Field Notes- Wednesday, May 10. A chilly morning. Furnace is on. A Difference in Washing Machine Pages.

 Wow...is this THE PERFECT Title.  I am thinking of changing the notebook holding Washing Machine Pages to Beginner's Guide to Running Away.  In fact, from now on this IS the title of my writing pages.

I washed one load.  I tried (attempted) the Washing Machine Pages with this new machine.  But it's not the machine.  It's me.  I changed at some point.  Then the machine changed....  The pages I wrote were.... I actually didn't want to to write.  Changes.....not always what or when you expect. No second load. I didn't want to stay.

Daughter finally reappeared... asking if she had missed Mother's Day.  I said no.  Not yet.  She handed me a pair of JCrew linen pants.  pale pink.  They looked too big.  But fit perfectly. From Goodwill.

There is an extraplus sized woman somewhere locally who buys....doesn't wear...then donates clothing. And this clothing occasionally comes into my house......Red Linen Summer Pants. Perfect in every way.  I think my favorite pants for This Summer with white shirts.. And now pale pink Summer pants to the ankles. I will be So Fancy. Colorful.  No longer in Black and White.

I went outside behind the house and picked all the spent daffodil flowers off each and every stem.  I imagined it taking a long time.  It didn't.  And then I noticed the Damson plum tree was in flower.  I do not have a pollinator.  So no plums. I should have purchased two trees but they only had the one where I worked. But the Beach Plums out by the shed- in bud.  So I cut an armful and tucked them into the branches of the Damson.  I was going to ask IF any neighbor had a plum tree.... and then I snapped back to rational thinking....I have the only fruit trees on the street.

I think I am too old to be buying another fruit tree.  Another Damson Plum.  And then waiting for the young tree to grow.  I might ask daughter... if she sees one. In the garden centers.  But I think she is still doing mulch and clean up.  Not buying as yet for the properties they care for.