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sunshiny day…

08 Tuesday Apr 2014

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sun was shining all day long… perks me up… every day it is getting warmer as it shines into the yard, or through the windows…

on my way out to the car this morning I took this picture of the sidewalk and snow…

20140408-205353.jpg you can see how one side is still covered in snow, but the other side shows lots of grass and the snow bank is much smaller…

every night when I get home the backyard seems to have less snow in it… there is lots of dirt coming into view… these are the spots where the landscapers tried to put down soil and grass seed to see if they could level out some of the dips they created during the pond construction… doesn’t look very grassy just yet, lol…

tonight I baked chicken thighs, made some basmati rice and prepared a glass of carrot juice… haven’t cooked a proper supper during the week for a while and really enjoyed it… there’s enough for lunch tomorrow…

feels like I will be sitting out on the deck before you know it…

giggling…

07 Monday Apr 2014

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this morning I put on a jacket that I bought here with my daughter before heading to the West Coast for the cruise to Alaska…

it made me giggle as I remembered packing to go to the airport and discovering the security tag still attached… it was very late and I was heading to the airport early the next morning… I couldn’t figure out how to get it off and worried that it would set off the alarms… had picked it up particularly for the rain I anticipated we would run into on the trip, so I didn’t want to leave it behind…

20140407-214143.jpg thank goodness my son-in-law came by after he got off work at eleven that night and figured out how to remove it…

tonight I got to have a few lovely macaroons which my nephew brought back from his trip to Ottawa… very tasty…

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had a great visit with one of my friends and saw some pictures of her new granddaughter… so sweet…

when she left I stood at the window and waved, as I always do…

reminded me of my Aunty Vi… she died many years ago… she and my Uncle Don lived in a tiny little house filled with knick knacks… she loved to make things such as pottery, knit things of all types, food that she would share with all of her family… she made me laugh…

she always stood at the door to wave everyone off… my dad’s sister, she was very special…

lovely to remember her tonight…

sunshine…

06 Sunday Apr 2014

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had brunch out with friends and then walked home in the sunshine…

wore a light jacket and took a few pictures along the way…

this was the pool that was at the end of the street…

20140406-205125.jpg had to do a bit of fancy footwork to make my way around it, lol…

spent some some cleaning out the last bit of a closet upstairs and I was able to divest myself of a box full of books and other bits and pieces… also cleaned up a corner of the computer room and put my collection of gift bags and tissue paper into the closet… more space in the room, yay…

later in the day the sun was shining into the living room and I got this shot of the couch and cushion glittering…

20140406-205655.jpgmy daughter and her boys came for dinner and we had tacos… the most exciting thing was that the littlest guy had meat on all of his tacos… maybe we are moving out of the no meat phase…

finally, I took this shot of the Japanese Maple, which at Christmas time, didn’t have a single leaf on it…

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another sign that Spring might really be coming…

warming…

05 Saturday Apr 2014

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a beautiful day… had a lovely nap in the warm sunshine this afternoon…

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the neighbour had his motorcycle out…

when I was outside, in my bare feet on the deck, putting chemicals in the hot tub, I could hear the snow melting from the garage roof… you can actually see the snow melting away…

had windows open for the first time for a good portion of the day… very nice…

just had a wonderful hot tub… finally the temperature feels like Spring…

wondering when all the snow will be gone…

highs and lows…

04 Friday Apr 2014

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this morning I heard about the birth of friends’ first grandchild… they have been waiting for a while now as she was a little bit late… very cute, she looks just like her daddy… my friends are “over the moon” as they start down the path of the new and amazing world of grand parenting… so much more fun than parenting, lol…

at the end of the day, got some very disturbing news as another friend discovered that she has some serious medical issues to overcome… not even sure I heard all of the information, as my head stopped processing at the beginning of the conversation…

daffodils from a friend...

daffodils from a friend…

what can I do for my friends… completely different events, but likely will need the same types of support… listening and celebrating each step of their new journeys, sending prayers and healing vibes…

really, where would we be without our friends…

 

sorting…

03 Thursday Apr 2014

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this morning I put out two large bags and two boxes filled with pass-me-overs…

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it is always so great when you can let go of stuff you don’t need…

I’d been gathering bits and pieces for a few months but hadn’t dealt with the collection… now I feel a bit lighter…

of course there is still tons of stuff to sort and pass along to others…

I hope they came this morning as this afternoon the snow came down again, can’t believe it…

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the depths…

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

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tonight I stopped and picked up some fish and chips, which I have been craving for weeks… didn’t even put away my things when I got home… it was delicious…

have been really down for a while and it wasn’t until tonight when a friend called that I realized what the problem was…

another friend is turning 65 on Friday and tonight their family were having a come-and-go to celebrate…

when the invitation arrived I faced the fact that George would have been 65 last December… it didn’t mean much at the time, but this celebration kind of kicked me in the gut… don’t get me wrong, I’m glad our friend is having a great special birthday, but I’ve been stuck in my own pain…

we were invited to add a note to an online card and include a picture of our family… didn’t know what to do about that either… should the picture be of my family now or what my family used to be… In the end I sent a picture of our group… that seemed to take care of the request, but I am still trying to figure out who my family is…

20140402-211358.jpg things seem so mixed up right now… April second and the garden is filled with snow… I remember the year George died and how we were out working in the garden raking the grass in the middle of March, just a few weeks after…

apparently, you never know what will bring on the pain… as another friend said, likely I will have days like this for the rest of my life… hopefully they will come less often as time goes by…

sorting…

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

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in the process of decluttering, I came across some sheet music books and the lovely recipe book from our cruise last May/June…

took them to work to share with my colleagues… always easier to let something go if you know it will have a good home…

reminded me of what a great time we had on the cruise and all the new experiences and fun we had…

just heard about my income taxes and I only owe a few hundred dollars this year… much less than last year when we had to file for George as well…

missing my beloved so much… some days it feels as though the pain is more than I can handle…

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need to focus on the positives… like the fact that I actually finished the hallway shelves…

Junos…

30 Sunday Mar 2014

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well, just got home from the Junos at the MTS Centre downtown…

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there were a lot of people there…

we arrived about twenty minutes before it started and it was easy to get in…

it was great fun to be part of the “behind the scenes” action… to see what happens while the commercials are on… to see the cameras and teleprompters, the people running around after each act, mopping down the floors to be sure they were safe for everyone…

the Jennifer Jones team got a standing ovation when they were announced as presenters… Chris Hadfield was cool and also got an ovation… he sang a few lines of a BTO song before he introduced them…

many performers there whose music I knew, mainly from my driving in the car and listening to the radio…

the finale with a couple of younger bands joining BTO on the stage for Taking Care of Business was a great ending…

then we just had to get out through all the people, but the girls made sure we made it safely… even though we waited a bit, there were big crowds going the same direction as we were…

a memory to add to my collection…

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