Daily Notes for Tuesday November 3rd, I wish I had French Onion Soup...

 November and my "landscaper" is out back doing things.  Cutting back the False Indigo and hauling it to the back property line.  For starters.   It's a real mess out there.  Grass needed one more cut. Didn't happen.

Son is doing the thermostats as I either do them at the wrong time or wrong temp...  which is why I wear thermal socks,  a nice warm wool sweater and a scarf.in the house....  we are being frugal with oil...for heating. We have no secondary heating source.  We got Trumped yet again.  We have Auto Delivery so when we get low enough...we hope the truck comes.  

A SURPRISE in the mail yesterday...a hardback copy of Fast Women.  Thank You.... Thank You....Thank You.  It fit so perfectly in my bookcase.  I'm trying to like Don't Look Down from the Library but it's not what I want to be reading this week.....so I'll select something else... I chose old favorites from decades ago on yesterday's Library visit.   And I few other's I'll name as I read them...  Next visit I am taking my Library Notebook with me- has lists and lists of books.  One's I've read.

I grabbed my shawl and have it wrapped around my neck.  Heating pad is on my couch if I feel the need.  I did late in the afternoon yesterday,  At 80 I get cold sooner and take longer to warm up.

Answering questions on my Peonies...daughter is using their Latin names...I once did that...Wo Peng is the kind that doesn't get cut back. He's out front.  

Connie we both have Landscaper Daughters!!!!!

Well, that's about all I have for you today...I'm going back to Don't Look Down... there are things about that group of people that I like.  I am going to check in on the TV listing for Storage Wars...see what I can record for later.  A grilled cheese sandwich for lunch for me with extra pickles or Hot Dogs....Daughter brought a container of Hungarian Soup for her lunch.   We all three of us are individual in our likes and dislikes.  Husband liked chicken noodle soup... We three do not. 

Daily Notes for Monday November 2nd. One More FULL TV Day of Political Ads.

 Batwing flower. Interesting.  Sort of a cat vibe also.

So furnace is running...it's comfortable in here right now now.....I have had my pills, oatmeal and Electrolyte water.  My hair is combed (extra points), I have proper (leaving the house) clothing on (triple extra points) and only need to add my socks to the ensemble.   Library to drop off books and pick up new ones.  Perhaps even find a fresh old magazine to enjoy on the free magazine rack,

I watched almost all the football in the afternoon yesterday.. witnessed some season ending injuries, Sunday Pizza was excellent as usual.....I had mine with a nice salad.  What we need here (I can imagine Son cringing) is DESSERT.  We don't have it because he loves dessert and refuses to give in to it.  So I have these tiny toddler cups of ice cream in the freezer.....for emergencies.  Not very often.

If it was a box of shortbread cookies????? Lifespan of the cookies would be very very short. Indeed.

I have been coloring my Autumn Pumpkin with multi colors of Sharpie.....When it''s complete I will share it with you....for sure by Thanksgiving.  Each color needs to dry before the next one. Consumes TIME.

The top right of the computer screen is tempting me with an offer to learn how to take a screenshot.  Really?   That Batwing flower is a screenshot if I ever saw one??????? correct me if I'm am wrong.

Well time to tempt gravity and pull on wool socks without face planting on the wood floor.  Always a scary situation.  I would really hate smashing yet another pair of eyeglass frames.

RE: political ads...we get one that mentions a candidate who had two children with his 2nd cousin. Here in Maine that's not a surprise. It's not even news.

Daily News for Sunday November 1st. Son said it was okay to turn up the heat... We are conserving heating oil,..

 A secondary photo.   I like the leaves on this one on top... useless but decorative.  And I have a tub of felt plus a hand full of felt scraps...never throw felt away.

So...as I wait for the temp in here to go above 60...... and settle into the couch for football.......and later Sunday Pizza plus a handmade green salad for me.........I wonder about the NYTimes Recipes I copied down for SOUP.  The most likely One to try is the Italian Pasta and Chickpea Stew.  I have cans of white beans and boxes of small pasta.  I also have a can of tomatoes.  The freezer still holds a few cheese rinds.  I like to toss them in.  I will skip the rosemary as I have never liked it and do not have it in the spice drawer.

Once upon a time the garden to my left...now TALL weeds crowding the whole house generator--- was supposed to be a Herb Garden with paths etc.  Daughter might want to rearrange a few things and pull a few wheelbarrows full of weeds...to get the Herb Garden back in shape. Maybe Six Perennial Herbs. I can buy the Annuals at the grocery store.  Or grow them in a medium pot on the back deck.

So...Son has found me a channel to watch FOOTBALL.   49ers and Broncos.  Right now just talking heads and an empty stadium...  we have TV on "mute".  We don't actually realize how large the football players are until they are handing out candy to the kids in the crowd (while eating a huge burger) in a very tight suit..

The room is warming up... the couch awaits....and my coffee needs a warm up. Sunday Football.

Daily Notes for Saturday, October 31st. Sunshine here Maine.

 I purchased a red felt heart that resemble these hearts....long ago in Europe.  Perhaps Sweden Or Norway.  It is here somewhere now..  I like the speckled ones in the top right side.

Well, the furnace is running, the sun is shining, I haven't pulled my wool socks on as yet...(balance issues as I might fall forward and hit my head on the floor). .......I have to let the bowl of oatmeal circulate... and then pull on my socks.   I am also trying to moderate the temp in here...so I use less heating oil.

I watched some news yesterday before starting in on my Crusie book....Don't Look Down.  The big tall helicopter pilot is staring into the swamp...and the big alligator is staring back.  Book also has lots of Barbie dolls.  And Parties....to keep the 4 year old happy.

Saturday Cooking Shows... I watch but never cook.  Well, I do make Soup. But not today.

Cross the Street New -ish Neighbors still having things done to the house...yesterday men in white plastic hazmat suits doing something...perhaps in the basement????  Which is only a crawl space.  That side of the road is still pretty "swampy" when it rains a lot- and it did rain a lot in the first 10 years we lived here...often flooding the yards and the road.  Former cross the road  neighbor was lucky the big tree next her house tipped AWAY from the house and fell into the swamp.  If it had fallen toward the road we'd all have lost electricity for a good while.  And we would not have been able to go anywhere... trapped by the tree.

My side of the road is sandy.  The benefit of being the first house built...they brought in sandy soil to even out the lot. In the first decade I lived here the side yard out back was filled with water and ducks.  And Eagles flying over to snatch up a duck for lunch or dinner.  I have seen two young deer and one mature  female deer in my front yard last year eating my ornamental flowers out of the containers....-  No male with wide antlers in quite a long time.......  Son thinks they moved elsewhere due to heavy traffic on the road  behind my house....after one walks thru the swamp and the nasty thorn plants..on Town Property.

Well, I need to pull on socks, watch cooking shows and read...  I'm done with politics for the day unless "someone" has a sudden health issue and faints or "soils" his pants.. or both.