Daily Notes for Friday, October 17th. Chilly with Sunshine...50 degrees

 Another index card... my color choices gave it a vintage look.

I have on a thermal shirt, a fleece shirt, corduroy pants and wool socks....and I still feel cold....

1.  Some items are getting taken care of....daughter will help with putting my annual containers to bed.  My Son also offered to help with them..

2.  Today is Library/Grocery Store Friday.   I have only one book to pick up and I am returning most of my selections from last week-- unread.  I'm reading a Danielle Steel right now and it feels "tedious" so it might go back early.  I think I am at the point I reach every year...when I get so bored that nothing makes me happy.  Even coloring the index cards.  I was briefly interested in the sunken find of Cleopatras's palace..but it didn't last long.

3. My Son surprised me by looking for Mont Blanc pen refills at Staples....he did find a refill with black ink to replace the refill that had blue ink.  I like black...I like black on white. Only two pens have refills... The hunt continues.  I have bold black ink Pilot pens from the Grocery store to keep me happy. To use on my Index Card Art.

4.  Medicare sign up and all the phone calls is wearing on my nerves...as soon as they start talking I hang up.  I tried in past years to ask them to remove my name and number from their lists....it didn't work. I have and have had from the get go--a FANTASTIC Medicare Advantage Plan.  I'm keeping it.

5.  I called the Chimney Doctor and asked him to...someday...come by and clean out my chimney... I  told him about the squirrels carrying branches and leaves into the chimney....setting up Winter Housekeeping. He said he'd never heard of squirrels doing that....I said lots of things happen to me that have never happened to anyone else......I also mention the neighbors had a screen placed on top of their chimney and wondered if that could happen on my chimney to keep the animals OUT... He told me he had met Aerosmith Band Members when he cleaned their chimney.   

This is how Maine Conversations go...... no clue as to whether he's coming to clean out the chimney....no appointment etc. Used to bother me and now after so many decades....I'm as weird as they are.

6. I called in my inhaler prescription..for a refill...it will be ready tomorrow...I still have 7 left on the  inhaler I am using...so no hurry.  And I need to ask my doctor for a script for Rescue Inhalers....since people will be having fires in their fireplaces and...the smoke does very very seriously bad things to my breathing....

Daily notes for Thursday, October 16th. Cloudy with a chance of what????? 52 degrees

 I'm not going to even try to rotate the image.

1.   I drew this and many others the other day and finally colored them yesterday. Have forgotten how to rotate the image so .....

2   Watched the World Cup match last night.  Excellent.  Final is possibly on the weekend.

3.  Ate regular meals yesterday also....Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.  Might be a problem today as I don't actually have much in the fridge to eat.  Possibly a Cheese and Ham sandwich. Leftover pizza.

4.  I could always FINALLY decide to make SOUP.   I have everything that goes into the vegetable bean soup I always make myself.  I just need to peel and chop and sauté and simmer.  Will I????

5.  I tried to make two more of the square I liked...now I have three squares and they are all different sizes. I measured but obviously not well enough and not with a ruler..  I will be adding spray starch and a hot iron to them....possibly adding more strips.   Letting them get as large as they want until I run out of matching fabric- and that is possible with half the fabrics.   One fabric --already used up.

6.  Cloudy this morning...an Oatmeal Breakfast Day.   I'll update if the Soup Gets Made.

Wednesday, October 15th. Cool Sunshine. 47 degrees and 94 percent humidity.

 I colored this index card drawing yesterday.....and a few more...I don't have a great selection of coloring pens...I prefer pastels and husband purchased the LOUD color selection.  They show up....so it's okay even if it hurts my eyes and sensibilities.

1.  Lunch with M was lovely.  She is Such a Great Human Being.  Hard Working also.  There was some  extremely sad news but I am going to put it out of my mind.......

2.  I started the day with a nice hot shower.....most mornings I defer on the shower because falling and hitting my head on hard surfaces etc etc do not interest me.  Today I felt like I could manage a shower. And I did...it must have been the chocolate cake and whipped cream I had at lunch yesterday- and the potato chips.  I had a Lunch Date.  None of that food exists here in my house.

