Galaries Lafayette

12C and partly sunny yet windy yesterday. This morning it's 12C and overcast. I think summer is over, lol. It will only be in the low teens next week and rain. Oh well it will be good for the grass and flowers.

This is a photo of the glass dome inside Galeries Lafayette. We had lunch at the Lafayette Café　on the
6th floor of the main store/Self-service restaurant. We had a nice grilled steak with vegetables and a small bottle of red wine. Our table had a veiw of the Opera.

Martin Biron the Philadelphia Flyers goalie stymied the Canadiens in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinal. Once the first period was over and the Habs woke up, they played very well. Unfortunately, Biron had a great game the Habs lost. Still, not a game that we really need to get all upset about.

Yesterday my sister and hubby came over. I wanted to make a Habs sweater for a teddy bear that we bought in Miami Beach over 30 years ago. I tried to make a pattern for the logo but when I was almost finished my graphics program froze and I lost my work. I had googled to try to find one with no luck. I decided to try again and finally found at Handmade by Jennifer, she has lots of stuff on knitting with links to other knitting blogs.
My sister, who is a great knitter made the back while I searched. She had to leave otherwise she would have finished the whole sweater. She started the front before she left. I got half of the log done when I realized the "C" was backwards, so I ripped it up and started over. I'm half finished, when the sweater is finished I will take a picture.

Feels like summer

24C and sunny. Wow it was worth going thru the winter to have this wonderful weather in April.

Last Saturday I burned my arm. It wasn't that bad I put Polysporin on it and some gauze and tape. It was getting better until Tuesday I decided to put on a bandaid with antibiotic on it to keep from getting it caught. When I pulled off the band aid I took the skin off with it. I put more polysporin and gauze but by Wednesday afternoon it was sore and I knew I had an infection on it. When I took it off in the evening there was an inflamation and it looked swollen. Not wanting to get worse, and risk losing my arm (you never know, lol) I saw the doctor and he told me it was ok and gave me a stronger antibiotic cream and not to put a band aid on it. It already feels better.

Besides work and aerobics nothing else going on, so I bid you goodnight, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite!

Saturday Special on Sunday

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Clear and 4C this morning. It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday it went up to 22C. It's going up to 20C today and the nice weather is supposed to continue all week. Yippee!

Tony cleaned the front and back lawns. The front lawn was loaded with gravel since the city would blow all the snow from the street onto our lawns when they ran out of place to dump the snow.

I made a vegetable soup and rice and lentil pie. I don't cook as much as I use to and it shows. I used brown basmati rice instead of white and I didn't have vegetable broth so I used beef. The pie was was good but a little salty, I don't salt but the beef broth had a lot of sodium in it. That's what you get for not checking if you have all the ingredients before starting a recipee. I also burned my arm on the top of the oven.

Tony was going to grill some salmon for me but the barbeque wouldn't light, we thought we might be out of propane but it was full. He fooled around with it and got it started, he'll grill the salmon today.

As you may know hockey is big in Montreal. Hockey fever returned big time when the Montreal finished first in their division. After winning the first two games they have now won three games each and the deciding game will be tomorrow night. I can't watch!





Saturday Special

~An Hour, A Day, A Month, A Year~

1. How many hours a day do you watch TV?: Maybe 1 hour
2. How many days in a week do you cook at home?: 2 or 3, Tony cooks the other days.
3. How many times a month do you go to the movies?: None, watch movies on DVD at home.
4. How many vacations do you take a year?: 1 or 2.

MacDonalds

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1C and partly cloudy this morning. It was cold and grey all day with a few seconds of sun. The temperature only mad it up to 6C.

The only thing we did yesterday was go to Wal-Mart to get a few things. It started to snow why we were there.

This is a picture of a MacDonalds in Paris. I don't know about where you live but I've never seen one here decorated like this one, if there were some like this I would be inclined to go. We were cold so we dropped in to get coffee. Tony noted that the Big Macs sell for 6 euros, thats about 9.72 Cdn, about the same in US dollars.

As you can see I'm posting on blogger again today. My blog on WP worked for a while but it's not working again this morning. I may have to delete it and start over again. Please bear with me while I get it sorted out.

Flowering Tree Promenade des Plantes

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0 C and Cloudy, partly sunny this afternoon, I'll believe it when I see it. They said sunny for tomorrow but now I see it will be 8C and partly cloudy.

Yesterday was a miserable day, part rain part snow cold and dreary. We need 5 days of sun and two days of rain and some warmer weather please.

Does anyone know the name of this tree? I would like to plant one in our front yard but I think it's too big. It would be a shame to hide it in the backyard.

My First Post

This will be my alternate blogging page. If my host goes down this is where I will post.