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Deeply sleeping



Oh ! I am surprised



I don't want to be scratched with your back scratcher !!



Strange there are twice the same Arthur on the screen !



If you think I am scared of a few dinosaurs .....




I smell salmon ! is that possible ??

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1. What takes you out of your comfort zone?
When I have to take one of my cats to the vet ! There is first the battle to get her in the cage, then the concert during the whole trip, when I return to my comfort zone I really need to be comforted ! I am out !

2. Your least favorite spice?
A mexican mixture, we had Chili con carne for supper

3. What's a small change you'd like to make?
I don't now if it's small that depends on the person, but I would like to throw out our bathtub put in and a shower  ! I think it becomes dangerous with the years when we become more and more rusty.

4. Do you enjoy visiting historic homes? If so, of the homes you've visited which one was your favorite? What historic home near you is open to visitors? Have you been? Southern Living rounded up eleven of the best in the southern part of the US and they're as follows-

Monticello (Jefferson's home in Virginia), Nathaniel Russel House (Charleston SC), Swan House (Atlanta), Ernest Hemingway's home (Key West), The Biltmore (Vanderbilt home in Asheville NC), Mount Vernon (Washington's home in Virgina), San Francisco Plantation (Garyville, Louisiana), Windsor Ruins (Port Gibson Mississippi), Longue Vue House and Gardens (New Orleans), Whitehall (Palm Beach FL), and Pebble Hill Plantation (Thomasville GA)

Have you been to any on the list? Of the homes listed which would you most like to visit?

As I live on the old continent, we have so many historic homes dating even before America was discovered so it would be impossible to list all I have visited in and out. It's very difficult to say which one was the nicest. The last one I have seen was The Royal Palace in Brussels. I found it very beautiful. From your above listed homes I haven't seen any or I don't remember, I saw Elvis home, yes !!

5. What's something you think will be obsolete in ten years? Does that make you sad or glad?
I don't know how I will be in 10 years, and maybe with 84 my tastes have changed ? For the moment nothing makes me sad. Glad makes me new inventions which makes my life easier, like a GPS, a smartphone, or timers on machines, that way I can do my housework while I sleep. (Dishwasher for example)

6. Insert your own random thought here.
I start to think about Christmas gifts. The worst is my grandson ! He has his birthday now on Nov 17, then in Holland they celebrate more St. Niklaas on December 6, then Christmas, and then finally Christmas on the 24th ! That makes 3 gifts for one little 7 year old person !

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My personal USB stick is red ! all my pictures are on it



I am sorry on all photos I look round, but that's the position I take the whole day, except when I unfold to do my business !



How do you say shit in a polite word ? because it rains and I can't go outside, so I squat her computer !

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1. In a rut, in a jam, in the groove, out of synch, off balance, out of touch...which saying best fits some area of your life currently (or recently)? Explain.
Difficult question because I didn't understand all words, living in a rut according to the dictionary is :

Definition of rut - a long deep track made by the repeated passage of the wheels of vehicles, An annual period of sexual activity in deer and some other mammals, during which the males fight each other for access to the females.‘a moose in rut’
Therefore this doesn't fit because besides our peaceful street without deep tracks, there is nothing and I haven't seen sexual activities of deers or even other mammals, as our cats and dogs are all spayed, and the males are too lazy to fight.

Jam is also strange because besides the one I put on a bread I didn't know that I can be squeezed or packed tightly into a specified space. Ah, yes, "traffic jam" that I know. No, our house is quite spacious we could avoid each other if we wanted.

The definition of living in a grove is completely absurd because a Grove is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; (please pronounce the name correctly) it first appeared in the January 1922 ... She was ashamed that she had been raped, and no longer wished to live, but she wanted him to die with her. He agreed, or so she believed. to living in the same house.
So far I don't want to die, so we still live peacefully or not in the same house. In all other definition there is a dead body in the grove so we don't live in a grove either.

Synch doesn't exist but sync and means : If communication was lost between servers in a server group Our house is spacious but not enough to house a server group so that is also out of question.
I think the definitions of "balance" would fit the most because it says The marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values..., ...the ecological balance of the forest. (whatever that means in our case 48 years).

2. What is it about somebody else's style of work (coworker/employee/shared volunteer project/household chore) that makes you crazy? Why?
Nothing makes me crazy because I avoid to look !

3. What's a tradition that always makes you feel at home?
To put on my slippers

4. A favorite song with a girl's name in the title or lyrics? Any reason why this is a particular favorite? I
There is a french song



"Aline" is a single by French singer Christophe. The song became one of the two big hits in France during the summer of 1965. It sold one million records. This was just the time when I went out dancing each weekend. Therefore here name reminds me a lot of very nice memories. 

5. Share a favorite quote, verse, or saying relating to gratitude or thanksgiving.

As my ancestors stayed in Europe we don't celebrate thanksgiving by killing turkeys this we do at Christmas. I am not good in quotes but I found one which suits me :

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

6. Insert your own random thought here.
Today I only have random thoughts and they are buzzing around !

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I am the quietest cat in the house. And as I am black, people stumble over me !



QUICK !!!!!



