Daily Notes from a Snow Covered Maine....But we have Sunshine. Wednesday Jan 21st.

Good morning.  Time it took getting these index card line drawings here- I could have taken the College Prep Exams.  Getting the left side alignment...wow. Enlarge, print and color them yourself????  Please do- 

And I can see I actually didn't get it where it was supposed to be on the far left.....time out while I bang my head on the desk.   I enjoyed making these drawing yesterday while watching antiques roadshow.  The alternative was British Soccer and I had already watched one match....and wanted to save the second recorded match for today.  I DID enjoy looking at the Very Handsome Soccer Coach- he was grinding his teeth. I know he wasn't happy.

Today is going to be a repeat of the Most Excellent Toasted Cheese Sandwich with Sweet Pickle Slices. Using up the last two slices of Toasting Bread.  I will be making soup...eventually. Eventually is still quite a distance away.

I am also tempted to sharpen the colored pencils and work on the line drawings....

I read Cruise's Anyone But You yesterday and today Crusie's Agnes and the Hitman.. (unless I read Anyone But You again today....it was very good.  I did want Oreos...  I seem to have purchased my very own copy of Agnes... and it's still in brand new condition.  I need a copy of Anyone But You also.  But it may only be in hardback.  Bet Me is also in brand new condition on the bookshelf (soft cover)....and I really love that book.  Really....Truly...Deeply......

I am stockpiling for my Eventual Time in Assisted Living... Index cards.  Black ink pens.  Books. Tub of cloth scraps and thread, needles and scissors.   And a yearly brand new desk calendar and a glue stick. 

I am a simple woman with simple wants...... Toasted Cheese with Sweet Pickles...Dark Chocolate..... Wool Socks....Down Comforter and Down Pillows on my bed..  white linen sheets.....Index Cards (large size), Glue Stick and Pilot G-2 black ink pens....a whole box of them.   Romance Books......only the really really good ones.  Like ALL of Agnes and the Hitman.  

 

Daily Notes for Tuesday January 20th. Fresh Eyes.

Something bright and yellow- cheerfulness on a very very Snowy Maine Morning.  21 degrees and Sun. The white snow is blindingly bright.  

Starting to worry about Arctic Snowmelt raising ocean water levels....in Maine.  We sit close to sea level. And my house sits close to the coast line. And when we moved here  (decades ago) my backyard was a LAKE every Spring.  I had DUCKS swimming in the low, deep, spots and Eagles feeding on the ducks. Carrying the poor ducks away while they screamed.....it wasn't nice.  Then Maine dried up.

Son would say- "why worry about stuff you can't control?"   Virgos need to WORRY. It's in the DNA.

Plan for the day is dragging the central vac hose out and around...floor is pretty disgusting.  The sunshine is making it all very visible.  I have been reluctant to drag out the central vac as it is really a "workout" hauling the hose and getting it bent and stuck etc etc etc.   One can do the entire first floor with only two outlet changes....the hose is that long.  And I am no longer a Spring Chicken.  I need significant rest periods.  To catch my breath.  Could take all day....if I get started.  I didn't start yesterday. 

Yesterday's Happiness was a grilled cheese sandwich with sweet pickle slices....yummmy.  Also the remainder of the Christmas Shortbread Cookies with Hot Sweet Tea.   I still have leftover Pizza slices...for today's lunch.  I haven't made the Vegetable Bean Soup.....yet.  There might be...yes there are.... Brussels Sprouts to add some bitter notes to the vegetable soup... excellent.  Whenever it gets made. I'm in no hurry.

I also have a great book to read and English Soccer to watch....  better get started.....

Daily Notes for Monday, January 19th. Snow overnight. Again.

