Daily Drawing- January 30th

 My desktop calendar.  Smooth slick surface.  Easy to draw on.  Easy to color.  I couldn't manage to get the whole of it.  Mask making day up in the right top box. Rain the day after the Orange. My haircut on the 21st.  The Nebra Sky Disc on the 30th.  A bread recipe on the 23rd in grams. So I can weigh everything on my scale.  Baking goes much smoother if everything gets weighed.

Finished Louise Penny's All the Devils Are Here.  I decided as I finished the book- to start ordering all of the older ones from the beginning.  Read them again. I had to wait a long time until it was my turn to check out this book.  Well worth the wait.  

Once, in the strange shop in my downtown area- I found sandalwood.  The scent Gamache wears.  I wanted to know what he smelled like.  I can well imagine his clothing having lived in Germany/traveled in Europe.  Men there were very very well dressed.  I dressed my husband accordingly.  Once back in America- a woman told me that she often stared at my husband during meetings and loved his shoes and socks- his clothing. When I had a Pinterest account- it was mens fashion- European.  So these books.  The men in them.  And often their clothing is detailed. Oh and also there are vicious murders.

I only have one book left on my table.  And I need to decide where I am going in February.  What I am going to read.  Homicide. Romance. or Mystery. 

Right now I am reading- If You Can Doodle- You Can Paint.  It might need another trip into the Attic for some art supplies.  I worked on pencil doodles in my sketchbook after finishing with Gamache.  Got my fingers quite dirty as I had an especially soft lead in one of them.  A soft black.  Really nice.  So, I am thinking I will be drawing instead of sewing in February.  And possibly making doodles while watching Hallmark. And I have Valentine's to make.  I have envelopes but no cards. And Valentine Stamps to buy at the post office.----a nice way to try and "feel" normal.

If it's Meatballs, DebL---it needs to wait till Monday which is shopping day.  My only "out in public" day. Great idea.  Lots of them.  So- today- Chinese Takeout, I think. (husband will enjoy hot and sour soup)  Yesterday was Pancakes (for me).  Not the best of meal choices but........I did eat my orange. 

Do you think Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup is out of business?  I know there was talk of removing her picture from the label.  But then the name would have to go as well.  I had to buy Hungry Jack.  Which sounds even worse.