Daily Notes - September 10

My latest little square painting.  I think my little house (boat) was trying to sleep but the Moon and the Stars were keeping him awake.  Enough of these might make a sweet little picture book for small children.  The Little House Books.

There has been a bit of "old times" here-- Riley "woke" up for a while last evening and the floors in the house are covered in dog toys.  He'd just eaten his dinner so we didn't express our happiness too much otherwise the floor would have been covered in his supper as well.  These are rare cracks in his - not sure what it is- liver disease or dementia-- and they are welcomed with warm smiles and a good back scratch.  Knock on wood.  I don't mention these things as I feel that will jinx it. But his eyes are bright and the lights are on inside his head.

My "out of the house" activity yesterday was the grocery store.  Our small Hannaford just completed a full store remodel.  Which made the store "less" user friendly which might be what the European owners are used to at home.  It certainly reminds me of grocery shopping in Germany.

The aisles are narrower.  The shelving taller.  Fewer employees so the shelves are often empty of things I want to buy. Two carts side by side in an aisle and you have  "a failure to be able to gain access to the products as food is on the very bottom shelf- the floor-- and up so high I have to use my toes to reach".  There are also many problems with the new card readers at the checkout.  And fewer employees.  There aren't enough "employable" people here in Maine to begin with.  An employer who starts "pissing off" the employees he/she has, soon has fewer and fewer of them.

And with a very narrow aisle, standing back to see where your Bran Buds have been relocated is nearly impossible.  They were on "floor level".  Also prices have been increased.  And they keep moving the bagged carrots.

I have been carrying a new book around with me for a few days now.  Not having the Time or Energy to open the book and begin reading.  I have straightened up my end of the dining room table so I can paint.  But first I must draw.  Any ideas of places and things my little house can go or do???

Law and Order- a few new episodes I might have seen and forgotten or perhaps they were actually new to me.  Detective Goren is young and thin in the episodes of Criminal Intent Riley and I watched yesterday.  We watched the Goldblum episodes which ended the series so we must be back to the beginning now.  A continuous loop.

Haircut on the 12th and teaching a class on the 14th.  Married Fifty One years on the 15th.