Monday, June 16, 2025

Daily Notes for Monday, June 16th. Sunshine here in Maine.


1.  Nice day for Fruity Drinks on the Front Porch---except for the Brown Tail Moth worms- very very itchy. I like the striped straws very much...... with the fridge ice maker disconnected....no ice filled glasses of anything here.  No puddles of ice water on the floor anymore either.

2. Smushed up eight black flies on the inside of the large front living room window......then looked over and saw more- five more.  I had trouble with them during the early Winter months in years past...and they were FATTER.  These are small and slow moving.   I taped up the one opening to the garage in case that is where they are living.  It's the cabinet where you keep wood for the fireplace....

 3.I don't do well with indoor smoke so we have NEVER used the fireplace....and now with the whole house generator-- I don't need to EVER have a fire in the fireplace.  Just flies.

4.  I'm reading The Other Side of Disappearing.  Kate Clayborn.   I have read and re-read two of her earlier books. Love Lettering and Love at First.   I am NOT enjoying this book so far.   I wasn't a real fan of Georgie at First either.  And never purchased it.  It was okay at the very end but getting there was hard work.  The Other Side book is already a hard slog and I'm only on page 34.  No connection to ANY of the characters..ZERO.... My library doesn't even have it on their shelf.

I might put it in the return book bag and try something else. You wonder who decided to publish it????

5. Today is Recycling and Garbage Day.   My job, here at home, is to collect and put things in the containers ready for my son to haul them out to the street tomorrow morning. I had quite a bit last week so this week will possibly be just the small garbage bag. 

6.  When my mom was living alone and losing her memory, she felt compelled to fill the garbage can every week and started putting things from the closets, the kitchen cupboards, curtains, bedding etc in the can... even lamps.  When she was finally put into Memory Care the house was quite empty and all of the things her children and husband had left in the house (for safe keeping) were long gone.

7. I am going to watch news to see how they caught the guy pretending to be a police office who shot two people dead and put 7 bullets in the wife of the second couple and 8 into her husband.  That, Reader, shocked the hell out of me.... must have had the gun on automatic...... both are in bad shape but ALIVE.

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