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10 April 2026

HUE VIETNAM

This coffee stand was at the bottom of the hotel stairs.

Last week's post

John's photos from his walk yesterday, He did 7 km and it was 21 C out. Not so this week!!

No buds yet on the trees.

SATURDAY

We received our gluten free flour order and two new pillows. John didn't believe the pillows would really fluff up, but they did! They vacuum pack them as flat as a pancake!

I played sous-chef and got everything (mise en place) ready for John to bake a couple of cinnamon raisin loaves.

I did some laundry and John striped the bed, a job I hate. We really need to replace our mattress soon!

I cleaned up/filed some of My Documents folder. Converted some files into Google docs.

SUNDAY

Back to last week's post about rabbit holes, being Easter! I decided to track what I did from 7:30 to 10:30 this morning. BTW this is most of my mornings!!!

I put away last night's pots that were on drying rack.

Got out breakfast dished, made my breakfast and ate it while checking e-mail and Twitter. Washed up breakfast dishes.

Caught up on the news, read about 6 blogs, added a new blog to my list, responded to blog comments. Scheduled one Weekend Roundup blog, drafted three others. Posted a quick post. Learned another feature of the Snipping app. 

Planned two outings after looking up the location of a mural.

Renamed and updated a draft blog.

Labelled and filed latest 2026 photos.

Found around 10 new books in various places and added either to library wishlist or Goodreads Want to Read, if library didn't have them.
Made a To Do list and update for the rest of today. Shower get dressed.  Tidy 1 top drawer (learned I didn't need the 2 chemises I bought as I already had 2 in those colours added lavender essential oil to sachet) and 1 bathroom drawer MONDAY. Tie up shredded bag for garbage/loading dock along with two old pillows. BONUS changed bag and shredded more stuff. Complete charity donation bag BONUS ADDED CDS. Take out lamb for dinner. Fix bobbin on sewing machine. Debated getting rid of candle, lit it instead. Make meal plan. Work on one of those projects that seem never-ending. FINISHED 1MONDAY. Gather items for tailor this week.

Not on list but done. Found potato recipe for Friday. Read more blogs, there are 3 or 4 that I read on a daily basis plus the ones' on my sidebar. Drafted a couple of posts.

Washed the kitchen floor and also deep cleaned the fatigue mats. Investigated some more books. Found a new cafe to visit. Frittered around. Ordered some shower steamers. 

Hung up clothes.

Baked a coconut flour chocolate cake (I had homemade ganache to use up), this cake is gluten free and dairy free, only uses one bowl!!

I read for an hour. Borrowed some magazines from the library.

I watched an hour while cooking of YouTube. 

MONDAY

Monday Mural Memphis

Foto Tunes New Orleans

Did some administrivia, updating spreadsheets and filing. I also found some photos that were never scanned for some odd reason.

John went to pick up his golf clubs.

Well, that was weird, I was tidying in the pantry and there was a case of coke (Costco) on top of the freezer that was stuck to the fridge. A can of coke had leaked with no apparent holes!

I ran out to Longo's.

Then I finished one of those projects that hung around for too long. YAY me 👍

Interesting Amazon Canadian employees make $25 an hour. 

TUESDAY

Tuesday Treasures

Thank goodness it's spring!

Wouldn't you know that we had plans for lunch with friends, on the coldest possible April day, at least we had sunshine. 

They parked here and we took the shuttle downtown, since we were early we dropped into the "new" Union Hotel" and it turned out they had stayed there on business years ago when it was the Strathcona Hotel. 

They had never tried Vietnamese food so we went to Senla and it was wonderful. We shared a small bottle of sake to start with. It was served cold which led to a discussion, hot or cold?

I said we had had it cold in Tokyo.

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I had charcoal octopus satay, herb dressing, everyone pronounced it delicious. The others had the spring rolls. Portion sizes are large.

They had the duck curry, it looked very good, large portions, and they said it was the best duck that they'd eaten.

John had the Beef Pho - beef tenderloin, rice noodles, onions, beef broth, also enjoyed.

I had shaking beef 8 oz tenderloin cubes, pepper sauce, watercress salad, fried rice. This is too much beef for me at any time, it was very tender! The sweet potato fries were crispy and I ate them all!

I chose this because I had tried it in Hue Vietnam.

On the bus home, I spotted this little house, advertising, obviously.

The shower steamers were delivered, like this! They were returned!

