FRIDAY's FAV FIVE

This week was quite eventful, so I don't need to write about the (still) bad weather. On Monday, we celebrated "St. Chandeleur (Candelmass)" and as in all families, we made crepes, and sometimes a few stick to the ceiling, because you have to throw them up to turn them over. Of course, not in our castle—the ceilings are much too high. 

Anyway, Jeanine and Kim (top left) made about 400 crepes. I was impressed that they used 25 eggs. I suggested building a chicken coop next to the cat house. Unfortunately, a little fox lives with the cats. Not ideal for chickens. At least not a single crepe was left over, since the staff happily joined in the feast. 

The next day came a young photographer to take pictures of the residents, with or without family. As my son is a professional photographer we have enough pictures from the residents and myself and the family, he was a nice guy and we chatted about photography.  

My cleaning lady and I get along great and always have so much to talk about. She's from Rwanda but has lived in Belgium for ages. Naturally, she experiences the most unbelievable things while cleaning. 

I had finally put my Christmas decorations in my rather large chest and was surprised that there was still so much space in it. Rachel said, "Yes, definitely. In room 13 lived a lady who kept her coffin in her room. There was plenty of space in there, too." 

 

The idea of ​​my coffin standing against the wall instead of my chest, filled with Santas, baubles, and angels, made us both laugh so hard that two more people joined in! You wouldn't believe the things you hear! I'd never heard of anything like it. I told her that she should tell me other black humor stories ! 

 

 

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HODGEPODGE FEBRUARY 5

 

1. The Winter Olympics kick off on Friday, February 6th...on a scale of 1-10 how excited are you? (1= eh and 10=watching every event all day every day). What's your favorite Winter Olympic sporting event?

I am excited like a (zero) !! And my favorite winter activity is :

 

2. In other sporting news, the Superbowl (American football's championship game) will be played on Sunday, February 8th. So tell us...what's your superpower ! 

 

I would get crazy in such a crowd of hysterical people! 

I don't like ball games at all, in the past I liked tennis. And that is the maximum size of a ball I am ready to use and of course also ping pong ! 

3. Are you a romantic? 

 

Unfortunately too much sometimes ! 

4. Blue cheese-yay or nay? How about feta? If you said yes to one or both, what's a dish you like that calls for one of these? 

 

 Feta salad

I love all blue cheese, I put cubes of feta in salads.  

5. What's more important-doing what you love or loving what you do? 

I would say both are important. I like to do what I love, and I love what I do (otherwise I wouldn't do it)

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Today we had almost spring-like weather, 10°C! Now that I'm considered as an antique, I realize that when I was a child I went sledding in winter, played with maybugs and picked flowers for my mother in spring, went swimming in summer, looked for mushrooms in autumn, and it sometimes snowed at Christmas. Winter and summer clothes hung separately in the closet.

Now I'm riding on a weather rollercoaster the whole year long. Winter, summer, spring and autumn clothes are all hanging together in harmony. 

I haven't worn my thick winter coat once in two years. Now, here in my castle, I wear pretty much the same clothes all year round. Sweaters a little thinner or thicker, and trousers are also the same. I can even walk around in summer sneakers, except on the grass because it's always wet, and the air is always wet too. When I read that in some parts of the world it can get as cold as -70°C and +60°C, I'm glad I don't have such extreme temperatures here !

Fortunately I don't have to worry about the heating, it's all included in my monthly invoice. 

 

 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

 

 

 

I wish you a pleasant journey.

 

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