Daily Notes for Saturday, March 21st. Clouds in my Coffee.

 Having just read Dee's post...I have tears in my eyes over the loss she is suffering.  Nothing I type will be of any help but her sorrow will be with me today and for quite awhile.

Daily Notes- Friday March 20th.... Sunshine and Melting Snow.

We have enough  snow on the ground to make the reindeer feel at home,......until it all melts.  Love the dots.  Manuel Jiminez again.

Grocery Shopping went  well....before we left Son pulled all the "expired food" out of the pantry and fridge.  I managed to get pickles for my Pickle and Cheese Sandwiches.  I'd forgotten the last two times I had been in the grocery store.  I also have more Oranges for the daily fruit..

I never got around to reading (starting) my book....perhaps today-  I did watch Tracker.   And Antiques Roadshow.

I think I will watch British Soccer today....  and sew a few black with white fabrics into a square.  White dots.- different sized dots....And another pile is white stripes on black.  From the Fabric Stash.

I am going to check the floss storage boxes for another paddle of matching red....but I don't have the labels with the color number anymore.... so matching is going to be by eye.....my eye is still pretty good at color matching.  In another Lifetime I'll write the color number on the white plastic paddle.

That's it...not much happening...I have a (few) nice series set to record on the TiVo.  In addition to the three or four in the recorded section already.  One is about George Washington.  One is about Craft in America. One is Pole to Pole... with Will Smith.  The Craft In America is always enjoyable.  I found a channel deep in the lineup with classic movies from the 40's....maybe even some from the 30's.  That I watched with my grandmother.  Back in the Day,..... 

Walked down to the sewing room and found...in another box of  embroidery floss..three full  paddles of the RIGHT matching red....for sure from the Five and Dime in Town decades ago.  I had little spending money in those early days of owning 2 McDonald's restaurants...but COULD afford some colorful floss. .

 

Daily Notes and It's SNOWING here in Maine... Wondering if it will Snow into July????

 Artist is Manuel Jiménez.   Carved Animals with real Personality... Will have a few more of these in the next posts.

What am I doing?  Well, daughter and I washed and dried some very large (and heavy) crystal items...I made supper but still having difficultly finding the knob on the New Bosch Stove that turns on the OVEN.  Son is going to find a way to add a  "dot" under that knob. Has to be the right kind of "dot".

I "trial" matched some red floss in my sewing room closet to the linen table topper I have been working on since my two children were in middle and high school. 

I saw an interesting cloth on top of an ancient chest in the entry of the house where we were staying during the 10 days of School SKI Vacation back in the early 1980's.  Yes, they have that in Europe.

I couldn't find the rough textured beige linen the artist used so got some soft white not so rough linen, needle and red embroidery floss. I worked on it much to the delight of our host where we were staying--after she saw me measuring  cutting and hemming my linen...and starting in on the design.... she gave me  a copy of the design paperwork she had used to make the one I saw in the entry. (and kept my tea cup filled).   I still have all the parts and design in the same paper bag I got at the shop.  .  And now one- only one paddle of red floss.  And no where to buy more.. quilt shops and craft stores are all closed here in Maine.  I might just use the red I have and then..finish with other non-matching reds. Like women did during the Great Depression.  In 20 years it will be an oddity in a resale shop...And I will be dead or celebrating my 100th birthday.  

Watching the news makes me feel like The Second Great Depression is almost upon us.  I have the oil furnace running....no clue as to whether we will be able to fill the tank when it runs out. Our only source of heat and hot water.

The little animal up top has had to listen to all this whining....you, also.  So now I reheat my coffee for the third time and settle into the couch.....think about a Herb Garden....in a Grow Box on the back deck...or out on the walk with the ornamental planter boxes.  Life would be perfect if I had a Carpenter on Call.  To build me a few things and repair a few MORE things rotting away on my house,

Growing Old...sigh. For People and for Houses.

Daily Notes for Wednesday March 18th.....Bright outdoor light and melting snow.

Pansies today....my favorite flower....so cheerful.

I have the stove going with a large pot of water and some corned beef....I forgot yesterday was the day to make it...so today..I am making it.  Low simmer for almost 4 hours. I'll check on the water levels every so often.   Then...according to my recall..... the corned beef comes out (and spends time in the oven getting crisp around the edges) and the cabbage, small red potatoes go in.   I think something else goes in but Son will remind me.  Carrots...Only I like boiled carrots.

