AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND MAY 4

 

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WEEKEND

This weekend was very nice, my son, grandson and "grandog" came for a visit ! Fortunately dogs are allowed here everywhere and Leia was very happy when she could run around in the huge park !

They brought me a beautiful bouquet of tulips (from Amsterdam, lalala) and then we sat in the restaurant near the door, to allow Leia to go out when she wanted. 

 She couldn't go into my room, because I had to protect my little grandma Rosie, who is too old to handle a dog, and I want to keep her as long as possible ! 

My grandson had grown again and nearly caught up his 2 m long dad ! the residents greeted them and couldn't believe that Toby is only 13 years old. Unfortunately I forgot to take photos of the three ! That's a crime, I completely forgot !

But here is our animator talking with my son and they tried to get the dogs together so that they could play, but Litchi was too afraid (although a border collie) and Leia too young and wanted to play, so when she started barking they took them apart.

Leia

Then started our daily game, and I told my guests that we could go somewhere else but they wanted to stay and 13 year old Toby wanted to participate ! He had so much fun I have never seen him laughing that much ! 

He handled the once who had hearing problems and shouted answers in their ears and little Rina told him for the 3rd time that she had 5 children and asked him if she was in a hotel etc. He answered real well, and told me later that it was a good experience for him. I must admit I was proud that he accepted so easily the fact that old people sometimes become like children. It was really a nice game. Then we had coffee with the others and they were "interviewed" my son too, maybe he is impatient with his mother but with the others he had a lot of patience. I got a lot of compliments the next day.

For  supper we went to the Italian Restaurant "La dolce Vita" which Rick loved so much and had good Italian plates. Leia, very brave, lay under the table and didn't move.  And then it was already time to say good bye, and when I got out of the car and took the first step, I fell gracefully into a large puddle since it had been raining all day. My son picked me up, luckily I had nothing (as always) but I was wet from head to toe and my clothes were full of mud! After checking and asking me if I was really alright we said goodbye and I went into my room changed and watched a movie. Then I went to bed and didn't sleep very well because I had cramps in my legs. That stopped when I had the idea to shower my legs with hot water. Next day I read that this was an old grandma recipe and not an invention of me !

The next day still nothing hurt, but I felt as if somebody had knocked me out ! My head felt like I had been knocked out. I quickly said good bye to Irma who went back to her home in France after her husband had passed away before she could drive him home ! She was such a nice woman and I will certainly miss her. 

In the afternoon we played 

archery and laughed our heads off ! The arrows landed everywhere but not on the large plastic bottle that was set up as a target. In the first round I was not so bad at least I touched the bottle but the second round my arrow landed nearly in the kitchen and "killed" a girl who brought the coffee ! So the day went quickly by and outside it rained, but it was not so cold. It was a very nice weekend.

 

AWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND MAY 4

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On Saturday I went to to the clinic to bring some wafles and clean laundry to Mr. G. I was happy that he wanted to have something to eat, which so far he has refused. Everything which visitors have left I had either to throw away or give it away.

He is still very weak but can walk on crutches now.  We started to have a conversation about our house which becomes too big for the two of us and I am so fed up of the garden. It costs a lot when you have to pay somebody for everything because we can't do it anymore. Of course he was not very enthusiastic although he never goes in the garden or terrace, but he agreed that it becomes too much. There are reparations to be done and when we were young we all did this ourselves but now that we are belonging to the antiques it's not possible anymore. There are still our 3 cats, so it won't be before next year. They are very old anyway, 20 and 18. Rosie is only 12 years old. We discussed the whole afternoon and then he was terribly tired and I left.

It was really a lousy weekend. All my 4 scrabble friends were on holidays, Nicole with her children in Normandy for her birthday, Myriam visited her sister in the South of France and Mireille somewhere in the North of France. Ilona had another occupation, so I decided to go to the market, just to go out a bit. When I arrived it started to rain mixed with hail and everybody on the market ran to bring his things in the cars. As I was already out I thought I will do some tourist watching at the Waterloo Lion as I have often done years before.





First I comforted me with an Australian ice cream (in this cold) and watched little bikers learning traffic rules.



The Lion area was empty like my wallet, since the renovation there is only one new built restaurant  under the Lion and not the old romantic restaurants and cafés as before the bi-centenary ! At that time even with rain, snow or hail there were always lots of visitors.



The Lion was bored and looked over the green fields.



Suddenly a queue of old 2CV came from the parking to join an "Old Timer" gathering in Waterloo. Meanwhile I had enough of this cold weather although I didn't leave the car, but it was not very pleasant to drive when it hailed.

The "excursion" took me maybe one and a half hour and I was back home. I had some lunch and gave cat Arthur a slice of ham otherwise he didn't leave me in peace and I was exhausted. I watched a movie on TV and suddenly the phone rang and I realized that I had fallen asleep. It was my son to ask how I am, what should I say, besides the fact that I am still alive. I am worn out.  I think women can understand better then man. Or he doesn't realize that his mother is not 30 anymore. It's note the physical tiredness but the psychological. Things which didn't bother me in the past become mountains now !