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solitude…

02 Monday Sep 2013

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bad night, big girl pants, no pictures, poor me, quiet day, solitude, year and a half since George died

spent a very quiet day…

talked with one of my girls for a few minutes this morning and then didn’t talk with anyone for the remainder of the day…

didn’t take a single picture…

lazed around… did a few chores around the house and napped or watched TV…

had a bad night… couldn’t sleep and so was up for 3 or 4 hours in the middle and I think that put me off a bit today…

in a few days it will be a year and a half since George died…

having a bit of a poor me day…

morning glories blooming close together..

morning glories blooming close together..

the pond…

01 Sunday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, dimsum, floats, Grandpa, hot tub, lovely day, morning glories, pond, sleep over friend, steak, the "A"

had a good time with my sleepover friend… we counted morning glories (8)… we walked to the A for “the special” and got the rye toast that Grandpa liked… we worked in the garden, like Grandpa would have… one of us had a hot tub while the other continued with the garden work, like Grandpa would have…

rearranged floating objects in the pond...

rearranged floating objects in the pond…

had a couple of helpers throughout the day and one of them did some work in the pond… got one of the plants to stay upright, trimmed up some dead material, pulled out a broken glass ball and rearranged all the floats and glass balls…

lily pads and floats...

lily pads and floats…

fish were fed and numbers of people tried to find them, although they really hide well under the slate bridge…

got a couple of good shots of the floats and balls…

close up of floats and glass bubbles...

close up of floats and glass bubbles…ad 

went for dimsum and after the kids left, watched some TV and made a lovely dinner of pan seared steak with pan-fried potatoes, mushrooms and onions, and fresh tiny tomatoes from the garden…

a lovely day all around…

 

sleepover…

31 Saturday Aug 2013

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big girl pants, datura, drinking purple koolaid, eating popcorn, hot tub, morning glories, read in the garden, sleepover, the Olive Garden, Top Chef Masters marathon

quiet day mostly… got up at five and had a lovely hot tub as clouds played peek-a-boo with the moon and dawn lit the sky… then back to bed for a few hours…

datura which will likely bloom tomorrow....

datura which will likely bloom tomorrow….

sat out in the garden and read, took photos, and enjoyed the pond till early afternoon…

fish in the main part of the pond...

fish in the main part of the pond…

 then watched a marathon of Top Chef Masters and napped…

fish looking for food by the waterfall...

fish looking for food by the waterfall…

picked up by the kids and went to the Olive Garden for dinner… I had been thinking about their salad and bread sticks for a while now… very long wait to get in, but most of our supper was good although Crystal’s wasn’t… the manager was quick to bring her something else so it all worked out well…

while there, we decided on a sleepover, so once we got home we watched a bit of TV, had a very nice time in the hot tub, and currently we are both eating popcorn and drinking purple koolaid…

enjoying popcorn before bed...

enjoying popcorn before bed…

very shortly we are going to bed, because Grandma is tired, lol…

beautiful blue morning glory...

beautiful blue morning glory…

I do have a wonderful life…

Friday…

30 Friday Aug 2013

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Friday, hibiscus, morning glory, pond, pond float, wings and coleslaw

yay, it’s Friday… been quite a week…

and, I think the pond might be fixed…

light shining through morning glory...

light shining through morning glory…

got some good shots of the morning glories this morning… and a couple of the hibiscus beginning to unfurl…

hibiscus bud early this morning...

hibiscus bud early this morning…

when I arrived home it was open…

hibiscus when I arrived home...

hibiscus when I arrived home…

as I was driving home I was craving the wings I never got earlier this week, and coleslaw, for some reason… in the mail was a flyer from a local place and they had both items so I called, ordered and had a lovely dinner, with enough leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch…

float in the pond that doesn't seem to be leaking...

float in the pond that doesn’t seem to be leaking…

:-)…

memories…

29 Thursday Aug 2013

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beloved, big girl pants, looked after one another, memories, Mom and Dad, parents, remembering, true love, wonderful memories

this morning there were 9 morning glories…

light shining through the beautiful purple morning glory...

light shining through the beautiful purple morning glory…

made me think about my Mom and the amazing days we spent together during her last four months…

she died within a year of my Dad… they were such a couple… always together, always doing things to support the other… I don’t believe I ever heard either of them raise their voice to the other…

my Dad looked after my Mom from the time my brother was born until I was about fifteen or so… when he was born she had a breakdown and spent many years struggling with her health… she would often spend six months of the year in hospital while Dad looked after us and visited her regularly…

she was on large doses of Valium so even when she wasn’t in the hospital she was pretty drugged up… she decided one day that she was getting off the meds and stopped cold-turkey… she improved amazingly after that…

then Dad’s emphysema gave him a very hard time and Mom took over looking after him… we both did, really… when I turned sixteen we bought a car together and I drove Dad to and from work every day until he took an early retirement… as he got weaker and could do less, Mom stepped up her care and before he finally went into hospital, she was doing everything for him…

morning glories blooming close together..

