Daily Notes for Monday April 20th....The Sun is shining here in Maine...45 degrees???? Clouds arrive after I typed this.

 I have used up all the images on the desk top.  Need to find new ones or skip the photo.

My hair is behaving...curling under....not quite long enough to gather and twist into a messy bun. Another month.  My Dental Appointment is coming up soon....I got an email.

I woke up tired.  It happens.  Perhaps not physically tired but emotionally tired if that makes sense. My LIFE HISTORY is unwinding and repeating itself endlessly in a LOOP while I sleep.......I see where I messed up....again and again. I can't go back in Time and make different choices.... so why keep showing me my mistakes??????  At least it's not that ride in the dark empty bus....that dream was endless and very disturbing. I finally stopped having it........but remembered it this morning.

And at almost 80-...what new things are there?   None. I used to wish for a new cashmere sweater. I got two hand me down acrylic pullovers..with a zip necks....wear them every day now....good enough.

Some of the grass....here....is greener than the rest.  Gonna be an interesting Summer. For a Perfectionist Lawn Owner.   I have Guys who will mow....I could mow myself..... but starting the mower is way too confusing for me. Husband always got it going for me and I mowed the grass...then he forgot how to start the mower......and I hired guys.

I woke up tired....I'm still tired.....Monday so no newspaper. So I stood and looked out the window...no news outside either.  And here I am with nothing to type.  Well, my oatmeal was very good.....I have an old book to finish reading....and I am searching for something else to read. After.

I have a long scribbled list (on the desk calendar)  of Jane Austin read-a- likes...mostly modern. Unmarriageable might be in the bookcase.. NO.. Curtis Sittenfeld's  Eligible is there all alone.. I also have Longbourne....incredibly sad....  I might also have the Other Bennet Sister....lost somewhere in the bookcase.  But I have other books to read.  Pride and Premeditation?  Sense and Second Degree?  No... I might see if any Library in Maine has these....laughing.

Daily Notes for Sunday, April 19th. Raining here in Maine and I had to turn up the furnace.

 I have raised beds like these out back (just dirt no plants)....fenced in because Maine has lots of foraging deer.  I have hoops also to pre heat the soil so I can defend against the cold Maine Spring.  The cloth that goes over the hoops is hard to find...we sold it at the greenhouse where I worked but in the my final years there- not always in stock.  Clear plastic is on option but...not sure where to find it or who would help me spread it over the hoops. And then in the heat of Summer-- it would be a disaster.  Watering back there is also a problem I have to think about.   Would have been nice to have dug a DEEP trench and run plumbing out there.  Could still happen.

The rain we are having has "'greened" up my over fertilized lawn.  It has been brown since last June. The green is still a bit splotchy and sort of yellow......but I will take whatever I can get.

I have a book on the table next to my bed now....for reading.  Usually in the morning.  No rush to get out of bed.   Each day is pretty much like ALL the others.  Seen one...seen them all.

I just finished reading a Devereaux book that comes before Met Her Match....but AFTER the Girl from Summerhill.   My intention today is a book about "wishes" where three unhappy women get to make a wish on how they would have made a different decision and changed their lives.  The Girl From Summerhill is actually my favorite book....Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice is the backbone of this story. I always keep it for the LAST book I read.....when doing the series.

I know for sure I haven't found or read all the authors who take Jane Austin's books as a framework for a modern book....I have found several different modern renditions of Jane Eyre. And like them even though I have never read the original Jane Eyre.  Or ANY original Jane Austin.  

After book reading stops in a few weeks--I plan to paint a watercolor or two.... The urge to paint is getting stronger as the Winter turns to Spring.

Reading and British Soccer today....Pizza after 4 pm.  My Morning Coffee needs a reheating.  Even though I just had my oatmeal I am feeling "snacky". but not a clue what to eat.

Daily Notes for Saturday April 18th.....Sunshine here in Maine 57 degrees.

 National Library Week- Coming Soon.

Okay here I am on a Saturday needing to type this quickly so I can get on with the Saturday Cooking Shows.  See what Lidia is making.  "Just like that". She says that all the time.

I am past the midway point in my book and then I have to choose another book.  I watched some CSI: Las Vegas yesterday....Not my favorite version- Too Orange and Way Too Creepy.  I think I prefer the darker colors of CSI: NY.  I visited Vegas once or twice- not my kind of place. I did enjoy the free drinks up on the roof- that's where the pool was.....and that's where I was. Alcohol Free.

