Hello lovely peeps.
Here we are again to go over the past week and remember the smiles and count our blessings. My week has been very blessed, but let me show you my postcard for today:
No prizes for guessing where it comes from. Yes, you guessed it: Ukraine.
The text on the card translates: 'Greetings from Ukraine' and the title is simply 'Sunflowers'. Usually sunflowers make me smile, but this one just makes me sad...
The card is not signed and he/she writes: "From a country that wants peace. However I am forced to defend myself from an invasion called Russia, which hates and destroys my nation with all its heart."
It's heart breaking.
The stamps are pretty. The left one is the shield of the village of Koropetz. The other one I can't read properly because of the cancellation stamp.
Enough about the postcard, what has been happening here?
Last Friday I had my nails done (big smile) and over the weekend I went on a Photoshop course (See Tuesday's blog).
The weather has been really bad, heavy storms with high wind speeds. I had several sleepless nights because of the whistling and howling of the wind and things banging outside. I have two car ports and I was afraid the roof was blowing off the downstairs one. Later my neighbour (and good friend) Tam told me it nearly blew off and tomorrow he is going to fix it properly.
Then the other day the clouds lifted and I woke up to this:
A little bit of snow in the sierra, but not a lot. So I immediately put the washing machine to work as I hadn't been able to wash for nearly a week. On a nice day, washing dries in a couple of hours. That also made me smile.
This morning my friend Kim and I went to the nearby town for our hair appointment. I usually only just have a cut as I like the colour of my hair.
An awkward selfie, and a half smile but you get the gist...
Tomorrow (Friday) I'm going to Pilates and I'm having a massage straight after that. (Big smile to come). Then I'll treat myself to a lovely poke bowl from the nearby Japanese take-away. I'll try to remember to take a picture of my poke bowl so I can show you next week.
I have spent my evenings cuddled up with my cat Ronnie:
He usually lays stretched out over my legs but yesterday slept on my hands. He didn't wake up even though I got my phone out and took this shot.
I've been watching Silent Witness. I've also started (re)watching The Prisoner, the series from the 60s. I saw it at the time, and as a result of that my family visited Port Meirion which really is exactly as in the film. Only we saw the series in black and white at the time as we didn't have colour tv back thenI also love Flog it! and was deeply saddened by the death of Michael Baggott.
I'm collecting English language books so we can start an English section in the local library. Of an evening I sit in front of the TV and I register all the titles. I do it one bag at a time. I have done over 80 books and am now on bag number 7. Three more to go.
That is it from me today. I will add some funnies at the end as per usual.(And some words of wisdom)
Enjoy your weekend,
Hugs,
Lisca
67. (Haha, 67 was my cat walking over the keyboard)
2 comments:
Hi Lisca, nice postcard and gorgeous stamps. Hope you enjoy your day out too. Well done at collecting the books that' sounds like you will soon have a small library. Thanks for the funnies too. Sending hugs Angela xXx
... and didn´t a certain man with an orange skin color promise he´ll end this war in only 24 hours...
Great you have caring neighbors! And such a handsome cat.
Good on the books. I have a big pile to give to university (they have a phone booth for "fun/educational books).
"Fiction"! And the batteries is a good one, too, 67 to Ronnie!
Have a great Friday, hugs
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