Sunday, October 12th... Cloudy and cold this morning. 58 degrees

 I've been entertaining myself by drawing on index cards.  I had been coloring the drawing in with colored pencil...but this one hasn't been touched with color as yet.... I send some to my brother for his birthday.

1.  Arrangements are being made to take care of the Snow Plowing for the Season. Our biggest issue is the huge pile of snow deposited at the end of the driveway by the Street Plow... It's usually quite heavy and gets stuck in the snowblower.  I used to fill the shovel and then walk (shove) it across the street and dump it there..   Was younger then...

2.  Son collected the Lady Bugs setting up housekeeping in my shower.  Son thinks they got in during the window AC unit usage.  

3.  We are making an additional visit to the grocery store....I am out of yogurt, Bran Buds and the Strawberry Rhubarb Jam I add to my yogurt. And a replacement pizza dough.... the one we bought on Friday had a hole in the plastic packaging.  I also need mouthwash.  My list making capabilities suffered....

Daily Notes- Saturday, October 11th. Sunny and 57 degrees here in Maine. Wool Socks.

 Well.   Another Saturday without British Soccer.   what will I do with myself????

1.  I have recorded the two Saturday Cooking Shows I watch.  And I stockpiled some Law and Order as one would stock a pantry before a pandemic.

2.  My shots had little to zero effect on me...no aches, no fever etc...  I noticed the person doing the shots aimed higher on my shoulder than usual.....which might be the best placement ever.

3.  Finished off the recored episodes I had of the PBS series of Professor T.  I now have vintage Law and Order to watch.  I also have two different editions of recorded Pride and Prejudice... which I may have outgrown.   

4.  Today's book is "definitely not mr. darcy". by karen doornebos....the author uses no caps.  A  modern reality show set in the 1800's with all the smells........no cell phones, no indoor plumbing,  no deodorant. The comment blurbs are by other authors of similar books- PrIde and Promiscuity, the Jane Austen Handbook, and the Lost memoirs of Jane Austen.   I have in my bookcase Austenland...same idea.

5.  September and October have become very Austen here at my house (this year)....I also have recorded three Hallmark "Austen-like" movies which I watch....in one that I particularly like...the Librarian who Loves Darcy hits her head and goes back into Time and finds Mr Darcy to "not be her actual "cup of tea"'. I'm not sure I would actually like Darcy......how about you?????

Daily Notes- Friday, October 10th. COVID Booster today.

 Not much to say this morning... sunshine here in Maine.  But a chill in the air.  All good weather must come to an end.......

1.  Emails regarding Snow Removal for Winter....a heads up that all this nice weather is short lived...

2.  Cookies.   Like real cookies- I had two of them yesterday- shortbread.

3.  My Lunch buddy ordered me a book and it's arrived and I can go pick it up from her house. The first book in a series of four- I have the other three...now the set is. complete.

4.  Reading a book about rich people who lose everything because the husband had a secret second family I realized when I read the final few pages before returning the book unread....that I had read it before.  I know these things happen and it's always a "surprise" until they really think about it...then it's NOT a surprise.  At all.

5.  I was always mystified by the second wife- (Trophy Wife) worrying about her husband straying ....noticing younger women etc....of course he's going to leave her.......he left someone else he said he loved- for you!!!!!   And the guys did leave the second wife for the third wife etc etc.  Just like in the book I am returning to the Library.

  

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.