FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

Actually, I didn't want to do anything and rest from the weekend, but if I didn't want to starve to death I had to fill the fridge. Which I then did in the afternoon. Now I have my ready-made meals for at least 2 weeks. There is so much choice in this shop, so that I can eat every day a dish from another country. 

That was the first day of the week. 

The next day was Scrabble and for the first time in a long time I won. We drove home a bit earlier, I don't see well when it's dark and I can't find my glasses with which are made especially for the night, like sunglasses for the sun ! So I am not dazzled by the headlights.

With two friends we wanted to visit Mr G, and arrived in the middle of Halloween festivities of the Home ! There were a lot of witches and soft sweets and biscuits The entertainer a young woman read horror stories to the oldies and one lady told her not to complain if all residence screem for help because they all make nightmares.

It was really very nice to see that everybody had a lot of fun except two who slept peacefully without nightmares,  but soft snoring ! I was a bit surprised Halloween was never very much celebrated or not known at all, but times change ! For many of them it was the first time !

Unfortunately Mr. G. didn't feel well and preferred to sleep and stay in his room. I just brought him his laundry and water bottles and then  let him sleep.

This week we didn't go to a restaurant, because we were all not well and one has gone to France to visit her mother who is in a home. She is one of those people who absolutely do not want to be vaccinated. So she has to do a PCR (?) Test to get over the border, cannot go to a restaurant or hotel and has to do a second test to see her mother. 

At the beginning we laughed, but now we find it childish and nobody can really understand her. One day she will probably be vaccinated after all. More and more there is a discussion about making vaccination mandatory. 

Somehow the shadow of the coronavirus still hangs over everything. From November 1st we have to show our "safety ticket" if we want to go in a restaurant, cinema etc. like they do already in France. 

All of this and Mr. G's health condition doesn't exactly lift my mood, luckily I can take a variety of autumn pictures out of my living room window.

 It changes every day !

The only one who is always happy is cat Rosie who sleeps the whole day and flies through the apartment during night and plays and puts rugs in other places, while I have to sleep with earplugs. But that doesn't bother me. 

 

 

 

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A COLLECTION OF FALL PHOTOS

I think I repeat myself but I really don't like fall ! Look at the pictures below, that's how I see and feel fall with dead leaves covered ground,  naked trunks and branches, it looks really sad !

Looks just as a scene out of a Hitchcock movie or a Barnaby bewitched wood !

These flowers are not destinated for your garden or house, no, they are for the cemetaries. November 1 approaches and people suddenly  remember that there is somebody laying there. At least it is like that where I live

Dead leaves still hanging on the trees

Must be an eerror of the nature ! 

The streets are dirty

Probably a Harry Potter house

 

Fortunately the little goat lives in a barn and is not for hunters !

 

For these once it's a dangerous time, the hunting season is open ! 

The only thing which doesn't change is the sky and the sunrise and sunsets ! And fortunately I have the chance to see beautiful once from my living room. 

 

But life will continue at least I hope and the seasons will change ! Maybe I am born in the wrong place I should have lived in a place without seasons !!

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SUNDAY SELECTION - FALL

The End is near, I mean the end of the year, fall has started and the mostly green leaves change their colors so that mother nature looks beautiful .....

 

and then the trees become naked leaving their leaves everywhere. The joy of fall is then,  to slip on wet leaves and hopefully don't break a leg or an arm ! A dangerous season which I don't like. 

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FRIDAY"s FAVE FIVE

When I looked at the calender this morning and saw that  today it is June 16, I thought today it is exactly one year we left our house where we had lived for 45 years and moved into this apartment. Who would have thought that I had to celebrate this date alone because Mr. G. has gotten Parkinson and is still in hospital and I still don't know if he will ever be able to come back home. To forget and not to be too sad I invited my new neighbor who just moved in and we celebrated together her arrival and my first anniversary with an alcohol free bottle of Champagne !

