tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88633431080613371202024-03-16T02:10:06.958+01:00With a Russian/Dutch heartsmiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.comBlogger1911125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-68162568926966751262023-04-15T14:25:00.003+02:002023-04-15T14:25:42.060+02:00I am still around, LOL<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>You must have been thinking something has happened to me, because there was a long silence on my blog. To be honest, I am not in a great "writing"mood, so it may happen ofter, that I keep away from my blog. Still, I don;t want to give it up completely, so when there is something to tell and I feel like writing, I pop up every now and then.</p><p>Life has been quiet and also hectic too at the same time. It still is sometimes hard to accept the fact, Jan isn;t there anymore. I keep busy, which is the best thing to do, I still am i the "clearing out drastically mood" every now and then. Lots more I will have to sort out, but slowly does the trick too.</p><p>I am really thinking about moving out of this house, it is too big for me alone and in coming years there should be done a lot of maintenance and it will take a lot of money. As my house is free of mortgage I can spend the money for another appartmenet, probally a 2 room one, nice compact. I like to have something with a lift in it, and a small balcony that would be nice. I think it will be better to buy then to rent. Renting prices are really high and go up every year. I can do several years of course with the money I get from my old house, but at a time it will be gone and then? I don;t know how many years I still will be around but you have to think about it. So I am informing myself here and there about the right thing to do and how. It will not be done from today to tomorrow but I would like to be in another appartment somewhere next year(if sooner is possible that's okay too, but I must not rush into it!).</p><p>At the moment my friend Heidi has found another appartment much better situated and not too far away anymore from her friends and social things. It means she is not too far away from my home and who knows, I may find a new home even closer to here too. The first appartment she was looking for, wasn't appointed to them, there are a lot of rules for that, hopeless, but may be that one wasn't really "meant"for them. This one is a bit more expensive, but a lot better for the, So I am happy for them and hope they will live long and happy there.<br /></p><p>I also am occupied with perhaps selling my grand piano. I contacted this week a company and somebody will come over beginning of May, to take a closer look. I already sent them some foto's and it seems they might be interested. I don't think I will get a very high price for it, but at least I know it will be taken care of and at the end there will be someone playing it with love I hope. I didn;t play already for longer time and if I should move to another appartment it will be almost impossible to take it with me, so selling it is the best.</p><p>Now I am more or less in stand by for my friend, in case she needs some extra help for the new house. I I can help with cleaning, or wrapping in things in boxes for the move or whatever. </p><p>I also have an appointment with a notary in May, I want to have a will drawn up. It must be done, I am not the youngest and everybody knows we all can pass away from one day to another. </p><p>So you see, there is a lot going on, and even with important things.</p><p>As soon as I have some news again I certainly will let you know.</p><p>Thanks to all who are visiting. I wish you a wonderful week to come and do keep safe and healthy!<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-48839631255324210912023-03-26T18:15:00.004+02:002023-03-26T18:15:44.466+02:00Diving into the Zentangle.<p>oodafternoon everybody!</p><p>Oh wow, I took longer break from the blog then intended, but here I am again. For now we have again more or less nice weather, temepratures are up and down, but at times it is nice, around 12 or13C. Only thing is there is quite some wind and that makes a difference. </p><p>At days when it is okay utside, I go out, I want to keep the body in as much shape as possible, LOL. No, it is just that it makes me feel good to spent a bit time outside and with the better weather hopefully coming soon, it will be even better to go out.</p><p>Past time I've been busy with sorting out a little more of the bookshelves, there is already more place there, which is great. I keep busy with all kind of things, not so much the household(I never was very good at that I must confess), but okay, one or two times a week I make a household job and for now it is good enough. </p><p>I also took courage into my two hands last week and when it was good weather to be outside, I demounted the cupboard, Jan removed from the living room. So you can figure out how long it stood in the garden!! But that also had a good thing about it, the weather already worked a bit for me, it wasn't that hard to take it to pieces like this</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr1YPFyyZRlr0lb4LXI336DrBQmjgiCyqT_NdmwnWArCohdla-xQTYeW5KY_9nCW8Q2mlw5ZHYegGhHg5Yk5y_TvE4tTH58n3Gfbqmy_-3cwrjYOibwox5lQQkRGABXkoCOjQFuFJlzx8YYHCDwNY5-9jwe6XBNMJK8Qt2czofTnyWs6mBgme4Q/s1024/IMG-20230323-WA0000%20(1)%20(Middel).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr1YPFyyZRlr0lb4LXI336DrBQmjgiCyqT_NdmwnWArCohdla-xQTYeW5KY_9nCW8Q2mlw5ZHYegGhHg5Yk5y_TvE4tTH58n3Gfbqmy_-3cwrjYOibwox5lQQkRGABXkoCOjQFuFJlzx8YYHCDwNY5-9jwe6XBNMJK8Qt2czofTnyWs6mBgme4Q/s320/IMG-20230323-WA0000%20(1)%20(Middel).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>So soon I will call for the bulky waste collection to let them pick it up. Will have to bring it on the sidewalk, but my friend will come to help me. I will try also to have one or two cardboard boxes filled with stuff I don;t want to have around anymore. So the call will probably be in a week or so.</p><p>And I spend time to Zentangle. I first looked around on internet and found a lot of nice patters I liked and found a lot of step outs for them. I printed a few(but it takes a lot of ink), so now I also try to copy them by hand. Then mostly in the evening I take a notebook, I use only for trying out and excercise and when I know more or less how a patterns works I try it on a Zentangle. I have a few photo's of tmem.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3Kba6x89o3-YH0d7UZhhCy6E77goKjuBEoSYYGh4RJJ_9O1ZHyFUkdv50lEu9jbeOm_2zqkLhell7Wx_MV-snUibwpMWj7PZqBdhqhBaozu1Mcf4vwSR-EcZXHmqAcHcqVLZIQ1DOZ6quTPHS1H_UF0HsE-jqTKgCHTyZMVW8ZjuxybtXYNxhQ/s1024/20230326_115047%20(Middel).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3Kba6x89o3-YH0d7UZhhCy6E77goKjuBEoSYYGh4RJJ_9O1ZHyFUkdv50lEu9jbeOm_2zqkLhell7Wx_MV-snUibwpMWj7PZqBdhqhBaozu1Mcf4vwSR-EcZXHmqAcHcqVLZIQ1DOZ6quTPHS1H_UF0HsE-jqTKgCHTyZMVW8ZjuxybtXYNxhQ/s320/20230326_115047%20(Middel).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMFtkBq2PHhNdIwWPFOMz4MpfN1tCdbQjP7AEj72j2fJg3vtX8nz5yw9vhsymzEcz5405uqO8XnJakowaejlRfZ7UkHmYzogkSNjmkBZeBGND0Wm9QwwkOB1fv3tBQTY3oeOvsQfaMeLwdKpzAsnufCtrfUbk_vQn4NFwCdaYpy4h9SG3u50OHrw/s1024/20230326_115207%20(Middel).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMFtkBq2PHhNdIwWPFOMz4MpfN1tCdbQjP7AEj72j2fJg3vtX8nz5yw9vhsymzEcz5405uqO8XnJakowaejlRfZ7UkHmYzogkSNjmkBZeBGND0Wm9QwwkOB1fv3tBQTY3oeOvsQfaMeLwdKpzAsnufCtrfUbk_vQn4NFwCdaYpy4h9SG3u50OHrw/s320/20230326_115207%20(Middel).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>These are about the first two I've made.</p><p>Then I already tried my hand on a bigger work.</p><p> </p><p>This one is from a week ago <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHNtvJB7EmC1YOI8ncmlafSoW2SGIEbbcqfnyuMowsZOET5DKbiZCB4uXBr-N8NTP1afGgo4mVrFVx8C8jBbiDZGxAMqOHKOvyehgnPFHY18CsMNJm9kQlEZtaSJY10SRX0vhxiIAaWDm6f6YTBFEhw9Lj7Q5VH0T4v-UAYsLMsffHdRpnPqF_Q/s1024/20230324_161708%20(Middel).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHNtvJB7EmC1YOI8ncmlafSoW2SGIEbbcqfnyuMowsZOET5DKbiZCB4uXBr-N8NTP1afGgo4mVrFVx8C8jBbiDZGxAMqOHKOvyehgnPFHY18CsMNJm9kQlEZtaSJY10SRX0vhxiIAaWDm6f6YTBFEhw9Lj7Q5VH0T4v-UAYsLMsffHdRpnPqF_Q/s320/20230324_161708%20(Middel).jpg" width="240" /></a></div>This one I've made today.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTupjgp0XmE8kluMem6fcrgXF64xwrAPuYRlEZJQandE1BvsapbmoIVotjVeTR593ebc-AQ9v9DJh2gbVDgJNch_Rql-UkBjuLKRk9rl_vv269yKgIxqJmor4OYfhjfMGJxR3OFGqwaaIFjFq3RDkaY74OLRhb5naazJNJdvQNZqOp1XZmnNyLg/s1024/20230326_141529%20(Middel).