Just one daffodil blooming, LOL

Goodmorning everybody!

Yeah, of all the daffodils we had in our garden I guess there is just one left. But it is doing a great job showing off, hahahaha.
It was a rather quiet week, and I love writing that down. It may seem boring, but it isn;t.
I did all the shopping for the weekend in time, and also did some household chores and even did some work in the garden this week.
Jan and I moved a little bush to another spot, where it has more room and it brightens up that part, cause it has wonderful light green leaves. Then we moved a rose bush to the former place of the little bush, so now that rose also has more air and room to grow.
I am rather happy with it.
We also placed the old rosebow at the end of the path towards the little shed, now I just have to find either a rose or clematis(or perhaps both) to grow there. But now is not yet the time to find them, I think I will have to wait for another month.
Jan already put down the groundcover between the stepstones of the path, so it looks nice again and it keeps away the weed growing a bit.
Slowly the garden is getting shape again, now we will have to wait for end of April and start of May to put in all the bulbs of the dahlia's and also some other species. And then cross fingers they will do their best later this summer.
some of the seedlings also try to do their best, but are still very fragile and I don;t know how many of them really will survive. Oh well, that's part of the fun to grow them yourself. Sometimes disappointment(and that is a learning curve)and sometimes great succes(which brings a smile to our face, LOL).

Weather here is slowly getting better, for sure temperature is climbing. we might reach some 10-12 C which is not too bad. Next week there might be some more rain, but also some sunshine, so it is kind of unsure, but much better already than a few weeks ago. Frost is out of the air at night, I hope it will not return sneaky somewhere in April(it sometimes does for a few days). And this weekend we will have to put on Summertime at our clocks. Must not forget to change the time on Sunday. We still have a couple of clocks on batteries, lucky that the one of the computer and tv and dvd change automatically.

Okay, it's about time I put on some clothes and go to the drugstore to get a couple of medicins for Jan. Don't want him to run out of them during the Easter weekend, do we?
I have for you Arlene's clusters made with the WInters End kit.
Wishing you all a happy and blessed Easter!

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Spring knocking at the door, will it enter???

Goodafternoon everybody!

Yes, it is early afternoon and normally I post in the mornings. But first I slept a little longer and then  was first busy in the kitchen, preparing dinner for this evening. As jan has his volunteerjob and comes home later, I make two plates that we can put in the oven. I usually have my dinner at around 5.00 or 5.30 p.m. and Jan around 7,30 or 8.00 p.m.
So I was busy with that first, in the same time I prepared a red cabbage cut and blanched to put into the freezer in portions, made some stew pears for dessert this evening and also had a load of laundry done in the washingmachine.
I feel quite good about it all and now I have time to quickly post and then I will watch one of my favourite programs at the BBC, Bargain Hunt.

The whole week was kind of smoothly going by, hoorray, and I am crossing fingers it will go on like that for a while, we've had enough "turbulence" the past time.
We've had  rather nice weather lately, although it is still feeling a bit cold outside. Nevertheless the frost has gone and I truly hope it will stay away for very, very, long!
Still at times we had some lovely sunshine periods, and if you could find a spot sheltered from the wind, you could really feel the warmth of it already. Now the air has to warm up some more, we need the wind coming from the south and south-west, then it will become warmer quickly!

That's it for now, cannot think of anything to tell( but somehow have the feeling I am forgetting something, LOL), so here is a little kit I named Winters End.
We all are longing for the end of the winter time, and are prepared to open our arms wide for spring and summertime.
Have a lovely day.

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Weather looks good at the moment.

Goodmorning everybody!

Yes, the last couple of days the weather is looking not bad at all. It is dry and at daytime we reach about to 9 C and with a lot of sunshine. Of course it still feels not really warm, but it is heading to right way LOL.

Thursday Jan went for his scopie and I went there to pick him up after. He had a light anaesticia, so they want that someone accompanies the patient home. It was good I was there, because jan was still a tiny little bit dizy, but okay enough to go home by tram.
Now we will have to wait two weeks to hear the result.

