April 4, 2025 v2

Thanks for the photo, something that I will keep. When I visit my old house I shall ask if I could have one tiny plant; it will multiply.

I am sure I was 4 years old when I began that effort, dear old Daddy planted the first ones and I grew up in the garden with him, when he wasn't riding one of his horses!!

April 4, 2025

I'm sure that once you finally regained the Appleton Sd road you knew that you were Home.

Yesterday afternoon I decided to take a long walk in the Spring sunshine, which I accomplished by walking to Country St. and returning on the longer way home.  To my surprise once in front of my old house @ 279, there was a glint of white under a front bush; naturally I moved closer avoiding puddles of water to find "Snow Drops" just about to open.

Those little flowers were the last thing that "Mummy" gave me before she had to move into the nearby Nursing Home.  In England, every February 7 (my birthday) I would pick a few Snow Drops to put in a tiny glass vase, which I still have, and then put it on Mummy's breakfast tray.

While walking home I know that in a few days I have to find one of the photo's of my old house as it looked when I first bought it in 1983;  It has changed hands 4 times since then each time being changed and enlarged. It was built in 1880, by a church Minister whose daytime "Job" was a carpenter. He built it in pine wooden "Balloon Framing" which is no longer allowed because of fire destruction.

 

Another long story, but a change from trying to finish my Income Tax etc!!

April 2, 2025 v2

You had a busy day after finally arriving home.

Thank you for the tip in the grocery store. I shall look out for the Black Triangles with a T inside, hopefully they are not on the few foods that I can purchase in the Independent store.

Life is changing so fast, how do we manage to keep up with it all?

At 10pm I shall watch the CBC news to hear what Trump has thrown at us, at 6pm his was his usual self talking vaguely about how every Country has been taking USA money away from their ownership, "Its just not Fair, so now we have to get it all back".

Is he a complete idiot not to understand how it will hurt both sides with his Tariffs, also he said "what a lovely word". He must be 6 years old!

Have a good sleep in your own bed!

Tomorrow I have to deal with Income tax papers, such is life! 

Suzanne