Daily notes- Sunday, May 31st... Cloudy and 67 outside and 64 inside the house.

 Market Flowers.  Not here in my house.....

And yes, the temps up top are correct- colder inside the house than out.

I don't think any of you reading this post will be surprised that I woke up tired this morning...I postponed my shower yesterday...wasn't feeling steady- thought it might be better to have breakfast first to even out the blood pressure.   Then I procrastinated.

I might also need to replace the short sleeved tee with the long sleeved thermal shirt... like right now.  I'm COLD.  I might shower later this afternoon if I feel like it would be a "good idea".

I added a few digits to the indoor temp..... we'll see when the furnace kicks in if that helps.  Son would recommend I add a thermal long sleeve shirt to my outfit.  That actually sounds good....I'll be right back..

Feeling warmer already... I started in on Book Seven-- titled Seven Up.  I also promised my Son I would NOT ask him to collect books at the library when he goes out for lunch.  Friday is Book Collection Day...period.    

I might need to add a sweater to my outfit.  Yep....went and got a sweater.  

I could pull weeds out by the Propane Tanks and Whole House Generator.  But it looks like it might rain.  I keep hoping the Weed Fairies will show up overnight and get the job done... I pulled the damned things out last year ...roots and all....thinking that would be it... It wasn't it.   I tried doing a Pep Talk on myself but ... it's a Hard Sell.   CSI has reverted back to season one episodes from the 60's or 70's...gag me.   FSN has old Soccer games....and they delete the boring parts when no one scores.... really.

Good Morning....Dressed and ready for breakfast at 10:30 am.... Been up a few hours ruminating on my LIFE.... wondering where that quilt went.

 Pink Dahlia.

The area behind the garage and up close to the new Generator needs weeding...looks like a jungle out there. I pulled all the weeds last year...roots and all...but...they are back.   

I had Past Plans for that area- a nice Herb Garden...  I could walk out on the stone paths with scissors and cut herbs for what ever I was cooking that day......now I have WEEDS and rarely if ever cook anything thought my son keeps reminding me of the SOUP I was going to make.... vegetables with beans.

I watch repeats of the Paris Soccer on FXS. Fox Sports. One of the four digit stations.. Messi. He's famous for a reason.

CSI: Miami was back in the 90's... yesterday......I didn't like the 90's very much.

Today...what will I do today....yesterday Son told me he is not  happy with being asked to go pick up Library Books (or forgotten groceries_) on any day other than Grocery/Library Day.   I understand......for decades Library Day was just that ONE day in the week......not a bunch of days in one week.....problem was books were coming for statewide Libraries....and I wanted to read them in "order".......that's coming to a close... Stephanie  Plum is now in the double digits..... and she's teaming up with Ranger.  My Library has those books...and I ordered a few others....something different.  

Weather here in Maine has been STRANGE..  It can be sunny, dry and warm and then ten minutes later cold, wet and dark.  Right now I need to be turning on lamps..  It's pretty dark in here. and it's been raining......but the sidewalks are bone dry.  Weird.

I got two Old Favorite Books at the Library yesterday.  One that my daughter has been looking to buy me but can't find anywhere..... Looks like a new Library copy....fresh. I also have a brand new Lynn Painter.. If it's not good I'll just revert to an older book of hers....but first- I'll make my oatmeal and put on my socks.   Try the Suduko.   Read the nasty newspaper headlines...cringe......

I slept a long time this morning....Late Start.

 When I used to sew and make things.  I don't believe\ this has ever been top stitched down as yet.. and I don't know where it is...certainly not here..in the house.

I slept till 2 pm.   No excuse for it...

When son thinks I am awake enough we will do Library and Grocery Store.  I changed into a more stylish shirt for the outing...surprised it fits....and my pants are loose also.  I am eating more...

Daily Notes for Thursday May 3rd. The Grass was Cut. The Clouds are rolling in...Rain??????

 I have neither the lawn chairs nor the twisted half dead tree but I do have newly, freshly mowed  green grass....lots of it.  I expect rain at any moment.  Looks like a golf course out there right now.

I am 2/3rds into Four to Score....someone fire bombed Stephanie's apartment and car. She's staying with Morrelli.  Having dinner with his mom and grandmother...  Yikes...

I had my grocery store potstickers for lunch yesterday....might have a grilled cheese with "so many" pickles today with remaining bread and cheese slices......considering the choices tomorrow for grocery shopping and my lunches.  I also have one banana left...for potassium.... 

I need to order Statin's for pick up next Friday.  Count the number of vitamins I have left...might need a new jar.  Low on Tylenol as well.

I have more new images for the blog posts....  I found them back in the treasure trove of old posts...my own.  So many years of posts.  I doubt the photos are mine.

Well....what to do now....socks or no socks?????  House lights on or off?  Re-heat coffee a second time? Watch CSI- Vegas or New York....again?????  Finish reading my book.  The only character I am enjoying this time around is Ranger- Yo.  But that was always the way it went.   I am missing book Five. All the surrounding libraries are ALSO missing book Five.

