4 Sept 2026

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE

Hello my friends I am finally back ! It was nearly a month that I fought with heat, my CPDO  and on top of that, there was a Google update, supposed to make everything easier, that actually locked me out of my dashboard completely. I felt as though I’d ​​lost my job,  I never imagined I would miss blogging so much.Every day, I dug through the guts of Google and Blogger, using words a lady really shouldn't say while trying to find a solution, though the only new name I could come up with was "Gloggerboogle." 

Then, one day, without much hope, I decided to try accessing my old blog; it worked, and from there I clicked over to my new blog and there was the internal page I needed for everything. I was even able to create a new header. A huge weight was lifted off my shoulders, and I felt better right away.

During all this time I didn't participate in our games, because I was afraid of this old A/C which distributed gently microbes, bacilli, colds, cough, etc. 

Amandine our manager told me that I could sit in the new visitor lounge on the third floor, there was a brand-new air conditioning system; it was cozy, too, and had a beautiful view.

Here I sat and played scrabble. The normally green grass had become yellow it hadn't rained since ages.

Isabel takes care of me together with my son, came for a visit to show me her new dog. She had lost her two terriers due to age nearly at the same time and swore she would not take a dog anymore before her retirement. But not to walk without dog, which looks stupid when you are alone, she helped in a shelter and walked dogs. Until the day she walked this cutie below. 

The police had confiscated dogs from Romanians who were using them for begging. The little one was still young and evidently not badly treated, he doesn't bark like often little dogs do and stays well-behaved in his large cage in the car. He seems to be used to it. He is such a friendly, sweet dog—a real doll. It is a Bichon I think a French bread.

Isabel with "Spirou"                                                 And an AI photo putting Spirou and Rosie together it look so real. He met her, sniffed a bit at her basket but that was it. 
  

While my dashboard was out of work, I made some AI photos, a birthday card for my son who loves playing golf. AI made it possible that Rosie loved to play Golf too. 


 

more participants at Susanne at Living to tell the Story.
 
 
 
 
 
 

2 Sept 2026

HODGEPODGE SEPTEMBRE 3

1. What's something you wanted to do this summer that you never got around to doing? 

Don't laugh, but after having traveled around Europe and the States until St. Petersburg in Russia, I only had a rather modest wish for this summer, to see the renovated Zoo in Antwerp (Belgium). But so far, my pump or COPD ...threw a wrench in my plans; the rollercoaster weather we had this summer was anything but good for me,  I felt like I was at the North Pole one day and in the desert the next. I had hoped to take the train to Antwerp one day to see the new zoo, but it never worked out. Maybe there will still be a few nice days at least as far as my health is concerned this autumn. It would be so easy as the train station in Antwerp is just besides the zoo.

 I love elephants !

2. Were you the student who sat in the front row or hid in the back of the class? If you could go back and take one high school class again just for fun, which would it be? 

I hated school, in primary school just after war, we were 80 pupils in one room with a dragon as a teacher, sitting on wooden old school benches which they had recuperated from the ruins The benches were meant for two students, but three of us sat there because there weren't enough. The school was hastily cobbled together out of metal; it was hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter.
 
Those were my first years of school. We had to sit where we were told, I was in the back because I was tall. Anyway front or back I didn't care, I protested anyway for everything and was the enemy of this old wreck who spit when she talked. I defended all these little sheep who were so afraid of her. 
 
In Brussels high school until the end, it was nice and I had a lot of fun, but I don't want to go back in no school ! 

3. What characteristics do you think are essential in a good teacher (this can be applied to anyone who teaches, not just classroom teachers)? 
 
I really don't know, in my childhood teachers were a catastrophe, but all teachers my son had were nice, I became even friend with one.  

4.  September 2nd is National Grits Day. Have you ever eaten grits? Are you a fan? If so how do you like yours? Would people describe you as 'having grit'? 
 
I had never heard about Grits and had to google. I even learned a recipe and also that it can be compared to Polenta. Polenta I know very well and I made it from time to time. But I still don't know what grit is ?  Wheat ?? Polenta is corn. In one dictionary I found "the structure of a stone that adapts it to grinding " Difficult to think that this is made out of a stone !
 
 
 
Southern-Style Grits Recipe (Creamy and Divine) | The Kitchn

5. What's something you're never too old or too young to enjoy? 
 

Landscapes and skies 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Maybe you have noticed that I was absent for 3 weeks ! The reason was rather stupid. I lost the link to my dashboard, so I couldn't write a post. That was really awful. During all this time I tried to get into Blogger. I always ended up in my "reading" list and an empty Blog with a header I never made. I had to change my Google account so I was told, because they had made an update ! Updating means to make things easier. I found it rather more difficult. They had invented a lot of security things which in my case were completely useless, what should a hacker do with my information about "Grit" for example. It came to a point that when I got up I sneaked around my computer like a cat around a bowl of food. It kept getting worse; suddenly, I was receiving links to all sorts of companies. Eventually, I gave up and took a break, and every time I walked past my computer, I stuck my tongue out at it.

I only used it for making my photos new with the help of AI. 

I made this picture only with instructions ....

But yesterday evening, I thought I will try again and raked my brain who could help me. Here around nobody. So I tried to go to the Dashboard of my old Blog and .... oh miracle it worked ! From there I could go easily to this Blog. Was I happy ! I immediately felt better. I never had thought that blogging is such a big part of me ! 

PS. If there is anything which doesn't work or seems strange please let me know

 



11 Aug 2026

OUT OF WORK

 After an update my computer refuses me the access to my dashboard, that's why you have no news from me. Hope I get it settled asap !!