I have not started my book....the one I spoke of yesterday... a former neighbor sent an email and wanted a nice long letter re: what's happening in the neighborhood. I wrote a full page.  Containing public business.  Nothing else.  She now has FIVE Granddaughters. Just got a new one.

Daughter is home with a very bad headache.  She called to see if the store brand prepared soup had one specific ingredient in it...no.  So it's something else.

News from the "White House of Ill Repute" continues to baffle me.  Another head of Homeland Security has turned out to be same or worse than previous.  Hard to believe???? Nope.

We washed and dried and boxed up Swedish Crystal......it's now way up on top of a cabinet...Safe and Sound.  I no longer have to ask where it is.  Daughter got tired of me asking.

Well, Supper is simmering....I need to get the heat up a notch higher...or wear o scarf around my neck. Half the bagged and boxed items we are getting rid of ...are gone.  WAS QUITE A PILE.  Still more to find and get rid of.  Scandinavian Death Cleaning.

 

Daily Notes- Tuesday, March 17th. Sunshine here in Maine and melting snow- New snow arriving???

 Well, Collected all the items needed for Income Taxes.  I used to do them myself..but when we owned a company...they had to be done by an accountant.  So I stopped....and never really got back into it until Turbo Tax.  And I wore my NERVES to the quick with Turbo Taxes for ten years.... and now, I just collect the papers and someone picks them up........ I feel it's worth the money to save what I have left of my "nerves"....

The Maine Snow is melting....again.  Comes and Goes.....I have zero plans for today.....perhaps some English Soccer....the book I was going to read happened to be one I already read once and never finished reading....needed a better editor....got tedious.  There was a plot line there that could have worked but they left it hanging........

I have a Christina Lauren book to read...the only one of their books I do NOT own.......I will read it once more and decide if it's worth my time......I have never actually read it thru to the end...perhaps at 79 I will be able to????   I pulled it off the shelf and then was tempted to put it back on the shelf (at the Library) it's that sort of book....never really gels.  The other one of their books I don't care for is the cowboy one.  These two haven't written anything new in awhile or my Library hasn't bought anything new. I will check after hitting publish.

Maine is under a Flood Watch today with High Winds to follow.  Could be exciting.  Here at my house I have melting snow and green grass showing up....over wintered bulbs are up a few inches.... they are near the septic tank outlet- warm water (showers) thaws that area out early in the season..  Hot showers thaw this old woman out as well.   Well, I need to find something to do....after I reheat my coffee.  Get on with it.  I have an index card to color.

DebL- collected all the cloth of yours in one place...it was well scattered thru sewing room and living room areas...now all together...I did this because I have had a "creative idea"......and haven't had one of those in awhile....need to run with it before it evaporates......now I need to find the "faded golden print" I made a notation about........sigh.  It's always something.....

Daily Notes for Monday, March 16th.. Foggy, Damp Day here in Maine.

Daughter and I reloaded the Goodwill bags and made another bag full of ART SUPPLIES for the Library- they sent an email to all patrons re: art supplies that we might no longer need.  Well, Sam and I had a full cardboard box full.  We no longer needed.

She was here and now gone to buy a new machine for her basement to remove humidity...a new one every year.  Lots of humidity in her basement.  

We are also contacting the Banker who does my taxes..... she is having her paperwork picked up tomorrow and I asked for list of what I need to send him and this same Erika can pick up my info... I think this time I will make a photocopy of the list and use a black felt tip marker to add with word TAXES to the paper.

 In case I'm alive next March.  But I will be alive for a few additional weeks as I now have two boxes of COOKIES in the cabinet.....And Corned Beef and Cabbage to look forward to cooking and eating.  It helps to have something Future to look forward to.... 

The bags of crafts hold quite a bit from my Art Room.  And the shelving is still full...The frozen paint  is now soft and pliable.....waiting to be used...

Daughter and I discussed Peonies. Husband set fire to two of the five out back by the porch steps (with a gas can and a riding mower)...and somehow the other three died.. possible they got "weeded" as he pulled "weeds" a lot.  I might be too old to buy new ones...moving Peonies shuts them down for a year or two before they decide they like the new place......then other year or two to make flowers....  Woo Peng is still okay out front... Made one blossom last summer or the one before.  Sigh.  Took MANY years for that to happen.

