SHE’S AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES AGAIN…

(Friday - 9/4/26): I had fun playing on my app, creating a picture with elements from my childhood, as well as a few from life at the moment, that is my love for flowers and animals and birds, wildlife in general. I had to put in my imaginary cottage too. 

In my world both dog and cat are homebodies like me, and they have nice, comfortable beds to sleep on inside the house. They just like to be outside a lot, and the doghouse is there in case it rains and they need shelter. I'll even climb in there with them. It will be very cozy but snuggling with one's pets is a good thing and helps to teach us love and empathy. As I have said many times before, imagination is a fine thing, so is getting in touch with one's inner child. I am a great believer in it.

But, getting back into the real world, today was a drive over to our pasty place for lunch. We had our usual car picnic in their parking lot. Their pasties are delicious. We also bought three packets of bangers (British-style sausages), a small bar of Cadbury’s Chocolate for me which went lovely with my coffee that we get at the drive-thru coffee shop on the way home. Usually this is a Saturday treat and I am one day early. The bangers are already frozen but one packet will be ready for a full breakfast on Sunday morning. We were lucky to find a parking place as it is a relatively small lot. Many were taking advantage of a long weekend off due to Labor Day on Monday. All pretty humdrum stuff but we enjoy reading about our humdrum stuff from years ago, and this will be no different.

My dear other half had a busy week, seeing our son for a few hours one day, driving down to Williamsburg, where he spent a few hours with his brother. They had lunch, a great walk around, and a good time catching up. Another day he met up with his old friend and had another lunch. It was a feast or famine kind of a week, this week being a feast of get togethers. I, of course, was very happy to occupy myself at home. I am looking forward to the cooler weather and don't do well outside in hot weather.

We had heavy rain and a thunderstorm in the night with lots of downed branches in the yard. It is still very wet, and it rained again this afternoon. It's been iffy all week. I hope it won't continue over the weekend as it would be very nice to go for a walk around Green Spring. It all depends how hot it is and if it rains. We'll have to wait and see.

My glitch with publishing comments is still ongoing but from what I have seen, there seem to be many of us in the same boat. It will be interesting to find out what happened, or if we will find out. I had one blogging friend who was able to leave a comment today. Thank you Sandra! I have tried on and off all day to answer yours and many others, but no joy!  Hopefully it will have cleared up by tomorrow. 

I am going to see if this will publish.  My Saturday Morning at the Bird Feeder will be delayed for a day or so, as I am a bit late doing that.  

I hope you will be able to read this at least and fingers crossed!

Thanks for visiting and 

have a wonderful Saturday.

WEEKLY HAPPENINGS - MONDAY 1/27/25 TO SUNDAY, 2-2-25

Hello Family and Friends! Back again with this week's weekly happenings. Thanks for letting me know you still enjoy them. It will keep these going, for a while at least. I hope you've all had a good start to the week. 

Monday, January 20th, 2025 - 1.39 p.m: Gregg went out got himself a bagel with cream cheese from our local bagel shop again. He bought one for me, having gone to the supermarket before coming home. 

After I woke up and before I got out of bed, I did two of my daily exercises with the Pilate ball. I paused for breakfast as the man arrived home, and exercises were completed afterwards.

In late afternoon, early evening, we usually chat about current events. We both have our strong opinions and it's always good to air them. We agree on most things, but sometimes disagree, while staying quite cool about it all, giving our reasons why we disagree with the other. We are both avid readers and keep up with what's going on here and around the world, quite often saving snippets of news and talking about them later. Truthfully, Gregg is more knowledgeable in many areas. If I feel very strongly about something, I am a bit stubborn and hold my own.

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025: “Would you like to stand closer to the wall?”  I had another physiotherapy session. They sent me on a crab walk down a long corridor and I had difficulty balancing, hence the above question. Who knew walking sideways would be so difficult. (In my youth I seem to remember going to the disco with my friends, a dance I did all the time with these movements, but that's been 50 plus years ago.) I found myself reaching out to the wall several times. I had my usual bicycle ride, tippy toes, pressing ball on the wall behind the knee, and then my physiotherapist came in to do the rest of the session. After 45 minute I was glad to head to the door, and yet grateful for everyone who helped me today. The place was super quiet. We were the only ones left, along with the staff.  

