Saturday morning and early afternoon we ran a couple of errands. A light on our dashboard started blinking so my handy hubby lifted the hood, wiggled a few wires and the light disappeared. Saved the board about $25!
The local government hauled away the recycling bins from in front of our house about 6 months ago so we now have to take them to the one two blocks away. We recycle paper, plastic, aluminum, clear glass and colored glass. Glenn is really good at keeping our small bins from overflowing in our mudroom.
I did something I haven't done in months, and that is to write a letter with paper and pen. In this age of computers, it is so rare to get letters! You know, REAL letters! It's nice to have the speed of emails but there is something special about receiving a letter. It is definitely much easier to hit the send button than to mail a letter, especially here in Hungary where every letter has to go to the post office to be weighed. You can't just have a book of stamps at home, stick one on the letter, and put the letter in the mailbox. Oh, no!
Our snow has melted except for where the piles were 4 feet tall, leaving behind a small pile of dirt! Fortunately, the street cleaners will be coming along soon to clean the streets and sidewalks and Budapest will be back to being bright and beautiful.
When I went to my English class with Judit and her daughter Nicki, they gave me some cookies that they had made in honor of Buso, the celebration of winter leaving. The cookies were huge, decorated with seeds (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, and poppy), and had no sugar. Maybe they weren't really cookies since they didn't have any sugar???? The thought was really nice.
This is a close-up view of them. They are scary masks to scare away the winter blues.
Glenn donned a couple of layers of clothing earlier this week to go on a bike ride. Isn't he cute?
He has really enjoyed this hobby.
Well, back to those emails! Have a good week.
5 comments:
That picture of Dad all biked up is priceless. Are those his Christmas glasses? Quite the sportif!
If Kevin and I would ever get to BP...I know Kevin would LOVE to ride bike with Glenn. That would be an awesome experience for K. Of course, you and I would go walking and talking. Sounds like so much fun...
Fascinating cookies and postage information - more cultural unusual-ties!
Great to read your post and I agree that a written letter is a real treasure and a shame that we don't all do it more often.
I didn't know that Glenn has a bicycle. That's great.
It looks like they put a lot of time into those cookies.
Hope y'all are doing well! Olivia is still wearing that adorable outfit that y'all gave her.
Love,
Jill
Whoa... those cookie/cracker things are impressive! Adam would love them! And I love the pic of Glenn and the bike... very dashing! Hugs... xoxoxo... we are very busy at NCCS with a TON of open houses and lots of good things happening! :<)
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