Monday. August 17th. Cloudy with a chance of HUMDITY????? Looks like Rain.

Zucchini Pancakes.

I've been promising myself  that I would make some of these....and old old favorite...of Only Me in the Family Unit.  I recall being shown how to make them by a teenage bride (pregnant) who lived across the hall from me in Georgia.  Those years in Georgia were Never Dull.  And the food was fantastic.

I am dressed and ready to visit the Library... Son divided the outside adventures so I didn't get tired and loopy.  I hope I am not confused about this.....I need to replenish the  Library Book Shelf.

He sorted out my tv listings deleting stations I never watch and adding a few....I watched a strange sappy mystery set in Newfoundland.. and then had to get the big Library Atlas the Librarians gave me because they didn't want to toss it in the dumpster.  They thought I could use it for Art Collage...

Instead I used it to find out that the country I was looking for is right up there North of where I am sitting.

I doubt the Maine Train that sits in the station next to my grocery store goes up North.  But I might check and see.  I often thought ....long ago...that when I got OLD ( like I am now) I would ride that TRAIN south or north and when it got to the end ...ride it back home again...never getting off until it arrived at the station next to my grocery store..  Enjoying the view and lunch.

My Reality is Never as Interesting as My Imagination.
 

Daily Notes for Sunday August 16th. Sunshine and 73 degrees- no AC needed

 An abundance of blue.

I personally have an abundance of very tall WEEDS.  Everywhere.  And the two mice we found dead and dehydrated in mousetraps over by the south wall of the kitchen

Today's Garwood book is Sizzle.  Library is tomorrow so I will gather up a few more of her books. and perhaps a few Linda Howard.  I might try and find a book list from ten or more years ago...try and read the ones with a star.  I kept a notebook or two of lists of books.

So..I'd best get on to my book reading....Not much on tv.  Making a Library Book List for tomorrow's visit to the Library.  I have one more Garwood to read- Sizzle......and if I remember correctly..it does.

Sizzle.   that's it...now to reheat my coffee and settle into the couch.... I took a morning shower and my hair is very very shiny and WHITE.  And if I am truthful...WIDE.

Today is Sunday pizza.  I've been reluctant to have a salad with all the poopy lettuce going around. But I do have some shredded vegetables I could mix into the last of the Ranch Dressing for a nice salad. I could but we'll see if I would.....take care enjoy the day.

Happy birthday to someone special!!!!!!   Love you!

Daily Notes for Saturday August 15th. Sunshine here in Maine and 75 degrees..

 Scabiosis

Also do not have this in my garden.   Reading my second Garwood book The Ideal Man.  Not a favorite. But I will read it to the end and then start in on Sizzle or Slow Burn.  Get more when I visit the Library. Also suggested daughter pick up ANY that have FBI in the front cover blurb at the Summer Library Book Sales she attends....  Wired was great.  I see that word "great" so often in books....I have gotten to the point where it is hugely annoying. He's great.  The garden is great.  The food is great etc etc etc. 

I'm at the point where I am leaning toward writing down the dictionary meaning of that word. And sending it to a few authors. He's great. She's great etc like that has any significant meaning for the Reader. What makes that person, thing, food or event "great"????  Tell me...

I read ALL of the books by this author when I was given the Winter off from my Greenhouse job. This was after a few winters of terrorizing books by an author I have blocked from memory.  I can't read that stuff anymore.  The closer one comes to eternity the less you enjoy fictional death.  But a good FBI book by Julie Garwood......entertaining.

At some point I will make a phone call to my cable provider and see if I can get Turner...and watch old movies.   In one of the books I love reading  the two people watching movies together watch  His Gal Friday and well....I recall that movie...watching it at my grandmothers house when I was 10 or 12.....  and thinking I would like to have that sort of relationship.   I never did.  And I never will.

Daily Notes for Friday August 14th. Sunshine here in Maine....

 I own something that looks like the vase over to the right.... I also have boxes of artificial flowers in the Attic.   I would fill a vase and have it at the end of the Circulation Counter where people retuned books when I worked there.  Nothing that "welcoming" is going on".

I have a very large glass vase on the table in front of the long stretch of windows facing the front porch. Daughter brought down the boxes and I selected flowers.  I made a short but wide arrangement she didn't like but...I stuck to my guns as they say and it's the one on the table.

When Fall arrives I'll ask her to carry the box down again.....I am still not authorized to go up the stairs. And I have no plan to go up when no one is home.   It's the going DOWN that is not in my best interests.

I got up late so Son has gone to lunch and we will do groceries when he gets back.  Time has little relevance  to my Life so....it matters not.

Julie Garwood's  Wired was the perfect book for a middle of August read.... I looked on my Library Shelf and I selected two more.....feels like I gave myself a fantastic gift.  Today it's Ideal Man.  Library is Monday so I'll read one or two of the new books daughter brought me.  There is one very large hard cover by Mary Kay Andrews- Road Trip that I have never seen before or read. Also got me the Newcomer which I may have read long ago.

If you are reading this Sam- on your next Book Sale visits- try for some Garwood..