Friday, April 3, 2020
Friday Smiles
Hello Ladies, Thank you for a lovely welcome last week and thank you for all your kind comments too.
Apart from celebrating when we opened the blinds to see sunshine we also had a double celebration yesterday, 2nd April. It was the day 50 years ago that we became engaged and 17 years ago that we moved into our villa in Spain!
We were getting engaged on April 1st as Steve had been away for four months with the British Army and that was the date he was due home, he was delayed and so was our engagement!! Maybe that was lucky omen instead of April Fools Day!
Makes me feel quite old but I was only 17, we first met when we both used to go to the local Youth club with our friends, I was 13 and Steve 15, eventually he asked if he could walk me home, little did he know that I had to walk home with my friends and be home by 9pm so he ended walking home with all of them tagging along, LOL
To celebrate we had Lasagne, a joint effort as Steve makes the bolognese sauce, it was actually left over from the night before when we had stuffed pasta and sauce. I made the Bechamel sauce and assembled it! It looks a little overdone but some of the cheese I was using up was the sort that doesn't melt too well! Waste not want not as my Mum would say! Nothing is wasted here but it was delicious.
This is my mini oven, we've had it about ten years or more and it's ideal for the two of us, we rarely use the main oven unless we have our family over in winter. it's seen better days, Steve has to guess the temperature as over the years I scrubbed the numbers off cleaning it!!!
My postcard collection in my craft room, mainly sent by the Grandsons from various holidays, some I bought as a reminder of holidays with them too, they always make me smile as I remember holidays and good times.
It is also what I grandly call my stamping corner, the drawers all contain items for stamping, painting, colouring etc so I have everything in one place, I still end up searching through the drawers for things, most likely because I have too much in them.
I had a Facetime call last night from our Grandson who is eleven, he makes me dizzy taking me around showing me what he is up to and then his brother who is 7 sent me an email, that was a lovely surprise, he had to have an email address set up to receive messages from his teacher and work schedule so he sent me a photo of his mini paddling pool he made on the decking!
We've just heard that we are in extended lockdown until April 26th, the good news is the death rate has dropped today for the first time, that's good to hear, they say they are blocking the roads to the coast to stop holidaymakers coming to this area for Easter and spreading the virus, makes me smile that they don't understand what lockdown actually means, that's good as we have quite low numbers at the moment in our area.
Have a lovely weekend Ladies, I'm just happy to see my washing blowing in the sun, Stay Safe
Jan x
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Lovely to see you joining in again this week. We can never have too many smiles so please keep them coming. Congratulations on all your celebrations....It's our 38th wedding anniversary on 17th so like you, we will have to find a way of celebrating in lock down....lasagne sounds perfect to me.
ReplyDeleteIf only folk would realise that the more isolated we all stay the quicker it would all be over but some just don't have the sense they were born with [that's one of my mum's sayings :-) ].
Stay busy and keep smiling my friend.
Hugs,
Annie x
Hi! your lasagna looks yummy :) how nice that you celebrated such a long reunion together ~ Keep crafting and stay well...our quarantine in Virginia is until June 10th! I can't think about it, I'm just taking one day at a time and crafting a lot! ~ Blessings
ReplyDeleteLasagne, one of my favourites and it looks lovely. People around where we live seem to be understanding the lockdown though we did notice a lot of cars going past today. I think people still do their shopping at the weekend despite the fact that they are at home every day, old habits die hard I think. Take care and have a lovely peaceful weekend, Angela x
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! What wonderful celebrations! My son and his wife were like you. They met when she was 13 and he 17, and they have been married now for many years and are still happy together. Obviously my son is only 44, but still.
ReplyDeleteYour lasagna looks really yummy. That is the colour it should have. Mine looks that colour.
Oh I have never seen an oven like that. Is that one of those halogen things that were popular a while back?
I love seeing postcards as you can imagine. I would love to do that too, but I have nowhere to put them on the wall as the walls of my craft room are all turned into storage space apart from one which is window.
You seem to be well informed. I am glad to hear that the death rate has dropped for the first time. That is encouraging. Now all we want is better weather. Here in the Altoplano it is still rainy and cold.
Take care,
Lisca
We have had some better weather this week haven't we. I love to get a drying day as I have nowhere inside to hang washing.
ReplyDeleteI see you have had your villas for 17 years so you are well ahead of us. We have been here for ten and a half years and wouldn't go back by choice.
Modern technology has been so important for keeping in touch with family and friends.
I wish I was near enough to 'scromp' some of your grapefruit. I made 100 jars of bitter orange marmalade and a few of lemon, and I sellthemfor charity, but my friend had promised me grapefruit and she lives too far away, so I won't get them now. I don't suppose I will be allowed to buy enough strawberries to make jam this year either which is a shame.
I am glad to hear someone praising their halogen cooker. I didn't get on with mine at all. Like Lisca, I use a remoska for most things and I love it.
I don't suppose us oldies will have too much of a problem with another couple of weeks of restrictions. I would rathe that, than have the virus resurging because we are all out and about again.
Enjoy your garden before it gets too hot! Kate x