Daily Notes from a Freezing Cold Maine....The Sunshine has no effect. TEN DEGREES

 

The desk top.   It's REALLY COLD here in Maine this morning... LOTS of Sun and it's only 10 degrees. The furnace is running.....I have it set at 66 degrees.... Son returned my Library books yesterday so he/we didn't have to go out in this cold today.  We have enough food...so grocery shopping was also postponed.  I have LOTS of homemade soup. And a stack of unfinished Suduko Puzzles.

Life as we now know it- really sucks.  Could be worse.....I have to always remind myself- could be worse.

The Snow/Sun Drop bulbs have shot up- the green leaf shoots are up over the rim of the tall glass jar.  The amaryllis has sent up a total of three leaf tips.....the other bulb is doing nothing as yet.....and that might be all it does this year.   If I was grocery shopping today I might have purchased some additional plants for the garden table.   The cactus plant has produced a few pink flowers....

I watched a few Romantic Comedies yesterday....instead of reading..... And I watched The Charge Station shows- CSI-- because they were being shown as full screen.....not the old 70's square version. And eventually I turned that off as well and went over to PBS and watched a documentary about an artist painting portraits of Strong Brave People.......I am hopeful that a book of the portraits and what these brave people achieved is available to purchase at some point in time.  Would be nice to have.. I liked how the artist painted the portrait in one corner or the other and then filled the rest of the canvas with one solid color.  

Well, that's it from here.... I've prepared myself for today's book... Bet Me.  Which always makes me cry. Or I could just read Center's The Bodyguard....which might be the better choice.  I still haven't found a copy of Center's earliest book- The Lost Husband...which would be prefect for today because I have soup..  

I did pass up  A Fall Of Marigolds at Goodwill...an old paperback for one dollar.  What a fool I am some times.....

Daily Notes- Thursday, January 29th. Sunshine and Snow. 16 degrees.

 A neighbor got a new roof on his house yesterday...in the freezing cold temps.  Only he would think that was a great idea. He's needed a new roof for several years now.

I'm getting images of Spring and Summer Flowers in my computer mailbox.Coreopsis. Looks cheerful.

I am showered and dressed in fresh clothing...yesterday's clothes are in the washing machine.  My skin feel dry....House air gets really dry..... now my clothes are in the dryer.

Maine's ICE Guys smashed car windows and dragged a husband and father out of the car and into the armored vehicle and left the mother and 6 day old baby in the smashed car and very cold temps....she didn't know how to drive...... bystanders got her safely home....but she is there alone... 16 degrees and they left her there......left a 6 day old baby to freeze to death. I hope someone does the same to them.

I wondered how I would have managed.....will be thinking about that often today.

I got to a certain spot in yesterday's book....and realized I had read it....well some of it...before.    I won't be finishing it.  I often wonder how books like this one get published.... at some point the Reader just says "I don't care" and stops.  It had great "bones"......needed a MUCH stronger edit.  Lease on Love... Fallon Ballard. Inside cover said it's "cracking... compulsively readable".  It isn't....not at all. 

I have three more books on the Library Shelf....I hesitate to say they will be better.

I have gotten the same Medicare phone call- half dozen times already- I am not addressed by name but told my Medicare Benefits will be "lost" etc.... I hang up.  It's a recorded call- the voice is always the same.. Medicare writes letters..... I know--I have several nice letters...

Daily Notes- Another Day of Retribution.....Steven Miller.....and ICE

 

Todays's newspaper had a small line of type- Steven Miller & ICE.   His Plan. His Idea. And everything falls into place.  Even his OWN bodyguards---lots of them..  The Rat Surfaces.

So, today's morning oatmeal was excellent.... it's cold 19 degrees but we have Sunshine.  

My only real trouble for today......finding something nice to watch on tv.  I was hoping for a movie but might have to SETTLE for Law and Order.  Hallmark had nothing worth watching.  I was hoping for Soccer and there might be one more match recorded.....on the TiVo...if not- then it's the cloth scraps and the old quilt.

I might have to ask son to find me an additional possibility for entertainment..Netflix????  I have a great many Law and Order episodes recorded and can watch them....fast forward thru the dull bits. I do not have many recorded movies....which is a shame.....But what one station takes another gives and right now CHARGE has a few shows I used to watch when the images were full screen...every so often they revert to the small square screen....for months and this time more than year.  It was full screen yesterday. CSI. I watched but....was bored.  What I want today is a good old fashioned MOVIE.

I had the prepared meatloaf dinner yesterday....today I will be having Hot Vegetable Soup. At the table not on the couch.   Largest worry is What Will I Read......I should have asked Son to stop at the Library. He was out the door before the request had formed in my head.

Daily Notes for Tuesday, January 27th. Sunshine and 18 degrees

 I actually colored two index cards.  Getting them to appear here on the screen took much longer than the coloring.

We got more snow overnight... It's Cold and Sunny.....Need sunglasses outside.

Water Main broke yesterday in Town and we had a few hours of wondering- I had a bucket or two of water in case we needed to "flush".   The heating system is "closed" so what ever was inside stayed warm and traveled around the house keeping us warm.

I watched a bit of TV and that wasn't the best use of my time or energy.....or nerves... Antiques Roadshow was okay but I went back to reading......there was a movie I had thought I might watch but realized I just did not have the mental "band width" for it. Either.

What we need in Washington DC is a HERO. Someone Brave and Strong and Intelligent.  I haven't seen anything like that.....the direct opposite?  Yes, Lots of that.   Well, I am going back to the couch. Read, Sew and watch Soccer....  Stay Safe?  I'm asking all of you to do that...or try your best.