Daily Notes for Monday, March 9th. Sunshine and 61 but everything covered in 3 feet of snow.

 This is titled the Orange Vase.  Weird.

I have this urge to paint or color or draw....ART....and no idea of what... the library visit was too early.. They are NOT ready to add the 4 digit code to my Library Card. (yet).....the program that it needs hasn't arrived or been installed or tested as yet.  Wow.  The target start up date was ...as the librarian put it- "just a suggestion".   I used the steps up and the elevator down.

Public TV had Sense and Sensibility on last night....also on another date- (which I set the TiVo to record). I like S&S much better than Pride Etc.   The camera work is very old style......close ups of faces expressing emotions etc.   There was the usual "begging" for cash that Public TV does.  It's pretty much all the time now.

So...60 degrees....NICE...very very nice.  It will take the 2 to 3 feet deep piles of snow (turning to ice) some time to melt.  Overnight..the melt will freeze if temps get low...it is Maine.

I have books to order....hopefully something interest will happen by tomorrow- or not.

Daily Notes for a Sunday in March...not snowing... no sun and 49 degrees.

 Titled "wonderful ladybug" by. Charlie-Moon-Little.  He has a Facebook page....I don't do Facebook so no help here on how to find him.  I actually only "do this post" and nothing else........ I found him over at Little Somethings.  Where you can find more bettle images.

I have on a different colored acrylic fabric top...The other lime green one is in the wash basket.  Waiting for me to do the laundry- just isn't enough in the basket as yet.  With just me filling the basket. I am seriously considering changing the sheets on the bed which will fill the basket.  Then I might need to sort the colors from the whites.  And not have enough of either,

Today is Sunday Pizza....Son is also questioning the viability of the potato I baked last Sunday and wrapped in foil and put in the fridge.....I find no fault with him questioning the viability of that potato. I did not have interest in the potato after baking it........I lose interest pretty quickly these days unless I move on the topic FAST.  Also there has been quite a bit of Attic Box Sorting which uses up my normal band-with of attention.  Deciding what to keep and what to let go of.... it's like looking in to the Future... will I need it in two years...five years.......next week????????  I don't know.

The Living Room thermostat battery died.....which might be why it was cold in here yesterday... I left batteries for Son to replace or whatever he does......  it works this morning.

I called in a refill on the wrong inhaler.....sigh...I don't seem to be able to do anything right and it really depresses me a great deal.....so in response I just stop doing things.... Stop sending comments....I get negative feedback on those as well.....I did contact an old internet friend. The Christmas card I sent her got returned...she has a new house....a new vegetable garden (I envy her the garden). and I re-mailed the card.

It was great getting an email from her and all her news....old friends are the best rewards for living I think. no need to explain yourself to them..... just be happy they are still around.

Moving In and Out of Time here in Maine--- Saturday March 7th. Son shoved snow early. It's WET.

An Engraved Beetle.... I will go back and find names and makers for you.  Isn't it lovely?  Made of Copper and Rose Gold.   Beetle is by Jonathan W Gemmell.  He might have an instagram feed.

There is a chill in the house......I have heat turned up but the spaces in the large rooms are too much and it's Maine...who knows what the situation is behind the walls- insulation????? House was built during a BOOM and supplies were limited...  the bedrooms are warmer as I had work done there...but we never made it to the living room, dining room and kitchen....I doubt there is much insulating this room from the back wall of the garage.   I am waiting for Spring and 50 degrees....I can managed 50 degrees. Right now I use a heating pad on lowest setting to warm up my down lap throw...while watching British Soccer or reading books.

Houses here were for Spring, Summer and Fall...then everyone packed up for Florida for the Winter. I am living in a Maine Summer House.  365.  The Boiler is working hard.   I might consider Florida in the decade to come but just for the Winter....a balcony over looking some water...paper, brushes and paint. Sounds like a decent retirement.  80 to 88.  Outliving all my dead relatives.  

Well, that might be a Pipe Dream.....today I will finish reading a book, watch Soccer and miss out on Saturday cooking shows due to PBS Fundraising.   My Lunch Buddy said I could actually get ALL the PBS content of mysteries etc on Am. Prime.  Which might be why the Fund Raising has become Quarterly rather than Annually.  Smarter People than ME have gone over to Prime.

Well, I need to go find the Beetle information for you...... 

 

Daily Notes for Friday March 6th.....light snow overnight. ( less than predicted) 31 degrees

 Daughter and I were tossing old Women's Club Newsletters from the 1980's and I found this black and white drawing....of the Taunus.  I added some colored pencil.   Frankfurt really did look like this back then and probably still does.  But not these colors....  my drawing.  Possibly copied from a photo.  The years of college art classes not wasted.

Daughter got invested in "organizing" the CD piles....husband had "his" music and I had mine.  I went for symphonies and old style rock and roll.  And Edith Piaf.  I play her most often.  I had a few things mixed into husband's stash...things that were originally mine....so NEW things to listen to while I repair this antique quilt.   I like the repair work- it goes slowly and it's just a tuck and tack..not the intense embroidery I usually get involved in.  Daughter now gets to remove the address labels from husband's CD's before they go to Goodwill. 

A large cardboard box containing all the tubes of acrylic printing ink and acrylic paint came down from the Attic. Really HEAVY BOX.... the acrylic paint tubes were  hard....so we set them up by the south facing kitchen radiator- on the floor under the table holding blooming plants.  Daughter will to happy- the tubes are now pliable.  Ready for art work.  Or Goodwill.  I'm going to give myself a "grace period" to consider reviving my painting career.......which just means making stuff for myself.

This morning I was considering making another Baltimore style quilt top.  I love the one I have hanging in my bedroom.  I love the leaves I hand appliquéd all around.  I want that sort of thing again...once more before I am too old.  And my fingers and joints go stiff.  Too.stiff to hold a needle.  Or a paint brush. But hopefully still able to hold book.  And eyes still able to read that book.