It's getting warm and warmer and I decided to fake that I am on holidays. I put my beachbed on the balcony and two parasols, sun cream and my travel computer, some sparkling water and then fell down on the bed ! I found out that it is not so terrible not to travel, as I have this wonderful view and can hear the kids laughing and screaming in the swimming pools around. I tried to leave my worries behind,

My coffee machine was becoming an antique and started to loose water. Before it  didn't work at all anymore, I quickly bought a new one and I'm very satisfied. The idea of ​​not having coffee in the morning brought me close to a nervous breakdown.

I got my second Pfizer shot, was a bit early but there were not many people so I could go in, they took my paper and identitiy card and then sent me in a cabine where a little man with a syringe in his hand waited for me ! I don't know where he had learned to give a shot but it hurt ! He obviously wasn't used to this job, maybe a doctor. I said nothing, smiled and left and thought afterwards why did I smile ? I wore a mask !

On my way back I said hello to Nicole who wasn't feeling too well because she had another week of chimeo behind her. 

To end the day I wanted to take out a fresh nightgown when, I suddenly fell but had the reflex to hold onto the floor lamp and then we both fell on the floor. I felt a little groggy and my hip hurt, my leg too, and my right arm. I slowly crawled to my bed and lay down. I'm pretty flexible like a rubber doll thanks to my yoga so that I had nothing but huge bruises on which I immediately put  on a special cream. The next day when I moved it hurt terribly, so I stayed on my sofa which I would  have done anyway because we had 30° !! Strangely despite the sun was shining very hard, my two parasols helped and as there is always a little wind the heat was bearable.

The weatherman had announced heavy thunderstorms and as usual there were dark clouds but not one drop fell on my head ! 

We ended the week by going into "our" beloved Chinese Restaurant "all you can eat" ! It was almost one year we hadn't eaten Chinese anymore. It was cool inside and the plates were delicious. It was as if the normal life starts slowly. We still had to wear the mask, but sitting at the table you were allowed to take it of, would have been difficult to eat with a mask. We all ate like horses, it was nearly a shame !

It was 3 pm and nobody wanted to go shopping after this meal ! We all returned home and lay down ! It also was very hot outside but inside it was OK. 

Before I went out I had taken off my glasses and couldn't find them anymore ! Five years without looking for glasses only my keys and now it starts again ! 

I still haven't found them, I even looked in the bins, in the fridge but without any success !

Tomorrow is another day !

Poor Rosie has a hot lockdown nap ! Now during the night she sleeps on the balcony and watches foxes, cats, and morning birds.

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FALL

My mood falls too :



outsight view



insight view






me

MY WORLD - FALL

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This was my world not even two weeks ago, looking out of the window



Now my world looks like this when I look through the window.



Our garden has gotten some colors during the time I was away,



and the neighborhood too



Ever since it has also rained at least once a day and I had to dig out my winter clothes !

FUN MONDAY - FALL

Hoosier Girl wants that we show or tell what we love about fall - images, smells, sights, activities

The answer is I don't love anything in fall ! I hate this cold, humid smell in the mornings, the trees which start to striptease and the sidewalks and gardens full of brown and yellow leaves.

From my teenage years on since my early 50th I always suffered from automn depressions, without knowing it. At that time depressions were not well known. So I only have bad souvenirs of all falls in my life. I just would have liked to fall asleep in September and wake up in March, like the bears. Now since around 10 years these seasonal depressions have disappeared, but I still don't like automn although I move around and am active now. I can even appreciate the colors of the trees in a park or wood, before they rot.

I wished that after summer we could have winter immediately or summer and spring the whole year. I am probably born on the wrong side of the world !

Therefore I don't have any fall pictures to show. Besides the fact that this year all trees are still green, which is quite exceptional I don't have any from last year either. Fall just doesn't inspire me !



my cat Arthur apparently doesn't like it either, I wanted to take a "fall" picture of him and you see he fell.



But I saw this nicely decorated house yesterday when I visited my friend Ilona.