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTupjgp0XmE8kluMem6fcrgXF64xwrAPuYRlEZJQandE1BvsapbmoIVotjVeTR593ebc-AQ9v9DJh2gbVDgJNch_Rql-UkBjuLKRk9rl_vv269yKgIxqJmor4OYfhjfMGJxR3OFGqwaaIFjFq3RDkaY74OLRhb5naazJNJdvQNZqOp1XZmnNyLg/s320/20230326_141529%20(Middel).jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Oh they are farm from good, but I like to make them and by doing it a lot I hope to get better and better in it. It is really relaxing to do, you know. I often take me some time later in the afternoon, I put on some really quiet music(I have some New Age cd's, is very appropriate I find) and try out patterns or even make a Zentangle. </p><p>That's it for now, thanks for stopping by, take care of yourselves and stay safe and healthy.<br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-76036167839257652822023-03-11T13:57:00.005+01:002023-03-11T13:57:53.452+01:00H0pefully winter will be over for now<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>Yes I know, I skipped a week but as there isn;t all too much that happens, why talking about nothing at all hey?</p><p>Our weather has been a bit cold, at least the last week, but there is again hope, temperatures will go up again and also during the night. So in a day or may be two no more frost at night is nice already. Today the sun is shining as yesterday it was amost raining all day and even wet snow. </p><p>I am still busy clearing out and that will go on for much longer too, but it is nice, you know. I am for all busy with all the books we have and that are so many! And I know lots of them I will no re-read again so better get rid of them. As now-a-days you almost get no money for them I have found another way. Every few days or so I fill a big plastic shopping bag(as you have in the supermarket e.g.) with books of all kind a real mix from art books to detectives novels etc. I put a little label on them reading: Free to take. Books of all kind. And there seem to be people who really like those bags, because almost every time they are gone within a few hours time! Somebody else happy and I am happy. There are still loads of books I want to get rid of but..... some shelves are a lot emptier now, yippee!</p><p>This week I also sent the paperwork to my accountant for the taxes of every year and I also had a letter from the taxoffice to send data for inheritance tax. You always have to do that, but I don;t think I will have to pay anything. Glad my accountant is working on that too. I am no good in taxstuff.</p><p>Then it might be I will spend some time at Heidi's house, helping her to pack things, because it might be she will go to another appartment, one that will be more to her and her husbands liking and also much nearer to my house and easier to get to with just one tram. Oh, I hope they will be granted to hire the place and so exciting times are near for her.</p><p>It would be fantastic if she would move to that new appartment and she will be nearer to me. Then it will be easier to sometimes hopp in to have a cup of coffee or so, which now is quite difficult. To go to her the whole trip takes at least 45 minutes so just a bit too long you know. Might be that the move will happen in about a month or so if all comes together. We'll see!</p><p>What else I am spending time to or with? Well, almost every day I have the visit of Muppet the cat. In the evenings I watch a lot of tv while I am knitting with yarn I have still so many of. I am jut making larger squares in several patterns, and as I dont know what to do with them I think I will fill a big bag with them and put them on the sidewalk also, with a little paper on it saying: for the creative mind, take it for free. I am sure someone can do something nice with it.</p><p>And as the weather might get a bit better I first should demolish a cabinet that still is standing in the garden. I might ask for a bit of help with that, and then I can call the bulky waste collection service to pick it up, together with a few boxes with stuff I dont want anymore. So you see, I stay busy.</p><p>And I just started to try my hand on Zentangle. Do you kow that? It looks nice and you can make some beautiful art with it. I am just starting so now it all looks till not as easy as they do appear, but I want to give it a good try.</p><p>Here are a few examples(there are so many to see on the web, for all on Pinterest)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVo54r_SEHYv-vSIwLYqknXnn2qqkRFR0Z0wulFPV9NG1Uvt11wgW9VDf8qZyAetoObfe-Mv01PWVJsLGVV7cxdEMxjghBT_mUvAPXscxBNOm_LoYDfLOgtuG8ZlqFxryzwFTIkx-_h7TiyHIj-PZpk_5LDSr2bKV37FSSvGCZHMmxWI0VXrYmQ/s864/ariane09.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKVo54r_SEHYv-vSIwLYqknXnn2qqkRFR0Z0wulFPV9NG1Uvt11wgW9VDf8qZyAetoObfe-Mv01PWVJsLGVV7cxdEMxjghBT_mUvAPXscxBNOm_LoYDfLOgtuG8ZlqFxryzwFTIkx-_h7TiyHIj-PZpk_5LDSr2bKV37FSSvGCZHMmxWI0VXrYmQ/s320/ariane09.webp" width="222" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPB2PYD8HY3I-ILb_LjI0iFu2-VD3eOYVb870iQIH5-4JxFepD84ERXaseG9CaxQYYMNZ8xlYWBE9hl66-LEVQKFt3UVgpxJjmzJuxPqI9d37-1GI-AXPkI_juU7a77Oceut2X1tAN6ZTPnp9isQgliS_z80rM3Ai5ZD1ahtFGi8Ra9DsQMxM9FA/s567/muster_01_12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="567" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPB2PYD8HY3I-ILb_LjI0iFu2-VD3eOYVb870iQIH5-4JxFepD84ERXaseG9CaxQYYMNZ8xlYWBE9hl66-LEVQKFt3UVgpxJjmzJuxPqI9d37-1GI-AXPkI_juU7a77Oceut2X1tAN6ZTPnp9isQgliS_z80rM3Ai5ZD1ahtFGi8Ra9DsQMxM9FA/s320/muster_01_12.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTUdPnJA4ecdIge7a9iz3oaCU159RchnP_XX9uuh1O9h1mZcPQ1yZQWtXP3dusR3_KwIFrsFsID_uvlkL0ArRVCBp5UjI4Hm_Gq32OesjwZkN7Ai4nYm-Zv0TTmkKCflp-O0CViEB85MD8cVpD5-hxMbbANI7dQD8iPmf6RBwMpleu_vGQCCUn3w/s1024/wickerwork.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="724" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTUdPnJA4ecdIge7a9iz3oaCU159RchnP_XX9uuh1O9h1mZcPQ1yZQWtXP3dusR3_KwIFrsFsID_uvlkL0ArRVCBp5UjI4Hm_Gq32OesjwZkN7Ai4nYm-Zv0TTmkKCflp-O0CViEB85MD8cVpD5-hxMbbANI7dQD8iPmf6RBwMpleu_vGQCCUn3w/s320/wickerwork.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii5JWgP48QzeaEsgO2v_DssRUyxCqeugynaBXzh2xOtsYzF-noNKN0loriyqC_X9aGUPKMkNrm1y-Fa62vl-BAIjjip6Qjnf-iHuw_4kZfU0xxTC7ummKMlmCJObh_EJMr-DmpvaEa6GtStWD8iaN38Z5WyCE9Dy_oxklsmO6_-ABGXwf-cWcOlg/s768/zd_III_0418_05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii5JWgP48QzeaEsgO2v_DssRUyxCqeugynaBXzh2xOtsYzF-noNKN0loriyqC_X9aGUPKMkNrm1y-Fa62vl-BAIjjip6Qjnf-iHuw_4kZfU0xxTC7ummKMlmCJObh_EJMr-DmpvaEa6GtStWD8iaN38Z5WyCE9Dy_oxklsmO6_-ABGXwf-cWcOlg/s320/zd_III_0418_05.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>I am curious if I ever will be able to make something liike this, but...... practise makes perfect they say LOL.</p><p>Okay, I think I will make myself a cup of tea or may be chocolate now and later perhaps do a bit of practising the zentangle.</p><p>Wishing you all a wonderful week, till next time!<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-64895244264453861032023-02-27T15:01:00.004+01:002023-02-27T15:01:41.891+01:00Took a long time before I could tell<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>Here is all going quite well. I keep busy, I go out walking auite a lot(and sometimes also buy myself something nice like something of clothes or tasty things for dinner or chocolate too LOL). And once or twice a week I have "working days". That means cleaning up something, like last week part of the kitchen and the kitchen windows, or clearing out some stuff,like I got rid of a lot of films on dvd or cd's I don;t listen to and already a few books.</p><p>Yesterday I had the courage to do a little work in the garden, like pruning the hortensia's, clearing out a bit the borders from plants that had to go(they won;t flower anymore so better take them away). And it felt quite good to have done that. Pity the weather wan't that nice, it was rather cold so I didn;t stay all too long in the garden. </p><p>Now I have to and finally CAN tell you the very sad news that Edna has passed away. It happened already on the 2nd of February. But the family asked me to wait a bit with telling because they had to inform all family and had to do a lot and of course I promised them. Now I had permission to inform all of you and so I do now. Our beloved Edna isn;t there anymore and I will miss her terribly. Although we never did meet in person, we had a special bond and already for quite some time. She was a long distance friend, with a great heart and lots of humor. I hope she is in a good place where she will have peace and meet her husband and brother again and of course her doggies, she loved so much. </p><p>Rest in peace, dear Edna, and you will always stay in my heart.