New Post for Saturday, May 31st- New Calendar Page Tomorrow.

I am giving up;  I tried to get over to the left side but- nothing is working and I could keep doing the same thing over and over again- expecting a different outcome but...that's the definition of insanity.  And I already know all about that.

Ah...look at that.  I did nothing and it decided to revert to normal operational procedures.

It's raining... a few days later than Tru Green specified in the comments section of my bill...regarding watering in the product they had applied to the yard.  The grass hasn't been mowed.  Those guys have disappeared YET AGAIN.. I'd mow but husband bought a complicated walk behind....he had to start it and then I mowed....I do not know how to start it....and eventually he forgot.......so I hired guys to mow. This is how my life ends....I forget how everything works.  

I was puzzled by the sewing machine a few weeks ago.  Happy that I bought the simplest one they had. On -Off- Forward- Back... I cannot recall how to wind a bobbin but was NEVER any good at it...which is why I buy the black and white pre-wound ones.  Black and white go with everything....sort of.

I had a shower this morning...something I try not to do in the morning- having to do with a drop in blood pressure if I haven't had breakfast.  It's why I have a chair in the shower with me.  But nothing out of ordinary happened and I shampooed my hair and even did a conditioning treatment.  Hair looks exactly the same. Feels the same. Clean or dirty.

Yesterday's book- I have 80 pages to go to finished Shipped by Angie Hockman.  It's the Library copy- I have another copy in my bookcase.  I forgot to pick up my reserved book at the Library yesterday. And it's one I really want to read.

I have a soccer game to watch.  3pm on CBS.  Tracker episode on CBS at 8pm and Hallmark has two additional Love on the Danube episodes..... One of the three long long River Boat Cruise Romances.. Sort of why I am reading Shipped.  Also on a Boat Cruise.  

Thunder....oh my.   Well, that's it for  today.  I don't imagine anything exciting will happen...hopefully the Soccer will be interesting........?

Better Late Than Never. Friday May 30th. Sunshine here in Maine

 Pie.   Sigh....I really would like to bake a Pie.

I think people can be divided by liking Cake or Pie.  My mother always preferred to be making and baking Pie for a  Holiday Dinner.  We never had more than one pie- so I always liked the Quilting Group Potluck Dinners......Many Pies.  I actually LOVED the Quilting Group Potlucks.

Seems there are troubles with the comments part of MY blog.  Either here or with the sender. I offer my email address to whomever has had problems. So far....but actually Dear Readers-- the number of comments I get in a week would be ZERO most weeks.  I do NOT generate conversation.  These days.

The posts are more like Journal Entries.  What I did or didn't do etc.

I forgot to pick up my reserved book at the Library.   Sigh.  I forgot. And the gals at the desk did not remind me.

I also forgot to look at the books on tape (discs)...I was considering listening to a book being read to me while I sewed on my squares.   Now that I am taking the squares down to the sewing room and slicing the edges into even-ness- the finished work looks more "controlled".  More enjoyable and I only sew for the time it takes to add four side strips and then I stop.

That's it for now....I won't worry too much about the comments...hardly any one writes one these days... But the one Reader with comments now has my email address. If any of you need it- just ......well, you can't comment..so I have no idea what to tell you....and I am laughing.

Good Morning- on Thursday, May 29th. Tru Green has been and gone.....the Lawn Mowing Guys have NOT been.......

 I keep being invited to send $100 to Flax and get a random pile of clothing in my size from them in exchange.  All from the way back shelving of the Flax Barn.  I have Flax clothing but not in the regular rotation.....and none of it has been rotating in quite a few YEARS....decades??????  I don't like any of the colors in this pile (the blue looks okay).  I also regularly cycle thru the LLBean clothing from the Employee Store (in MY closet).

