3 Nov 2017

SKYWATCH FRIDAY - FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE - FIVE ON FRIDAY





Amsterdam/Ijburg



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1. This time for our scrabble we met at Myriam's for once she was free, her boyfriend had other things to do and so he wasn't in our feet. Of course I lost, but I had so much to tell about my stay in Amsterdam and my admiration for the different types of bicycles



Imagination and creativity have no limits !! We all found that the Netherlands compared to other countries are very special. Don't make a car insurance for your partner for a million $ but rather a bike insurance there is more chance that you get the money.

2. My neighbor since 1975 had cancer was healed and now it came back and with force, there is nothing to do anymore than to let her go in peace. Now she is home and I visited her. She is 78 and the kind of girl who even in these circumstances prefers laughter to pity. I didn't have to do an effort, I entered the room and immediately stumbled over a few tubes which are connected to her. She laughed and I ranted that she is not wireless, and old fashioned. She invited me to sit down. I choose the next chair close to her bed. No, not this one she laughed ! Of course I had choose the commode ! I sprang up and let me fall into a chair ! This had been my entrance !  Behind my cheerful face I felt completely different. She had become so skinny, like an anorexic girl. But for chatting she still has forces. She gets very strong painkillers so that she doesn't suffer. She can't eat anymore and gets the food through a tube day and night. She is the one I always drove to the hospital to get the shot in her eye. And that too is awful she can hardly watch TV and not reading at all.  We all wish so much that it will not last too long until she will pass away.

4. Last year I had completely forgotten about Halloween, it is not very much celebrated here.
But this year I put a skeleton out and a pumpkin and a few children rang at the door.



I loved the wolf very much !

5. Since weeks I was looking for a parka and of course when you have something in your mind you won't find anything. Nicole needed a pullover. It was cool and humid and we decided to go in the nearby shopping mall in Nivelles. That was a very good idea, because not only we had a wonderful lunch, but I also found my parka and she her pullover.



After a nice coffee we returned home the day was nearly over. Mr. G. approved my new purchase and liked it very much.






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1 Nov 2017

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY, ABC WEDNESDAY Q - WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE





The little artist, grandson Toby




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 ABC - Q




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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HODGEPODGE



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 !












Happy Halloween