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKmaxHXQ0CbDDZIq1pzpG_m2r_1bd2FW-1FZVMYT5ifEtt4jra-m2w7dsQZVfY84taHqNKr_h0VyYrUpcH5tIndbO_pRyk02pSFVQ3PpSmxtPQTZO7xh1s1wbCd1GK77PoSpXjFbkeImyY7R5wfO8w0hrjKda2Vds4PF6scV-80Gq6Yo3iJOsBQ/s400/Edna%20april%202019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKmaxHXQ0CbDDZIq1pzpG_m2r_1bd2FW-1FZVMYT5ifEtt4jra-m2w7dsQZVfY84taHqNKr_h0VyYrUpcH5tIndbO_pRyk02pSFVQ3PpSmxtPQTZO7xh1s1wbCd1GK77PoSpXjFbkeImyY7R5wfO8w0hrjKda2Vds4PF6scV-80Gq6Yo3iJOsBQ/s320/Edna%20april%202019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>I will finish now, I think you understand. Wishing you all a lovely week.<br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-10106422624850906462023-02-19T13:52:00.001+01:002023-02-19T13:52:17.448+01:00Homebringing<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>It's a bit of a dull day today, it is cloudy, not really cold, around 9C, but no nice weather. It will stay this way about the whole week, here and there some rain.</p><p>I think I am doing okay, although in a way it still sinlt real all waht happened. Still this week there was a rather important day, last Monday. That day my friend Heidi and me went to the crematorium to receive Jan's ashes. As you know I want him to give his last restplace somewhere in a beautiful spot in nature, which we will do later this year when good weather is there. But for now, we brought him home and it is a good feeling somehow.Every day I light a little candle near his foto and more or less the whole time I am speaking to him about things I do or watch at tv. It feels good to do so and most of the time I don;t feel very sad, you know. I think it is just my way to cope with the situation and why not?</p><p>I try to get out of the house almost every day, may it for short or longer time, because it feels good to sniff some fresh air and do some walking. Every now and then I find a nice buy(mosty lately cuddly and warm fleece like sweaters, I can wear in the evening. I found a couple that are really comfortable and also warm to wear.</p><p>Also did again a little bit of clearing out again, it wil take me still a long time to do all I want, but it keeps me busy. May be next week I will take courage in my two hands and start with painting the larger part of the hallway . Not promising anything, but it should be a good thing to do. I also am not all the time alone, because I still got a visit every day from Muppet, the "lease-cat"as I call her. This morning she was there too and has just left again, after having something to eat and drink of course.</p><p>This evening I will have for dinner, some roasted potatoes, and I willl try my hand on some fennel from the oven, think it will taste well, and as meat I will have some tenderloin, which will be enough for tomorrow too. I do have a cooked meal every day, except for sometimes on Friday or Saturday, but that's okay. </p><p>Good, slowly it is getting time to have something to drink, I am not sure yet, if I will have tea or a cup of chocolate or perhaps another coffee. Oh, those decision one sometimes has to make LOL!</p><p>Wishing you all a wonderful week, stay safe and healthy. <br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-65499017775775248572023-02-15T15:38:00.001+01:002023-02-15T15:38:08.459+01:00Not to worry, all is well<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>Don't worry if I stay away from the blog a bit longer, I am not in the real mood for writing, but wanted you to know I am doing really fine. </p><p>I might do a real post this weekend, I hope.</p><p>Greetings to everyone and have a wonderful week.<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-5782683351660699932023-02-07T12:01:00.002+01:002023-02-07T12:01:40.087+01:00Tackeled a little job this week.<p> Goodmorning everybody!</p><p>I was drinking my morning coffee and then realized I didn;t post yesterday, although I planned too. So better do it now, before another day passes.</p><p>Weather looks quite good, at the moment the sun is shining, temps however are not too hig, around 3C, and a little frost during the niht. But later this week it will go up again to around 7 or 8C and no frost during the night. So it's not bad weather and for the moment is is dry too.</p><p>Last week was a day with some activity and also a few days with not too much hahaha. But..... I told you I wanted to start painting some walls here, and first I checked the old paint we still had left. Well, that looked very odd, so I decided there had to come some new wallpaint. First I looked around on internet where perhaps there was a nice offer and I found it. Not all too far away there is a DIY shop where they had a good offer from 10ltr. buckets with paint in white with RAL 9010(that is white but not shouting white). I went there with my shopping car hoping a bucket could fit. Good, you can guess, the bucket was too big, but the guy in the shop offered to bring it along after his working hours. So I ordered right away two buckets of it, to have enough for the time being. And so nice of the fellow it was good service.</p><p>So next day I started with the small hallway, and it looks a lot better now. Of course there is a lot more to do but I am happy Iat least made a start with it. I dont know if this week I will tackle another part, depends on how I feel and what else there is to do.</p><p>On internet I found a nice little printable, that I have now in a frame hanging in the new painted hallway. I plan to have a few more frames with nice quotes but I go slowly. The one I found is this one and it was so cute:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCwLb2Jc0u8sjjWK-ocACM3siXz_vkCcZhc1JHmr0PXcjdwYeom53Idb4G528v4Ew2QGx0WlheP9gDpMjZ7bXHVrpWHNQXxcb5kerdNrpuxelQBByVk2wG90WrCiqJ5qEgjk5MjYxF9mjmFTsramYJyvMIOG17o50evSBsYiYu0zl66vEDa3W4Q/s737/36b839273d879b4ec8a52ec25db7ac0c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCwLb2Jc0u8sjjWK-ocACM3siXz_vkCcZhc1JHmr0PXcjdwYeom53Idb4G528v4Ew2QGx0WlheP9gDpMjZ7bXHVrpWHNQXxcb5kerdNrpuxelQBByVk2wG90WrCiqJ5qEgjk5MjYxF9mjmFTsramYJyvMIOG17o50evSBsYiYu0zl66vEDa3W4Q/s320/36b839273d879b4ec8a52ec25db7ac0c.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p>Remember I cleared out the cupboard and already put out on the street a big shopper with glasses? Well, I still had more so packed that in another big shopper, also with a note that it was free to take and that also was taken in a moment of time. Hopefully somebody will be happy wth the glasses and some cups and saucers and little teaspoons.</p><p>This morning I phoned with the crematorium to make an appointment for picking up Jan's ashes and my friend Heidi and I will do so on Monday the 13th. So finally I can bring him home, give him a place for the time being and then think of a nice place where we can leave his ashes to rest. It will be in nature and as I said, on a beautiful sunny day, hopefully.</p><p>Tomorrow I will go to Séverine, because it is her birthday and it is a bit of specail one, because she will have her 21th! Quite an age already, and I cannot belive it all went so quick, I still see her as little girl, carrying our rings on our wedding, this year 16 years ago. Yes, at that time she only was 5 years old. And now she is studying speech therapy. She is doing well, and she loves it. It is only hard to find every time an internship, which she needs for her study. I am glad for her that this year she found one and I think she starts next week. It also isn't too far away travelling, so let's hope all will go well. </p><p>Good, that's it for now, I have to go out to do a bit of grocerie shopping, specially for my friend Heidi, who asked me to buy her some chicken breast, that is for a really good price offer near my. I will go and buy that and can take it with me tomorrow. I don;t think I will need much for myself to buy, this evening I will have some tagliatelle with tomatoe sauce, some grated parmezan cheese and perhaps I will add also some capers, perhaps some olives or anything. It will be good enough for dinner, and I eat an orange as desert, which is good for the vitamines. </p><p>Wishing you all a wonderful week, stay safe and healthy and thanks for visiting me!<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-88498807445754289222023-01-30T18:54:00.003+01:002023-01-30T18:54:27.493+01:00Yesterday was a bit of a sad day.<p> Goodevening everybody!</p><p>First I will give you a little update about Edna.