Daily Notes on Thursday. October 8th- 48 degrees and Sunshine here in Maine.

Well. as it is almost "All the Time" around  here- I have plenty of the fabrics I don't want to use right now and very little other than scraps of the fabric I actually do what to use..Right NOW.. 

I made one small square and wanted a few more- well, that isn't going to happen...so I watched Law and Order.  I wanted NINE... that's my happy number....I can make ONE more.  Two is not a great artistic number.  Three could work.  If I could make three by sewing tiny scraps together.  The real thing isn't this dark.  (I don't have any lights turned on as yet)

1.  Stopped looking in the storage boxes, stopped reading, stopped paying attention to Law and Order and just felt like kicking something really hard for a long time.  I have enough of the shortest supplied fabric to make one more square.... a few other others are enough fabric to make the nine I would have liked.  

2.   My own solution is to take the square apart and use another fabric that I have in abundance. Or have the other eight with a  different fabric... second from the center.  This was NOT a problem when I was making each square different from all the others.  Not a problem until I want NINE of them. And NINE could still be a number I can't manage......THREE might be what I end up with.

In better news.... this book is on its way from the Big A...via my neighbor's account.  She tucked it into her shopping basket.  So Life goes on....

I also emptied a few things out of the fridge....and discovered enough bread for a toasted cheese sandwich...with pickles..... (possibly two) and possibly some additional vintage episodes of Law and Order later today.  I wanted to comfort myself with potato chips...but thank goodness there were zero chips in the house.

October 8th..Dark, Wet with Rain.

 I have a bunch of chair images so we might be having those for a few days.  Or not.  For a while I was cutting out images of chairs....I can't recall why...but I like chairs.... I do recall- I was using the images to draw the chairs in my art notebook freehand....and then I stopped.  Easy enough to return to doing the drawings.  And I can put THOSE here....  I think I would have liked owning the chair in the image here. Midcentury modern-ish.

1.  It's very dark in here....very wet outside.  I got up from the desk to turn on MORE lights.

2.  My neighbor has ordered the book daughter and I were searching for- from Amazon-- as they are having their usual "big sale" and she was filling her basket.  Six dollars less than the price on the book jacket.  I was tempted to also ask for Mont Blanc pen refills but do not know which ones I need. Book will arrive by end of the week.

3.  None of the Lunch Offers have been followed up on.... I was starting to want Sweet Potato Fries....

4.  TV- Other than British Soccer games in the RAIN-- has been dismal.  I watched a few things but got seriously depressed by all of it.  Even Finding Your Roots.

5.  I used the heating pad to ease up the tight neck and shoulder muscles...right side.....I believe it's tension.  Even right now the neck and right shoulder feel stiff.

6.  I sorted thru a few storage tubs of fabric to make some additional squares...the ONE I made during the Soccer Match was exceptionally GREAT and now I want all the others to look that good. I even turned on the iron and pressed a few scraps of fabric.  I should have had that here instead of the chair...tomorrow for sure. and perhaps a second one....I also got into a huge bag of cloth I had dyed and black cloth I bleached to a spotty white and black....some grey.... I sorted during Law and Order...  

7.  I could just make three more that look like that really GREAT square and sew them together... I doubt I have enough of any of the fabrics to make it into a 36 or 48 inch square ART Quilt.  but a nice 12 inch square could be framed...under glass.

Daily Notes for Tuesday. October 7th. Sun is shining here in Maine- 62 degrees.

 Banana Halloween Pops.  I asked if we should make some- he said no.  So....Plain Bananas are just fine. As is.  But these are very cute.....

1.  ...read the newspaper....now trying to cleanse my mind.......the Suduko wasn't going anywhere and the internet was giving me a tutorial on bar soap this morning......I actually do not use bar soap....so that was today's personal update....continue to not use bar soap..(now)  I do have a stack of bars somewhere.........

2.  Watched a very long program on a guy from Tennessee who pushed all barriers (brains but zero cash to get into college) and get a degree and head up Moderna and develop the COVID vaccine and many many other wonderful life saving things.  It was a very very good thing to watch.... I get my COVID shot on Friday.  I signed up on the internet.  Successfully.  Which is a Major Victory..... (balloons, confetti and a parade)

3.  Previous to the medical program I watched different teams in Egypt digging up old tombs looking for...they never actually say for sure.....what they imagine finding....one guy was over the moon about finding broken pale blue pottery bowls.  Which "proved" something.  I get all nervous when they shimmy into very tight spaces that could fill with sand.....I would NEVER.....

4.  Yesterday was a Road Trip with daughter....first she had to move all the landscape tools out onto my front porch so I would have somewhere to SIT.  Then the Town Office to pay Property Taxes... BIG CHECK.........THEN down the hall and I voted absentee (in person)...I found that amusing. Then to the bookstores to buy books.   And a new wall calendar for 2026.  I very nearly bought the identical one to the 2025 on the wall....ooops

5.  I looked over the Art Supply section but didn't feel the need for any supplies of that sort...I have husband's colored pencils and pens and my own sets.....and the pencil sharpener from Germany is still working to capacity.....all is well in the colored pencil area of my Life.  Wish I could say that about other areas of my Life.

6.  I also visited two books stores and purchased BOOKS which are now residing in my bookcase. Two favorite rom com authors had new books....we are still looking for Pride, Prejudice and other Flavors by Sonali Dev.   I had just finished reading Birding with Benefits - Sarah Dubb and purchased my own copy. just because I often forget I like the book....I also purchased a hard cover of the Love Haters..... Other new titles are Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver,  The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell, Maid for Each Other by Lynn Painter (of Mr Wrong Number FAME) and The Launch Date by Annabelle Slater.

I was looking for something new from Tessa Bailey but....no.   I might do an internet search after hitting publish......then move on to Antiques Roadshow-  TiVo recorded quite a few yesterday.

Daily Notes- Monday October 6th. No Newspaper Monday.

 Three sets of dots- might need one more.  Notice how the colors are identifying with my emotional state???  We won't be seeing pink or bright yellow in the near future.  Or cooler blues and greens.

1.  British Soccer was good....American Football was almost good....my book finally got to the best part.....and now we have to get thru the typical "misunderstanding" part of any of these rom-com books. I've read this one before so...this dull part of the book. ...was something I was not surprised by.  This Time. I'm going to skip ahead while the mom tries to totally "manage" her daughter's choices. (because mother had made all the wrong choices).

2.  Still waiting to see if either friend is actually going to have lunch with me. Unless they decide to have lunch with each other and skip my participation......which could happen.  But it is Monday and a great day to go out and have lunch....the sun is shining here in Maine.  No Military Take-Over as yet.

3.  I Swiffered the wood floors yesterday....easier than dragging the central vac hose around the house. The Swiffer picked up quite a few VERY large dust bunnies.

4.  Sunday Pizza was great....  I just wished I had eaten some of the birthday ice cream after........

5.  Monday and zero newspaper...zero news...  which is beneficial to my mental health these days. And I have a stack of partially finished Suduko puzzles to work thru while eating my bowl of oatmeal. So..Life is okay...''not watching news on TV" really helps me get thru the day.... and not having a newspaper on Monday is also helpful........bad things happen on the weekends.....

6.  Was America always like this?  OR was it just not as loud and in our faces????????