Category Archives: Happiness File

Serenity

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…this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge

Thank you to Egidio from Through Brazilian Eyes https://throughbrazilianeyes.com/lens-artists-challenge-348-serenity/

Serenity for me has always been looking over lake up at my cottage or enjoying a cup of coffee with a book on the deck.

When Dad lived with us he used to love going down to the park at the end of the our street and sitting on the bench or his walker and just enjoying the view of his ‘ocean’, which was actually Lake Ontario.

Judy’s Numbers Games – #192

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…let’s see what interesting photos pop up in my photo gallery with the number 192

My daughter-in-law is wearing the number 1927. The computer picks up everything. Thanks Judy for hosting The Numbers Game https://judydykstrabrown.com/2025/05/05/the-numbers-game-71-may-5-2025-come-play-along/

Judy’s Numbers Game – Which of Your Photos Have the Number 190?

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…all photos are identified with letters and numbers

Easter at the Market This Week

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…special bread and extra vendors

This week we brought out a recipe for bread that we haven’t made in several years….Timbit Paske. We slightly altered our fruit bread and added four Timbits when we shaped the dough.

There certainly was a lot of interest in this bread and it was mostly sold when I left the market an hour after the market opened.

Along with the regular vendors we had a few new merchants with special treats for Easter.

RDP – Musical

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…thanks to the Ragtag community for hosting RDP https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/rdp-friday-musical/

Are we musical? Well we certainly love music and over the years my whole family has taken up learning to play an instrument or two.

I started singing in choirs in elementary school and as an adult I sang regularly in a German choir for 27 years and as a guest chorister in a church choir for special services. I learned to play the recorder as a child and taught my own students the melodic joys of this humble instrument. I dabble with the ukulele and have attempted to play the piano.

Two of my children learned to play the piano and they all took up instruments in school. Their choices were the cello and saxophone. Their father and my husband of almost 50 years is an avid collector and player of guitars and other stringed instruments.

Now our grandchildren are starting to show an interest in music. The cycle continues.

My father at his 90th birthday party being serenaded by two of his choir friends. He sang wth his choirs for more than 60 years.