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...