Jan didn;t go to his volunteerjob this weekend, just in case he would have a bit trouble from the scopie.
Luckily he didn't have any, but it was good he took a rest on Friday.
Yesterday he was all in a good mood and it was nice weather so he washed the gardendoor windows and at the same time we put the big curtains in the washing machine(oh boy, what a strange color f water came of it LOL).
It looks ever so nice again now.

A good thing is that the next week or so there isn;t expected any rain, and the garden really needs that and a lot of sunshine to dry up a bit.
Jan already planted a lot of bulbs in a part of the garden( the ones he found in a sale for practically nothing). Now  am curious if any of them will come to bloom ROFL.
If  so, we will have a nice patch of all kind of flowers.

Today I have clusters from Arlene for you, made with the Stay Calm kit.
Have a wonderful day and week ahead.

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Bit of exciting week

Goodmorning everybody!

Best I try to do my post today, we have a funny week going on, sort of.
Last week Jan got a phonecall from the hospital about his new research stuff( endoscopie and probably too a gastroscopie, pffff), that they would post to him instructions and a prescription for some medicins he has to take before the reseach.
It took some time but yesterday it was there. So Jan went to the drugstore for the medicin and I read the leaflet with instructions for his diet. Yes, yesterday he still could have a dinner, but i had to be careful what veggies and meat I used, he wasn;t allowed to a lot of stuff. But then he came back with his medication, and we read the instruction book and then the leaflet of the drugstore with information and something wan't right. In the instructions of the hospital he had to take of one medicin only 2 pills and in the leaflet of the drugstore 2x 2, and he had 4 in the little box. I found it confusing, so phoned the hospital this morning and he only has to take  2 pills and can skip the other two. Still it is strange it isn't all clear from the beginning.
Today the poor guy has it diffcult. He can eat until 14.00 hours and then it is over. He still can and even has to drink a lot but that is all. Tomorrow he only has to drink again 2 ltrs. of water but cannot have anything to eat anymore.
Then tomorrow at 13.30 he has the scopie. He will be under light sedation, so he will not notcie anything of it, which is a good thing, the scopies aren;t the most funniest things to undergo!.
Then he will have to stay in hospital for about two hours more to sleep the sedation off and then he can go home again. Good thing is that it happens in the hospital near us, so he will not have to travel much.

I have finished now my antibiotics, so hopefully soon my stomach will behave as normal again. Can't wait for it!!!!!

Good news?
Well, a little bit. this week near the end of it temps will go up also at night, not too much wind so slowly Spring might creep in. if that could be true, I will feel already a lot better.
we have already a lot of seedlings popping up and soon in need of repotting, so let the sun come and with some real warmth.
And when that happens, you automatically get more energy to do stuff.
Then next week I think I will phone my hairdresser, because I am in really desparate need of a haircut!
Oh boy, that will feel sooooo good LOL!

Okay, soon it will be time to wake Jan up, so he still has time to eat  and drink something, before he has to take his medicin(very unpleasant stuff, laxatives), and stay without anything for a long time. I've made him some clear broth he can take instead of only water( he is allowed to have it), so at least he will have some taste.

I have a little kit for you, named "Stay Calm". It's in light colors, already a bit pointing to spring, perhaps.
Have a wonderful day and rest of the week.

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More pills, not happy.

Goodmorning everybody!

