Daily Notes for Thursday May 21st.... Clouds...a bit cooler than yesterday. the Sun is starting to show up.

  A virtual bouquet for you all today.  Isn't it gorgeous?

My Vintage Romance yesterday was a delight.  Return to Summerhouse.  Traveling back in Time.  No plans as yet for today. Not a clue what I will decide to spend time doing..... could just sit and watch Law and Order.  But might Not be the day Law and Order is on BBC America.

The Septic Tank people sent a letter- it might be time to pump the tank out?...I replied "yes, please" and now we'll wait and see when they show up.  They also supply bark mulch... would be nice but beds would need weeding and cleanup before mulch could top them off.  Not my wheelhouse anymore.

I have a slight pain....left side of my head.... I might have breakfast and then retire to the couch. I'm past the mid point and heading  downhill (with speed) to my 81st birthday....things are going to start wearing out: acting up: No reading today but perhaps some Law and Order reruns????? I have recorded British Soccer games which might be a better choice. And I could just sit and stare at the walls.  Let my imagination run wild.  My old cat did that....stared at the walls.

Right now I am being reminded that I had no supper yesterday and it's TIME for BREAKFAST.

The newspaper headlines looked ominous.  Hope the Suduko is doable...  I keep hoping that there is someone out there reading the words I type....even if I am dull and quite boring.

Daily Notes on what, for Maine, Is going to be a HOT Sunny Day. May 20th.

 Not as HOT as this greenhouse would be.   I have ALL the windows closed.  Blinds closed. Ceiling fan going in the dining room/kitchen area.   Son never made a decision on the window AC units...was going to get new ones.  Didn't.   We could spend a fortune for whole house AC.   But that ship has sailed for 2026.

I ran out of milk this morning and the box of coffee cream is nearly empty as well... might be my last cup of coffee....Groceries wait until Friday.  (it's early on Wednesday)   I won't be having oatmeal tomorrow or the next day---with milk.  I also have no bread.  This has never happened before.  I am perplexed.....

Perhaps Son will go out for lunch and bring home a quart of milk????   Some bread??????   IF this IS a day he goes out for Lunch.  Could be a "stay at home" day.   Who knows..

It's seems like it's very very hot outside.....just the "look" of it.  I think a cloud just went over...nice

.Rain would be welcome......

I'm skipping the wool socks for today....heading for the couch....and my Jude Devereaux paperback. The small sized one...hell on the eyes but....why not.?????  I could always skip over to another author in the bookcase.......Daughter brought me some new (old) books the other day.... Or I can watch CSI and drift... I discovered I rarely pay attention to the plot or anything else... 

I've seen them all dozen's of times over the years.... over the winters when the Greenhouse didn't need me to "answer questions" in person...  calling me at home worked just fine.  And didn't have to pay me..... It's Maine... and I was wearing pajamas anyway.  And possibly forgot. to comb my hair.

Life in Maine is pretty easy (no rules)... no-one really pays much attention......I've seen people shop in their pajamas. Not me....I never did that. Really...I never did that...........I was never up that early or that late.   Might be something to add to a Bucket List??????

Daily Notes- Tuesday, May 19th. Sunshine and even more Sunshine here in Maine.

 Dahlias.   Almost all my ornamental trees have sent out flowers... daughter checked on the one I assumed was "dead" and she reported back that it had buds etc on it and was a "late" bloomer...  like me.

I now have my own copy of the Lost Husband.  

I'm reading Sarah Adams fourth book..In Your Dreams (library copy). The last of the four...I own the other three.   As the author says in her notes...we are taking our last trip to Rome, Kentucky.   All four sisters have now found their "true love".   I might find mine in a future Life?

I have to keep checking the date....I'm Lost in Time as they say and don't know what day of the week it is ... this happens because I have no set schedule of places to be and people to see... it's just me, the couch and the TV.  While on the couch....I read, I sew and look out the big windows...front and back.  I noticed a wild FOX running thru my yard this morning....they usually have rabies.

What will I do today?  Read? Yes.  Shred more paper? Yes.  Heat up the iron and give the small red fabric rectangle a press?  Yes. And most importantly...make something good to eat.  I bought more of those nice potstickers....and look forward to frying them till crispy...and eating them.  The Potstickers won the battle between them and Kraft Mac and Cheese. Well, right now....things could change in the next four hours.

