Daily notes for Wednesday September 23rd. Sunshine here in Maine....

 Veggie Sandwiches.

My Little Copper Colored Honda Fit has gone to the Honda dealership to have a recall fix...re-fixed.  It was that or buy a new car.  This seemed less expensive...but my son is there with the car.... for all the hours it takes to do the repair.    We are having an interesting few months. But I doubt he would use the word "interesting".....

My birthday horoscope suggested "lowering my spending and optimizing my earning potential". (funny)

I scheduled a Boiler Cleaning appointment for next week.  Winter Heating Potential.

Both the pictured sandwiches look good to me....the one on the left looks like cheese and salad..I'd eat that.  Yesterday I had a grocery store Meat Loaf dinner... not sure what I will have today.  I also had the last wedge of my birthday cake with ice cream......it was good day.

Cooler weather and sunshine here in Maine....prepping for Winter...lots of acorns on the driveway.

I'm continuing to watch Hudson and Rex. Lots of repeats but the occasional new episode. At first I found the candy colored houses enchanting but now...not so much. I got used to them.  Not much happens but the scenery is interesting.... I might want to visit my northern neighbor some day. See if all the houses are actually candy colored.

Daily Notes for Tuesday September 22nd...Sunshine in Maine. 60 degrees.

 Polenta with an egg.  Polenta is cornmeal and water, right???  I have those two things. No egg. My grandmother made me Cream of Wheat and covered that with butter, sugar and cinnamon.  Making me want some.  

I'm not sure I agree with putting an egg on everything and anything these days. I hardly ever buy eggs.

I am being harassed on the phone with calls..."hello...can you hear me...etc".  I used to tell them to get a "real job" but that only makes them call more frequently.  I had jobs where I answered the phone but never one where I called and annoyed people.

Not one clue as to how to spend the day.. today...I could continue with sewing scraps of fabric together to make squares...but I need good television programs in order to make that work for me.  Law and Order???? Yesterday I watched Antiques Roadshow.   For awhile and then got bored.  The computer is writing the ends of my sentences for me.

Well, I have nothing of any interest to tell you...going to the Library later than usual is not a good idea... I drifted thru  the bookcases and found nothing....but did get very dizzy so we went home with two books in the bag...  I did return the ones I had in the bag from last week.  I also got a copy of a book I have in my bookcase...a larger sized paperback...easier to read.  The Hating Game...was new decades ago. Bickering office workers.    Take care...enjoy the day.

Daily Notes for Monday September 21st... Sunshine and. Library Visit.

 Until I decide what to do about images here...we'll go without.  I doubt more than 5 to 8 people come here to read my boring posts....and most are relatives who already know I am "difficult".  but really I fit better in the definition of the word "crabby".  Negative is also one they use when talking about me.

So the SUN is shining here in Maine...and the leaves of plants outside my windows are sparkling with what looks like morning rain.   thank you!!!! Water is even dripping off the south facing roof.  

My Library Bag is filled with books I didn't like or didn't want to read.  Which is why I am reading a book out of my Book Cupboard.  "A Long Time Gone"...it feels familiar so I might not finish reading it. There was an argument about an airport that I recalled....and then switched over to FOOTBALL. Patriots did a very good job. 

I resent the overuse of the word "great".. I stop reading a book if it's used too many times as a descriptive ... on one page.

"She's great"....what does that even tell you about a person?????

I actually have stopped watching programs where the word is used for everything...and in books? I stop reading.... older books don't use the word as much...newer ones can't STOP using the word.

What was the most interesting about my book- inside the front over is a name......of the original owner of this book.....a fellow quilter...  She may have actually added a border to my wonderful round robin quilt. 

I wrote somethings about the quilt but....it felt too emotional and personal..   I love the quilt.

Daily Notes for Sunday September 20th. Cloudy with a really good chance for some rain.

Well, the strange need for the text to be centered. Habit forming. No sunshine here in Maine this morning and more than a bit of "chill" in the air. I've had to turn on the house lights.  And my Cuddledown  comforter was welcome over night. 

And I might need to go find my red sweater.......

Yesterday's book was dismal and I hope the next book is WAY BETTER. 

Daughter has offered to do my "Fall Cleanup" of the gardens and seasonal flowering things. 

We decided to go pay our Property Taxes together as usual.

Then we had cake and ice cream.. one candle so I could make a  second wish.

I did....make a second wish.

Today is Sunday Pizza and while the oven is pre-heating I will be baking two sweet potatoes.. 

And while the pizza bakes the sweet potatoes will continue baking... 

the potatoes will be part of my lunch or dinners for next week.

I purchased some meat loaf dinners for me to have during the week also.

Well, I have to select a book and see if I want to watch some "Football" 

Soccer is more to my liking...fewer guys standing around doing nothing.

And that's my Sunday line up....as usual.

My third day being 80.

 

Daily Notes for Saturday, September 19th. Sunshine and 58 degrees?????

 The image collection over to the right of my screen is getting "thin"..... this image reminds me of my birthday flowers.  My cake and ice cream yesterday was a delight.

I finished Wild Orchids and it stumbled across the finish line like a bag full of loose plot lines and confusion. Another book has gone into the Library Return bag..... after 3 pages.....I need to choose one of the remaining books....TV has nothing for me during the daylight hours....

The cross the street neighbors are being "very busy"....they were standing next to their car moments ago and looking at it...intently..... always the same side and perhaps the tires??????  I haven't noticed any dents.

I have PBS Cooking shows unless PBS is BEGGING yet again... yes indeed, they are begging with shows from the early 60's.  The Chicago PBS station did this differently....showed lots of people on phones... showed the amounts of money being donated....rang bells when they hit goals....it was still annoying...and I always changed channels.

Paramount is still doing crazy things and now wants to sell the company to the Saudi government.  I have one share of their stock....but more if they split....they hardly EVER send me a statement.  I inherited this from my father.

So...nothing to watch and a crappy stack of books from the Library........my day has collapsed.  BUT I noticed a week or more ago that I could READ the tiny print in an old school 4 by 6 paperback...and I have a two foot stack of them in the book cupboard.  Been decades since I read them.  Not a clue why I suddenly can read tiny print -well inked.  ( a birthday surprise????)

My morning coffee needs a re-heat and then I'm on the couch until I require a very very late lunch. I have started drinking my salty electrolyte water with my morning pills ....a few more days and I'll know if it's a good habit.   

Daily Notes for September 18th. Sunshine here in Maine and 65 degrees

 It's my Birthday and I shed some happy tears already.....aren't these flowers gorgeous?  From my brother and his wife.  They always send the most beautiful flowers..... thank you Bill and Susan. I very much appreciated emails from former co-workers....Janet and Renee.  Thank you both.  My Bankers sent a lovely card signed by everyone.... they take such good care of me. Answer all my questions.

So Finally I can say I am Eighty Years Young.  I've actually been telling people I'm 80 for a few months  ... I just get so excited about having a Mile Stone Birthday.  And tomorrow is the first day of my eighty first year.

Today is grocery shopping day and the store bakery usually has nice small cakes....and the freezer section has delightfully good quality ice cream....  sigh..Life Is Good.

