A Murky Damp Dark Tuesday here in Maine. May 20th. 55 degrees

 We are greening up here- slowly- not like this as yet.

Tru Green arrived this morning.. YES!!!!! ..and we got the Lawn Treatment (no charge) that was applied to the next door neighbor's yard (also no charge as I refused to pay for it) weeks ago.  It might have rained overnight- it feels very DAMP and Chilly and I am happy that I waited and didn't put my happy little annuals out into their new containers. Too cold.  The furnace just kicked in to get the inside of the house up to 64,  My Winter Setting..... at the end of May.  Weather is certainly ODD this year in Maine.

I am going to visit a very nice woman I met at a Christmas Dinner Party this afternoon.  She lives one street over. We both like Cooking and Reading... and drinking tea.  I am expanding my borders..........of friendship. Being less reclusive.....We are going to see what each other likes to read and might eventually exchange books if we do read similar things.

I am reading a Linda Howard book...not the one I thought I had checked out...but one that I do enjoy reading.  Troublemaker.  It was such a surprise when I was reading the first page and thought- oh, I got the wrong book.... and then realized I was actually glad I had gotten this one.  I am going to try and order others from interlibrary loan....

My library got rid of a significant number of Howard books over the years. I am sad about that...my library has gotten rid of so many good books and kept an odd assortment of things that never seem to get checked out.  When I am selecting books I often hear others mumbling that there is nothing they want to read on the shelves. "Someone else" decided what they should and should not read".

This morning I looked in the closet for a fresh pair of LLBean Misfit Twenty Five Cent Pants....All labeled with the same size and all different....I'm wearing the third pair I pulled out of the closet and tried on. Smaller than the pair I had been wearing....same size on the tag-newer looking.  Some of them have the actual size written in black sharpie...and I am only guessing at that.   These fit really nice- the pair I put in the laundry basket were extremely loose and most of the corduroy surface has been worn off.  The rear end was worn smooth and thin....soon to become donor repair patches for the others.

I am CERTAIN that I will be wearing these 25 cent pants on the day I die. Hopefully, the smaller sizes. I believe old women shrink- thought I haven't AS YET.  I have pants labelled from 14 to 22.  Short, Regular and Tall. No label is correct.  My closet is a regular Fun House.