09 Monday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, grandson, groceries, heart, heart pillows, moments, shopping, spending, widow
went out for groceries and found three little heart pillows…
which I had to bring home;-)…
and I was also happy to find daffodils and hyacinth;-)… they came home too, lol…
since then I’ve moved them a few times…
everything is now in the den, as I am spending the majority of my time in there, watching the Olympics;-)…
08 Sunday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, cold plunge tub, family, garden, happy, hot tub, ice, moments, nature, project, topped up, water, weather, widow
it was a lovely day so we spent some time on the deck, in between Olympic events…
first project was to top up the hot tub and clean all the ice off of it…
next, we emptied, cleaned, and filled the cold tub… a new pump has gone into it to keep the water moving…
it is always amazing how long it takes to fill up tubs, particularly in the cold, lol…
but, the jobs are done;-)…
07 Saturday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, L O V E, living room table, love, moments, weather, widow
finally made time to change the drawers in the living room table…
went from Christmas ornaments to L O V E…
I also added a LOVE deck of cards to review each day…
06 Friday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, moments, Olympics, reruns, Technology, widow
so, the Olympics have started, woohoo;-)…
I like to watch the original, not the reruns, lol…
which means I will be watching a lot in the middle of the night for the next few weeks…
see you then…
05 Thursday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, moments, pillows, reminded, Technology, widow
was reminded of how blessed I am…
once a month cleaners come to give the house a once over..
when I walked into the bedroom after they left I laughed at how lovely the bed looked…
they took all of the cushions in the room and placed them on the bed;-)…
04 Wednesday Feb 2026
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attended an interesting seminar recently…
it was about dementia and I learned so much…
it was presented by the Alzheimer’s Society…
looking forward to receiving the power point deck to help me remember more of the information they shared with us;-)…
03 Tuesday Feb 2026
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bars, big girl pants, blessed, chocolate bars, happy, moments, nature, neighbour, shovelling, snow, snowblower, weather, widow
there was a lot of snow on the ground Sunday morning, so I went out to shovel before it got colder…
as I was shovelling the sidewalk, my neighbour from a few doors up the street, came by with his snowblower and blew the driveway clear…
I gave him the two chocolate bars I’d purchased after the last time he did this, which I hadn’t gotten around to getting to him;-)…
while he finished the driveway, I went out back and got it cleared…
looks good everywhere…
02 Monday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, Big Stuff, blessed, cards, friend, happy, moments, performance, PTE, Technology, widow
on Saturday afternoon, we went to our PTE play, Big Stuff…
as we park underground we always leave our coats in the car which makes sitting in the theatre more comfortable…
as we entered the theatre we were given a card with a pencil in it… most people did respond and the actors collected all of them and dumped them into a couple of boxes…
throughout the performance they connected with some of the people who had responded on the cards…
it was quite delightful and one of our favourite shows;-)…
01 Sunday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, food, friends, lunch, memories, moments, Pho Hoang, sugarcane, treat, widow
had lunch out on our way to the theatre the other day…
went to Pho Hoang, which was one of our favourites when we used to go to aquasize at Cindy Klassen pool during our working days, lol…
as always, it was delicious;-)…
I had shrimp salad rolls and sugarcane shrimp…
31 Saturday Jan 2026
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adventure buddy, big girl pants, blessed, driven, family, grandson, moments, Technology, tesla, Uber, weather, widow
I don’t think I’ve driven at all this winter…
since the snow started, I have been relying on my housemate and Uber to get me where I need to go… and my adventure buddy who always does the driving (yay to her!)…
my newest process is to volunteer at The Leaf from three until six… that way I can Uber there and my housemate can pick me up… seems to be working quite well…
recently I had a ride in a Tesla, which had the entire roof made of glass… I knew how to get in, from a previous encounter, although the driver automatically opened the door, but it took a while to figure out how to open the door from the inside to exit at my destination, lol……
I was thinking how cool it would be to drive out of the city and watch the stars or the aurora in comfort from the back seat without having to leave the vehicle, lol…
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