Before any ironing can be done- I'll have to move all the stacks of "everything" off the ironing board.  And look for more red scrap fabric....."nothing new".   I'll be busy all day...that's for sure.

A Good Friend I have never met in person- Joan of California- had a car accident and lost her license... I mentioned a friend's older mom who had a taxi service on speed dial...  I've considered that option myself. My Lunch Buddy is no longer available for the occasional "lunch" as her husband has many many many doctor visits each week.   We haven't seen each other in such a long time.  All of 2026 so far and the last half of 2025.

I think the new neighbors across the street have come back from vacation... activity over there. And time for me to eat breakfast and read the paper...I saw some news on the computer screen......sigh......I might NOT read the news...... Humpty Dumpty Trumpty .......and go straight to the Suduko Puzzle. 

Daily Notes for Monday May 18th. Sunshine here in Maine. The Big Trees are leafing out.

 

Something Blue.  No newspaper as it's Monday....I haven't made my oatmeal as yet and actually have little to say here....reading the very old journal was like getting knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly..  

May take me awhile to recover.... the only positive aspect...I wasn't wrong.  All those decades- I wasn't wrong.

Well, I have books to read and yesterday while CSI was reconstructing bone fragments into a person I was sewing strips of red into squares.... not my usual squares... I haven't looked at them with this Morning's Eyes but will after I have breakfast, my morning pills and water.  I need to hydrate.

Everything about me feels dehydrated.

Since I wrote these words the Sun has gone away...looks like it will rain.  Which is fine with me.

Daily Notes for a Sunny Sunday in Maine.....May 17th.

 Camellia.....what a lovely lovely flower!!!!

Here it is Sunday in May... I have British Soccer on the Telly...I was hoping to see Mick Jagger in the audience but not his team.

I shredded a full bag of paper for recycling...might start in on a second bag now that I found the clear plastic bags.  Well, Son pointed them out.... I shredded an entire book that I had used as a Diary.  No need for others to read my private thoughts...another book of pages will be added to the shredded paper later today.  Tearing the pages out of the books is exhausting.  I didn't read any of it....again. 

I have a book to finish reading and another to start in on...the Return to the Library Bag is FULL of Rejected Books.  Really, it's disappointing these things get into PRINT. But then I might be the ONE the only One who is critical...and everyone else is happy......I think that might be it.  Just me being critical.

I'm almost to the end of One For The Money....daughter might find  Two for the Dough.  One copy is in repair at a distant library  and the second copy I found is "missing"..... and has been missing quite awhile.

That's it for today- there should be another Soccer Match... Manchester United....ah just highlights. LEE vs BHA..yellow and white uniforms.  The first 15 minutes is usually a waste of time.  

I  might watch them blow something up on CSI: Miami. or find a body in the SWAMP that an alligator has chewed on. When I lived in Florida it was the huge black shiny SNAKES that disgusted me..... slithering around...Husband had a machete and chopped them up...all the neighbors had him on speed dial.  We had three in the decorative pond out back once.....OMG.  Our kids were small and young.....tasty for a big snake.  And they were fast moving snakes..... We moved to Chicago ... before I had unpacked everything.

Well, I  am enjoying watching my trees make leaves/flowers....magenta, pink, yellow and all the different shades of green.  The invasive Lily of the Valley is enjoying the cement sidewalk it's tucked up next to. I happen to like the plant...and some small white flowers are beginning to show up.  I asked daughter to dig up hers and bring them over...she doesn't like them........

Daily Notes for Saturday May 16th. Sunshine here in Maine- still wearing wool socks.

 Wisteria.   I don't have any here at the house...it might now survive here in Maine.

I am typing this BEFORE I have had breakfast so the sugar levels aren't steady as yet.  My sleep and wake patterns are changing with the Season.  Up earlier than usual .... at loose ends being up so early.

Haven't set the oatmeal for 3 minutes as yet... newspaper headlines look disturbing... lots of space being used by the interest in a vast Amazon Building south of here.  Not sure we (Maine) have enough employees - unless they HIRE ALL the LLBean People??????   Could be interesting.

Yesterday I took a book off my own bookcase...not IN- it was ON.  One for the Money.  Been awhile since I read any Evanovich.    Hard to find here in Maine..  This was a Goodwill purchase.  Two and Three are "billed" at the Library so they aren't coming back..  Four and Five- "unavailable" so they aren't coming back.   Six and Seven and Eight might actually be on the shelves. BUT might be Large Print which my brain Can Not Deal With.  So I'll read One and be Done.