3.  I am faced with the TASK of emptying my two large plant containers out front and hauling dirt and the containers back to their Winter Abode.  I keep hoping for a "hero" but there isn't one coming to help me. I feel like my adult children are trying to teach me a lesson...on what I CAN have going forward and what I have to GIVE UP.   I think I can safely remove the dead (almost dead) plants......and get those dead flowers into the compost bin.  I did get them out there...with a wheeled cart of some sort......oh, getting old is really the crappiest part of Life.  Unless you purchase a cruise on a boat with free cocktails.

4.   I read the morning paper....big mistake.

5.   Well, the TiVo has finished recording one billion Law and Order episodes...no, 20 perhaps. I have what looks like an actual GOOD book to read....my score on book selecting this week is more minus that positive.... and my coffee needs to be reheated...then I will settle on the couch for a few hours (or more).

6. I happened upon a Soccer Game last evening....all the players were absolutely gorgeous. This is not normal.  And, the game itself wasn't very interesting.  So I went to bed early.

7.  I thought about it---nice hot shower this morning and the dirt outside?????  I'll stay clean and do a Scarlett O'Hara and "think about it tomorrow" while watching Antique's Roadshow...

Daily Notes on a Wet Chilly Tuesday in Maine. October 14th.

 No image for you today..... and no newspaper to read with my morning oatmeal.

I worked on the index cards a bit more yesterday but didn't take pictures of them....

Going to lunch today at 12.

Have to choose something "nice" to wear....not this old mended ragged red sweater.  Which I love.

I need to turn on some house lights.  You know the weather has changed when you need house lights.

And socks...when you need socks. And when you fuss with the thermostat.

I woke up crying.  So there's that to think about.

Or not think about.

Hope your day starts better than mine did.

Daily Notes- Monday October 13th. No wind, No Sun, No Rain. 51 degrees

 Your Daily Art on an Index Card

Emails from my Lawn Guy.   Going to be my Future Snow Plowing Guy.  Measuring my driveway etc on GOOGLE.  Fascinating... if I had grandchildren they would be around his age......but I don't.

1.  I made my "former" Lunch Buddy smile the other day....it felt good to be able to bring a smile to her face.  She looks tired and sad....we are not having Lunch Dates as she is fully booked with husband's medical appointments and care these days....

2.  I am finding Lady Bugs up along the ceiling of my master bathroom... Son was tall enough to reach them without climbing up on something....I took the four of them outside and relocated them on a Peony leaf.  I was going to have to climb up on something....."we" do not want me doing that. Another one is up there this morning,.......

3.  It's past time to empty and haul away the Annual Containers on the front sidewalks.   I had hoped for help...  sadly...no help is coming.  If it isn't raining  I might do it tomorrow...  today is not feeling like an Auspicious Day.

4.  I watched pieces of EVERY football game yesterday...while drawing on my index cards.  Even the Kansas City game. Yep.   There were some good parts to every game I watched. There was also the poor sportsmanship that ruins the game.  No clue as to who won what besides the Patriots game... we won.

5.  I am watching Season One of Dark Winds...repeats I have watched before....then I will watch the new Season Two episodes.  I might stop watching at any time and return to Law and Order.  

6.  I recorded a 30 minute program on PBS about a radio station in Maine...WMPG 90.9. 104. I rewound and listed and watched an unpaid guy doing the afternoon slot and rocking his heart out to a weather report of "We Are Having A Rain Storm".  If you can find it- it's well worth the effort.... if I was the sort to have things on my iPhone this is what I would put there first.  I would also have it here...but I would need help.  And no help is coming.....

Sunday, October 12th... Cloudy and cold this morning. 58 degrees

 I've been entertaining myself by drawing on index cards.  I had been coloring the drawing in with colored pencil...but this one hasn't been touched with color as yet.... I send some to my brother for his birthday.

1.  Arrangements are being made to take care of the Snow Plowing for the Season. Our biggest issue is the huge pile of snow deposited at the end of the driveway by the Street Plow... It's usually quite heavy and gets stuck in the snowblower.  I used to fill the shovel and then walk (shove) it across the street and dump it there..   Was younger then...

2.  Son collected the Lady Bugs setting up housekeeping in my shower.  Son thinks they got in during the window AC unit usage.  

3.  We are making an additional visit to the grocery store....I am out of yogurt, Bran Buds and the Strawberry Rhubarb Jam I add to my yogurt. And a replacement pizza dough.... the one we bought on Friday had a hole in the plastic packaging.  I also need mouthwash.  My list making capabilities suffered....

