Daily Notes- Yesterday's post was actually written on Saturday. Today is Sunday.

The Library renovation.  Nothing is where it was...  I usually enter opposite the big red rectangle.

My book by Quinn is..not what I want to read this week..I have five more from that book shopping trip.. so I will pick one of them....I was not in the Danielle Steele Book Wheelhouse this time around.  I usually enjoy them...but not right now.   There's a second one that might have Time Travel. So I'll give it a go.

There is a little note to remind me to ask for Margaret Renkel's book the Weedy Garden.  

I told daughter I was okay with Time Travel but NOT the other weird stuff Deveraux gets into.

Watched the No Kings demos and parades.  Daughter usually goes to the ones here in Town and has very very good posters and signs.  Ny participation is left to voting and headlines glue sticked to my calendars. My desk top calendar is fully encased in newspaper headlines....as is the wall calendar across from where I eat breakfast.  I think I might need to crank it down some so the calendars look like calendars.  

Astronauts are going the Moon again... been 53 years since the last visit.  I think they were on the Moon when my son was born (but I am always WRONG).  I'll ask him how old he is... skip the Moon business. Perhaps it was when his sister was born????  

Being old is annoying but often amusing but only to myself...the amusing part.  I am almost aways annoyed so a good laugh evens things out. (Lucy would be my cartoon character in Peanuts)  Today is Sunday Pizza.  I have lettuce for a big bowl of salad. While the oven preheats my two sweet potatoes will be baking... I reheat them during the week for my lunch...Son remembered to buy them. For me. If I had gizmos I'd add a heart image.

I also got Corn Chips (made in the store) and dark chocolate chips so I'm significantly happier.....this week.  They DID NOT have the Lara Bars I like. Chocolate Chip so that was a bummer.  Must be the most popular ones??????  That's it for today.... on to the Steele book to see if I can stick with it.

 

Daily Notes- Saturday, March 28th. Chilly in the house- furnace running...bit of sunshine.

 Not another Dog. (but I have half a dozen more). Still Manuel Jiminez.

I found a spot on the internet for Egg Substitutes.   I don't like real eggs in the shell...so Ick.  And Egg Beaters is now available only in a QUART...not the small sized PINT.   We waste half or more of each quart we buy....as we are not doing Christmas or Holiday Baking....just normal once a week something or other.  So Substitution.

Mashed banana can be an "egg" with..1/4 cup of applesauce. ( no bananas and certainly never any applesauce)  Plain yogurt can also be a nice egg-  1/4 cup with maybe 1 teaspoon of flax seed (ground up). Sweetened condensed milk can also sub as an egg- using less liquid in the recipe.  

The odd ones are one tablespoon  of vinegar and 1 teaspoon of baking SODA.   Or one teaspoon of oil, 2 teaspoons water and 2 teaspoons of baking POWDER.   For cakes one teaspoon baking SODA mixed with 1 teaspoon of vinegar-also used for muffins and quick breads.

I was planning on an 8 inch square pan of cornbread.

Two episodes of Law and Order yesterday....both very old... Vintage. Clothing.

Today (and yesterday's) book is Till Summer Do Us Part.  Meghan Quinn.   Two unsuitable people (strangers) are matched up to do a Marriage Camp to iron out their "matrimonial difficulties"....Same author as Runaway Groom.  Writing is choppy...in Runaway- smooth.  I've closed the book twice...has one more chance and then into the Book Return Bag.  I do NOT suffer thru a poorly written book....EVER.

 These two (in the book) do NOT know each other, are NOT married to each other or anyone else and one is only doing it for shits and giggles (the guy) and the other (gal) to SAVE her JOB. As far as I can tell...on page 60-- the guy has zero employment ( but I suspect... lots of money)...and is the recommended brother of Girl's Favorite Bartender....already it sounds stupid. Even to me a dedicated Rom Com Reader.

