Daily Notes for Sunday February First. Still Cold, Still covered in Snow....

 No image- I don't have anything to share today...

1...Cold here in Maine with Bright Sunshine. 19 degrees.

2...Reading Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie,  I have several other books by this author ordered from other Libraries... They are all listed as "in transit" but that's been a week or more....possibly two weeks...possibly three weeks...perhaps the interlibrary system has collapsed??????   Something has gone wrong ....very very wrong.  This happened once before when a contract with the delivery system couldn't be finalized.   Daughter might be recruited to find and buy them instead.

3.  I had to check last night before I went to bed- to see if I had purchased enough food for the week. I have four and possibly 5 servings of soup...I purchased two, one serving containers of soup...ones I like but not enough to have a whole pot of it waiting to be eaten and I also have ham and cheese fro roll ups..  Today we make PIZZA.  

4.  I didn't buy things to make a salad.  And I am hoping the oatmeal lasts until Friday.  But I do have cream of wheat.  So, I do have breakfast back up.   I worry about breakfast more than any other meal..

5.  I did remember to buy very very beautiful heavy oranges....  four of them... Six days until I can buy more.  I did not buy any bananas...my mistake.

6.  Wrote checks for things.  Everything is so expensive now...Trump really makes a mess of things when he's in office.  He was pretty shady paying his bills when he owned a business.....now he's running OUR business the same way.......  I haven't watched any news shows so I haven't seen him lately- the last time he was reclining on his desk- looked like his back had collapsed on him.   His chin was on the desk top. 

Well, almost. On the desktop.  Son fact checks me.....which is a good thing.... Keeps me on the straight and narrow......I do fabricate.

So that's that......We have more snow on the ground than I have seen in quite a few years- perhaps ten... So the grass under the snow is getting well hydrated...and will perhaps be green??????? this year.  What a THRILL that would be.......Snowdrops have overtaken the top of the tall glass container they are in. Nice and green and sturdy.... one Amaryllis has three leaves now.... a thorny cutting from the woman who was cutting my hair- has roots and several tiny red flowers.  I'm thinking of looking to see if I have sand to mix with potting soil so it can transfer to a clay pot.

Daily Notes for Saturday, January 31st. We have Sunshine here in Maine but 16 degrees..

Got an advertisement in the posts for this sweater.   It looks nice but sort of "too bulky".  And like it would catch on things and the yarn would unravel..... I'm NOT a bulky sweater person...but it did catch my eye. And it is VERY expensive.  Might be cotton- I don't like cotton sweaters. Especially for $400. 

I have one of those choices....Grocery Shopping or Stay at Home.  We are NOT going to the library as there is zero to pick up...my reserves have NOT arrived at the Library even after a week or more...and the sidewalk is often very icy and not shoveled............the Library thing has me worried....seems like things have stopped happening.

I have time to decide.  What will I eat this week??????  I still have leftover soup.  The freezer is empty. Son had hot dogs this week....I was considering them for the coming week......but settled on Grilled Cheese with Sweet Pickles.  I also got Baked Ham and Swiss Cheese--for roll ups.

My Fruit of the Week- Four Gorgeous Navel Oranges.  

Pizza on Sunday......I have one piece left in the fridge- I might be having that after I press print.

"Hell In A Hand Basket" is what is happening.... We need a Hero.....desperately.   And a Hurricane is brewing off the east coast of the US.....like we don't have enough troubles.

 

Daily Notes from a Freezing Cold Maine....The Sunshine has no effect. TEN DEGREES

 

The desk top.   It's REALLY COLD here in Maine this morning... LOTS of Sun and it's only 10 degrees. The furnace is running.....I have it set at 66 degrees.... Son returned my Library books yesterday so he/we didn't have to go out in this cold today.  We have enough food...so grocery shopping was also postponed.  I have LOTS of homemade soup. And a stack of unfinished Suduko Puzzles.

Life as we now know it- really sucks.  Could be worse.....I have to always remind myself- could be worse.

The Snow/Sun Drop bulbs have shot up- the green leaf shoots are up over the rim of the tall glass jar.  The amaryllis has sent up a total of three leaf tips.....the other bulb is doing nothing as yet.....and that might be all it does this year.   If I was grocery shopping today I might have purchased some additional plants for the garden table.   The cactus plant has produced a few pink flowers....

I watched a few Romantic Comedies yesterday....instead of reading..... And I watched The Charge Station shows- CSI-- because they were being shown as full screen.....not the old 70's square version. And eventually I turned that off as well and went over to PBS and watched a documentary about an artist painting portraits of Strong Brave People.......I am hopeful that a book of the portraits and what these brave people achieved is available to purchase at some point in time.  Would be nice to have.. I liked how the artist painted the portrait in one corner or the other and then filled the rest of the canvas with one solid color.  

Well, that's it from here.... I've prepared myself for today's book... Bet Me.  Which always makes me cry. Or I could just read Center's The Bodyguard....which might be the better choice.  I still haven't found a copy of Center's earliest book- The Lost Husband...which would be prefect for today because I have soup..  

I did pass up  A Fall Of Marigolds at Goodwill...an old paperback for one dollar.  What a fool I am some times.....

Daily Notes- Thursday, January 29th. Sunshine and Snow. 16 degrees.

 A neighbor got a new roof on his house yesterday...in the freezing cold temps.  Only he would think that was a great idea. He's needed a new roof for several years now.

I'm getting images of Spring and Summer Flowers in my computer mailbox.Coreopsis. Looks cheerful.

I am showered and dressed in fresh clothing...yesterday's clothes are in the washing machine.  My skin feel dry....House air gets really dry..... now my clothes are in the dryer.

Maine's ICE Guys smashed car windows and dragged a husband and father out of the car and into the armored vehicle and left the mother and 6 day old baby in the smashed car and very cold temps....she didn't know how to drive...... bystanders got her safely home....but she is there alone... 16 degrees and they left her there......left a 6 day old baby to freeze to death. I hope someone does the same to them.

I wondered how I would have managed.....will be thinking about that often today.

I got to a certain spot in yesterday's book....and realized I had read it....well some of it...before.    I won't be finishing it.  I often wonder how books like this one get published.... at some point the Reader just says "I don't care" and stops.  It had great "bones"......needed a MUCH stronger edit.  Lease on Love... Fallon Ballard. Inside cover said it's "cracking... compulsively readable".  It isn't....not at all. 

I have three more books on the Library Shelf....I hesitate to say they will be better.

I have gotten the same Medicare phone call- half dozen times already- I am not addressed by name but told my Medicare Benefits will be "lost" etc.... I hang up.  It's a recorded call- the voice is always the same.. Medicare writes letters..... I know--I have several nice letters...