Daily Notes for Sunday, April 19th. Raining here in Maine and I had to turn up the furnace.

 I have raised beds like these out back (just dirt no plants)....fenced in because Maine has lots of foraging deer.  I have hoops also to pre heat the soil so I can defend against the cold Maine Spring.  The cloth that goes over the hoops is hard to find...we sold it at the greenhouse where I worked but in the my final years there- not always in stock.  Clear plastic is on option but...not sure where to find it or who would help me spread it over the hoops. And then in the heat of Summer-- it would be a disaster.  Watering back there is also a problem I have to think about.   Would have been nice to have dug a DEEP trench and run plumbing out there.  Could still happen.

The rain we are having has "'greened" up my over fertilized lawn.  It has been brown since last June. The green is still a bit splotchy and sort of yellow......but I will take whatever I can get.

I have a book on the table next to my bed now....for reading.  Usually in the morning.  No rush to get out of bed.   Each day is pretty much like ALL the others.  Seen one...seen them all.

I just finished reading a Devereaux book that comes before Met Her Match....but AFTER the Girl from Summerhill.   My intention today is a book about "wishes" where three unhappy women get to make a wish on how they would have made a different decision and changed their lives.  The Girl From Summerhill is actually my favorite book....Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice is the backbone of this story. I always keep it for the LAST book I read.....when doing the series.

I know for sure I haven't found or read all the authors who take Jane Austin's books as a framework for a modern book....I have found several different modern renditions of Jane Eyre. And like them even though I have never read the original Jane Eyre.  Or ANY original Jane Austin.  

After book reading stops in a few weeks--I plan to paint a watercolor or two.... The urge to paint is getting stronger as the Winter turns to Spring.

Reading and British Soccer today....Pizza after 4 pm.  My Morning Coffee needs a reheating.  Even though I just had my oatmeal I am feeling "snacky". but not a clue what to eat.

Daily Notes for Saturday April 18th.....Sunshine here in Maine 57 degrees.

 National Library Week- Coming Soon.

Okay here I am on a Saturday needing to type this quickly so I can get on with the Saturday Cooking Shows.  See what Lidia is making.  "Just like that". She says that all the time.

I am past the midway point in my book and then I have to choose another book.  I watched some CSI: Las Vegas yesterday....Not my favorite version- Too Orange and Way Too Creepy.  I think I prefer the darker colors of CSI: NY.  I visited Vegas once or twice- not my kind of place. I did enjoy the free drinks up on the roof- that's where the pool was.....and that's where I was. Alcohol Free.

I have two small cans of baked beans on the counter....at some point yesterday I thought about opening the cans and having baked beans with a nice Grilled Cheese Sandwich.  OR Macaroni and Cheese. I think one small can is enough....

I bought Apples for the Fruit of the Week.  Change of pace. But had an orange yesterday

My book is Deveraux's Ever After.   I like it....every time I read it I try to find reasons NOT to read it.... Ghosts......not a fan of ghosts and most of the Nantucket books have ghosts. Old Dead Sea Captains.

After the Deveraux Book Fest I will move on to some Dee Ernest and visit Paris. Been awhile. OR I might swivel over to some Police Procedurals I have stacked up...Quebec. Sort of "cozy" until the shooting starts.  I haven't read  Louise Penny in AGES.......I have her newest book....I have ALL her books.

We'll see who wins- more Nantucket or some Quebec. Or neither. Perhaps "Love Lettering". Been awhile. Or I can CRY my way thru My Heart Will Find You.... by Deveraux. Or I can sew.  I have all the "right" substitute fabric for mending this antique quilt.....and I can watch tv while sewing.  It's full size, old and needs quite a bit of mending..... Nothing matched in the first place so my"mending" doesn't even show.

But I can see where it doesn't match...cause that's how I roll.

Daily Notes- Library and Grocery Shopping...... no COAT!!!!!

 Produce.....

I went into the Library and actually had two books on hold.....to pick up....so that was a pleasant surprise. The other surprise was NOT NEEDING a coat.   

The lawn is TRYING to Spring into Action....All that excess fertilizer is making the transition from Winter Brown to Green even slower than usual.  I won't fertilize this year at all... and with the blockade fertilizer is going to be very very expensive.  

I do have two three by three by three foot bins full of compost ready to sift and spread.....last time I turned it- there were so many worms I ran back into the house.  Worms make fantastic compost.

If I could put weight on my knees I would go out back and dig up the hyacinth bulbs and arrange them in an area together..they are NOW being pushed around and covered up by Daffodils. I wonder if they sell long handled tools for people with bad knees????  I imagine they do. A shovel is too wide.

Birds have come back to visit the center garden bed out front...looking for bugs and worms. 

No Berries yet and No Bird Feeders anymore.

I just polished off a peanut butter wrap....now I need a beverage.  Nice cup of tea.   Take care.....

Daily Notes for Thursday April 18th. Cloudy, no Sunshine and 55 degrees

 I don't remember where this came from.  But I like it very very much.  Makes me "happy".

And "happy" is not something I feel, much at all, these days.  When was the last time I laughed????

I may draw this on cloth and drag out the thread and stitch while watching CSI:NY. I need to have something...anything to get me going again... I am at the halfway point in my book.  They haven't begun yoga as yet and they haven't traveled 'back in time" yet either..

I have a full bolt of white COTTON...waiting.....to be re-purposed into something new. I WISH, in retrospect, I had purchased a bolt of white LINEN.  I do have LINEN sheets but they are better used on beds until worn thin.....and then...I can stitch on them.

I moved my watercolor supplies to the new empty space in the cabinet across from the table where I eat breakfast and read the paper.   The computer typed words it liked while I was typing words I liked.  That has never happened before...and all the words were spelled correctly.  Strange Day so far. Perhaps a message from a ghost.

I have three new to me Devereaux books to look for in the Library catalog. "Someone to Love" sounds good.  Montgomery/Taggert fictitious family living on the coast of Maine.  I may have dismissed this book in early days....I'm older now....it makes a difference. Well, I need to order those books....read and finish my decaf coffee....perhaps watch some Soccer.  Perhaps...what is that Shakespeare quote that begins with Perhaps????