I wouldn't mind a few more pairs of the BEAN black knit pull on Capri  pants I love a lot and if they still made the Camp Shirt- Square BOX Shape with two small squares sewn to the top and sides- aka......short sleeves I would love to have a few more XL or XXl.  To wear ALL SUMMMER LONG.  Plain WHITE. NO DARTS.  No Fitted Shape.......that was the updated version.  Awful. Just awful. Not Camp.

Today I have on a lovely blue (so many blue shades are not lovely) stripe shirt- I own two of them- LLBean.  If I had a way of taking photos of myself I would.  I am going to lunch today and wanted to look nice.  

My hair is a bit out of control...hair cut next week.  The curl is trying to overtake my head. I am "naturally curly' when my hair feels like it wants to be.........It has to get to a certain length and then goes a bit wild.   When I let it grow longer- that ends the curl.  The weight straightens it out.

Well, this has been a strange post....and it might be the lack of eating breakfast before typing.  So- Oatmeal, Newspaper Reading, Suduko Puzzle Failures, and Vitamins.....My day begins. Ah, and instant coffee.  My one cup per day......

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Daily Notes for Wednesday, May 28th. Sunshine here in Maine. 69 degrees at 9am.

 Yesterday's Square.  Not finished as yet...  and crooked.  (something I had not noticed).........but the strips are not being "cut" so. yes, they would be odd sizes.  When tearing strips they do sometimes have one straight side and one uneven CUT side.

I MIGHT pull out the gardening tools and fill the two planters out front and actually plant my annuals in them....get started on SUMMER.  Which ALSO means wrapping them at night and unwrapping them in the morning.  I don't SEE deer like I used to but I am certain they will be visiting if I have edibles out on the front walk.  Everyone likes a free Salad Bar.

My Lunch Buddy and I will be having lunch at the old place (in a new location) tomorrow......I will be having eggplant parm and a gin and tonic. (not driving)... we have had enough of the new restaurant for the time being.  And I can actually get take out as it's just a few steps away from the Library.   If I EVER start driving.......and I am thinking about it..... I only go to a few places and they are mostly next to each other... or just a very short walk.

I was doing the hand sewing on the above cloth while watching season one or two of Bones...before they decided (the directors)  to have the two become romantically involved.  At this point in the series no one is involved with anyone and both are irritated by the other...... I might want to actually go back to reading the BOOKS.......like Will Trent...the books are 100,000 percent BETTER.

I think I might like the shared friendship aspect of the series more than the dead bodies and bones.

I watched 5 minutes of news and am very very sorry I did that.  And we haven't had the Birthday Parade as yet.......gosh...I never thought this sort of crap would happen- or be ALLOWED to happen.

Maybe Two Gin and Tonics with Lunch Tomorrow!!!!!   Sounds like the lawn guys are here.

Tuesday, May 27th. Sunshine and 54 degrees here in Maine. I woke up before it was even 7 AM.

 Different colors. I am trying to take a photo of what I am working on each day- we'll see how long this new thing lasts.  Going looking for matching fabric wasn't part of the plan but....now that the fabric tubs are available.... why not?????  Son helped me get the BLUE tub down off the shelving.  Really dead weight heavy tubs.....too much fabric????????  I found what I was looking for and added two borders yesterday.  More today of a different color- different TUB.

So far the iPhone is co-operating with picture taking and sending.  Or I am. Co-operating with iPhone.

As I find a fabric that will play well with the others....I add strips to the already started items.  I do the sewing by hand so it takes longer....I need things to fill my day.  Hand sewing is nice.

The book I am reading has gotten scary (Linda Howard)...I don't like scary....so I stopped reading. I actually am sort of tired of reading....I know...how could that be true of "book a day" Joanne? But no reading yesterday. Zero. I had a slight flash of something- a book I thought I might read that wasn't scary but....can't recall what it was. Reading Danielle Steel has upset my book reading....I don't like the books but I keep reading them...