I have two small cans of baked beans on the counter....at some point yesterday I thought about opening the cans and having baked beans with a nice Grilled Cheese Sandwich.  OR Macaroni and Cheese. I think one small can is enough....

I bought Apples for the Fruit of the Week.  Change of pace. But had an orange yesterday

My book is Deveraux's Ever After.   I like it....every time I read it I try to find reasons NOT to read it.... Ghosts......not a fan of ghosts and most of the Nantucket books have ghosts. Old Dead Sea Captains.

After the Deveraux Book Fest I will move on to some Dee Ernest and visit Paris. Been awhile. OR I might swivel over to some Police Procedurals I have stacked up...Quebec. Sort of "cozy" until the shooting starts.  I haven't read  Louise Penny in AGES.......I have her newest book....I have ALL her books.

We'll see who wins- more Nantucket or some Quebec. Or neither. Perhaps "Love Lettering". Been awhile. Or I can CRY my way thru My Heart Will Find You.... by Deveraux. Or I can sew.  I have all the "right" substitute fabric for mending this antique quilt.....and I can watch tv while sewing.  It's full size, old and needs quite a bit of mending..... Nothing matched in the first place so my"mending" doesn't even show.

But I can see where it doesn't match...cause that's how I roll.

Daily Notes- Library and Grocery Shopping...... no COAT!!!!!

 Produce.....

I went into the Library and actually had two books on hold.....to pick up....so that was a pleasant surprise. The other surprise was NOT NEEDING a coat.   

The lawn is TRYING to Spring into Action....All that excess fertilizer is making the transition from Winter Brown to Green even slower than usual.  I won't fertilize this year at all... and with the blockade fertilizer is going to be very very expensive.  

I do have two three by three by three foot bins full of compost ready to sift and spread.....last time I turned it- there were so many worms I ran back into the house.  Worms make fantastic compost.

If I could put weight on my knees I would go out back and dig up the hyacinth bulbs and arrange them in an area together..they are NOW being pushed around and covered up by Daffodils. I wonder if they sell long handled tools for people with bad knees????  I imagine they do. A shovel is too wide.

Birds have come back to visit the center garden bed out front...looking for bugs and worms. 

No Berries yet and No Bird Feeders anymore.

I just polished off a peanut butter wrap....now I need a beverage.  Nice cup of tea.   Take care.....

Daily Notes for Thursday April 18th. Cloudy, no Sunshine and 55 degrees

 I don't remember where this came from.  But I like it very very much.  Makes me "happy".

And "happy" is not something I feel, much at all, these days.  When was the last time I laughed????

I may draw this on cloth and drag out the thread and stitch while watching CSI:NY. I need to have something...anything to get me going again... I am at the halfway point in my book.  They haven't begun yoga as yet and they haven't traveled 'back in time" yet either..

I have a full bolt of white COTTON...waiting.....to be re-purposed into something new. I WISH, in retrospect, I had purchased a bolt of white LINEN.  I do have LINEN sheets but they are better used on beds until worn thin.....and then...I can stitch on them.

I moved my watercolor supplies to the new empty space in the cabinet across from the table where I eat breakfast and read the paper.   The computer typed words it liked while I was typing words I liked.  That has never happened before...and all the words were spelled correctly.  Strange Day so far. Perhaps a message from a ghost.

I have three new to me Devereaux books to look for in the Library catalog. "Someone to Love" sounds good.  Montgomery/Taggert fictitious family living on the coast of Maine.  I may have dismissed this book in early days....I'm older now....it makes a difference. Well, I need to order those books....read and finish my decaf coffee....perhaps watch some Soccer.  Perhaps...what is that Shakespeare quote that begins with Perhaps????

Daily Notes for Wednesday, April 15th. 56 degrees and 99% humidity. Zero Sun. Dismal.

 All the images are now here.   I deleted them from the desktop.  I like the wood surface in this image. I didn't notice it on the original...but see it here on the screen.  It is always fascinating what the eye notices and doesn't see.

I am still pleased that I washed Three Loads of Laundry.. fresh sheets on the bed...I turned a corner figuratively......getting a bit of myself back... I stayed up late to read that last pages of True Love. And am eager to begin reading book two... there's a bit of Time Travel in the second book...but the rest of the book makes up for that.  The Third Book is really strange....but also worth slogging thru to the end.  Lots of the same people in all three.  Nantucket.

