THE PAST FEW MONTHS OF 2016

Well, where do I start? What month do I begin? Where did the year go?

This post will be a mish mash of memories or just what I can think of as I go through pictures and remember the moment they had been taken. 

I told my doctor the other day, I feel like I've taken the step through the door of old age! I'm feeling it!  A few months ago, because of weird headaches that had become more frequent, and one side affect was losing my eyesight in one eye, and another headache similar in July, along with disappearing eyesight, I couldn't formulate the words of the conversation to make sense. No headache pain though at all.

So, off I go for an MRI. Results..nothing there, yes a brain, but no growths! All was well to my relief! Then I HAD to ask the question some of us wonder but do we really want to know? Is there signs of dementia????? 

I know most of us my age, are noticably forgetting not only simple things like "where are my keys", but words, are disappearing also. Names of people, places and right in the middle of a conversation while I'm talking, I forget what the heck I'm talking about! Embarrassing and scary!

So, what did he tell me...I have MODERATE degeneration of the brain! Well, since hearing that, I stepped through that door of old age, I told you about earlier. Not just little aches and pains and moving slower and getting tired faster, but my mind is slowly slipping away!

Lately every thing is about OLD AGE and I'm sick of it!! Why couldn't he have said, NORMAL degeneration of the brain? I would have felt much better and not worry about it when those words I try to remember are slipping away on me and I wouldn't have that feeling in the pit of my stomach that the worst is near!!

Okay, onto better thoughts!

Onto some pictures I've taken lately. Which brings me to another thing...technology!! I have a Mac laptop. I just get on to one version of their many new applications they change every few months  and they come out with another one! Now it's Sierra Version 10.12 and I'm plugging my way through that one! Figuring out this Blogging site is not easy either, it's been so long since I was really at blogging. However, on the good side, maybe it keeps my brain active!! I'm hoping!!

We've had almost a whole week of pouring rain, and next week has only a day or so of sunshine that's predicted. 

We had huge warnings of a BIG storm, in fact 3 of them, right after another. Out came the flashlights, the candle's, food we could eat all in case the power went out. Away went all the patio set and cushions and anything that could blow away in the 100 K winds we were to get. On the 7th floor, it can get very windy, so, remembering my old Girl Guide motto "BE PREPARED", I made sure we would be!

Anyway, the BIG storm never materialized. We had some wind and lot's of pouring rain, but nothing they kept warning about. Some tree's did come down, but nothing like the storms they show happening in the State's lately. 

Social Media was all a buzz about the storm that never was and thank God for that, but people made fun of our weather reporters getting it wrong so often. One guy wrote he had more wind when he shut the door of his freezer too fast! LOL!!

So, as much as I "sort of" enjoy my daily long and early morning walks, I sometimes do a little rain dance, for rain to fall when my friend Barb and begin our walks at 6am. for 7 K's.

I'm always so exhausted after these long walks that nothing much gets done around here. So, I am enjoying all these lovely sleep-in's.

So far this is what I did today!

Made Tom's favourite cookie, Pecan, raison, oatmeal cookies. Delicious with a cup of coffee!

Then took perogies out of the freezer, and cooked them up with lots of onions and bacon. Dinner is ready!!

Meet Charlie, which should have been Charlene, after we found out it was a female. Should you ever buy a budgie for a pet, make sure it's a male. Believe it or not...the female bird doesn't talk, just the male budgie's. Our last male budgie, could talk many words and sentences and sing many songs. The only talent this wee girl has is to sit on my computer and right on the delete key, which is my most used key, and he bites me if I go near it! 

I also think she has woodpecker in her. She loves to bite on anything wood except his wooden perches, which is wise to  leave alone...she use's them! But the rest of our furniture I have to forever scoot her away. Dining room chairs and china cabinet all bear her mark!

A beautiful rainbow that landed on this ship. Could it be a pirate ship with the pot of gold on it? Naw, likely just another freighter from China waiting for it's turn to go into port to unload.

 The day before our big storm...Red sky in morning, Sailor take warning, red sky at night, Sailor's delight!

Well, that's my blog for today. Tomorrow is the big USA debate, that we won't want to miss that! Always exciting to watch what Trump will do next.

See you another day!

Please leave some comments one way or another. Be kind eh!

THE WIND DID BLOW

Vancouver has been the windy city lately!! Howling wind in the night, with the trees, bending dangerously over and the rain pounding on the windows.

It’s wonderful to wake up with the wind howling and blowing  and being able to snuggle deeper into the blankets, with the feeling that all is well.

However…it hasn’t been that great for a few people!

These picture are not mine, but from the Vancouver Sun!

Apparently, these boats had moored out in the ocean when the storm came, because only a few days ago, their lease was up and not renewed at False Creek where they had been safely moored.

Some boats sunk, power was cut off, and construction sites had much damage.

Quite a night!!

Waiting for high tide, and hopefully will help get back into the water.

This happened on Sunday, while driving through Stanley Park. Winds reached up to 70 Km/hr, with gusts up to 90 Km/hr. We also had a mixed bag of cold weather, freezing rain and hail.

We’ve had these winds for a few weeks now, and what a drastic change from the weather when the Olympics where on, when  the weather was beautiful and summer like!

 

 

 

 We are back to my pictures now!

The mountain from our window has fresh snow on it and very pretty!

 The wind calmed down a little bit this afternoon, so I walked down to the Sea Wall to have a look at what I thought would be huge waves rolling in, but it was much calmer then I thought. As I walked through the park, I did get showered with the odd branch and twigs, and glanced up a little fearful at the way the trees where bending over.

The wind was still strong enough that holding the camera still was difficult!

Here comes some big logs, from who knows where their sea journey took them from, to beach up on shore here.

 

This is when the wind had calmed down! Some times in the middle of the night, we can hear the big roller’s crashing on shore. What a lovely sound that is!!

Doesn’t this picture look cold!!! Brrrr!

 

I met Tom at the Library, “our home away from home”, where we enjoyed a coffee, read the paper, picked out a book for Tom and surprised him, when I came home with NONE!! I already have half the Library books at home as it is, and trying hard to get them read!

This little street is one I love, as it’s lovely looking in the Spring. It’s not quite up to it’s full beauty with everything in bloom yet, but I’ll take another picture when it’s a mass of colour. 

We picked up some fresh made sushi for our dinner tonight. I turned up my nose at it when I first moved here, but do like some of it now. Still haven’t been able to try the raw fish one’s yet!

And that was our day!!

Happy Birthday to my little sister, Roxanne!

I love you Sis, and wish you all life’s wonderful things to come your way!