Sunday, March 30. Maine is still covered in Snow...Big Rain is headed our way. Also WIND. Tree branches will come down on the power lines.

I love the look of the mossy brick path.

I couldn't find anything good to watch on tv last evening.   My eyes were tired so reading was not a choice.  I switched over to the channel with the big tow trucks pulling cars and long haul trucks out of ditches etc. 0n the 401 in Canada.  A car had actually gone airborne over a guard rail and had to be liftedup and over while a mile long line of cars waited to go around.  We had to wait once outside of BuffaloNew York after a garbage truck had spewed its load all over the two lanes....what mess.  

Then I ate the last of my low salt corn chips.  Called it a day.

I hydrated with the 4-- 8 ounces glasses of water.... and also had one 10 ounce cup of decaf coffee and two of tea and sugar.   My exercise was walking to and from the bathroom.

Yesterday's book was/is Pucked by Helena Hunting.  Hockey.  I was surprised to find a long list of books by this author. She's been busy.  I found this book at Bullmoose a local books and music and videos store selling new and used items.  In the front of the book I read about the 10 other hockey themed books that came before this one.  I've never seen them in any of the bookstore I visit.  The other book I purchased is by Jenn McKinlay........I had just read the Paris is Always a Good Idea book.  

Just for giggles I will see if any library carries  the Hockey Series.  Auburn does cater to the spicy side of the book lists.  I'll let you know.

Today we are making Pizza even thought we have no Sports to watch while eating it.......

That's it... I need to put my socks on and make oatmeal and coffee and read the paper... I managed to get my pants buttoned.   Once buttoned they stay that way...it's just the buttoning that they don't like.  25 cent pants have lots of mean spirited attitude.  Understandable.

 

Daily Notes- Saturday, March 29th. Blizzard Overnight....Snow EVERYWHERE... Everything I plan to watch today is being recorded.

 I would really like this to be delivered to my house today....  Just the one slice.  Olive oil cake.

I can dream.  About cake.

Son has cooked pasta and heated up jarred sauce (gravy)...the only cheese we had was the stuff in the green Kraft can.....he said it was expired- I said it was in the fridge (what could happen to it in the fridge????).....So next time he goes anywhere...  I thought I had a wedge in the freezer but it's Parm Cheese Rinds....that I toss into homemade soup.

He was eating lunch and I was eating breakfast.....I slept late. Which I see as a good thing as for months I was hardly sleeping at all.

Banker sent an email....regarding taxes and other items....all good.   Every time my Baker sends a tax email I recall the hours I spent here on the computer with Turbo Tax...shredding all my nerve endings.

I am reading Pucked (professional hockey) by Helena Hunting.  Shocking.  So many of the Rom Com's feature Hockey Players at this point in time.  I don't get it.   The Boston players are not anything I would want to actually spend time with....... there was one interview on the Sports Talk Show I watched...He was nice to look at...so he got traded.......

I have a card here....Microwave Pasta.  1/2 cup elbow macaroni and 2 cups water.  Bring to a boil and in 9 to 10 minutes...pasta.  I think I was considering this for my Next Pot of Soup.  I do like to add pasta to the soup.  But now I might be able to snag a bowl of my Son's pasta.....

Well PBS has Food Shows....I best get started watching them.  I plan to make rice later and fry up some frozen (in freezer) Pot Stickers.  It may have SNOWED but....I will make the best of the day.  I have Babka.....

Friday (Library GroceryDay) March 28th. Sunshine and dry sidewalks- Blizzard Coming........I don't know when

 Instead of a repeat of an image- I decide on NONE.

I haven't been doing any photo work with my old iPhone....I haven't actually been doing much other than sitting on the couch, reading or watching recorded European Soccer (sort of like a cat video of the cat watching the ball roll around). I watch the ball roll around.

I have gotten another Katherine Center book- What You Wish For.  New to me.  I need to go on line and see the full list of her books.  Then check them off.  I also selected two more Susan Wiggs books. I really enjoyed reading the one my daughter picked up at Goodwill.  The Bookstore Book...it's now in with my favorite books in the book cabinet.

I selected a pre-made Chocolate Babka for my "treat" this week from the grocery store.  I had a slice  and it was as wonderful as my imagination and the Saturday PBS Cooking show lead me to believe it was.

I could possibly make one.....here at home....someday....... it could happen.  Dream on.