What my library does have is the books on CD's.  I used to listen when I was way into Quilting... Not now.

Now I like a good book, a cup of cooling tea and no one bothering me.

Well, I have breakfast to make and the disgusting newspaper to read...then the Suduko and back to the couch.  Stephanie Plum.....  Hasn't blown up anything in a dozen or so pages...Joe Morelli is in the kitchen cooking something- perhaps hoping to get the keys to his car back.  I'd forgotten how much Fun these books were.....and well, this is the only one....I'll be reading.  They are best enjoyed 1..2...3....4....etc. And NONE of those are available to me....who cares....I  have a GREAT FAVORITE  Danielle Steele waiting for me.

Daily Notes for Friday, May 15th. Clouds and Rain here in Maine....Temps in the mid 50's

 From Shutterstock.  Flat faced and really quite lovely.

Well, the newspaper has been read, the Suduko attempted, the oatmeal eaten......I am up very very early today for no reason at all.....I even got to hear for the first time in perhaps 10 to 15 years (or more)...the message my husband recorded on the phone when it rings all the way to the message...I usually pick up on the early rings...I didn't recognize his voice.  

And then I made the bed, brushed my teeth and got dressed.

But after contemplating.... I realize that's his voice from when we moved here...decades ago. And to be honest here....in the last years of his Life my husband rarely if ever spoke....to me.  Dementia is like that.

I doubt he knew who I was.

So a cloudy, damp day here in Maine....Grocery shopping.   Library.   What books to choose??????

What shall I buy for my Fruit of the Week?   I still have some cherries.  A few Bananas?

Should I get more Potstickers????  They were pretty decent...

Perhaps some cold Chicken Nuggets???

The CSI shows have circled around and I am seeing the earliest ones yet again...well, not really..I don't think I was watching when they were on previously but did watch decades ago.  The clothing and the cars...wow. I think I might have some of that in the Attic; (the clothing- not the cars)

Daily Notes of a Crabby Old Woman. Thursday May 14th... Chilly and Windy here in Maine.

 Japanese Cherry Blossom.  (again????)

I wasn't quick enough to get you a photo of the Wild Turkey in the back yard.

The tree in my yard to the left of the front porch- occasionally sends out a few pink flowers. But more often than not goes directly to green leaves.  As it has this year......

It's chilly..I have on a thermal shirt and a wool sweater and am still shivering.  I turned the furnace up a bit.  Usually I just tuck myself into the couch with a down lap blanket (or two).  Tomorrow is Library Grocery Shopping Day.... considering what books I will be choosing to read..... or more likely NOT read. I'm stuck in the "falling in love" category. I adore Romance.

I am also thinking about next week's food choices....the bag of cherries I got for the Week's Fruit are very very good. (more????) I have one more baked sweet potato for today's lunch (or dinner) with melted Swiss cheese and three slices of Toasting Bread for a nice Grilled Cheese sandwich plus toast with butter and jam..  Love when the food sorts itself out.

TV has been dismal.  I can't settle in and watch any of the regular stuff.  Channel Surfing never works for me.  I CANNOT watch NEWS.........

Well. enough whining....I have Soccer games recorded....I have CSI-New York.  CSI-Miami is getting a bit too ORANGE for me. New York is darker.  Linda Howard's Prey was very very readable. I now have THREE of her books I can always fall back on in a BooK Emergency. There is a fourth- the Woman Left Behind but that one breaks my heart....the military helicopter lifts off leaving her.......behind in enemy  territory... I might read it again..but I have taken it off the shelf and put it back many many times.

Daily Notes for Wednesday May 13th.... Chilly, Cloudy and Damp here in Maine. 50 degrees

 Not my garden... but perhaps my lawn.

Reading Linda Howard's Prey.  I like it.  Now I have three of her books that I like.

Daughter stopped in at the local bookstore and ordered two books for me...  One is the Lost Husband.  The shop owner will call when they arrive.

I wondered when the guys would come mow the lawn and presto...there they were mowing yesterday...the lawn looks AMAZING... green and lush.  The old Peony bushes are leafing out...I don't expect any flowers.  The Twin's Mom asked if I wanted to shop for annuals for the containers with her one of these days....I said yes.  The gal I usually shopped for annuals with isn't speaking to me anymore....I think the time was right for us to end things.  Past time for us to end things.