I have books to read...I was trying to finish Wild Orchids last night but gave up and went to bed.  I thought it was Library Day today....but it's not.  I can read slower today.......laughing.

So.... time to get ready to go to the grocery store....the best gift I ever got was this blog and the lovely people who stop by and read my words each day ...or once a week (laughing). thank you !!!!

Daily Notes for Thursday September 17th. Sunshine.and 71 degrees

Amy Roberts Photo

Yesterday and today's book is Wild Orchids.. Devereaux..I have read it before but perhaps not all the way thru??? 104 pages into it and still not a clue as to the story line.  Was on the very bottom book shelf at the Library.... The previous old Devereaux was Hearthstone...I had read it long ago also. Was better than I thought it would be.

I have a headline from the desk drawer clutter clean out yesterday...."Medicare, Social Security Go Broke Dates move closer as health costs rise."  In 2034 they will cover only 81% of costs.  Fourteen Years.  From now.  My monthly check will be 19 percent less????   I'll be 94????

I had the most interesting dream last night....the guy I always liked looking at while eating lunch in the College  Cafeteria stopped by my parents house to visit (me) and the guys across the street walked over to invite him to shoot baskets. I stayed on the porch.  Then I woke up... that's like 60 years in the past....but it was delightful.  He actually DID drive all the way to my house to visit and smile at me....in real life.

But stupid me still managed to marry the wrong guy. Who hardly EVER smiled at me.

So....now you know why I read Romance Fiction.  And sort of wait for the other guy to show up on the porch...we'd both be really old.  

 

Daily Notes for Wednesday September 16th. Sun drifting in and out here in Maine.

 I don't have much in the way of images for the blog right now. I should drag any image I use to the wastebasket here at the lower right on the desktop screen. immediately  Start a new habit.

There is nothing much going on here.... I continue to watch Hudson and Rex.  I have many recorded episodes.  Hudson is a tall thin dark haired man in season one and drives a blue car......the other guy must replace him after this season ends????  I like the other guy better... his car is the same color as my Honda. and he has blue eyes and curly hair.  Nearly everyone on the show has blue eyes.

I keep hoping to find something else to watch in the weeks and months ahead.....I also am 2/3rds into Heartwishes by Devereaux.  And I have more books on the pile to read...  TEN to be more specific.   The weekends are very long and tedious.. So I like having books on hand.  Unless, after my  birthday...I take up napping.  (Deb..I really really cannot stream!!)

The closer I get to my milestone birthday.. (I am hoping I get cake and ice cream) the more exhausted I am....the less interested I am in the news...I have always paid attention to the news.  Now I don't.  I just noticed I haven't been crossing off the days on my desk calendar...  I stopped on the 10th.  I have decorated the day of my birthday here on the desk calendar like a  Parade Float.  I'll snap a photo for you on Friday.

That's all I have to say.... everyday seems just like all the previous days (except for the DMV yesterday).  All the library books are starting to seem like all the other library books.  The Sun always shines....it never rains.  The grass has started to green up ( the tiniest amount)  just when I was getting used to it being light BROWN.

I'm even starting to think my very heavily weed filled garden beds are normal.  Earlier this summer, looking at all the weeds made me cry. Literally made me cry.  Now?  I don't even bother to look out the windows. Something tall and blue is flowering... I haven't asked anyone to see if the grape vines made grapes this year. I don't dare try walking out and down to the fenced garden...myself.

As I close in on my birthday I have gotten unsteady on my feet.

Daily Notes for Tuesday September 15th. Sunshine and neighbors getting a "Heat Pump"

 Chicago's Jordan Marsh Blue Berry Muffins.

I've eaten them and they are worthy of every good thing written about them.

Woke up with one itchy eye.  Drops have been applied.

I recall reading Nancy Thayer books and will be doing some research. \

My Mouse Battery's are low and need to be recharged.  And is now doing just that.

If there are errors..excuse them...please. I can't move around as I usually do, and my itchy eye is BOTHERING me.

Garbage and Recycling Day....

So that's it... the weather has changed and I need to find and drag out my down comforter... and fold up and put away my cotton summer quilt.  And on that note I will hit publish and move to the couch and a book I have, I think, read before...even if it has echos of another book I recall reading. memories are doubling down.

Daily Notes for Monday September 14th. Lots of sunshine here in Maine... the back lawn is a bit greenerer.

 Helenium- Mardi-gras...... I hesitate to buy more flowers because my beds are full of WEEDS. 

I had a bad day yesterday and last night...today it's the Library and for once I have a LIST.  I'm tired.  My eyes are dry...I will add drops to each eye and sit quietly on the couch.  Until we go to the Library.  After Son goes out for lunch.  Top down on his car.

That's it for today....watched a bit of Football yesterday...not much and I lost interest pretty fast. I was fascinated by a German football game earlier in the day and loved hearing the accented English...took me back to very happy times.

I don't have a project for the Death Cleaning this week.  Most of the OLD wine bottles have been opened and emptied. The cupboard on  on the right of the fireplace is almost empty... the cupboard on the left of the fireplace was made for dry wood storage.  when we did the walk thru the Realtor asked if I was going to need fire wood and I said no and she gathered it all up and carried it to her car.   Son thinks this is where the fat black flies come into the house.

That's it...gonna be a very quiet day....

Daily Notes for Sunday September 13th. Raining here in Maine...can you believe it???????

 I've had my oatmeal.....but would like TOAST... there is enough bread... this looks like French toast... I have no eggs.

I have on 25 cent corduroy pants...defective ones from LLBean Employee shop.   A long sleeved tee shirt and a very nice (ironed) pale yellow linen blouse completes the outfit....I'm still cold.  

I center parted my hair for the first time..and I double that I will do this again....I recall the center part and the very long hair tied back while pregnant with Son.   I didn't have extra money for a haircut.  Husband was having trouble staying employed.. he hadn't applied to McDonald's as yet.......match made in Heaven as they say.

I think those early years of husband coming home to say he'd lost yet another job...are deep set...Why I wear my 25 cent corduroy pants and mend them as they wear out......new ones at Bean are about 80 dollars. I'm not going to live long enough to make 80 dollars worthwhile.  And all I do is sit on the couch. Well, I do get up to fill the bird baths and starch and iron shirts.  Yes...I iron.

We make Sunday Pizza and that's about it until I start making Vegetable Bean Soup for Winter Food.  In between Summer and Soup I make steamed rice and green peas with lots of butter and sweet soy sauce and bake sweet potatoes with the Pizza  on Sunday.  I like the sweet potatoes with melted Swiss cheese and butter.

Son uncorked and emptied the very very old dust covered wine bottles (improperly stored by me)......helping me with my  death cleaning project.   I have another shelf full of bottles I laid on their sides.  Hopefully the corks will hydrate. I doubt the wine is any good but it will be easier to remove the corks?????.

Well, I have the remainder of my current book to read and there are two and possibly three more in that  Brides series.  Then I will move on to something else.  Tomorrow is Library Day. So if there are more Brides...I hope my Library has them and that the shelf they are on is not too close to the floor..  I'll make a list today of what I own....so as not to duplicate.

And I think I will make myself some TOAST........why not?

Saturday, September 12th. Sunshine here in Maine. 69 degrees

 The internet provided me with four orange and yellow images of flowers...  thank you!!!