Yes a bit late this week, but here I am finally. Some rather good news to start with. Jan can skip his second bloodthinner. Seems it is just too much and for the moment not needed anymore. So that was the good news on Monday, even more, because he has had his MRI scan and at first his doctor was a bit afraid he might have a kind of tumor in his liver, but that isn't the case and that is a really big relief.
Now she still wants to do another scan, I don;t know quite which one, could be a gastroscopie or endoscopie. Well, neither of them are really great ones to undergo, but she wants to check something. Better have a check too much than have nasty surprises later, I guess.
Then Tuesday I phoned my doctor for the result of my test and it seems I have a bacteria in my stomach that causes the trouble. Bummers, I am not happy with that. Now I am on two biotics for a week, also have to take one stomach pill more a day while this cure is going on, and that should do the trick. Hopefully next week the bacteria will have disappeared, then I will have to take the stomach pill for 4 weeks more and then we will see if I can skip that one too.
Pffff, getting older is one thing, but all the troubles you sometimes get with that is no party LOL.
Just let's hope after a few weeks all will be okay and that Jan's scan will show no trouble either, then we can feel much happier again.

Weather here is a bit of everything, times at day with sunshine(and the sun is already feeling rather warm, you know), then rainshowers and sometimes even showers with wet snow. During the night here at the coast around zero, more to the east a couple of degrees frost sometimes.
It will go on like this about the rest of the week and start of next week. There is although less wind at the moment, but it is coming from the North or North-west and that isn't the nicest one.

I just got a mail from Arlene, that she is almost feeling a 100% again, so she got rid of her pneumonia and I am really glad for her.
She even sent me some clusters, made with the Free Flight kit, so sweet of her.

Although attimes the weather could be okay to do some work in the garden, it still is difficult, because the soil still is too wet. But Jan already cleaned some pots and will prepare them, when the sun is shining, I guess. Some of the seedlings really have a speed-grow, it seems. Gosh, soon we will have to transport them into a bigger pot, but I guess it is still too cold for them to be outside, so we will have to find some room for them in the house LOL.

Well, time for me to finish this post and get dressed and then think of the things I could do today. Probably a lot more than I will achieve in the end, hahaha.
Here are your clusters from Arlene, enjoy them.

Have a lovely day.

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Preparations for spring time.

Goodmorning everybody!

What can I say about the weather? It hasn;t yet decided how to act for the coming week, I guess.
Yesterday we had some wintery showers, but also blue sky and sunshine. Temps not all too high, around 5-6 C, and at night about 1 to -2 C.
Today it seems to get more quiet, more sunshine, almost not or completely no showers, very little wind.
Then a few days with stronger wind and still a little bit of frost at night, but later it seems to get slightly "warmer"( at least no frost, yippee).

What did we this week? Not so much, I can say, it was however a rather nice week.
I did some household stuff here and there, tood an afternoon "off"and went to city centre and managed to come home with almost nothing bought LOL!
I don;t need to do a lot of shopping for the weekend, just a few things like bread and cat food, that  will get later today. My fridge is still filled enough  and I have a lot of veggies lying there to be used.
I think I will make a kind of Oriental soup for tomorrow, you know, with a lot of fresh veggies in it, a tiny bit spicy, simple but tasty and good enough for a Saturday evening dinner.

Jan already got in a kind of Spring spirit this week. He prepared a lot of little pots with some soil and planted all kind of seeds. They are standing on trays nowsme of them in the room, some in the shed, well, a bit all around LOL. Then he screwed together the new rose bow I bought in a sale. It is not of the best quality, but it will hold for several years, normally, so good enough for me at the moment.
Can you imagine that some of the seeds alreay are sprouting??? Gosh they are really quick. Hope they don;t grow too fast, because it is still too cold to put them outside.

Monday Jan will have his doctor appointment for the result of the MRI. I also want him to talk to his doctor about his bloodthinners he is taking at the moment. Apparantly he has too thin blood because of him, so the trombosis service gave him a new schedule with almost no pills for the coming week. But he already is on another bloodthinner, so I guess that complicates the case a bit. May be he can skip the second one soon, and was it only  temporary. Perhaps  will go with him to his appointment, although I know he doesnt like that, hahaha.
We'll see how it goes.

Okay, on to the freebie for today. I've made a kit ( and did even some more designing again, which was a nice feeling), named it Free Flight. I first had another one, but then I saw I just forgot to make a preview of it, so I will do that this weekend.

