HODGEPODGE MARCH 17

1. St. Patrick's Day lands on March 17th. Do you believe in luck? Are there things you do thinking they'll  bring good luck or  things you avoid because they're considered bad luck? 

2. Forest-lime-sage-mint-olive-emerald...what's your favorite shade of green?

 

I don't like green at all for clothes. Grey and green don't suit me either; I look like a corpse in this color. The only green that suits me is olive green. But I like all shades of green in nature ! 

3. In Ireland the meal on this day is often a hearty beef or lamb stew served with colcannon (mashed potato mixed with cabbage and leeks). In the US corned beef and cabbage is the more typical St. Patty's Day meal. Will you/did you mark the day with one of these dishes? Baked-fried-roasted-mashed...what's your favorite way to eat a potato?

I have been in Ireland, but I don't remember what I have eaten there, only that it was all good. Corned beef and cabbage sounds familiar to me. If I haven eaten this must have been in my childhood in Germany. With an Italian husband such a dish was impossible ! But we will celebrate St. Patrick here in "my" castle, although most of the residents don't know who he was and why he is celebrated, that's too new for them. On the menu is written "Irish Stew". I hope our Italian cook, who is real good, will do his best and prepare an Irish stew (without Spaghettis) 

My roommate Rachel, dressed for St. Patrick. All the staff had such a head decoration ! 

4. What color of the rainbow best represents your personality/mood today? Tell us why. 

I would say yellow ! The sun was shining, the sky blue and I went with a friend to a real nice Restaurant and had a drink there ! We even sat outside on the terrace, it was so warm ! That really lifted our mood !! 

 

 5. Which 'lucky' quote resonates with you. Elaborate. 

  'Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.' E.B. White 

 'Diligence is the mother of good luck." Benjamin Franklin 

'Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.' Seneca 

'Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.' Ralph Waldo Emerson  

 

I think the last quote suits me the best. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I have no special thoughts today, I enjoy the sunshine and our park, who slowly gets green and greener. When I am sitting outside and everything is green, then I love green, all greens !

When I go for a walk here, I feel really comfortable.

 

 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 

I was very much when I saw the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland ! I had seen quite a lot of nature's strange creations a little bit all over the world, but I had never seen something like that !





The whole area looked as if somebody had cut huge columns shorter or even very short







I  watched (if somebody fell) how people like goats jumped from column to column.



 

 

With the blue sea in the back ground it was indeed a very special view ! People sat down and admired the beautiful landscape.

The Causeway was created over 60 million years ago following a volcanic eruption. The formation of the Giant's Causeway was due to intense volcanic activity.

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AWWWW MONDAY - WEEKEND MARCH

 

 

 My new dress

 

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WEEKEND   

Saturday was a nice day ! In the morning I did my blogging, had my lunch and then I went with a friend to the Waterloo theater where once a month there is a play for the seniors in the afternoon to a special price. in the evening you have to pay the full price. 

This time it wasn't a play, but an impersonator who mimicked the voices of famous singers. He was quite short and very slim, but what a voice!!! Incredible. He imitated French singers, but also Pavarotti, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, etc. 

At first, he had a little trouble turning the seniors into screaming and whistling teenagers, but he managed it. People remembered their youth, threw their arms in the air despite arthritis, osteoarthritis, and back pain, and tried to sing along, and some men even managed to whistle. We rediscovered our youth, remembered how we used to dance, and the hall was packed, not a seat was free. Outside, we all talked enthusiastically about the show, met old acquaintances, and I think it did everyone good. The sun even came out for half an hour.

We would have liked to have a drink and a chat somewhere, but my friend's cat was sick and she naturally wanted to go home immediately. So I went to join my group and had coffee with them and told them about the show. They had also played a game, but it wasn't very successful; it was the new animator we didn't like her very much. She has absolutely no sense of what games are suitable for older people. She makes riddles about St. Patrick's Day, even though this generation has no idea about St. Patrick, or just English songs and has them guess the singers, forgetting that the residents who were young in their 60s and 70s don't understand English. Or she has us fill out a paper with boxes in different colors as if we were three years old. Nobody participated. I don't know where she learned her job, but she's really incompetent. 

On Sunday it was really cold and the green grass was white when I opened the window and looked outside.  I didn't feel like going out anyway. Since none of our activity leaders were there, I suggested Bingo or Uno, which everyone likes. Many had gone out or had visitors, but there were still eight of us. It was fun as always, and afterwards, while we were having coffee, a discussion broke out between two of them that had me laughing so hard I almost died. The others didn't get it all but admired the "scientists".

It started when our "know-it-all"resident, who used to be a chemistry and physics teacher, asked a former doctor if he knew which chemical formulas made up the human body. Then it started, everyone trying to be right, but how they got from a chemical formula to the atomic bomb and then to the Bible, Torah, and Quran, I don't know. In any case, they were like two fighting cocks, but they calmed down after a while. I was laughing so hard that I went back to my room, they were talking such nonsense and mixing everything up. They are not exactly the youngest once, in their 90th but they have well aged and are in good shape. 

 

So my afternoon was really amusing and after supper I watched the News and then went to bed.  

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