FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE AND AAAA MONDAY

This will be a short post, on Tuesday I parked my car behind the castle got out and tripped over my own foot and landed on the soaking wet ground, as it had been raining all day.

I tried to get up, was able to sit down, but I couldn't stand up because I had nothing to hold on to. I was just about to grab my smartphone and call for help, of course no one was in the park in this bad weather.

Two men and a nurse came running up, and one of them picked me up. As always, I had nothing, went to bed early, and woke up the next morning with a hand that resembled a potato.

On Monday we had wonderful weather and were very lucky because there was another Easter egg hunting for the two primary schools here around. But it was done inside and the residents who wanted to see them and give chocolate eggs had a design on their door. I had no sign, I feared for Rosie with all the little once, she would get crazy and then I have to inhale my medication in the morning.

I couldn't go to the funerals of my friend because I felt a bit dizzy and with my swollen hand I couldn't drive. So I stayed home and didn't move.  My hand got better the next day. 

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AWWWW MONDAY 

 

 

 

 

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HODGEPODGE APRIL 24

1. The Hodgepodge lands on National Picnic Day...will you celebrate? Do you enjoy picnics? Dining out of doors picnic or otherwise? What are three or four things I'd find in your picnic basket? 

I didn't even know that a National Picnic Day exists, of course I won't celebrate. But I like picnics, it's loooong ago that we have had one, but each year you can see the Napoleon or Wellington soldiers, eating their picnic during the rehearsals of the battle. 

 

or in middle age events

2.  A time recently where you felt 'antsy'? 

 Not really, I feel more like I'm numb

3. As the saying goes...'when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.'  Do you like lemonade? When did you recently need to make lemonade out of lemons, figuratively speaking?

Honestly, I don't remember ever having to make lemonade out of lemons. Here in my castle, people just live happily without any effort.

4. Recently five 'celebrities' made a brief (ll minute) foray into space aboard Jeff Bezos Blue Origin rocket. Did you hear about this? Your thoughts? If money were no object is this something you'd like to do someday? 

 

I never won't go a brief or a long minute into space ! It doesn't interest me at all. With the money that it would cost to see nothing, I would rather turn around our globe, visit all countries and discover beautiful landscapes, make cruises, take helicopters or small airplanes to see interesting things from above, but the moon or mars or whatever I prefer to see laying on the beach in the warm sand or in hey and admire the sky ! I also think the money for that should be spent for cancer researches and other diseases without any hope of getting healthy again.

5. Favorite thing about the 'space' you're sitting in right now? 

 

The space I am sitting in right now, is my burrow in which like an animal I feel well. Probably little Rosie is my favorite thing in my "space".

Rosie in "her" space

6. Insert your own random thought here.  

Ever since my friend Andrée died, I've been thinking about death. Nature has a good way of doing things, the older you get, the less afraid you are. 

The only fear is that you'll be intubated and hooked up to tubes and become nothing more then a vegetable. In that case, most people want to be euthanized. 

Now I have two other people I get along with who are as "healthy" as I am. But who knows, maybe while we are playing Scrabble, one of us will fall off our chair and never get up again.

 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - IMAGE-IN-ING

 

 

Finally, you can see that spring is here. Flowers are blooming everywhere and the trees are putting on their green clothes and don't look like skeletons anymore.

 

 

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AWWW MONDAY - EASTER WEEKED APRIL 19

 

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WEEKEND 

On Saturday we celebrated Easter together with the staff's children. A blow-up castle was set up on the lawn. In the morning, Jeanine had prepared pancake batter, enough for an army! Benches and chairs were set up, and two nurses tried out the rubber castle, jumping around in it, laughing!

The party started at 2 p.m.! The children and their parents invaded the huge park lawn and straight into the rubber castle ! After they'd had jumped enough, and the grandmothers watched and cheered them on, laughing, the whole gang was let loose to hunt for eggs. Our Easter Bunny ran around, with a nurse hiding underneath. I didn't know who that was until the end!

Here are pictures of the truly successful Easter party!

The pancakes didn't cook quick enough, to satisfy all the little but also bigger once !

Monday I think we all recovered, we had been so lucky with the weather for our Easter egg hunting, because on Monday it was cold and grey. I finished sending my Easter cards on Whatsapp, and in the afternoon we throw balls at each other and had a lot of fun and laughed a lot. Normally you should shout the name of the person who had to catch the ball and she or he had to catch it, but that only happened very seldom, the balls flew in all directions, also on heads, noses or glasses ! Then we had our coffee and the good Brussels waffels.