WEDNESDAY

Signs

I wandered downtown not realizing that the Blue Jays had a 3 PM game, so crowds were heading to the stadium.

I cut through the hotel and was lucky to find the Royal York Easter display still up!

And I found the owner of the Snuggle house.

THURSDAY

Throwback Thursday

I did intend on going out, but never did. I tidied up the fridge in anticipation of John's Costco run.

Putting it away takes some planning and menu adjustments.

I froze two yogurt containers of beef stock (for soup) that I made, and another that I froze into small containers to use as beef stock since it is so hard to find at Costco. I also made a pot of soup for lunch from it.

Did some more administrivia.

Costco - John got a huge amount of asparagus!! But I'm not worried about using it. I found an interesting recipe for asparagus and celery soup, which will use up the stems and some of the celery from a previous Costco trip.

I've been craving scallops so he got some along with frozen shrimp.

FRIDAY 

We had planned on going to a soon to be gone old-fashioned diner for breakfast, but it was raining and we didn't feel like it.

John booked the golf simulator for 1:30 so I wandered around College Park and picked up some needed items at Farm Boy and the $ store.

I started the asparagus and celery soup.

COOKING

Since I compared latte and cappuccino last week, I thought I'd find out more.

MENU

SATURDAY

L - bacon and tomato sandwiches. D - ham, mashed potatoes and Brussel sprouts

SUNDAY

L - ham        D - oven lamb chops, Greek lemon roasted potatoes, carrots oven,  and asparagus and scallions.

MONDAY

L - ham salad sandwiches  D - Spaghetti with meat sauce

TUESDAY

L - OUT D - popcorn

WEDNESDAY

L - leftover spaghetti D -  ham potato egg hash and tomato

THURSDAY

L - homemade beef soup    D - scallops with lemon garlic cream sauce (sauce wasn't impressive), asparagus and Greek lemon potatoes (again, because the last version was so good) 

FRIDAY

L - egg onion sandwiches D - steak, asparagus and garlic toast (use up some stale bread)

 

WATCHING

We finished The Cleaning Lady so we watched The Madison  The Madison is a neo-Western, 6 episode television series created by Taylor Sheridan. The series follows the Clyburn family, originally from New York City, who relocate to the Madison River valley of southwest Montana for emotional recovery following a major life-changing tragedy that both shocks and permanently changes the family. Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell lead the series. Pfeiffer is excellent. Russell is and looked too old for a 65 yo.

 It is essentially a soap opera with gorgeous vistas. 

John PVR'd Weapons as it starred Julia Garner, a girl crush of mine. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Listed as dark comedy, monster horror. 

I hadn't heard the expression Aunt Gladys until today when I saw this meme on a Facebook page Weird Toronto and didn't understand it until the movie, how weird was that! IYKYK!

I am definitely going to  started watching this Australian 12 part series The Brides of Christ! The struggles of nuns and students at a Roman Catholic convent school in 1960s Sydney. AND Brenda Fricker!! AND Russell Crowe!!

The episodes are not quite in the right order but you'll figure it out.

OMG the girls making their First Communion could be me, on mine!!!

Typing class, although I didn't take one, I taught myself.

Kneeling for communion. Hats/scarves at mass. Front facing masses. Birth control.

I am also going to watch, also on YouTube, Berkeley Square. So far I've only found it with sub-titles. UPDATE you can find it in English on DailyMotion (you have to turn off your ad blocker) and SirJohn seems to have the best version.

I watched the first episode of Australia Dessert Masters season 2. I can't stand that French host, it is a good thing that Melissa is there!

I also watched the Great British Bake Off while in the kitchen, I think I know who will win.

I see the latest season of MasterChef Australia is beginning! It is the best!! I'm hoping that my secret little place will be uploading the episodes as they air, as it takes forever for them to show up here on Prime streaming!

READING

Again I didn't read much, as I'm still plowing away with Adrenaline. 

MAGAZINES

I meant to include this photo in last week's post about rabbit holing and analog tracking.

This book struck a core with me. Love her name!!!

The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life by Karma Brown is a non-fiction book focusing on time management, productivity, and personal fulfillment. It argues that dedicating just one hour (4% of your day) to a personal passion or goal can reduce feelings of being overwhelmed and lead to significant, positive life changes without requiring massive schedule overhauls.

I saw this recently.

If you need to get any book on the internet, type the name of the book followed by “doctype:pdf” and you’ll get the book in pdf format

For example, Purple Hibiscus doctype:pdf

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