The sun is shining.... I'm happy whenever that happens. I'm going to be skipping a whole section of For All Time as they go back in Time....I've read it once or twice and it was enough......I'll page thru until they are back to the present.  Well, they're present and not mine...with cars and airplanes.

I'm tired.  Some of it is physical and most of it is emotional.  I get sad when I am tired.

I looked at flowers in pots when we visited the grocery store Friday.   But I walked past and didn't buy any.  I should have and had one of the pots on the front steps.....which reminds me to check the water levels in the birdbaths.......and anyway I should always be freshening up the water.....

I will buy flowers for myself next week when we shop....no matter how expensive they are.

I have a cartoon here on the desk. "The Good News is it's too late for you to have Early Onset Anything" which is actually sort of a positive thing?????  

Daily Notes for Friday September 11th. 9-11.

 Ironweed.  I remember having this in the back garden bed... I should plant more.

September 11th.  I had two gals cleaning my house that day while I was getting ready to leave for work at the Library....they were screaming...  I ran to find out what ??????  the three of us stood close together watching the Towers fall... the two planes crash...... tears running down our faces.....and then I went to work.  Where it was very very quiet on my drive into Town.  No birds...I recall that... no birds. Silence.

And then the church bell started...bong bong bong.  Silence and then bong, bong, bong..... I remember it. the endless, sad sound of those bells.  Planes were landing in Bangor.  Where they had a  long enough runway...others were turning and returning to Europe if they had enough fuel.

I remember it being a beautiful sunny day here in Maine.  A Fall of Marigolds has 9-11 as a central theme. I've read the book several times.  Today is another beautiful sunny day.....

So I started my second book yesterday after reading book one...  "For All Time".  I'm not sure but I think today is Library Day .. (it could be grocery day.)    So I can get a few more books for the week (though I have plenty in the bookcase)..  Reading is a good habit for me to cultivate.....to pass time each day. 

Before my memory turns to dust.  Most of my clearest memories are my oldest ones.

Daily Notes- Thursday September 10th. Sunshine here in Maine and 81 degrees. Heat Wave.

 How is this for Coastal Living?????  In Maine.  sort of a gigantic House Boat.

So 81 degrees- hotter than it's been all summer.  I think.  Cool in the house as I rarely if ever have windows open which reminds me...be back in a second...

Bedroom windows were open overnight for cool air...now it's not cool air....and they are closed.

Continuing to read True Love......we haven't gotten to the best parts yet.  And I actually am wanting to get to book two which I sort of like a great deal.  I think.  We'll see.

Daughter brought over some very large plastic hair things... claws.  Now my hair is starting to thin and any pulling . ANY ....it comes out of my scalp.  At the rate it's going I will be wearing a hat the rest of my life. Soon.  So big plastic claw clips...no....but perhaps I can re-use them to do something else around here?

Son has gone out for lunch with the top down on his sports car.  Nice. For September.

Well, the couch is calling my name and I do want to read my book before I start watching  Hudson and Rex.  In the early episodes (on now) John Reardon's hair is very curly and longer than usual.

Hot dogs yesterday and hot dogs today.... Life is good.

Daily Notes- Wednesday September 9th. Cloudy and 62 degrees. No chance of rain.

 Another image of Maine.

I would only need to drive 15- 20 minutes along the coast here to see something like this image.  I am close enough to smell the ocean but not to be able to see it.  I also can sometimes have sea birds flying over.  Those trees look like my backyard.  Only 30 years taller.  I can see the sky if I look  straight UP.

No Chance of Rain so the brown and beige lawn will continue.

My iPhone has a recipe for Pie Crust waiting for me...if only I had something to fill that crust...but I don't. I will finish reading High Tide today.... the couple is searching the swamp for GOLD...this is where the alligators come into the plot. 

I heated up my prepared Meat Loaf Dinner yesterday..wish I had gotten a second one. Have Hot Dogs for today. So that makes me smile.  French Fries would be welcomed..but I have none.  Onion rings..oh my!!! But don't have those either.

So...today...I already have the living room lamps turned on.  I fluffed up the  pillows and I'm ready to assume my place on the couch.  Sewing and book to my left...TV up front.... there is some British Soccer. There is much more Hudson and Rex.  There is Arnica for the my muscles in my neck that cannot relax. Neck bones that actually make noise when I move my head.....

Heating Pad...Couch....TV...... Hot dogs later.....it's enough..well, it HAS to be enough doesn't it? 

Daily Notes for Tuesday September 8th. High Tide (book) and few alligators is actually pretty good.

Well, I give up...words want to be centered today....The Deveraux book does have alligators but really the two people are on the run (in a car) from being arrested for murder.  And the actual murderer wants to kill them. Right now they are in a very expensive hotel the Taggert family has found for them...I often think the Taggerts are way richer than the Montgomerys...

I sort of prefer the Montgomery Men and the Taggert Women..

And we have center alignment yet again and NO, I do not know how to get rid of it even thought I have used this program for DECADES.  And have eventually found the way to fix the problem...But not today.

My hair is gathered up at the  back of my head near my neck...just to get it out of my way.  I usually gather it higher into a Soccer grouping but today...not in the mood. The stretchy band holding things together is loose.  Not pulling my hair out of my scalp.

I think we might go to the Library today...it was closed yesterday and that was our regular day. Or Not. 

We are going after he has his lunch.. I have a bag full to return.

I have enough books in the bookcase to keep me occupied (if we didn't go) and I have all these cloth strips to sew into strange squares.... I actually wanted to find a certain fabric for the latest square but NO luck..I think I might start another fresh one and see if the missing cloth shows up...eventually. It usually does. 

Show up when I give up and start something else.

The Sun is shining and the grass is becoming more brown as we entered September.

Less tan and more brown. 

The many many WEEDS continue to grow and stay very very green.

What a very strange Summer it has been.

Daily Notes for Monday September 7th. Sunshine and 66 degrees at 10:16.

 Canadian Bees. Will they be allowed to cross the border into Maine?????? To pollinate the blueberries?

The Wine Project went no where...but could be reconsidered as the year ends....or next year. We needed the counter space for pizza making...it was a Sunday after all.

No Library today.  Son mentioned it being closed...for some reason.....well, I discovered today is Labor Day.  It's right here on the desk calendar.  (under the keyboard).

I did pull the Alligator/SWAMP book from the bookcase. But didn't start reading it. Yet.  I got entangled with the New Foundland Police Procedural (Hudson and Rex) on the Happy Cable Channel (1426?).  With the interchangeable lead male characters.  The Dog is the same Dog.????  NO,

Well, in one RECENT episode they actually had 5 dogs...all identical.  So I imagine there have always been 5 dogs. Each with a different set of skills. All of them named REX.  Yesterday's REX climbed  on the roof of a house and thru an open window and took down the bad guy.  Even though it's all nice and happy..they do have dead bodies, guns etc.  Blue Skies had some violence as well...same channel. People rarely if ever kiss...

I noticed we have an abundance of food selections in the fridge ..Pizza, Grilled Cheese  and Hot Dogs,.  I requested hot dogs as I do enjoy them very much in the Summer Months.  And today IS a Holiday..... but usually I love a Grilled Cheese with so MANY pickles.  