So.....I need to turn on some lights and crank the thermostat up...chills on my neck...oh, and rehear my Morning Coffee....at 2 pm.....some days I feel like I'm just taking up space and not really living. I wonder if the President feels the same way.

 

Daily Notes- Saturday, March 14th. Sunshine, shoveled walks. 37 degrees

Jonathan W Gemmell I believe is the artist.

Reading...Still... Tell Me Lies.   Library says Runaway Groomsman is waiting on the shelf for me.  If it was walking distance and there were clear dry sidewalks...I would walk into Town...HA!!!!  I might make it to the end of the street and start looking for something to sit on.  Love that book.

My wall and desktop calendars record my Anger and Fear for this Country of Ours.  And now soldiers sent to a War that was started because some weak minded man wants to have a WAR.  Because...why????? to make himself feel like a "man"..... a real man would not send them. He'd find a better solution.

I might try my hand at making a quilt like Dee's.....a house.  I have never tried a patchwork house but did try a big moon once like Dee's moons.  I drew the outlines on an index card for reference. I also wanted to make a mouse like Dee's......but that also wasn't in my skill set.

Saturday and I will be assuming PBS is still begging.....and none of the Cooking Shows are on. There are  more than enough British Soccer matches...on tv today....and I will watch or record as many as possible.

I have cloth, I have cheese and pickle sandwiches,  I have Soccer...Son is heading out for "lunch" ........

Daily Notes for Friday March 13th. Sunshine and melting Snow here in Maine.

More strange things...   Embellished Carrots.  Reminds me of the little squash I embellished.

Today was Grocery Shopping Day....I didn't get anything exciting.  I tried....laughing.... but it didn't work. It does work when I shop with daughter....we had to return home the back way...roads here after Winter Ice Heaves...well the heaves include chunks of asphalt.  We took the long heave-less way.....

Son thought I had pickles....I didn't have pickles....I do have some home canned pickles from 2020 and I left a jar out on the counter....I don't have a chance at ALL of eating them once he sees the date.  I opened the jar- nothing foaming etc....used vinegar which is acidic...should be fine.  They look tasty.... one other jar had low liquid so I dumped that one out but tasted one of the pickle slices...tasty.  I haven't died yet.

Not a clue what to do today as I have more energy than usual....Pickle Policing does that for me, I guess.

I have my book to read......find out if I recall any plot details.

Found TWO more Watercolor Children's Paint Boxes---on the closet shelf I was cleaning... now I have three.  The paint brushes are still hiding.  And the Watercolor Paper is also still not front and center.  I thought it might be in the side shelving of the coat closet....some amazing stuff WAS there....but no watercolor paper.  I still have more places to search..........finding stuff.....

 

Daily Notes- Thursday, March 12th. Cloudy and 40 degrees.

 Will be awhile before we can set out flowers like these....I'd love a big scoop of a planter...like this.

Not a clue as to what happens today here in the house....I emptied a few more boxes....some really nice expensive craft projects are going to Goodwill.  Basket making supplies.  One for a wine bottle holder.

Daughter asked "when" was this something I wanted to do....I mentioned living in this house for decades. What I wanted 30 (or 40) years ago-- is quite different from what I want now.  What I wanted 50 years ago is even more different from the Life I live now.  Lots of disappointments.  Alongside some really really Wonderful times with friends. And quite a few jobs I adored.......but husband had to keep us moving. 

Now, he's gone and I don't move at all anymore.

Well......Panera's soup with little dumplings was very very good... I will get it again but not right a way.

Not much to watch on TV....and the news (OMG)  so I finished reading How to Walk Away. 

Today's book has been waiting for quite some time...Crusie's  Tell Me Lies....will find out if it's something I can read.....I do not suffer thru a badly written book...gladly....or at all.  

The Attic removals have produced some very fine paper for watercolors....and some very fine ceramic dishes full of watercolor paint was also dragged out of the coat closet.  Quite a few items were purchased in Europe...either during the visits prior to living there or while living there.  Wonderful Things.  Now to discover where the paint brushes are hiding.  We also found a matted and framed watercolor of mine....I hadn't seen in in YEARS....very nice.  Being surprised by the contents of my house...who knew??????

