Daily Notes- Friday July 18th. Sunshine and a Strong Breeze today in Maine. Grass Cutting.

 I found this one in the "finished" box and made another yesterday while watching Epstein News with same fabrics but different center yesterday.  Looks like a Party.  Larger than the others I've had here on the posts. 

1. I watched the news yesterday....it felt like a mistake but I couldn't stop. Like driving by an accident and knowing you will be sorry you looked.  I was. Sorry. I looked.  And listened. 

2. I usually watch the cable shows with 3 digit numbers but nothing there so traveled to the four digit stations...most are the same only a better image...did find some Bones episodes on a strange channel. Mystery I think but that might have been some other day.  I NEED to have my Son choose a new cable package.  Husband picked this one and it's Sports Heavy...why he chose it is a mystery as he mostly watched Wipe Out or the show with the pet cameras.   Never even once watched "Sports".

I have been watching European Soccer, Tennis and Formula One Racing.  I like Rugby also.

3.  I think there is a fly in here.. why they like to come bother me is a mystery.  They fly past me until I get the swatter and kill them.  

4.  Today is Grocery and Library.   I need a few things.  Milk.  Yogurt.  Toasting Bread.  Salad. Strawberry Rhubarb Jam....that I add to my plain vanilla yogurt (and bran buds).  Ice cream bars made with yogurt.

5. I began the day with a shower- a mistake as I hadn't eaten anything And my blood pressure tanks on morning showers...but my hair is nice and clean as is the rest of me.  Clean clothes also.  Instead of a faded men's work shirt I have on a pink and white  striped shirt.  Sleeves rolled to the elbow.  I do not pop the collars on my shirts. Not that much difference between this shirt and the men's work shirts.

6. I have been thinking...more often.....about painting- watercolors....I might have subconsciously thought to SAVE painting for the End of Life Years.  Grandma Moses style.  Anyway, it's come to mind that Time is running out out and I still haven't gone full speed into painting.....and Antiques Roadshow always has great old paintings.....that wouldn't be that difficult to try. Keep the hand sewing for late afternoon and evening.

7. Strong Winds outside I had to go rescue a few things flying past the window.   

Daily Notes on a Cloudy July Morning here in Maine. 72 degrees and 94 percent humidity. UGH!!!

 I didn't understand this sign when I first saw it....but then it made sense and I laughed.  

I watched news yesterday.  My Goodness.  Really....to think Epstein would be the last straw?  For the Republican Herd.  Slowly They Turned.........

1. Thursday....not much going on here..Summer takes a lot out of me...I've just been sitting on the couch reading or watching Bones.  One ice cream bar left in the freezer....for today.  

2. Dark and a bit humid today so the AC units will get turned on later. It might rain....I have wanted it to rain for weeks now.   Scratching a mosquito bite on my left wrist.

3. Reading one of my favorite books- I have it in Trade Paper but reading the Hardback Library copy. Nora Goes Off Script.  It's interesting to read a book I have read so many many times and get a new take on the plot...because I can 'see" the future.  The hardback has larger print.  I don't have to work as hard to read the words........

4. Not going to be 80 this year- going to be 79.  I did some MATH.  Laughing.

5. For some odd reason I am wanting to be 80.

6. Medicare Enrollment and my landline phone is ringing and I answer and hang up.  I have a delightful Medicare Advantage Plan that has exceeded ALL expectations....they even sent me a credit card to use for vitamins, eyeglasses etc.  I put the card thru the shredder.  I shred any new credit cards that come in the mail.  

7.  I have a half gallon of lemonade in the fridge....a new bottle...So I will be hydrated today with tea and lemonade.  I have lots of crispy cereal flakes for breakfast.  Ice Cold Red Sweet Cherries for Couch Snacking as I read or watch Bones.  I'd give anything for a few Law and Order episodes.