Daily Notes- Saturday, October 11th. Sunny and 57 degrees here in Maine. Wool Socks.

 Well.   Another Saturday without British Soccer.   what will I do with myself????

1.  I have recorded the two Saturday Cooking Shows I watch.  And I stockpiled some Law and Order as one would stock a pantry before a pandemic.

2.  My shots had little to zero effect on me...no aches, no fever etc...  I noticed the person doing the shots aimed higher on my shoulder than usual.....which might be the best placement ever.

3.  Finished off the recored episodes I had of the PBS series of Professor T.  I now have vintage Law and Order to watch.  I also have two different editions of recorded Pride and Prejudice... which I may have outgrown.   

4.  Today's book is "definitely not mr. darcy". by karen doornebos....the author uses no caps.  A  modern reality show set in the 1800's with all the smells........no cell phones, no indoor plumbing,  no deodorant. The comment blurbs are by other authors of similar books- PrIde and Promiscuity, the Jane Austen Handbook, and the Lost memoirs of Jane Austen.   I have in my bookcase Austenland...same idea.

5.  September and October have become very Austen here at my house (this year)....I also have recorded three Hallmark "Austen-like" movies which I watch....in one that I particularly like...the Librarian who Loves Darcy hits her head and goes back into Time and finds Mr Darcy to "not be her actual "cup of tea"'. I'm not sure I would actually like Darcy......how about you?????

Daily Notes- Friday, October 10th. COVID Booster today.

 Not much to say this morning... sunshine here in Maine.  But a chill in the air.  All good weather must come to an end.......

1.  Emails regarding Snow Removal for Winter....a heads up that all this nice weather is short lived...

2.  Cookies.   Like real cookies- I had two of them yesterday- shortbread.

3.  My Lunch buddy ordered me a book and it's arrived and I can go pick it up from her house. The first book in a series of four- I have the other three...now the set is. complete.

4.  Reading a book about rich people who lose everything because the husband had a secret second family I realized when I read the final few pages before returning the book unread....that I had read it before.  I know these things happen and it's always a "surprise" until they really think about it...then it's NOT a surprise.  At all.

5.  I was always mystified by the second wife- (Trophy Wife) worrying about her husband straying ....noticing younger women etc....of course he's going to leave her.......he left someone else he said he loved- for you!!!!!   And the guys did leave the second wife for the third wife etc etc.  Just like in the book I am returning to the Library.

  

Daily Notes on Thursday. October 8th- 48 degrees and Sunshine here in Maine.

Well. as it is almost "All the Time" around  here- I have plenty of the fabrics I don't want to use right now and very little other than scraps of the fabric I actually do what to use..Right NOW.. 

I made one small square and wanted a few more- well, that isn't going to happen...so I watched Law and Order.  I wanted NINE... that's my happy number....I can make ONE more.  Two is not a great artistic number.  Three could work.  If I could make three by sewing tiny scraps together.  The real thing isn't this dark.  (I don't have any lights turned on as yet)

1.  Stopped looking in the storage boxes, stopped reading, stopped paying attention to Law and Order and just felt like kicking something really hard for a long time.  I have enough of the shortest supplied fabric to make one more square.... a few other others are enough fabric to make the nine I would have liked.  

2.   My own solution is to take the square apart and use another fabric that I have in abundance. Or have the other eight with a  different fabric... second from the center.  This was NOT a problem when I was making each square different from all the others.  Not a problem until I want NINE of them. And NINE could still be a number I can't manage......THREE might be what I end up with.

In better news.... this book is on its way from the Big A...via my neighbor's account.  She tucked it into her shopping basket.  So Life goes on....

I also emptied a few things out of the fridge....and discovered enough bread for a toasted cheese sandwich...with pickles..... (possibly two) and possibly some additional vintage episodes of Law and Order later today.  I wanted to comfort myself with potato chips...but thank goodness there were zero chips in the house.

October 8th..Dark, Wet with Rain.

 I have a bunch of chair images so we might be having those for a few days.  Or not.  For a while I was cutting out images of chairs....I can't recall why...but I like chairs.... I do recall- I was using the images to draw the chairs in my art notebook freehand....and then I stopped.  Easy enough to return to doing the drawings.  And I can put THOSE here....  I think I would have liked owning the chair in the image here. Midcentury modern-ish.