</p><p>The last news I had was from one of her daughters on the 25th of January, teling me that Edna was at that time already two days in hospital with breathing problems. She seems to have moved in with her other daughter, Deanne, which perhaps is a good thing, so all day someone is around her to keep an eye on her.</p><p>Audrey(daughter I had contact with) wrote me, that she only has every now and then a little texte message from her mother, very short, because Edna doesn;t want to worry her. As soon as there is more known, Audrey will let met know. She said she will let her mother know that a lot of people asked for her and worry about her. Let us just hope that Edna soon will be out o hospital and in reasonable health again. All we can do is send sometimes a little prayer for extra support.</p><p>Yesterday it was a little bit difficult day, because it was Jan's birthday. He should have become 70 years old then. But in the morning my best friend came to visit me and have a cup of coffee together and a chat, so I wasn;t alone and that was a good thing. </p><p>Her daughter Séverine had made for me and also for Jan a little present, and I was so touched by it. She made an effort to finish it in time and now her present has found it's place. Here a photo of it. It's the little bear at the left side of Jan's photo. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8Qzb1Ijowye9xYOo3q2YSyrkOOyls3QeXu2uO-NNE9VlgwXWloz7lMgiZp2ZJ80e7tbxzq2oXTFeUJpzi8PFehG6BX2ZlnOimXINFc0fs1lX2P5b4esmoe1xrkPLeaZt5T4O0bag4EAd9OYC1zmf3eLEAiYnQdJ0pKZrC3hur3-6v0UrNEg_qQ/s1024/IMG-20230129-WA0000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8Qzb1Ijowye9xYOo3q2YSyrkOOyls3QeXu2uO-NNE9VlgwXWloz7lMgiZp2ZJ80e7tbxzq2oXTFeUJpzi8PFehG6BX2ZlnOimXINFc0fs1lX2P5b4esmoe1xrkPLeaZt5T4O0bag4EAd9OYC1zmf3eLEAiYnQdJ0pKZrC3hur3-6v0UrNEg_qQ/w332-h442/IMG-20230129-WA0000.jpg" width="332" /></a></div><p> I also sent out a formular to be able to collect Jan's ashes. I decided that I would like to take it home and leave it in peace for a few months perhaps, wait till it is nice weather(Jan hated the cold, LOL) and then go with my best friend to some place where we can leave his ashes to "recycle". If possible near a beautiful tree in the ground. We'll see in time.<br /></p><p> ========</p><p>Last week I have been busy with clearing out again, This time I tackeled the cupboard, which is rather large and had a good rummage through all of them. It ended up in having a big shopper full of glasses, and also a smaller cardboard box full of glasses mixed with some China, cups and saucers .</p><p>Then I washed up all the glasses that were left over and re-organized them a bit and now it looks fantastic again. The large shopper I put out on the street with a little note on it: "This is glassware, free to take" and when I looked out about an hour later it was gone already.</p><p>I also went into town to a store where they sell cheaper stuff(just not a dollar store) and bought there some paintrollers and stuff for it so that when the walls will be tackled we have all we need. I just need to buy one or two big buckets of wall paint to have enough for all the walls.</p><p>May be I will start already somewhere this week with the little hallway, that isn;t a bit project and I think I have enough paint left from another time. It depends a bit on how this week will go. It has no rush, so I can start also some days later.</p><p>I try to keep busy as you see, which is a good thing to do. Of course I do take here and there a day "free"of a to-do list, and have a pyjama day.</p><p>This is about all I can tell for now, not too much, but I did want to make a little post, I must not let that go. It's okay to have at times a little longer break, but it also is nice to keep in touch with the "world"a bit like this.</p><p>Have all a wonderful week, keep safe and till next week.<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-70280902942354263442023-01-23T19:00:00.003+01:002023-01-23T19:00:24.991+01:00As promised, back on Monday<p> Goodevening everybody!</p><p>I was real lazy yesterday and so I decided to do the post today. My week has been rather good. I've been busy with clearing out more things( I have a full big sac of clothes of mine that can go to charity organisation or perhaps a thrift store. The cothes are still real good so perhaps it can make somebody else happy. I will wait till I have more sacs of clothing ready. There still are Jan;s clothes to be done and that will be quite a lot.</p><p>also little by little I try to clear ut more cabinets or at least some drawers. Gosh, what a lot of things we collect, it's aweful! Lasst week I had to make the freeer a bit free of too much ice inside and ended up to also clean the drwers in ti and checking all the things that were in it. Real old stuff I just threw away and I ended up by having drawers in it that I could oversee, LOL. It made me happy in the end. Also some drawers of the kitchen have been done, oh they look so nice now! Still quite some stuff but at least a LOT less.</p><p>It's just a story of clearing out this past week, or most of the time. I also brought Jan's medicins to the pharmacy. That was a bit tricky and emotional when I went through that cupboard, you know. Such small things are still getting to me, but all in all it's going well.</p><p>Last Saturday it was cold weather but with some sunshine and I decided to go to the market. I took the tram and spend some time there. It has been a whie since I visited the market. I came home with some fried fish for my evening dinner and finally home i was glad to be able to sit down and warm up a bit.</p><p>I started knitting again, I just am maing bigger squares in all sorts of stitches, I have so much wool lying around that I have to do something with it. I already gave away quite a bunch to somebody who likes knitting and crocheting, but there still is a lot left. I don;t know if I will make something with those squares, perhaps I just will put them in a plastic bag and put outside on the street and may be somebody creative will pick it up and make something nice of it. For now my hands have something to do when I watch tv and that feels good.</p><p>Well, it is almost time for my favourite quiz on tv so I will finish the post with wishing you all a fantastic week with a lot of happy smiles. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-44788839876838418152023-01-22T19:34:00.003+01:002023-01-22T19:34:19.698+01:00Don't worry, I am still here<p> Goodevening everybody</p><p>Just here to say I will post tomorrow or at the last the day after.</p><p>I am just being a bit lazy today concerning the writing, LOL.</p><p>Have a lovely day/evening(depending on where you are) and till soon</p><p> <br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-64287034324707754372023-01-15T13:33:00.001+01:002023-01-15T13:33:21.689+01:00Week with being busy!<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>Last week we had quite some rain and at times it was accompanied by some strong wind. But temperatures were not too bad, around 8-12C. At the moment it is dry but I think there will be more rain and also next week. Pity that temperature will drop again, not drastically but still lower than we had. May be there will be even some slight nightfrost here at the coast. I don;t hope it is the announcement for having a late winter time in February and March! I never was a person for long winter and cold temperature, so I cross fingers that soon that will be over with.</p><p>Last week I was filling the birdfeeders and looked around in the garden. Gosh, when temperatures will go up again I will have to do a lot of work in Spring, but that is for later. What catched my eyes were two bigger containers that showed already sprouting tulips and daffodils! The tulips are just above the soil but still! And as I saw that it was as if my Jan gave me a lte birthday present. It was he who planted the bulbs a few weeks before he had to go to hospital. So now I hope they will come out good and flower well. Yeah, seeing that made me smile with a little tear, but it felt good.</p><p>The other weekend I took away the Christmas decorations and saw how much we gathered during the years! So I decided to clear that out this week. And I went into towncentre to buy me a few plastic storage boxes, to get rid of the large cardboard boxes. Now I still have quite a bit of Christmas decoration, but I was hard to myself and got rid of a lot of things. I hope I can donate them perhaps to a charity store or so. Then I also started to clear out more things, that will go some day with the bulky waste collection service. It's a start for that, more will follow I am sure. The one thing I still didn;t start to do is clearing out Jan's clothes and other things. I am not yet ready for that, I want to wait with it till after his birthday on the 29th of January at the least. It feels now a bit too soon.