I had grocery store pot stickers for lunch yesterday...excellent.  I fried them in my favorite cast iron pan.. I think that might be considered- loosely..... as "cooking"... I also had some Mother's Day frozen custard... I am eating it slowly and enjoying it very very much.  Today is Toasted Cheese with Pickles Day.

I doubt we will be having any sunshine today and I might need to up the temp on the thermostat.  Even with a sweater I feel cold.  Yes, it's May but in Maine that means NOTHING.  The Atlantic Ocean is just  "over there".........

There might be British Soccer....There certainly is CSI: New York.  There are the final pages of Prey to read and then choosing a fresh book for today....I'm thinking something light and frothy.  A romance out of the bookcase?

Or several episodes of Law and Order?????  So many good choices....well, my breakfast coffee needs a warm up and I need to check the setting on the thermostat...there's a chill in the air.

Daily Notes- For Tuesday May 12th,.. A Cloudy Day so far with a bit of a chill..here in Maine.

 Someday.

Well, it looks cloudy and damp here in Maine...I have to turn UP the furnace...get the chill out of the house.  The back of my neck feels chilled.

One of the Library Books I chose is going back after 5 pages.  How do these books get published???? I finished my  favorite Linda Howard- Cover of Night.   Up Close and Dangerous is the one with the crashed airplane...my second favorite... I have two more here but never really like them as much as the first two.

Not much else to type...I changed the water in my vase of flowers...I do it every morning after oatmeal and newspaper.   I need to find a good book for this chilly cloudy damp day.

I read a few pages- Prey might be an excellent choice. So. I'm set for the day...and if the chill continues I have the heating pad handy.  And some British Soccer.    And a reheated cup of coffee.

Son has gone out for lunch.  This is usually when I used to eat cookies.  Now there are NO COOKIES!!!! but there are Pot Stickers to Fry up when it's time for MY LUNCH.   Couple hours from now.

Nothing more to say....

Daily Notes for Monday, May 11th.......Sunshine here in Maine. 60 degrees. Grass is getting tall.

 The last of the peony images.

There is quite a bit of sunshine here in Maine today....the grass is nice and green..  I don't know why it recovered so nicely from the over fertilizing but it did.  The grass...well, it has a lumpy surface as it hasn't been mowed in quite a long time...I would mow it but husband bought a fancy mower and it's actually difficult to get it started....I think we might have used it once or twice.   

I spoke (typed) too soon...clouds have rolled in and it's bleak outside.

Difficult Mower as in "hold this lever down push this one up let the choke out"....you get the idea...for a guy in the early stages of dementia it was a puzzle he never solved.  Why I have a lawn service cutting the grass and an expensive walk behind mower in the garage unused.  We need to attach a For Sale sign to it and put it out on the curb.  I know everyone "does Facebook" but I do not.

I have never actually been interested in revisiting high school.  Or college. Or any of the half dozen places husband dragged all of us........ and we have the moving boxes in the Attic to prove it.

I need to visit the DMV.   My driver's license expires...and instead I might just apply for an ID...in case people want  to know who I am.   I will NOT be driving...  I know there are those of you my age who are still driving but I doubt any of you took a 5 or 10 year sabbatical from driving???????

I'm fine with being a passenger.

Daily Notes for Sunday May 10th. Happy Mother's Day.

More images of Peonies.
 

Well, I accidentally purchased a lovely bouquet of flowers on Friday's grocery shopping day.. Not realizing it was going to be Mother's Day..   And the internet provided the vase of Peonies.  Aren't they lovely? Serendipity.

My back seized up when I rolled out of bed this morning...I am walking standing and sitting with a bit of "ginger" as they say.  Gingerly.  I can hear my spine bones moving ...such an odd thing to have to notice. Your bones moving.

I discovered I have to wait until FALL to dig up and divide my own ancient peonies.  Research is a wonderful thing. And in the time in-between I will consider where the split segments will go...more will be near the front steps...where I see things more often than the back yard.  Perhaps they will all be out front.  I read they like limited amounts of sun??????

I am willing to ask for or hire help in the digging and dividing...  I am 80.8 months old.  I counted the number on my fingers.  Just today...before that I was UN-aware.

 I recall Gregor's phone calls when she was in her 80's...to come get something she could not reach, or lift. And also endlessly driving over to thread her sewing machine needles.   I was asked if I wanted her machine...after she passed...I said no...I liked the simple- ish one I had at home.  Gregor thanked me with some lunch...home cooked lunch.. then I would read the New York Times and she took a nice nap. I miss her. She died alone one afternoon standing by her sink in the kitchen... 

