Anna

@LadyDuck (472907)

Switzerland

Joined myLot 10 years ago

I am Italian and I live in Switzerland. I like, gardening, crafting, writing, baking, cooking and chatting with people.

ladyduckblog.blogspot.ch/

Anna's Responses

Just a Quickie

Four Walls @FourWalls (73715) • United States 17h

Yes, I’ve left home again. Yes, I’m in Pigeon Forge again. So this is just a quickie to say hi. I had a lovely drive down. Everything’s getting green, and that’s so fabulous to see after the wild winter we had. It’s exactly...

12 responses •

13 people

Anna It's great to be upgraded to a hotel suite. Enjoy your time there, I hope you had a lovely Easter day.

13h

•

1 comment

•

1 person

Caramelized bread pudding

Always smiling @allknowing (143983) • India 16h

It gets the taste almost like a chocolate pudding when it is caramelized. I put layers of left over pieces of bread in a caramelized bowl and over each layer I put milk that has sugar and eggs in it. The next layer will have...

caramelized bread pudding

5 responses •

5 people

Anna I also use the stale bread to make bread pudding. My husband likes it served with a Bourbon sauce.

13h

•

1 comment

•

1 person

Tech isn’t always reliable. Or is it just me?

Fiacre Banks @xFiacre (13458) • Ireland 19 Apr

With a number of trips coming up in the next few months (Greece, France and England) I’ve been getting confused, perhaps because I didn’t book them in the order in which they will happen. So I checked the diary on my phone to...

3 responses •

5 people

Anna The cat is cute. I only trust pen and paper to be sure of what I do, I do not trust a lot my computer and NOT at all my smartphone.

20 Apr

•

1 person

Do you have any quick games on your phone that you are addicted to?

snowy @snowy22315 (187939) • United States 19 Apr

I play a quick game on my phone that only lasts 10 seconds per time. It could be longer if I wanted to watch ads and such, but I don't. It involves hunting snakes, but the irony is, in the game, you are a snake yourself and...

8 responses •

9 people

Anna I never play games on my phone, but I am addicted to card games online using my computer.

20 Apr

•

2 comments

•

1 person

An Update on “I Was So Upset”

Amber @AmbiePam (97287) • United States 19 Apr

So yesterday morning I went downstairs to leave for my appointment. There is a box to the side of the bottom of the stairs that was not there as late as 11:45pm the night before. And I just knew it was one of the things that had...

13 responses •

16 people

Anna I am glad that that person did not throw the things, but you got them back.

20 Apr

•

4 comments

•

1 person

Slept in. Do you ever sleep in?

The Horse @TheHorse (225489) • Walnut Creek, California 19 Apr

I usually get up with the sun. But this morning, I slept in until literally 8 AM. I teach at Guitar Center at 10 AM. I had better get my act together by then. Do you ever sleep in?

12 responses •

13 people

Anna I usually get up before 6, but this morning I woke up from a dream realizing it was already 6:30.

20 Apr

•

2 comments

•

1 person

Plans Change

MARILYN @Marilynda1225 (84296) • United States 19 Apr

Happy Saturday Everyone! the sun finally came out after a morning of clouds. Supposed to be pretty warm today and right now I think they might be right. Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and originally had no plans to do a family dinner...

14 responses •

15 people

Anna It rains here, the temperature is warm but the weather is not helping those who planned an Eastr party in the garden. I wish you and your family Happy Easter.

20 Apr

Back from the wine festival

snowy @snowy22315 (187939) • United States 19 Apr

It was a small one and a bit lower cost than most of them. It was fun though. I was tempted buy a bottle of wine, but I ended up buying a homemade resin bracelet that was very affordably priced. I have seen these before and they...

11 responses •

12 people

Anna A resin bracelet would have been a nice gift for Mother's Day. I am glad you enjoyed the festival.

20 Apr

•

2 comments

•

1 person

Understatement

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (49330) • St. Catharines, Ontario 19 Apr

I bought an apple pie today when I did my shopping. On the box it says "Best served warm". No kidding! It was frozen solid! Even after 4 hours sitting out on the table. So I nuked the piece and am having it now. Tastes very...

frozen food

5 responses •

6 people

Anna Goodness, if it was not a frozen product this is weird.

20 Apr

•

2 comments

•

1 person

4/19/25 - Meals

LindaOH @LindaOHio (186849) • United States 20 Apr

Sorry I was MIA. I was really sick yesterday. I think it was from the Lean Cuisine Swedish Meatballs and Noodles that I had. I've eaten them before without a problem. Maybe the package was not kept properly frozen in the...

18 responses •

19 people

Anna I am sorry you do not feel well, it is very possible the package was not kept frozen properly. Happy Easter to you too.