I DID find a fabric to use on one OTHER rectangle/square....wow, I had thought I had NONE of that green left..  Now to actually get that going--happiness!!!. I will continue to add strips to the four sides until I feel they are at maximum potential and then I will STOP. At least I hope I know when to stop.   NONE of the squares or rectangles will ever "work" together.  So hopes of a larger finished piece- NOT HAPPENING.  But I am pleased they are no longer potholder sized. Getting past that size is a real victory for me. I am now moving toward placemat size and hope to jump past that as well.  Like rocketing into space with square shapes..

Yes, mismatched squares or rectangles could be sewn into a Modern Crazy Quilt.........but if I wouldn't like looking at it- pretty much anyone else would not like it either (and I like some really weird stuff).I have been known to make things that quilters do NOT enjoy looking at...but this is Maine and they are Traditional Quilters and I am Insane.

But such a Loveable Insanity....No..that's not even close to who I am.  I am Friction. 

I still HAVE NOT made anything with the Rhubarb....but it's safe in the freezer....not going to waste.

addendum to last post

 The green with the circles...undercloth- I go searching my green tub looking for it...Feels  like I had some. Feels like a NEED it...but no there is none.

Daily Notes- Sunshine here in Maine...on May 26th. 57 degrees at 8:30 am. I need to put on my socks. No newspaper Monday.

 Fabric.  Handsewn pieces- one to another.  From a bin of scraps.

Eventually nothing will match anything else and the pieces will be totally random and messy.  The ones tied with a bow- visited the neighbor one street over (with me)....

If my daughter visits I will ask her to pull the green tub down off the shelving unit...too high and way too heavy for me to lift and move....  There has to be some green in the tub I can use.......right now I am using scraps from the scrap bin.  Nothing goes with anything so this could never grow into a "useable" item. I need to search the blue bin as well.

Dark Matter continues to bother me. My son says worrying about is futile.

I am reading Linda Howard's Dying to Please.  It's going where I do not want to go.  And that's when I stop reading.  Move on to recorded British Soccer or French Tennis.  I may have outgrown tennis, Actually gotten bored of it.  The way my single digit daughter explained things to me long ago. Bored of it.

I have some plans for today...which might include making pie crust (spell check wrote a different word twice)..........I have everything I need for the Rhubarb Pie Filling.  Just need to thaw it out.....I found my scribbled recipes (ha) for Microwave Cake in a Cup.  Mix a few tablespoons of assorted things plus an egg and into the microwave and et viola....cake in a cup.  I was working then- at the greenhouse- so ten or more years ago...possibly close to 20.   I was happy then....hard to believe.

My desktop calendar has only a few narrow spaces unoccupied by art or newspaper headlines.   In a few days it will be June and a blank calendar page....hopefully less rain.  And warmer- I am still wearing wool socks and a sweater here at the end of May.  In Maine...But the Sun is shining.  I watched Anderson Cooper last night on 60 minutes...Roman Emperors.   Yes, it sounded very familiar.

Semi sunshine and cooler Sunday....59 degrees. Watch Open Wheel racing from Monti Carlo.

 You get to look out the front window.  Birdfeeders, mid lawn garden spot, driveway and cross the road neighbor's roof.  The grass isn't as smooth and green as it has been in previous years... when Tru Green visited the correct house........

I decided to wake up the iphone and use it a bit.   Two photos.

It's cold in the house but perhaps my own fault for NOT having a sweater on....65 degrees.  

I finished the Danielle Steel set in Paris and New York City.  A bit in the country side of England as well. I can see why they might be very popular....escapism.  Room Service.  

Pizza later today....I waited till the race was over and then had my breakfast oatmeal...  I think I am going to find a sweater - I'm cold...  And I leave you on this note...I watched PBS yesterday -Black Holes.  I got the impression we (on Earth) could be sucked into a black hole at any time....no one knows what happens after that.   I feel pretty certain.......we die.

What's On My Mind for Today- Saturday, May 24th. Chilly and very WET here in Maine.

 An image from the internet-- no flowers growing here. Zinnias.

