2 Mar 2023

HODGEPODGE

1. Hello March! Is it coming in like a lion where you live? How do you feel when it rains? 

March marched in with a lot of sunshine but also with a very strong and very cold wind. It was better to stay home and not catch a cold. 

I would feel bad the whole year, as Belgium is like the UK it rains a lot !

2. What's something you'd like to do differently this week than the last? Explain. 

I would like to go out and not stay home, but as I have still a bit to recover from my bronchitis, I have no choice, I stay home !

3. March 1st is National Sunkist Citrus Day...do you drink orange juice? Orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, grapefruit...what's your favorite citrus fruit? A dish you love with a citrus fruit as one of it's key ingredients? 

Yes I drink orange juice and love all other fruits too. I love lemon ice, a grapefruit salad, the others I like to eat just as a fruit.

4. What do you consider to be your culture. Elaborate. 

As  I live in Europe where each country has its culture, I probably have several cultures, as I live in Belgium where the culture, especially concerning food, is completely different from the German one. Having been married over 50 years to an Italian I also adopted Italian culture. My son who has a German passport was raised in Belgium and speaks no German but French, married a Dutch girl and had to adapt to the Dutch culture too. The one who is the "victim" of all these cultures is my Grandson !


 

5. Sum up your February in fifteen words or less. 

That's quickly done, I had a very severe Bronchitis the whole month and still not running full speed !

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Honestly the only thought I have, is life is boring and I am waiting for spring, and a colored nature and not these trees which look like in a horror movie naked and without leaves. 


 

 

1 Mar 2023

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Last time when my grandson was visiting me, he disappeared with his friend, while we chatted. Suddenly they both showed up and Toby shouted "Nonna, we have counted your cats in the whole apartment, you have 401 !!! Here are a few examples 









 

All people who know us think that I started the cat collection, that's only half of the truth. Rick loved the little cats too so when somebody asked him what I liked for my birthday or Christmas or whatever, he answered that I liked cats. So everybody offered me cats and on top he bought cats for me (the once he liked) 

In over the 50 years of marriage you can imagine that there are more than 401, the rest is in cartons in the basement, I wanted to sell them and then Rick got sick and we were locked in for two years. Therefore they are still there.


Rosie is not part of the collection !


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