</p><p>Oh, I was this week also in a thrift store, just to see if I could find perhaps one or two easy to read books and I ended up with 7 big fantasy books for Séverine(she is very much in reading those kind of books at the moment). So I sent her whats app when in the shop to ask her if she knew the writer. She didn;t but right away looked him up on the internet and answered it was something that she would read. Well, with some apping back and forth I bought 7 books of a serie , hahahh. Lucky I had my shopping car with me, otherwise it had been far too bulky and heavy. Séverine apped me that she would pick them up some time and would pay me then(of course those books cost almost nothing in those stores). But I will give those books to her as an earlier birthday present(she has her birthday in February). </p><p>So all together I had a good week, cooked well for myself(sometimes portions enough for two days , but that's okay, isn;t it?). I had potatoe mash with sauerkraut, one day with a hamburger and another day with a fried chicken leg(we call it here a drumstick). Another day I had spaghetti with tomatoe sauce and some yoghurt as desert. Today I will make myself a piece of salmon with some potatoe out of the oven and I;ve made some applesauce compote. So that should do for today. </p><p>As you see I am keeping myself busy, which is a good thing. I also go out every day or sometimes I skipp one day, but it is good to go out into the fesh air and keeping the legs in motion. </p><p>Now it is time to have perhaps a chocolate drink and watch a bit of tv and then later make my little dinner.</p><p>Wishing you all a wonderful week and stay safe and healthy!<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-77418611844613080892023-01-09T16:49:00.002+01:002023-01-09T16:49:25.447+01:00Reached the age of 70 now.<p> Goodafternoon everyody!</p><p>Yesterday I somehow didn;t have time to write my blog so here I am a day later. It was my birthday and it was, of course, a bit different from other years. Still it was okay and I was invited by friends to have dinner with them(without them knowing actually it was my birthday), so it came together just nice. It was a simple but very tastymeal and we had a nice chat.</p><p>It was a good thing I accepted the invitation, it is important not to loose all contacts and this was just a good occasion. I wasn;t home very late, it was just around 8.00 p.m. all together I had a good day.</p><p>All is slotly coming into a kind of rythm again, although there is still a lot to do, you know. First big thing is clearing out all Jan;s clothes, but I coudn;t do it till now. I will wait perhaps a few weeks and then ask my frined Heidi to come and help me with it. I think it could be a bit emotional, but it has to be done. And he still has so many really good clothes that I will see if I can donate it to a good charity or so. </p><p>We have stil rather mild weather, balancing from 8 to 12C, with sometimes some sun, also rainshowers, but for the time of year it is quite good . Let;s hope we will not get a fall back in February or March with really cold temperatures. Cross my fingers, you know. It also helps in the costs of gas, because at the time they are very high and although we have this year some help from the government, it still is a lot of money to pay each month, and there will be much people that will come into trouble because of that. May be the price of gas will get lower again later this year, but I don;t really have high hopes on that.</p><p>It's almost time to fix myself some dinner, I will have some "Nasi Goreng"with is fried rice with some vegetables in it and to that some diced chicken filet in a peanut sauce. It is quick but tasty and later in the evening I can take some fruit(must think of the vitamins LOL).</p><p>I wish you all a very good and wonderful week, stay safe and cherish all the little happy moments and make them to memories!<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-78721248211154317572023-01-01T15:28:00.001+01:002023-01-01T15:28:10.078+01:00A New Year in different circumstances.<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>At first to all of you a very happy New Year, in good health and many little but oh so important smiling moments.</p><p>It was a bit strange last evening at midnight to sit on the couch and not having next to me to give a kiss to at midnight and wishing him a good New Year. I did wish him that, but in a different way, of course.</p><p>It was just a short sad moment, in most I think I am doing rather well. As I said before, there will be coming still difficult moments but that's ok.</p><p>Friday I realized it was only one month ago that Jan passed away. Somehow it seemed much longer time ago and on the other hand as if it didn;t really happened. Very confusing actually, but I suppose it is a way of coping with the fact perhaps. Tried to keep myself busy with all kind of things, or also having days I didn;t do much at all. But I will be ok and all will be fine eventually.</p><p>There was quite some fireworks at midnight, some of the bigger fireworks of the city were cancelled because there was a real hard wind blowing. So they wanted to go safe. But here in the neighbourhood there were some folks who had some real beautiful fireworks and it was nice to see it.</p><p>Today I promised myself really a day of doing nothing else that watching some films and perhaps one or two detective on tv, making myself a good dinner and start tomorrow being busy again. Later this week my best friend comes home again from her Christmas vacation, and I will be happy to see her again. She kept contacting me every few days, to "keep an eye on me"as she said, hahaha. But nothing goes over a "person-to person"chat, isn;t it?</p><p>Another perhaps more difficult day will be next Sunday, because then it will be my birthday and Jan always congratulated me with my birthday and always said with a big smile on his face: "Ha, now I will be married to a wife that is older than me.(we are from the same birthyear, but I am from the 8th of January and he is from the 29th, you see), and that for 3 whole weeks". It was just a gig between us and it will be strange not to hear that anymore I guess. </p><p>So , best I finish now this post, before I make you all feel too sad, which isn;t my purpose, but it is nie for me to write some things down about how I feel. It is helping in all of this.</p><p>Thanks for visiting and reading and leaving your comments. It all is muh appreciated. </p><p>Have a wonderful week. <br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-8530045745889182162022-12-24T16:19:00.000+01:002022-12-24T16:19:07.424+01:00Almost Christmas<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>After some rather cold days we now have much better temperatures, at the moment we have around 10C and there was even spme sunshine during the day.</p><p>So I took advantage of the better weather and decided to have a litle walk this afternoon, which was a good decision. I have been busy this week with some calls and paperwork and did little jobs in the house and did cook for myslef each evening for dinner. </p><p>I brought a Christmas bag with a few presents and also some things to eat as a little "thank you"to two friends who were just there when I needed a bit of help with some paperwork and also a listening ear. Sadly they were both struck by Covid, one of them was quite ill, but they could stay home to fight it. It was nie to be able to do a small return gesture and they were happy with it.</p><p>As long as I am keeping busy in whatever way, it is going okay with me, but then of course I see something or think about something that has to do with Jan and then a tear or ten or so are shed. Well, that still will happen at the most strange moments sometimes, so I will have to get used to it and it will get less. But now it is just a few weeks ago he passed away and then it is a normal thing.</p><p>Don't feel too sorry for me, it is how it is and I will find a way to deal with it and pick up my life and make something good of it.</p><p>I had a word from my friend Edna, who is experiencing a hard time at the moment as I feel it and she told me also she still has Covid (she did a test again and it showed she is having it), she says it just feels like having a real bad cold with shivers. I really hope she will get over it soon, it could be a little bit tricky with her because she has breathing problems. Let's all send a little prayer that it will get better soon with her.