HODGEPODGE MARCH 5

 1.  As the saying goes, 'March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.' Did your March come in roaring or like some other animal? Every month carries with it certain feelings, which is why some people love and anticipate December and others dread it. How do you feel about the month of March? 

March is quite fickle; sometimes it snows, sometimes it rains, sometimes it's so warm that a T-shirt is enough, only to need a thick sweater the next day. So I don't really know what to say. In any case, it's not a special month for me. I don't like winter at all, and especially not the Christmas season anymore. Actually, I only really start waking up in April when spring might finally arrive.

2. Where in your life are you a lion? Where are you a lamb?

I become a lioness when I see a weak or bullied person mistreated, then I'll show my teeth and stick out my claws. The same applies to animals.

Probably I am only a lamb in my bed when I sleep.  

3. The Hodgepodge lands on National Pound Cake day. Do you like pound cake? If so do you have a favorite flavor? Let's play this or that-

 

• pound cake or layer cake?
• pound cake or cheesecake?
• pound cake or angel food cake?
• pound cake or brownie?
• pound cake or pie

 I love pound cake. I don't like complicated cakes with lots of fat and cream. I like brownies. I'm not a big cake fan in general, except for cakes with lots of fruit and whipped cream.

 

4. What makes you feel childlike wonder right now? 

 

I don't know, maybe my new table sets which I can't use because they are in fabric and not in plastic, but I use them on the sofa armrests, the cat heads cheer me up.  

5. What's one thing you need to add to your wardrobe to get ready for spring? If you're in the southern hemisphere, then answer for fall? 

As the weather is so moody and changes from cool to warm x times per day, I need 2 cardigans, so that I can wear a T-shirt when it is warm and put on the cardigan when it gets cold. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

It's so warm here now around 20°C, so I was thinking if I needed new feathers, as I have lost so much weight. With the result that I bought a pair of baskets and two light cardigans. I only hope that we won't get winter back ! with this crazy weather you never know.  

 

 The first little flowers end February

 

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - IMAGE-IN-ING

 

In the region along the Rhine from Bonn to Koblenz, in Germany, I saw these beautiful half timbered houses. I have also seen a lot in some regions in the UK. 

 

more participants here and Image-in-ing here

AWWWW MONDAY FEBRUARY 28

 

Linking to AWWW MONDAYS 

 

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WEEKEND 

Saturday was a strange day, as usual in the mornings the rooms are made and I looked for pictures in my computer.

In the afternoon we were without entertainer but that didn't bother us  I asked our group if they wanted to play Bingo or Uno, because everybody loves these games, they are so easy and you don't have to break your brain. We choose Bingo. Everybody was talking about Gilberte who had left us forever. It had happened in the afternoon and as always when somebody passes away the deceased were very discreetly taken away immediately by a funeral service. Only one person had just seen her being taken away from out of his window. Then we concentrated on the game again.

Mimmi sang her love songs of Julio again and made us laugh. So the afternoon passed quite cheerfully after all. Outside it was raining again.

On Sunday afternoon my friend Laure came to visit me, I've known her for a very long time. She was the wife of my Indian colleague. Our sons were both born in August, four days apart. Of course, we had a lot to talk about. She had visited her son in London and was delighted by the friendliness of the neighbors; and I told her that's one of the reasons I went to Eastbourne every year. She returned home at 5 pm, and I was pleased to discover that it now stays light until 5 pm!