Monthly Archives: March 2022
A New Set of Acquaintances
A guest – in dog form- is visiting. This entails walking the guest at least 3 times a day. A whole new set of friends await; people you otherwise never see, and the scenery is really lovely be it 6:00 am or 10:30 pm. Not my usual fare.
Flying High
Where the local flag is flying in this picture, it has now been replaced with a Ukraine flag as a show of solidarity. A lovely sight to behold.
VOTED
A FIRST. Voted in an election in a country other than the USofA. Was well informed and the process was simple. The shocker was the ballot box: a standard trash can fitted with a sliding lock on top and the lid secured with a padlock. When I expressed surprised, the nice person monitoring the process …
It was Hilarious in Dutch
The Dutch word for dog is hond. The Dutch word for seal – the sort found at the ocean- is zee-hond – dog of the sea. Was walking with a friend on the pier that juts into the waterway that opens onto the sea. We had had tea in the sun and were returning, on …
APPLE Store Amsterdam
Tuesday evening 23 February, a man entered the Apple store, wearing an explosives-laced vest and carrying an attack rifle and hand gun. He held the occupants hostage for six hours. He honed in on one particular man and threatened to shot him in the head. In the final scene the hostage-taker ran out of the …
Netherlands had three wind storms in a row!
The three huge storms in a row were devastating. Caused much downed-tree damage. Blew my glasses from my head into the traffic and was nearly impossible to walk against. Case in point:
The Ladle
A reader suggested it would be nice to see the glass ladle referred to in an earlier post. I expressed my surprise at a glass soup ladle and used it happily. Only following the dinner where it was used in the soup tureen, did research reveal it to be a ladle to accompany a glass …
No Loaves, but 10k fishes
The perfect storm. While the ‘wall’ to the ‘harbor’ outside my front door is being upgraded, the birds continue flocking. At the same time, schools of fish managed to rush head long into the canal two streets over and get themselves trapped. The word is that it is 10,000 units. Some folks blame the birds …