<br /></p><p>I grabe this occasion to, again, thank all of you who left me so many kind words and thoughts, blog people are kind of special people sometimes.</p><p>Also wishing you all a Merry Christmas, and </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBAOOzzLsR2ccY032HEWHFm_n7Pkix6wqTtzYGmeR9MV1Ow1IjQksFjlo6GyWYpxCP9b6i7ZMq72mLBRIYdNWRyddJ9pIKDztAB0P0GlT65sdXftAj-tw7geivOEL06QIYCuoRC90ZL6f1VUnJx7VmFR9F5IYM8kNpjcAAw7F2c-m4B_L_fH65Q/s1280/christmas_magic_by_digitiel_ddpdyzm-fullview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBAOOzzLsR2ccY032HEWHFm_n7Pkix6wqTtzYGmeR9MV1Ow1IjQksFjlo6GyWYpxCP9b6i7ZMq72mLBRIYdNWRyddJ9pIKDztAB0P0GlT65sdXftAj-tw7geivOEL06QIYCuoRC90ZL6f1VUnJx7VmFR9F5IYM8kNpjcAAw7F2c-m4B_L_fH65Q/w494-h278/christmas_magic_by_digitiel_ddpdyzm-fullview.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br />make the best of it.<p></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-88799692218559527522022-12-18T14:20:00.004+01:002022-12-18T14:20:49.195+01:00Holding on .<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>You are all so nice and sweet. Thanks for that. </p><p>We had some rather cold days here, even today it is still cold, with some temperatures below zero, or just around but at nighttime several degrees below zero, brrrrr. But... there is hope. Seems that starting next week temperatures will go up again and even could reach something like 9C at daytime.</p><p>What have I been doing this week? Well, trying to get a little bit into usual rythm again, and trying to keep busy with all kind of things. Some really necessary, like handling some paperwork and sening in forms etc, with that I am on good track. </p><p>I treid to get out of the house almost every day, it is good to snif up some fresh air and walk a bit. Most difficult I think is getting into good eating mode again. I am already not a "big " eater, so I have to take care of that, but...... slowly I do make myself little meals at dinnertime, and I have to keep up with that. Then there is of course some housekeeping to do(I wasn;t the best in it and now it is even less, hahaha), but every now and then I spend a short time on that. </p><p>I have put up a little Christmas tree, because it will be Christmas, although different. My Jan loved to decorate and he would be happy that I made the room a look a little bit in Christmas mood. Last week I bought a new ormanet to hang in the tree, as kind of remembrance to Jan. I've made a photo of it so I can share it with you.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwue0rqk9d2X8Xg28a3u2-Pn85tVueX4Jnq7_vkX-WBiysEfj5-2jUSZ5J3ojqN_9fXXjLec7TBsS8HkomHCSeIiLUdHG9A63n2FjA3suCcEVxhOUooZdpCz4Fd8BS3_myghCa1snx0e8IiMjOhQQUSQTTDYFixHOORkW_xiJ5ZZryl-1-x2QFA/s1600/kerst%202022%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwue0rqk9d2X8Xg28a3u2-Pn85tVueX4Jnq7_vkX-WBiysEfj5-2jUSZ5J3ojqN_9fXXjLec7TBsS8HkomHCSeIiLUdHG9A63n2FjA3suCcEVxhOUooZdpCz4Fd8BS3_myghCa1snx0e8IiMjOhQQUSQTTDYFixHOORkW_xiJ5ZZryl-1-x2QFA/s320/kerst%202022%202.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-zCXUbuqqbEUrbDFt0cq4AdDvT3djUnDamwR9XR5Vs5sAHzWaI-rW_Isz3lYFoNvM6kk0FKkx6SQMySfc_B6eeBOLlDYdHJurOu5Uqwp2E59jk7iL3m0-oKSPISrX8nRsQeOMmOac3cdMUlzBzfZP21JA4HQ9R01PGzQoHhNzWy-AgP_idvDjw/s1600/kerst%202022%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-zCXUbuqqbEUrbDFt0cq4AdDvT3djUnDamwR9XR5Vs5sAHzWaI-rW_Isz3lYFoNvM6kk0FKkx6SQMySfc_B6eeBOLlDYdHJurOu5Uqwp2E59jk7iL3m0-oKSPISrX8nRsQeOMmOac3cdMUlzBzfZP21JA4HQ9R01PGzQoHhNzWy-AgP_idvDjw/s320/kerst%202022%201.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>One thing I am greatful about is that on tv now there are Christmas films every day during the month. Perhaps funny that I watch them now, but most of them are not too bad and you don;t have to think a lot when watching them. I am not really in the ood for following detective series at the moment. I do watch them but not that often at the moment. </p><p>It is still a strange situation for me. I cope rather well, I think with it, but at the most funny moments suddenly some tears appear. Like this morning. I did turn the washing machine, and when hanging it on the drying rack in the extension, I saw on the couch there lying two sweaters of Jan, which I wore a lot when at home, because they were comfy and warm. And then .... oops, I suddenly started to shed some tears. Jus for a few moments, then I was rather okay again, but those things happen every now and then. I supose I have to learn, that this might happen more in future, just every now and then. Well, it's okay. Lucky we aren;t machines and have our feelings.</p><p>Next week there are still a few administrative things to settle and still some in the new year, but not so much. Now my friend Heidi is on a little vacation and will be back around the 2nd of January. Then she will come over to help me with some paperwork, if still necessary and later will help with sorting out things from Jan, like his clothes and so on. At the moment it is still a bit too soon for me. That can wait.</p><p>Well, this is how I am going on at the moment, not much more to tell. </p><p>I'll try to come back just before Christmas next week, okay?</p><p>Wishing you all a safe and wonderful week to come.<br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-19160168834794590162022-12-11T13:57:00.012+01:002022-12-11T14:01:04.511+01:00Goodbye to my hubby Jan<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>First I want to thank agin all that left me a comment with so many kind words. It is heartwarming to know that there are still a lot of wonderful people around.</p><p>And yes, last Monday I said goodbye to my Jan.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYoidgjNzYKUJ-IJt5cjMGhglH4liSDpwDzJdh5WxWiCifrX9gE0H7-TG6_mdyEpPQX5CozYN1tnEk4QaSDwx7ti9AjF3SsyGb8BtdTHAoQ9FzyaL-2JcC83NioGzrfwfNTnREPo7k8ohkQikXHkktB7qXsBK1yJ7YL2RhS_nn_loMrwUEqBdfA/s1237/foto%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRYoidgjNzYKUJ-IJt5cjMGhglH4liSDpwDzJdh5WxWiCifrX9gE0H7-TG6_mdyEpPQX5CozYN1tnEk4QaSDwx7ti9AjF3SsyGb8BtdTHAoQ9FzyaL-2JcC83NioGzrfwfNTnREPo7k8ohkQikXHkktB7qXsBK1yJ7YL2RhS_nn_loMrwUEqBdfA/w249-h400/foto%201.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><p>This were the flowers I gave him on his last voyage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZ3cpAdAVE638VcNZ4lKo_oLnM2KrS-ckhPk7iimvkNWS_YGMCs1OVRCQTM0QlonNgKHm2BuE1uD9hUxa8vBzpPKjKz8F--E09sMLDbIzdeNvd4lLpVtfhZlany_IWE4S8izOyVGVHjZ2CIp00yjVf5cGQjwNlGrKkIpgZJcsRgUV-m4uzeyszA/s1600/IMG-20221204-WA0002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZ3cpAdAVE638VcNZ4lKo_oLnM2KrS-ckhPk7iimvkNWS_YGMCs1OVRCQTM0QlonNgKHm2BuE1uD9hUxa8vBzpPKjKz8F--E09sMLDbIzdeNvd4lLpVtfhZlany_IWE4S8izOyVGVHjZ2CIp00yjVf5cGQjwNlGrKkIpgZJcsRgUV-m4uzeyszA/s320/IMG-20221204-WA0002.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBzHKnfOqkMp5xyNbEIvF68R4cpQDm0HFIZ5eebZLzeJ8mYV7nt7-CbQU5JRoA3g0-3g9V73b_ag3Kp-e-_7n-reCgD-cc0DpJvZSZftdXgC1RWsQekzxax-3RhbxXdxQAY0Eh6vDiZrWUJ-hQj8KYMofRwxNyba_bDU02Zy6dvUFL-e0wCp0JoA/s2000/IMG-20221204-WA0000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBzHKnfOqkMp5xyNbEIvF68R4cpQDm0HFIZ5eebZLzeJ8mYV7nt7-CbQU5JRoA3g0-3g9V73b_ag3Kp-e-_7n-reCgD-cc0DpJvZSZftdXgC1RWsQekzxax-3RhbxXdxQAY0Eh6vDiZrWUJ-hQj8KYMofRwxNyba_bDU02Zy6dvUFL-e0wCp0JoA/s320/IMG-20221204-WA0000.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>texte was simple: Jan.... given with love, Kyra</p><p>This was the front of the card of the announcement</p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWU-9ddJHrykZm5CztrafAwSJu6kP26oOtIuiSK6dOqR3S1l55INncjbWT8RQXtzV8otOwpplkdYY7qDIKra5AI5uA70VBUxTulL5AsU4y1BR1ODbV76t_d2W2l5fu-yH2XxipoYUCH6zPLCkOiILSBcacAX-4jY6mLkAg-WDATvwsSJqwLEw3pQ/s776/U2215168%20Rb%20Uding1024_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="776" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWU-9ddJHrykZm5CztrafAwSJu6kP26oOtIuiSK6dOqR3S1l55INncjbWT8RQXtzV8otOwpplkdYY7qDIKra5AI5uA70VBUxTulL5AsU4y1BR1ODbV76t_d2W2l5fu-yH2XxipoYUCH6zPLCkOiILSBcacAX-4jY6mLkAg-WDATvwsSJqwLEw3pQ/w506-h501/U2215168%20Rb%20Uding1024_1.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><p>I think the foto of the flowers doesn;t do them completely justice, I think the color is a little bit different, but it gives the idea.