Wednesday, March 11th. Warmer than usual. 44 degrees- no sunshine.

 New York Times Orange Cake.

I have everything in the HOUSE to make this cake....even a food processor.  Where it is..I haven't a clue... Still haven't found the Swedish crystal champagne flutes.  Or the wooden box of silverware.  I did find extra pairs of brown slippers from LLBean...defective and very inexpensive (to employees only).

But none of the "good stuff" is being found.

The frozen stiff paints etc have thawed out...we will find out if they still "'work" when I find my brushes. I have my watercolor brushes but the ones for acrylic paint- a mystery to be solved.

I cleared out a shelf in the hall closet--where we keep coats etc.... Art Supplies...lots of really nice things. so I took some of them out...now to find a new closet to use as a storage area.   So I can USE them. SEE them. REMEMBER I own them.   The order should be Remember, Find, See.. Use...... Really nice stuff.

Listened to PBS- Opera..very dramatic and open air and raining. Pavarotti......various important singers sang... ...I recorded it so I could fast forward thru the talking parts where they ask for money.  I have at least one of his CD's with Rigoletto, La Traviata, and La Boheme.....to listen to.   I might have a second CD.  It was very very nice to just sit and listen and watch it rain.  As I said- I recorded it...so will watch and listen again as soon as I finish my book.... Katherine Center's How to Walk Away.  I've read it several times already in the past few years.

Perhaps daughter can find the Trade Paper copy for me.  Well, I have things to do...sort, wash, dry, put away.  And my coffee to reheat.....drink......finish the book. Sun is NOT shining here in Maine.  

Daily Notes- Yesterday daughter took me to the Library and I walked around in the stacks...

Charlie Moon again.

Walking in the stacks these days...at the Library.... isn't much fun.  And the new book section is VERY thin on books.  I took home a few oldies.  Books I have read before.  I am not feeling enthusiastic about the books I checked out.  I might just read an old cowboy romance by Johanna Lindsey.  From my bookcase.  Or A Knight In Shining Armor...time travel.

The books I refer to were on the Library Discard Trolley years ago.... outside in front of the Library entrance- free books the library no longer wanted....most of my home bookcase of hard covers are from the Library Discard Trolley.  Later they just lined them up on the window sill in the entrance foyer. And then on the lowest, closest to the floor shelf also in the entrance foyer.  Leaning over at 80-- one could tip over and smash one's head in. 

 Reading has become less of a pleasure as my eyes get old, dry and tired. But I keep trying...I keep reading until I have to stop and rest my eyes. Add drops. And watch British Soccer or Law and Order.  Or just sit on the couch with my eyes closed doing absolutely nothing.  Not even sleeping.

Well, today is just getting started and I am already losing interest. I did have a shower and washed my hair...letting it dry itself into whatever waves and curls it wants.  There is an interesting wave dipping past my eyebrow on the right side.  Eventually I will gather it up on top of my head.

I sorted "same family" colored scrap cloth here to my left into sandwich bags.....in case I decide to make something- A SQUARE is what I usually make....Sort of potholder sized....I always hope that I will persevere and make nine.  A larger square.......I don't.  

I ran out of the fabric scraps in  color families here on the ottoman.....I do have quite a bit of  black and white prints......way more than a sandwich bag's worth....that could entertain me today.  Notice I am saying scraps....I have LOADS of folded yardage in EVERY Color and Print....no shortage of fabric....just that right now I am more comfortable with scraps.  And no need for the rotary cutter and the ruler.  Dangerous. I try and stay away from the cutting table....though I do enjoy cutting strips.  I'm 80. Need finger tips.

One of the Amaryllis Bulbs my neighbor Peggy gave Son and I two or three years ago has two flower buds just emerging from the covering leaves.... looks like a very dark red.  Or dark pink.....the other is still stalled out with a small fresh tip of something emerging.  I didn't see anything I liked in the floral department of the grocery...mostly bouquets.  Husband would buy those for me...I have never bought  one for myself.  I tend to like things that I can "keep"....not watch fade and dry up.

 

Daily Notes for Monday, March 9th. Sunshine and 61 but everything covered in 3 feet of snow.

 This is titled the Orange Vase.  Weird.

