Summer Notes- Friday July 26th. 78 degrees and 47% humidity.

Well, it's been an adventure so far today.  First of all, a nerve pain in my left hip near my waist..woke me up this morning....reminding me of my AGE (two Tylenol seem to be helping).  Then not being able to send this image to the desktop.... a Comcast password problem.  And finally Library and Grocery.  I forgot my book list so I had to "wing it".  I have a bag full of...something...and a free book off the discard cart- Hissy Fit.  Mary Kay Andrews...might even be in my bookcase.

Watched Two Hallmark Movies yesterday (haven't watched any since the Jane Austin ones this winter.)... Snow Bride and another that was new to me.  I liked Snow Bride better than the new one.  But, truthfully, I enjoyed watching both.  I had also watched the US Women's Soccer Match...some bad sportsmanship...a red card.  I've watched the US Women's Team for years and missed a few of the regular faces.

I also watched something my son said was called Hand Ball.  Very odd sport.  Like soccer but throwing not kicking the ball into a net.  My first time seeing it...I watched one game.

The image up top is one of the circles husband couldn't color because he didn't have a colored image to follow... he didn't know where to put the colors.. or which colors to choose..so I had a few very very sad moments (more than a few) as I colored and especially as I finished.  Executive Function.  Someday I will sit and look at an uncolored page and not know what to do with it.......but not yesterday or today.

My son picked out his favorite cake mix....for his birthday.  We didn't get ice cream. We will get ice cream for my birthday next month..... which will mark one year...since my husband fell down on the floor because he forgot how to stand........  I'll need ice cream. 

Summer Notes- Thursday, July 25th. Cloudy, 67 degrees and 97% humidity. Like cold soup.

 Some one named Guido Mocafico Jr took this picture.  I don't know which is more interesting to me.  The image or the name.  The sidebar picture file is almost empty.  Needs a refill.

I am coloring the pages my husband didn't color- they are turning out- well, I will have them here...when I take their pictures..... turning out very very nicely.

I'm reading the AuPair Affair by Tessa Bailey.  Boston Hockey player and the college student (advanced degree) hired to au pair for his pre teen daughter..   When I used to watch/listen to the Boston sports talk show from 10am to 2pm, they would occasionally have a phone interview with a Boston Hockey Player- defense.  One day while they were interviewing this guy- the gal who was dog sitting his high maintenance dog-- got stuck in the building elevator with the dog (who went nuts).  Reading this book...I can imagine what the book guy would have done in this situation.....like tear the elevator apart to get her out.  Should have been in the book. Building had an elevator.

So....I finally had hot dogs for lunch...well, actually I only eat one meal late in the afternoon- so lunch/dinner.  I will be having them again...today..... but need to find a way to blacken them....the toaster oven didn't do enough. And by blacken..I actually mean burned to a blackened crisp.  So..It will take time and effort.  No smoke detector.

I haven't uncovered the ornamental containers yet this morning.  I wrote checks for the bills yesterday.  Especially for the electric bill- two AC units going 24/7.  Was high but reasonable.  With 97% humidity.

Summer Notes- Wednesday, July 24th. Wet outside, rained, 69 degrees and 93% humidity.

 Japanese Beetle.  Eating the leaves.  Not here in Maine....

I wasn't reading yesterday...I was watching Bones on BBC America.  And rebooting the TiVo.  A problem with BBC America. I guess.  None of the other channels were affected.

I spent considerable time trying to draw a hexagon.  Would seem to be an easy thing...so NOT.  And then as I was looking for something else entirely- I found a short stack of uncolored mandalas in husband's stuff.  A little note from him attached---since he had no colored image to work from, he wrote that he couldn't color them. Executive function was no longer in the mix I'm guessing.. He'd added a sad face.

I am coloring them....using the glue stick to attach them to the Art Notebook. Sharpening pencils. I sharpened pencils for my husband every day....now, for myself.

I haven't eaten breakfast as yet.  It's 9:30 am.  I've been up awhile.  Thinking. Not something I enjoy doing. As it usually makes me sad.  Or sadder.

Bran Flakes, Keurig Coffee and the Morning Paper....that's all I've got this morning.  Well, the freshly washed linen sheets on the bed....very very comfortable sleeping.  Life Goes On.  That's a song? I seem to think so....I need to turn on a few lights...  the only one on is the screen I am staring at right now.

I was tempted to watch Hallmark yesterday...shaking my head.

Summer Notes- Tuesday, July 23rd. 71 degrees and 93% humidity. Drizzle. Clouds....

 We had this already but...otherwise we wouldn't have an image....  I need to start sending images via the iPhone to the computer again.... I do have cactus drawings (I drew them and colored them) which I could send to the desktop.  

When you spend the day doing virtually nothing...it is really difficult to get anything DONE.  I began today with taking the sheets off my bed and starting a load of wash....and I took a shower.  I am exhausted. Literally ..exhausted.  I also uncovered the annual containers, read the newspaper (nothing to read) worked as much of the Suduko as I could- (very little), selected some things to watch on tv......made a cup of coffee in the Keurig.  Son now wants me to unplug it when not in use.  Which works out fine as I make only one cup a day.  It takes me hours to finish that one large cup.  I don't remember coffee being this bitter.  I could go back to tea.

I have my dish of Daily Pills here to take when the coffee is cooler.

This week's books....very poor choices.  VERY...POOR...... The "STATE" is deciding on the Book Borrowing Contract. They move slowly.  And take a Summer Break. (recess)........you don't know how good you have it until it's gone......that's the situation right now.

I was reading posts I wrote in 2007 and 2008.  Gosh, I was busy.  Now I am not.  so  not.

Well, I have vitamins and pills to take......I need to put fresh sheets on the bed.  The shower always lowers my blood pressure.  So, before any of that...a nice sit-down on the couch.  Let the Bran Flakes circulate..nothing is time sensitive. Not even me.  Especially not me.