Today's News- Wednesday May 8th....Cloudy with a Good Chance of Rain...59 degrees

 I'm just done with breakfast oatmeal and feel like I need a NAP.   This is what I thought Old Age would be like...and it is fulfilling my expectations...I wake up tired.

I also wake up sad.  There were so many wonderful days and months and years in my Life but not that much now...I must have used up my allotment.   Now...not much happens.

I have some fallen branches to clean up in the back yard today... larger than the fallen branches in front of the house....so I will need to drag them off to the side of the yard.   The side that used to fill up with knee high water every Spring...and have little peepers..peeping... Riley (my dog) loved to take a flying leap into the water.  Swim a bit.  Water levels in Maine are very low....global warming, I guess.  Not as much snow.

I had a wonderful bowl of oatmeal this morning- still working on the cup of coffee...a bit bitter this morning. (even though it's 12:30 and no longer morning).....

I don't have any more sweater holes to mend.  But do need to find a sweater to wear over my faded cotton worksheet...or turn up the furnace.  I actually don't like turning up the furnace in MAY.  So I will hunt down my favorite sweater.  Or any sweater.

Well, I am on page 193 out of 384 in my Linda Howard book.  No gunshots have been fired as yet. I am going to look up her other books and hopefully find the ones I'd like to read again.  

I am still looking for a design to draw on cloth and fill with Deb L's fantastic dyed thread. The one I had decided on is nowhere to be found.....as is the case with so many of my things.

Daily notes- Tuesday May 5th....Sunshine here in Maine. 64 degrees.

 Oats. Again.  I have a large bowl of microwaved oats each morning.... Internet sent me a new image... Internet is stuck on oatmeal.  Weird but true.

I do not eat my oats with a glowing golden spoon.  Would if I could?  No.

I had a shower this morning and my hair is quite curly and bouncy after being washed. I still wish someone would check on my shower head as it is still spraying water up and also down...just a bit UP but that could change at any moment in Time....to a Full Hosing of the ceiling....which is NOT TILE.

I am not reading the book I thought I was going to be reading......you can laugh... go ahead.  Instead I have  checked out the one where the government hitman is living with the small town Police Chief...    I thought I was reading a different Linda Howard book.  I like this one. So it will work out okay.  I might look for the other one on Friday.. 3.5 days from now. Unless I already have it on my book shelf...I'll go look.  

My neighbor replied to my query regarding her landscaper....seems he is overloaded with customers and his back up guy is now loaded up with the HIS overload... No one is happy and no one  is taking ANY new business.   So my yard will remain untended for a third year in a row. The grass will get mowed. Period. After I grapple with downed tree limbs.

And some of you thought living in Maine was GREAT...No.  Just No.   

There are some large (fallen) tree branches that need moving before the lawn guys show up and mow around them....for sure they won't move them. Daughter would but she's at work.

One of my front yard bushy tree like shrubs has got little red/pink flowers on it this morning.  Not yesterday.  Wow.  Just noticed it as I glanced out the front window.... then stood up to make sure I wasn't imagining things.  Flowers?  Yes!!!!  Some Good Gardening News.

That's it....no clue as to what I will watch...but I think I will read until there is Soccer...

Monday, May 4th....back in business. Cloudy and 55 degrees here in Maine.

 Lots of Floral Images here on the "net" this morning.  My daffodils have gone by as they say and need dead heading.....now I did go out and do that last Spring...but not feeling like I want to this Spring.  I imagine that is the numerical activity difference between 79 and 80 years of age.

The Narrowing of the Limits of Age.  Perhaps the new subtitle of this Blog????

I stumbled upon a blog writer that was a daily addition to my computer usage quite awhile ago...and there she was...I read her very very long post and did NOT add her to my list.  Been there ...done that....wasn't going to be able to follow any of her leads..... sigh.  "A Way to Garden"

Son and I made Sunday Pizza yesterday- as fantastic as usual.....we also tucked my two sweet potatoes in the hot oven....I get all sorts of good things from the bright orange insides of the potatoes.  They are also a nice container for melting Swiss cheese.  Some Vintage CSI: Miami completed the day.

I've lost this post twice now and had trouble getting back here....so I think I might stop while I am ahead so to speak.   No idea how I will spend today....but reading seems to be uppermost... I never did read ANYTHING yesterday......I was mending the elbow of my old sweater and then noticed the cuff on my right sleeve was dangling...so that needed repair.  Which involved looking for the small piece of black wool I use as backing to the embroidery floss.  One can loose ones self in the Sewing Room...So much  to sort thru....in the end...black wool was right next to my couch.  Where I used it last.  The sleeve cuff of my sweater is now heavily reinforced.  Ready for another Winter....NOW to search for the remainder of that black wool sweater........

I have on a faded blue work shirt....not a Lactiva Dye Works one...just an old stained one...from some store that no longer exists.....one or two I held back so they retain- their color (blue)- and are still in "clean" condition... the others are all worn, faded almost white blue, stained and patched and soft...not threadbare as yet.... but...I might need to add a sweater.....it's gotten colder as I sat here typing.. 

Well, I need wool socks and a sweater.....even in May--Maine is cold.

Daily Notes- Sunday May 3rd. Sunny with Clouds.

 I had trouble with the keyboard and mouse and didn't;t list...more tomorrow.