I wear her red sweater...the very heavily mended one. Keeps her close. She ran over to the library (where I was working) on 911 and I drove her back home and stayed until she stopped crying...memories of Pearl Harbor. She kept saying "was never supposed to happen again"

Son got me some ice cream for Mother's Day...I don't know what kind it is but will have some after Sunday Pizza.   Right now I am recording British Soccer... two games.  And then I'll return to my book- the plane just crashed and the woman has sewed up the large gash on the pilot's forehead..now she has to find shelter.  Or rather create shelter.  I've read the book a few times...the first time was the worst..but they survive.  So now it's easier.  But not by much.

Saturday, May 9th...I got the Flowers. Cloudy and Damp here in Maine...

 My sister in law mentioned dividing my very old peonies...since they don't do much these days but send up leaves.   Will involve a shovel...unless daughter digs them up for me...  dividing I can do.

With that on my mind I went looking for free images of peonies...and here is one.

My grandmother had a long bed of these flowers....and I spent lots of daylight time with my grandmother. so it's in my DNA I guess...to like plants and flowers. And remember my lovely grandmother. 

I'm more like her with each passing decade.  She colored her white hair...I don't.  She patched and mended everything recalling the time in life after she got off the boat in America when she had nothing.  I patch and mend my 25 cent pants and my Goodwill sweaters.  And will until there is only patches...

She was 16.  When she arrived in America.

Well, I have things to do and a nice start on something I have never done before...way out of my regular zone.  I had hoped to add Lactiva Threads to it...but they would hardly be noticed... so I'll go with something plain... and make a new Lactiva Thread Platform.

Enjoy the Beauty of this flower....drawn and painted by a very gifted artist.  Unknown. To Me..To you.

Daily Notes for Friday May 8th.... Sunshine outdoors but chilly inside the house.

 Today is Grocery Store and Library.  I am 90% sure I will purchase a bouquet of flowers...for myself.

I did a "bit too much" yesterday.  I was only going to pick up branches off the lawn..some were quite heavy and there were way more than in the front yard.....also the back lawn slopes down..so I was walking up and then down.  Way too much so I came in to rest halfway.. I wanted to get all the branches up before the guys did the first lawn mowing.

I also pulled these long straight stems out of the ground...  No idea what they are.  I'm sure more will come up this year. I found sharp pruners and removed tree branches that would be a problem for the guys cutting my grass.  The lawn in back is lush and green and much healthier than the one in front of the house.

My husband was the one who sharpened the pruners...now NO one will. I recall people dropping off pruners at the Greenhouse where we worked- to have them sharpened...nothing ever happened. Now I wish I had paid attention to how it's done.....

I have things on the grocery list to make a nice Italian meal for myself.  I'll wait a bit longer to try making Eggplant Parm.  But some nice pasta with meatballs sounds good.

That's it....some gardening exercise every other day---just 20 or 30 minutes... but only when it feels safe to do so......I'm not ready to walk to the end of the street and back as yet....that was my exercise program last year.

I got to watch my all time favorite episode of Bones... "Finder"....yesterday.  Delightful.

Daily notes for Thursday May 7th. Small amounts of sunshine but mostly cloudy...63 degrees

 Nice flowers. Anyone out there know their name???? I don't.

I got an email from somewhere saying "if your lawn greens up in the Spring" you do NOT need fertilizer. My lawn is exceptionally green. (way OVER fertilized)..  If some areas appear 'sluggish" feed them in the Fall.... not now.

I like this advice.  Also scoop finished compost from the bottom of the pile not the top.... I agree.

Been watching Season One of CSI: Vegas.   Good degree of CRINGE.  Clothing, Hair and Dialogue. 

British Soccer was very good... Arsenal. A favorite.  Huge thighs.  No clue who won.  Lots of yellow cards.

Oatmeal was very good- nice start to the day...first cup of English Tea. Also good.

I have not felt steady enough to go out back and pick up fallen branches...before the guys stop in to mow  the grass for the first time this year.  I don't want to be that old lady who has "fallen and I can't get up"..