Well, that's about it for news.  The couch is preparing itself for me to spend the day.  I did watch Arsenal Soccer yesterday...one yellow card after another. No one got a red card- means they get ejected from the game.  There might be a monetary punishment as well.  But they all make tons of money. Millions in the three digits.  Lovely hair styles.  The Soccer Rom Com's I have found to read.... laughing.  Might pull one of them off the shelf for today.  I'm sure a match is on the telly today...or recorded in the TiVo.

Daily Notes- Sunday September 6th. Sunshine and 68 degrees

 Working on the Death Cleaning.  There was a two year or more pause in the process (of getting rid of all husband's things) but now I feel like clearing out the living room and tv room.  Considering what to do with the second couch.  I could swap seat cushions between the two and give my butt a "treat"??????  Sounds like a fantastic idea.

Daughter says there are MORE moving boxes for Winter Sorting . An endless number of boxes.

Before the Wine....I sorted out my area of the dining table...unfinished Suduko  puzzles and bill envelopes and cruise invites.  Are now set to be shredded.  And checked before hitting the shred part in case I made a mistake.  I tend toward mistake making..... all the bills I found had been paid...I write paid and the check number and the date on the part I keep for my records.  Always have done. Always will.

I had a good handful of unfinished sudoko puzzles from the morning newspaper..  They are now in the recycling bin.  I will never be able to finish them....

Bottles of Wine...some from when I lived in Germany...some very recent (last 10 years)...I've asked Son to open and dump the wine and recycle the bottles.  If not....I'll put them back in the cabinet.   More "cleaning" of the living room needs doing..  Inspired by the removal of the Chimney Squirrels.

The intermittent cleaning serves to settle my nerves...you would think it would be the opposite but...it feels good to get rid of things I KNOW I will never need. Again.

I'm going to move the wine to a better spot...it's Sunday and nothing gets done around here on Sunday.

Daily Notes for Saturday, September 15th. Sunshine.

 Unknown artist and Maine in the Fall.

Well....it's been an eventless month so far.   Daughter thought she purchased a Viking book for me to read at a book sale....instead it is a futuristic 8 foot tall Alien Visiting Earth book.  The Viking would have brought a 12 foot long weapon.   The Alien has someone on the space ship talking to him via something or other.--an implant I guess   AND...I've read it before... It's not the author's best work.

My daily dose of Newfoundland detective work has circled back to the first episodes- ones I have never seen.  So that's good.  Hudson and Rex.  If you are interested in site-seeing Coastal Newfoundland from your couch..... I have this comment...the later episodes are more sophisticated and first season is a bit off.  

The News isn't fit to read....a gold "plated" coin with "he who will not be named" on the face.  How much longer do we have to put up with ?????  Lake America.  No vaccines... ICE.  They are building one of those prison boxes ...it sounded like here in Maine.  Perhaps arresting people from Florida coming back to Maine with dark suntans???????

Well, I plan to dig around and find something to read....Saturday Cooking shows are being recorded. 

Life goes on.........

Daily Notes for Friday September 4th. Sunshine here in Maine- would like RAIN.

 At some point in Time I will take actual pictures of things here in my house....but not today.  I have a feeling I may have forgotten how to do the picture transfer thing....

If you don't Use it...you Lose it.   Like with my sewing machine... which I haven't used....in possibly a year or more. Who am I kidding???? several years now.

Today is Grocery Shopping Day....my jam packed Library Bag seems to have alerted my Son to ME thinking I was going to the Library today...I was NOT I was just being disappointed in my book selections. I haven't a clue as to why I added most of those books to the bag.....some vintage Jude Deveraux were Book Club books with the tiniest print ever....daughter got me a bag full at the Library Book Store (once) where they sell donated books....print was half the size of this print. and Jude was not up to speed as yet with  her book writing.  So AWFUL!!!!!  I asked her to return them.

My neck bones are snapping and cracking.... Arnica takes care of it.

I added another row of strips to one of my squares and then ironed it flat.  Noticed it's not actually  "square".  Ironed it flat anyway.  Additional strips will straighten things out.

Lots of cars parked across the road.... excitement.  Yep...that's all the excitement we have around here- parked cars all up and down the street.

Daily Notes for Thursday September 3rd. Clouds and what looks like RAIN.. Wet sidewalks.

 One of my Favorite Things.... for lunch.  With pickles.

On this cloudy, cool, damp day in Maine....might just fire up the stove and make one of these.  I might even make some "adapted" canned  baked beans....I add stuff....makes plain canned beans into something wonderful.

My lawn has NO CLUE as to what to make of this wet damp day.  Now I know why the lawn guys came earlier in the week.  Prepping the lawn for watering.

My car didn't pass inspection yesterday... A long ago Honda recall and repair wasn't done right and now...and now I need to have what wasn't done right taken care of.  It looks expensive.  But NOT as expensive as a new car would be.  And at my advanced age...new isn't something worth the expense. 

I think my Son scheduled an appointment for the work to be done....it's drivable. And it's the only one of two cars I can get into and out of.... for grocery and library.  And perhaps eventually doctor..

I had to get up and turn on lights....  The bones in my neck are snapping and cracking and making so much noise.  I'm looking forward to hitting publish and making it over to the couch for the remainder of the day. 

I discovered all the books I checked out this week at the library..... have BEEN READ by me in previous decades...and they were NOT GREAT the first time.  Time for a deep dive into the HOME bookcase. One or both bookcases.  I could watch a few more Hudson and Rex episodes.  Or if it's find-able-  Storage Wars. I do not want to watch anything that requires my brain functioning at high capacity..  I sorted cloth scraps yesterday.... nothing needed my attention or a threaded needle.....perhaps there will be more interest on my part today?????  So many tubs full of still folded brand new fabric....and I enjoy using scraps.....

Well, it's 3 days into September and I haven't changed my desk calendar....sigh.

Daily Notes for Wednesday September 2nd. Sunshine here in Maine. 75 degrees

Yesterday's book was Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood.   Same FBI guy as the book with the alligator and black snakes.  An earlier book before Garwood "hit her stride" as they say....I'm giving up on page 83.

I have one more Garwood on the shelf but it seems very old as well. With vintage tiny type.....I have stuff in the bookcase to read.  Killjoy will go into the return bag unopened..

I have three older Jane Green books on the shelf-- Mr Maybe is the one I chose for today..... We'll see if I have outgrown that book as well as the others.  Plenty in the bookcase here at home.  Bet Me is calling my name....and has been but the swampy alligator book..I might just have to read that one out of the bookcase.

Why not????

Son has taken my car to be inspected....he'll do computer stuff while he waits and also have lunch.  The new tires were necessary in order to pass inspection also the Town Tax Sticker.  Maine is an Expensive State.  Lots of stickers.  Coming up soon is the tax I pay to LIVE in my HOUSE..... October. 

Well, I have cooling tea sitting here by my right elbow and the couch waiting behind where I am sitting... I have to choose a book or a TV program and get started....... my cup of tea was double sugared so it's Georgia Sweet Tea and I like it.  Take care...perhaps tomorrow's post will be more interesting.

Daily Notes for Tuesday September First.. Sunshine and not a cloud in sight.