morning glories blooming close together..

true love is an amazing thing to behold… I got to see it with my parents, and experience it with my beloved…

sometimes I am amazed that I have lived so long without George… somehow I thought we would ride off into the sunset together…

Mom and Dad enjoyed our garden and the flowers… although for most of the early years our garden was a playground for little people… they would be part of breakfasts and barbecues on the deck…

they would have enjoyed the morning glories, and the pond… I remember them telling me about my grandpa on my dad’s side who had an amazing garden filled with beautiful roses…

the pond this morning...

the pond this morning…

what wonderful memories…

interesting the stories one remembers…

withdrawal…

28 Wednesday Aug 2013

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computer, no Internet, no TV, withdrawal

stopped for gas on the way home and decided to pick up some wings while the tank was getting filled… had been a long day and I thought I deserved a treat… door was closed and locked… so, no wings for me…

got home to see that the power had been off sometime during the day, but was back on…

tried to go onto the Internet to order some supper, only to discover that the laptop wouldn’t connect… again…

then, realized that my phone wasn’t connecting either, sigh…

went upstairs to see if the problem was that the desktop computer needed to be turned back on…

as I walked into the computer room it smelled like burning rubber… computer would not turn on, was hot, and appeared to be emitting the smell… unplugged it…

thought – okay, I will just watch a little TV and then sort this out…

turn on the TV and get “Please wait while system reloads”… waited, nothing reloaded… called my daughter in Ottawa to look up the MTS phone number… can’t believe it wasn’t in my Contacts…

call MTS and get a message saying that the Internet and TVs are experiencing intermittent outages and they are working as fast as they can to fix the problem… reminds me way too much of how my day had gone at work!!!

never mind the dinner issue and the Internet problem and the (likely) dead computer… I have NO TV…. this is serious…

I heat up something from the freezer and eat it on the deck, play solitaire on my phone, top up the pond, water the plants and finally the Internet comes back up on my phone… yay, it’s fixed…

head inside to watch some TV… it still isn’t working…

phone MTS and get the same message…

wifi stops working…

have now turned off the wifi and using 3G to upload my post…

had enough… going to bed and hoping that everything will work then… although I don’t think that’s likely for the computer, lol…

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sky…

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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enjoy time in the garden, five morning glories, garden, pond, sky, too hot

tonight, after supper and a nap, I headed into the garden to take a few pictures of the opened up area of the pond…

waterfall after the fix...

waterfall after the fix…

apparently, while I was napping, my pond guy came by and put it all back together… looks good… now we will have to see if the leak is fixed…

the sky was beautiful and I took a quick pic…

gorgeous sky this evening...

gorgeous sky this evening…

tomorrow morning I will add water to the pond to top it up when I water all the plants…

this morning I got up, dressed and went out and watered everything… it is just too hot to do it at night when I get home…

some of this morning's purple morning glories...

some of this morning’s purple morning glories…

there were five morning glory blooms this morning… and it looks like there will be a number tomorrow morning as well…

closing up and opening...

closing up and opening…

I do enjoy time in the garden… a lovely way to start and end the day…

spotted dahlia…

26 Monday Aug 2013

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corms, dahlia, water garden in the morning

here’s a picture of the next dahlia to open…

on each if the corms Jack wrote the name of the ones we picked…

of course I didn’t write down a list before I planted them, lol…

I also picked up three of one kind from Rona…

at 9 it was 30.6 Celsius… too hot to be outside, so I guess I will be watering the garden when I get up in the morning…

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Hot…

25 Sunday Aug 2013

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big girl pants, dinner, hot, morning glories, reading, worked in garden

feels like 27.6 Celsius right now… not sure what it got to this afternoon, but it was very hot…

there were three morning glories and I spent a bit of time enjoying them…

then I worked in the garden and took breaks to do some reading…

kids came for dinner and we discovered that one of my squirrel friends ate through a wire on the lawnmower so that will need to be fixed…

might just sleep out on the deck tonight…

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water lily…

24 Saturday Aug 2013

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big girl pants, dry garden, morning glories, pond, water lily

hurried out to sit and admire the morning glories… and there weren’t any… hadn’t watered the garden and it was rather dry out there…

got out the hose and gave everything a nice drink… then sat by the pond and read and watched the water lily open up…

it was lovely to watch it open… could almost see it moving…

got pics on my phone and with the Nikon… sadly, tonight the laptop would not connect to the Internet so I am only putting up a couple of shots from my phone…

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