Biked pass/under these two arrows a number of times. Never saw them. A walking friend brought them to my attention. One points toward a ‘city center route’ the other toward the ‘country-side’ take the latter with a grain of salt. Whatever these mean? No idea. Not a walker
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Eerie
12 o’clock the first Monday of the Month indeed like clock work, the sirens sound. When a child in the US* we had Air-Raid sirens that sounded for a time. This feels like the continuation of that. The First-Monday-of-the-Month-Drill is to be certain that the system is in working order should the emergency arise that …
An Idea Gone…
Thought it was a nice, neighborly things to do. A bowl of chocolate eggs for the passerby out for a bit of air. A touch of goodwill and all those other positive vibs that come with the weekend of Easter. By chance sent this photo to a near-and-dear who immediately reacted. “And you are thinking …
Sunset
Mid-April and this is 21:00 hours. 23 December it was dark at 16:00 hours and sunrise at 9:30 am. How quickly that changes. It gives me a lot more daylight to get things done!
Hair Dryer
When I happened upon this meme it made me laugh aloud and seemed so apropos of the lock down/quarantine situation that is the world-wide lot of everyone. Imagine my surprise when coming across what is apparently the original, not related to the pandemic at all. Made me laugh even harder. Thus, my current response to …
Old School: Current Events
If you have a chance, on Netflix there is a series titled: Explained. Seasons 1&2. It is surprising that this series has not drawn more attention, or maybe it has and I missed it. Season 2 has an episode ‘Pandemic‘ broadcast November 2019. The man-of-the hour is Bill Gates. Why is the only question left …
Red Potatoes -roseval krieltje
Found them in the green grocer and instinctively reached for them. Don’t know what drew them to me, as not often do I buy potatoes. They now compete with rice for my daily diet. I looked up on line to see if there was some medicinal reason… here you go… *Red Potatoes: “Red potatoes contain the …
That Tinge of Work-ethic
I chuckle at myself. A murder of crows appears in my back yard when I put out bread/whatever for them. They are able to spot if from afar and descend immediately. This winter I wrote they had found the coconut shell filled with lard prior to my offering it. After they had emptied it, I …
A Spring Time-honored Treat
Asparagus from Limburg [the southern part of the Netherlands] White asparagus. 20 euros a kilo. If you purchase the spears from the green grocer, they are butter soft. You may also buy them already peeled from the grocery store. The traditional way to prepare them: cut off the end, stand in water. the following day, …