Nantucket is close by but I don't think I'll ever take the bus/train to Boston to catch the Fast Ferry.  Though I would like to people watch while enjoying an ice cream cone. I'd most likely twist an ankle on the cobble streets. All my clothes would be the "wrong" clothes.

Son emptied another section of the cabinet across from the table where we eat and read the paper.  We still have a pile of husband's papers on top.....he says we might need them.  But all of husband's things in that bottom cabinet are now in a storage tub.....and I was considering filling the space with Art Supplies. Which are now in the hall coat closet.  There is also an unused very very large tv on top of the cabinet.... Husband watched things on it while eating or reading the paper or doing word search puzzles..  He liked Wipe Out and the hidden cameras watching pets home alone.  I'd like to see the TV find a new home. At Goodwill.

That's it for today- the dampness outside precludes a walk for me...to the end of the street and back... I'l wait for warmer weather and some sunshine.....a shower and three loads of laundry yesterday was enough. For this Old Woman.  And I have book two to get involved in.

The Sun broke thru the clouds just a moment ago...what a delight!!!!!

A Sunny Day in Maine but still a chilly 64 - outside and in the house.

 The second pear.   A bit lighter with extra yellow..   

The exuberance of yesterday has worn off.... or I just wore myself out with changing the sheets etc. I have a tremendous amount of laundry to do.  Hours.   But it's far better to spent time doing laundry than discovering what Mr T has done overnight.  It's amazing......his capacity....

I keep checking the fridge hoping for a miracle-- like something in there to eat. Even the freezer is BARE. There is aways peanut butter....but will it last until Friday shopping?????  I also have one "trial" container of yogurt....the trial is seeing if it produces acid reflex.  It's a brand I used to eat long ago and far away. I also have canned baked beans.... a  Sad Empty Pantry and Fridge.

I have oatmeal.

I have nothing more so you get another painting

Daily Notes- Monday April 13th. A bit cloudy here in Maine, 51 degrees and high humidity.

 Ask and you shall receive... this is  5 by 8 inches and is in a frame with another pear,  A Pair of Pears.

I'll take a picture of the left hand one for you tomorrow.  Watercolor.

I have acrylic paint if I want to use it....I never could AFFORD oil paints...in college..so that was a real disappointment.  Acrylic is nice but nowhere as nice as oil paints (it's shiny).. Oil moves smoothly and mixes on the canvas.  

In college I received an A in my one watercolor class.  I brought in only one painting...the professor looked at that one painting for quite awhile and then looked at me....He never said anything....I found out about the A when the grades were posted. Weeks later.  Unexpected.

The painting got lost .... the watercolors were in my parent's home and were stolen one day when a cousin came with a truck and loaded furniture, paintings, collected Christmas ornaments, vintage toys--everything in the basement workshop and drove away....leaving my demented mom (his aunt) with an empty house. He sold everything.  This sort of thing runs in the family DNA.

Well, we got off onto a different tangent here.....I lost quite a few things in all the moves husband and I made.  When daughter was bringing down boxes I had hopes of finding even one or two of the missing pieces of my Life.  Hasn't happened as yet.

I have one more thing to share- it will be political so stop reading  if you need to do that......

Tucker Carlson lives here on the coast of Maine..broadcasts HATE from a bunker like garage..I have always been ashamed of that....but yesterday on MSNBC (of all things) Tucker took down and sliced open Donald Trump and his VP like he might with a deer he shot.  Well...it was something I never thought to see or hear.  Wish I had recorded it.

I need to hydrate and eat.....I took a shower after my oatmeal and I did okay.  The shower head is still leaking...no one is going to try and tighten it.....I asked...I tried to do it myself but I'm too short to get a good grip.  And I am SO NOT climbing upon anything in a tile-lined shower to reach it... no death wish.

I finished Met Her Match and am now reading True Love. Devereaux.   Only book in the series I do NOT have a copy of.....all the others were picked off the Discard Cart the Library used to put outside the front door.  I just counted 23 hardback Deveraux and Lindsay books I got off the Discard Carts over the years.   I always called it my Retirement Collection. And...it's been a great joy to have books I love available- especially during the Pandemic when the Library closed down completely..

Daily Notes for Sunday April 12th. Sunshine here and 46 degrees. House feels chilly.

