Thankful

 My oldest daughter said she was going to write on her blog daily this month, she wants to write about things she's thankful for every day.

So I thought I'd give it a try although I will probably not write everyday.

Today was a lovely day weather-wise. I did some gardening, took a shower, had a nice breakfast (sugar donut), Just a nice Sunday.

We just changed to DST and it gets darker one hour earlier, I watered the lawn and I did take Lulu for a little walk around 5PM , the neighbor kids came over and played with her and she was so happy -she loves people-

There was a beautiful sunset, the temperature was mild, I wore a shift with short sleeves. My neighbor Jose was out washing his car and he said, isn't it a lovely evening? I said it indeed was lovely and we agreed we would love to have every day be like this.

While I was outside with Lulu, Lizzie was cooking dinner. We had a nice meal from Blue Apron, steak with carrots and mashed potatoes, and we shared a bottle of Pinot Grigio

Later on, Lizzie, Lulu and I went for a walk again, the moon was coming out. I could see reddish Mars  and Jupiter and Saturn shining brightly in Saggitarius (My sign). This picture is from my Sky View Lite app.

When we got home, I took a picture of the moon, still full and surrounded by clouds.

I am thankful for a very lovely day

October Recap

 Another weird month!

There was a weird date in October.. 10.10.2020

There was a full moon on Halloween

There was a conjuction of Jupiter and Saturn, and Mars was very close to the Moon.

I went to the dentist!!!

Lulu had her 9th birthday this month, but sometimes she thinks she's a puppy.

Los Angeles basketball and baseball teams got lucky

Next month will be weird too, Presidential election. Trump or Biden, roll of the dice.

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN OCTOBER

And many Netflix series:  Merli (Catalan) Emily in Paris, Rita..etc

BOOKS I'VE READ IN OCTOBER

Goodbye October, Hello November

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Musical Friday

 Nothing much going on, so I will post the latest Tik Tok dance challenge, it's very catchy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32QsuHZ_bY0

It's by OMEGA (Dominican singer)

Pegao

Me miró y la miré
Sonrío y le sonreí
Y yo la invité a bailar
Y ella me dijo que si…

I tried to find someone dancing to it but the ones in You Tube are terrible ewww

But there are some cute ones in Tik Tok

Have a nice weekend, and dance!

September Recap

September was not much of an improvement over August, and July, and June, and May...

Here's some highlights (and in some cases lowlights)

I talked face to face/telephone/ text..with  Sandy, every Monday., Tristan. With Mia for her birthday, with Nuri for her name day, with Monica and Irina, with Sonya, with Dewey, with Jennifer, and with Rosa, a friend from Idaho that I had not heard of for about 30 years. And of course, daily calls with Norbert.

Healthwise, I had my diabetes test and is at goal, and I feel good although I had a weird day September 22 (1st day of Fall) when I felt out of sorts, that's the only way I can explain. I do my daily exercise walking the dog, nothing extraneous here ;)

We had a pretty sharp earthquake on September 18, a 4.8. It shook me and Lulu quite a bit!

Damn pandemic still hanging around, so I'm still sheltered at home and very happy to have a large garden, and flowers, and herbs, and tomatoes, to keep me happily busy. And as usual, I do a lot of reading, lots of movie watching etc. I still haven't done any painting. But I will start soon. It's been HOT!

I miss my daughter and grandson, and I'm glad Lizzie lives here with me. I miss being able to travel and drive around. We thought about driving to Utah, but I chickened out. It's still not safe for me and I don't want to risk it. 

My hopes for October...

I hope things get better for my Utah family. Love you all.

I hope Mia and Hasse's health improves. Love you both.

I hope things get better, in the US and Spain. And the world.

I hope the pandemic goes away!

BOOKS I'VE READ IN SEPTEMBER

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN SEPTEMBER

And a lot of Schitt's Creek :)

Let's all have a good October, please :)

September days

 There's still fires going on in California. But the weather is starting to feel like Fall. It's not as hot although we've had 100F weather a few days. Is very pleasant in the evenings. 

I just was reading Instagram, and one of the people that I befriended when we were doing the August IG challenge asked me if I wanted to participate in an October challenge (I don't know who started this one) but the title is MINDFUL IN THE GARDEN, and because my garden and gardening is something that I like to do and take pictures of, I'm going to do it. Here's the challenge if any of you want to play along :)

It will give me something to do, right? :)

Tomorrow is "my" shopping day at Trader Joe's. I enjoy shopping there, is clean and has cool stuff and it's easy to keep the distance to other customers in these pandemic days. Because is Fall, it's all about pumpkin in its many different varieties. I don't like pumpkin although one of my favorite things to eat are ensaimada rellena de cabello de angel. My daughters take joy in reminding me that cabello de angel is the "hair" inside the pumpkins, ew!

Some information...Cabello de ángel is a transparent threaded jam made from Siam pumpkin pulp and white sugar. It originated in Mallorca. There are even easy recipes to make cabello de angel with the fibers of the more common spaghetti squash lol

Siam pumpkin

Stay safe and positive, and remember I love you all very much :)

Reminiscing

 Both my daughters wrote about our trip to Barcelona 5 years ago in September. It was my first trip back home after 15 years and it was just a great trip. I just hope I can go back at least one more time.

Here's some pictures...

                                                                 And back to La Mirada
                                    

I'll be back...