October 17th- Waiting for the Oil company......to arrive. Killing Frost Last Night.

 Colorful Foliage- any that was here in my yard is now frozen, brown and dead.  We are waiting for the Oil Guy to show up and look at the area where the new Propane Tanks will be installed-- by them... the Generator people are getting nervous- the cold weather is going to keep them from their January install date if things don't get rolling here.  Meaning the cement pads.

Oil Guy is here.....

My Gardener will come back next week and we'll both work on moving and emptying the Summer Ornamental Planters.  She moved into her new efficiency apartment (tiny) and is happy to not have mice ..which was the situation in the farmhouse she was renting.  She was pleased to have only moved what she needed and got rid of everything else.  My cross the street neighbor was trying to do that...and she has a one bedroom in the same building.  Very popular new building.  My son was also interested in living there.  I have investigated and looked at pictures....I would NOT like living there.  With a view of a airport runway.

Oil Guy arrived and the location is fine with him....then I called the Generator People and then they called me back and now....things are rolling along.  We expect more phone calls.... the Oil Guy knows the company doing the generator so...that's good.

Now cement pads and a new secondary power box.....so the Electric Company is next up. As the Generator Guy said- I have guys that need work..now.  Perfect timing.

I have an experiment in the fridge...Overnight Oats.  Half cup each of yogurt (vanilla Noosa), milk and oats.....in a pint canning jar....  Long ago I used to make a layered bowl to take to work...Bran Buds, Yogurt and fruit.  I fixed it in the morning and ate it for lunch.  I may or may not like the oats... and then...will sub in the Bran Buds.  Which I know I really like.  I didn't stir it....might be that I was supposed to.  

I had a nice long hot shower this morning....my hair enjoyed it very much.  I shampooed twice. With Shampoo my friend Connie sent me.  I think I forgot to condition......pretty sure I forgot.

October Notes- Wednesday the 16th. The sun is shining and it's 50 degrees.

 Lucy Levenson- folk artist.

I swept the wood floors...getting dusty around here....Son searched the Attic but we can't find a quilt in the making that is lost.  It was where I left it before all the clearing and moving of things in the Attic. Now, it's gone.

I had announcements from the Library as to books getting close to their due dates....I also got a very expensive looking- wonderful blue envelope asking me to give the Library...money. Not just once but an Annual Pledge.   I would...but they have stopped buying books (that I read) and have emptied the shelving of books (I would like to read again) rather than keep them full and most of what I read is coming from two other Libraries...so if I give out Library money- it will be to those Libraries not my own.  I would say, over 60% of what I read comes from interlibrary loans.  It may even be a higher percentage as the fiction shelving is almost as bare as the non fiction shelving. What exactly is a Library if it contains no books????

I think more and more people are reading on hand held tablets.  I'll only do that if I am unable to physically hold a book....and even then...might just prefer listening to a book being read to me. Audio.

I sliced one of my fingers on the edge of a bill envelope as I was opening it... just a paper cut but it is bothering me as I type...rather annoying.  Bills arrived yesterday and I wrote checks today...I am trying to foster a new bill paying habit....in and immediately... out...not waiting around.

I am reading a new to me Linda Howard.  I read it years ago but have forgotten who done it. The bridezilla was stabbed with kabob sticks.  Metal ones.  I can't recall the real name.

I have a sink full of dishes to wash...my Son leaves them for me.. Yesterday he took a broom and whisked all the Spider Webs off the surface of the house outside...... Quite a few. Nasty work. Washing dishes is nicer. For me.

My Gardner has not returned. She still has tools here but they might be my husband's...there was no goodbye so I am perplexed. Perhaps that is the way things happen these days???? We still had work to do.

I typed something and deleted it...I hope you know these notes are heavily redacted.

My Gardener called just after I pressed publish...she has moved into her new apartment and loves it...She will see me next week.   We'll do the planters together.  She sounded really happy.

October Notes- Tuesday the 15th. Sunshine here in Maine. 45 degrees. Again.

 Heather.   Trying to do some housekeeping in the picture files.

I woke up.... made a call to the Oil Company first thing even before breakfast or the paper (on hold for quite a bit of the phone call) regarding Propane for the new- (I am hopeful) generator in January....I now..have a date, a name and a time.....  more than I had the last time.  I'd like to get this show on the road.  Then I had my breakfast and read the paper...got one number on the daily Sudoko.  One.  I try not to use the Sudoko as a guide to how the day will go.  But....one number...pathetic.

I have a book for you- Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford.  Don't all scream at once now- but it's NOT A ROM COM.... A very sweet story of a woman making the best of a raw deal as a teenager.....a woman who likes to bake and fills out an application for Britain Bakes- aka the Great British Baking Show.  I went into this book with a lack of enthusiasm but by the end....gosh.

The Birding Book could have been as good but the author went in for some of the raunchiest sex- I wanted to scrub my eyes..... and it actually ruined the book for me.  Yes....I like romance.  Not this.  Birding with Benefits is not going on my home bookshelf.

I haven't selected a book for today as yet....put extra sugar in my tea...needing a boost.  I am considering a load of laundry...I haven't run out of underwear yet, but the basket is full.

I might sort out the left side of the paperwork dresser drawer (in the dining room)- husband's side...and make use of the entire large wide drawer for "Bookkeeping"- bills, records, taxes etc.....all divided up.  Not one huge pile. Like I have now over on my side.

I haven't started in on the home made onion soup as yet...perhaps today...it feels like a Soup Day. I hope the Sun is shining where you are .....  and now- to make my second cup of hot sweet tea.... and get on with it.

October 14th. A cloudy Morning. 45 degrees- I slept until 10am.

 No notes on the what or where of this image....Others come to the desktop space with notes.

Yesterday (and today)'s book is Birding With Benefits. by Sarah Dubb.  It's been enjoyable up until the last 10 or so pages (I read before bed) sigh  when it sort of went off the rails.....I mean these are both two very shy people....I don't think they would behave as depicted in the last three pages I just was forced to read.  The Benefits segment of the relationship.   Bizarre.

I watched football...son didn't....we made pizza.  It was wonderful.  I am thinking about the first weeks with my son and I making Sunday Pizza....we tried a variety of toppings...now we are sort of in a rut... so, we need more topping to choose from... onion and pepperoni is not enough.  I hadn't purchased a red bell pepper last Friday...we had been adding that.  

I am sitting here typing BEFORE eating breakfast and my Son just mentioned I should eat first and then as I type while my blood pressure will be leveling out (going up)......so a short post so I can eat my breakfast...... perhaps eventually things here will be....as he wants them to be....but I often find the things I do and say..... odd....and I am the one doing and saying.....so I don't know if things can or will improve...

I am singularly complicated......now..where did I leave my socks??????