 Grass and weeds.   Well, they cut the weeds down to make a path.  Not my yard. But the back acre does look like this and if they don't mow it- a path would be nice..  Ticks.  The Lawn Guys haven't started mowing as yet.  The back is fine but the front lawn is still struggling to recover from Too MUCH Fertilizer and not enough water.

My constantly multiplying daffodils out back are doing what they do to cheer me up.  I promised them some mulch...but finding some and ordering it and getting it delivered is holding us up..as it does every year...until it's too late and I give up.  I give up earlier and earlier these days.

April.  I can't actually figure out what's happening....time moves at a different pace these days..the closer I get to my Eightieth Birthday (which is still 5 months away)...the slower the days go by.  It's like I'm dragging my feet to slow myself down.  Same with my book...I stopped reading so I could make the book last longer.   

Sunday Pizza today....no football but I have two British Soccer Matches being recorded.  I tried watching CSI:Miami but all the ORANGE put me off as usual.  I like the darkness on CSI:NY.

That's about all I have for you this morning...it's what happens when I get up too early...and have sad thoughts and cry ....then I get over it and get out of bed.  I wonder if that's okay???

I watched the new Storage Locker show....new people.  The regulars were getting OLD.  The lockers they bought were full of dust and dirt.....  or it could have been sand.

I have, for the past few weeks, been considering watercolor painting....just something small.  I have framed paintings I did years ago....I see them often...on the shelf above the fireplace.  Next to my bed (daughter sprinkled them around the house)....the very last thing I painted....a red apple...flat topped and wide.  I see it before I climb into bed and in the morning when I get up...... reminding me. 

Is there anything you stopped doing that you could start doing again??????

Daily Notes on a cloudy damp day in Maine....The Sun came out while I was typing. April 11

 A Polish Cake... Karpatka.   I want one.    

The Sun comes and goes......daughter is having trouble with getting LAST YEAR'S tax refund. Due to Trump firing most of the senior tax employees.  

Anyone out there understand what MRS TRUMP was actually saying with the walk in a tight suit????? If you have any information..please share????  WAS VERY STRANGE. At first I thought she was going to run for President.......because why not?????  Being Qualified Be Damned.

Today is Saturday and the Cooking Shows are all mixed up.  On PBS. Foraging....Wild Blueberries. In Maine. Next up is something that they eat in a "Bacon Lettuce Tomato: sandwich which is not bacon. I rewound to see what it is.   The Town Commons is behind my house....who knows what sort of things grow there. I used to have wild blueberries but the deer foraged.  The "bacon" was flat leaves of seaweed.

So today is Saturday.   A few Cooking Shows...Some Reading....Some Soccer.  My book is still Met Her Match...lots of stuff still has to happen.   Well, the Wild Cooking Show is done- next up? Who knows.

Jobless Claims jumped to 219K last week.

Gotta watch Lida now and then British Soccer.  And perhaps stitch strips of torn cloth into a square or rectangle.  By hand... and read my way to a very happy ending of "Met My Match". And then start in on another Deveraux saga.  

Daily Notes for Friday, April 10th. My Mother's Birthdate...why I remember that is beyond me.

From the images side of the desktop.....I need to stock up on new images.

Today is grocery day.  We haven't made a LIST.

Not much to say here....not much going on...I could describe the plots of two CSI episodes from yesterday??????  The living room thermostat needed fresh batteries.  My bedroom clock in the shape of an Apple Computer needed batteries a while back... I Swiffered my bedroom floor yesterday- especially under the bed.. PLENTY of dust bunnies.

My hair is undergoing a transformation- I look like a 1980's woman (again).  It happened overnight.

There are two books I want-  True Love and As You Wish... I am reading thru the "Library Discarded Books Collection" in my cupboard.  And I am missing these two.   If my energy levels are up enough...unlikely...I will walk to the Library and see if they have these two on the shelves......I have a feeling they got discarded years ago with the others........on days I wasn't there to save them...... 

I'll check the catalog.   Well, I need breakfast and the newspaper.  Some coffee.  I did remember to put my socks on.
 

Daily Notes for Thursday, April 9th...sunshine here in Maine and 44 degrees.

 Not seeing any birds here in Maine....yet.  The shrubs have their overwintered leaves but the trees are all bare. None of Maine's leaves have COLOR other than tan or brown...yet.  The grass is brown or tan on ALL the lawns (not just mine).... I haven't decided...yet...to start walking...but I know it would be a GOOD thing to do.  Wearing a heavy coat while walking would be a very BAD idea.  So warmer weather.

