{WOW I found my Dutch Cousin + she has a GIVEAWAY!!!}

Yesterday with my post: Papa is 91 today! I got one very special comment; from my 1st Cousin, THEA. She has the fabulous blog: CREA by THEA. A while ago I did figure out that she is from the same city where I used to live for about 5½ years in the 70s. When asking her if she is from Panningen, The Netherlands, I got a reply from her that, YES she is. Don't tell me that you lived in the same street where I live she joked. Well, it turned out even far better. We're KIN to each other! Two 1st Cousins from two continents meet again via Blogger. SMALL WORLD after all. Now the good news for all of you... Thea is having a fabulous Giveaway till January 16. That will blow you away, just have a peak at ALL what is included. So I proudly show it to all of my readers here:

Just hurry over and follow this very talented lady!

Our Moms were sisters and we discovered a lot of things we do have in common.

Certainly Thea's Mom will be smiling down from heaven, as will her Dad!

One more fact is that we both did our ten-finger-blind typing course (from Scheidegger) together in 1974 in Panningen, The Netherlands. Little did we know that we would find each other again decades later...

Will tell my Mom soon via Skype about this meeting via Blogger, told Dad already but Mom was having her kidney dialysis when Dad had his birthday guests over... Sad that her life is affected by this 3 x weekly treatment. But she's still alive and that is great!

For you to take with you

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Watch also for MY GIVEAWAY that is coming soon!

Have a great day and I'll visit you again soon. 

Yesterday we went to Atlanta for our shopping. 

Had not been since we went with daughter Liz on December 6; almost one month ago... LAST year.

{LOOK what's blooming now...}

In the dreary time of winter it is sometimes a miracle how certain plants can surprise us 'unexpectedly' and even outside of their usual blooming season. Maybe it is because of the long hot and dry summer that they wanted desperately to make up for it NOW?... Whatever the reason, inside the greenhouse our salmon red Pelargonium geraniums are blooming at their best. So I like to share them with you here.

Capturing their beauty in the sunshine, showing all stages of budding and full bloom.

Look at this perfection! We received them years back from our dear friends Heinz & Maria for Pieter's birthday in April.

From Lady Chef Maria from 'Ristorante da Maria' and their B & B. Link about a post I did on it, you find below under Agriturismo & Geraniums - Pelargonium.

Those buds do resemble a rosebud that's why I used this silver rose vase.

Hope you enjoyed our pelargoniums!

Related link:

AGRITURISMO & GERANIUMS - PELARGONIUM | previous post by me

{Papa is 91 today!}

Papa is 91 today. You might have read my post 'Papa is 90 today!' from last year. If not so, just click the hyperlink.  

Picture taken here in Dublin when Dad (Papa) did help us move into the house.

We'll call Papa during the day; that is our usual contact with them across the Atlantic. On Papa's 90th birthday there was a partial solar eclipse that was visible from most of Europe. Last year they did get heavy snow shortly after his birthday and it was very cold. Now the weather is rather mild in The Netherlands, no frost at night versus some mean cold weather here in Georgia.

-8°C is 17.6°F

That was early morning on the 3rd of January.

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