</p><p>Texte of the card short;</p><p>"Sooner than I thought I'll have to let my buddy go"<br /></p><p>and then the usual information. <br /></p><p>The ceremony was held in a very small and intimate place, just enough for a real small company. I let them play some music Jan liked very much, like nr.1 Non ho l'eta from Gigliola Cinquetti, then I held a small speech, then there was played Words from the Bee Gees( he adored the Bee Gees!) en during that song they showed some lovely foto's of Jan), then my best firend spoke some words, then there was the last song Gute Nacht Freunde, from Reinhard May and then everone gathered around Jan's coffin and did a last toast as goodbye. It was really moving.</p><p>Afterwards we gathered for something to drink and talk a bit and then everybody went home.The lady who arranged all for the funeral service did a great job, she was a very nice and caring person. </p><p>Yes, of course it was a sad day, but I had peace with it how it all was arranged.</p><p>Then this week I think I am still in a kind of "surviving mode", there are quite some things that one has to take care of, most the official paperwork and telefone calls. A lot of things are done, but in the coming weeks I will still receive letters with things to answer etc. </p><p>It's a strange feeling I have now. I cope rather well till now(I think), I am talking a lot to his foto at the moment, not feeling too sad. Perhaps I already felt it coming when he was moved to hospital this last time. And cried my heart out the moment he passed away and perhaps that was good as it was.</p><p>Oh there will be certainly moments I suddenly will miss him terribly, and shed a little tear but that will be okay too.</p><p>There is such a sweet thing happened, which I found very moving and I would like to tell this before I really finish this post. A few days ago I did send a little app to our plunber to let him know my husband has passed away. I also (may be strange to do so but I didn;t know what to do at that moment)asked him if he knew a reliable carpenter or locksman who could help me with my front door. Suddenly I couldn't lock it with my keys. Probably caused by frost or humidity, but very akward of course.</p><p>And later that afternoon someone was ringing at the door, there he was, my plumber to bring his personal condolances, have a short chat and to fix my door! Now I close and open it with my keys without any problem(and that is a great reassurance for me). But isn;t that sweet??? I was very grateful to him. <br /></p><p>Good, for now I will finish, certainly I could tell more things, but that will have to wait. </p><p>I wish you all a wonderful week to come and please, stay as healthy as you can .</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-51834699614663898622022-12-02T16:33:00.002+01:002022-12-02T16:33:56.963+01:00just a word<p> The cremation will be on Monday 5-12-2022 at 3.00 p.m.</p><p>Thanks to you all for your kind messages and all. It is very heartwarming.Till next post, don;t know when but I will be there again.</p><p> <br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-8395348088508534792022-11-30T12:22:00.002+01:002022-11-30T12:22:49.226+01:00A sad day<p> Goodafternoon everybody!</p><p>Just a sgort post to let you know that my hubby and soulmate Jan passed away this early morning around 6.30 a.m.</p><p>It went suddenly very quick, but he went away quite peacefully and without a lot of struggling. I am happy about that and glad to be at his side in his last moments.</p><p>It will be some very turbulant days, so it might take a while before I post again.</p><p>Thanks to all for their prayers.<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-50084595677638864442022-11-28T09:41:00.002+01:002022-11-28T09:41:34.693+01:00Not a good week<p> Goodmorning everybody!</p><p>No it wasn't a good week here. </p><p>Since Friday Jan, my hubby, is again in hospital with (again) troulbe with his belly and intestins. This time however, doctors decided to operate him to see what to do. So he was operated already Friday evening late. Operation went well, but because of his total weak health conditions he is on IC. He still is now and probably will stay there for longer time. We all hope the doctors can pull him through, it is a very weak faible balance to medicate him at the moment.</p><p>It is hard to see him lying there on all kind of tubes and so on, every time he says something he has to take a rest to get his breath again and of course he is very tired. Let's pray and hope it will all come to a good end and that he can come home again. I really have no idea how things will go. I wanted you to know, but this is all for the moment no other chit chat.</p><p>Stay safe and healthy, this is such important, <br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-40207080932243754952022-11-19T18:44:00.004+01:002022-11-19T18:44:23.257+01:00Quick post<p> Hello everybody.</p><p>I am a day early, I kniow but may be tomorrow I will have no time to post, or no more energy. We have to go to a birthday party from a kid from a friend, so no idea when tomorrow afterrnoon we will be back.</p><p>But I wanted to tell you that I've been able (with help from a blogfriend) to get in touch with Edna at last. She had some health issues and seems she was feeling a bit low and without too much energy. But she told me she was okay and that sooner or later she would mke a little blogpost. She was touched by your comments and concern.</p><p>This was the most important I wanted to tell.</p><p>Have a lovely weekend stay safe.</p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-82250282231395009152022-11-13T18:40:00.000+01:002022-11-13T18:40:11.861+01:00Just to let you know I am still here LOL.<p> Goodevening everybody!</p><p>Our weather has been quite good, but I am afraid next week it will change and temperatures will go down to around 11C and nights perhaps 4-5C. It is of course the temperature for this time of year, but I don;t have to be excited about it, isn;t it???</p><p>It was a quiet week, and although it could sound boring, I am glad that I can write, that it was quiet without any unwanted surprises. I spend some time in the kitchen, you know I normally like cooking(there are days, I am less motivated for it too) and I try to have some variety in the meals. I also try to make meals we can have also the other day, so I can spend time on other things.<br /></p><p>I am more and more worried about my blog friend Edna, I didn;t hear anything from or about her, although I did send several emails to her. This week I sent a letter to her as well as to one of her tennants, who did every now and then a little job for her. I hope I will receive an answer from that. If not I am afraid that something really bad happened to her, but let us hope and pray she still is okay. If I don;t hear anything from my letters I don;t know what else I can do to get any imformation. Perhaps somebody reading this might know what I could do more?</p><p>Well, with this I think I finish now my post, and do perhaps a little game on the computer and then have a nice tv evening, we have quite some things recorded and also on live tv there are some good programs this evening.</p><p>Wishing you all a safe, healthy and wonderful week.<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-88992066686969542982022-11-06T19:04:00.003+01:002022-11-06T19:04:31.212+01:00Oops, I skipped a week!<p> Goodevening everybody!</p><p>Yes, I didn;t post last week Sunday, partly because I was lazy and also because there wasn't much to tell.</p><p>Starting with the weather here, today is rather bad, almost all day it is raining and temperature isn;t much either, around 10-11C. Not nice. Later this week it will be a bit better, temperature will be around 14-15 and less rain. We try not to put on the central heating too much, gas is very expensive at the moment, but in the evening we have it on for a bit. Pity that our house is rather "cold", despite the new double glazed windows. However, when we warm the room up it also stays quite long at agreable temperature, and that is because of the new windows too. </p><p>The central heating kettle had a cleaning fro our plumber, so hopefully we will not see him for a long time now. Pffff, that leak did cost us quite some money, but good, we hope to be out of trouble now for longer time, LOL.</p><p>Last weekend I watched also the Strictly come dancing from the BBC and it was fabulous. It was the Halloween and there some so very good and funny dances! I hope yyou can watch this link, you can have an impression of it.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001drgy/clips">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001drgy/clips</a></p><p>Good, not more to tell so I better end this post and have a quiet evening on the couch.