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April 2024 - Toronto ON

April 2024 - Salt Lake City UT

We had our usual stay at home weekend. Taxes completed by accountant LA SIGH.

I had a virtual scare of my life when Blogger displayed this ominous white screen at noon!

It remained like that so I spent the rest of the afternoon copying and pasting and reformatting my posts from our 2024 road trip into a document. I also recapped my weekly posts for 2024 into Google Docs. I always do this but haven't gotten around to it.

BTW I did try rebooting throughout the afternoon but the problem persisted.

However when I tried again around 8PM it was back to normal. AND I had completed my two documents! 

Monday John went golfing and I went shopping, I bought a sweater I was eyeing last week. It was cold out!

Monday Mural was from Las Vegas.

Poor pansies are freezing!

Tuesday was supposed to be a rainy day so I made plans to bake. I made 2 loaves of banana cranberry.

 I also spent time on some more Las Vegas posts and cleaned up my posts about our 2016 trip to the Ryder Cup that took us into Kalamazoo, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Madison. It came about because we were watching Top Chef in Madison WI and I mentioned we had been to Madison, that John didn't remember. 

I did a post about driving the old Strip in LV.

Wednesday I went for a mani-pedi in the morning. It was cold out! In the afternoon John went "new" car shopping and ended up buying one to replace our 2017.

I went to a tea party in the building. There were six of us and the hostess put on a lovely spread.

Thursday John had to go to Service Ontario for a copy of his car ownership as he was missing a piece on the one he had in the car. Anticipating a long line, but he was fifth or sixth in line. 

I went to College Park but only found some meat "bargains" in Metro, a roast pork and a leg of lamb. Lamb is hard to find around here.

Windows were washed.

Shake Shack is coming to Canada. Based on trying them last month in Vegas, I won't be waiting with bated breath.

Union Station.

I reposted an Anzac Australian post as it was April 25.

Friday John went to finalize the car details and emptied out the car. I went to Longo's because I needed rosemary for the lamb, which, of course, I didn't think of yesterday.

I had a good long phone chat with my BFF.

I just read that a dear blogger friend has just lost his partner of 44 years, I am so sad for him.

It's been a week of bad news. An acquaintance's SIL died by suicide at the age of 50. 

COOKING

Saturday slow cooker pot roast. $19 Metro 2X2 dinners. 2X1 lunch. Made soup with remainder, so another lunch.

Sunday pot roast leftovers

Monday ham and broccolini quiche with salad

Tuesday leftover quiche and salad

Wednesday hamburgers 

Thursday bacon, turnips and mashed potatoes, a comfort meal that my Mom used to make.

Friday steak frites AND a big thank you to John, who cooks Friday nights' dinners.

WATCHING

Brother 2023 Propelled by the pulsing beats of Toronto's early hip hop scene, BROTHER is the story of Francis and Michael, sons of Caribbean immigrants maturing into young men. Exploring themes of masculinity, identity and family, a mystery unfolds during the sweltering summer of 1991, and escalating tensions set off a series of events that change the course of the brothers' lives forever. BROTHER crafts a timely story about the profound bond between siblings, the resilience of a community and the irrepressible power of music.

Superb acting, hard to watch but felt very real.

Red Rooms 2023 The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance. In French.

A Dangerous Method 2011 A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.

Les Hommes de ma mère / My Mother’s Men 2023. Young Elsie is shocked to learn that her eccentric mother wanted her ashes to be scattered among her five ex-husbands. Elsie is adamant about carrying out her mother's wishes, but the trip fundamentally alters her course. In French.

Hands That Bind 2021 is a slow burn prairie gothic drama set in the 1980s in small town Alberta. Andy, a hired farmhand, is dreaming of a better way of life. Andy devotes himself to working another man's land, trying to establish new roots with his wife Susan and their children, with the hope that this land might one day be his. Those hopes are dashed when his boss's prodigal son unexpectedly returns.

READING

Insidious Intent was a very good read!

Weekend Roundup

 Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveller

1. Starts with "Q"
2. A Favorite
3.QUIET - chosen by Tom

Starts with Q

Four QUEENS Las Vegas NV

FAVOURITE

QUOTE Venetian Las Vegas

QUIET Copenhagen Denmark

ANZAC DAY

April 25 is ANZAC Day 

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served". Wikipedia

Waltzing Matilda - John Williamson

March 2015 - Melbourne Australia


We were lucky to have met some Aussies on a Mekong River cruise and they graciously showed us around their home city of Melbourne in March. The Shrine of Remembrance was a highlight and I would love to spend more time there.

ANZAC Day, originally a commemoration of the landing of Australian and New Zealand forces at Gallipoli on the 25th April 1915, has grown to become perhaps the most important national day in Australia.

ANZAC is an acronym and stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps, the name given to the body of troops raised by the two countries to aid the British Empire in the Great War. Throughout the war Australian and New Zealand troops, or 'Diggers' and 'Kiwis', would live, fight and die alongside each other creating a bond that still exists today between the two nations.

 ANZAC Day is also inextricably linked with the landings at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles Strait on the 25th April 1915. On this day ANZAC troops were committed to their first major action of the war, and though the campaign would ultimately prove a bloody failure and leave more than 8,000 Australians dead, it marked the beginning of the Anzac legend.

This legend was poignantly put into words by Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia on ANZAC Day 1999:

"Anzac is not merely about loss. It is about courage, and endurance, and duty, and love of country, and mateship, and good humour and the survival of a sense of self-worth and decency in the face of dreadful odds."

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Signs

 Joining Tom at Signs2

Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day

March 2024 - Las Vegas NV

Yep, there’s a piece of the Berlin Wall in the men’s restroom just off the casino floor at Main Street Station. Women can view the Berlin Wall, too, of course. Just ask a security officer for an escort. Don’t make it weird.

How and why this historic fragment ended up in such an unusual location isn’t known. When the property was purchased by new owners in the 1990s, the wall was already a part of the bathroom decor.

On a more genteel topic is the stained glass at the casino.

 

Monday Mural

 I'm linking up at Monday Mural

March 2024 - Las Vegas NM

At Area 15.