Oh, poor Arlene is feeling not well. First she had the flu but it turned out to a pneumonia. She is recovering already, but certainly needs some more time for it. So I told her to first take care of herself and recover completely from the pneumonia and gain force again and that the clusters can wait till she feels up to it again. I know how awefull you feel with and after a pneumonia, so her helath comes first, all other things can wait.

Have a wonderful day.

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A week of this and that LOL

Goodmorning everybody!

Here I am at last. Pffff, it was a week of all kind of things.
Tuesday the trombosis service came rather early( by the way, it was a young man), so that was nice.
Jan was given a temporary schedule fo hs bloodthinners, and had to go to controle on Friday morning.
Now it seems that he is on a rather regularly schedule so that should do the trick.
Now I only have to phone them again to see, if we can put the contole on another day, because when it is on Friday, in the afternoon Jan has to go to his volunteerjob  and that is kind of unpractical and busy.
After the young man left on Tuesday, I could go out and so I did. I did copy all the papers for my accountant and sent them to him, pffff, that is done. One thing off my mind.

Cannot remember really what was on on Wednesday. I think some shopping or so. Thirsdaymorning I was at my doctor, about my stomach. He asked me to give a specimen of something(probably you understand of what)and bring it to hospital to let it examin, it might be that all that stomach trouble is cause by a bacterie of virus. Till there is a conclusion, I am still on the pills(they do most of the time their job, but I just want to get rid of them if possible). Next week doctor is on holiday so I will have to wait till I can phone him.
In the afternoon Jan had to go to a hospital far away(about 1/2 an hour with the tram) for an MRI scan of the liver and surroundings. result will be heard on the 29th from his doctor.
So we had a rather medical week, you can say LOL.

One or two days we really had rather nice weather, although a bit cold, there was sunshine. and we had one little surprise in the garden. Jan just was looking into the garden from the kitchen window and called me to watch too. And I saw a little parakeet having a meal in our birdfeeder! WOW, that was so cute to see and something I hoped for but never expected to see. I was too late to make a photo of it, but perhaps if will happen again and I can make a photo of it.

The weather all together is acting a bit uncomprehensible almost. we had some great days with sunshine, blue sky, low temprature, then temps got higher, but it brought rain and wind and at the moment there is a wind of ca. 6 Beaufort here. So I guess Jan will go walking to his volunteer job and will take the tram back, because it's too much wind to go by bike.
There will be temps of about 10-11 C for today and tomorrow, then it will go down again a bit to around 7 or 6C, also nights again a bit colder, 2 to 0 C, all very strange. There is just one thing I am crossing my fingers for and that's no more real frost and cold. it still could happen here, you know, in March and even April!

Oh, yesterday afternoon  just was settled on the couch, with my fleece blanket, just considering if  I would take a nap(Jan already had left for his volunteering) and then the phone rang. It was Heidi, asking me if I could go to the doggies to let them out. She was somewhere she couldn;t leave right away and then she would be home too late. I wasn;t pleased with it to be honest, because it was raining and wind started blowing already, but  gave in, of course. I went to their house and the doggies where ever so pleased to be able to do their thing outside, hahaha.
Home again i didn't take a nap anymore, no, I took a bowl of bean soup out of a can( that I made into a real meal soup, added potatoes, some fresh vegetables and slices of smoked sausage to it in the afternoon already) and watched some tv till Jan came home.
Now today I just want to be in my lounging fleece pyama's and not doing too much hahahaha.
Poor Jan still has to go to his volunteering today too. Well, I will make his dinner and advance, and when he comes home  will shove it in the oven, then he can have his dinner and he will be able to quickly take a nice nap on the couch. and when he wakes up again, probably after an hour, we will watched some stuff we already recorded on our dvd. Wonderful.

Well, I think I chatted long enough now, time for your freebie, some clusters and a quickpage by Arlene, made with the Suddenly you were there kit.
Have a lovely Sunday and start of the week!

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