Daily Notes for Thursday October 8th. Clouds and Damp here in Maine...49 degrees

 I'm okay with Damp.... we needed rain here in Maine...   the front over fertilized lawn is still brown. Might actually be quite dead. Tru Green Hell. Covered in acorns. Back yard is very very green and lush.  Has more shade as there are lots of tall old trees out back. Zero acorns. 

No matter what I wear or how I set the temp in here..I am cold.  I have a thermal long sleeved shirt on. Corduroy pants and wool socks...  I'm going back to my room for a sweater. After I write to you.  Because writing to you is my favorite part of the day...until lunch..... very late lunch as I just finished breakfast (11am).  I do enjoy lunch at around 3 pm.. Even though it's the same every day.  Peanut Butter Sandwich.  Never with jelly.   

Ah, the SUN has arrived.  (for approximately 20 minutes)

I haven't found ANY of my library books of GREAT interest to me. I am reading Ten Rules for Faking It right now ....I read all my Good Books once a year. So third or fourth year for this book.  As I age, different plot points are noticed....some irritate me...some surprise me.  I often wish the books could be edited again and re-issued.  Fresh.   2020 not that old. But old.

I am going to need to go back to my room and get a sweater....eventually. If I leave now, I might get sidetracked by something or anything and not finish the post....an 80 year old brain cannot be trusted to stay focused.  It goes where it goes.

So...The Sun is NOW HERE!!!!!!  Very bright .... Sort of blinding in the back yard. (now gone)

What do I plan on doing today?????? Glad you asked....Read.....Watch TV.  ZERO NEWS!!!!!. I have small piles of cloth strips that are color matched to look nice together....I might sew them...into squares. None of the finished squares look good together......that worries me.  But not enough to stop making them. It's Busy Work.....plain and simple..... Idle Hands and all that..... I refuse to turn the squares into potholders.  Been There Done That. Requires Batting...I have none... and no one sells it here anymore. 

Well, I have scraps that might total a square yard or more...that's it. If I piece them together.

Well, that's enough nothing for today's post...I need to go find my sweater as my neck feels chilled...and perhaps I should comb my hair again...try for some semblance of neatness.  Yesterday I inserted a handful of bobbie pins into the mass of hair....got it flattened....but needed to re-insert pins as the day matured. I do have a nice elastic band........that could hold the majority of the hair in one place for longer than the pins do....they give up so easily... perhaps they are unionized?????

Daily Notes for Wednesday October 7th. Chilly here in Maine....thermal long sleeved shirt and wool sweater.

 And I'm still cold.  There are no pumpkins here in the house..And I doubt we will buy any Halloween candy again this year....  The big neighborhood down the road is packed with houses..so the kids go there. This dead end street is just that...  any kids who lived here are grown and gone.

I set the temp higher so the furnace will go on.  One degree higher.... take the edge off the chill here in the living room.  The kitchen dining room is being warmed by the sun shining in the windows... this side of the house gets only shade.

I did sleep with my window open last night.  I don't think I will be doing that again?????  I have a deluxe down comforter....very very nice.

Political news is either mean spirited, weird or just boring...  I do plan to vote.  Not that it matters.  My politics and Maine are not a good match....I didn't match well in Chicago either.  Or Ohio....  I did have a chance in Atlanta, Georgia....... but also not a great match.

So that's it for me....I am shivering...in a thermal long sleeved shirt and a wool sweater.... I might have trouble being 80 in Maine...in the Winter.  Getting my first real understanding of why the older Mainers head for Florida.......or are already there by now.  But...not a fan of Florida.....been there done that...of course NOW I could afford central air.......and an ocean view. And I could spend afternoons drinking. But I think I'd prefer reading.

Well, I need to find a book for today and talk my Son into taking me into Town to pay my Property Taxes and VOTE......then come home and sit on the couch and read another book......out of the bookcase. Try not to read one that makes me cry.  I'd rather read one that makes me laugh. Yesterday's book made me cry.

Daily Notes for Tuesday October 6th. Sunshine, colored leaves on the trees and blue skies.

 A company sends me pictures of their linen clothing...endlessly.  So expensive.  Not sure I would be happy wearing ruffles along the top edge of genetically wide hips. I take after my European Peasant Grandmother.  And the wide scoop neckline does me no favors. I prefer a collar. I believe this top is $100 PLUS. Canadian.

Yes the Sun and all the colors of Autumn are making the outdoors very attractive this morning.  I have been refilling the birdbaths every other day now- not just once a week.  I have cleaned out the one in the back yard...it's nice and deep...good for splashing around.  Bird BATH.

Yesterday's start on a book....Definitely Thriving. Author from Toronto.  There is a British tinge to the dialogue.  I was wondering where the plot was actually heading....so moved ahead a bit...still not positive I will finish the book.   I have plenty more on the shelf..  no reason to suffer thru a badly plotted book. We know more about her ex husband than is actually necessary. She calls him Toad not Todd....

I tried out the Hallmark channel and they offered me two movies I have failed to enjoy watching in the decades of Hallmark I suffered thru....won't do it again.  I then watched ice melt on another channel.

My breakfast cuppa needs a warm up.....the sudoko was too difficult......I need to get moving on the Property Tax Payment and Voting....the two are next to each other at Town Hall. At my age I do not enjoy "pending" items....I prefer a clean slate.   Now...where are my socks??????

Daily Notes for Monday 0ctober 5th. Dark inside the house and cloudy and wet outside,

 A walk in the woods would be nice but I would be missing that old Black Dog. The ENTIRE walk.

Some additional problems with Blogger this morning.  I managed to get thru to the blog anyway..with out calling for Tech Support.   Yesterday's problem involved "my switch " to the Slovakian Keyboard.......I am..... was.... rendered speechless.. that he thought I could actually do that. Even by accident.

Football.  I watched as long as I could and then moved on to something else and then just gave up and turned the tv off.  

I have stopped talking Tylenol and today started in on plain aspirin.  I could ask for a repeat of the dangers of Tylenol (to share with you) but don't want to admit I forgot everything he said..but he'll read this and know anyhow.  Yes, I forgot everything.  Next time have me write it down while you are talking.  Son is sharing his Bayer Aspirin with me.  I should have better cognitive clarity from now on.  Whatever that means...  I'm expecting great things.

Today is supposed to be Library Day...  I haven't ordered any books.  I'll have to drift thru the stacks... which were..... once upon a time (a few months ago) crammed full of books and are now quite empty.  A million dollar upgrade of the building and no books.  So tell me...what is the definition of a Library???