Daily Notes- February 27th

                                     

An old rusted tin can lid from a year or more ago.  The walnut pot is cooling.  I had it going for 36 hours.  Now cooling. Perhaps cooling is a part of the process? I am just experimenting.  The cloth under is brown onion skins.  They never let me down.  The cloth it makes so golden and warm.

Torrential rain this morning and overnight.  Roads closed.  Detours. Trees in the road.  Just to get thru Town (a small Town) and get my hair cut.  There is no deterrent for owners of vacant lots who fail to clear or removed sick or dead trees. So in high winds or heavy snowfall or windy rain- the trees fall across roads and take down power lines.  Delightful Place to Live.  Maine.

The rain has melted the ice on the sidewalks and about 1/3 of the snow off the lawn.  It went from pouring rain to cloudy/sunshine in like 20 minutes. Low 40's in temps.

I read a book last night-- The Two Janes.  I thought I wrote the author down.  I did not.  Trafficking of young girls thru the tunnels from Mexico to San Diego.  The Janes as in Jane Doe. Unidentified dead underage girls.  The hero of the book is a woman.  One hell of a woman. She works on finding out who the girls are and returning them to their families.  Closure.  And, of course, taking care of the ones who killed the Janes.  The book I read was book two- I have book one on reserve and it is coming to me soon.

My library has this lovely bookcase in the walkway leading from Fiction to the Mystery section.  For February- all the books (fiction) in one section of the bookcase had pink book jackets.  I found three new to me authors there and was very happy with the books.  Today- they had switched to green book jackets for St Patrick's Day. I looked them over- I selected one.  Pink was easy as it was fiction that appealed to the romantic.  Now sure of the green. Could be anything???  Another section of the bookcase wall has Staff Picks- those are always interesting and change as the staff changes. Nothing of interest in the new fiction section.

Well, I need to decide how to spend the remainder of the day.  G wants me to make Chicken Soup. And instead of reading I could hand sew a strip or two to the "works in progress".  The abstract cloth collages.

I decided to use the sanitizing wet towels at the grocery at the END of my visit to wipe off all the grocery germs on our hands before touching the car and going home.  Not as the people I observe who use the towels as they arrive and then touch stuff.  We also wiped off the car steering wheel before touching it.