Daily Notes on a Dark Wet Sunday Morning..... in May.

 I had blueberry bushes in the back garden for years....Had to cover them in netting so I got some berries before the birds ate them ALL.  One time, enough to make a batch of Blueberry Jam. Was so GOOD.

MY book (started yesterday) is The Pumpkin Spice Cafe.  New England location.  A city woman has arrived to take care of her aunt's cafe until the aunt returns.  It's one of "those" quirky towns only found in romance books.  Everyone in everyone else's  business.   So it's not Maine.  Cause here in Maine no one cares about other people's business.  At all. (laughing)

Well, I am hungry so I need to get my oatmeal in the microwave and heat up some water for tea....at some point today my daughter will bring over the jar of instant coffee she got at the Health Food Store. She is very very busy at work (landscaping) and very tired when she gets home....and like her mother...can't get herself into a long hot shower to remove all the sand and dirt fast enough......that was me after arriving home from the Greenhouse Job.  Covered in sandy grit.  So...I know how tired and dirty she is when she finally gets home..  

And a nice cup of sweet tea is fine....with me. today.  Coffee tomorrow.

Open Wheel Racing from Miami - wonder if it's still raining there?

My Lunch Buddy took her husband up north to the Very Best Greenhouses and they filled the trunk with flowers.   Which are now on her back deck in the rain.  Mine are on the sunporch.  When the Sun shines and heats the porch up- I turn on the ceiling fan.... so not happening today..

Saturday, May 3rd. Sunshine and Cold Feet. I left today's wool socks somewhere...but not on my feet!!!!

 Roasted Potatoes ----- lovely.  but none in my house.

I have two small potatoes left and will be using them for my next pot of SOUP.   Which I will get started on after I eat breakfast, put on my socks and read the newspaper.  Oh, and take my pills.  Vitamin and Statin.

Yesterday was a Very Bad Day.....my son was very concerned about my mental health.  I was, also. My book selection only made things worse.  I will try for a very much More lighthearted book for today... and we found my coloring work book so I will be doing that today as a Happiness Project.

Sometimes spending the late morning and afternoon with an old friend is NOT a great idea.....

So, I have to line up a few things to do when I am feeling depression creeping up on me...a few happy things.   And not forgetting my water intake.   And eating real food......  And not reading books with drug addicts and such.  I wasn't expecting that from Danielle Steel. 

Anyway, I'm here and I'm not crying so that's a check mark in the Win Column for today.  I have the heat setting moved up- it may be sunny but the house is cold.... I also need to check on my annual plants out on the Sun porch... I have to monitor their soil moisture as well when the Sun shines.  Mine, too.

Anyway, I made it thru yesterday, I'm still here.....thinking more positive thoughts than yesterday.  I slept well and now I am going to make myself some breakfast and a nice heavily sweetened cup of tea and get on with things...PBS Cooking Shows etc. and few of the 25 British Soccer Games I have recorded on the TiVo.  And my coloring pages....happy things.......

Daily Notes for Friday May 2nd. So far...... it's dark and chilly here in Maine. Where are my socks????

 This tiny chipmunk was in my feed this morning....I think he or she is adorable.  I do NOT find the real LIVE ones adorable.  And we have plenty around the yard.

Yesterday's outing was good.  We started out at the Freeport Thrift Store......my purchase was three Trade Paperback Books....$3 each and they gave no evidence of ever having been read. I had considered a very nice white linen short sleeved blouse covered in shiny gold dots.  Boden.  I recalled that label from decades ago......very very nice fabric and well made. European.  If it had had a collar I might have purchased it...

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal- Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan,  Had to buy it.  Second book the Coincidence of Coconut Cake....cover has a picture of the cake sitting on a pile of newspapers.  Amy Reichert.  Three is a copy of the Rosie Project by Graeme Samson.  Bright yellow cover with red print. Have read the book before but now I own a copy......

Today is Grocery Shopping Day....And Library Day when I pick up all those Katherine Center Books. I plan to read the Lost Husband first but--I do often change my mind.   My Library bag is full. to return.

It's cold in the house.

I purchased plants (annuals) for my two containers.. I got a tall plant I had a few years ago that has deep blue flowers...it will center in the large planter by my steps.. I'm going to check out the herbs at the grocery store today.  I want to have a container on the back deck full of herbs this summer.  And some edible flowers.

I might even sit out on the back deck- every day.  One can dream.

We had lunch at the Dinner Type restaurant on Maine Street.  I had a cup of vegetable beef soup and then a BLT.  Potato chips on the side.  It was the best meal I've eaten in quite a while. Since Christmas.

I also learned all about the tall guy wearing what looks like an adult Boy Scout Uniform who washes all the store front windows on Maine Street.  I had thought he was homeless and doing the windows to pick up some cash... My Friend says he is a Town Employee.....................washing the windows...he has one of those buckets on wheels.   I used to roll one of those around the store attached to the greenhouse and mop the floors before we closed.  Clean start to the morning.  I'd actually enjoy washing windows...but I wouldn't wear the green Boy Scout shorts.  Or the Hat....or the Shirt or the Bandana.  I'd also put the water bucket in a wagon with good tires.... proper equipment.  While I watched..... the bucket on wheels got stuck and almost dumped the contents in the guy's boots.  I do not think he is an employee. Of the Town. But...Patty always is Right.

Good Morning...it's Thursday, May First. May Day I think? Sunshine and a bit chilly here in Maine. 50 degrees

 Bright Flowers.

The sun is shining but it feels chilly here in the house.  Patty and I are hitting the road in about 45 minutes....  we haven't done one of these "road trips" in quite a while...so it should be fun.  Just around the area not out of state or anything and we might have lunch.  then I'll be back home.

It feels chilly in the house today....odd.

My neck and shoulder are hurting again and I think (know) it was due to reading a book from cover to cover yesterday.   It was a follow up book to The Bookshop book by Susan Wiggs.  I don't recommend you read it though. ......it was dark and a major part of the book the lead character was in jail.  It wasn't what I expected or wanted...... Sugar and Salt.

The newspaper news has dragged me down and I didn't even feel like trying the Suduko... maybe later. I don't watch any "news" because it's also not "good for me" emotionally.   I have my books but might try to do some coloring in one of my books.......last time I tried I made a mess.  so I gave up.

I haven't felt this depressed since Nixon was President (just prior to being turned out of office) theres's just this heavy feeling of hopelessness.....no one is riding in on a white horse to save us.

Septic Service across the street... and some of the taller shrubs are in bud right now with perhaps 25% opening in colorful flowers.....I wish....when I knew their names...that I had made a chart and written the names on it.  Now- after all those years as a Master Gardener and my work at a Greenhouse...I can remember the names- I think it's a Rhododendron.  I'll ask Patty when she gets here in 22 minutes.

Pretty (90%) sure that's what it is.