1.  It's very dark in here....very wet outside.  I got up from the desk to turn on MORE lights.

2.  My neighbor has ordered the book daughter and I were searching for- from Amazon-- as they are having their usual "big sale" and she was filling her basket.  Six dollars less than the price on the book jacket.  I was tempted to also ask for Mont Blanc pen refills but do not know which ones I need. Book will arrive by end of the week.

3.  None of the Lunch Offers have been followed up on.... I was starting to want Sweet Potato Fries....

4.  TV- Other than British Soccer games in the RAIN-- has been dismal.  I watched a few things but got seriously depressed by all of it.  Even Finding Your Roots.

5.  I used the heating pad to ease up the tight neck and shoulder muscles...right side.....I believe it's tension.  Even right now the neck and right shoulder feel stiff.

6.  I sorted thru a few storage tubs of fabric to make some additional squares...the ONE I made during the Soccer Match was exceptionally GREAT and now I want all the others to look that good. I even turned on the iron and pressed a few scraps of fabric.  I should have had that here instead of the chair...tomorrow for sure. and perhaps a second one....I also got into a huge bag of cloth I had dyed and black cloth I bleached to a spotty white and black....some grey.... I sorted during Law and Order...  

7.  I could just make three more that look like that really GREAT square and sew them together... I doubt I have enough of any of the fabrics to make it into a 36 or 48 inch square ART Quilt.  but a nice 12 inch square could be framed...under glass.

Daily Notes for Tuesday. October 7th. Sun is shining here in Maine- 62 degrees.

 Banana Halloween Pops.  I asked if we should make some- he said no.  So....Plain Bananas are just fine. As is.  But these are very cute.....

1.  ...read the newspaper....now trying to cleanse my mind.......the Suduko wasn't going anywhere and the internet was giving me a tutorial on bar soap this morning......I actually do not use bar soap....so that was today's personal update....continue to not use bar soap..(now)  I do have a stack of bars somewhere.........

2.  Watched a very long program on a guy from Tennessee who pushed all barriers (brains but zero cash to get into college) and get a degree and head up Moderna and develop the COVID vaccine and many many other wonderful life saving things.  It was a very very good thing to watch.... I get my COVID shot on Friday.  I signed up on the internet.  Successfully.  Which is a Major Victory..... (balloons, confetti and a parade)

3.  Previous to the medical program I watched different teams in Egypt digging up old tombs looking for...they never actually say for sure.....what they imagine finding....one guy was over the moon about finding broken pale blue pottery bowls.  Which "proved" something.  I get all nervous when they shimmy into very tight spaces that could fill with sand.....I would NEVER.....

4.  Yesterday was a Road Trip with daughter....first she had to move all the landscape tools out onto my front porch so I would have somewhere to SIT.  Then the Town Office to pay Property Taxes... BIG CHECK.........THEN down the hall and I voted absentee (in person)...I found that amusing. Then to the bookstores to buy books.   And a new wall calendar for 2026.  I very nearly bought the identical one to the 2025 on the wall....ooops

5.  I looked over the Art Supply section but didn't feel the need for any supplies of that sort...I have husband's colored pencils and pens and my own sets.....and the pencil sharpener from Germany is still working to capacity.....all is well in the colored pencil area of my Life.  Wish I could say that about other areas of my Life.

6.  I also visited two books stores and purchased BOOKS which are now residing in my bookcase. Two favorite rom com authors had new books....we are still looking for Pride, Prejudice and other Flavors by Sonali Dev.   I had just finished reading Birding with Benefits - Sarah Dubb and purchased my own copy. just because I often forget I like the book....I also purchased a hard cover of the Love Haters..... Other new titles are Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver,  The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell, Maid for Each Other by Lynn Painter (of Mr Wrong Number FAME) and The Launch Date by Annabelle Slater.

I was looking for something new from Tessa Bailey but....no.   I might do an internet search after hitting publish......then move on to Antiques Roadshow-  TiVo recorded quite a few yesterday.

Daily Notes- Monday October 6th. No Newspaper Monday.

 Three sets of dots- might need one more.  Notice how the colors are identifying with my emotional state???  We won't be seeing pink or bright yellow in the near future.  Or cooler blues and greens.

