Thursday, 19 April 2018

It's Someone's Big Day!

Today is TW's special day!

HaPPBiRtHDaY to YOU! 🎢🎢🎢



TW you are one of our favoUrite (I'm Canadian, eh!) people. WTIOC would not be the same without you! 

What people are saying about TW...




I think what I love best about you, TW, is that you are comfortable with who you are as a person. Don't ever change, my friend. πŸ’–

Now...


I got the cake... 





The rest of the gang will bring more goodies and I know they will be offering their own birthday greetings. 

Here's to you...





Wednesday, 18 April 2018

It's Wednesday !

I hope everyone has a wonderful day ! Each day that passes brings us one day closer to summer and nice weather.  Some of us already have warm weather , Enjoy !















Tuesday, 17 April 2018

This is so lovely!



Julia Donaldson (born 16 September 1948) is an English writer, playwright and performer, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo. (From Wikipedia)

Monday, 16 April 2018

Baby Boomer's Bucket Lists!

A few days ago I noticed on Twitter a link to a New York Times article ominously titled  "Baby Boomers Reach the End of Their To Do List."

"Oh no!" I thought. "This does not sound good!"

If we are at the end of our to-do list there can only be one reason! One I am not ready to think about yet.

When my heart started beating again, I actually read the article and breathed a sigh of relief.  The author is not suggesting that we all just pack it in. Just that perhaps it is time to rethink the need for a list.

Now don't get me wrong. I am all for having a Bucket List. I have already checked off a number of items on my list. But I am getting pretty satisfied with just doing nothing much at all. Or at least nothing that could be thought of as exciting or wild, like bungee jumping, or a trip around the world. And even the 'take up Yoga' item is not looking like it will ever get checked off.

I am pretty sure I would not have admitted out loud that I am quite happy being without much of a list before reading the article. But now I am feeling quite a bit better about the whole thing!

The author, Patricia Hampl, talks about "...the sheer value of looking out the window, letting the world float along." I must admit that sounds pretty good- at least now and then!

Mike figured out this whole list thing long before I have... he wakes up each morning and decides what he feels like doing. 



I would love to hear what you think. Do you have a Bucket List? If you do, can you share some of the items on the list?  I am always happy to travel along vicariously in someone else's list. Or are you ready to just let the world float along? Maybe a little bit of both, eh? Seems that there is no one way to go about getting older. And isn't that great!



Sunday, 15 April 2018

This photo

This very beautiful photo was taken by a friend in France. Brian Frith used to be a newspaper photographer, now retired, but he’s still busy remodeling his house, eating the good food, drinking the good wine, and photographing his peaceful village. Le Lonzac is about 7 miles from Treignac, where we used to live. The weather seems a bit menacing over there, but what a photo!