I have this urge to paint or color or draw....ART....and no idea of what... the library visit was too early.. They are NOT ready to add the 4 digit code to my Library Card. (yet).....the program that it needs hasn't arrived or been installed or tested as yet.  Wow.  The target start up date was ...as the librarian put it- "just a suggestion".   I used the steps up and the elevator down.

Public TV had Sense and Sensibility on last night....also on another date- (which I set the TiVo to record). I like S&S much better than Pride Etc.   The camera work is very old style......close ups of faces expressing emotions etc.   There was the usual "begging" for cash that Public TV does.  It's pretty much all the time now.

So...60 degrees....NICE...very very nice.  It will take the 2 to 3 feet deep piles of snow (turning to ice) some time to melt.  Overnight..the melt will freeze if temps get low...it is Maine.

I have books to order....hopefully something interest will happen by tomorrow- or not.

Daily Notes for a Sunday in March...not snowing... no sun and 49 degrees.

 Titled "wonderful ladybug" by. Charlie-Moon-Little.  He has a Facebook page....I don't do Facebook so no help here on how to find him.  I actually only "do this post" and nothing else........ I found him over at Little Somethings.  Where you can find more bettle images.

I have on a different colored acrylic fabric top...The other lime green one is in the wash basket.  Waiting for me to do the laundry- just isn't enough in the basket as yet.  With just me filling the basket. I am seriously considering changing the sheets on the bed which will fill the basket.  Then I might need to sort the colors from the whites.  And not have enough of either,

Today is Sunday Pizza....Son is also questioning the viability of the potato I baked last Sunday and wrapped in foil and put in the fridge.....I find no fault with him questioning the viability of that potato. I did not have interest in the potato after baking it........I lose interest pretty quickly these days unless I move on the topic FAST.  Also there has been quite a bit of Attic Box Sorting which uses up my normal band-with of attention.  Deciding what to keep and what to let go of.... it's like looking in to the Future... will I need it in two years...five years.......next week????????  I don't know.

The Living Room thermostat battery died.....which might be why it was cold in here yesterday... I left batteries for Son to replace or whatever he does......  it works this morning.

I called in a refill on the wrong inhaler.....sigh...I don't seem to be able to do anything right and it really depresses me a great deal.....so in response I just stop doing things.... Stop sending comments....I get negative feedback on those as well.....I did contact an old internet friend. The Christmas card I sent her got returned...she has a new house....a new vegetable garden (I envy her the garden). and I re-mailed the card.

It was great getting an email from her and all her news....old friends are the best rewards for living I think. no need to explain yourself to them..... just be happy they are still around.

Moving In and Out of Time here in Maine--- Saturday March 7th. Son shoved snow early. It's WET.

An Engraved Beetle.... I will go back and find names and makers for you.  Isn't it lovely?  Made of Copper and Rose Gold.   Beetle is by Jonathan W Gemmell.  He might have an instagram feed.

There is a chill in the house......I have heat turned up but the spaces in the large rooms are too much and it's Maine...who knows what the situation is behind the walls- insulation????? House was built during a BOOM and supplies were limited...  the bedrooms are warmer as I had work done there...but we never made it to the living room, dining room and kitchen....I doubt there is much insulating this room from the back wall of the garage.   I am waiting for Spring and 50 degrees....I can managed 50 degrees. Right now I use a heating pad on lowest setting to warm up my down lap throw...while watching British Soccer or reading books.

Houses here were for Spring, Summer and Fall...then everyone packed up for Florida for the Winter. I am living in a Maine Summer House.  365.  The Boiler is working hard.   I might consider Florida in the decade to come but just for the Winter....a balcony over looking some water...paper, brushes and paint. Sounds like a decent retirement.  80 to 88.  Outliving all my dead relatives.  

Well, that might be a Pipe Dream.....today I will finish reading a book, watch Soccer and miss out on Saturday cooking shows due to PBS Fundraising.   My Lunch Buddy said I could actually get ALL the PBS content of mysteries etc on Am. Prime.  Which might be why the Fund Raising has become Quarterly rather than Annually.  Smarter People than ME have gone over to Prime.

Well, I need to go find the Beetle information for you...... 

