Daily Notes- Monday, July 4th. Sunshine. Watering Plants. Tennis.

 Mending.  That's what July is feeling like. Mending things that have gotten worn too thin. 

I'm reading a book-  The Roughest Draft.  Two writers. They wrote a fantastically successful book  together and then parted- not friends.   And neither has written anything worth reading since.  But they have a contract for a second book- and if they don't write it...they will suffer financial problems.  

So they are together in the Florida cottage where they wrote the first book (the scene of the crime so to speak).  And I am not sure they are going to make it.  Together. Apart or with the book.  I am fighting reading...the way they are fighting writing.  I wonder if the authors (yes two authors) intended me to feel this way? They alternate chapters.

Tennis.  The Mean Spirited Australian.  I shut the tv off.  I'll go back to see who else is playing later. I shut it off yesterday- the Serbian.  Cleansing Breaths. I cannot watch him.  It might turn out that the Australian will play the Serbian.  I can see people wanting to watch that.  Not me.

I sewed strips of cloth for the Carrots when I had intended to go to bed.  It's meant to be cut into carrot shapes.  But I like the whole cloth I have made.  It's the first thing I have made in cloth that I actually enjoy looking at.  I should take a picture of it before cutting it up.  I tore more strips to make a second.  I think I can do better on the arrangement of strips. I always think I can do better......

I had watched Endeavor on Masterpiece.  Morse.  Self Destructing. Alcoholism. Stays with me.  So I tore cloth and sewed strips instead of sleeping.

After I hit publish I will layer BranBuds, frozen strawberries (that I picked) and Noosa honey yogurt in a bowl for later.  For dessert or snack.  Let the berries thaw and the juice soak into the Buds.  I was awake early. So today I need lunch and dinner.  BBQ Salad.  I had a bowl yesterday with Law and Order.

Everything feels wrong today......up too early.  No paper.  No grocery shopping.  Tennis.  I watered the containers.  They were dry.  Connie mentioned her squash plants and Miracle Grow.  So I filled two bottles with blue water and carried them down to the fenced garden yesterday afternoon.  Poured a bottle into each pot of squash plants.  They have infant squash started but not much is happening..  

This morning what looked like a pigmy GOAT- romping in the backyard.  Very young. Little horns. Later a small female deer in the same area so perhaps it was a baby deer?  So much "wildlife" here in Maine.  Animals and Rodents.  Snakes.  Shuddering.  Things living under the deck, under the shed, in the woods.