8. I hand sewed a round of strips on another square...green.  Contemplating a visit to the sewing room shelving units for fabric choices.  I also have to decide how large the squares GET before I start sewing them together.   If I sew them together.  And if they need to have an unrelated border between blocks. For Law and Order..

Daily Notes on Wednesday July 16th. I went directly to reading and the talking on the phone after breakfast..

 One of the irritating feeds sent this image this morning...at one time I had roses growing here....I do love them and the fragrance some of the older ones have.  Deer think roses are salad. I have deer.  No roses.

Nothing to watch on tv and am reading Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander...  British author.  Meredith hasn't left her house in quite a few years....does open the windows.......mentions ordering anything and everything and it arrives on her doorstep. Jigsaw puzzles.   The flowers up top are reminding me of the lines of words in this book.  Same sad but content feeling.  Yesterday's book was read to the end and shall remain nameless and forgotten... Tech Millenials...(spelling) so so boring and they whine......endlessly. 

Would any of us sleep on the floor of a basement on a foam mattress for a full year?????  And take cabs and buy takeout food with credit cards and drink in bars?   I can't believe it.  And have graduated with honors from prestigious universities?????  

1. AC units running on these absurdly HOT days here in Maine.  Heat is set to break at any time now (and it never rained). I am still wearing a long sleeve cotton men's work shirt...my uniform.  Still wearing the raspberry pink cropped pants....now washed and dried-.  I did laundry. Washed the shirt as well.  I feel "stuffy" but not hot and not sweating.  Perhaps I am not working at normal speeds???? Old person speed..

2. Had to walk into the "possible" ankle twisting area to turn on the outside hose...to fill the watering bottles. No injury to report.  Filled the watering bottles, watered and then filled them a second time..

3. My Master Garden Pal called and we had a long chat...she wants me to get out and buy myself a fresh Lobster Roll Sandwich... I do love them.  She is busy weeding her vegetable garden. I used to have one of those....vegetable garden.  Loved it.  Green beans, zucchini, pickling cucumbers. tiny carrots., tomatoes.

4.  I could be watching Bones but...I've run out of interest and it's the one where they find a body in an airplane oven while traveling to Japan.  She HAS to do Scientific Things with items gotten from the passengers....So Clever!!! So Boring.  Once was more than enough.

5. No Tennis.

6. It might be time to have some lunch....take care- will write tomorrow...

Daily Notes for Tuesday, July 15th..... Sunshine, Humidity & Heat.

 Television has been dismal.  This block was made yeas ago.  Got that last border recently or NOT..  I audition additional borders all the time...none has brought me "joy" as yet.  That very dark fabric is actually what I should be adding to the edge.  Same width.   The pile next to me on the Ottoman- all look great but not sewed as yet.  And, as things go these days...are very strange indeed.  Like me.

1. I had ONE of my four chocolate covered yogurt ice cream bars...yesterday.... as a reward for making it thru the day..  I should ask any Readers in my age group- close to 80- if they feel this way also?  Making it thru another day....cause to celebrate.  Gin and Tonic with lots of LIME and ICE or Ice Cream Bars.

2. Continuing to not watch news on TV and only read what makes it into the morning newspaper. And Not Much makes it into my Morning Newspaper.  Thank Goodness. Not even the Stock Market anymore.

3. I had the remainder of the baked chicken salad. For lunch. Yesterday. And a bowl of ice cold sweet cherries later in the day.......minus the yogurt. 

4. My son carried the packed box of Hummel figures down from the attic and I have my favorites on the cabinet I asked he and his sister to carry into my bedroom.  I look at the Hummel figures as I go into the bathroom and as I pass by going out into the hallway. I can see them from my bed as well.  I started collecting them even before we moved to Germany.  I have two large dolls as well...the boy and girl... I often wonder what Antiques Roadshow would value them at?????  Everyone got a cold bath. to remove dust.

5.  Watched part of the PBS Marcella program....I want to try that Tomato Sauce.

6. Have had to get up to answer the phone twice while typing this...Medicare phone calls...I hang up.