Daily Notes- Tuesday June 9th....Sunshine and 78 degrees here in Maine.

 American Bumble Bee.  (and clover)

Well, I have made a call into Midcoast Wildlife Specialists.  In regard to the squirrels in the chimney. 

I have had ENOUGH.

I left a message...I expect, here in Maine that they are kept very very busy.... we have an abundance of Wild Life.  Some of it scratching around in my chimney. Or even WORSE- behind the drywall. Son pointed that out.  I wish he had NOT done that.

Until they call me back, I will stay calm, finish reading Evanovich's Ten Big Ones. I just got started in this book  (49 pages) yesterday after finishing To The Nines.  I am approaching a tipping point in the books....will I continue reading or give up.... Steph is on her 5th or 10th car.... I never started counting them...They get wrecked, blown up, set on fire, stolen etc etc.  The whole Trenton Police Department shows up when she calls it in. As the cops say to Steph "you never disappoint".......

Brings back solidly GREAT memories of working at the greenhouse...and the wrecks out front on the Bath Road...and the interesting people I met and spoke to while watching the Police and Fire Department clear the wreckage.... No one ever got hurt... couldn't say the same for the vehicles.

CSI has started to seriously BORE me....I think I am going to have to move on to Law and Order.

Seems like an invoice for Oil Delivery has hit my mailbox.....  at this time of year- most of the oil is being used to heat water...for showers.

Well, I have emails...gonna go read them see what's happening.

Daily Notes- Monday June 8th....Sunshine...Lawn Mowers were here and so is the Septic Tank Guy....Busy Day.

 The Rain was welcome.. Now we have Sunshine.

Son found some one who might weed....I sent a query but got no response.  The weeds here are in the early stages of a "Take Over"...I'd do the work but zero cartilage in the knees...  Weeding isn't a stand up job.

I was not even close to where the opening to the septic tank was/is.  The $60 Shovel Fee was actually needed.  To find the opening.  Son has gone out to have a chat regarding our Current Septic Situation.. which he reports was "great".  No problems.

CSI has very old episodes....ones I have forgotten.  So that is interesting...the not knowing who done it. When that source is used up I will move on to Law and Order.   Settle in to the Standard Retired Person Habits. Couch, Hand Sewing and Law and Order...minus the Big Black Lab.  Who covered his eyes with his paws when it got to be "too much" for him.  I told him it was all make believe but .......still scary.

The tendons in my neck are aching.... the bones making cracking sounds when I turn my head.  The couch and the heating pad will be my best friends again today...I have also been using Arnica. To ease the muscle tension.

I found the pencil sharper and sharpened a few pencils.  It's in a "Handy Spot" where I can find it now. It was not where I thought it was going to be....I'm 2/3rds into High Five and then will choose another book. I have two new books on the shelf as well and will read those first.  Lynn Painter and TJ Alexander.. one new and one an oldie I enjoy reading but daughter has not been able to buy for me.

that's all...10am and already so much has happened......

Daily Notes Sunday June 7th. Rainy Wet Day in Maine. 66 degrees. Humidity close to 100%

 Sign me up for Pie and Ice Cream.. (an excellent Southern Breakfast)...  Serious lack of such things here....

Well, I have a Crink in my neck this morning- right side.  Even a few neck bones feeling the pinch. Old Age is a Trial and a Pain in the you know what.

I now have a stack of 7 different packages of printer paper by the printer...  I decided, while sitting here at the desk to clean out the mess in the little rolling side table...the old old printer used to sit on top of this table..rocking the table side to side as it printed something..  and I sat watching and waiting for the damned printer to screw up... never failed to do so....especially on Income Tax Paperwork....   

The bottom shelf is now FULL Of Notebooks....  minus pages I wrote things on...those pages got shredded.

Notebooks I write in. Draw in..Color in.  Paste images in........ Stay busy...  the top side of this rolling cart (where the printer was) now holds every container of colored pencils and pens that I know of...there might be more.  Husband's stash..  all I need now is to find and install my pencil sharpener.  Be Open For Penciled Art Business.......

I haven't turned on any lights...let me go do that....

Puddles everywhere,  Grass looks happy and so do the Perennials.  Weeds look Triumphant. Old Peonies have stems of flower buds way up over the leaves....so many.. Daughter  was right- they are all ALIVE.

I have High Five here on the ottoman waiting for me...out of order...but that's how it goes when ordering books from far away libraries.....Read Eight and then got back in time and Read Five.  I also have the heating pad for my neck muscles....

Send Pie......really...Send pie. And don't forget Ice cream.

Saturday June 6th. Cloudy right now and 69 degrees.

 You  get a garden bench today.  I don't have a bench...I do have a pitchfork.

I woke up with a "Krink" in my neck and right shoulder....usually caused by TENSION.  Getting everything on this desktop to work this morning...could be the cause....I also had a bill to pay and some desk- actual desk----top things to straighten out...the morning Suduko was above my pay grade.

I may snap a photo of one of my favorite plants...now blooming...by the back windows.  False Indigo. Such a surprise each summer when it flowers...

The Lawn Guys have not come to mow..  we'll see what Monday brings????  Perhaps Lawn and Septic at the same time.

There was (is) an animal- squirrel- in the chimney but the glass door that closes in the fireplace kept  him or her out of the house.  I guess that's an Animal Control; Issue?????  I went into the garage and made a bunch of loud noises near the chimney and that seemed to do the trick...for now.  But  I hear them tapping.

I called the Chimney Doctor but they never actually came to the house (the squirrel issue didn't set well with them)....last year. Business as usual in Maine.   Just knocked on the glass fireplace door- See how long they stay away.

Son found me an email address for someone to weed my garden....I tried but had no luck with address. I will need technical support.

The tendons in my neck are really tight right now and ache...  I'm going to sit on the couch and watch the Saturday Cooking Shows....then some British Soccer....I have good books to read...and the squirrels in the chimney to keep me busy.   I never thought I would say this but I miss having a JOB.