Showing posts with label fog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fog. Show all posts

20 Jan 2025

AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND JANUARY 18



 Father & Son



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Saturday the weatherman had announced Sunshine and as usual he was wrong ! The sun was shining but very high because there was fog again, a bit less but still, and we all would need some light !

I think this sad weather has an influence of those who sometimes have orientation problems, because  more and more people are searching for their rooms in the long corridors.

As I can't go for a walk in this cold and damp weather, I'm going to our exercise room and ride a bike for a quarter of an hour. It's working even better then I thought. I don't think I've ridden a bike in 30 years!

Sunday I wanted to go out a bit, but it was again so foggy that I preferred to stay home. I worked on my photos, made two new headers and after lunch at 3 pm I went joining the others for a cup of coffee and self baked cake, which was really very good. Besides chatting we didn't play anything our animator was not there. Usually he or she should come on a Sunday too. I hope that they are not sick, so many people have a cold ! 

 


Rosie is happy to be inside in the warmth.. 



18 Jan 2025

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE



This would have been a real boring week if I would live alone ! The whole week we had fog, and not a little but a real strong as if we had a white curtain in front of our eyes. 

 The trees outside my window had practically disappeared.Fortunately, I was always busy with my photos or blog in the mornings and in the afternoons it was fun with our various games. 

During our last game I realized that it is never too late for love, because René and Sophie were sitting opposite me holding hands! 

Both are 90  + and a bit confused. They didn't know each other before meeting during our activities.  But they looked really cute and happy.

Upstairs in bed was Réné's wife who could no longer get up. Alzheimer's. Well, at that age you can probably afford something like that.

I also had to go to the lung doctor, unfortunately my condition has worsened and now I have to inhale oxygen twice a day. I'll start on Monday. I just wish for one thing, that this fog would go away, it's difficult to drive because you can't see very far.

I had asked for a little table for my computer so I can look out of the window and see our park, without fog !

Maybe because of the fog I am not feeling so well, I am really breathless when I move to much. Was a good decision that I choose this retirement home !

 

 

 

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12 Jan 2025

AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND JANUARY 11






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WEEKEND

I should leave a white photo here which without any explanation represents the weather we had over the weekend ! There was so much fog that you could hardly see the trees. The park still looked white, but everything on the paths had melted away and there was black ice everywhere and you could see lots of accidents on TV.

Isn't that a beautiful weather ?

We didn't see the fog, we played cards

We sat in the warmth but this weather makes you tired. On Saturday we played "Win 1 billion Dollars" which was a question and answer game, we didn't win the billion but made it to 97 thousand $! Not so bad.

Sunday was no better and not many visitors came either, the roads were still slippery. But we had a good time and the time went by quickly.


27 Nov 2020

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

Another Corona lockdown week went by and now I have to write down each day if I have done something special or if something special happened in my daily routine. All days seem to be the same and go by so quickly !

Our footnails had become long and as pedicures are allowed to work, I had called mine for Monday. I have known her through our Facebook city page and she is a medical pedicure. Besides that she also is a chatterbox and I am now updated about all important things which happened in our town. 

She had her phone besides her because she has an autistic son and has always to be available. That is often very difficult. This time she was 5 minutes late at school with him and he didn't want to go inside because five minutes are five minutes late and not 9 am sharp ! There was nothing to be done. She had to bring him back home. He lives after the clock and everything has to be in its place and not a millimeter further.

The next day when I got up and opened the curtains, the houses and skeleton like trees were hidden behind a thick fog wall ! By the time I had prepared my Blog posts it cleared up and the fog became a grey sky. This announced a Television day, and internet window shopping ! Of course in between long telephone chats with friends !

As usual our 3 girl group met this time at Myriam's and she had prepared the scrabble game ! Both Nicole and I were not that enthusiastic about playing, but we did and it was good for us to do something else than sit in an armchair and chat. 

We admired the swimming pool which she had cleaned for the winter and to break eventual ice, there were empty plastic bottles swimming in the water. It's a lot of work to clean and prepare a pool for the winter !!

The only day in the week when I get up at 7 am is Thursday, because my cleaning woman comes and I have to open the door. And this is also the only day I assist to sun rises. This time it was again beautiful ! I became a real skywatcher in this apartment !

Here is the view I have while sitting on the sofa and drinking my coffee ! Could be worse ! I am really lucky !

As we meet every two days, the two of them came to me this time. Our mayor's assistant died of the Coronavirus yesterday evening, after 5 weeks of intensive care. Although I didn't like the man at all, we had worked together when Waterloo celebrated the bicentenary of the Waterloo battle, I certainly didn't wish him such a terrible dead. 

He also was a history writer specialized in Napoleon's life and has written several books about him. He was still quite young, at least too young to die, he was only 57 years old. There will be certainly a lot of funeral ceremonies with restricted number of people as he was quite a well known man.

Still, we had a nice afternoon, the sun was shining through the windows and we talked about the next government meeting where it will be decided if the shops are allowed to open for Christmas and also the rules for December. Anyway the three of us are prepared to celebrate Christmas alone without our children. For me it would be the first time ever since Toby was born, but my first Whatsapp Christmas Eve ! 

The only one who leads a happy life without any worries, enjoying the sunshine, is little Rosie. Lockdown or not, she anyway never goes out !


  

 

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2 Jan 2011

FOG SNOW AND FED UP !

This was the view I had all day on our street. My camera is not the culprit, it is cold and foggy ! I hardly could see the house in front this morning !



The snow is melting slowly, but the road is still slippery and as you can see, the city collects our taxes but doesn't collect the snow or do anything to clean the side streets. Apparently they ran out of salt ! I think I should ask the mayor's wife if she has some salt left in her kitchen.

Meanwhile it's almost impossible to walk and you can't park your car on the snow hills at the side of a street, you would never get out of there. The parkings of the supermarkets are still full of snow and if you have to push a trolley, eat some spinach before.

The restaurants and movie theatres are complaining about the loss of money during Christmas, they had so many cancellations because the people couldn't go out. Christmas shopping was also a catastrophe for the shops. My friend's daughter and husband spent Christmas Eve in the airport of Berlin ! Their flight was cancelled, too much snow in Berlin, and they were not the only once spending Christmas in airports !

However the hospitals have a lot of success, the emergency is full of broken legs, arms and I don't no what. It's like in the ER series, only we don't have a George Clooney !

But I am an optimist ! Once in a blue moon the sun will shine again and the dirty snow melt !