Daily Notes for Thursday, October 29th. 10:37 am.

 Not sure where this image is from or WHEN it's from.  But I enjoy it. Use it whenever it shows up.

Today is Thursday and the Sun is shining there in Maine....Voting is still taking place... Medicare enrollment is still taking place.....oldest state population in America here in Maine????????

I've wondered about that oldest population thing ever since I first heard it mentioned decades ago. I at first thought it was the average temperature here...the cold air keeping germs from multiplying etc. But now I think it's just hard wired stubborn-ness.  And the very cold winters.  So many people live well into or close to their 100th birthday.  Many of them friends of mine (who I miss every day).

Each asked me to take something of theirs (after they died) that meant so much to them....a quilt, a chair, a sweater, a cast iron casserole....all here and touched and used and worn everyday.  Mended as needed. I also took home their fabric and unfinished quilts.....and sort and box and use it all.....to this day. 

So....... watched a bit of chat on MSNBC yesterday....but made sure I stopped myself from making it a habit.  The talking people were churning the same facts over and over and..well, that has no real purpose does it????? Doesn't change anything....  Same with Storage Wars and Hallmark Movies....Doesn't change anything..

So I went back to my book.  And with every page I hope someday I will Own a copy of this book... Crusie's Welcome to Temptation.  Until it's due at the library I will pick up the book and randomly open to any page and start reading. (for the next three weeks)...all the pages are a delight.   The pages also make me want a Dove Bar. I think my grocery has them somewhere in the Ice Cream Cooler.... I recall them being expensive and the box containing only FOUR.  I should get a box on my next birthday.  Or for Christmas.  Both.

Well, I have oatmeal to microwave and socks to pull on- gets more difficult to do the socks every day!!!!! Keep worrying I'll tip over and land on my face.

 

Daily Notes for Wednesday, October 28th. Sunshine, a Chill in the Air and furnace going.

 Monhegan Island....where it looks like it might be damp and cold.  Pretty sure the houses are empty and only used in the summer months. Possibly with no insulation. Sits right on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.

I just deleted everything I had typed here because I was positive it had all been written before and possibly more than once or twice etc.  This happens when you go nowhere and see no one and re-read the same books over and over again. Even the Storage War Lockers are starting to look the SAME. To me.

The only NEW stuff is what is happening at the White House....or the Cheesecake Factory as Obama now calls it.  Gosh I miss Obama. The stick on gold stuff was a bit too tacky....for all of us.

I keep my living room fire place plain.  Just a few pictures up top.  Well, more than a few. But none of the glued down cheap plastic gold stuff.......

That's it for today....I have a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese for later.... Soup might actually get made tomorrow or a few days from tomorrow.. I have everything (which is actually not much)- onion, carrot, celery, canned beans...I forgot to buy a potato and don't want to bother the neighbors asking if they have an extra to share with me. Friday is right around the corner and I can buy one potato.. 

I did bake two sweet potatoes and can have them warmed up with butter and melted Swiss cheese later today..... sounds cozy and warm.

 It's been quite awhile since I spoke to any neighbors (or borrowed anything)...  now it's colder and well, not a chance of seeing anyone outdoors now.  That Monhegan sky is pretty much our Maine cold weather sky. And it's as depressing as it looks.

Daily Notes for Tuesday October 27th. Almost Halloween. A VERY Sunny Day here in Maine.

 

French Onion Soup.....I wish I had some for today as it's a chilly morning and probably the same for the remainder of the day.   

Well, the furnace is running. (noise)....I am at the tipping point in the book I am reading.....this is where I skip quite a few pages (over 100 of them).....- but this reading I may just move ahead to the last 50 pages. (not a fan of the rundown apartments and the swamp portion of the book).... and call it good enough. And then start in on a new (old) book.  Welcome to Temptation.....I had to wait for it to be available as it was in "repair" for a few weeks. 

Yesterday was one of those days when things I thought were lost forever showed up again.... I was using only one of the painted bookmarks I had made for myself because the other FIVE were missing...well, I found them yesterday and now have them in a secure space here on the desk.  Painted watercolor paper.

I also pulled a few art supplies out and looked at them for a while. Then put them away.

I selected a few very very old favorite books at the library and they haven't been read in many many years....I do have paperback copies but love the hardbacks so much MORE.  

So Storage Wars continues to fill any open spaces in my day....but not for long... I'll have to find something new (Law and Order???). But right now...I need to pull on my wool socks and reheat my breakfast coffee- one more time..... take care...... thank you for reading.....

Daily Notes for Monday October 26th. Clouds and a bit of a chill on this October Morning.

 I have the backyard looking like this but not the chairs.  And wouldn't want to sit outside anyway.

I have yet to pull on my wool socks but I have had breakfast (oatmeal) and my electrolyte water and pills. My hair is a wild wide mess....uncontrollable.   Election news continues to bore me senseless with name calling and lies.. I all ready voted.

I am reading an old favorite book and skipping the plot points that have aggravated me from the beginning....the remainder of the book is quite lovely.....as are the characters...but the subplot stinks. When we roll off the main plot into the swamp.....omg I skip ALL the pages.....  But he hasn't swung by with the new AC unit as yet.... so I continue to read.   Agnes got a new AC unit from the Hit Man.  

There was Football yesterday...I have no recall of who played whom and stopped watching when my sweet potatoes were ready to exit the oven.   I will be having the sweet potatoes for lunch today.  I do not recall if today is grocery or library...I know...I should make an index card....to remind me.  There was no newspaper today as it's Monday....would be nice if there was also no news on tv because it's Monday.

I need to pull on my wool socks... Maine has decided Summer/Fall is over....Winter is next up..  There is zero sunshine.  As I proofread the Sun has arrived....very bright.  All the dew on the grass is sparkling.

I seemed to have discovered (yesterday) several packages of very very nice cards- the sort one sends to friends with a nice written letter inside.  I used to do that. I stopped because I got fewer and fewer letters in return...until I got NONE. And actually never heard from people again.  I often wondered what happened to them....still no clue. Letters I wrote started being returned by the post office.  I was getting the feeling  everyone else had MOVED on and left me behind with no forwarding address..  

Here, too, on the posts I write. People comment for a few years and then poof...never to be heard from again.  I feel like the fictional character in One Day in December who sends letters to dead people- no stamps.......in December.  I send all year not just in December.