Daily Notes for Tuesday September 29th. Rain overnight here in Maine....light rain.

 Tortellini Soup.   A New Addition to my every week vegetable soup as we edge toward Winter? I think it would add 'bulk" to have tortellini in the mix and fill me up......

I have the House Lights on....we had rain overnight....things look damp outdoors and the birdbaths are full of water.  Even the one out back..... the lamp behind me started flashing like it was having a stroke or something,,,,none of the other lamps were affected.  I turned it off.  I will have the House Engineer take a look.  When I see him.

I read my book yesterday instead of watching tv.   This is something I will do more often...the TV I watch or can stand watching is really boring.  I watch ZERO news.  I read the paper in the morning and that's enough.  I still Try to do the Suduko and the Word Jumble....I'm not very good at either.

Tomorrow is the National Day for Truth in Canada.  Would be good to have something like that here ???

I got up to see if there was any tortellini in the freezer or pantry...NO

That's it for today....

Daily Notes for Monday September 28th....I'm up WAY too Early!!!!!

Maine is know for its blueberries....I used to have them in the back fenced garden...the birds ate half of them..I ate the other half...mostly in wonderful blueberry muffins.  The remainder mixed into my yogurt.

I had one bill to pay and walked the envelope down to the mailbox myself.  Navigating the acorns. We are going to have a horrendous Winter.....I don't recall the best way to get the acorns off the driveway and the lawn...husband used this awful loud blower thing... sweeping seems tedious. And where would I sweep them????  Into the street??????  Neighborhood would not be pleased. Rake seems tedious.  No squirrels or deer eating them. Hardly any wildlife.  And I sold the blower to one of daughter's friends so.....we'll have to sweep or rake. Or do nothing.

My money is on  ..Do Nothing.

Watched Football games yesterday...they weren't that good.  Then I watched something else but have forgotten what it was.  Some sort of crime thing.  I never did get to the book I had chosen.

I'm losing interest in just about everything..... even cloth. Even books. Even food...  I did see the ending of  Pretty Woman before moving to Storm Watch.....on the weather channel.  I think I'll watch the entire movie  today.  Well, fast forwarding thru the parts I don't like.  The creepy fat guy. From Seinfeld????

While I wait to see if we get POUNDED with rain today.  The Weather People....so much DRAMA.

Right now..couch and finding a helpful space for my neck....the heating pad for sure.  Tension is not my friend today.......and the guy is coming to service the Boiler in the crawlspace... and today was supposed to be Library Day.... next Monday will be fine for books.

 

Daily Notes- Sunday September 27th. RAIN!!!! We have RAIN!!!!

 It's a simple thing but so wonderful....Rain.

I filled the one birdbath the birds and deer seem to like best of the three.  Perhaps because it's under the Weeping Cherry Tree.  Secluded.  Daughter has been working two jobs so I need to wait till she is available to move a second birdbath to the front yard...or closer to a safe house exit for me out back. (I don't think there is one.). Nothing to hold onto when I step off the back deck.

So...the Newspaper.... I need a good brain flush to get all that "news" out of my mind. 

I still haven't found a book I want to read.  I have three contenders from my last Library visit...all excellent and old favorites.  The Hating Game, Anyone But You and Catch a Mate.  Of the three...Catch A Mate hasn't been read in QUITE A WHILE.  Either I forgot it or I outgrew it.  We'll see.... It was on the "new" book shelve in the middle of the fiction area.... it's old battered self ...selected by staff members????  Next to the New Bestsellers....which have been very very disappointing. And few and far between.  Library has Ice Cream Socials and Coffee Dates for the departing Director and no funds for new books.   Shoemaker has No Shoes??????

I usually check several other Maine Libraries for their top pics in Romance and Fiction... and then order their books..usually a waiting list.....Lewiston and Auburn Libraries are very very good at stocking great  romance books... so I always check what they recommend.  And add my name to their lists.

So that's all I have for you today....Football and Pizza.....cause it's Sunday!!!!!

Daily Notes for Saturday September 26th. Cloudy with perhaps a chance of RAIN? Or Sunshine?

 

So it's centered yet again... It does NOT look like this in Maine.   Leaves here are still very very GREEN.

The only things hitting the ground are acorns.  As to the RAIN there is a bad storm running along the Atlantic Ocean.  And we are close enough to the Atlantic Ocean...but all reports are that it will miss us.

I haven't much to report.  The cross the road neighbors are not doing much either.

I have a cough and son got me cough syrup..the same one as last year at this time. I think it's the dry air in the house.  Occasionally the cough is what my doctor prefers- "productive".

Saturday Cooking Shows?????  hopefully if PBS isn't begging today. If they are then I will watch something else or read a book.  Nothing is recording.

So...my neck bones are snapping and crackling.  My left eye is itchy. I haven't started coughing as yet. I misplaced my socks....no, I found them. And I plan to sit on the couch and watch cooking shows. 

Then I plan to read a new Abby Waxman book. One Death At A Time

I did enjoy the Bookish Life of Nina Hill and the Garden of Small Beginnings.

Which are in my bookcase.

My bookcase holds all my favorites in safe keeping for when I can't go to the library anymore. 

Yours too, Deb.

But now I must watch my cooking shows on PBS...unless they re fund raising (I checked..they are not) and then I will watch Hudson and Rex crime solving in New Foundland.