Someone has decorated the walls with paper hearts for Valentine's Day. It took me a few moments to realize that February is around the corner.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

I had a short walk at Green Spring Gardens today, but I already shared on this post.

I didn't take many photos, except for what I have shown already, and more berries! 

The berry bush is huge and reaches several feet over my head. 

It was still loaded with berries.

In the afternoon father and son went into DC. Son was attending a talk taking place at the Library of Congress. That building is amazing outside and in. If you click this link we were there years ago and I took these photos of the ceiling. I know I have more somewhere but can't find them at the moment. The one below is son's photo.

Thursday, January 30th 2025: and I am playing catch up as I was really bad at keeping my journal going this week. I stopped after Monday for a few days, and now I'm trying to remember.

Dear other half met up with his old buddy today for lunch. It's a drive to get there, about an hour-and-a-half, but always enjoyable for him. He arrived home 5 o'clock-ish. I enjoy my quiet time, pottered, read, pottered some more, read some more, looked at the birds off and on all day, pottered. My day went quickly. Word of the day: "pottered!"

Friday, January 31st 2025: it is 9.16 a.m. and I have a 10.30 a.m. appointment for my physiotherapy. I have to be there for 10.15.

I am back and it is 12:39 p.m. There was a 12-year old with a sports injury today, a young girl. When she got on that exercise bicycle she rode like the wind. Me, not so much! Let's just say it felt like a 3-chocolate brownie day today, but stopped at one.

On the way home our son and daughter-in-law called. They were on their way back from somewhere and wanted to tell us about it. We had a fun time talking to them both. Very happy we had the opportunity of chatting with our dear daughter-in-law for a good length of time. She has a truly delightful humor. Their hours of work vary and when son calls, she is usually working, and vice versa. 

Today I drew a dinosaur! This is thanks to Jan at The Low Carb Diabetic. She has a post here that talks about “Draw A Dinosaur Day”. I'm a bit late but it put the idea in my head and here is mine. Thanks Jan!

I looked through pixabay.com and found several but this was a more simplified version and thought I might be able to copy it. I go to pixabay for a lot of the graphics I use for my signatures and so on. All royalty free graphics. And thank you once again to our good blogging friend Sandra aka MadSnapper n Beau who introduced me to pixabay a long time ago. 

Pretty rudimentary but it entertained me for a while. I have to slow down as I draw too fast, need to be more patient. (Hmmm, sounds like a song I know.)  I forgot to add a leg! Just getting used to holding a pencil in my hand again. Here is Dino with the cat I drew last week.

We made a stir-fry for dinner. Neither of us liked it very much, even though we have made stir-fries before. We added a can of stir-fry vegetables and the whole meal had an after-taste, completely took away from the rest of the fresh vegetables. Not the kind of after-taste that would make us feel ill, but not what we are used to. It was not very pleasant. Gregg found the can in the pantry and quite rightly thought we could use it. There was something about the brine. It would have been a good idea to drain the can and rinse the veggies before putting them in with everything else. But there you go, we live and learn and both agreed, never buying that again.

Saturday, February 1st, 2025: not much of note going on today. Very quiet!

We made a new recipe. Thankfully this one was very good. I will put it on one of my recipe posts. It was seafood.

Sunday, February 2nd, 2025: son came over. Always enjoy catching up with his week.

Later in the day Fluffy Kitty turned up.  She was sitting on the steps looking around. I wondered why the birds disappeared! She is definitely someone’s cat. With all the cold weather, we haven’t seen her for a few weeks. She stayed on those steps, turned a few times when she heard me talking to her. I left her alone and when I looked again half an hour later, she was gone. Hopefully back in her nice warm house.

Nothing of note for the rest of the day, and will end my journal here.

Have a great rest of the week, 

and thanks for stopping by.