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.

Daily Notes for Friday October 30th. Grocery Shopping Day....????

 Witch Hazel.  Halloween.  

So...here we are ....almost November...  but still October.

It's Grocery Shopping Day and I should be considering my Lunch Choice for the week. Son goes out every other day but I eat here at home everyday.....and it's a very sad commentary (on my own process) when I have nothing interesting to eat.... I am sort of thinking Hot Dogs since it's been quite awhile......not Soup as I have had enough of that..... Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Pickles is always my fall back position but last week it was baked sweet potatoes (with melted cheese and butter) and they were wonderful. Vitamin A.

My fridge holds pre cooked bacon and two jars of sweet pickle chips.   I never got around to making Steamed Rice with frozen peas.  I talk about it often but then stay seated on the couch reading,......  I read Welcome to Temptation cover to cover yesterday and will read it again in the next few days.   After reading Don't Look Down...another Crusie written around the same time as Agnes and the Hitman. Which might be nice to read again..

This Morning's News was more of the same....Vote for Me.....I already voted...and NOT for whomever paid for those ads.  Heating Oil is climbing in price here in Maine and I am cold most of the time..."add another sweater" is going to be my motto.

I tried watching a favorite Hallmark movie yesterday.  Could NOT make it to the 15 minute mark.  So..sigh..I have outgrown them.  I had sort of had them in mind for my Retirement Years

Daily Notes for Thursday, October 29th. 10:37 am.

 Not sure where this image is from or WHEN it's from.  But I enjoy it. Use it whenever it shows up.

Today is Thursday and the Sun is shining there in Maine....Voting is still taking place... Medicare enrollment is still taking place.....oldest state population in America here in Maine????????

I've wondered about that oldest population thing ever since I first heard it mentioned decades ago. I at first thought it was the average temperature here...the cold air keeping germs from multiplying etc. But now I think it's just hard wired stubborn-ness.  And the very cold winters.  So many people live well into or close to their 100th birthday.  Many of them friends of mine (who I miss every day).

Each asked me to take something of theirs (after they died) that meant so much to them....a quilt, a chair, a sweater, a cast iron casserole....all here and touched and used and worn everyday.  Mended as needed. I also took home their fabric and unfinished quilts.....and sort and box and use it all.....to this day. 

So....... watched a bit of chat on MSNBC yesterday....but made sure I stopped myself from making it a habit.  The talking people were churning the same facts over and over and..well, that has no real purpose does it????? Doesn't change anything....  Same with Storage Wars and Hallmark Movies....Doesn't change anything..

So I went back to my book.  And with every page I hope someday I will Own a copy of this book... Crusie's Welcome to Temptation.  Until it's due at the library I will pick up the book and randomly open to any page and start reading. (for the next three weeks)...all the pages are a delight.   The pages also make me want a Dove Bar. I think my grocery has them somewhere in the Ice Cream Cooler.... I recall them being expensive and the box containing only FOUR.  I should get a box on my next birthday.  Or for Christmas.  Both.

Well, I have oatmeal to microwave and socks to pull on- gets more difficult to do the socks every day!!!!! Keep worrying I'll tip over and land on my face.

 

Daily Notes for Wednesday, October 28th. Sunshine, a Chill in the Air and furnace going.

 Monhegan Island....where it looks like it might be damp and cold.  Pretty sure the houses are empty and only used in the summer months. Possibly with no insulation. Sits right on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.

I just deleted everything I had typed here because I was positive it had all been written before and possibly more than once or twice etc.  This happens when you go nowhere and see no one and re-read the same books over and over again. Even the Storage War Lockers are starting to look the SAME. To me.

The only NEW stuff is what is happening at the White House....or the Cheesecake Factory as Obama now calls it.  Gosh I miss Obama. The stick on gold stuff was a bit too tacky....for all of us.

I keep my living room fire place plain.  Just a few pictures up top.  Well, more than a few. But none of the glued down cheap plastic gold stuff.......

That's it for today....I have a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese for later.... Soup might actually get made tomorrow or a few days from tomorrow.. I have everything (which is actually not much)- onion, carrot, celery, canned beans...I forgot to buy a potato and don't want to bother the neighbors asking if they have an extra to share with me. Friday is right around the corner and I can buy one potato.. 

I did bake two sweet potatoes and can have them warmed up with butter and melted Swiss cheese later today..... sounds cozy and warm.

 It's been quite awhile since I spoke to any neighbors (or borrowed anything)...  now it's colder and well, not a chance of seeing anyone outdoors now.  That Monhegan sky is pretty much our Maine cold weather sky. And it's as depressing as it looks.