Daily Notes on what, for Maine, Is going to be a HOT Sunny Day. May 20th.

 Not as HOT as this greenhouse would be.   I have ALL the windows closed.  Blinds closed. Ceiling fan going in the dining room/kitchen area.   Son never made a decision on the window AC units...was going to get new ones.  Didn't.   We could spend a fortune for whole house AC.   But that ship has sailed for 2026.

I ran out of milk this morning and the box of coffee cream is nearly empty as well... might be my last cup of coffee....Groceries wait until Friday.  (it's early on Wednesday)   I won't be having oatmeal tomorrow or the next day---with milk.  I also have no bread.  This has never happened before.  I am perplexed.....

Perhaps Son will go out for lunch and bring home a quart of milk????   Some bread??????   IF this IS a day he goes out for Lunch.  Could be a "stay at home" day.   Who knows..

It's seems like it's very very hot outside.....just the "look" of it.  I think a cloud just went over...nice

.Rain would be welcome......

I'm skipping the wool socks for today....heading for the couch....and my Jude Devereaux paperback. The small sized one...hell on the eyes but....why not.?????  I could always skip over to another author in the bookcase.......Daughter brought me some new (old) books the other day.... Or I can watch CSI and drift... I discovered I rarely pay attention to the plot or anything else... 

I've seen them all dozen's of times over the years.... over the winters when the Greenhouse didn't need me to "answer questions" in person...  calling me at home worked just fine.  And didn't have to pay me..... It's Maine... and I was wearing pajamas anyway.  And possibly forgot. to comb my hair.

Life in Maine is pretty easy (no rules)... no-one really pays much attention......I've seen people shop in their pajamas. Not me....I never did that. Really...I never did that...........I was never up that early or that late.   Might be something to add to a Bucket List??????

Daily Notes- Tuesday, May 19th. Sunshine and even more Sunshine here in Maine.

 Dahlias.   Almost all my ornamental trees have sent out flowers... daughter checked on the one I assumed was "dead" and she reported back that it had buds etc on it and was a "late" bloomer...  like me.

I now have my own copy of the Lost Husband.  

I'm reading Sarah Adams fourth book..In Your Dreams (library copy). The last of the four...I own the other three.   As the author says in her notes...we are taking our last trip to Rome, Kentucky.   All four sisters have now found their "true love".   I might find mine in a future Life?

I have to keep checking the date....I'm Lost in Time as they say and don't know what day of the week it is ... this happens because I have no set schedule of places to be and people to see... it's just me, the couch and the TV.  While on the couch....I read, I sew and look out the big windows...front and back.  I noticed a wild FOX running thru my yard this morning....they usually have rabies.

What will I do today?  Read? Yes.  Shred more paper? Yes.  Heat up the iron and give the small red fabric rectangle a press?  Yes. And most importantly...make something good to eat.  I bought more of those nice potstickers....and look forward to frying them till crispy...and eating them.  The Potstickers won the battle between them and Kraft Mac and Cheese. Well, right now....things could change in the next four hours.

Before any ironing can be done- I'll have to move all the stacks of "everything" off the ironing board.  And look for more red scrap fabric....."nothing new".   I'll be busy all day...that's for sure.

A Good Friend I have never met in person- Joan of California- had a car accident and lost her license... I mentioned a friend's older mom who had a taxi service on speed dial...  I've considered that option myself. My Lunch Buddy is no longer available for the occasional "lunch" as her husband has many many many doctor visits each week.   We haven't seen each other in such a long time.  All of 2026 so far and the last half of 2025.

I think the new neighbors across the street have come back from vacation... activity over there. And time for me to eat breakfast and read the paper...I saw some news on the computer screen......sigh......I might NOT read the news...... Humpty Dumpty Trumpty .......and go straight to the Suduko Puzzle. 

Daily Notes for Monday May 18th. Sunshine here in Maine. The Big Trees are leafing out.

 

Something Blue.  No newspaper as it's Monday....I haven't made my oatmeal as yet and actually have little to say here....reading the very old journal was like getting knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly..  

May take me awhile to recover.... the only positive aspect...I wasn't wrong.  All those decades- I wasn't wrong.

Well, I have books to read and yesterday while CSI was reconstructing bone fragments into a person I was sewing strips of red into squares.... not my usual squares... I haven't looked at them with this Morning's Eyes but will after I have breakfast, my morning pills and water.  I need to hydrate.

Everything about me feels dehydrated.

Since I wrote these words the Sun has gone away...looks like it will rain.  Which is fine with me.

Daily Notes for a Sunny Sunday in Maine.....May 17th.

 Camellia.....what a lovely lovely flower!!!!

Here it is Sunday in May... I have British Soccer on the Telly...I was hoping to see Mick Jagger in the audience but not his team.

I shredded a full bag of paper for recycling...might start in on a second bag now that I found the clear plastic bags.  Well, Son pointed them out.... I shredded an entire book that I had used as a Diary.  No need for others to read my private thoughts...another book of pages will be added to the shredded paper later today.  Tearing the pages out of the books is exhausting.  I didn't read any of it....again. 

I have a book to finish reading and another to start in on...the Return to the Library Bag is FULL of Rejected Books.  Really, it's disappointing these things get into PRINT. But then I might be the ONE the only One who is critical...and everyone else is happy......I think that might be it.  Just me being critical.

I'm almost to the end of One For The Money....daughter might find  Two for the Dough.  One copy is in repair at a distant library  and the second copy I found is "missing"..... and has been missing quite awhile.

That's it for today- there should be another Soccer Match... Manchester United....ah just highlights. LEE vs BHA..yellow and white uniforms.  The first 15 minutes is usually a waste of time.  

I  might watch them blow something up on CSI: Miami. or find a body in the SWAMP that an alligator has chewed on. When I lived in Florida it was the huge black shiny SNAKES that disgusted me..... slithering around...Husband had a machete and chopped them up...all the neighbors had him on speed dial.  We had three in the decorative pond out back once.....OMG.  Our kids were small and young.....tasty for a big snake.  And they were fast moving snakes..... We moved to Chicago ... before I had unpacked everything.

Well, I  am enjoying watching my trees make leaves/flowers....magenta, pink, yellow and all the different shades of green.  The invasive Lily of the Valley is enjoying the cement sidewalk it's tucked up next to. I happen to like the plant...and some small white flowers are beginning to show up.  I asked daughter to dig up hers and bring them over...she doesn't like them........