Daily Notes for Sunday November 2nd.... Dark outside and pretty early for me to be typing this post. 7am

Should have had these Poppies here yesterday for the Day of Remembering.

Furnace is running to warm up the overnight chill here in the house.....I turn the heat down while we sleep under down comforters...I usually also wear socks to bed....for half the night.... and find them on the floor in the morning.  Never recall taking them off.

1.   Pizza today and perhaps a football game. If a team we like is playing.

2.   I'm up very early....not even 7 am.  Not sure what to do with myself.  I need socks as my ankles are cold.

3.   Son did stop at the Library to pick up my books....some really good ones I reserved that arrived from far away libraries.  I'll settle in under my down lap quilt and read until it's time for number 4.

4.   Pizza  and Football.

5.   Heating Oil delivered yesterday...Winter is coming on fast here in Maine.

6.   I tried to stay up to finish my book The Seat Filler but gave up and went to bed...I'll finish reading today and start another book or...and this has been on my mind- work on another small fabric square. Perhaps green fabrics or blue.  No idea what I will choose.

7. Now socks and oatmeal....

 

Daily Notes- Saturday, November First....Sunny off and on and 52 degrees here in Maine.

 Trumpet Honeysuckle.  Never enjoyed this plant in "real" life but it looks quite lovely. Might not survive in Maine.

1.  Sun is shining...

2.  Didn't buy flowers while at the grocery store..

3.  I have the TV set to watch British Soccer at 11am. Arsenal is playing.  November First.  Red Poppies.

4.  I have a notice from the Library of two additional books ready for pickup.  Loans from other Libraries. If today is a "going out to eat day" for Son- he might pick them up....for me. Or not.

5.  I had the porch light OFF yesterday late afternoon and saw no evidence of any children out ... 

6.  I might make Kraft Mac And Cheese today.. it's been quite awhile... that's all...I need to watch as I enjoy Arsenal. They have this large refrigerator sized guy on the field.  And the play by play is by a guy with a strong accent. "who've agin"....

Daily Notes--Friday, October 31st. Sunshine...64 degrees..... Heating Oil Delivery.

 Bird of Paradise...Connie I looked but none of the grocery flowers "spoke to me".

Stopped into the Post Office for "Cute" Stamps....  customers discussing Halloween Candy ...how much they need to have ready.  I'm giving out quarters....last year no one came... Stamps I got are okay but not cute.

1.  I got Apples as my Fruit of the Week.  Baked Sweet Potatoes for Vegetable of the Week. Skipped the Meatloaf Dinners and plan to make another batch of Vegetable Soup.  I have a bag of mixed vegetables in the freezer and two kinds of beans in the pantry. And two small potatoes. Plus celery and carrots.

2.  Library had only two of the books I ordered.....the other 8 are "in transit"

3.  I'm feeling like I need a nap......the muscles in my neck feel tight....hurts.

4.  TiVo....is shutting itself down- a friend in California sent me a newspaper article...Son says not to panic until TiVo sends me notification....and then he says we get the Comcast Version. or one of the others..... TiVo is the only way I watch tv.....record, play, skip all commercials, delete.....some items I've had stored for YEARS...Hallmark Favorites.

5,  Before Tivo I had Netflix....it was great at first and then.....like all shiny objects...it wasn't.

6.  I have more books by Beth Kendrick....I am reading the Week Before the Wedding right now. Wasn't my favorite when I read it years ago..but might be ..now. Book stayed the same but I changed... And four by Elinor Lipman. 

7. I had on my orange fleece pullover. and brown pants....in the Holiday Spirit (Accidentally).

Daily Notes- Thursday, October 30th. 43 degrees, Damp and Cloudy.

 The internet gave me orange flowers.  So I am sharing them with you.

What I miss most about my husband.... the flowers he used to bring me- for no occasion except that he knew they would make me happy.  And they did.  But then he forgot. Along with forgetting everything else.  And then somehow my brother and his wife began sending me flowers.   Each day I changed the water and cleaned up any wilted leaves or petals.... they lasted many many days.  And now...no one sends me flowers....I look at the bouquets they have at the grocery each Friday when Son and I shop...

Just thinking about buying one of them makes me sad.  Flowers should make you happy.

1.  Finding things to watch on tv...difficult these days. My fallback is old vintage Law and Order.

2.  Finished the last of the homemade vegetable bean soup...not enough here in the fridge to make another pot of it.  So I have to add things to the shopping list. (for tomorrow.)   Already the end of the week....how did that happen??????  

3.  Finished reading Put a Ring on It and will search the bookcase for another by the author...the flight attendant and the mayor .....  Cure for the Common Breakup....brand new condition out of my bookcase.-- and never read by me as yet.  I don't even recall when I might have purchased the two books....so I am set for the day...this one is actually my favorite.   And that's a good thing as it's very dark outside and inside the house....no Sun...well, I need breakfast.....and the newspaper...which gets more depressing each day.

4.  And I need socks as it's cold here in the house even with the furnace going.....Oatmeal.  Coffee.  Vitamins.   Inhaler.   Newspaper.... that order every morning.