My pants are just about loose enough to fall off me.  Well, actually, I think that is an impossibility with my hips.  But they are loose....and I need to visit the LLBean 25cents each pants closet....(here at home) and find a new pair. Perhaps labeled the same size but actually a different size- why they are 25 cents.  I should have a permanent marker handy when I try on LLBean pants...Mark on the tag if the size is too tight or too loose.  For info when I am getting dressed

I could also make a large tuck in the waistband and just continue to wear the too large pants.  Which is actually WHAT I have been doing in the Years since I worked at LLBEan for exactly 3 months.  It could have been 2 months.  "You are not the employee we were looking for".............cue the Star Wars music.

Or wear a belt.

Well, I am not interested in sewing today....I did find fabric strips to add to a square but it's a pale square I took off the pocket of a Ralph Lauren Linen Jacket before I sent the jacket off to a new home where it will no longer be white..  In the moment I thought that square would "play well" with the others I have been making....It's too pale. Too Baby Quilt.  

So, that's it for today....I have a cup of tea or coffee to make....add to the Hydration Chart....I feel less dopey.....but still not doing well with the newspaper Suduko puzzles....I have two that....I simply cannot figure out.  Too many blank spaces.

Daughter has returned to her Regular Employment.  She is pruning today.  Personal Assistant will now be weekends or snow /rainy days.  Or....I could drive my car..... Stranger Things Have Happened.....

Daily Rambling Notes for Thursday March 27th. New book day. Sunshine....99% of Snow has melted.

 

This image arrived in one of the emails I get from people wanting me to "buy stuff".  For many many years I was getting emails from people etc wanting me to "make things".  Now it's all about "buying things". and I am STILL MAKING Things.

My oatmeal was good- I got about 5 numbers in the daily newspaper sudoko.  Which is fantastic.  I wrote a check for the Water Usage......have it ready for son to carry out to the mailbox.  Finished reading the Bookstore book.  Good enough to read again so it's now housed in the tall bookcase "hardback" bookcase.  Yes, two bookcases.... Wiggs is a new to me author and seems to have written a dozen books- possibly more. Doesn't mean I will like any of the others especially if they all run along the same theme lines.... that gets boring.  People Needing to Be Fixed.  I started but won't finish First Time Caller- Borison. It's a good book but I 'm not interested.  I didn't make it to page 100.

I looked on line for a book- The Fabric of Life: Lessons in Frugality from Traditional Japan.  No Maine library has a copy.   I think it's about the mending of old things.....I started mending my old things- favorite clothing, sweaters, bed sheets etc. when I first saw a book about the Japanese Mending.   Mindful Mending was the term American's used.   

I rarely leave the house so even IF my mending bothered my children---no one sees it out in public. And my mended sweaters bring me great joy when wearing them......even if one of them is actually more mending than sweater at this point in its life.  In My Life...the sweater has a long ways to go yet.  I have a donor sweater to use to fortify the weak parts.  At one point I was even glueing broken bowls and cups back together...because I would have missed seeing them if I put them in the recycling box. Even thought they were unusable......at this point I might be considered un- mendable.  That makes me smile.

Another item that made me smile yesterday was FINALLY finding a scrap strip of cloth that "worked" on the little scrap square I had stalled on....now I can add the four strips and start in on a new square.  I  was reluctant to start a new one.....at my age, unfinished things...well, I'd prefer not to leave behind unfinished things.  Or unused things.   Or unneeded things.  The only cluttered space I enjoy the days is my desk calendar and all it's pasted down images and newspaper crap.  This calendar has a Grumpy Lucy (Peanuts) with the title Number One CRAB.  I have always BEEN a Lucy..... possibly a number one Crab.

I tried to watch Bones....Nope.....I have out lived Bones....Next up will be Law and Order...which is NOT on everyday as it once was.....I emptied my TiVo stockpile yet again......my kids might think I am "stuck in a rut" but I am amazed at what I am letting go of.......my Son did offer to upgrade my cable selection so I could have the Sports Talk Show back.  I might decide to do that when we get closer to Fall.

Right now I have British Soccer to watch.  Books to read...Scrap Squares to hand sew. And if nothing else works- I have paper, paints and colored pencils.  I uncovered a Tarot book daughter bought me...cards I was supposed to hand color.  I didn't......but that might be what I do when Summer Ends.