Daily Notes- Monday April 13th. A bit cloudy here in Maine, 51 degrees and high humidity.

 Ask and you shall receive... this is  5 by 8 inches and is in a frame with another pear,  A Pair of Pears.

I'll take a picture of the left hand one for you tomorrow.  Watercolor.

I have acrylic paint if I want to use it....I never could AFFORD oil paints...in college..so that was a real disappointment.  Acrylic is nice but nowhere as nice as oil paints (it's shiny).. Oil moves smoothly and mixes on the canvas.  

In college I received an A in my one watercolor class.  I brought in only one painting...the professor looked at that one painting for quite awhile and then looked at me....He never said anything....I found out about the A when the grades were posted. Weeks later.  Unexpected.

The painting got lost .... the watercolors were in my parent's home and were stolen one day when a cousin came with a truck and loaded furniture, paintings, collected Christmas ornaments, vintage toys--everything in the basement workshop and drove away....leaving my demented mom (his aunt) with an empty house. He sold everything.  This sort of thing runs in the family DNA.

Well, we got off onto a different tangent here.....I lost quite a few things in all the moves husband and I made.  When daughter was bringing down boxes I had hopes of finding even one or two of the missing pieces of my Life.  Hasn't happened as yet.

I have one more thing to share- it will be political so stop reading  if you need to do that......

Tucker Carlson lives here on the coast of Maine..broadcasts HATE from a bunker like garage..I have always been ashamed of that....but yesterday on MSNBC (of all things) Tucker took down and sliced open Donald Trump and his VP like he might with a deer he shot.  Well...it was something I never thought to see or hear.  Wish I had recorded it.

I need to hydrate and eat.....I took a shower after my oatmeal and I did okay.  The shower head is still leaking...no one is going to try and tighten it.....I asked...I tried to do it myself but I'm too short to get a good grip.  And I am SO NOT climbing upon anything in a tile-lined shower to reach it... no death wish.

I finished Met Her Match and am now reading True Love. Devereaux.   Only book in the series I do NOT have a copy of.....all the others were picked off the Discard Cart the Library used to put outside the front door.  I just counted 23 hardback Deveraux and Lindsay books I got off the Discard Carts over the years.   I always called it my Retirement Collection. And...it's been a great joy to have books I love available- especially during the Pandemic when the Library closed down completely..

Daily Notes for Sunday April 12th. Sunshine here and 46 degrees. House feels chilly.

 Grass and weeds.   Well, they cut the weeds down to make a path.  Not my yard. But the back acre does look like this and if they don't mow it- a path would be nice..  Ticks.  The Lawn Guys haven't started mowing as yet.  The back is fine but the front lawn is still struggling to recover from Too MUCH Fertilizer and not enough water.

My constantly multiplying daffodils out back are doing what they do to cheer me up.  I promised them some mulch...but finding some and ordering it and getting it delivered is holding us up..as it does every year...until it's too late and I give up.  I give up earlier and earlier these days.

April.  I can't actually figure out what's happening....time moves at a different pace these days..the closer I get to my Eightieth Birthday (which is still 5 months away)...the slower the days go by.  It's like I'm dragging my feet to slow myself down.  Same with my book...I stopped reading so I could make the book last longer.   

Sunday Pizza today....no football but I have two British Soccer Matches being recorded.  I tried watching CSI:Miami but all the ORANGE put me off as usual.  I like the darkness on CSI:NY.

That's about all I have for you this morning...it's what happens when I get up too early...and have sad thoughts and cry ....then I get over it and get out of bed.  I wonder if that's okay???

I watched the new Storage Locker show....new people.  The regulars were getting OLD.  The lockers they bought were full of dust and dirt.....  or it could have been sand.

I have, for the past few weeks, been considering watercolor painting....just something small.  I have framed paintings I did years ago....I see them often...on the shelf above the fireplace.  Next to my bed (daughter sprinkled them around the house)....the very last thing I painted....a red apple...flat topped and wide.  I see it before I climb into bed and in the morning when I get up...... reminding me. 

Is there anything you stopped doing that you could start doing again??????

Daily Notes on a cloudy damp day in Maine....The Sun came out while I was typing. April 11

 A Polish Cake... Karpatka.   I want one.    

The Sun comes and goes......daughter is having trouble with getting LAST YEAR'S tax refund. Due to Trump firing most of the senior tax employees.  

Anyone out there understand what MRS TRUMP was actually saying with the walk in a tight suit????? If you have any information..please share????  WAS VERY STRANGE. At first I thought she was going to run for President.......because why not?????  Being Qualified Be Damned.

Today is Saturday and the Cooking Shows are all mixed up.  On PBS. Foraging....Wild Blueberries. In Maine. Next up is something that they eat in a "Bacon Lettuce Tomato: sandwich which is not bacon. I rewound to see what it is.   The Town Commons is behind my house....who knows what sort of things grow there. I used to have wild blueberries but the deer foraged.  The "bacon" was flat leaves of seaweed.

So today is Saturday.   A few Cooking Shows...Some Reading....Some Soccer.  My book is still Met Her Match...lots of stuff still has to happen.   Well, the Wild Cooking Show is done- next up? Who knows.

Jobless Claims jumped to 219K last week.

Gotta watch Lida now and then British Soccer.  And perhaps stitch strips of torn cloth into a square or rectangle.  By hand... and read my way to a very happy ending of "Met My Match". And then start in on another Deveraux saga.  

Daily Notes for Friday, April 10th. My Mother's Birthdate...why I remember that is beyond me.

From the images side of the desktop.....I need to stock up on new images.

Today is grocery day.  We haven't made a LIST.

Not much to say here....not much going on...I could describe the plots of two CSI episodes from yesterday??????  The living room thermostat needed fresh batteries.  My bedroom clock in the shape of an Apple Computer needed batteries a while back... I Swiffered my bedroom floor yesterday- especially under the bed.. PLENTY of dust bunnies.

My hair is undergoing a transformation- I look like a 1980's woman (again).  It happened overnight.

There are two books I want-  True Love and As You Wish... I am reading thru the "Library Discarded Books Collection" in my cupboard.  And I am missing these two.   If my energy levels are up enough...unlikely...I will walk to the Library and see if they have these two on the shelves......I have a feeling they got discarded years ago with the others........on days I wasn't there to save them...... 

I'll check the catalog.   Well, I need breakfast and the newspaper.  Some coffee.  I did remember to put my socks on.