I walked out to get the newspaper.....I woke up before my Son did...that's a first.  Oatmeal was good.  Coffee is bitter but..that's okay.... reading the one Danielle Steel book I got yesterday. Also bitter.

I selected four Bosc Pears for my "Fruit of the Week" and was arranging them on the counter-- like Life Drawing Models.......tempted to do a drawing today if the tv offerings are AS dismal as the weather.

I must be getting "over" whatever......has been bothering me and making me morose.  I went looking for green fabric yesterday- one I remembered....didn't find it.  I found something else and thought- "is this what I remembered and got it wrong???"  I didn't want to use the green I found. Felt "wrong".

I have a feeling that Quilting has used up all the oxygen and will now go into hibernation until it's next re-birth... in ten or twenty years....with new fabric patterns, colors etc.  I might tea dye my colorful stuff and make it darker and well, darker.  Like my mood.   I let go of the wildly colored juvenile stuff..  though I keep finding a riot of red, orange and gold in the storage boxes.......and I am wanting mossy green......

I seem to have a haircut appointment next week....I doubt I need one as my hair is very very short. Still. It seems to have stopped growing.....does that happen as we get closer to 80????  I know my ears have kept growing and are getting very large.

My hands are cold....I need to turn on the house lamps...it's very dark in here....very wet outside. Very still as well...not a breeze to move the leaves.  I need to finish the Danielle Steel and move on to something else.  I doubt my choice of books this week was a success.....More likely "I just don't want to read"...... a new experience for me at 78.   Not wanting to read.  I returned half the books from last week- unread and didn't venture into the bookcase either to try an old favorite........I hope it's a passing fatigue with books... I have always enjoyed reading.....which fills my Life when I have nothing else............

I filled the recycling box on the back porch...we have enough plastic bags.....I got rid of the ones the daily newspaper arrives in....365 of them??????  Or More.  Would be nice if one or two of you wrote me a paragraph of your own news????????  Like a typed conversation?????? 

Daily Notes- Friday May 23rd. Damp and possibly some wind and rain coming our way.

I did some landscaping work yesterday.. Pine .tree pruning (lower branches) to let the nice pink Camelia have the spotlight.  I discovered Lily of the Valley in ABUNDANCE in the abandoned Fenced Vegetable Garden.  A sharp shovel and I'll harvest enough for that front ornamental bed (which is just plain DIRT right now.   The weather is not good for just transplanted annuals so...good thing I didn't do that.

Grocery Shopping....I did buy pears for this week's fruit and I thawed out frozen raspberries to mix into my Honey Yogurt and Bran Buds. Last week's peaches didn't get eaten...My appetite is not great and I hate being forced to eat.....we do NOT have regular meals...he eats what he eats and I....don't. At least with husband I was making him breakfast, soup or sandwiches for late lunch and remembered to make something for myself.

I was up late last night finishing up a book....to be returned today.  I did spend time thinking...not the best thing for me to do....I regularly think about the many many mistakes I made in my lifetime...most that I have significant regret about.  I should just write them down and then dig a hole in the Way Back and bury them or set the papers on fire.  I can't change anything.....I just have to accept the mistakes and do better if an opportunity for change is offered....in the next Life.

The dismal weather does nothing to cheer me up.

I have a bag full of books.....and I have about 26 English Soccer games recorded on the TiVo.  And a bunch of Sherlock off BBC America.  Bones might be on today....I like the older ones.  I miss Law and Order which is rarely if ever on any more....which is why I have the Soccer.

That's all....a dismal day outside and inside....And in my head.
 

Daily Notes for Wednesday May 21st... Cloudiest May in Years. Sadness is cloudy.

Pies

The Pie Fairy hasn't been around dropping off a nice fruit pie..  I might even enjoy the Pie of the Month Club...if I knew of one.  That sent pies to the backwaters of Maine.But the Rhubarb Fairy (my daughter) left me a large bag of tender rhubarb stalks- just picked yesterday.  I'd love to bake a pie. I will trim, wash and chop the stalks and layer them in flat trays and freeze them...then bag them...ready for pie or jam making.

