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.

Daughter showed me where the NEW paint on the porch post repairs is peeling off in long ribbons. She looked at the paint cans- it's the right stuff.....we'll sand it a bit rougher and repaint.  The original painter repair guy is in a South Carolina Prison- for murder.  Yes, that bothers me.

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.

Daily Notes... Tuesday. March 24th. Sunshine and Snow. 32 degrees

 Colder..  Sunny but colder with snow on the ground. I'm not sure this is typical March weather.  Even for Maine.  

I have five more carved dog images for the posts...just so you know.

Dinner down the street with Good Neighbors was lovely as usual...and the food was excellent. Dessert was ice cream sandwiches out of the freezer... quite delightful...everyone really enjoyed them... The Corned Beef was super tender and delicious.  

I have a half dozen or so index cards here on the actual desk covered in ideas..  for a "maybe" vegetable garden. Out back and also for the decorative flower planters out front.  The largest problem out back is watering. Late Husband's  arrangement of hose connections up by the house and then over the lawn is no longer usable. Never was that easy to use and leaked quite a bit.  Almost all the hose connections leak. 

I might use the connection from the garage instead... or just use containers on the driveway. And a watering can.  I did do that in the last few years....that I grew tomatoes etc.

Finished the Paradise Problem and I am now reading  Runaway Groomsman.  Listening to the furnace go on and off.  The sunshine outside makes me think it's warmer than it actually is...the house itself feels rather "chilled" but eventually we will reach the temp I chose.  64 degrees. 

The morning paper was enough bad news for an entire week.... so..I think reading, British Soccer and some hand sewing of squares and rectangles in assorted fabric will keep me occupied.  I will bury my head in the sand - no news is good news?????

Daily Notes for Monday, March 23rd, Clouds, Snow. Son hopes he shoveled for the last time????

Stealthy.

Well, Son is not a "Happy Camper" after shoveling snow yet again.  Late March and one would hope the snow would transition to Rain by now.  But nothing in 2026 is "as one would expect it to be" especially the Government.

My oatmeal this morning was quite good.....it happens all by itself...being good.  Nothing I did to anticipate a better outcome.  Just oats and water in the microwave for 3 minutes.  Has to be the random amount of oats and the even more random amount of water.  Random should be my middle name....if I had a middle name.  Which I don't...

Watched some "Talking Heads" discuss the "Mess Trump has Made".......and if there is a way out without a huge death toll for our military.  Trump's entire cabinet would have to come down with stomach flu and the trots in order for someone SMART to get us the hell out of this war.  Use up Trump's diapers.

Perhaps that dog up top is also looking for a "way out".

I have my book to finish reading before we go to dinner....down the street.  I also need to wear something green....and will need to iron it before wearing whatever it is.  

I found some more art supplies...in a drawer while looking for something else.  Nice stuff.   Art Supplies tucked away in every drawer and closet.

I still haven't written to Gretchen for a list of things she will have in her new garden.  That big old fenced garden out back of my house is sitting empty and needs a few things....herbs????  New Blueberry bushes?  The ones back there aged out.  Rhubarb never took hold.  Grapes?   Still covering the wooded frame with leaves but stopped making grapes long long ago.  I used the left over ones to make a very very nice blue dye bath.....such a lovely blue.   Well.time to reheat my coffee and get on with reading my book,