Daily Correspondence. Saturday, January 4th.

My sewing room.  Formerly the office/sewing room.

The new shelving daughter and I selected and she put together.....she also sorted everything I owned (fabric). (scissors) (sewing machine) into bins (we had emptied of unused clothing from the Attic) and has that all safely available to me.  The art on the floor is no longer on the floor. It's on the walls.

Tubs contain one color family each.  So if I need blue- it's in the labeled BLUE tub. Who knew it was that easy??????  One tub is titled SCRAPS and that is the tub I go searching in for my little sewing project. Found an incredibly great blue strip yesterday....perfect. I'll sew it to the blue square/rectangle.  Sometimes the additions make a rectangle a square and sometimes the opposite.  There are no rules.

In some respects this is stifling to an ART PERSON- as I "think" I know what color I want but as I shuffle thru a box of many colors...I change my mind....wanting blue and only seeing blue.....not sure this is going to work long term...but right now- working on the squares becoming rectangles becoming squares again Project.......an abundance of unsorted scraps in all sorts of colors...is working very very well.  I can only use what's on the ottoman.  I can't say for sure- but I might be the only person who admires them. And it's iffy even for me.  I can't ever see sewing them all into ONE Object.  Horrible images....

I'll have one or two sort of far enough along to photograph for you....by Monday.  Today and tomorrow  there is Soccer and Some Football... I sew while watching. I am also reading. Sew, Read, Watch. Repeat.

My book for yesterday and into today is The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.  Don Tillman has decided to find a wife.  He has a list of what he does NOT want.  Rosie is ALL of those things........ I actually wanted to stay up late last night to continue reading......that hasn't been true of a book in quite a long time. Don is helping Rosie find her biological father (he is a Genetic's Professor)......she is helping him open himself up to new and different things.  They surprise each other and delight people they come in contact with.

I did not stay up-- I went to bed and slept very very well.  It's now time to begin watching European Soccer and later American Football.  There is Sunshine but it was in the low 20's overnight.  No snow on the ground...rather odd seeing green grass in January. In Maine...but Maine has been different in the past few years...and this year... way MORE different.

Sears came out to check on repairs for daughter's 30 year old fridge.  The guy said that model usually only has three things that can go wrong....her thing was number one....guy is ordering the defrost part.  Sears also repaired the 30 year old washing machine- one single part for that also.  When my newer appliances stop working- I have to buy a new appliance as there is NO REPAIR- no single part just many many parts.....too many to replace..  

Daughter has lovely neighbors who let her come and go to get milk for her cereal from their fridge.  She moved her perishables to their house. Driving here for breakfast cereal milk was NOT the best idea.

And it's also very cold outside so things can stay out in the garage if need be and freeze solid. If she had any of that....but she hadn't gone grocery shopping so it all worked out just fine.  I have the exact same fridge on my back porch.....The BOX STORE LOANER FRIDGE from years ago....I am STILL waiting for Lowes to come pick it up.......(laughing).......Lowes.  Wow.  I remind them every so often...

 

Daily notes on a Sunny Friday , January 3rd.36 degrees,

 I love this image from Postcards From Provence.  

We have just returned from Library and Grocery.  I needed the heavy coat but inside the Library it got too heavy and too warm...I had to give up on looking for books.....I got four.  I had some left unread from last week.  I also have my packed bookcase.  I woke up too early and fell back to sleep...too much sleep makes me tired....Oddly enough.

I bought a few bananas.  No oranges.  Cinnamon  Raisin  Bagels.  Coffee Cream. Flour Tortillas for my Ham and Swiss roll ups.  I was interested in buying pickles but son said we had them in the fridge--he was correct. We had half a jar of pickles.  He bought chips and I did not. 

I worked on my Random Scrap Strips added to squares or rectangles (hand sewing)......a few that looked miserable now look improved.  With an "edgy" attitude (a sad pun).  Nothing matches...so IF I ever had enough MASS...the sewn together things would be very very strange.  SOME have bypassed "potholder" in size.....moving toward "placemat"...  The thing is-- they are too nice looking (in my opinion only) to be used. To be gotten dirty with spaghetti sauce smears etc.  I gift them and see them in homes- still unused.....brand new.

Two out of the many were enlarged with wider strips yesterday while watching tv.  Some of the really small ones got strips as well. Strips that still feel a bit uncomfortable....so I will let them rest... see if they need to be removed.  The pile of strips and sewn pieces is one foot by 2 feet wide and high.  A Tangled Mess.  I realized yesterday that I can "free" sew a very very straight line......Virgo in all things.

So, TV (now that football is ending- what will I watch????), I've seen all of CSI-NY,  Law and Order, and have started watching documentaries on PBS WORLD.  They usually take up two hours of my day and four if there is a second episode and 6 hours if there is a third in the series. I have the feeling of being in college listening to lectures on subjects I know nothing about. But now...I am paying attention as I have years and years of experience and I know stuff now.....but am still confused. 10 to the nth power.

Daily Notes for Thursday, January 2nd 2025. Sunshine here in Maine- 40 degrees.

 Postcards from Provence- Today we have a nice plump Pear.  I always have admired the work of Realistic Painters....it's actually very very detailed work.....

I worked on changing over to my new desk top calendar yesterday (to celebrate the holiday)....Added two images to the top left corner... Also including my two January Appointments.  Haircut and Doctor. and then I had to stop as I didn't have anything else .....

My coffee has gotten cold- be right back as I need it to be warmer. I have also gotten behind on my banana a day project....Potassium.  I need the coffee to take my pills... Vitamin and tiny statin.  I am actually feeling much better than I did in the Fall.  I don't know why but...fine with me.

I know I am feeling better because I spend more time being BORED than I had been previously. Actively being bored....Looking for things to do....a good sign.

Nothing I see around me is making me less bored.  I watched the sister PBS channel- WORLD yesterday..three episodes of what I think is Physics.  Things to the tenth power.  Colliders....very interesting things like black holes, experiments to create Life in a dish, a mechanical doll that has conversations with people- artificial intelligence.  And my favorite part- that our DNA is made with star dust from distant stars.  Check out WORLD on your cable network.....

So...today.   I finished reading I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue.  Not an easy read but I made it to the end with a break for WORLD.  I started One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin......page 34 and might not go any further.  It's at times like this that I wonder how a book got published.

I have quite a few others on the book shelf...so...

Happy New Year-- Welcome to January First 2025.

Took awhile but finally got the typing over here to the left.... image from Postcards from Provence yet again.   The Pom's are supposed to be lucky somehow...bountiful.  I'd love to share a Bountiful Year with all of you.  So we'll be having lots of these images this first week or 2025..

40 degrees with 99% humidity and rain.  Here in Maine.  Global Warming....very obvious in Maine. My front garden beds are full of water.  I haven't read the newspaper as yet or eaten my breakfast...it was getting late and I know some of you worry when I post late.

I think we will be taking my little tree down and putting the ornaments away.....I will miss it. I liked the sparkle of the tiny white lights.

I haven't had my breakfast as yet....late again.....but will be eating soon as I have little to REPORT here. Furnace is running,  Lights are on.  Son has walked past and wished me a Happy New Year.  The computer finished that sentence with Happy Birthday.   This new iMac likes to do that. Finish my sentences. It even has words in light print up ahead of my typing.  Rushes ahead of me to get the words on the screen.  I make sure I never finish my sentence with words the computer chose.

We'll see who is more intelligent.