Tomorrow is Grocery Shopping Day....I might try and walk to the Library to return books. It depends on my Energy Levels.  I do not think I will enter the Library.  But things might change.  I have two books I want to read.....and they are NOT in my bookcase.... Deveraux's True Love and As You Wish.

I cooked yesterday...boiled water.  I find this amusing........ I made boxed Kraft Mac and Cheese....added frozen peas.  I remembered how to do it.  Laughing.  Today is Grilled Cheese with Pickles.  Might as well keep going.... It felt good and after eating I washed the dishes.... "normal" activities.

Well, It's getting late and I need to eat breakfast.......read the paper...suffer thru the Suduko puzzle. After that- the couch and the book I am reading..... and channel 1177 for more dead bodies..

I am BACK to reading a book a day.   Which I have been TOLD is best for Brain Health (screens are bad).   Along with a daily walk. SOON. And LARGE AMOUNTS of WATER (drinking water)......the remaining Attic BOXES will still be there in November.......when daughter's Gardening Season Ends.

Breakfast......the Paper....the Suduko....the book I am reading..... and then LUNCH!!!!!!  A FULL DAY.

Daily Notes for Wednesday April 8th. Sunshine and Visible Grass here in Maine.

 Advertisement offering me these lovely flowers.  Deer Food here in Maine.

I haven't seen any of the deer outback as yet....last year the street behind me was being paved and the deer might have gone swimming over to the islands early.   In the early days of living here my backyard was full of black crows and a multitude of deer.  I live very very close to the ocean and the small islands where people spend the summer months.

Too much traffic now.  For deer.   The back acres are in desperate need of a major cleanup.  The fenced garden- left unused for quite a few years now- is a terrible MESS.  My late husband used to spend days back there slowly weeding...there was no hurry back then.......

I am happy to see the Sunshine again....Snow was an unwelcome guest yesterday.

Re-reading a favorite book yesterday.  Anyone But You.   Today I am looking forward to Met Her Match. In case the TV series I am watching gets dull and boring.  1177  on the TV dial always has something interesting and often icky ways for people to die..   I set a few educational PBS offerings to record.  And I have MANY Law and Order episodes waiting.  I watch and miss my dog.

Well, I need breakfast and an update on the NEWS.  Whatever happened while I was not watching. Interesting that MORE people got tax refunds....I did not.   I lost my visitor counter for the blog so have no idea if anyone is even reading these posts....perhaps I should just stop??????

Daily Notes for Tuesday, April 7th. A Still, Cloudy Day here in Maine.

 I've lost track of the carved wooden cats and dogs. Which ones have been here and which ones not.

The morning paper had images of the dark side of the Moon.  I wasn't watching the right channel when the images arrived on TV.  But the newspaper had a large photo.  Past visits were in 1969 and 1971..So I was correct in thinking I had been in the hospital with the delivery of one or the other of my babies watching them drop down to the surface of the Moon.  They aren't leaving the capsule this time.

The days all seem the same right now--is that how it is as we get really OLD?....

I have gathered my longish hair into a small knot at the base of my head and neck and secured it with a few pins.  It's escaping.  As it always has done. I skipped a morning shower again as I was a bit shaky this morning....not a good time to take a fall. Naked.  After breakfast is a better choice or mid afternoon.

CSI has been both disgusting and entertaining.  And I recall the episodes as I have watched them many times over the decades.....Riley and I.  Good times.  Same with Law and Order.  Old Friends.

Cross the street neighbors are back from a long vacation.  Lights on in the house last night.  Theirs is the only house I can actually SEE on this long dead end street.  All the others are too far away or blocked by lots of tall dark trees. Or.... on the bedroom side of the house with the blinds closed.

If Son asks if I am feeling ABLE to do the walk to the end of the street and back as yet...my reply would be No.  I have to work up to it again and not go far in the beginning in case I need to sit down.  And there are no places to sit down on my street.  I've considered carrying a folding chair....no..stop laughing.

Chair would have to have wheels- continue to stop laughing.

Daily Notes- Monday April 6th. Cloudy. 44 degrees..Cloudy with a chance of Sun- like right now.