Grass is being cut....blower is removing any cut grass from sidewalks or drive....Sun has come out. Perhaps it happened as I typed the word PIE.  It's glorious.  I love it when the Sun Shines in this forested yard..

My visit to the neighbor one block over was a delight.  We talked about books, husbands-  and how it is nice to not be living with them....had tea and cookies and I admired her lovely framed art on all the walls. she had great artist's work-- a life time collection.

I wish I had purchased paintings and drawings over my very interesting and well traveled Life. I wish my walls were covered in framed ART.  I am tempted to get out the paints and brushes and make one more picture and have it framed.  And then....perhaps another.....etc. 

Sun has now gone.....now it's back.......sliding in and out ...  In the old Days I would be in the back garden tending to the vegetables snd herbs....(now just a weedy mess)......how did everything I loved slip away from me???????  Has it happened to you as you grew older????? 

A Murky Damp Dark Tuesday here in Maine. May 20th. 55 degrees

 We are greening up here- slowly- not like this as yet.

Tru Green arrived this morning.. YES!!!!! ..and we got the Lawn Treatment (no charge) that was applied to the next door neighbor's yard (also no charge as I refused to pay for it) weeks ago.  It might have rained overnight- it feels very DAMP and Chilly and I am happy that I waited and didn't put my happy little annuals out into their new containers. Too cold.  The furnace just kicked in to get the inside of the house up to 64,  My Winter Setting..... at the end of May.  Weather is certainly ODD this year in Maine.

I am going to visit a very nice woman I met at a Christmas Dinner Party this afternoon.  She lives one street over. We both like Cooking and Reading... and drinking tea.  I am expanding my borders..........of friendship. Being less reclusive.....We are going to see what each other likes to read and might eventually exchange books if we do read similar things.

I am reading a Linda Howard book...not the one I thought I had checked out...but one that I do enjoy reading.  Troublemaker.  It was such a surprise when I was reading the first page and thought- oh, I got the wrong book.... and then realized I was actually glad I had gotten this one.  I am going to try and order others from interlibrary loan....

My library got rid of a significant number of Howard books over the years. I am sad about that...my library has gotten rid of so many good books and kept an odd assortment of things that never seem to get checked out.  When I am selecting books I often hear others mumbling that there is nothing they want to read on the shelves. "Someone else" decided what they should and should not read".

This morning I looked in the closet for a fresh pair of LLBean Misfit Twenty Five Cent Pants....All labeled with the same size and all different....I'm wearing the third pair I pulled out of the closet and tried on. Smaller than the pair I had been wearing....same size on the tag-newer looking.  Some of them have the actual size written in black sharpie...and I am only guessing at that.   These fit really nice- the pair I put in the laundry basket were extremely loose and most of the corduroy surface has been worn off.  The rear end was worn smooth and thin....soon to become donor repair patches for the others.

I am CERTAIN that I will be wearing these 25 cent pants on the day I die. Hopefully, the smaller sizes. I believe old women shrink- thought I haven't AS YET.  I have pants labelled from 14 to 22.  Short, Regular and Tall. No label is correct.  My closet is a regular Fun House.   

Monday..Monday. Clouds and Rain? Here in Maine.

A Biscuit Day

If I had any biscuits...but I do not.

I applied some new to ME product other than my hair- very aromatic....I'll need to wash it out of my hair after hitting print.

I went into the sewing room and dug thru a few tubs of cloth (sorted by color) and couldn't find what I was looking for....the blue tub was on a high shelf..and way too heavy a lift, hold, turn, drop  for my right arm socket......so I gave up..  I started a book but gave up soon after.   Susan Wiggs- the Oysterville Sewing Guild.  Dark things happening.....drugs, death, lies etc.  

Some morning headlines- 

Sorry I have to wash this crap out of hair.....

 

Daily Notes on a Sunny Sunday in Maine...not warm...but sunny. May 18th. Repeated Image????

