Runner-up for Queen of the UFO's

Anyone one else remember that tale? I can picture the illustrations, but the details of the story no longer remain.

I’m pretty sure I’m a country mouse now. Today was our city day and every time we go, the harder I find it. There are just too many people and way to many of them do really, really, really dumb things. I do not want to be a witness to a horrible scene. TYVM!

Question of The Day:
March 19 - International Read to Me Day - did you have family members read to you when you were small? Have you ever had to read aloud to a large number of people?
Yes, lots and lots of reading happened here. Mom was an early primary teacher. I read lots to my kids too. I have read to fairly large crowds, just small passages or letters though, not whole books.

And the now fairly typical catching up:
March 18 - Global Recycling Day - is it easy to recycle items like plastic, metal, glass and paper where you live?
Hah! Had no idea this was a thing, but we took (almost) all our recycling to the depot on this day. We hadn’t been in ages and our garage was filling up. It’s not as easy doing it here as it was in the city. The city had recycling pick up and you just dumped everything in a single bin for them to sort. Here we have to drive to the depot and have to sort it all ourselves. It’s not really that big a deal though, takes about 5 minutes to get there and we presort.

March 17 - St Patrick's Day - are there big celebrations of the Patron Saint of Ireland where you live? Do you take part?
Not really, the local bars have promotions and there’s shamrock decorated cupcakes at the grocery store, but nothing big. And nope, not a bar person nor a fan of grocery store cupcakes with any kind of decoration.

March 16 - In 1822 Rosa Bonheur - artist was born. She specialised in painting animals some of which you can see here. Have you ever tried to draw an animal?
Yes I have, it did not go well. I’m much better with architecture.

March 15 - In the UK it's Comic Relief Red Nose Day - a day to raise money for charity. Red noses are available to buy in various places - have you ever worn a red nose?
Nope, nope, nope and double nope.

Zed

P.S.  Weekend weather was gorgeous, sunny skies and warm.  Highs around +16C / 60.8F.  Yesterday was pretty good too, though the wind really kicked up about mid afternoon.  Today the high was +5C / 41F and we're expecting snow anytime now.  It's supposed to continue to snow for the next 5-6 days.  Guess Mother Nature didn't want us getting too excited about spring.

Today. It was our monthly trip into the city and we decided to get an early start. Probably was a really good idea, we were able to head home by 2 pm and traffic was already building. Friday afternoons before a long weekend are always bad traffic. Even knowing that, a 6:30 am start was still ugly.

thefridayfive

1. Have you ever been the president of anything?
Nope, have held positions in a variety of organizations over the years, but avoided that!

2. What do you think is the most important leadership trait?
Patience, lots and lots of patience.

3. What time period did you find the most interesting to learn about in history class?
Precolonial South America.

4. What's something you think about doing, but you haven't gotten back into in several years?
Walking~as in nature walks and easy hiking. Not sure I’ll ever be able to get back to it.

5. If you could add one more random holiday to February, what would it be?
February 29^th should totally be a holiday! Just because.

Question of The Day:

February 16 - Tomorrow is the third Saturday in February and it's National Red Socks Day - will you be wearing red socks?

I was going to say no, because all my red(ish) socks are in the laundry, but then I remembered that the fluffy slipper socks I will be wearing tomorrow are red (to match my pj’s) so I will be for some of the day.

Zed

P.S. Another gloriously sunny and clear morning, but it was still -19C / -2.2F when I got up. Ugh!

Very, very briefly this morning. It snowed over night and continued to snow pretty much all morning. None of which was in the forecast! I’m supposed to go out again this afternoon, but I’m going to postpone to tomorrow and hope the weather clears and so do the roads!

Question of The Day:
February 7 - Safer Internet Day - how careful are you about passwords. Do you use a password manager or just use the same one everywhere?

Fairly careful, I think. I probably don’t change them as often as some would, but I definitely do not use the same one everywhere! And I guess I use a password manager, if a random handwritten notes (stored in equally random places) count.

Zed

Out today. We have a pickup at Food Rescue later this morning and then after lunch we need a quick trip to the grocery store. We’ve also decided, since we are out, we’ll make a trip to the library. It’s been a while since we did more than a quick stop to drop off or pick up items.

This does mean I probably won’t get any studio time today. The tee shirts are in the state they where when I quit on Saturday. I did get studio time yesterday, but I got distracted by the research project I started on Sunday. I may be avoiding dealing with that stupid fabric. Tomorrow for sure!

Question of The Day:
January 30 - It's croissant day - do you prefer sweet, savoury, plain or would you rather not eat them at all?

No preference, I’ll take them all, TYVM!

Zed

P.S. It’s +8C / 46.4F at 8:30 am. High is expected to be +9C / 48.2F, but it’s windy. Gusts are up to 26 km/hr (about 16.16 miles/hr) so not horrible, but noticeable.