Daily Notes for Friday September 11th. 9-11.

 Ironweed.  I remember having this in the back garden bed... I should plant more.

September 11th.  I had two gals cleaning my house that day while I was getting ready to leave for work at the Library....they were screaming...  I ran to find out what ??????  the three of us stood close together watching the Towers fall... the two planes crash...... tears running down our faces.....and then I went to work.  Where it was very very quiet on my drive into Town.  No birds...I recall that... no birds. Silence.

And then the church bell started...bong bong bong.  Silence and then bong, bong, bong..... I remember it. the endless, sad sound of those bells.  Planes were landing in Bangor.  Where they had a  long enough runway...others were turning and returning to Europe if they had enough fuel.

I remember it being a beautiful sunny day here in Maine.  A Fall of Marigolds has 9-11 as a central theme. I've read the book several times.  Today is another beautiful sunny day.....

So I started my second book yesterday after reading book one...  "For All Time".  I'm not sure but I think today is Library Day .. (it could be grocery day.)    So I can get a few more books for the week (though I have plenty in the bookcase)..  Reading is a good habit for me to cultivate.....to pass time each day. 

Before my memory turns to dust.  Most of my clearest memories are my oldest ones.

Daily Notes- Thursday September 10th. Sunshine here in Maine and 81 degrees. Heat Wave.

 How is this for Coastal Living?????  In Maine.  sort of a gigantic House Boat.

So 81 degrees- hotter than it's been all summer.  I think.  Cool in the house as I rarely if ever have windows open which reminds me...be back in a second...

Bedroom windows were open overnight for cool air...now it's not cool air....and they are closed.

Continuing to read True Love......we haven't gotten to the best parts yet.  And I actually am wanting to get to book two which I sort of like a great deal.  I think.  We'll see.

Daughter brought over some very large plastic hair things... claws.  Now my hair is starting to thin and any pulling . ANY ....it comes out of my scalp.  At the rate it's going I will be wearing a hat the rest of my life. Soon.  So big plastic claw clips...no....but perhaps I can re-use them to do something else around here?

Son has gone out for lunch with the top down on his sports car.  Nice. For September.

Well, the couch is calling my name and I do want to read my book before I start watching  Hudson and Rex.  In the early episodes (on now) John Reardon's hair is very curly and longer than usual.

Hot dogs yesterday and hot dogs today.... Life is good.

Daily Notes- Wednesday September 9th. Cloudy and 62 degrees. No chance of rain.

 Another image of Maine.

I would only need to drive 15- 20 minutes along the coast here to see something like this image.  I am close enough to smell the ocean but not to be able to see it.  I also can sometimes have sea birds flying over.  Those trees look like my backyard.  Only 30 years taller.  I can see the sky if I look  straight UP.

No Chance of Rain so the brown and beige lawn will continue.

My iPhone has a recipe for Pie Crust waiting for me...if only I had something to fill that crust...but I don't. I will finish reading High Tide today.... the couple is searching the swamp for GOLD...this is where the alligators come into the plot. 

I heated up my prepared Meat Loaf Dinner yesterday..wish I had gotten a second one. Have Hot Dogs for today. So that makes me smile.  French Fries would be welcomed..but I have none.  Onion rings..oh my!!! But don't have those either.

So...today...I already have the living room lamps turned on.  I fluffed up the  pillows and I'm ready to assume my place on the couch.  Sewing and book to my left...TV up front.... there is some British Soccer. There is much more Hudson and Rex.  There is Arnica for the my muscles in my neck that cannot relax. Neck bones that actually make noise when I move my head.....

Heating Pad...Couch....TV...... Hot dogs later.....it's enough..well, it HAS to be enough doesn't it? 

Daily Notes for Tuesday September 8th. High Tide (book) and few alligators is actually pretty good.

Well, I give up...words want to be centered today....The Deveraux book does have alligators but really the two people are on the run (in a car) from being arrested for murder.  And the actual murderer wants to kill them. Right now they are in a very expensive hotel the Taggert family has found for them...I often think the Taggerts are way richer than the Montgomerys...

I sort of prefer the Montgomery Men and the Taggert Women..

And we have center alignment yet again and NO, I do not know how to get rid of it even thought I have used this program for DECADES.  And have eventually found the way to fix the problem...But not today.

My hair is gathered up at the  back of my head near my neck...just to get it out of my way.  I usually gather it higher into a Soccer grouping but today...not in the mood. The stretchy band holding things together is loose.  Not pulling my hair out of my scalp.

I think we might go to the Library today...it was closed yesterday and that was our regular day. Or Not. 

We are going after he has his lunch.. I have a bag full to return.

I have enough books in the bookcase to keep me occupied (if we didn't go) and I have all these cloth strips to sew into strange squares.... I actually wanted to find a certain fabric for the latest square but NO luck..I think I might start another fresh one and see if the missing cloth shows up...eventually. It usually does. 

Show up when I give up and start something else.

The Sun is shining and the grass is becoming more brown as we entered September.

Less tan and more brown. 

The many many WEEDS continue to grow and stay very very green.

What a very strange Summer it has been.