making me…

08 Sunday Mar 2026

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today, on this International Women’s Day, I’ve spent time thinking of the many women who have influenced my life…

I wrote these words in 2017:

whether they are family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or those I’ve seen from afar… 

whether they are alive or dead…

whether they know it or not…

they have had a part in making me me…

I am blessed…

now, more than ever, in these difficult days, we need to support others as they move forward;-)…

floats…

06 Friday Mar 2026

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last night we celebrated my beloved who departed fourteen years ago…

as always, some days it seems like yesterday, and others so long ago…

hamburgers and floats were eaten here and via the internet…

so thankful to have family around for these celebrations;-)…

evaporates…

03 Tuesday Mar 2026

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I am always surprised as to how much water evaporates in the house on a regular basis…

Monday mornings I add about twelve litres of water to the fish condos as the water has gone down a significant amount since the previous week…

I have a Tupperware container that lives under the kitchen sink and is filled with water for the plants…

the plants get watered on Wednesdays weekly, but the tanks are topped up on Mondays…

the reason it is Monday is that my friends come every Monday afternoon and the less water in the tanks, the more noise the pumps make, and the loud noise can disrupt our conversation…

cannot interrupt important conversations, especially if one of us is on the phone…

passed…

02 Monday Mar 2026

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it is the beginning of March and I realized I hadn’t remembered that this week marks 14 years since my beloved passed…

at first I felt bad because I hadn’t remembered, but then I realized how often I think of him during each and every day and no longer focus on the day he died…

pantry…

28 Saturday Feb 2026

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I was wanting some comfort food recently and couldn’t think of what I wanted…

eventually I decided on Kraft Dinner… hadn’t had any in ages, but had a box in the pantry;-)…

it was delicious and just what I needed…

funny what can provide comfort when you are craving it…

snowploughs…

26 Thursday Feb 2026

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the snowploughs came along the street about 10:30 this morning…

there were a lot of them… maybe two or three of the big ones that move the snow from the road to the curb…

and block off the driveway…

then come the buckets which clean up the windrow… I think there were three of them…

they always take a scoop by the fire hydrant so that it is accessible if needed… unfortunately they didn’t scoop out the sidewalk… sometimes if you are outside already shovelling, they might take a scoop there as well;-)…

not this time, but my housemate dug through it on his break;-)…