Daily Notes for Thursday April 18th. Cloudy, no Sunshine and 55 degrees

 I don't remember where this came from.  But I like it very very much.  Makes me "happy".

And "happy" is not something I feel, much at all, these days.  When was the last time I laughed????

I may draw this on cloth and drag out the thread and stitch while watching CSI:NY. I need to have something...anything to get me going again... I am at the halfway point in my book.  They haven't begun yoga as yet and they haven't traveled 'back in time" yet either..

I have a full bolt of white COTTON...waiting.....to be re-purposed into something new. I WISH, in retrospect, I had purchased a bolt of white LINEN.  I do have LINEN sheets but they are better used on beds until worn thin.....and then...I can stitch on them.

I moved my watercolor supplies to the new empty space in the cabinet across from the table where I eat breakfast and read the paper.   The computer typed words it liked while I was typing words I liked.  That has never happened before...and all the words were spelled correctly.  Strange Day so far. Perhaps a message from a ghost.

I have three new to me Devereaux books to look for in the Library catalog. "Someone to Love" sounds good.  Montgomery/Taggert fictitious family living on the coast of Maine.  I may have dismissed this book in early days....I'm older now....it makes a difference. Well, I need to order those books....read and finish my decaf coffee....perhaps watch some Soccer.  Perhaps...what is that Shakespeare quote that begins with Perhaps????

Daily Notes for Wednesday, April 15th. 56 degrees and 99% humidity. Zero Sun. Dismal.

 All the images are now here.   I deleted them from the desktop.  I like the wood surface in this image. I didn't notice it on the original...but see it here on the screen.  It is always fascinating what the eye notices and doesn't see.

I am still pleased that I washed Three Loads of Laundry.. fresh sheets on the bed...I turned a corner figuratively......getting a bit of myself back... I stayed up late to read that last pages of True Love. And am eager to begin reading book two... there's a bit of Time Travel in the second book...but the rest of the book makes up for that.  The Third Book is really strange....but also worth slogging thru to the end.  Lots of the same people in all three.  Nantucket.

Nantucket is close by but I don't think I'll ever take the bus/train to Boston to catch the Fast Ferry.  Though I would like to people watch while enjoying an ice cream cone. I'd most likely twist an ankle on the cobble streets. All my clothes would be the "wrong" clothes.

Son emptied another section of the cabinet across from the table where we eat and read the paper.  We still have a pile of husband's papers on top.....he says we might need them.  But all of husband's things in that bottom cabinet are now in a storage tub.....and I was considering filling the space with Art Supplies. Which are now in the hall coat closet.  There is also an unused very very large tv on top of the cabinet.... Husband watched things on it while eating or reading the paper or doing word search puzzles..  He liked Wipe Out and the hidden cameras watching pets home alone.  I'd like to see the TV find a new home. At Goodwill.

That's it for today- the dampness outside precludes a walk for me...to the end of the street and back... I'l wait for warmer weather and some sunshine.....a shower and three loads of laundry yesterday was enough. For this Old Woman.  And I have book two to get involved in.

The Sun broke thru the clouds just a moment ago...what a delight!!!!!

A Sunny Day in Maine but still a chilly 64 - outside and in the house.

 The second pear.   A bit lighter with extra yellow..   

The exuberance of yesterday has worn off.... or I just wore myself out with changing the sheets etc. I have a tremendous amount of laundry to do.  Hours.   But it's far better to spent time doing laundry than discovering what Mr T has done overnight.  It's amazing......his capacity....

I keep checking the fridge hoping for a miracle-- like something in there to eat. Even the freezer is BARE. There is aways peanut butter....but will it last until Friday shopping?????  I also have one "trial" container of yogurt....the trial is seeing if it produces acid reflex.  It's a brand I used to eat long ago and far away. I also have canned baked beans.... a  Sad Empty Pantry and Fridge.

I have oatmeal.

I have nothing more so you get another painting

Daily Notes- Monday April 13th. A bit cloudy here in Maine, 51 degrees and high humidity.

 Ask and you shall receive... this is  5 by 8 inches and is in a frame with another pear,  A Pair of Pears.

I'll take a picture of the left hand one for you tomorrow.  Watercolor.

I have acrylic paint if I want to use it....I never could AFFORD oil paints...in college..so that was a real disappointment.  Acrylic is nice but nowhere as nice as oil paints (it's shiny).. Oil moves smoothly and mixes on the canvas.  

In college I received an A in my one watercolor class.  I brought in only one painting...the professor looked at that one painting for quite awhile and then looked at me....He never said anything....I found out about the A when the grades were posted. Weeks later.  Unexpected.

The painting got lost .... the watercolors were in my parent's home and were stolen one day when a cousin came with a truck and loaded furniture, paintings, collected Christmas ornaments, vintage toys--everything in the basement workshop and drove away....leaving my demented mom (his aunt) with an empty house. He sold everything.  This sort of thing runs in the family DNA.

Well, we got off onto a different tangent here.....I lost quite a few things in all the moves husband and I made.  When daughter was bringing down boxes I had hopes of finding even one or two of the missing pieces of my Life.  Hasn't happened as yet.

I have one more thing to share- it will be political so stop reading  if you need to do that......

Tucker Carlson lives here on the coast of Maine..broadcasts HATE from a bunker like garage..I have always been ashamed of that....but yesterday on MSNBC (of all things) Tucker took down and sliced open Donald Trump and his VP like he might with a deer he shot.  Well...it was something I never thought to see or hear.  Wish I had recorded it.

I need to hydrate and eat.....I took a shower after my oatmeal and I did okay.  The shower head is still leaking...no one is going to try and tighten it.....I asked...I tried to do it myself but I'm too short to get a good grip.  And I am SO NOT climbing upon anything in a tile-lined shower to reach it... no death wish.

I finished Met Her Match and am now reading True Love. Devereaux.   Only book in the series I do NOT have a copy of.....all the others were picked off the Discard Cart the Library used to put outside the front door.  I just counted 23 hardback Deveraux and Lindsay books I got off the Discard Carts over the years.   I always called it my Retirement Collection. And...it's been a great joy to have books I love available- especially during the Pandemic when the Library closed down completely..