 Postcard from Provence.

Last of the Oranges.   Will it EVER Rain?????

My hair is wild and wide from the recent shampoo.  I did a load of wash yesterday and got it all out of the dryer this morning...folded and back in the drawers.  My hair has gone rogue.   I can't make it do anything but what it wants..

I found papers (in a box yesterday while "cleaning") I purchased copies of the Declaration of Independence etc. while visiting Washington DC. Long ago.  I also found a stack of directions for making small quilts...they came with cards I could send to friends etc.  When I had friends I sent things to.  I lost the friends along with the cards...perhaps misplaced both..... 

Moving so often...packing up household and never actually returning......I lost more than a few packing boxes....I lost friends...I lost roots and memories that connected myself to others.  I was left with just myself for company.

It has to be enough.....but was it?????   I am trying to finished reading the Garland book I started so long ago. I brought home 50 pounds (exaggerating) of books yesterday.  I have books to read...so why do I spend so much time looking out the windows??????

Daily Notes number 5461. I've written that many. Sunshine here in Maine....

 Postcard from Provence.

Today is Library Monday.   New books...nothing was ordered so it's going to be a difficult visit.  Searching for things to read. On shelving packed with both fiction and mystery ...there is often nothing "new" on the "new books" shelving...they spent over a million on knocking out walls and ZERO on books..  

We now have a very very large empty space library ...sound echos.

I spent some time yesterday looking things up...authors etc.  I don't recall keeping the list.

I added another round of strips to the red rectangle.  Not a Square.  Something "new".   The strip of dark cranberry picked up on a small line of the same color in the mostly red rectangular cloth (how a square became a rectangle is ....a surprise).   It now has an entirely different vibe...wants to expand. Grow.

I am enjoying the cleared and expanded emptiness of the right side of the living room...all I see is Very nice wood flooring...  I'm in the section supposedly designated as "dining room"........now designated as TV/Sewing/Clutter Room.

I watched a few recorded episodes of Hudson and Rex yesterday.  Nothing much happens. Which is fine as I rarely pay attention to the dialogue anyway. The scenery is very very colorful....the houses painted in bright cheerful set of eight  colors.

Yesterday Son was worried as I was acting more spacey than usual....I was tired and had run out of uninteresting conversation.  Nothing happens here....I could give him a report of the status of the book I am reading....or the cranberry cloth strips???????  Or the itch on my right foot. Or the way my hair was acting....it needed to be washed and I washed it this morning...in the dangerous shower.

So here we are on another Monday...Maine had HOPED it would RAIN. Overnight. I am saving SO MUCH Money on NOT having the grass mowed.  

Well, another glass of electrolytes.  "get salty" and I will be ready to visit the Library. 

Daily Notes from the northern most edge of America. Was sunny and now cloudy. 74 degrees

 I have some scraps of color matched cloth sitting here waiting to be sewn into a square.  But I have MANY Hudson and Rex episodes recorded and I do enjoy watching the show.....and I have Ideal Man next to me on the couch if I decide to finish reading it.  And perhaps something else on the shelf to read before tomorrow's Library Visit.  The "Library" has decided to NOT be open on Sunday afternoons... "going to hell in a hand basket" sums up their new approach to serving the community.

Divorced fathers brought their young children to the Library on Sunday.........

I have given considerable thought to taking a walk on my dead end street....but have decided again and again that it would not be in my best interests.  It felt doable last year.  Not this year. I am not steady enough.

I found a  book my husband was writing things in.....long ago . (a diary of sorts that I gave  to our Son to read...) while continuing my short spurts of decluttering.  10 or 15 minutes is actually very doable and as  a Virgo I can get quite a bit sorted etc.  It's in the DNA.  I can also make quite a mess while doing a project but I always clean up after myself.

I did NOT sleep well last night and woke up way too early...If I was able to Nap I would be looking forward to one in a few hours.   The bones in my neck are making a great deal of NOISE. I'm moving to the couch and sitting quietly with my book in hopes of the noise going away.  I have British Soccer recorded and PBS has again let me down...showing the same awful vintage stuff.  And asking for money. Never explaining what they did with last year's money...since we had ZERO new programing.

Daily Notes for Saturday August 29th. Sunshine and no breeze shifting the tree leaves.

 I FINALLY have all the things needed for the BLT.  And mine actually looked like the photo yesterday.  Not as much mayo.  Son asked me to assemble the next BLT   "on a plate".......  so today, a plate. 

I have had my electrolytes.   Feeling "salty".

I have been notified that there will be a Software Update later tonight. I'm supposed to know what they are talking about in saving documents and quitting any open apps.......I have no apps.  No documents. I Will ask son to take care of things...if there are any things.

Am I the only one who wonders how people get hired to make service calls...the gal today was talking like the 8 words in a sentence were all one word and she was being timed to get that one word out as fast as possible. Before I hung up on her...she "almost" made it.

In a Lifetime Ago, I worked on a help line for a magazine publisher...talked to quite a few Prison Inmates who were also  employees of the magazine.... they had the numbers I needed.  It was interesting....I usually was quick enough to end the call before it got "off track".  No one spoke as fast as the gal who called me this morning though.

Yesterday's (and today's) book is Ideal Man. Still going with Julie Garwood and the FBI.  I checked the shelf and there is one more Garwood....Library is Monday---plus three more by other authors new to me..  No need for a panic attack.  Bookcase is FULL of books I own.

Well, a flash of something has settled in my right eye so I won't be reading anything for awhile;  It's a sparkly curved line.  A nice rest on the couch with closed eyes will do the trick. 

Daily Notes- Thursday August 27th. Sunshine here in Maine, No Rain, Brown Lawns.

 Postcard from Provence. 

I am always very very impressed when this artist shows us a reflection. That is such a difficult thing to get right. Amazing.

My book for yesterday was Mercy by Julie Garwood.  There was a swamp and some alligators. But they made it home safely.....  Momentarily.  Next up is Murder List.  I collected a half dozen books from various places in Maine....Interlibrary Loans.   One a Day Reads.  Better than Vitamins. Or Tranquilizers.

We've been hoping for RAIN.  But the Drought continues.  No ocean breezes either.

I filled the bottles with water and then filled the three birdbaths early in the week,.and check on the water levels from inside the house.... ready to refill as needed.  

I have one more birdbath in the back garden (4th) but Haven't and WILL NOT try and pull it out of the weeds and wash it off.  (that's for Son and Daughter to read)...I mention things and they think I might try to do the things myself...NO.  I 100% know I cannot do what I used to do.......I will not drag a bird bath out of the weeds.  But ONE of you can....yes??????

Today's book is Murder List.  Garwood.  

I have melted Arnica under my tongue and hope it works on the stiff muscles in my shoulder and neck.  Hurts.  It has been working....I lift and roll the right shoulder hoping to ease the tightness... I can hear bones rubbing bone when I turn my head. Old Age is a Bummer. 

Well, the couch is calling my name....and the heating pad is ready to go.  I might get so comfortable I fall asleep.....Ha!!! that never happens. (but new things are always possible)...but today is NOT a day when I can Swiffer another room.  It's the couch and heating pad for me.  Take care...I'll be back tomorrow.