   

Sunshine....Open Wheel Racing to begin the day....Oatmeal, coffee and now a big mug of Sweet Tea. Pizza later.  I slept well enough.....to not recall not sleeping.

Not sure of the temp outside...66 degrees.  We got plenty of rain so the grass is happy......

I feel COLD...like my internal thermostat has failed yet again- my fingers are very cold.  I have on two layers and wool socks.  Thermal shirt and wool sweater.  My mother said I was born with ice cold hands and feet....so this is my normal reset?????.  Even in warm weather.

I often consider taking pictures of stuff- just normal junk around here and putting them on the post...like my cup- which ever one it is.....or my bowl of oatmeal....which always looks exactly the same. A lot of things here in my Life look exactly the same. So perhaps tomorrow you get an image of my Morning Mug of Coffee or the first afternoon cup of Tea.  Today a repeat of this hummingbird bird.

I started a book yesterday....about a bookstore- you know I like them,....BUT I didn't like this one. Too many words to say something.....I got tired of it.  I didn't need more evidence she was wearing old boots and the floor was wet. Or the shelves in the old Book Store were too full.  I'm sure it is a great book but...not for me.This book store was in Perth.  Australian book.

I watched a bunch of weird stuff on  tv before I decided to just haul myself off the bed.  I had finished Fast Women.  And nothing I selected from the book shelves....none of it was enticing.   For me, a book has to be "of the moment"......of the moment I want to read it.  Otherwise- I take it back unread.

I sorted cloth and tucked the pieces of scraps- I am working with scraps right now- into sandwich bags. So I don't have to restart every time I want to start a seam or two.  I still can't find any of that green stripe....so I have to make the fourth side a different green stripe and it's bothering the Virgo in me. I can usually go off the color chart wheel easily enough...but something- I don't know what-- is saying NO this time. And I can't seem to be able to maneuver around the problem.  It's Me not the Cloth.......

So no hand sewing and not finding a book I want to read.......gonna be a long long day.......... Soccer  (plenty in the recored file) but wish there was some Law and Order.... (only on Monday's right now) And it's NOT Monday...

 

Daily Notes- Saturday May 17th. Damp Cloudy and wet here in Maine....the grass seed might like the weather?????

 Occasionally, out front in the ornamental planters- I will see a hummingbird.  Rare here where I live. A Cardinal couple (male and female) is feeding at the bird feeders on the front porch.  Chipmonks and squirrels (rodents) are eating seeds off the porch floor.

I watched MSNBC yesterday for about 40 minutes....that was enough.  Then I watched Soccer. then I went searching for another scrap of a green stripe fabric....ZERO.  I have three sides done and need one more scrappy strip of 5 inches.   None.  The strips are torn so had to come off of a large piece.

I am reading Fast Women by Crusie.  We are on a very very fast roll to the ending.  I have read this book many times and wonder why it isn't in my bookcase.   They order Chinese often and eat it in bed.  I am really wanting some potstickers.... used to make them myself years and years ago...mine were fantastic. I used the processor to make the chicken into a thick paste....made the dough...rolled... cut... filled.. folded. Then in the pan to steam for a while then the lid off to get crispy on one side.  Never had any left over.. Made my own dipping sauce as well.   

Had one bill to pay.

I've recorded the morning cooking shows on PBS.  I like watching them but they don't actually hold my interest the way they did when I cooked.  The morning quilting show bored me these days as well.

I will have to choose another green fabric for that fourth side....not happy about it.  I have made two new squares in the past few days...hand sewing...the seams.  None of them match any of the others. All are one-offs.  From the handfuls of fabric scraps.  I like each and every one of them...quite a lot.

I am rolling the extra Swiss and baked ham up minus the flour tortilla.  Eating that for lunch.  Having coffee and oatmeal for breakfast.  I have yogurt and fruit if I want that later in the day.  One pear left and two peaches.   I have a small amount of my Mother's Day ice cream every other day.  What I really crave is French Fries. No reason......

