HODGEPODGE MAY 2

 1. Mayday! Mayday!...when was the last time (or a recent time) you literally or figuratively needed to call for help? Elaborate. 

It was two years ago when I fell in my apartment for the X time but this time couldn't get up alone ! Fortunately I could crawl to the Sofa where my mobile was and called my neighbor next door, she wasn't there, the others either, I was alone in the building. In such situations when I am in danger I have like a black out, I do what I have to do and called Isabel who lives a couple of km from my apartment. Fortunately she was there, and in 15 min she came, she had a key and with a friend they picked me up ! Meanwhile I had managed to sit on the floor with my back against the back of the sofa nothing hurt. Once on my feet, I had nothing, I could walk again and it was as if I had never fallen. This time I listened to Isabel and took a subscription to "Telesecours" (a help line for seniors who are in troubles) Of course ever since I never needed them ! When I fell there was always somebody near me. Fortunately since I am living in my "castle" it only happened one time, while I was talking to a resident I suddenly fell just a few cm far from the just freshly decorated Christmas tree ! From that time on everybody knew me !

2. May Day...when was the last time you danced? Do you have a lot of baskets? What's something you keep in a basket? What's your favorite purple flower? 

That's long ago, in Egypt when everybody danced (alone) and me too.

I have danced so much in my life, from 18 on I went out every weekend. I knew all dances of the 60th like the Rock n' Roll, Twist, Madison, Blues, cha-cha-cha, Hully Gully, Locomotion etc. My basket was always full ! I loved to dance. When I met Rick he fortunately loved to dance too, so the first 4 years of our marriage before the baby arrived, we went out dancing and had a lot of success, because we were a real dancing team. We only danced with each other at that time, later occasionally on parties of friends we sometimes danced with the others

My favorite flower in purple would be an orchid.

3. What's something you may do this month? 

Some one day excursions if they interesting, as I have again up and downs with my lung problem, I will see if it gets better or not.

4. Do you like eggplant? Quick topic changes lol? If you said yes in answer to the eggplant question how do you like yours prepared? Of the following purple foods, which one is your favorite...plums, purple carrots, purple asparagus, eggplant, acai berries, blackberries, purple cauliflower, elderberries, purple potatoes, or passion fruit?

I like eggplants fried as vegetable or filled with cheese and baked in the oven and I also like passion fruit !

5. The calendar turns on Hodgepodge Day...

"Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else."-L.M. Montgomery

Tell us one thing you're thankful for today. 

Thankful ? I really don't know, maybe because for the first time we could sit outside in our park. Our animator wanted to walk around the park and explain the history of the castle ! The idea was great, but most of us were too lazy to walk and there were a few residents who knew the castle since they were children and far more then it was written on  Internet. So we had our coffee and said good bye to Amandine, who had always organized the activities. We all regret very much that she is gone, but have a kind replacement, a very friendly "boy" Kim.

 finally sunshine !

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I feel much better when the sun is shining and it is warm. And it's nice to be with my resident friends and have fun and laugh. Then at 5 pm I need to go back to my room to be alone. Then I think how good I feel to have landed in such a beautiful place. And that was pure coincidence. Because although I have lived in Waterloo more then 50 years, I only know now that there are the new and the old Waterloo and I only know the new part. That's why people I know haven't heart about this place !