FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE & A BIRTHDAY

I can't believe it that it is 3 years that he is gone forever. Time flies by so quickly. In one way this is good, I never want to live the last 4 years with him again ! It was hell. 

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This week was a taste of almost summer. The sun shone every day, and I suddenly started remembering things that I had simply tucked away in a corner and forgotten about. First of all, I had to sort out the banks; they still had the address of our house. I somehow thought that would happen automatically. Most things, yes, but some, not. So we arranged for an appointment on Tuesday, and I enjoyed Monday with my first sunbath. I was still dressed warmly, of course, but the sun shone so beautifully on my face. It felt really good. Tuesday I settled everything with the bank and when I came back I stated with pleasure that they had done an Ester decoration !

amongst several games we also played ping pong, unfortunately the tables were a bit small and not long enough. One Lady who is a bit crazy claps in her hands and laughs out loud all of a sudden, believe it or not this lady had been Champion of Belgium in Table Tennis ! Each time the ball flow over the net and then its own way, she claimed "and I have been champion of Belgium !" We comforted her and told her that she still plays very well. 

Kim who entertains us had a very good idea, which I thought was a very bad ! On his program was WII playing. Fortunately I knew what it was and had also played once bowling, but for all the others it was just Chinese, they had never heard of it and when I told them that it was played on a computer screen, they all wanted to escape, but curiosity won.

I couldn't believe it ! They all played very well, some had strikes it was just amazing. And the fun they had was unbelievable ! My bowling ball always rolled towards the left side and I never got all keys.

Even in wheelchairs it went well ! 

Chantal who always carries around her plush dog, had fallen and ever since she has lost a bit her mind. Yesterday she escaped and a friendly neighbor in the street brought her back. Now we have all to pay attention that she stays in the park. She also came at 3 am in Jeanine's room and wanted to lay in her bed ! J. brought her back and locked her room now. Hopefully she will heal again. 

Each day I walk around the park (not the whole, it is too big) and then sit on a bench and scrabble until 3 pm when our games start. 

 

 

The little house where the castle cats live, there are 6

 

Signs of spring in our park

and our cheerful group, always ready for new adventures, handicapped or not !

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 SPRING HAS ARRIVED !

“Spring breathes new life into the world around us.”

 

 

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FRIDAY''s FAVE FIVE

On Monday the weatherman announced that the air quality was bad, so I stayed home and we played bowling 

My car was really dirty and I went through the car wash. The man asked me how old I was, made big eyes mumbled something, smiled and reduced the price, which of course I didn't contest, I felt rather flattered. I also had to go to the pharmacy, but it was closed, so I ended up visiting a Facebook friend who lived in the area and  was very happy to see me as she has recently lost her husband and was glad to have somebody talk to. drugstore.

I was in no hurry as they had drawing as activity, and that bores me. So I arrived for the coffee and that was good.

This time, the result wasn't so bad. Everyone was given a leaf and had to paint it, and then the leaves were glued to the tree trunk.

My friend Pauline is in hospital for a check up, lately she had heart problems, I think she will come home on Saturday. That made me think that my doctor had told me to also go to a heart check up, I have no troubles, but I have never been at a cardiologist !!

After lunch I always make my little tour around the park, not the whole, as it is too big, and I noticed that the first bushes bloom. 

Our man for everything had cleaned now all the garden furniture and the benches in the park, that looks very nice. Now we wait for warmer weather ! I can sit in the sunshine but warmly dressed. 

Our students are still here, I think this is the last week, they are so kind and funny, I think we will miss them. A girl told me that it had been very interesting for her, because now she knows what profession she will not do ! It was very hard for her to see all the people on the 4th floor, who have lost their mind, who have to be fed and who lay in their beds. Some of them are dangerous, fortunately not many and they have to leave the home.

My son called me and told me that Toby my "little" one (14)

wants to change his basket club, because he is now so tall that he can go with older once. 

Nothing special happened this week, and I still feel very lazy and without energy. In a few days we will start April ! When we moved to Waterloo in 1975, it snowed and it was difficult to get the furniture in the house which also was ice cold ! Nobody had thought that it would snow in April ! 

  

on the street

and in our park.

In most of the small streets in Waterloo, Japanese cherry trees had been planted, and are blooming now, which is beautiful.

 

 

 

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SUNDAY SELECTIONS

What the doggie thinks of beer !

Daffodil

Neighbor watch ....

Strange sky

sunset from my terrace

lamps

Japonese Cherry tree

 

 These pictures I took during the week and choose them as my Sunday Sellection.

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SPRING IN MY WORLD

 

 

The view out of my window has changed again ! Spring has arrived and it blooms everywhere ! This is my favorite season ! And the "village" I had discovered during winter, starts to disappear again behind the trees and their leaves !