Daily Notes for Wednesday August 26th. Sunshine here in Maine...76 degrees

Postcard from Provence.
 

My hair is quite WIDE this morning......but not as WIDE as my hips. (that could be the first two lines of a poem.)

My  decades old clothes fit- even a bit loose.... but my arms, hips and legs look MORE substantial than they have in quite a few years. If ever.......so not sure what is going on.  But it COULD be my eyeglasses making everything larger. Except for cookies...they don't seem larger.

 My son says I hardly eat anything.  I would mostly agree to that but....things I like.... I do eat those things.   I still enjoy my Ham and Swiss roll ups.. one a day.  And my toddler sized ice cream cups possibly one a week..?  They are hardly ever on the grocery list.. and bananas...for potassium. One a Day. I rarely, if ever, have dinner.  Or make dinner. 

 I am reminding myself to have a glass of my "salty" electrolyte solution. I got the bottle out of the fridge and had a few gulps. Checking that off my list.  I have a few more gulps to empty the glass.  4 ounces.

Yesterday the "Spirit Moved Me" and I moved furniture around here in "my space" aka the living room/dining room .   Enough open space for dancing if that was something we ever did.  I'm glad the wall to wall carpet was removed decades ago..  I was thrilled to see expensive hardwood under the carpet. The guys removing the carpet wondered if the people who covered the hardwood were insane?  Stairs to the second floor also were carpeted....same hardwood under the carpet. Zero hardwood under my bedroom carpet...so we added some.  I love it.  Reminding me to use the Swiffer floor thing in there today. Got some dust. Under the bed.

So that's all for today... I'll sit on the couch and enjoy the  Swiffered (by me) expanse of hardwood.  The new setting of the table by the front window (shoved over by me).  There are still some fabric tubs that need to be carried --by some one younger----to the Sewing Room..  I have enough scraps of cloth here on the ottoman next to the place where I sit all day....to last FOREVER.......no need to stack up more.

I continue to watch  Hudson and Rex. (John Reardon is why I watch) As many episodes as they provide in the afternoon..  But did eventually see fit to record ones being shown later in the evenings.  The Park Ranger series is also on that (blue) station and I should be recording them....I found a channel (I GET!!!!!) with Law and Order all day long. (not BBC America)..but might save that for Winter.  Plus I've seen every episode several times.  I can practically say the dialogue along with them from memory.

Sigh.  Well, I wrote a lot when I started out thinking I had nothing at all to say.

Daily Notes- Tuesday August 25th.

Postcard from Provence

 Dentist.. was actually perfect yesterday.  So that was excellent.

I'm melting two Arnica under my tongue to try and get rid of the snap crackle of my neck bones. Tension I guess.  From yesterday or from this morning's shower....At my age I worry pretty much the entire shower expecting a slip and fall.  Was just fine and my hair is bouncy and starting to curl as it dries.

I am going to sew the strips (eventually) of red I found yesterday after a massive search...... to the small rectangle of strips of darker red and black.  I looked everywhere for that fabric and. Then found it about 2 feet away from where I was sitting...under  bunch of things.

Watched the Canadian Police procedural yesterday....two episodes. Then two recorded episodes of Antiques Roadshow.  Today I plan to read and rest my neck.

The grape vines out back have stopped flowering and are now perhaps making grapes????  We desperately need it to rain.....but I doubt it will. 

 Global Warming is giving us a Shock Treatment Warning this Summer. Hot. Dry.  Hotter. On Fire.

The two large pots on top of one of my German Cupboards are now in the garbage bags.  Next time daughter visits I'll ask her to climb on the step ladder and vacuum the leaves off the top.  I know better than to think I CAN.  Climb on a step ladder safely.  Actually, if honest, I was never safe climbing ladders.

Daily notes for August 24th. Cloudy outside here in Maine.....Dentist Appointment for me. ICK...

 Postcard from Provence Art.

I've said this many times before- so reminds me of the path to the right of my front door when I lived in Germany....brings back good memories.  there was a restaurant down the path to the right...sort of a Beer Garden.  We went once. Husband and I.....and then never again. He just couldn't "have fun" with me. It was mutual for sure. 

I watched TV yesterday instead of reading.  Cable tv is expensive if you can never find anything to watch. I settled on this BLUE  STATION something Police Procedural set in  Canada....just north of Maine... seacoast living with cottages painted in candy colors....like they are here in Maine if you drive far enough along the Atlantic Coast.  

The cottages are vintage here in Maine with zero insulation.  Meaning no one lives in them once the weather gets chilly.  Ah the Sun has arrived.

I have been trying to renew a prescription.  With my Primary Care Doctor Office.  The recored message says they are "too busy" and I should email them. Thru my Patient Portal.  Everyone who thinks I'll do that put up your hand.........not doing that. Ever.  Last time I was there they didn't schedule an annual checkup either........too busy.  They might fit me in if I email the portal.  Laughing.

So Dentist.....I really really do not like Dentist Visits...usually just cleaning which is   UGH!!!!!! Ruins my entire morning just thinking about going.  Well, I am going to try the prescription thing once more. 

Daily Notes for Sunday August 23rd. Son has opened windows 74 and sort of cloudy.

 Postcard from Provence.  Cherries.

I started the day a bit late....lots of things have started spooling in my brain.   Things that worry me, bother me, irritate me......remind me of things I no longer wish to think about.  Too bad there isn't a "shred" button in the memory to get rid of things that bother us.  But I guess there is - it has quite a few medical names. No cure.

Tomorrow will be a fantastic DAY as it's Library Day and I have four or five books waiting to be picked up. I have a bag full of books to return.  I read most of them.

Today is Pizza Day....son is setting up all the items....preheating the oven.  I assist as needed.

I spent quite a bit of time searching the Family Recipe Card File while sort of watching Storage Lockers. I was looking for Peach Cobbler and found Cheer's recipe...I recall it being quite a nice cobbler.  She must have made it for one of our shared pot lunch dinners while I worked at the Library.

The fridge is making strange noises.....ah, it was my Son making strange noises.

Someone who was a Dear Close Friend and then told me to Rot in F-ing Hell among other things...has sent me an email today..just like nothing happened.  Not sure what to do.... she was discussing her grapes...I did reply that my grapes looked good. 

 From the house...I haven't been down in the weed covered overgrown mess to see if there are grapes.   Too dangerous for me if I tripped over some vines or something else and split my head open.  The space is separated by several large wood framed boxes.  Something blue is flowering down there.  Looks quite nice.

Daily Notes for Saturday August 22nd. Clouds...would be nice if it rained.

 Image from Postcards from Provence.

This morning...one of the very large and wide and heavy Christmas Cactus up on top of a tall European Cupboard...fell...hit the floor but didn't smash the clay pot... it's collected branches are now in the garbage bag.  The one on the right might decided to drop... lonely up there by itself.  But, I sort of like the clean spare look of the cupboard sans cactus.  I need to vacuum the whatever off the top of the cupboard (have someone tall vacuum the dust and dirt off the top for me). 

Re-arrange (more likely get someone to rearrange) the large metal restaurant use trays the plants sat on.  Center one tray and then the cactus.   If it plans on staying alive.