 

Daily Notes for Friday March 6th.....light snow overnight. ( less than predicted) 31 degrees

 Daughter and I were tossing old Women's Club Newsletters from the 1980's and I found this black and white drawing....of the Taunus.  I added some colored pencil.   Frankfurt really did look like this back then and probably still does.  But not these colors....  my drawing.  Possibly copied from a photo.  The years of college art classes not wasted.

Daughter got invested in "organizing" the CD piles....husband had "his" music and I had mine.  I went for symphonies and old style rock and roll.  And Edith Piaf.  I play her most often.  I had a few things mixed into husband's stash...things that were originally mine....so NEW things to listen to while I repair this antique quilt.   I like the repair work- it goes slowly and it's just a tuck and tack..not the intense embroidery I usually get involved in.  Daughter now gets to remove the address labels from husband's CD's before they go to Goodwill. 

A large cardboard box containing all the tubes of acrylic printing ink and acrylic paint came down from the Attic. Really HEAVY BOX.... the acrylic paint tubes were  hard....so we set them up by the south facing kitchen radiator- on the floor under the table holding blooming plants.  Daughter will to happy- the tubes are now pliable.  Ready for art work.  Or Goodwill.  I'm going to give myself a "grace period" to consider reviving my painting career.......which just means making stuff for myself.

This morning I was considering making another Baltimore style quilt top.  I love the one I have hanging in my bedroom.  I love the leaves I hand appliquéd all around.  I want that sort of thing again...once more before I am too old.  And my fingers and joints go stiff.  Too.stiff to hold a needle.  Or a paint brush. But hopefully still able to hold book.  And eyes still able to read that book.

Daily Notes for Thursday, March 5th. Sunshine here in Maine. 37 degrees

 Some color other than WHITE to brighten your day...and mine.  

I slept well and was up earlier than usual.  My "Interpersonal Contact with Humans" has been less than positive lately...I was almost to the point of closing down this blog and my email.  Almost.  But I will persevere..... Life at 80 is not a Popularity Contest.  It's a Long Distance Slog. No Prize at the end.

Daughter and I went thru several boxes (from the endless supply in the Attic) and sorted buttons- yes, a LOT of buttons....before they head over to Goodwill (possibly already gone as daughter is very efficient) anyone need buttons?????  Buttons are gone....I saved the ones I had gotten from my grandmother's house...  Depression Era- she did not throw anything away that might be needed...zippers, buttons, thread. She saved bones to make soup broth.  Every bone.  Always had a garden. I saved the 1900's buttons.. Rather large....or very tiny.....  My Heavy Black Wool Coat will eventually need a button.

I spent...it seems....way too much time with my grandmother...picked up all the Deep Depression Era NEED to hoard things... SAVE everything.  Even socks with holes in them... which I mend....Sweaters are heavily mended with the thin spots supported by a donor sweater (elbows).  I can only wear them in public WITH a coat over the entire outfit.  Other wise I look "homeless".  (I'm told)--25 cent LLBEAN reject pants........I refuse to pay $90 for a new pair of pants that look identical to the 25 cent pants.  And it's Winter- no one sees my pants.  No one sees ME!!!!

It's really really difficult to find a NICE good quality sweater these days ....odor free.  I am even okay with paying $$$ for cashmere.  But what is being sold is so thin you can see you hand thru the wool.  

So I mend.   We also packed up a large box full of husband's shoes...even a brand new pair he never wore. And his collection of hats. Going to the local Goodwill.   Took awhile to get over all that letting go. Surprised it was shoes and ball caps.    

I am noticing that I didn't post yesterday. Today is Wednesday the 4th of March 38 degrees

 I will add any image I can find that brings bright color to a world right now that is mostly dark. And unfortunately on FIRE.

My oatmeal was good, I didn't tip off my chair and smash my forehead (my worst fear) while pulling on my smart wool socks.   The Sun is shining here in Maine...no morning newspaper. (overnight snow)..the day feels off center minus the paper.  Yes, here in Maine you don't get a morning newspaper if it snows overnight..... ?????.  

The engineer has figured out the snow blower and is now a Big Fan... some of the problems, I think, were misuse by husband...getting settings messed up etc.   Now it's working as it should.

I haven't selected a book for today as yet.... I might select Getting Rid of Bradley by Crusie.  