Daily Notes for Wednesday, May 27th... Sunshine here in Coastal Maine. 76 degrees

 A repeat?   Short on images at the moment.  I deleted the image from the desktop so we won't see this one again.

Wu Peng has one flower this year.  A very nice one.   Almost the same color as the image up top but a bit darker.   For Readers who have been reading for over a decade or two or three- you know how long it took Wu Peng to actually make his first flower. (peony).    He arrived with that name printed on the instruction page.  Wo Peng always makes a lot of leaves.....so I know he is healthy. Just stubborn.

My neck bones are making a cracking sound when I turn my head or move my head up and down.

I imagined hearing the Lawn Guys.....I was wrong.  I think the noise I hear is the fridge doing things....

I don't have much more to type-   I have the remainder of the bag of paper to shred.   Yesterday it was sale contracts for houses I lived in decades ago.  Pretty soon I'll uncover my college quarterly grade reports. I already shredded the German House contracts.   Marianna and the office group in Frankfurt.....I missed you so much while doing that....tears came to my eyes......in waves,

It's going to be that sort of day....good memories...such good memories.  Christopher mentioned he missed Frau Loes...who came to clean every Wednesday.  And never moved any of HIS things even though she dusted under them.... both of us would love having her here in Maine.  We have dust. Lots of it.

Well, still no sign of the Lawn guys.... 

I'm working my way thru Three to Get Deadly---- Stephanie's Mom made Spice Cake.. (which means I NOW want spice cake) Mom..gave most of the cake to Joe to take home with him.... He was eating cake when Stephanie came home to find him in her apartment...well, after ALL the shooting in the parking lot. The Senior Citizens living there all have guns. Stephanie is wanted for murder and Ranger said helping her was a Hard NO..... Lula even said NO and she loves packing a gun..   Joe said Hell, No.   Get Deadly a good title.  I don't recall who is trying to shoot her......I was concentrating on the Spice Cake.

Daily notes for a warmish Maine Day. Tuesday the 26th. Where are the Lawn Guys?????

 Well, I have nothing to say.

I'm all out...  My neck is full of unresolved tension...I have no socks on so it must be warmer today than yesterday.  My Lunch Buddy is still completely booked with medical stuff for her husband. He's signed up for Cardiac Rehab...at lunchtime.  For a few weeks...or longer........ my husband did that.  I just shredded the paperwork.....

I am holding so much tension in my neck muscles I wonder why my head hasn't cracked off and fallen on the floor.  I can hear the bones when I move my head.   At least I am not crying while typing this... I got that over with while reading the morning paper.  The Suduko was above my pay grade as well.

That's it about it....I am going to grab some Tylenol...sit on the couch, rotate my neck muscles. Perhaps have a second cup of hot sweet tea.   Perhaps cry some more.

It happens....my Lunch Buddy is ALSO wondering when the Lawn Guys are going to show up... Grass is pretty high.  Yard looks terrible...  Green? yes, but like no one lives here. Like an abandoned house.

Son is back from Lunch.

Daily notes- It's raining here in Maine...puddles everywhere. We needed rain so...it's great.

 We might have had these already.. 

Well, ...today a rain day and the furnace going..... to warm us up a bit- or else because Son is taking a long hot shower...... I was going to ...but I have to first assess my balance and blood pressure. Make sure I am steady....I decided to have breakfast instead.  A good choice.

Book Three is waiting for me...  Three to Get Deadly.  I will miss the Big Blue Buick. (my grandfather had a huge Pontiac).. ..but happy to see Lula back and enjoying Filing....I enjoyed the heck out of filing as well.  It's a very Virgo Thing.

Right now- (but not every day....or even every week)....I enjoy shredding paper.  Shredding papers I have saved for years (decades) and now....who cares...I've looked them over and wonder the same thing again and again...WHY???? Did I save this???????  

My Banker said "not having a copy of something is often better than actually having the copy"..Ignorance is Bliss.  Would make a nice Sampler.

What to do today?.....I have some sorting to do in the Sewing Room...thread is finding a new home. At 80.5 I know I will never get around to using as much as I have in the closet.  I know at some point I will have to have son or daughter thread needles for me.  Sooner rather than later.  My red sweater needs mending yet again.  The sleeve ends on the dark grey sweater need patching again.  I need mending.

But first I need to dig around in my closet for the Donor Sweaters.  I cut them into patches. to reinforce the cuffs of the red sweater....which have become "see thru" thin.  CSI?  While I sew?  Law and Order? British Soccer?   Antique's Roadshow?????

My neck feels cold... I need to move to the couch and my down lap blanket and my tacky black shawl to wrap around my neck...    Have a nice day.

Attention Book Readers.....

 Two for the Dough was so so Great!!!!!!

Tomorrow I start Book Three.   This is going to be the BEST WEEK EVER!!!!!

