Daily Notes from Maine....Thursday January first...Sunshine and Snow on the ground. 27 degrees

Snowdrops.

I had these in my perennial beds for many years...I think the squirrels dug them up...every year so I stopped planting them...

One thing I can always count on- squirrels..

I have two Soccer Matches to record.....I watched three episodes of Time to Come Home on Hallmark yesterday. I had seen all three in many years past....I don't need to see them again for another five years or more. But it was nice to know "second chances" are aways available .... but not for me, I guess.

My book is one I read awhile back and forgot...Karen White's "the night the lights went out".  Set in the area around Atlanta.... it has that Southern sweetness about it.....like sweet tea.   And reminds me of happy days living in Georgia.  If I was ever to move away from Maine ...it would be to Georgia.  Both my children were born there.  We left the Atlanta suburbs to move to Florida...The first of many many moves...  

I forgot we had a sunporch loaded with toys and furniture and a large painting my brother sent me...none of it got packed or missed for decades....... when we were quickly transferred to Chicago and our fourth home.  And then to Germany a few years later.

Southern food is being cooked...tomatoes are being left on doorsteps...sweet tea is being made. All things I did when living there,  having babies.... being happy.....so of course husband had to move us to Florida. Where I was alone and miserable and he was working in the Virgin Islands.  Anyway...I am reliving my Georgia Happiness...with this book.... Previous book was set in Florida....by the water... Might look for a Chicago book next- any suggestions?????

Happy 2026...My new desk calendar fits perfectly...already have things pasted on it...