Homemade biscuits.   I made something like this (often) back when we lived outside of Atlanta.   What I could label- the "Good Years".... great neighbors, lovely big townhouse..  Kids all over for mine to play with. Best friend one Townhouse row over.  Until it wasn't.  Never baked biscuits again. Never really baked anything. Again... the new house in Florida didn't have central air but did have snakes..   The next house in Chicago had friendly  neighbors and the Fire Chief across the street.....to fix things for me.  His daughter was my babysitter.  I found a job......worked.  Was really happy...we moved again. and again. I know you all know all this already...Sorry for the repeating....blame it on the biscuits.

Football yesterday...and the day before.  Sunday Pizza was exceptionally good...crust had a nice "crunch". I also watched PBS after two  football games.....the Nazi's and the wayward British King and Queen.

Started the day with a great hot shower and clean hair.   My chest wound is getting better and less red,...still needs a bandage.... still a bit of uncomfortable if I move or stretch too much. A burning pain- but just a shiver of it.,, these days.

Maine's Senator..Angus King.....is going to meet with Danish Officials re: President's threats.  Our Maine newspaper mentioned ICE agents--locally......here in Maine. A hotbed of immigrants (laughing). People with a tan are suspect here. Why the natives stay in Florida till early summer. Perhaps longer this year????

Today's book- accidentally chosen at Library-- is actually a GREAT FAVORITE..... Jennifer Cruise's Anyone But You.   Need to buy my own copy. Unhappily married middle aged woman moves out  of husband's deluxe  townhouse and into a walk up tiny apartment...also buys a stinky old hound dog set for the "big sleep" at the local pound. She feels she escaped her own "big sleep" with husband.   Meets the  young ER doctor one floor down.  They watch old movies together- all three of them. Man, woman and dog.  Popcorn.  

Daughter called to make sure her land line actually worked......it went out the other day. She is still SICK with the Flu.  Must be a very strong variety this time around.  Daughter said they got the strain wrong for the shot.  

I wish I had bought more cold day old chicken nuggets at the grocery store...that first container of them was very very tasty.  I like them better old and cold than fresh and hot.  I know...Son also thinks I'm really weird.   But it's ME.

 

Daily Notes on Sunday January 18th. A very very Snow Covered Maine. And it's cold.

 The back yard view thru a screen we never took off the windows.  Out the back windows, it looks like we live in a space without inhabitants.  There are animal tracks in the snow.........

We also have a mystery.  Someone is driving a truck into the drive and shoveling our sidewalks. Son is sure it'a truck and not a car.  The Lawn Guy sends a bill if he plows and he DOES NOT shovel...WE know that about him.  

I would give you an image of the improvement on the "whatever" on my chest.  But it's really disgusting. Still red...and now has a scalpel cut thru the center vertically...making it so much more gross. But, in my uneducated opinion it seems to be getting narrower and not as red and puffy.  The meds are working.

I tried out three of the library books I had reserved- they were ALL terrible.....by that I am saying I could not get involved......and the reading was torture.  I tried a few from the book case.....and they are  paperbacks with tiny tiny grey print...I'm way too old for that.....I need full BLACK ink for the print.

Quite a few of my books are going to Goodwill.  Why keep them if I can't read them?????  My eyes aren't going to get YOUNGER.  Most of the books I looked up on Amazon are not available in libraries.  Most not all.  I started out reading Hissy Fit but then I started to recall the deep hole the plot goes into... and the oyster dishes.  That one is not staying in the bookcase.  First 30 pages were funny.

Today is Sunday Pizza.  And Football.  I watched two games yesterday... it sort of breaks my heart when one team loses and they look so...very sad..........Two more today.  Here in Maine the local-ish FOX stations have sort of gone out of business????  One has no listing of programs anymore...if you switch to it and just wait. minutes..a program comes on...the one in the newspaper tv guide.   The other has pay for view (used to be a regular station) and now pay per view.   The Football comes in on the local FOX channel...so it's always a surprise when I can watch the game.  I'm waiting for the FOX News Shows to also box it up and move on.  

I could make some toast......get me thru until pizza at 4 pm.  Six hours....