</p><p>Wishing you all a very good week, stay safe !</p><p>P.S. If nothing really worthwhile happens this week, I might skip again a week posting, but I will let you know if I do so.Just so you don;t worry if I am not posting okay?<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-39505694519990848652022-10-23T19:43:00.007+02:002022-10-23T19:43:57.525+02:00LEaks re gone and hopefully for a long time!<p> Goodevening everybody!</p><p>Ourweather is still mostly very mild, we have temperatures between 16 and 18C(next week might come to 19 or 20C), here and there a little bit of rain, so se cannot complain, specially with the high energy prizes at the moment, we don;t need to have put on the CV very often and that saves a lot of gas and so a lot of money, but we don;t know what the winter will bring us.</p><p>Last week Monday our plumber came to repair the leak and he fixed the leak with a new kind of pipe(a flexible one) and removed all lead pipes that still were under the floors, and replaced them for new ones, and then wentthat under our bedroom, the sand there still was so very wet and not good smelling either and he discovered that there was a part of an old sewer pipe, going to the street that was broken! So you might be able to imagine what mess there was, yak. So he came next day to replce that part with new pvc ewer pipe, had to break open a part of the street to be able to attach the pvc pipe on the outer sewer pipe. Then he advised us to put some floor isolation under the floor of the bedroom, first it is good against cold, of course but also holds down the all the moist that was there and the smell too. And it would help to dry in time. So this also wasn;t and expected post, but now we have aout 50 cm. thick isolation material, it looks like small potatoe chips but then from styrofoam.Well, all together it was a big job but now we shouldn;t have any old waterpipes anymore and we should be safe for several years at the least. Pfffff, it did cost us quite some money, but I was glad he didn;t have to break open our shower room to be able to place the new pipes. Perhaps we will let him replace the shower room/toilet next year. It is all already rather old and could have a refreshing look. However, that will cost really quite some money, so we let that be for the moment, And ou plumber also didn;t had any time anymore this year for such a big job. After he was gone, we started to clean the house, specially at the places where the floor has been open for a part. Gosh, all around there was very fine dust or perhaps sand, it took us two days of hard labour to get it done , or at the least the most urgent of it.</p><p>Better not to think too much about the spent money, but is also is a good feeling that normally we will not have water trouble in the near future.</p><p>We did have our two vaccinations from our doctor, the one for flu and the one for pneumococci. Glad I didn;t have much trouble of them, just about one day that both arms had a bit of sensitive spot, that's all. Next thing will be to take the new covid vaccination for this winter, I guess. But I will wait a few weeks, I think.</p><p>That's about all folks! I hope you all had a fine week and I wish you a wonderful week to come, stay safe please! <br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-32414004562582130292022-10-16T18:48:00.002+02:002022-10-16T18:51:28.504+02:00Disaster struck again, yeah.<p> Goodevening everybody.</p><p>Weather report: we've had a few days with rain, but today it was sunny again and next days it will be mostly dry too and still nice temperature, around 15-18C.</p><p>What happened? Well, I wanted to buy some stamps on line, so treid to do that (I did before and all worked well), but this time I got stuck in my bankaccount. Couldn;t advance in it, so I tried the app on my phone. There it said my card was out of date! Hmmmmmmm????? Normally the bank sends a new one well before the expiration date. I checked on my card and it said it was okay till octobre 2022. Oops, that was close.So just by mere coincidence I found out I had quickly get a new one. Phoned the bank, was helped really good and they would send me a new one, but in the mean time I coudn't use the old one anymore. Lucky Jan has his card and I had some cash money around. But it is very akward. Yesterday I got the new one in the post and it also works. </p><p>Next think is we have another leak. Remeber I told you about the one several weeks ago? Well, the fixed it, but they said also it was for sure temporary, because the whole pipe was at the end and porous(that part is still a lead one). I noticed it Thursday, so shut the watermeter and called my plumber(in the evening, I normally don;t do that if possible). well, he knew about the pipe(this was the father, the sons came the other day to fix the 1st leak)He couldn;t come next day, so now Ihe will call me Monday morning to se when he can come over and has time to fix it. It will probably be quite some work and very good possible they have to break via the showerroom.If so, we might let him redo all the showerroom, so that will look fresh and sparky again and with good pipesetc. Will not be very cheap but better do it properly now and have no more trouble(we hope). So now we tap once ot twice a day quickly some water in buckets, but I will be happy when that will be over. It is sooo annoying not being abe to tap water as ou normally do. And you cannot do a lot of things. We have to shut down the watermeter, because there will leak soooo much water that we would have to pay again a large sum of money at the anual statement of the watercompany. Good, let's hope my plumber has time next week to do the job, and that the costs of all will not be enormous!</p><p>Some good news too. Jan went Thursday to the doctor to hear the results of all the scans and she told him they didn;t find anything at all to worry about, so she is a bit puzzled why Jan has from time to time these attacks in his intestines(let's be happy they don;t occur very often), but all looked good enough inside. So that was good news and I noticed Jan was relieved too.</p><p><i>I just have one thing I am worrying about and that is about <a href="https://missednasplace.blogspot.com/">Miss Edna</a>. She isn;t posting for quite some time now, I did email her but didn;t received an answer(which isn;t like her at all). So I have this request: Anybody who is reading this and also reads Miss Edna's blog perhaps one of you has phone contact with her or knows something more, could ou be so kind to let me know something? You can mail me at the address on this blog(look at the right side). I would be very happy to know something.</i></p><p><i>And Edna, if you read this, please send me a little message. I do hope everything is okay with you!!!</i></p><p>So now I will end this post, have a quiet evening and on to next week! Wishing you all a wonderful week to come.<br /></p><p><br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8863343108061337120.post-33366575773451152702022-10-09T18:40:00.004+02:002022-10-09T18:40:36.433+02:00In dancing mood?<p> Goodevening everybody!</p><p>Our weather is calm, not much rain, today was quite sunny, and temperatures are around 15-16C. And it will next week too, may at the end of the week a little bit more rain.</p><p>I am happy that the new season started of Strictly come dancing on the BBC. I record it on Saturday evening and during the week, or like today, on Sunday afternoon I watch the show. There are again some very good pairs, and some of the "stars"show a real improvement. But every time again I am in awe for the decors that are made and the costumes, it all looks so wonderful and it is a real pleasur to watch it.</p><p>For the rest of the week it was more or less quiet, did some things I wanted to do, so that's good.</p><p>Next week Jan will have his appointment with his doctor in hospital to talk through the Mri, and Ct scan adn hear if anything was found or not. </p><p>Then it lso will be time to call my plumber, to have him clean our central heating kettle, so that during winter it will work without trouble.</p><p>At the moment our life is withtout too many waves, and if there are it are just low ones, LOL. </p><p>That's about all I can write now, not much and quit boring too to read, but if there isn;t anything, well it just is as it is.</p><p>Wishing you all a wonderful week, stay safe and till next week.<br /></p>smiekeltjehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16375937338027468675noreply@blogger.com0