Good Morning......the Heat Wave has drifted off to somewhere else and we are nice and COOL here in Maine...

Took awhile but I got here with words in the right space.

The Maine Heat Wave has cooled off for the moment.  The sun is shining, the grass is green and the sky is blue.... a month early as Maine is actually best in August....I guess...as that is when all the New Yorkers show up in their expensive cars and clog everything up.

More Soccer today.  I have to check and see what's what.   My Lunch Buddy mentioned (in this morning's email) a few matches I might have missed).  But I'm sure I set all of them to record. Argentina.

The Maine Heat Wave has moved on....cool here in the house and I slept with a window open - very comfortable.  No reading was done yesterday.  I finally recognized a paragraph in the book...everything else was different.  So weird.   Firehouse with the firemen and fire woman eating subs and gossiping. Then I stopped and moved on to something else....page 34.  Book Two in the series is still a complete unknown....

Okay I have plenty of cold vegetables in the fridge for snacks during Soccer.  I do have some (very little) Ranch dressing I can mix with some mayo for a DIP.  IF I have mayo....

I cleaned off two window sills of assorted small items- little trinkets I picked up when I visited the Goodwill.  I don't do that anymore... as I realized I was "self medicating" with trips to Goodwill.  Not saying I'm in the best of "Mental Health" condition.....my son is the first to say I'm not.  But now I realize when I am tipping off the rails of mental health.   I try to make myself say "yes" to stuff...it's hard. No is always easier.........so Soccer, Book, Ice Pop, making Sunday Pizza and eating it with a big salad....

Very FULL Schedule ......I washed my hair yesterday- it's very FULL......I tried to get it under control but gave up...it's gonna do what it's gonna do....big wide shiny WHITE hair.  Got nice curl going as well.
 

Happy July Fourth. Was Sunny and Warm and now is cloudy and very warm. Then SUNNY again.

 I plan to enjoy Soccer and ignore the JERK pretending to be President.  

Son has our FLAG up on the porch.

It's getting hotter every day but the ceiling fans and the cool beverages help cool me down.  I also have a table top fan and move it around the house with me....  I want a shower but have to wait for my blood pressure to level out before entering a space that would be dangerous if I get light headed (there is a chair in the shower). Once was enough.  I sat in the shower chair until I could get up and shut off the water...do not want to do that again,

This Getting Old stuff was going Just Fine until it got hot and humid.  Now it's Sit, Read, Watch Soccer. Son says it's almost over.  We have Ice Pops.  In the Freezer. Son thought it was a weird grocery choice but he is enjoying the dark colored ones while I enjoy the pale colored ones.  

Saving the chocolate covered ice cream bars for a special occasion. Possibly to do with World Cup Soccer.

I ate half the cold grocery store fried chicken bites yesterday and saved the other half for today.   Protein.

I have a long trim board on the bedroom side of the back of the house that has rotted out....needs to be replaced before it gets filled with ants and rodents..   I don't have Repair People.   

As I was considering Repair People I have had working on this house--- I realized they were all named James.   None of the phone numbers I have are "in use".....

I have book two to read today in the Lottery Win Series....I never actually read number two but did read One and Three a few years ago.....the books I have were printed after that and it feels like they were edited heavily before the reprint......the dull stuff was removed.  I was not looking forward to the end of the first book but the re-edit fixed all of the Houston stuff- even a few plot points..  Today is Luck of the Draw.   I never actually read this one....because the intro was so terrible. So dull...So UGH. tomorrow I'll let you know if this book was also edited---after the first publication..

Friday July 3rd. It's HOT here in Maine and we are NOT used to it!!!!!! ZERO Central Air Conditioning.

 Wow, this has been quite a shock....the  heat ...

Library changed its schedule and was NOT open today....so I still have last week's books...and can read them again this week.  I have glasses of water in the fridge getting cold....water from the faucets is definitely NOT cold..... Shipped and the  Little Beach Bakery will be read again.. and again. Both books will be ordered for my personal bookcase......eventually.  Yesterday's book was from the bookcase...one of a group of three books....I'll be reading all three.

Too hot for me to go out shopping so Son said he did his "best" to get me food for the week...I have  so many wonderful salad vegetables to add to my big salad bowls.. "rabbit food"..gonna be a good week.  Hopefully this Heat will move off over the ocean. SOON. Or ocean breezes will come ashore.

We are waiting for daughter to have some time off work to help install the two window AC units.... she is working outside on landscaping so...exhausting.  And exhausted....probably just stands in a cold shower and then falls asleep.   One day after another.

Soccer has been good and it has been bad- a lack of good sportsmanship.....I know you want to win but sending someone to Urgent Care isn't the way to do it.

That's it- I have been in the house all week.......nothing great in emails and nothing interesting in  the mail..other than bills.   I need to hydrate.....take care.

Good Morning Everyone!!!! June 30th. Guys here to do the lawn mowing. 74 degrees and sunshine.

 Cherry Lime Ice Pop.

Do not have any of these in the freezer.   I was never a "great" home made ice pop person.

Soccer is going well...I was sad to see Germany have to move to penalty kicks...never a great thing.

Desk Calendar is full so July will be a fresh page here.  Tomorrow.

I am reading The Little Beach Street Bakery...getting towards the part of the book I don't really enjoy reading.   I might stop.   Start in on one of the other books.

My neck muscles are tense and stiff.  I need to relax and perhaps have some Tylenol......later,,,,, I already had my breakfast Tylenol.   Son says we are buying new window AC units....he better get on it... 75 already and not even 10am.  I have NOT opened any windows....so it's pretty decent in the house and I am....as an old person...running cold these days, so am doing just fine.  This is the one positive side of old age- running cold....other than in the winter.... when I watch the oil tank like a hawk.

Well, I have the last quarter of the Bakery Book to work thru.. then start in on one of the other books. I also plan to watch soccer....and that usually fills the day for me.  Hallmark has been a disappointment and I just can't force myself to watch Law and Order....  So World Cup Soccer for the win, I guess.

New desk calendar sheet tomorrow.... I think,