Field Notes- Friday, September 23rd. Sunshine but still cooler than usual.

 A box of PURPLE from way out West.  Thank you Joan.  Now my Fabric Closet Color Collection is complete.  For some unknown reason- and I do have older quilts with purple in them--I neglected to buy purple fabric..... now I have some.  So..this is really nice of Joan in California.

I finished watching whatever season the Granchester season was on PBS.  Now I have the next season lined up on TiVo.  I record stuff and sometimes watch and some times not.  I do it mostly so I can fast forward and not watch commercials.  Like Hallmark Movies.  Record and skip the commercials. But I haven't recorded any of last year's and this year's Hallmark Movies.......I seem to have outgrown them as they get sillier and sillier.  I do keep the favorite Christmas Movies in the TiVo..  For December. Every December. Magical Shoes and the Christmas Waltz.  And the Christmas Bookstore. And a new one last year of a dead guy who comes back to Life for 2 weeks each December.

It seems strange to recall how I watched so many of them (the deleted ones).........a different Me?

I think that may be the case.  There are things I used to love doing that no longer appeal to me.  And watching a Sports Talk Show- well, I can't imagine me ever doing that......but now I do.  But the novelty of it is wearing off.  I will stay with it into December because I love the way they do Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Callers playing an instrument or singing a carol........ old women and old guys.....singing.  It's just so lovely. I imagine them home alone.......family far away or gone.  Having a little Christmas.  On the radio.  Because this is a radio show that is broadcast on TV.  I know....weird.  But sweet.

I don't think we'll have a tree again this year.  Christmas holds bad memories for my husband so it's for the best, I think--now.  With what he has to contend with memory-wise.  Not bring more into the mix. 

It's funny how in a few years, everything that you "always" did...is gone.  and how you don't really miss it.

I have a cloth piece on the ottoman- auditioning the next border.  I was up in the Attic and the Closet- looking.....but I can't find the fabric I used in one of the borders.  I ripped a strip off a larger piece and I can't find the larger piece......up and down the stairs......can't find it.  So VERY AGGRAVATING......