volunteering…

10 Friday Apr 2026

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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 😊…

back…

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…

biome…

07 Tuesday Apr 2026

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had fun with hibiscus today at The Leaf;-)…

so pretty;-)…

as it would happen, all of them were located in the Mediterranean biome…

Easter-y…

06 Monday Apr 2026

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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….

nothing…

05 Sunday Apr 2026

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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;-)…

draft…

04 Saturday Apr 2026

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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…