took some *snaps* this morning on our way to La Trocha and then Lidls... makes me giggle every time we come to this junction, only in Spain can a road that's NOT built be on Google Map already! our car park behind the house shows it as it was four years ago! but ask for a route to the lakes road and it shows you to use a road not even in existence! so yes... only in Spain, or is it????

well great photo of some bollards dont you think!?! i was actually trying to shoot the new road, but Franco had his feet down peddle to the metal and i pushed the button too late, or too early?


another wonderful day today, i should be up stairs in the sun now shouldn't i? instead of rambling to you! nope here first!

i am a subscriber of worldgratitude.com and now and again they do a 42 day thing, where you can almost feel the thousands of people all reading and feeling the positivity of gratitude... i always miss the last day somehow or other, so i made an extra try at being with the last day, sharing the ultimate pull of a feeling of gratitude shared amongst so many people at the same time... this isn't as weird as it sounds ok, i know what your thinking! so on the 41st day, i knew 11.11am would be time to think and meditate, i kept thinking about the time all day, and yesterday woke up, remembered, you know where this is leading no doubt, so got home from town about 10.30am, still remembering, but then! what happened it was one o'clock!?! found to my benefit, 11.11pm was also another chance to *join*, so this morning when i woke up, i remembered turning of the tv at 11pm and going to bed! doh!

we have bought a whole truck load of sweeties for Halloween and tomorrows trick 'o treaters, hope i don't forget to hand them out(!)

last year it was today, Friday, and my last day at the tobacconists and the rain! it was a river running past the shop, flotsam and jetsam passing by, we got a soaking getting to the car and then into the restaurant, for my leaving dinner... that was so nice.. and a soaking getting back into the shop later! the evening wasn't much better and only a few brave gouls and ghosts made it out into the streets here abouts, also i didn't get home till late and hadn't prepared at all, but tomorrow will be different, good weather and i have the pumpkin ready (plastic + battery) my long black dress and cape, the black bag we always use with the white bones i attached, only paper! and of course our trusty skeleton, i am thinking of a way to have him suspended over the window outside somehow(?) and then bring it on kiddies....

also i have to bower to do, the local tradition of flowers, food and water a candle burning, and the names of those gone before because the night of the 31st really is the night of all Hallows. followed on the 1st November by All Saints day and then the 2nd All Souls day...

and it was believed that All Souls' night when the dead revisited their homes, so lit candles were left out to guide them and meals and wine were left as refreshment...

so i get the bower ready tomorrow and keep a tea light burning when i'm down stairs for next three days... i was un nerved one day 3 or 4 years back i came back down stairs and the names i keep in a small gold color dish with the candle on had changed... my dad's was on top....

TTFN
Marian