Daily Notes- Saturday, October 18th....Sunshine and temps in the low 40's this morning.

 Unfinished art.  Any ideas regarding what I should draw in the open white space????  Roots?

Also could be forecast as SNOW.  42 degrees is cold....and I need to add socks to the daily outfit.  The furnace (boiler) is rumbling.... I set it for 65.  I never get much higher than that.  Bedrooms at 60...why we have down comforters.  One year when we had zero cash-- I got the temp down in the 40's at night.

1.  Soup Making is on the agenda for today....just a simple soup but needs knife work.  Chopping things into soup sized pieces.  And also some pasta pre cooked to add to the soup when served. I have several boxes of pasta shapes to choose from.  BUT...I have A potato so that might preclude the pasta.

2.  Cooking shows on PBS.  I never make anything they make.  But I always want the pots and pans and tools they use.  And I have most of that.......

3.   I pulled 75% of the plant material out of the Annual Planters out front.  I also cut down one more tall green bushy thing.  My Garden Gal pulled them out with her hands- roots and all last year....and they came back even larger this Spring.   The Lawn Guys didn't come yesterday to cut the grass...which is growing and very nice and green these days.

4.  I watched Firing Line last night....retired Supreme Court Justice.  Had some terrifying things to say. About the Present Situation in the Court.  Like that's a surprise.  Trump Appointees.

5. Also on PBS a program on artists and their work...made me want to "make something". Other than my index cards art- something with beads and stitch. Could happen unless there is Soccer game on today-....there should be a second World Cup semi final before the big game.......unless I missed it.

6. I spent yesterday with Vintage Law and Order... A day well spent.

Daily Notes for Friday, October 17th. Chilly with Sunshine...50 degrees

 Another index card... my color choices gave it a vintage look.

I have on a thermal shirt, a fleece shirt, corduroy pants and wool socks....and I still feel cold....

1.  Some items are getting taken care of....daughter will help with putting my annual containers to bed.  My Son also offered to help with them..

2.  Today is Library/Grocery Store Friday.   I have only one book to pick up and I am returning most of my selections from last week-- unread.  I'm reading a Danielle Steel right now and it feels "tedious" so it might go back early.  I think I am at the point I reach every year...when I get so bored that nothing makes me happy.  Even coloring the index cards.  I was briefly interested in the sunken find of Cleopatras's palace..but it didn't last long.

3. My Son surprised me by looking for Mont Blanc pen refills at Staples....he did find a refill with black ink to replace the refill that had blue ink.  I like black...I like black on white. Only two pens have refills... The hunt continues.  I have bold black ink Pilot pens from the Grocery store to keep me happy. To use on my Index Card Art.

4.  Medicare sign up and all the phone calls is wearing on my nerves...as soon as they start talking I hang up.  I tried in past years to ask them to remove my name and number from their lists....it didn't work. I have and have had from the get go--a FANTASTIC Medicare Advantage Plan.  I'm keeping it.

5.  I called the Chimney Doctor and asked him to...someday...come by and clean out my chimney... I  told him about the squirrels carrying branches and leaves into the chimney....setting up Winter Housekeeping. He said he'd never heard of squirrels doing that....I said lots of things happen to me that have never happened to anyone else......I also mention the neighbors had a screen placed on top of their chimney and wondered if that could happen on my chimney to keep the animals OUT... He told me he had met Aerosmith Band Members when he cleaned their chimney.   

This is how Maine Conversations go...... no clue as to whether he's coming to clean out the chimney....no appointment etc. Used to bother me and now after so many decades....I'm as weird as they are.

6. I called in my inhaler prescription..for a refill...it will be ready tomorrow...I still have 7 left on the  inhaler I am using...so no hurry.  And I need to ask my doctor for a script for Rescue Inhalers....since people will be having fires in their fireplaces and...the smoke does very very seriously bad things to my breathing....

Daily notes for Thursday, October 16th. Cloudy with a chance of what????? 52 degrees

 I'm not going to even try to rotate the image.

1.   I drew this and many others the other day and finally colored them yesterday. Have forgotten how to rotate the image so .....

2   Watched the World Cup match last night.  Excellent.  Final is possibly on the weekend.

3.  Ate regular meals yesterday also....Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.  Might be a problem today as I don't actually have much in the fridge to eat.  Possibly a Cheese and Ham sandwich. Leftover pizza.

4.  I could always FINALLY decide to make SOUP.   I have everything that goes into the vegetable bean soup I always make myself.  I just need to peel and chop and sauté and simmer.  Will I????

5.  I tried to make two more of the square I liked...now I have three squares and they are all different sizes. I measured but obviously not well enough and not with a ruler..  I will be adding spray starch and a hot iron to them....possibly adding more strips.   Letting them get as large as they want until I run out of matching fabric- and that is possible with half the fabrics.   One fabric --already used up.

6.  Cloudy this morning...an Oatmeal Breakfast Day.   I'll update if the Soup Gets Made.

Wednesday, October 15th. Cool Sunshine. 47 degrees and 94 percent humidity.

 I colored this index card drawing yesterday.....and a few more...I don't have a great selection of coloring pens...I prefer pastels and husband purchased the LOUD color selection.  They show up....so it's okay even if it hurts my eyes and sensibilities.

1.  Lunch with M was lovely.  She is Such a Great Human Being.  Hard Working also.  There was some  extremely sad news but I am going to put it out of my mind.......

2.  I started the day with a nice hot shower.....most mornings I defer on the shower because falling and hitting my head on hard surfaces etc etc do not interest me.  Today I felt like I could manage a shower. And I did...it must have been the chocolate cake and whipped cream I had at lunch yesterday- and the potato chips.  I had a Lunch Date.  None of that food exists here in my house.

3.  I am faced with the TASK of emptying my two large plant containers out front and hauling dirt and the containers back to their Winter Abode.  I keep hoping for a "hero" but there isn't one coming to help me. I feel like my adult children are trying to teach me a lesson...on what I CAN have going forward and what I have to GIVE UP.   I think I can safely remove the dead (almost dead) plants......and get those dead flowers into the compost bin.  I did get them out there...with a wheeled cart of some sort......oh, getting old is really the crappiest part of Life.  Unless you purchase a cruise on a boat with free cocktails.

4.   I read the morning paper....big mistake.

5.   Well, the TiVo has finished recording one billion Law and Order episodes...no, 20 perhaps. I have what looks like an actual GOOD book to read....my score on book selecting this week is more minus that positive.... and my coffee needs to be reheated...then I will settle on the couch for a few hours (or more).

6. I happened upon a Soccer Game last evening....all the players were absolutely gorgeous. This is not normal.  And, the game itself wasn't very interesting.  So I went to bed early.

7.  I thought about it---nice hot shower this morning and the dirt outside?????  I'll stay clean and do a Scarlett O'Hara and "think about it tomorrow" while watching Antique's Roadshow...