Daily Notes for Sunday May 24th. Two British Soccer games being recorded. Cloudy and 60 degree in coastal Maine.

 I am not sure but this might be a South African flower of some sort. Has no title.

I'm cold...I have on a thermal long sleeved shirt snd a vintage cashmere sweater...I say vintage because it's thin- worn see thru thin and not very warm.  I woke up COLD and I haven't been able to shake it off.

I just walked back to the bedroom to gather up this old piece of rayon (a long rectangle)- black and slippery but warm "none the less"...it's patched etc and someone in the past poured bleach on it.  Randomly.  It isn't something I would ever wear in public.  Somehow it keeps me warm...

Today is Sunday Pizza.  

A long awaited new book by an author I like arrived at the library for me...I started reading it yesterday..it felt familiar. ... the Paris Match.  By an author I like very much.   I kept reading and it was all TOO familiar.   A fresh new cover and inside the date 2026.  And NOT a new book.  An old book I hadn't enjoyed reading the first time they printed it.  I looked in my bookcase to see if I had purchased the earlier copy...I had not..(thank goodness).  Clayborn.  

Love Lettering is my very favorite of her books. The only other book of hers I don't own is Georgie Girl...I didn't like it.  I read Paris Match years ago and it was just as awful as it is now in the fancy new cover.  They changed nothing but the cover and spent considerable cash advertising their NEW book.... Thank goodness I didn't buy it.  A re-print.

I'm warming up finally  The old rayon wrap does the trick.  It's chilly here in Maine- off shore winds.

Nothing more to say...it seems I am surrounded by disappointments lately...even Storage Wars last night was a disappointment.  Really hard for something so awful to disappoint.

I should have bought the corn chips....on Friday Grocery Day. We could have been "salty" together... 

Reading Two For the Dough....from a far away library... Three and Four arrived from my own Library. No Five as yet.... but do have Six, Seven and possibly Eight from other Libraries. I'm not getting up again to look.

Two is "flat and dull" so far...perhaps why I don't own ANY of the others.  Characters sliding in and out and Reader not given a reason to like any of them.  Even Ranger...

Well, I DID get excited about the chocolate covered donuts she buys to share with Morelli.. But..CHOCOLATE COVERED DONUTS?????  Who wouldn't get excited.

Joan I am waiting to read what you think of book two.

Daily Notes for Saturday May 23 rd. Sunshine here in Maine but it doesn't feel WARM

A South African Flower.

 Well, it took some time but I got the margin all the way to the left.  It looks warm outside but there is a chill on the back of my neck here in the house.  63 in the house I think...I'm running colder than usual these days.  My neck muscles are also tight and that actually hurts today.  Turning my head makes strange cracking noises in my neck bones....getting old is SO awful.  And noisy.  Time is running out. 

I feel like I am worrying about something and there is tension etc.  Worry about what???? Lunch?

More books have come in from far away Libraries.- Stephanie Plum number two and four.  I have three on the shelf waiting.  I got number one at a used book store.   I am hoping my son will pick them up  but I don't think today is a day he goes out for lunch.  I think he went out yesterday.  But it's sunny so he might want to drive around with the top down???????  Get a cold brew coffee.

Otherwise I will read something else or watch CSI (until the books get picked up)...... the earliest episodes are being shown now...tacky 80's clothing and morals.  That was an ugly decade.

Well, I'd best get to whatever I am going to be doing today.....I polished off the chicken nuggets yesterday. Today will be grilled cheese with pickles.  Tomorrow is pizza with a big salad.  After that......anyones' guess.  Ah, the potstickers... yum.  Perhaps today instead of the sandwich?????

Looking at the dark and light leaves up top- would be a good practice painting with the watercolors.  I actually do enjoy painting.....I don't do it often but when I do...very very enjoyable.  I like drawing way better though...that was an interesting thing to discover in my 70's.......would have been useful in college- to know that I actually liked drawing....... Next Life- I hope I recall all this stuff.

Daily Notes- Friday May 22nd- Sunshine here in Maine.

 Summer Reading.  Image from online source on Summer Reading.  Pink Plastic Chair.

I am dressed and ready for my weekly visit to the Library.....I have Evanovich number 3 to pick up.  Number two hasn't arrived (so sad-very few libraries actually own a copy- most of them are "lost").....I will check other Evanovich books my Library might own.... possibly ones I never read.

I am also looking for a few Danielle Steele books.   I read one yesterday- it still has a"new" sticker on it. I'd read it before so still okay... Never Say Never...  People with money who whine less than usual.

Yesterday I made an appointment for the Septic Tank to be "pumped out".   June 8th.  

I actually followed thru...

Lawn Service and Septic Tank........ what's next???????  I stood out front looking at my roof shingles... and then looked at my neighbors' roof shingles......they are supposed to last a LONG time...and my roof is. BIG......

We got thru the first "heat wave " of a Maine Summer....windows shut...ceiling fan.  Good enough.

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.