Kindness from the heart

What a gorgeous day. I started wearing my clogs again. The skies were beautiful, almost no clouds.

Rhea came with us and because she stayed home yesterday afternoon she was rested enough and could enjoy a small walk.

Although it rained so much, our little stream is back to normal again. It always happens so quickly,, I wonder where all this water goes.

This below is a weeping willow. It's not the ancester's tree, it's another one. It is so massive that I never managed to take a picture that does him justice. The 2 pictures below are taken under him, but again they don't show how big and impressive he is.

Even if we are " only " in the park, Rhea takes her guarding role very seriously and is always on alert when we stop. Bless her.

After coming back, I popped out to the local shops because we needed a couple of things.
I never bought The Sun in my life but I must recognize they have an incredibly good and hilarious front page today. I laughed so much, I had to take a picture. Arrgghh, the match was so awful anyway.

Yesterday we got told that we would get a gift today. It had been planned since a while but it was one of these " non-birthday" birthday gifts offered from the heart and it made it very special.

A couple of months ago, our " right side " neighbour had her fence redone because it was kind of falling apart due to the gale winds we had. Ours was looking miserable too, with some holes in it and the girls were using them to watch for cats in the other garden, what made them hysterically bark when they spotted one. Despite that, if we could have afforded to repair the fence,we probably would have bought a new fridge first, so . . .

A couple weeks later my neighbour told me she wanted to redo the fence on the left and in front of her property and pay for it.  I asked her why because the left one is our responsibility and the front one is the one of another neighbour. She told me that when her husband passed away, he left her some money and as the money was available she wanted to use it to repair all the fences so everybody including her would be happy and have a new fence.

I thought it was incredibly kind of her. Then I didn't hear anything about it and almost forgot. Yesterday there was a knock on the door and she said the guys would be coming today.

They already took our fence down. The girls saw that as the aggression act of the century so we need to keep them inside for a while. 

I can't wait to see what it will look like when it's finished !



Project 365+1 - Day 177 : Sizzling

There are days like these . . .  LOL

I got the word pretty early much before we went to the park. I didn't have a clue what it means so I had to Google it and to Dennis it too, just in case.

I eventually went to the park with the idea that sizzling is the noise made when you fry bacon. Lucky me. It was kind of clear that my chances to find somebody frying bacon in the park were pretty slim, so I thought I will look for bees.

I did that for 10 minutes without too much success and then it was time to bring Rhea back anyway so when I came back out with Bubbles, I thought we try harder but even the Red whale and I couldn't find bees. These things are only around when they can surprise me and sting me because they know I am allergic . . .

So not to make a pain of a walk, we went to the river and it was really nice when suddenly I heard this frying bacon noise. I looked at the river but there was a field of nettles between us and I couldn't see anything. I had long trousers so I went ( what I don't do for this 365+1 . . . ), but I still couldn't see anything although the noise was definitely there. Then I understood what it was, so we went around, crossed the bridge and went to the small kids paddle. This below is what made the sizzling noise ! Mission accomplished.

Oh and Bubbles wishes to say a massive Thank You to Suzie, because after dropping Rhea home we normally spend another half an hour in the park. Today we spent more than an hour looking for bees and other stupid stuff. She really enjoyed that and doesn't mind doing it everyday !

Take care everybody, xxx