular cloth (how a square became a rectangle is ....a surprise).   It now has an entirely different vibe...wants to expand. Grow.

I am enjoying the cleared and expanded emptiness of the right side of the living room...all I see is Very nice wood flooring...  I'm in the section supposedly designated as "dining room"........now designated as TV/Sewing/Clutter Room.

I watched a few recorded episodes of Hudson and Rex yesterday.  Nothing much happens. Which is fine as I rarely pay attention to the dialogue anyway. The scenery is very very colorful....the houses painted in bright cheerful set of eight  colors.

Yesterday Son was worried as I was acting more spacey than usual....I was tired and had run out of uninteresting conversation.  Nothing happens here....I could give him a report of the status of the book I am reading....or the cranberry cloth strips???????  Or the itch on my right foot. Or the way my hair was acting....it needed to be washed and I washed it this morning...in the dangerous shower.

So here we are on another Monday...Maine had HOPED it would RAIN. Overnight. I am saving SO MUCH Money on NOT having the grass mowed.  

Well, another glass of electrolytes.  "get salty" and I will be ready to visit the Library.