1.  British Soccer was good....American Football was almost good....my book finally got to the best part.....and now we have to get thru the typical "misunderstanding" part of any of these rom-com books. I've read this one before so...this dull part of the book. ...was something I was not surprised by.  This Time. I'm going to skip ahead while the mom tries to totally "manage" her daughter's choices. (because mother had made all the wrong choices).

2.  Still waiting to see if either friend is actually going to have lunch with me. Unless they decide to have lunch with each other and skip my participation......which could happen.  But it is Monday and a great day to go out and have lunch....the sun is shining here in Maine.  No Military Take-Over as yet.

3.  I Swiffered the wood floors yesterday....easier than dragging the central vac hose around the house. The Swiffer picked up quite a few VERY large dust bunnies.

4.  Sunday Pizza was great....  I just wished I had eaten some of the birthday ice cream after........

5.  Monday and zero newspaper...zero news...  which is beneficial to my mental health these days. And I have a stack of partially finished Suduko puzzles to work thru while eating my bowl of oatmeal. So..Life is okay...''not watching news on TV" really helps me get thru the day.... and not having a newspaper on Monday is also helpful........bad things happen on the weekends.....

6.  Was America always like this?  OR was it just not as loud and in our faces????????

Daily Notes- Sunshine Here In Maine on Sunday, October 5th.

 I bit of this and a bit of that....hasn't been sewn together as yet.  Still playing with color and fabric. This looks very Halloween (ugh).   Not a Great Fan of Orange...but do like Halloween Candy.

1.  The Sunday Newspaper........not much there....and the Sunday Suduko- not much there as well. Just when are we going to stand together and overturn this particular government???????

2.  Perhaps none of us actually care?  I do but...I'm old.  And I do vote. Every Time.

3.  I am going to attempt to use the internet to make an appointment for a Covid Vaccination.  I did this once before- in the very beginning of needing a vaccination (years ago).....and it was difficult.  I might not need one as I go No Where and No One Sneezes on Me.  

But I do Touch Surfaces..... I'm more concerned about the Flu-- I got REALLY sick one year--with the Flu.  Back when I worked at the Greenhouse. My husband never noticed I was very sick........what a guy. Never even made me a cup of tea.  This was YEARS  before he forgot who I was.

4.  My former cross the street neighbor sent an email....I sent one back.  This is a second person wanting to have lunch with me... but that is as far as it goes (we never actually set a day and time)..... my Lunch Buddy..sigh...we haven't had lunch in a Great Long Time......so many other important things on her calendar... I have only Library and Grocery Store on my calendar....Town Hall is added this week to pay taxes on my house.

5.  Two British Soccer games yesterday- one in the pouring rain,...another one today. Possibly two. And later Sunday Pizza and American Football.  I have salad to go with my slices.  I'd like to also have a glass of wine...but I don't have any......that I can open.  I need twist off caps not corks.  I do have ice cubes, a cold bottle of Gin and tiny bottles of Tonic. (in the fridge). But wine (whine) sounds better.

Daily Notes Saturday, October 4th. Sunshine here in Maine and 66 degrees

 As you can see....added strips.  I like the keyboard squares under it also.  White makes everything better.

1.  One more day of Hot Dogs and tomorrow is Pizza.  I've run out of Antiques Roadshow episodes. Today is cooking shows which I have recording.

2.  Ran thru the cable channels I have (yesterday) and found exactly NOTHING worth watching.  I've already  missed two British Soccer Matches....I did watch one late yesterday in the driving rain...had to be miserable for the players...

3.  The Newspaper continues to infuriate me....why are we allowing this to continue????? Countries have overthrown insane dictators for decades....why can't WE?????

4.  Putting the duvet cover on the king sized down comforter was easier than I imagined it to be... and I was nice and warm all night long.

5.  Yesterday's and Today's book is. Birding With Benefits.  First time around I missed quite a bit...so I am enjoying the banter this time.  Sarah T. Dubb is the author.  And I might retain some bird info.

6.  Only four days in and the October Desk Calendar is filling up FAST.  And that's it for today.

Daily Notes from A Chilly but Sunny Day in Maine.

Stitched while watching TV.

I gave up on finding something that worked with that blue square and made this out of a long strip of cloth cut into rectangles....now the difficult part of adding another color.