 

Rosie watches the birds building nests ! 

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FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

On Monday my ancient neighbour for 14 years came for a visit. Meanwhile so many things had happened ! 

She had moved away before us, because she unfortunatelyhad married a mentally sick man who separated her from her family, was a champion of manipulations, until after nearly 3 years she managed to escape in her bathsuit, she was supposed to go to her acquagym,  and  refuged to one of her brothers. 

In the meantime she is divorced and lives again very close to me in another small town where she is closer to her children and grandchildren. So we had a lot to talk because meanwhile she had gotten 3 other grandchildren from her youngest boy whom I knew when he was 14 and lived with his mother in the next house and her daughter who studied at that time in Brussels. Now she is happy again although a bit bitter that she was so naive to fell in the trap despite the fact that everybody who knew her had warned her ! Most important is now it's over !

The next day another ex neighbour came I knew her since a very long time her husband and I worked for 10 years together. We mostly talked about the vaccin which so many people refuse and the shortage we have due to bad management. I got now an "invitation" for a vaccin but both towns which they proposed to me had run out of vaccins. So I am here with the convocation and can't get an apointment ! I loose so much time on the telephone because their internet page didn't work either, what a mess !

Meanwhile the population has filed a complaint against the State of Belgium and had won, because there were too many restrictions made against the law which took our freedom. After one year of lockdown the restaurants are still not open and we have curfew between 10 pm and midnight it depends where you live and many other strange things which have nothing to do with the virus.

Summer broke out and for the first time I was laying on our balcony and enjoy the warm weather. Mr. G. is still in hospital and I can't get the information if the last test had been done or not. So there I hang on the phone too and try to push them a bit. 

When we moved in I never saw houses from our balcony. When autumn and then winter came, to my surprise I discovered a like a village looking houses. Now that spring arrives the little village disappears again behind the blooming trees.

This was after scrabble !

We also had our Scrabble for the first time this year outside ! It's a pity that the weatherman announced cold weather for easter ! We will go again from summer to winter ! 

I finally got an appointment for the vaccin but quite far from here in our Clinic they ran out of Pfizer vaccins and have nothing anymore and now I will get the other one I always forget the name which several countries had refused because it was dangerous and now suddenly it is not anymore ! They ran out of stock that's simple. Had to find an excuse. I think all vaccins are the same and I never heard so far that somebody died of a Corona vaccin !!

For Easter Rosie got a new cat tree ! Of course she doesn't like it (yet) one day she will, cats need time. But for the first time this year she stayed outside and looked down on a black cat ! 

 Now I am curious when she finally decides to climb on her new tree !

 

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FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

We had to change our Scrabble day because one couldn't come on a Tuesday anymore so we decided to meet on Mondays. It was my turn and as usual I only bought English stuff because all the others serve the cakes etc from here. I had bought a fruitcake, little round pancakes, Donuts, the so appreciated sour cream and of course Blueberry jam. They emptied the whole pot of sour cream, and only two Donuts were left ! Mr. G. cleaned it off after supper ! For once I was second ! And the one who always wins was last !!

The weather had changed and now it was sunny and I had to think of all repairs to be done outside ! There is a step which is loose, the wooden border of the rockery rotten and has to be replaced, the door of the mailbox is loose etc etc. I had found two men who do such work for people who are too old or can't do it. They will come end of the week to give me a quote ! In the past Mr. G. has done such things, but now he can't do it anymore and me neither.

I had some shopping to do for my painting class and noticed Easter decoration in the whole shop there was nothing else ! I had completely forgotten about Easter and had to google to see on which date it was and it is exactly in a month !

Son and grandson will come over the weekend and I am very happy to see "little" Toby again, it has been a long time I hadn't seen him life, fortunately Whatsapp exists ! On my way back I stopped at Myriam's to show her the new program of lots of daily excursions for us, and we choose already two we want to go, it's always for a day, the first one will be Liège where an Exposition about the 80 takes place. The other one takes us to the Netherlands to the Keukenhof famous for his tulip fields.



Since two days spring shows its nose it is still cold in the mornings and evenings but during the day, you don't need  a winter coat anymore



In all streets of Waterloo Japanese cherry trees had been planted and now they bloom and it looks so pretty and tiny little flowers come out of the grass



In our painting course new energies and ideas came out and new paintings were started. The messy table is mine, I just had tried to do a abstract painting. We were all in an excellent mood and were all very cheerful ! After class we went to the Lunch Garden where we arrived at 12.15 and left at nearly 3 pm, so much to chat ! The main menu was "Fish and Chips" which of course I ordered, the fish was good, but the chips were on diet and very skinny !



When I came home Arthur was busy with a sunbath !

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