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This week really wasn't good for me! After a spell of rather cool, damp weather, the temperature suddenly jumped up to over 30, without any sunshine, and the air remained quite humid. The result was that I had trouble breathing, especially when walking; just a few steps left me breathless, as if I’d been running to catch a train. I also didn't take part in every activity, since some were held in our restaurant which was freezing cold.

The problem is that no one knows how to manage the climate control properly; it’s far too cold, they leave the window doors open and by now, almost everyone has caught a cold. 

I made a picture and AI added icicles ! 

 In fact as it was so hard for me to move, I restored photos and made paintings all with AI. I love to do that. 

  My son during carnival, 1978, today there is even a grandma amongst them. The photo was like the others looking old a fade, now it looks like new

 

and beneath they are playing in our garden

 

 

This is my first marriage, unfortunately I don't remember the name of my "husband"

Then I tried out making photos without a photo just in writing !

Sea, sailing boat, sunset

 

girl with a cold
 

It's raining cats and dogs !

grass, flock of sheep, mountains behind 

I had never made landscape pictures without using a camera and just writing what I want. 

and here I am dreaming of holidays, this is a real photo from at least 40 years ago in Egypt ! Looks like new !

 

I hope that next week the air is better and the humidity gone ! 

more participants at Susanne at Living to tell the Story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PARENTING ....

 

  

“A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”

 “The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable.” 

 Why don’t kids understand their nap is not for them, but for us?” 

 “If evolution works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

 “Having children is like living in a frat house – nobody sleeps, everything’s broken, and there’s a lot of throwing up.”

 “Becoming a mom to me means that you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” 

“Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.” 

“Great parenting lies somewhere between ‘don’t do that’ and ‘ah, what the hell.’”

“A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.” 

“One day I’ll be thankful that my kid is strong willed but that will not be today, not in this grocery store.”

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” 

 “All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with white carpet is one of them.” 

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” 

 “Silence is golden…unless you have kids, then silence is just suspicious.” 

 “Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.”   

“I have just returned from a children’s party. I’m one of the survivors.” 

 “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”

 “Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.”

“Parenting without a sense of humor is like being an accountant who sucks at math.” 

   

HODGEPODGE JULY 29

 

 1. What was the last thing you celebrated? 

Rosie's 19th birthday ! She got a lot of birthday wishes from the staff and the manager ! It was very touching.  

2 July 29th is International Day of the Tiger. Besides the wild animal itself, when you hear the word tiger what's the first  person-place-thing-whatever that comes to mind? 

That I want to pet it ! It's just a big cat, in German we call cats "room tigers" 

 3. The expression 'eye of the tiger' describes someone with intense focus, determination, and the drive to succeed. What area of your life are you currently bringing that kind of energy to? 

I am learning AI and try it out ! That takes a lot of energy especially for a person who has a lack of energy, but it helps. 

 

Tiger's Eye Gemstone: It is also the name of a smooth, brown-and-gold quartz stone that people wear or keep to bring courage, power, and clear thinking. I saw a lot of these stones in Egypt and bought a bracelet.

In Buddhism it represents strength willpower and clarity   

4. What was the last meal you cooked? 

I swear I have not Alzheimer yet, but I can't remember when or what meal I last cooked, for the simple reason that when Rick had to move into a retirement home because of his Parkinson, I had no time and no energy to cook for me alone, and even before when he was home for a 6 months, I didn't cook, I had other worries. I suppose it was 5 years ago and certainly Gnocchi with Tomato sauce and Parmesan cheese, which was a meal he loved. 

 

5. Describe your July using exactly five words. 

Sick, weak, hot, cold, recovering,  

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I was happy that I felt real good on Saturday when my mini family stopped in Waterloo to visit me ! They came back from Italy and had a long way behind them. From the Toscan in Italy they drove 800 km to Metz in France where they spend the night and arrived here a little after noon.  

 

Grandson Toby had 4 cm more, only dog Leia was still the same, I shrank again 

here we are the 4 of us, the Lilliput wives in the middle 

 

We had a nice picnic in the park, nobody was keen to go to a restaurant, it was too hot.

Leia was the happiest dog of the world, as she could run around in this big park, and she did several rounds 

  

I dressed my two men with the help of AI into Body guards, so I feel protected, never ever in my life I have been so little ! I had always been a tall girl of 1,71 m and still am, despite the fact that normally people shrink when they get old !