1.  Today is Library Grocery Store....And it's also Stuffing the King Down Comforter into the Comforter Cover Day....this activity closely resembles turning the mattress- not flipping it- I used to do that but I was much younger---I turn it clockwise  so I make sleep dents in both sides of the mattress....while still only sleeping on my side of the bed.  I have a tall four poster bed- so the turns have to work with the four posts...  it's a geometry puzzle.  And only once a year....

2.   I haven't decided on a Luncheon Choice for the WEEK and we are going to the grocery store today.. Hot Dog Week was just "okay".  Perhaps it was my choice of hot dog brands.....I usually had lunch while watching a repeat of Antique's Roadshow.  Repeat Show and Repeat Lunch.

3.  I will be looking at the bottom shelf in the hallway of the Library today for a nice book to use as a canvas for some ART.  Removing the pages from the cover...using the inside of the cover as a canvas, If it actually turns out to be a workable "thing" I will take pictures of the progress.

4.  The majority of last week's books are going back unread...well, I read 10 pages...each...then gave up. In the final book, yesterday...I lost track of who was who and what was what and actually...didn't care. And the husband who was supposed to be "training to live on Mars"?????? whoa.  And there was an entire family speaking German.  It was "a lot".

5.  I am going to grab a few Danielle Steele books...they require very little on my part to keep up with the plot lines...

6.  I discovered- while looking for replacement ink cartridges...that the fat Mon Blanc fountain pen husband bought me in Germany is now worth 1K.  It's now "vintage:.

 

Daily Notes on Thursday, October 2nd- Sunshine..62 degrees

 Austin Read-a-Like booklist.... tomorrow you get a Rom Com List. (the Decoy Girlfriend sounds interesting and I've read or own most of the others).  I love when a book list matches my bookcase.

Horoscope- Don't Live Someone Else's Dream when you have Your Own Dreams to Pursue.

1.  Son says ignore that little blue icon in the top right....

2.  My neck aches..Son says it's from turning my head sideways while watching tv...  I recall this happening in other years when I stayed on the couch for weeks- once with what we thought was COVID. that was long ago and it wasn't...it was the FLU.  I now get an annual Flu shot....well, I did before Trump said NO.  I'll try again tomorrow at the Grocery Store Vaccine Desk.

3.  It's getting cool enough in the house for me to wear wool socks....so it's the right TIME to start making pots of Homemade Vegetable Soup.......

4.  Lynn Painter has a new booklet....Maid For Each Other.... Gonna look for it....

5.  Law and Order episodes yesterday were dreadfully upsetting...I deleted most of the ones I decided I could NOT watch.  Will set 10 more to record today... still season one.  The CSI series  I like is still showing in the square box format....eventually- it takes months.. but they will notice and go to full screen again...... maybe.

6.  Well...that's it for today...Heating Pad, Book and Law and Order ....I also have cloth here to sew into very strange squares........nothing goes with anything else and there isn't enough scrap material to make a second one of any of them........ah...add HOT DOGS to the list......and some more Tylenol.

Daily Notes- Wednesday, October First..... with some unwanted blue extra. in the right top of this post.

I have begun reading Alexander McCall Smith's Emma.  Two pages so far and he is describing a field. An actual field.  Which I have little to no interest in.  The book has about 15 more minutes and then it goes into the return to the Library Book Bag and I read the Lottery Winners three books.  (daughter found them)...

1.  I watched a few not very good Law and Order episodes yesterday....by that I mean I watched a few minutes of each. I need to find something new to occupy myself... the last of the modern takes on Jane Austen was read and finished yesterday..... the World Cup Soccer- the camera work is not good...so I deleted the games.  I am used to the British camera work which is so so much better.

2.  The Computer Engineer doesn't know what that new blue icon in the far right top corner is....it showed up when I opened this page....he tried to remove it but it's still here.

3.  I have a few more books on the Library shelf....one of them is certainly NOT going to be describing a field.  I hope.  But then I will return to my bookcase here at home....select something I have read before... a sure thing.  Or draw things on index cards.  I did some of that yesterday... flowers.

4.   Jude posted that TypePad is gone.....I recall that they did warn people.  Jude was worried about all the years of content on her blog...... I can see all the decades of my posts...all still here on NOT Typepad-.... that would bother me a bit but I actually NEVER go back and read any of it.  I know Readers often mention reading from the beginning.  I think I have enough words written to create a large BOOK.

5.  blogger.com......free and secure...   Well, I have the desk calendar to work on- getting September off and uncovering October... the monitor is quite heavy......Son got me the larger one...I better get started.