I like to quiddle if there is nothing else to do, especially with her things

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1. What does/did Halloween look like at your house this year? Did you decorate? Pick pumpkins? Carve pumpkins? Expect trick or treaters? Wear a costume to a party or event? Make a costume? Feel glad you didn't have to come up with a costume? Cook a Halloween themed treat? Eat all the leftover candy?



Halloween is not very much celebrated here, it's more locally. I just put a witch at the entrance, a skeleton  at the bell,and bought a few sweets,  so that the few children who may come know that here Haloween is celebrated.

2. What are you waiting for? Elaborate

There is nothing much to elaborate, I wait for spring, flowers, blooming trees, warm weather and sunshine.

3. Do you wish you were friendlier, braver, more creative, more athletic, or something else? Explain.

I don't know if I am friendly, or brave I can't tell that about myself,but I am certainly creative, athletic as snail, and I don't want something else or at least for the moment I have no idea !

4. When it comes time to paint are you a do-it-yourselfer or do you hire someone? What was the last paint job completed at your house? What room most needs painting now? How do you feel about wallpaper?

To be honest I prefer to paint pictures and not walls, and I don't think that I am very good in that, so I preferred to hire Mr. G. in the beginning, but now we don't do anything ourselves anymore.  I don't like wallpaper I prefer to have the walls painted, nothing needs to be painted for the moment we did it 3 years ago.

5. What is one specific thing you felt gratitude for in the month of October?
Nothing

6. Insert your own random thought here.
I wonder if some kids will come and ring at the door, last year I had forgotten to buy sweets for Halloween and there were a few, this year I bought sweets and I let you know if somebody comes, otherwise we have to eat them ourselves or give them away !

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I am offended ! Rosie says that I am becoming obese !



We are the opposite black and white !



This should be an ornament ! It's only a paper band ! I am not stupid !

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Arthur surrounded by monsters !



Rosie doesn't like this mouse, but she loves to check the mail



Kim is mulling over ... to eat or not to eat ?

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1. Have you ever spent time on a farm? Tell us a little bit about it. Have you ever grown your own pumpkin? Been on a hayride? Driven a tractor? Milked a cow?

When I was a child I lived with my grandparents on the countryside. Of course I have spent a lot of time on farms because my friends were all farmer's children. I sat on a what's called a tractor today but was pulled by horses, hayrides didn't exist at that time, but I tried to milk a cow forgot to fix her tail and got the tail with full swing in my face. Ever since I prefer to buy milk !

2. What's something younger you would like about you now?
More hair, as I had before

3. What are three things you'd like to do more often? Three things you'd like to do less often?
As I can do what and when I want, I do things more often when I want. Things I don't like to do often I leave and wait until somebody else has done it for me.

4. What's on your nachos?
First I thought it was an Indian tribe and wondered about the question, then I googled and found out that it is something to eat. I only know Tachos and no Nachos so I have no idea what to put on them.

5. What's the most random thing in your purse or wallet? Does it need to stay there?
I have nothing "random" in my purse or wallet, it's already full enough.

6. Insert your own random thought here.
Looking out of the window I think I have to call the gardner to cut the hedge.

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In case my neighbor starts kickboxing again, I exercise



I am not getting old, only distracted, I forgot the keyword !



Sorry I had kibbles and apparently my stomach didn't like them. They came out again !

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Life is so boring that I yawned too much an now my jaw hurts !



Jump .... jump ... jump that's easier said than done !



I am so full of joy ! I just nearly caught a butterfly

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1. Is a picture worth a thousand words? Elaborate.

For me yes, maybe because I am a leisure painter or maybe I understand everything better when I see it physically (films or pictures) too many words make me sleep especially in a IKEA notice.  I think it is a question of personality. 

2. Have you ever driven any part of the Pacific Coast Highway? If so what was your favorite stop? If not, is this sort of trip on your bucket list?

Yes I did long time ago in the 90th coming from Las Vegas we started in Los Angeles and stopped in San Francisco. It had been a wonderful trip ! And I loved all stops.

3. How do the changing seasons affect you? As the seasons change do you find yourself looking more forward or backward? Which season-season transition bothers you most? Why do you suppose that is?

Season changing affects me very much. In spring and summer I am full of energy and could climb up the Mount Everest. As soon as it starts to smell "fall" in September I fade like a flower because of lack of light not necessarily sunshine. I was probably a lady bear in my past life and retired in a Grotto in autumn and came out in spring ! 

4. It's your birthday and you get to pick the dinner menu. What are we having? Do you ever lie about your age?

I don't pick up anything, if we celebrate my birthday it's in a restaurant ! I won't work on my own birthday ! 


Yes, I am 84 

I never lie about my age, I don't see the reason. And if I lie I would make me 10 years older so that people are in admiration how good I look for my age !!

5. What's a life lesson you've learned recently?

Never give advices to young parents how they have to handle their baby, because everything has changed you are completely ignorant and it is a miracle that the man or woman standing in front of you and who had been your babies are still alive with such a bad mother ! 

6. Insert your own random thought here.

My random thought for the moment is to find a random thought to write it down here, but I have none, just an empty head !

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