Yesterday daughter brought down two more boxes and we sorted buttons and beads etc....lots of buttons... I was wondering what I had in mind for them...........We filled a good sized cardboard box with all that "stuff" I was buying and NOT using????? and now it's sorted into sandwich bags and headed for Goodwill--the one we like.  We have two nearby Goodwill places....we like one better than the other.

And I found my box of Deb Thread.....in a closet on a shelf...and yes Deb there was tangerine and a yellow green.... and what ever other color I was wanting....all in the box.  Ready to GO. Now I have to try and remember why I wanted it.

Here in Maine- and for sure everywhere else....the MOON has been very very bright and shines into my bedroom windows and off the snow covered yard.  Making it difficult for me to fall asleep.... I wake up tired.   So.....Getting Rid of Bradley, a reheat of my Morning Coffee, and whatever else comes my way. And I think a grilled cheese and pickle sandwich for lunch.   I STILL haven't made SOUP!!!!!

My hair is actually- a few days a week- looking quite nice...it's starting to regain the curl....not that the curls are organized in any way shape or form....  Just shine silver curls.  

Well, I have list here to my left of authors I like...so I'll see if they have written anything new...

Another Sunny Day in Maine-- March 2nd, It's Monday...

 There's a bird in there somewhere.  I read a book yesterday and turned off the tv.  We are going to Hell in the proverbial "hand basket" bombing other Countries......just because we can.  Former Presidents are turning in their graves.......they will eventually BOMB US......you Brainless Twit.

So- Blinding Sunshine here in Maine and 20 degrees.  Our solid Republican State is not so solidly Republican anymore.  Interesting ........of course I make a practice of not listening to news...longer than 5 minutes..  

Where did that big gray haired Chief of Staff come from??????  I've been wondering about that.

I have a sliding mess of illustrations cut from magazines etc here to the left...the glue stick is over to the right.  The Washable Paint Set is still not open or used but the March calendar has some additional images glue sticked to it.....I'm in a collage state of mind.  I added Cuba to the US Map. (not) Where to paste it was the problem- what state gets this "extra"?  Florida??  Gosh...that would be something. 

Maine needs population growth....  

I have nothing else for you...I slept well.   The Sun is shining....  My oatmeal was very nice.  My coffee is lukewarm warm and needs a re-heat...

We now have lists of what is in the fridge and freezer on the door of said fridge and freezer.  So I can stare at the lists and not even have to open the fridge doors........ I am thinking about toast with butter and jam... But will have the baked potato instead.   Take care....we don't have much time left....

Daily Notes for SUNDAY March FIRST. Calendar changing day.

 No images....I just have nothing to show you today or yesterday or tomorrow.

So...cloudy here in Maine, lots of snow piling up. 30 degrees today and was in the 40's yesterday.  Weird Weather.

Warner-Paramount sent a 2 inch thick phone book sized manual regarding the take over and stock purchase....I have two shares my Dad gave me decades ago..  I am wondering if just tossing the entire manual in the recycling would work or do I have to remove the pages??????  Because I just don't care.  The stock price has gone up and I am looking forward to a check when they buy my 2 shares. I'll have enough cash to buy a quart of good ice cream... maybe MORE...

I'm tired of Winter...I'm actually just tired of about everything.... I did perk up enough to enjoy the Mars Discovery show.  And yesterday I chanced upon some of that show where people buy storage lockers full of crap.  I watched that for an hour or two.  I always expect a dead rat in the unit.

Well, British Soccer isn't going to watch itself....if there is any... I missed all the Saturday Cooking Shows because Maine Public TV is BEGGING YET AGAIN.... I gave them a car.

The local Music Theater is having a Tent Sale and asking for donations of NICE THINGS....my Lunch Buddy gave them her Wedding China a year or two ago- missing one tea cup....she found it before the auction and they were "thrilled".   

If we did a survey here....how many of you eat at the dining room table with good china and conversation??   Let's be truthful....

I eat sitting at the table, alone, reading the paper or doing Suduko puzzles.  Or I make a sandwich and eat it while watching tv on the couch (thinking about when I made my husband's lunch and he always got  ham and cheese roll ups and chips and pickles and a tall glass of lemonade with a side of two very tiny mandarine oranges).   While he watched Wipe Out on tv.  He worked hard his whole life...deserved a prepared lunch.  And the often baked cookies with sprinkles mixed into the dough.

I often forget I took very good care of him.