Daily Notes- Tuesday September 30th. Sunshine..

 Pumpkin Roll Up Cake.

We DO NOT have one HERE in My House.  Bah Humbug.

1. So far World Cup Soccer is not working for me- camera placement is not the best.  So I recored about  10 Old Law and Order episodes........for when I get tired of reading my books.  Or sewing strips to my cloth squares.  Or when there is no Antiques Roadshow on PBS (but they tend to repeat the same ones- ugh)......I know they are on the PBS app....but I am not watching things on this desktop- or on husband's tablet which stays on the charger just in case something of importance shows up.....and it's a French Canadian laptop....husband made a mistake in buying it..... we finally got it unlocked.... but only halfway. It might be nice to read books on it.  

2.  Taking my time reading the last of the Sonali Dev four book series.... today I will finish  The Emma Project  and I will need to find something new to read.   I do have four books from the Library on the shelf.  Waiting...and it's Tuesday and Library Day is Friday.

3.  Looked for the dark blue fabric with the black and white circles.....NO...found the same fabric in black with white and black circles. As SOON as I sew the black/white on the square the blue will show up.

4. The tendons in my neck are tight and achy....  I'm going to go sit on the couch and stare up at the ceiling until they relax......right now I am holding my head downward and stretching the muscles at the back fm neck.  Heating pad if nothing else works.

Daily Notes for Monday September 29th. Sunshine here in Maine.

 Doughnuts and muffins.

No baking going on here...other than Sunday Pizza.  I watched some football.....not much (have any of you noticed how slow the game has gotten- time outs etc-- it all drags......and then I moved on to other things like Soccer (very fast moving) and finally Masterpiece Theater on PBS (more repeats of very old series).  Which is what PBS is now- really old repeats and fund raising.

1.  I may have found a piece of cloth to cut into strips for another set of borders on the blue square I am making.   Suddenly I have become "picky" and previously I was just "making what I had on the pile" WORK.  I like the pile idea so much better- actually got things DONE.  This looking for matchy stuff is not my wheelhouse.  "Good enough" is fine with me.  It's not like anyone but me sees any of this "work". Or any of it "becomes" anything. The squares I make- will always be unfinished squares

2.  I was thinking about this blog....about the many people I have met along the way and lost contact with. If you are one of them- send an email or comment here...I'd like to know how you are doing... quite a few of you are on the west coast.  From top to bottom is the way I remember it.  East Coasters can write also... and the Florida and Southern Readers....let me know how you are doing.

3.  I sure wish I had written down college friends ..knowing where they lived (at home) is not helpful. Having a last name for some of them would have been the way to go... and perhaps Facebook would be the way to go???? I have never entered that domain. Time for this Old Dog to learn even one new trick??????

4.  I never returned to The Emma Project....so today I am going to get back into reading.  Less screen watching.  Which is not great for one's brain.  And also looking for a fabric for the blue square.. before starting in on the purple square.  And it's IS Hot Dog Week......

5.  I set about 10 or more Law and Order episodes to record...also repeats but ones I totally enjoy watching and not bothered (at all) if I decide to delete them midpoint.  Or even sooner.

Daily Notes-- Sunday, September 28th. Sunshine and 69 degrees.

 Under the sub-title of Fall Baking.  So delicious looking........too much work for me but can imagine Son measuring to get the stripes EVEN.

1.   Watched one of the first World Cup games.  New Zealand v. Chile.  A New Zealand striker named Walker had THREE YELLOW CARDS long before the game ended... he tried and failed (at the very end) to stop the same guy he'd been knocking over the entire game...and that guy scored the winning goal in the very last few seconds of the match.  Chile won. Sometimes what goes around comes around to bite you. 2 to 1.

2.   Am I foolish to expect good sportsmanship in World Cup Soccer Games??????  Yes...I am.

3.   I didn't get too far reading the Emma Project book due to the World Cup...And not sure how it will go today as we have American Football and Sunday Pizza. 

4.  I did a bit- just a bit- of hand sewing yesterday....it was the sort of day when I wished I could take a nap. Falling asleep is very difficult for me....I trained as a small child to stay awake in case of a family emergency...my parents were unreliable.  Their arguments were loud and terrifying.  

5.   I have been Damaged Goods my whole life.