Daily Notes for Monday, October 20th. Dark and Dismal with more than a bit of Chill here in Maine.

 I have the knife...need the bread.   (not really- acid reflux)

There was art...drawing on index cards etc.....but no pictures were taken with the iPhone...it's only real use with me....while watching Soccer and then Football and then Soccer with a palate cleansing Thomas Jefferson. (so not cleansing)......

1.  Heat is on and thermal shirt and fleece pullover....wool socks and corduroy pants-loose for the first time this decade.. Zero Sun makes it feel colder.

2.  Oatmeal and.......crap...I forgot to make myself a cup of instant coffee.  Water is heating up. House lights are on, temp got moved up on the kitchen radiators...remembered to take my pills ( Tylenol, tiny statin and Vitamin)....at 79!!!!!

3.  My black and white squares- four- are done- so I searched the cloth tubs for the same fabric pattern as the black ones- in colors...pink, orange, green and blue. Black dots on white for the center squares in all of them. I'll work while watching vintage Law and Order...just like I worked when Riley was my co-pilot. Throw Back Days.

4.  Hoping the repeat of the pattern (not the color) holds the piece together.  A Virgo Gee's Bend. We just gotta have control....

5.  Today I have Grocery Store Meatloaf Dinner....to heat up in the microwave.

6. Timed it right and saw the last 10 minutes of Sixteen Candles.  Where she comes out of the church, sees him and points to herself and he nods YES.  

Daily Notes for Sunday October 19th. Cloudy with 43 degrees.

 A darker image as I have no lights on as yet.  And no energy to replace the image.

1.  Today we make pizza and watch football..  I didn't make the soup.

2.  I didn't actually do much until later in the afternoon- after the two British Soccer games... then I started reading the hard back library copy of a book I have in Trade Paper in my bookcase.  The larger book is easier to read (and hold)...   I'm getting OLD.  My brain cannot work with Large Print Books so I will need to move to books on tape when I can't read a regular print book.  Getting old is very depressing.

3.  My Medicare Advantage Program seems to be warning me that the "end is near" ....36000 are losing coverage in tiny Maine.  What will I do now???  Along side the eviction notice was a welcome to Martin's Point letter.  My Advantage Program... Up Is Down.

4. I seemed to have erased the Radio Station program ....and can't watch the guy sing about the Rain Storm..  Ever Again.  A devastating loss. Really, I am that sad.

5.  I made a fourth square with the very last bits of matching cloth.  Nothing in the bins..that was it. Four squares of slightly different sizes...... and the sewing room tubs are mostly on the floor.  I can get them down but not a chance of lifting them back on the shelves.  The Shelving Project ...well....I'm too old for it.   I'm feeling too old for almost everything this month.

6. Had to turn on a few lights in the living room....other rooms have sunshine.

7.  Well, I have the Sunday Paper to read, I will be tucking a bowl of water and oats into the microwave to make my breakfast....also a cup of tea.  The Sunday Suduko eventually.  Then the couch and my book.  Sunday Pizza and some football.....then just me and the couch...and the walls. And the Sunshine outside.

Daily Notes- Saturday, October 18th....Sunshine and temps in the low 40's this morning.

 Unfinished art.  Any ideas regarding what I should draw in the open white space????  Roots?

Also could be forecast as SNOW.  42 degrees is cold....and I need to add socks to the daily outfit.  The furnace (boiler) is rumbling.... I set it for 65.  I never get much higher than that.  Bedrooms at 60...why we have down comforters.  One year when we had zero cash-- I got the temp down in the 40's at night.

1.  Soup Making is on the agenda for today....just a simple soup but needs knife work.  Chopping things into soup sized pieces.  And also some pasta pre cooked to add to the soup when served. I have several boxes of pasta shapes to choose from.  BUT...I have A potato so that might preclude the pasta.

2.  Cooking shows on PBS.  I never make anything they make.  But I always want the pots and pans and tools they use.  And I have most of that.......

3.   I pulled 75% of the plant material out of the Annual Planters out front.  I also cut down one more tall green bushy thing.  My Garden Gal pulled them out with her hands- roots and all last year....and they came back even larger this Spring.   The Lawn Guys didn't come yesterday to cut the grass...which is growing and very nice and green these days.

4.  I watched Firing Line last night....retired Supreme Court Justice.  Had some terrifying things to say. About the Present Situation in the Court.  Like that's a surprise.  Trump Appointees.

5. Also on PBS a program on artists and their work...made me want to "make something". Other than my index cards art- something with beads and stitch. Could happen unless there is Soccer game on today-....there should be a second World Cup semi final before the big game.......unless I missed it.

6. I spent yesterday with Vintage Law and Order... A day well spent.

Daily Notes for Friday, October 17th. Chilly with Sunshine...50 degrees

 Another index card... my color choices gave it a vintage look.

I have on a thermal shirt, a fleece shirt, corduroy pants and wool socks....and I still feel cold....

1.  Some items are getting taken care of....daughter will help with putting my annual containers to bed.  My Son also offered to help with them..

2.  Today is Library/Grocery Store Friday.   I have only one book to pick up and I am returning most of my selections from last week-- unread.  I'm reading a Danielle Steel right now and it feels "tedious" so it might go back early.  I think I am at the point I reach every year...when I get so bored that nothing makes me happy.  Even coloring the index cards.  I was briefly interested in the sunken find of Cleopatras's palace..but it didn't last long.

3. My Son surprised me by looking for Mont Blanc pen refills at Staples....he did find a refill with black ink to replace the refill that had blue ink.  I like black...I like black on white. Only two pens have refills... The hunt continues.  I have bold black ink Pilot pens from the Grocery store to keep me happy. To use on my Index Card Art.

4.  Medicare sign up and all the phone calls is wearing on my nerves...as soon as they start talking I hang up.  I tried in past years to ask them to remove my name and number from their lists....it didn't work. I have and have had from the get go--a FANTASTIC Medicare Advantage Plan.  I'm keeping it.

5.  I called the Chimney Doctor and asked him to...someday...come by and clean out my chimney... I  told him about the squirrels carrying branches and leaves into the chimney....setting up Winter Housekeeping. He said he'd never heard of squirrels doing that....I said lots of things happen to me that have never happened to anyone else......I also mention the neighbors had a screen placed on top of their chimney and wondered if that could happen on my chimney to keep the animals OUT... He told me he had met Aerosmith Band Members when he cleaned their chimney.   

This is how Maine Conversations go...... no clue as to whether he's coming to clean out the chimney....no appointment etc. Used to bother me and now after so many decades....I'm as weird as they are.

6. I called in my inhaler prescription..for a refill...it will be ready tomorrow...I still have 7 left on the  inhaler I am using...so no hurry.  And I need to ask my doctor for a script for Rescue Inhalers....since people will be having fires in their fireplaces and...the smoke does very very seriously bad things to my breathing....