FLAX is having a Mystery Pile of clothing in size of your choice for $100.  I looked at the clothes on their site....will NOT be buying the Mystery Pile.  I might have a few pieces in the closet....I could pull them out.  Nice colors.  Not sure what I weighed when I bought the stuff....my weight has been all over the place in the past 20 years.  I'd love to be able to wear the smaller things.  

I am considering a Gin and Tonic...  later today. And possibly frying up a pan of frozen (freezer) pot stickers. Even though my daughter threw out all the bottles of things I would use to make a dipping sauce. Or NOT.  Making anything.

Daily Notes--Friday, May 16th. Cloudy with a good chance for rain.

 Chickpea Noodle Soup.

Looks interesting.

I might need to change into something warmer for the Library Grocery Store Trip.  Weather fluctuates between Damp and Cold and Warm but No Sunshine.  No sun right now...

I might need a jacket or something warmer to wear for the Library Grocery which is in the regular Friday Rotation.  I also need to start thinking about items to buy for the week- what am I going to EAT????? 

I have almost finished off last week's tub of Vanilla Yogurt.   I don't want more of that.  I thought last week was going to be WARMER. This is Maine...and on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.  Not Warmer.  It's very cloudy and chilly today- no sunshine.  I'm okay with it as I filled in hole and sprinkled grass seed yesterday.

Daily Notes for Thursday, May 15th. Lots of sunshine here in Maine...64 degrees. Waiting for Tru Green..

 While watching Bones, Season Two......I gathered a few scraps and made some squares... this was number three.  Needs one more border...or more and will become something larger. I like the yellow green cloth but will look to see if I have a patterned piece in that color...before sewing.  All done by hand. right side strip needs a trim.

I could finish faster with the machine but then...what would I do?  Hand sewing fills more space. I don't have a book to read.....how that happened is a mystery to me.  I do recall having a British baking show book...  have read it several times- I think I could read it again-----after Tru Green...

And I have very very large storage tubs (multiple- perhaps a dozen) of colorful cloth in the sewing room sorted by color... and it's fun to go looking every so often......and Find Something Wonderful. I think a photo tomorrow will entertain all of you.....of the shelving etc.

At some point I might just sew all these various squares together to make a Very Crazy Quilt sort of thing. Before this- I made them into Potholders as gifts....but everyone I know has a couple already and no one USES them.  Still unwashed...   I could also make placemats.  Mine are getting dull and grungy.

Son found a full box of plastic gloves in the Jeep.  Husband.  No clue as to why but then....even if we did figure it out- wouldn't make sense.  I might keep them...or they will go off to Goodwill. Would be fun to fill with helium and have waving on the porch or mailbox.......the thought of that makes me laugh.

Hand Balloons.

On that note of Whimsey..... BONES Season Two.  Yesterday it was Christmas Repeats. Dead Santa.

Daily Notes- Wednesday, May 14th. Sunshine and 60 degrees.

 I think this image is from the Library..  on one day a month they have an "exchange" of items like this. I was going to go but learned it's more of a chat group for old men. I don't need to be doing that.

Soccer today.  At 2:30.  And as a coming attraction PBS has something about Bees.  WOW.

I did a load of wash yesterday and folded and put the clean stuff away (two check marks in the well done box).  The collar on one of my work shirts (men's) was frayed into a hole so I mended that....Used the backside of a strip of blue cloth...not an exact match but good enough. Shirt also has some stains on it...the title "work shirt" is fitting.

I had planned to hand sew another square.....but mended instead. While watching Bones season two.

Work is being done at the end of the street (lunch buddy house). Getting a new roof.  All the guys working speak Spanish and no English.  This is Maine.  They traveled a long way to a very strange State for work. I think most workers working here in Maine are from "somewhere else" as Maine is packed tight with Old  White People.  The young ones leave as soon as they can. I can hear them screaming RUN!!!!! Because they can't AFFORD to LIVE Here. The Old Ones are on waiting lists for Senior Living being taken care of by people from "somewhere else" who might speak English. At least that is how it looks to me......