My book, very close to the finish line is Linda Howard's Troublemaker.  I like this book very much.  At some point my Library will put in on the "Take Any Book Free" cart.... and I won't be able to read it anymore... the chance of me being around when it hits the free cart are slim to zero.  I might be the only person who checks it out......that should be a point in my favor?

I thought it was sunny enough to wear only a thermal shirt and a cotton work shirt. in the house.. I'm cold. I refuse to use up any of my almost $5 a gallon Heating Oil to get the heat up higher than 65.  I'll jog down to my room for my sweater.   I'll walk slowly befitting my AGE.

I am also WANTING  pan fried Pork Dumplings....An image of them arrived a few days ago in the feed...the image is right under these words....  they look so VERY DELICIOUS.  Nothing in MY freezer but I might check out the grocery store tomorrow.  My grocery is not known for a great Chinese Food Selection.  I also want ice cream.  I have to buy frozen yogurt......sigh.

It's pitiful to be me.  And my freezer is almost completely empty. Son tossed everything in there after reading "used by dates".  I said the dates were only a suggestion....

Today's News- Wednesday May 8th....Cloudy with a Good Chance of Rain...59 degrees

 I'm just done with breakfast oatmeal and feel like I need a NAP.   This is what I thought Old Age would be like...and it is fulfilling my expectations...I wake up tired.

I also wake up sad.  There were so many wonderful days and months and years in my Life but not that much now...I must have used up my allotment.   Now...not much happens.

I have some fallen branches to clean up in the back yard today... larger than the fallen branches in front of the house....so I will need to drag them off to the side of the yard.   The side that used to fill up with knee high water every Spring...and have little peepers..peeping... Riley (my dog) loved to take a flying leap into the water.  Swim a bit.  Water levels in Maine are very low....global warming, I guess.  Not as much snow.

I had a wonderful bowl of oatmeal this morning- still working on the cup of coffee...a bit bitter this morning. (even though it's 12:30 and no longer morning).....

I don't have any more sweater holes to mend.  But do need to find a sweater to wear over my faded cotton worksheet...or turn up the furnace.  I actually don't like turning up the furnace in MAY.  So I will hunt down my favorite sweater.  Or any sweater.

Well, I am on page 193 out of 384 in my Linda Howard book.  No gunshots have been fired as yet. I am going to look up her other books and hopefully find the ones I'd like to read again.  

I am still looking for a design to draw on cloth and fill with Deb L's fantastic dyed thread. The one I had decided on is nowhere to be found.....as is the case with so many of my things.

Daily notes- Tuesday May 5th....Sunshine here in Maine. 64 degrees.

 Oats. Again.  I have a large bowl of microwaved oats each morning.... Internet sent me a new image... Internet is stuck on oatmeal.  Weird but true.

I do not eat my oats with a glowing golden spoon.  Would if I could?  No.

I had a shower this morning and my hair is quite curly and bouncy after being washed. I still wish someone would check on my shower head as it is still spraying water up and also down...just a bit UP but that could change at any moment in Time....to a Full Hosing of the ceiling....which is NOT TILE.

I am not reading the book I thought I was going to be reading......you can laugh... go ahead.  Instead I have  checked out the one where the government hitman is living with the small town Police Chief...    I thought I was reading a different Linda Howard book.  I like this one. So it will work out okay.  I might look for the other one on Friday.. 3.5 days from now. Unless I already have it on my book shelf...I'll go look.  

My neighbor replied to my query regarding her landscaper....seems he is overloaded with customers and his back up guy is now loaded up with the HIS overload... No one is happy and no one  is taking ANY new business.   So my yard will remain untended for a third year in a row. The grass will get mowed. Period. After I grapple with downed tree limbs.

And some of you thought living in Maine was GREAT...No.  Just No.   

There are some large (fallen) tree branches that need moving before the lawn guys show up and mow around them....for sure they won't move them. Daughter would but she's at work.

One of my front yard bushy tree like shrubs has got little red/pink flowers on it this morning.  Not yesterday.  Wow.  Just noticed it as I glanced out the front window.... then stood up to make sure I wasn't imagining things.  Flowers?  Yes!!!!  Some Good Gardening News.

That's it....no clue as to what I will watch...but I think I will read until there is Soccer...

Monday, May 4th....back in business. Cloudy and 55 degrees here in Maine.

 Lots of Floral Images here on the "net" this morning.  My daffodils have gone by as they say and need dead heading.....now I did go out and do that last Spring...but not feeling like I want to this Spring.  I imagine that is the numerical activity difference between 79 and 80 years of age.

