Is everybody still holding on??

Goodafternoon everybody!

We had a few quite nice days, dry, much sun, pity the wind was cold, so it felt not as nice as the temperature showed, but.... it still was nice to see, blue sky and sun specially when you were inside.
Next week it will change a bit, it will be colder and also there comes a bit of rain. We'll see what comes of it, nowadays the weather forecasts seem to change by the day LOL.


How is everybody doing?
This week I was outside a few times, just for having some groceries and also getting again a few medicins for Jan.
Most of the people try to follow the instructions, also in the shops more and more they try to keep the distance of 1,5 mtr, and if it is a small shop, only limited number are allowed to enter at the same time.
I think it is a good thing.
The numer of cases here in Holland are still rising, as it was expected, quite a number of people are now at the IC, and it could become kind of a problem to have enough IC places. We still have enough over the whole country and they are working hard to have more. They hope this weekend or may be next week we will reach the top and then we will see if all the taken measures have the effect hoped for.
Till now Jan and I are okay and trying to keep ourselves busy and still a bit use all our muscles. Jan nowadays is more the gardener than I am, who could tell that a few years ago? It is a good thing he can keep himself a bit busy and moving around in the garden, at the same time he has some fresh air and stays rather safe from the virus.
Okay, I am a bit more at risk because I go shopping(sometimes you do need things), but I try to be careful and follow as much as possible all instructions.

Can you believe that in our garden we already have a few blooms on some of the Pelargoniums? Amazing! Also a hardy Geranium is flowering already. Our tulips, those of last week photo, are still flowering in all their beauty and soon we will have a second bit of tulips opening their flowerheads.

Perhaps you know of that very big park, the Keukenhof? Every Spring their are thousands and thousands of tulips(and some other bulbs too) to admire. But this year it is closed because of the coronavirus, and it is such a pity! Still they found a solution, it isn;t quite the same as walking there yourself, but a nice replacement.
They made a virtual tour of it and I have a link for you if you are interested(well, with more "free time" t our hands you might as well take a look LOL)
https://keukenhof.nl/en/
It is in english but I believe you can get it in several languages.
Don;t forget to scroll down on that page, there you can choose from a few tours.
Enjoy!

Oh, this weekend we changed back to Summertime, so the clock went one hour forward!
I almost forgot but Jan didn;t, so he already changed the clocks this night (he always goes to bed very late, a left over or perhaps "infection"from his former profession, having to work in changing shifts and doing lots of night shifts.
Okay, now I will check my stew that is on the stove(chinks of lam meat, and paprika, lots of onions, oh, also some carrots and mushrooms and even a bit of Chinese cabbage). with that I only will have to boil a few potatoes and we have our dinner this evening. For dessert we have vanilla custard with a few fresh raspberries!
What else did we have for dinner this week? Let me think.
I've made macaroni with minced meat and grated cheese(it was enough for two days, it is even better the second day) with a bit of salad.
The also I've made a kind of wok dish. Chunkds of chicken filet, onions, sliced chinese cabbage, some mushroom and bantam potatoes ( that are very small potatoes, delicious boiled, but even more if you fry them afterwards, when cooled down first).
Another day we had simple hamburger, boiled potatoes and grean peas and carrots(from a tin this time, I don;t use all the time fresh veggies, try to as much as possible, but sometimes it is even nice to have some tinned ones, like brown beans for example). Friday evening Jan and I made our öwn"dinner, meaning something very simple, so I made savoury French Toast (in US-English) (fried eggy bread in UK-English) for myself, Jan had some left over macaroni that I had in the freezer.
Yesterday I've made a potato-salad and we had smoked salmon with it, YUMMIE!.
So may be I have given you a bit of inspiraton for your dinner, who knows??
Good, now really have to go to the kitchen!
Wishing you all a very good week and for all a styaing safe of the virus week!
Take care and follow instructions and use your common sense too.
Till next week.