 I'm trying to remember to slide the dog pictures into the trash can after using them here.  I like the west facing dog .  Quite a bit.  Reminds me of one of our dogs.  Rusty. A Red Lab.  He retired here from North Carolina. 

 Here in Maine we tilt a bit to warm and then back to cold. It is Maine...It COULD still snow. There are a few unmelted patches of snow out front.

Sunday pizza was excellent- we are trying a new pizza sauce- it was tasty....and after the pizza my two sweet potatoes entered the still very hot oven....I have the cheese I like to stuff into the reheated potatoes this week. (I remembered to buy it)... it melts and is stringy and gooey. Lovely with the soft baked sweet potato.

Yesterday I watched the Miami based CSI.  Usually I don't like it...but it was fine- no alligators..  AMC has a series I enjoyed once before so I set the TiVo to record all six episodes...clipping something else on the 6th episode.

 I found "Met Her Match" in the bookcase.  Hard cover and trade paper. (belt and. suspenders)  Looking forward to reading it after finishing Bad Luck Bridesmaid...I am half way.   We haven't gotten into the best parts of THAT book yet.  The "set up" for what happens next takes TIME.........almost Too Much Time. and then it simply slides into a crash landing. I am never quite sure it's a Happy Landing.  Depending on my mood when I read it- can go either way.

I may catch up on any "breaking news" I missed over the weekend.  Or I May Not.  We don't get a Monday newspaper so I just "don't know"....what's happened or did not happen. 

I know there is a recorded Soccer Match in case I need a Soccer Match..  

Daily Notes for Sunday April 5th. Raining... Hallmark has made a movie of one of my favorite books.....

 Happy Easter.....

I had to check the wall calendar to make sure of the date.And the Holiday.  I have Zero of these sweet nest treats here...I have zero Easter anything here. Sunday Pizza. After 4 pm.

Tried watching the Birding With Benefits Hallmark Movie (of a book I love reading)....just NO..... I can't even try imagining these two doing what the book characters did.  There were a lots of "benefits" in the book.  Quite a bit of serious unhappiness also.

The actress in the woman's part is one of those chirpy chatty people.  In EVERY HALLMARK MOVIE...same performance.....never changes.  The book's female character is depressed. Not one chirpy anything. Barely makes conversation.  I understand her. 

I am not in a "place" where I can read the book. 

So....what will I do instead of watching the Planned Hallmark Diversion????  READ????  Yesterday I sorted fabric scraps.....rock bottom here in Maine for activities.  

Well.....Library Items are close to being due.  A few reminders in the emails.  I can renew the ones I  am still thinking about reading,.....I have books.....I am considering Met Her Match..  It has its moments. I also am considering hand sewing a square together.  I have collections of fabric strips ready to go. 

I'll let you SEE what happens.... I hope it's not cold and wet where you are...It is here in Maine.

Daily Notes. Saturday April 4th. It's not even 10 am and I have. gone thru everything I can think of doing.

 I love the stripes.

I had difficulty falling asleep...for the past week or even two weeks (it seems)...the Full Moon has been shining into my bedroom windows....lighting up the room... and now people are up there..in Space.  Near the Moon. I thought they were going to visit the surface but they are not....just a fly by.

I have been watching CSI: Vegas.  Vintage.   I slightly remember each episode as it evolves. I watched quite a bit of CSI re-runs when I had the Winter off from the Greenhouse Job.  Time to Fill. Acres of Time to Fill....and no one to talk to.  At work I talked to so many people each day....at home...just me and the dog... he got tired of me talking to him when All He Wanted was to watch tv.  Yes.  My dog watched tv. Disliked the commercials more than I did.  And eventually he fell asleep. With his head on my feet so he'd be "notified" if I was getting up.  In case that meant food or a walk.  We walked a lot. Together.

My new desk top calendar has only one headline pasted down.  Lunar Voyage.....April is going to be a Politics Free Zone....this includes MSNBC which I haven't watched in a really really long time.

I am thinking about recording Rugby Games.  I do not understand anything about  Rugby even after watching MANY games...it's more like "hide the ball and call the medics".  Watching makes me want to find the Rom Com in my bookcase with the Rugby Guy staying in the wrong house.   I actually haven't seen that book in a very very long time...Met Her Match.  Might try and find it..read it. Today.

My Taxes have been electronically filed.  It's a miracle of "techno" whatever.   Sigh.... No refund.

Daily Notes for Friday April 3rd. Clouds....Broken Space Toilet.....

