This 'n That

photo source: My Buenos Aires Travel Guide

Pup seems to be better. Energy, smiles again and likes a good joke.

It is cold. Winter hit hard. We have the heat on, winter coats and gloves are being worn and that person who was saying how much she liked winter here and was tired of the summer... did not shut up about how cold she was today ...
But then .......... The Recoleta Cultural Center has a new exhibit, a huge, wonderful, vast exhibit of Doisneau photos !!!

We stopped by but there were so many people there ! imagine that !!! and they annoyed the person who likes to complain .. so we are going back during the week when hopefully we can have the place to ourselves.. or close to it.

It seemed even colder when we left so we scurried home to a napping Pup and a warm house and spent the rest of the day, watching the telly, reading ( I started a good so far, murder mystery ) and playing with a recouperating and silly Pup. Everyones hearts are lighter around here .. even the neighbors who ask about him and are so sweet and thoughtful.

Sunday ... depends on how cold it is. Antiques or shopping for new clothes .. how hard is that choice?

Hope your weekend is going well !

The Week End ...

The Iris are no longer blooming at the Japanese Gardens but there will be something else special growing, something beautiful to look at , something to soothe and bring peace to stretched nerves.

And then there is the tea ... in the Tea House .. near the Greenhouse, where there might be a small plant to bring home.. something to nurture through the winter.

Sunday night there is a concert at the Bibliotec Nacional .. always something a bit different and unexpected. We saw a Klezmer concert a couple of years ago and loved it . Of course, we had special visitors with us then and everything we did , we loved.

I am thinking the Flea Market will be a good idea too .. I have been imagining a giant Circus poster in the living room. With 200 ft high ceilings (you noticed that I exaggerate, right ? ) ... a very large colorful vintage poster sounds like just what we need.

So the hunt will be on .. always fun to have something to hunt.
circus poster - allposters.com

Fabulous Friday

Fall is here !

Leaves on the ground, breezes blowing so more drift down.. the amazing colors we used to see in the Northeast US are not here but it still looks like Autumn. And at night the skies are so dark and the gazillion stars look so close, it is breathtaking. This is one of the things you don´t hear that much about ... the night skies in Argentina. It feels as if you could reach up and touch the stars. . they are so bright and clear and big ..

The scent of wood fires burning with the cold air makes the nights so cozy !

Pup feels good, therefore my spirits are high.

Today will be a day of shopping and getting my phone to working again ... remember , I am in Argentina, new gadgets don´t work for more than a month without needing to be nudged along by the people at the store, who always tell you it is nothing, it is fixed and then it happens again, about a month later.

I have Shopping lists that need to be dealt with .. beginning with Boots.

So as you see, Friday is Fabulous and Busy .. what is your Friday going to be ?

photo source unknown

A Conspiracy of Gadgets

Sometimes things go easily and then there are times where nothing goes as planned .. or things just quit working .. for no reason other than they just decided to stop.

My old computer is a good case although it might have just been exhausted or it might have been really old in computer years.. you know, like dog years.

I thought a "good" computer would last more than 5 or 6 years, even if I used it a lot but not for anything taxing like Work or anything .. no, it was all just for Fun.

And Writing .. lots of writing but hey, it is a computer ! it is supposed to be able to write !

Luckily, we were able to get a new one.

Which happens to be Bigger and supposedly Better, even if the keyboard is tiny and has all these marks and wiggles on them and I have the hardest time finding quotation marks on here !!!

And why is this .... ç where the big bar is supposed to be that is used for Return ?

and Why is the question mark where the numbers are at the top ?

and now < this comes up when my little finger reaches over to make a capitol letter ... Arrrghhh !! ¡¡¡ çñ

If things get worse, I will plug my old keyboard in .. it matters not to me if the letters are getting worn off, my fingers know where they are .. and this € isn´t on there ..

Other than a few glitches the new computer is lovely.

In case a day goes by when nothing goes wrong.. My cellular has decided to stop working. From one moment to the next, it is on strike .. this is taking living in South America too far, if you ask me .. The phone keeps telling me there is no SIM card .. liar !! and it has shut me out.

Is this perhaps a vast conspiracy of electronic gadgets ?

The only thing one can do when the world of gadgets turns on you is to go to a park with a pup and breath lots of fresh, cool, fall air and kick your way through the leaves on the ground, keeping an eye on a pup who is sniffing his way through the park, keeping an eye on you.

Then go to a cafe where the cafe con leche is fresh and hot and the manzana crumble is perfecto.

See, I do habla Español, well, at least the culinary part .. I guess you could say I speak Menu .. and Shopping, I speak that rather well too. Which is next on the agenda.

An expedition into the world of Argentine Fashion .. it will be tiring and time consuming but someone has to keep you up to date on the shopping scene in Buenos Aires, no¿

News From ABroad

In no particular order ....

Pup seems to feel very good today. He was frisky, smiling , eating a lot and playful.

All making for a few light hearts around here .

We went to the park this afternoon and enjoyed the warm sunshine, even though there were clouds, it was sunny now and then and everyone was enjoying sitting or walking in the park. Little children were being pushed in the swings at the little playground just for very small children, Pups wandered around free to take his time and enjoy the day, plans were made for the Museum tomorrow.

I am coming to you on my new Computer. Omigoditissogreat!!

And the keyboard is Spanish-European-English ( would that be Speurish ?) so I am having a problem with that ...

The Euro sign is on the E key and the ñ on the N key and an N key all alone ... yikes , not to mention the Capitol Letter thingees are different and in different locations ..

I might have to get out the old keyboard with the wire, my typing speed has just dropped.

I have a rotten cold.

This is not the same as a run of the mill cold or an ordinary cold , this one is Rotten.

And like a good wife, I shared it with my husband.

A lot of sniffling and moaning and groaning going on down here.

But my Pup seems to feel better so who cares if I call the thing on the desk a Bouse ? and if I say by dose is stuffed up ? and that everything sounds like I am at the bottom of a tank ?

Dinner is coming from a take out place called Akbar and I have hopes that some good Indian spices will burn open my sinuses.

Even if it doesn´t, it will still taste good and mostly, lately, things all taste the same .. if it were a color, the taste would be grey. Thankfully, colds don´t last long.

It is getting colder here, later in the week will be only be in the 50´s, but that is OK, the sun shines brightly and the skies are blue .. I can deal with the cold temps.

There will be museums to go to, new shows are coming.

There will be restaurants to go to, I got some new recommendations and of course, there is always a shop to visit, a shoe to try on, a handbag or scarf to check out ..

And this weekend there is a concert I am hoping to get to attend.

I have forgotten who is playing what, but I will still be glad to go .. yes, the memory, she is fading .. fast.

And now, to see a dog about a walk ...