I HATED living here for the first 10 to 20 years......now I like it...  or I have been lulled into thinking I like it.  That's some sort of thing that happens.........mind controlling so they retain tax payers.

Lunch Buddy told me about squirrels that lived in HER Chimney....does NOT end well.  I need to call some chimney people...have a heavy duty screen put on the chimney opening........She didn't have glass doors covering the fireplace-- I do__ 

Daily Notes from Sunny Warm Maine.....Tuesday, May 13th.

 Someday my garden beds will look like this.  Fully loaded with color- but not so much pink......

Life goes on......countdown till we find out if Tru Green finds the right house....two more days. Neighbor is worried about mulch- they haven't measured for it yet and my daughter hasn't started mulch yet on the oceanfront properties she works on.  So I am staying calm...... she is also getting a new roof and having the house painted......ready to sell if they get into an assisted living place.  Waiting List.

Daughter has told me the wait is usually SIX YEARS for the larger two or three bedrooms spaces.......so I'm out of luck on that. Might be easier just to have daily help...at home.

Had some of my Mother's Day ice cream....very very delicious. While watching Bones. On TV.

The garbage and recycling have been picked up.........I used the LARGE recycling container today.

And that's all that has happened....well, I did move all my greeting cards to a drawer so they are more readily available for sending......closer to the stamps and the address book.  Also in a drawer.  Now..to actually have PEOPLE to send the cards to.......add to find the address.

Breakfast....oatmeal, coffee and the newspaper.....get this party started.

Monday May 12th. Sunshine and 61 degrees.

 Art Supplies.....I might color something in the book today.  Been Awhile.

I called to change my hair appointment...for some reason...my hair isn't growing.... doesn't need to be cut. It's like my body is stuck in "idle" and not moving to stop or go anytime soon.

I FINALLY finished reading Flat Share.  It took me so long to read that book- it's like my reading is also stuck in"idle".  Is this what it's like being OLD??????  Have I finally tumbled headfirst into OLD?

I sorted thru a box of things on the unused couch....ribbon.  Why I have so much ribbon is beyond me- and it's the gift ribbon kind not the Baltimore Quilt silk ribbon.  I have that and an unfinished Baltimore small work...lots of silk and layered rose petals.  Made out of silk.  I used to do that sort of thing and actually teach others how to do it.  I had a very interesting Life.....once upon a time.

I noticed greeting cards in the box so after I hit publish I am going to move the cards to the drawer in the dining room...where I have other cards...and if I need to send a card- I will have ones to choose from. 

Now...well, I intend to just close my eyes and NOT nap until I bore myself enough to turn on the tv and watch a soccer game.  British Soccer..   And then perhaps Bones for an episode or two.  And another book.  

Mother's Day was quiet.   I was quiet.  The Sunday Pizza was as wonderful as it always is.  I had mine with a large salad.  My intention today is to layer yogurt, Bran Buds and fruit in a glass jar.   Possibly two jars...and then have something to eat when I get hungry.  I purchased this small tray with three kinds of fruit.  Berries.  Red Blue and Black.  I usually enjoy yogurt, bran buds and fruit.

That all....my Life has condensed into nothing much.  I was noticing the cloth strips I collected to sew into squares about 6 inches all around when finished..  I enjoy doing that when I am not reading.

I also decided this morning to put any socks I find in the sock basket, with holes in them,...into the garbage can.  I have no interest in mending them......I have dozens of pairs of socks.... The basket is tall and full to the top...I have husband's socks in there as well as mine.  And if only one has a hole- I will let it be single till I find another single...put them together...No one pays any attention to older women. No one will notice.

A fresh thought...I will get those socks out of the garbage can- they are nice ones- and make fingerless hand warmers out of them....for my hands when I read books this Winter.  Great Plan...