At this point in the book the Therapist and the Guy are tossing a basketball around while the girl- losing her employment-- is watching them and concluding they are both useless. Page 60.

But then the Runaway Groomsman didn't have much going for him but he did know everything about construction, plumbing and wiring. And hardly EVER wore a shirt.

In other news I finally figured out how to  get my new PIN number attached to my library card number... Let's just say- when Library says it's "easy" they are so NOT telling the truth.  I got into my account...I saw what I have checked out and what is now overdue and needs to be returned..... considering it a victory.. I need balloons and streamers!!!!!!. 

Today and tomorrow all parking at the library will be closed as a very very big truck ( Library's Word Choice) will be removing the enormous "chiller" from the roof- three stories UP and installing a new one..... they go on to say all the "new" is being funded with DONATIONS.  PRIVATE ONES..........ENTIRELY.  I am guessing there were some QUESTIONS.......... some complaining.

Daily Notes for Friday March 27th. Sunshine and bare brown grass.... I think I liked the snow better.

 Two dogs.

Tried to use my Library Card in the NEW SYSTEM...no....just plain no- it would NOT work.

I will read the bookcase books that I own...

Son has not come down stairs....today is Library Grocery Day... One of the only highlights of my week. So I am wondering if there is something wrong.....  

We don't have much on the shopping list.  I need milk.  Dark Chocolate Chips, Oranges..(down 25 cents each).  

He came downstairs, we shopped and we are now back home... looking forward to grilled cheese sandwiches and baked beans.  Hope your day is wonderful...

Daily Notes for Thursday March 26th. Clouds here in Maine. Rain and Puddles.

 Red Dog. 

Well, my taxes are ready to be filed....electronically.  Zip and they are gone. I wouldn't want to step back in time and be using a small calculator and a pencil with good eraser.....like I did back in the day...stopping to give small under age toddlers a snack every so often.......and truth be told NOT owning prescription eye glasses.....so seeing was difficult. 

I am calmly waiting for better weather...so I can resume my walks to the far end of my DEAD END street (there's a LARGE sign that says that at the end by the two lane road)......first thing we see when turning onto our street coming home.  Dead End.

Quite a few things bother me.  Not the best day for writing a blog post so I'll stop.. Sun is out a little, daffodils my brother in law sent me as a gift long ago are up and looking good,  I have bread, cheese and pickles for a Grilled Cheese Lunch.   It's actually a great day....well, until I face plant in the Daily Suduko Puzzle.   Snow will melt, the sun will shine and SPRING will actually arrive in Maine'

And the local bakery people will be back from Florida and make Jelly Donuts again.!!!!!!!!!!!

Daily Notes- Wednesday March 25th. Sunshine and Melting Snow. 47 degrees

 Green body and red ears.

Well, I had to sort thru some papers to find the missing stock document for the taxes.  I found it and lost it twice.  My mind is not functioning well today.  I might actually NEED to be placed in Assisted Living..... BUT I found it....

I found lots of documents... which need to be sorted and perhaps even put in ABC order???  

You would never believe that I was once in charge of the entire advertising "document" department of a daily newspaper... I would NOT believe it either.  And I FOUND anything that could NOT be found.  I'd like to be that version of myself every so often.....  find stuff.  Like today finding a tax document.

It's Wednesday.....no clue it was Wednesday.  But it is.  I really am off "my wheels" today.

Iran said No to Trump....good job!!!!   Let's hold up signs that say NO. Just that one word.  NO.

A Democrat won something Political in Florida that includes Trump's Vast Tacky House and Golf Course. Gotta love that.....  I'll say YES to that.

I need to finish a book... watch some TV......watch the snow melt outside.  The grass is still TAN or LIGHT BROWN.....sigh. The very MANY daffodils (over the Septic outflow pipe) are getting taller. Spring in Maine.    I am starting to wonder what LUNCH will be. Good Sign....

"Interested in Food" gets a check mark today.