I grew these mammoth cactus from cuttings I collected from the greenhouse floor (at work).  It's been decades.  Reality strikes yet again as the clock on my Time Here runs out.  Most of my elderly relatives made it into their 80's but no further.  Better than husband's family where the men never got past their early 60's.

We seesaw between windows closed and AC unit running and windows open.  Which reminded me of my own bedroom windows.. now closed for the day...because it feels like rain.  I would like it to rain. My very very dry brown lawn would welcome rain or perhaps the ground is like cement and even a hard rain would serve little purpose.  It's been a dry summer here ...no storms pushing off the Atlantic into Maine.

I was (hand) sewing strips onto a square and went looking for additional fabric for strips 3 and 4.  Took awhile. I gave up....and then like magic there it was...a nice quarter yard right adjacent to the couch all along. .   Sewing the next two strips is like money in the bank....no hurry to spend it (or sew).   British Soccer.... watching it while it's here to watch.  The programing comes and goes..like the tide.

I bought peaches. Five Beautiful Peaches.  A cobbler sounds good.  An old Southern Georgia recipe card.  A throwback to the beginning of my story.  I hope it rains....

Daily Notes for August 21st--we skipped a Day. Get used to that..with me. Zero sense of Time.

I love this kind of quilt.

But I am way way too Virgo to be able to make one.  Rules....Straight Lines.....colors that play well together.   Those are the rules.

So I missed a day here...get used to it....getting OLD is a Fascinating Experience.  Today is NOT Library Day....I was so sure it was...but I did have two bills to write checks for, add stamps etc to envelopes. I had to check and recheck the date....when you are retired and have no plans...difficult to recall what day it is.

But EVERYDAY is DAY to REGRET TRUMP'S ELECTION.  FORTY TRILLION in DEBT.......how many zeros?   That Air Craft Carrier is finally on its way home to Los Angeles.  It will take weeks (a month) to get there. I never heard or read anything about them being supplied with fresh water and food. Or having the bilge pumped out.

I watched the very end of an FX movie and the very beginning of the second movie following.  And recall watching that same ending and that very same beginning twice now....over a span of YEARS. FX is not a station I land on regularly....what are the ODDS of only two visits and exactly the same two movies??????

Yesterday's book was (still is) Susan Wiggs Map of the Heart.  I've read it before.  I occasionally enjoy her books.  Not often.  Why I checked it out at the library is beyond me. Has lovely cover art. I must have judged the book by it's cover...twice now.

I was hoping today was Library Day as I have asked for several good books and was hoping to collect them today...Instead I will read one of the newly purchase books my daughter has brought me....I already know I MIGHT not like most of them.   Her buy list is out of date.  I've outgrown long time favorite authors.  But that Viking book sounds promising.  I'll let you know if there are rats. In the place where they live.

I'm running low on Lunch Food.  The cheese was sliced too thick and the ham just right.  So I have ham and no cheese to roll up in my flour wrap.  I have one tiny yogurt... one lonely slice of Sunday pizza.

Daily Notes- Wednesday August 19th. Sunshine here in Maine...77 degrees

 Had no clue as to what this pictures was- pickles.   I used to can pickles...when I had a vegetable garden. When I went outside and did work.   Now I sit and read......occasionally I sew small pieces of cloth to other small pieces of cloth.....often I cut them apart because...I just didn't like them together.

I got a postcard from California asking me to remember to vote on  November 3rd.  For Democracy. For Troy Jackson.  Now...he's not the best person to be running for the US Senate.  Our Maine Republican Senator isn't going anywhere ...she still has billions of $'s to slide into her pockets.

I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who HAS voted for her in the 30 plus years I have lived here in Maine. Unless of course my former cross the road neighbor did....it's a good probability.

I am a Democrat living in a very Republican State.  Same with Ohio.  There was wiggle room in Chicago but not much statewide.  But I have never given up on HOPE...it springs eternal.

My book (started yesterday) hasn't really gotten off the ground yet but ...I've read it before so I know bad things are going to happen on a regular timeline........everyone is dressed up and going to a big Fund Raiser. I did find and order four more Garland Books from other libraries... and they are on their way.... pick up on Friday.

I should print out a list of the books so I can check them off.  I hesitate due to my problems with the copier...  Even Son had problems.  Never mind- I wrote them on paper here next to me.

I also copied down a NYT zucchini recipe and oh my goodness....the  NYT comments section is to die laughing...no one not even one little bit...makes the recipe as printed...they add, they subtract etc etc and then they write in to tell everyone... the one that has me laughing is an adaption for something baked on a cookie sheet adapted into a 8 by 8 square pan and then a Bundt Cake..... I copied it down since I do love a good Bundt Cake.  Will I bake it... Hell NO.  It's August and Son has shut down the AC unit.

I just located my book...and I am taking my Arnica because my neck bones are making a snapping noise.

The delights of Old Age.... 

Daily Notes for Tuesday August 18th. Cloudy here in Maine.

 We may have had this image previously....I have used it today and sent it to the garbage can on the computer screen.   So we won't see it again...hopefully.

Yesterday and today's Garland book is Slow Burn.

The last of the books at the library....so now I have to order from "other libraries"...I was told they "got rid" of the rest of the series to "make room" on the shelving.  I doubt I have ever imagined my Library getting rid of books......I have a list and will be ordering the missing books....

And just so we are on the same page- the few remaining books by this author were on a 2/3rds empty shelf.   

That's it for today.....I'm tired...I am one month away from my birthday.  

My hair looks pretty good today.

My clothes fit.

Dentist appointment next week.

Monday. August 17th. Cloudy with a chance of HUMDITY????? Looks like Rain.

Zucchini Pancakes.

I've been promising myself  that I would make some of these....and old old favorite...of Only Me in the Family Unit.  I recall being shown how to make them by a teenage bride (pregnant) who lived across the hall from me in Georgia.  Those years in Georgia were Never Dull.  And the food was fantastic.

I am dressed and ready to visit the Library... Son divided the outside adventures so I didn't get tired and loopy.  I hope I am not confused about this.....I need to replenish the  Library Book Shelf.

He sorted out my tv listings deleting stations I never watch and adding a few....I watched a strange sappy mystery set in Newfoundland.. and then had to get the big Library Atlas the Librarians gave me because they didn't want to toss it in the dumpster.  They thought I could use it for Art Collage...

Instead I used it to find out that the country I was looking for is right up there North of where I am sitting.

I doubt the Maine Train that sits in the station next to my grocery store goes up North.  But I might check and see.  I often thought ....long ago...that when I got OLD ( like I am now) I would ride that TRAIN south or north and when it got to the end ...ride it back home again...never getting off until it arrived at the station next to my grocery store..  Enjoying the view and lunch.

My Reality is Never as Interesting as My Imagination.
 

Daily Notes for Sunday August 16th. Sunshine and 73 degrees- no AC needed

 An abundance of blue.

I personally have an abundance of very tall WEEDS.  Everywhere.  And the two mice we found dead and dehydrated in mousetraps over by the south wall of the kitchen

Today's Garwood book is Sizzle.  Library is tomorrow so I will gather up a few more of her books. and perhaps a few Linda Howard.  I might try and find a book list from ten or more years ago...try and read the ones with a star.  I kept a notebook or two of lists of books.