 Making.  Not me. Not now....but "before"...... I would have hauled out the felt.  Made the cactus. My straight pins are in a pale cream pear shaped felt object.  Needed to have a more "dense" filling inside...if I find something or one of you has a suggestion--- I'll unsew one side and put something better in.

The little FOX is adorable.  (Not as adorable as Dee's Mice).  I might buy the kit.  

Son says "not enough water" as I am being very forgetful today.  I had the regular amount.  With my vitamins.  BUT we were ready to go shopping so did not finish my one cup of instant decaf coffee. I have a tea bag and hot water here to the right of myself- sugared....sigh.  Plus I have HAD two 8 ounce glasses of water.   A bit of acid reflux as well.  

Growing OLD is really the pits.  

Two more sweet potatoes...will get baked before or after Sunday Pizza while the oven is hot. I have the cheese I like to add to the baked sweet potato..... Oranges are fluctuating in price as the weeks go by. Going higher.  At one point in Time- one dollar each.  I eat one every day.

In the book I am reading two people meet and share dinner (repeatedly) and really like each other.. never run out of things to talk about...I've read the book before...HIS mother doesn't like the woman and that's that......end of story.  Bad Luck Bridesmaid.  No wedding actually takes place if she is a bridesmaid.

Channel 1177 has been serving up some bloody story lines.   Not exactly a replacement for British Soccer but keeps me OFF the NEWS channels.  I will try some Law and Order today.  Daughter has gone back to Landscape Work....Spring Clean Up.  So I need to "amuse" myself.... but there are STILL MANY BOXES up in the ATTIC to sort thru......when Daughter comes back.

Daily Notes for Thursday April 2nd. Almost noon and I haven't eaten breakfast. Liftoff to the Moon!!!

I give up....I'll start typing from the midline.  This computer has often decided to do this for reasons only IT knows. Cloudy this morning and still needing the furnace running.

Well, there we go..it fixed itself.   Kristi Doom....well well.  And the Big Guy sitting in on the Supreme Court.   MSNBC showed a close up of Trumps ankles- swollen WAY over the top edges of his shoes. Tick Tock...time is running out...for his kidneys.  My own ankles do this every so often.

I had one of the baked sweet potatoes yesterday with butter and some Parmesan cheese... tasty.  Tried a few books..nothing was interesting....just not a Reading Week. Perhaps next week.  I did collect a few black and white prints to make a new square....missing "something" to make the other cloth sparkle. Will keep looking.  Channel 1177 has been entertaining.  Today I'll give Missing Without a Trace a chance.....- where they look for people who just disappear.   Hallmark- is a disaster....15 minutes of one movie and I went back to dead bodies on CSI.

No Soccer on USA which is SAD.  I do have Soccer on one of the four digit channels.  But players are like tiny tiny and not all that great to watch..  Furnace is going.... at some point I'll be asked to sign my Income Tax Paperwork.  

Okay...I haven't had breakfast as yet or read the paper or tried the Suduko....So much to do... I have to also put on socks...I turned the heat up as it was feeling cold in here....I feel cold most of the time these days. Spring...?????

 

Daily Notes for Wednesday April First... Oh what Fools we are.........

Let's name him or her... SPOT.

I ruminated on my Life before getting out of bed this morning....mistakes I made.  Ways I could have improved my Life...changes I could have made.  Too late now...and actually now...I am feeling good about my Life.   Wish I had friends.  People to do things with...but almost everyone I knew is my age and moving on to the Retirement they dreamed of.  Elsewhere.

Mainers look forward to Elsewhere.

I relocated the channel with the good shows. 1177.  I'l be watching stuff there.  Until British Soccer resumes.  

Daughter took my overdue books back to the Library and checked out a bag full of my favorites.  I have checked them out MANY times this Winter...... read and repeat.  Sigh.  Most have some sort of complicated love story in the plot.   Often making me cry.

I am finding myself being tugged reluctantly to the Art Supply cabinet.  Wanting to paint or draw or something.... more than likely watercolor.  I have a small collage I found in the Art Cupboard here my the desktop...an index card....I have it where I can look at it when I am on the couch feeling sad.

As to Streaming....The Computer Engineer said there was ZERO possibility of streaming of any sort here. Now or Ever.  The TiVo is a no go...The TV is a non starter.  So ALL of you telling me I could.....I can't.

I can't.