The Narrowing of the Limits of Age.  Perhaps the new subtitle of this Blog????

I stumbled upon a blog writer that was a daily addition to my computer usage quite awhile ago...and there she was...I read her very very long post and did NOT add her to my list.  Been there ...done that....wasn't going to be able to follow any of her leads..... sigh.  "A Way to Garden"

Son and I made Sunday Pizza yesterday- as fantastic as usual.....we also tucked my two sweet potatoes in the hot oven....I get all sorts of good things from the bright orange insides of the potatoes.  They are also a nice container for melting Swiss cheese.  Some Vintage CSI: Miami completed the day.

I've lost this post twice now and had trouble getting back here....so I think I might stop while I am ahead so to speak.   No idea how I will spend today....but reading seems to be uppermost... I never did read ANYTHING yesterday......I was mending the elbow of my old sweater and then noticed the cuff on my right sleeve was dangling...so that needed repair.  Which involved looking for the small piece of black wool I use as backing to the embroidery floss.  One can loose ones self in the Sewing Room...So much  to sort thru....in the end...black wool was right next to my couch.  Where I used it last.  The sleeve cuff of my sweater is now heavily reinforced.  Ready for another Winter....NOW to search for the remainder of that black wool sweater........

I have on a faded blue work shirt....not a Lactiva Dye Works one...just an old stained one...from some store that no longer exists.....one or two I held back so they retain- their color (blue)- and are still in "clean" condition... the others are all worn, faded almost white blue, stained and patched and soft...not threadbare as yet.... but...I might need to add a sweater.....it's gotten colder as I sat here typing.. 

Well, I need wool socks and a sweater.....even in May--Maine is cold.

Daily Notes- Sunday May 3rd. Sunny with Clouds.

 I had trouble with the keyboard and mouse and didn't;t list...more tomorrow.

Daily Notes for Saturday May 2nd. Rain, clouds and a new desk calendar page.

 I've spent some time pasting a few things on this new calendar month. some line drawings I made and a few other things....

I love the simplicity of this kitchen.  I'd get rid of the small carpet.  I'd like a window over the sink. Or across from the sink like mine is.

I had a whole post written and decided I didn't like any of it.   I'm at this point...where I dislike almost everything and think most things are too tedious to actually get involved in....... or are so beyond my physical capabilities that sitting on the couch is all I can do...safely.

I haven't chosen a book to read as yet.....I did get a Baker and Taylor book off the FREE BOOK cart.- a book the library "rented' instead of buying...I guess they decided not to return it to its owner either. It's  a mystery thriller type....I have a few in the bookcase- not this author though.  I checked out two Linda Howard books yesterday...both are creepy.  But I know what happens  (read multiple times) no one dies. so I am okay reading the safe pages and skipping the not safe ones.

I bought Tessa Bailey's new book...Catch Her If You Can...  got to page 31 and that's as far as I am going. I had high hopes for it being as great as the earlier books.....not happening.

So that's it for today...

Daily Notes for Friday May First. Sunshine here in Maine but CHILLY.

 Yellow flowers today.  I'm not a real fan but husband liked all things yellow.

Grocery Shopping and dropping off books at the Library.  Regular Friday stuff.  Warmer weather is always a nice addition to Friday Chores.  Figuring out what jacket to wear is the most difficult part of Friday.

I've been adding more cheese to my regular Toasted Cheese Sandwiches. More pickles as well.  That's about as interesting as my day gets......and it's really topped up the interest for me.

I should stop typing right now....but I did read my two favorite Devereaux books back to back... and stayed up past midnight with both...good times.  Very very good times.

So I have been asked about my "energy levels" post oatmeal and I replied they are excellent...so we'll be leaving for the grocery store in minutes......I have on a cotton shirt and not a fleece or sweater today.  May prove to be TOO SOON and I might need to change over to something "warmer"..... one never knows here in Maine as the OCEAN sends a Chill Air over us even in July and August.  Certainly in May.

Well, I have to get my brain in gear for grocery shopping....so I have the correct amount of food in the fridge to keep me happy.  Bananas this week???...Potassium. I have two pears and an apple in the fruit bowl... left over from other shopping days.  I might check out the oranges....... I always like them.  

My Annual Flu shot may actually have a positive effect on Dementia...good news.

I got Bananas and some salted mixed nuts....as a "treat".  Skipped the ice cream.