So..I'd best get on to my book reading....Not much on tv.  Making a Library Book List for tomorrow's visit to the Library.  I have one more Garwood to read- Sizzle......and if I remember correctly..it does.

Sizzle.   that's it...now to reheat my coffee and settle into the couch.... I took a morning shower and my hair is very very shiny and WHITE.  And if I am truthful...WIDE.

Today is Sunday pizza.  I've been reluctant to have a salad with all the poopy lettuce going around. But I do have some shredded vegetables I could mix into the last of the Ranch Dressing for a nice salad. I could but we'll see if I would.....take care enjoy the day.

Happy birthday to someone special!!!!!!   Love you!

Daily Notes for Saturday August 15th. Sunshine here in Maine and 75 degrees..

 Scabiosis

Also do not have this in my garden.   Reading my second Garwood book The Ideal Man.  Not a favorite. But I will read it to the end and then start in on Sizzle or Slow Burn.  Get more when I visit the Library. Also suggested daughter pick up ANY that have FBI in the front cover blurb at the Summer Library Book Sales she attends....  Wired was great.  I see that word "great" so often in books....I have gotten to the point where it is hugely annoying. He's great.  The garden is great.  The food is great etc etc etc. 

I'm at the point where I am leaning toward writing down the dictionary meaning of that word. And sending it to a few authors. He's great. She's great etc like that has any significant meaning for the Reader. What makes that person, thing, food or event "great"????  Tell me...

I read ALL of the books by this author when I was given the Winter off from my Greenhouse job. This was after a few winters of terrorizing books by an author I have blocked from memory.  I can't read that stuff anymore.  The closer one comes to eternity the less you enjoy fictional death.  But a good FBI book by Julie Garwood......entertaining.

At some point I will make a phone call to my cable provider and see if I can get Turner...and watch old movies.   In one of the books I love reading  the two people watching movies together watch  His Gal Friday and well....I recall that movie...watching it at my grandmothers house when I was 10 or 12.....  and thinking I would like to have that sort of relationship.   I never did.  And I never will.

Daily Notes for Friday August 14th. Sunshine here in Maine....

 I own something that looks like the vase over to the right.... I also have boxes of artificial flowers in the Attic.   I would fill a vase and have it at the end of the Circulation Counter where people retuned books when I worked there.  Nothing that "welcoming" is going on".

I have a very large glass vase on the table in front of the long stretch of windows facing the front porch. Daughter brought down the boxes and I selected flowers.  I made a short but wide arrangement she didn't like but...I stuck to my guns as they say and it's the one on the table.

When Fall arrives I'll ask her to carry the box down again.....I am still not authorized to go up the stairs. And I have no plan to go up when no one is home.   It's the going DOWN that is not in my best interests.

I got up late so Son has gone to lunch and we will do groceries when he gets back.  Time has little relevance  to my Life so....it matters not.

Julie Garwood's  Wired was the perfect book for a middle of August read.... I looked on my Library Shelf and I selected two more.....feels like I gave myself a fantastic gift.  Today it's Ideal Man.  Library is Monday so I'll read one or two of the new books daughter brought me.  There is one very large hard cover by Mary Kay Andrews- Road Trip that I have never seen before or read. Also got me the Newcomer which I may have read long ago.

If you are reading this Sam- on your next Book Sale visits- try for some Garwood..

Daily Notes- Thursday August 13th. Another Summer Week comes to an end

 I have nothing that looks like this anywhere around my house.

Wrote checks for two bills....

No Book Chosen to be read but daughter brought a few new ones from a  Used and New Bookstore. Not sure about some of them.   Haven't chosen anything to be Today's Book.

Hallmark TV is 25 years old.  I watched one movie yesterday...recalling why I stopped watching them. But the guy actually touched the woman he was supposed to like so that was cosmic..... no kissing.

I'm considering a phone call to my cable company-- so I can watch Turner Movie Channel.   Old Movies. For a few weeks and then cancel.  I'll be up front with a few weeks and cancelling.  I've checked their list of movies and I like a possible 5 to 8 of the hundreds listed.   Actually would be happy with just the one.  The office one with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant.  Where they argue all the time.

I used to have this channel but then husband chose an all sports package...gag.  I have so many sports channels and no one watches ANY of them.  Husband watched Wipe Out.  Never watched SPORTS.

A very very slow start to the day......if I lived alone I'd still be in bed. With a book. Possibly crying.

I'm considering a Knight In Shining Armor for today's book.  I'll cry a lot but ...at times it's a good thing. But daughter ALSO brought a new Beach Street Bakery Series book- one I haven't read,  Sunrise By the Sea and a Mary Kay Andrews book.,,,,, Road Trip which I definitely never read.  There is another "read once" Mary Kay Andrews book....I liked it even though there was violence etc. so that new book is also an option.

I'm thinking I HAVE read Sunrise by the Sea.... I'll

I moved something by the Sunporch back door by the sink.... two very dusty mousetraps were DISCOVERED and two very dusty dead MICE,  I left a note for my Son...if I had found them yesterday before daughter visited..I'd have had her move them....trap and all.into the garbage bag in the garage.  Buy new traps. ICK!!!!!

The very very tall wide pot of red geraniums across the street gets redder and redder as the days pass. Quite lovely but I prefer the pink flowers.

Daily Notes for Wednesday, August 12th. Sunshine here in Maine. 78 degrees...

 This mess has a name.  But I can't spell it.  Zucchini, Tomato, Eggplant, Red Bell Pepper.

I have eaten it...in France. And here in Maine.  I like it.   A cartoon Rat makes in one of my favorite movies. Rat-Tat-..........

I have a feeling today is going to be hot.  But Son has the AC unit on off...unless it just stopped working???  It is old....

I have a recipe here using 4 ears of corn with kernels grated off the cob, 6 ounces of bacon and 12 oz of orzo.  Some chili spices and oil and vinegar.   I doubt there is any bacon in the fridge. Nope. Parm Rinds in the freezer might work????   I have been considering steaming some nice white rice. Adding Peas. I checked- I have peas in the freezer.....I love rice and peas.  With butter and sweet soy sauce.

I am considering FOOD and that makes my Son happy as I have been quite reluctant to actually make meals for myself....so I hardly eat anything.  Cooking for One does not come naturally to me. I think that has something to do with "one's feelings of self worth".  I'll find the page in the book where I am supposed to write things......write about food and self worth.  Might even be a page for that.

So I'll be finishing up the reading of  Dolly All The Time. (or not) ...title mystifies me.  I have every book this author has written but doubt I will buy this one.... Annabel Monaghan.  "Life's Great Disappointment"  Which could have been a better title.

My temperament has improved (substantially) due to the ironing of my shirt......yesterday....and today this same shirt still looks great.  Nice lime color.   Limeade.   I have just enough ham and cheese and flour tortillas to get me thru the day today and tomorrow I'll have Toasted Cheese with pickles..  or vis versa,  I've run out of bananas.....  Grocery is  one day and  Library is now a different Day.... My energy levels were not good when we did both.

Even typing this has been a struggle...I had to delete and redo etc etc etc. And honestly...The Daily Notes BORE me and I imagine they BORE you as well.