Daily Notes- Friday, October 9th. Grocery Store list to get two shots...Flu and Covid

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I'd like to be wearing my thermal long sleeved shirt but..."shot day" so I need short sleeves.  I may add a warm vest to my outfit.   I had the flu once...long ago when still working at the greenhouse.....once was more than enough..... not sure about having COVID...ever. My Lunch Buddy had COVID several times and it was awful. She said. Mostly because she had herself and husband to care for....alone. I'd have been in same situation with husband and myself if we'd both been sick.

The news lately has been terrifying....which we should expect with a mental case in charge. Now he wants to put people on boats (ships) and send them out into the ocean. Never to return, I guess.  I think he should send himself out first as a sort of trial run for a year or two.....if he likes it...make it a regular thing. Could glue fake gold things all over the boat. Fancy it up.

I had more to say but I doubt ...with the way things are going...that my comments would be welcome.

I.haven't been up long enough to have any interesting thoughts.  And it's very very cold in my house and I just turned up the temp on the furnace.  It will take quite a while to warm this large open roomed house up. Should have had more doors installed.  It's more of a warm weather place than winter place.....cause Mainers go to Florida in the Winter.  Almost all of them...the bakery people making the fantastic jelly donuts go to Florida every October and come back in April.  All tan and happy. Son gets me a jelly donut on the first day they have them after getting back. From Florida.

A very very large building on Maine Street (across from the donut place) is being taken down....a Dry Cleaning establishment.  So many tonic forever things having to be taken care of.... It's a very large building...and was doing dry cleaning for decades before I moved here 20 years ago????  I think apartments are going to fill the space in a few years.  With under the building parking?????  Plans often do not work out.... the area is very close to the river.....under water parking????????

Well, an hour or so under my down blanket before going to get my SHOTS.....to warm up... I might fall asleep.

Daily Notes for Thursday October 8th. Clouds and Damp here in Maine...49 degrees

 I'm okay with Damp.... we needed rain here in Maine...   the front over fertilized lawn is still brown. Might actually be quite dead. Tru Green Hell. Covered in acorns. Back yard is very very green and lush.  Has more shade as there are lots of tall old trees out back. Zero acorns. 

No matter what I wear or how I set the temp in here..I am cold.  I have a thermal long sleeved shirt on. Corduroy pants and wool socks...  I'm going back to my room for a sweater. After I write to you.  Because writing to you is my favorite part of the day...until lunch..... very late lunch as I just finished breakfast (11am).  I do enjoy lunch at around 3 pm.. Even though it's the same every day.  Peanut Butter Sandwich.  Never with jelly.   

Ah, the SUN has arrived.  (for approximately 20 minutes)

I haven't found ANY of my library books of GREAT interest to me. I am reading Ten Rules for Faking It right now ....I read all my Good Books once a year. So third or fourth year for this book.  As I age, different plot points are noticed....some irritate me...some surprise me.  I often wish the books could be edited again and re-issued.  Fresh.   2020 not that old. But old.

I am going to need to go back to my room and get a sweater....eventually. If I leave now, I might get sidetracked by something or anything and not finish the post....an 80 year old brain cannot be trusted to stay focused.  It goes where it goes.

So...The Sun is NOW HERE!!!!!!  Very bright .... Sort of blinding in the back yard. (now gone)

What do I plan on doing today?????? Glad you asked....Read.....Watch TV.  ZERO NEWS!!!!!. I have small piles of cloth strips that are color matched to look nice together....I might sew them...into squares. None of the finished squares look good together......that worries me.  But not enough to stop making them. It's Busy Work.....plain and simple..... Idle Hands and all that..... I refuse to turn the squares into potholders.  Been There Done That. Requires Batting...I have none... and no one sells it here anymore. 

Well, I have scraps that might total a square yard or more...that's it. If I piece them together.

Well, that's enough nothing for today's post...I need to go find my sweater as my neck feels chilled...and perhaps I should comb my hair again...try for some semblance of neatness.  Yesterday I inserted a handful of bobbie pins into the mass of hair....got it flattened....but needed to re-insert pins as the day matured. I do have a nice elastic band........that could hold the majority of the hair in one place for longer than the pins do....they give up so easily... perhaps they are unionized?????

Daily Notes for Wednesday October 7th. Chilly here in Maine....thermal long sleeved shirt and wool sweater.

 And I'm still cold.  There are no pumpkins here in the house..And I doubt we will buy any Halloween candy again this year....  The big neighborhood down the road is packed with houses..so the kids go there. This dead end street is just that...  any kids who lived here are grown and gone.

I set the temp higher so the furnace will go on.  One degree higher.... take the edge off the chill here in the living room.  The kitchen dining room is being warmed by the sun shining in the windows... this side of the house gets only shade.

I did sleep with my window open last night.  I don't think I will be doing that again?????  I have a deluxe down comforter....very very nice.

Political news is either mean spirited, weird or just boring...  I do plan to vote.  Not that it matters.  My politics and Maine are not a good match....I didn't match well in Chicago either.  Or Ohio....  I did have a chance in Atlanta, Georgia....... but also not a great match.

So that's it for me....I am shivering...in a thermal long sleeved shirt and a wool sweater.... I might have trouble being 80 in Maine...in the Winter.  Getting my first real understanding of why the older Mainers head for Florida.......or are already there by now.  But...not a fan of Florida.....been there done that...of course NOW I could afford central air.......and an ocean view. And I could spend afternoons drinking. But I think I'd prefer reading.

Well, I need to find a book for today and talk my Son into taking me into Town to pay my Property Taxes and VOTE......then come home and sit on the couch and read another book......out of the bookcase. Try not to read one that makes me cry.  I'd rather read one that makes me laugh. Yesterday's book made me cry.

Daily Notes for Tuesday October 6th. Sunshine, colored leaves on the trees and blue skies.

 A company sends me pictures of their linen clothing...endlessly.  So expensive.  Not sure I would be happy wearing ruffles along the top edge of genetically wide hips. I take after my European Peasant Grandmother.  And the wide scoop neckline does me no favors. I prefer a collar. I believe this top is $100 PLUS. Canadian.

Yes the Sun and all the colors of Autumn are making the outdoors very attractive this morning.  I have been refilling the birdbaths every other day now- not just once a week.  I have cleaned out the one in the back yard...it's nice and deep...good for splashing around.  Bird BATH.

Yesterday's start on a book....Definitely Thriving. Author from Toronto.  There is a British tinge to the dialogue.  I was wondering where the plot was actually heading....so moved ahead a bit...still not positive I will finish the book.   I have plenty more on the shelf..  no reason to suffer thru a badly plotted book. We know more about her ex husband than is actually necessary. She calls him Toad not Todd....

I tried out the Hallmark channel and they offered me two movies I have failed to enjoy watching in the decades of Hallmark I suffered thru....won't do it again.  I then watched ice melt on another channel.

My breakfast cuppa needs a warm up.....the sudoko was too difficult......I need to get moving on the Property Tax Payment and Voting....the two are next to each other at Town Hall. At my age I do not enjoy "pending" items....I prefer a clean slate.   Now...where are my socks??????