11 Saturday Apr 2026
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cleaning the pumps in the fishtanks is not one of my favourite things to do… my beloved took care of this job… then for a number of years, my son-in-law looked after the task, lol…
now, it is up to me…
once I get started it isn’t that big a deal and doesn’t really take that long…
and to top it off this week, I scrubbed the algae from the glass front…
always happy when all the cleaning is complete…
and I think the fish like it as well;-)…
10 Friday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, crazy, friends, moments, people, The Leaf, time, volunteering, widow
it’s been nearly a year since I began volunteering at The Leaf…
since that time I have only come across four people that I know 🤪…
the first person was in the summer, not long after I’d started…
since then I hadn’t seen anyone I know until last week when I met a friend I hadn’t seen for a very long time… luckily I was able to do a quick catch up with them…
then today, I came across two people I knew…
one was early on in my shift and the other as I was moving from one spot to another…
how crazy is that and a great treat 😊…
09 Thursday Apr 2026
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this is how the day went yesterday…
woke up, looked out the bedroom window, and went back to bed…
took this photo at 8:17 am…
took this one at 12:03 pm…
and finally, this one at 2:48 pm…
happily most of the snow vanished by the end of the day…
07 Tuesday Apr 2026
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06 Monday Apr 2026
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barbecued steak, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, Easter-y, family, grandsons, moments, widow
for Easter dinner this year, we had barbecued steak, twice-stuffed potatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, and caesar salad…
I’d had great fun the day before, setting the table and adding a few Easter-y details…
dinner was delicious and we had carrot cake to finish it off…
wonderful to have a houseful of young people, lol… and between them the table was cleared and the kitchen cleaned up…
what a treat….
05 Sunday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, drawer, family, grandson, moments, nothing, pass-along, repair, struggle, warped, widow
a while ago, when I opened one of the drawers in the dining room, I realized that the bottom was coming away from the sides…
this had nothing to do with the weight of the dishes in the drawer🤪…
I mentioned it to my middle grandson, who advised he could fix it… he’s been a few times since then, but it finally worked out when he was here yesterday, for Easter dinner…
I had emptied the drawer before he came to help speed along the process…
it took a few trips to the basement for tools and a struggle with warped wood, but he got it fixed…
still waiting to put things back into it, after I remove some of the items that had been in it…
obviously there will be something for the pass-along box;-)…
04 Saturday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, draft, happy, moments, nature, virginia creeper, widow, window
I often have an afternoon nap in the den…
I’ve found, for most of the winter, that I needed my blanket to be up by my neck because of the draft…
I just figured that the window needed some insulation…
a few days ago, I realized that there was a piece of virginia creeper between the window and the screen… and of course I didn’t take a before picture, lol…
yesterday, my housemate was able to dislodge it and close the window properly…
no draft now…
03 Friday Apr 2026
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02 Thursday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, case, giggle, iPhone, moments, phone case, purple, research, Technology, widow, zipper
my phone case was starting to show its age, so I spent time researching what was out there to replace it…
having the spot where cards and a bit of money fit makes it easy for me just to take the phone and not need a purse…
took quite a while, but eventually I found two that I thought might work…
ordered both and discovered, for now, that the smaller one will work perfectly;-)…
the best thing is that it doesn’t have a zipper, like my last one, where the pull tab kept finding its way into my photos, lol… and it is very slim…
the part that makes me giggle is that it is harder to tell the top from the bottom when I take it out of my pocket…
01 Wednesday Apr 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, broom, chairs, cleaned, cushions, deck, garden, moments, nature, sunshine, Technology, warm, weather, widow
got to sit outside on the deck Sunday morning… yay:-)…
moved the chairs into their usual spots, took off the covers, brought out the clean cushions, and put them on the chairs…
got out the broom and swept up the cedar bits and elm leaves that were all over the deck… even used the leaf blower to finish up…
put on a light jacket and brought out tea and my book and enjoyed the sun, birdsong, and my book for a wonderful hour and a half;-)…
haven’t made it out since then, what with the snow and overcast skies🥺…
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