Daily Notes for a Sunny Monday in Maine.....June 29th.

 Cherry Pie

Well, I didn't make a pie.   I didn't make much of anything.  Yesterday.

Son walked in yesterday and pointed to the front window in the room where I spend my days...outside was a Deer eating my weeds.  Wild Life.  Ticks etc.  Deer wandered off to the next yard and some oak leaves..

The image up top was from a recent search for fresh cherry recipes.  To use up my bag of cherries...I will most likely just eat them cold out of the fridge...as usual.   Soccer is still happening but players look exhausted.

I have started in on an old favorite from the Library .....Little Beach Street Bakery.....she's just moved in....author is Jenny Colgan....the library is tossing old stuff so I might need to try and buy a copy for myself.....first edition 2014.   Might be "out of print" as they say. I may be the only person reading this book.  Once a year or once every two years.

Reading old favorites is very much like a nice visit with an old friend....and most of my old friends are dead. (one moved to Canada).   So...a book.

A renewal notice for my Driver's License.  Last time I had to send away for a NEW copy of my birth certificate... It's always "something" at the DMV. I can't imagine what it's like to work there and drag one's self out of bed, dress, have breakfast and then drive to the DMV...for a full day of whatever comes your way.  And the waiting area is always PACKED.  I don't intend to EVER drive a car again...but do need an ID. I think I have given up on a Passport....lots of places I would like to go but let's be honest here...would I go?????

Amsterdam and the Van Gogh museum.  Paris and the Louvre.  That's about it. Perhaps a British art museum????  Cup of tea.  Scone.

Well, my desk calendar has only a few stamp sized spaces of white... for me to draw and color in. And then a brand NEW sheet of white paper under this keyboard.  My colored pencils are sharpened...ready to roll.  

Daily Notes- Sunday June 28th. Sunshine and Maine is starting to heat up.

 These are actually growing in the garden of one of the Bloggers I read every day.  I look forward t a post image of the buds all open and wonderful.......yes??????

World Cup Soccer is getting very INTENSE.  But the stadiums are still packed with the happiest audiences I have ever seen.  Families.....babies........it's all there-... big smiles.

I have ordered books...from other libraries...  lots of books for August and September... They all have reserves on them so it will be quite a while before ANY of them show up.  But "awhile" will be closer to my birthday...and that's a good thing.  Also closer to October, I fear.

The book I thought was a reprint is actually NEW.  The two cross the street neighbors (all thru school) who are now grown ups......are on a cruise ship with ALL the other neighbors...I don't understand it either. but it must be a destination wedding??????   She's already wearing his clothes.

I am planning on moving a chair over to my bookcase (permanently) and finding another  Romance... which I recall enjoying many many times..... AFTER I read Anyone But You.  And it's my favorite book for 2026.  So far... and it's quite old.  Daughter hasn't found me a copy as yet for the bookcase.

Well I am going looking for a recipe for the cherries I have in the fridge....or else take them out of the fridge and warm them up in hot water.....at 79. (Son says I am NOT 80) cold cherries aren't doing it for me.  But I do like eating them during Soccer Playoff Season. I

I tried once already to get this post to publish but...we will try again.....

Daily Notes- More Sunshine here in Maine....75 degrees but it isn't 12 noon as yet.

You get Vincent today.  One of my favorite paintings.  The Cosmos overhead-- something in Vincent's time we hadn't seen as yet... thru a telescope.  Today's paper had three air (or gas) filled bubble planets.....

My neck bones are cracking.  A very noisy situation.

I stopped watching the Soccer yesterday as it got into the sort of "bad spirited injuries" thing.  Players got removed from the game.  I watched a Hallmark Christmas Movie instead.  It was boring. I might have to try Lifetime Movies again...same actors but SPICY & DARK.  I believe Hallmark and Lifetime use the same sets and actors in Toronto, Canada.  I don't feel comfortable with "people locked in the basement" sort of movies.....So...Soccer.

My new to me book- Shippers by Katherine Center.....first 10 pages in and well, this book is NEW....I checked the print date....but I've read it before. (NO I HAVE"NT)...the wedding dress etc. All very very familiar.  I had really anticipated a new Katherine Center book.  I checked the books in the cupboard....to see if a "coming soon blurb of text" had been given out early...no.  Great heave of disappointment here.

I'll keep reading....got nothing else to read.   Everything is New it was the wedding dress that threw me off.

That's it for today....heating pad, Arnica under my tongue etc etc....  Saturday Cooking Shows...PBS unless they are Fund Raising and then- I move to FOX and Soccer.  Or just turn the tv off and cover my head and try for a nap.  Which we both know is pretty much never going to happen.

 

Daily Notes- Friday, June 26th.. Returned two full heavy bags of Library books- brought home one.

 I got hot and droopy while at the Library- sat down as I was afraid of falling down.  I had eaten. but that must not have been what was wrong....

I have a bag full of Favorite Reads.   It happened serendip--ishly.  I was wandering quite aimlessly (as usual) and found one and then two and then three and then four etc......Like a GIFT.

Thank you to whatever Spirit Guided Me.

We shopped late so Son has gone to eat instead of finding food at the Hot Bar in the grocery store.  I have last week's pot stickers to fry and eat later.

I have Soccer to watch.

I was going to type something more but...I deleted  it.   No image today as I started typing before entering it.  Perhaps tomorrow.  No Romaine lettuce today so they must have watered with poop yet again.

I did get mouthwash.   

Well, Son has left me with  two butt ends of his bread and I will be adding crunchy peanut butter and eating that while finding today's Soccer Match.  My body temp has leveled out.

I was told we are buying NEW Air Conditioners.... right now with ALL windows and doors shut tight and two ceiling fans rotating the air......I am quite comfortable.  I need an additional 8 ounces of cool water and then the couch..and the soccer.  We couldn't find the Arnica tablets.  Sigh.  For the crackling bones in my neck.  That's it for today...  old bones make so MUCH noise if close to the ears.

Again, thank you to the Book Angel watching over me....directing my eyes to the books...