20 Apr

•

1 comment

•

4 people

Did A Little

Eva James @wolfgirl569 (114665) • Marion, Ohio 19 Apr

Besides eat today. Step daughter loved her present. I got her a digital photo frame. I also added a few pictures to it for her. We had a second thunderstorm this morning. Both had hail to start and were short lived after giving...

5 responses •

6 people

Anna A digital photo frame is a very nice gift. Your bookcase looks great, well arranged.

20 Apr

•

3 comments

•

1 person

Behave yourselves while I'm away

Judy Evans @JudyEv (351012) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Apr

There was a notice on the local Facebook group that two young lads were offering a service cleaning wheelie bins. They use a pressure hose so tap into the householder’s power and water. Then today, I read in a news feed that a...

western australia

wheelie bins

young entrepreneurs

15 responses •

16 people

Anna That is a good service! We have a lot smaller bins, 4 in total (paper, plastic, dry stuff and humid stuff), that we bring downstairs and place outside the gate to be collected, one different day for each bin.

20 Apr

The frighful death of Gene Hackman

marguicha @marguicha (226066) • Chile 19 Apr

I have read a lot about the death of Hackman and his wife. And I cannot understand how it could happen. In my country, people that have the amount of money that I think Gene Hackman and his wife had, also have people that clean...

12 responses •

13 people

Anna I thought that there is something "weird" about his death and the death of his wife.In our part of the planet people with money has maids who come to clean every day and a nurse to check on them if they have health problems. The nurse is sent free by the...

20 Apr

•

2 comments

•

3 people

Popular Easter Treats

Always smiling @allknowing (143983) • India 19 Apr

Th "Paschal Lamb" where lamb is eaten on Easter day is quite common. Among other treats are chocolate eggs or bunnies, jelly beans, candy-coated eggs and marshmallow candy I do not know how candy coated eggs are ever made....

easter treats

4 responses •

5 people

Anna The Paschal Lamb is the classic Easter lunch in Italy together with the very large chocolate Easter Egg, hollow inside and containing a "surprise".

20 Apr

•

8 comments

•

1 person

White Ixora

Always smiling @allknowing (143983) • India 20 Apr

We have different colours in Ixora but the white that I call Ixora has a different set of leaves. They multiply by creating suckers unlike the other colours that propagate through cuttings The white ixora fade over time and...

white ixora

4 responses •

5 people

Anna I also had Ixora in our garden, white, yellow and pink and purple.

20 Apr

•

11 comments

•

1 person

Before I say 'yes', I want to know who else will be there

Judy Evans @JudyEv (351012) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Apr

We had lunch with Vince’s god-daughter a few weeks ago. She has three children aged from 14 to 19. While she was away, the older daughter was going to have some girlfriends around. When we made some comments about parties getting...

24 responses •

27 people

Anna Good manners and tolerance seem to be a thing of the past. You can go through a night avoiding arguments even with people you do not really like. I remember this photo, those children are the cutest, the little boy makes me smile.

19 Apr

•

4 comments

•

1 person

My experience with a soft drink

Always smiling @allknowing (143983) • India 18 Apr

I have no interest in soft drinks and prefer fresh fruit juice. It was at a party that I had that - in fact after the party when few friends stayed behind for a tete-a-tet There was a left over bottle of pepsi. I shared that...

soft drinks

my experience

6 responses •

5 people

Anna My mother never let us have soft drinks. I never liked the taste of the most famous soft drink, I like sparkling water with a slice of lemon inside when I am thirsty.

19 Apr

•

4 comments

•

1 person

Chocolate and chili combination

Always smiling @allknowing (143983) • India 17 Apr

There was a programme on TV this morning about the exotic taste of combining chocolate with chili. That is a new trend these days - combining uncommon tastes. I have mixed sweet and spicy tastes and the outcome is that it tastes...

chocolate chili combination

10 responses •

10 people

Anna NOT new in Switzerland, I often bought dark chocolate and chili and I liked the combination.

18 Apr

•

4 comments

•

1 person

4/17/25 - Meals

LindaOH @LindaOHio (186849) • United States 18 Apr

Listened to 10 hours of bangs and crashes; but the roof is now done. I picked a sand color; and it looks really good with the stone front and chimney. They had to take the dish down to finish with the shingles. When they put it...

19 responses •

22 people

Anna I am glad the DISH is coming out at no cost. Those who did the roof had to be sure it worked, it was not up to you to pay.

18 Apr

•

1 comment

•

1 person

I think my niece is very brave

Judy Evans @JudyEv (351012) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Apr

In about ten days’ time, we start house-sitting at our niece’s place. She, her husband and four sons are heading for England and the continent. The boys are aged from about 14 to 21 and three are on the autism spectrum. One is...

17 responses •

17 people

Anna Congratulations to your niece, she is surely very brave. I love those English cottages.

18 Apr

•

4 comments

•

1 person