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Happy Columbus-Who-Discovered-the-New-World,-After-the-Vikings-Did Day.

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(Across the road...)

A kind of a quiet weekend, around here.  I decided to not do any housework, so that removed the *specter of un-done housework* from hanging over my head!!!  (How smart is that, hu?  -grin-)  And I just went on my merry way, doing this and that, and not feeling the GUILT of undone housework!  -Chuckle-

(From back yard...)

Not so jolly, was the fact that a spell of stiffness and ache-y-ness has set in.   I being stiff as a board, when I get up.  Can't even bend enough to tie my shoes, first thing in the AM.  Have to steady my very-stiff-self, as I walk along.   And it HURTS like hell, when I move the *wrong* way.  Stuff like that. 

It has gotten cold-ish, and I was blaming that.  But he thinks it's simply arthritis.  

Whatever, I need to remember to stretch in the morning.  And to apply my heating pad to my back, when in my comfy chair.  And even take a Tylenol in the afternoon, sometimes.  And wait it out, till it passes.   

And it certainly helped, that I had wonderful books and DVD, to read/watch!!!   "Mariana" by Susanna Kearsley!  Oh how I love, love, love this book!!!!!!!!  I love all of S.K.'s books but this one, oh my!!!!!  The kind you don't want to end.  And which end, in a marvelously surprising way.  Purrrrrrrrrrrrrfection!  :-)

And when I reluctantly finished "Mariana"...   I picked up "Chronicles of Faerie:  The Hunter's Moon" by O.R. Melling.   Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...   I'm back into reading of the Fey!!!!!  Must get out my Iron Nail necklace!  And wear it!  ,-)

And did you ever watch an old British series, called "Pie In The Sky"?  There were only 3 episodes on this disc, but I think we'll get more of them.  From the looks of the main character, can you tell he loves food, and is a part-time Chef?  As well as his police work?  :-))))))

(Still blooming...)

We used to love to go over to a certain restaurant in town, have a leisurely drink at the bar, and then go in to eat their delicious Italian food.   But!  Since my becoming unable to eat Gluten, we can't do that anymore.  -moan-  -sigh-  -sob-  -whimper-  

But I got the idea of going and getting a container of their marvelous sauce and meatballs, cooking our own pasta here, and having it all, that way.  It wasn't quite the same of course.  -sigh-   But it was still nice.  "Stay-cations" are all the rage.  So this was a "Stay-Date-Night-Out."  ,-))))))

(Very old row of trees, beside the house...)

"Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways."  ~~Yeats  

Yes, this was in yesterday's crossword puzzle.  I don't do them, but 'Uncle A.' does.  I saw the quote and I loved it though.  :-))))  It so-goes-with my reading of the present!!! :-)  The Irish Fey...

And......   Lots of our teams won, at Football, over the weekend...  He watches closely, more than I do.  I mostly read.  But am happy when 'our' teams win. 

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