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grandparents’ day…

22 Monday Apr 2013

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got the car back so that I could drive to the grade 2 class for Grandparents’ day… George and I had made it a couple of times before, but this will be my first year on my own as last year I didn’t hear about it in time to arrange to go…

put on the big girl pants so that I could figure out exactly where the school was… it is quite a distance from Crystal’s house but I think I got the directions fairly straight in my head… and then I printed out a Google map to get me there…

first thing the little guy said to me when he got here on Sunday was how much he was looking forward to the day…

found my way there, got into the classroom about a minute late and had a lovely time… after watching the kids work on a Smart Board calendar in French, we completed a survey about what it was like when we went to elementary school… there was at least one grandparent in the room who attended a one-room schoolhouse… after that we cut out pictures of things that we do together and pasted them onto a sheet of paper… we also added some words that described what the pictures were…

pictures that show what we do together...

pictures that show what we do together…

finally he read me a couple of French stories… then we went to McDonalds (along with about half of the grandparents and kids who had been at the school) for lunch, then back to school and work…

as we were driving back to the school from McDonalds we talked about how Grandpa would have enjoyed the day and how he wouldn’t have had any trouble finding the school or McDonalds…  we were both missing him…

another milestone…

the day…

21 Sunday Apr 2013

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started out overcast…

slept off and on through the night sitting in the lounger that I bought yesterday… so spent a good portion of the morning and early afternoon watching tv and dozing in the chair… the good news is that it has helped my back…

very large snowflakes came down...

very large snowflakes came down…

was thinking about having a hot tub around 8 am but then huge snowflakes started to come down and more and more came down for a long time… about 3 it stopped and the sun came out…

deck covered AGAIN... although it did melt late in the afternoon...

deck covered AGAIN… although it did melt late in the afternoon…

went grocery shopping and came home to make dinner for the kids…

since then I have been watching the JUNOs in the lounger which Jeff took upstairs for me…

looking forward to a better sleep tonight and hopefully my back with be feeling much better tomorrow…

spring???

20 Saturday Apr 2013

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went to Rona and got a new folding lounger for the deck outside the patio doors… been using a wooden rocker there but it just isn’t comfortable when I’m reading a book and want to put my feet up… this one will be great and I might even try sleeping in it tonight to see what that does for my back… the young woman at the Service desk knew who I was right away, which is becoming more unusual as staff change on a frequent basis… when I was in the store the other day, the person who was helping me in Hardware didn’t know who George was… felt kind of sad about that…

then we went for a pedicure… which was actually quite good for my back as I was sitting up for an hour, even if I was jerking my feet around as my toes were pampered… I have very sensitive feet, lol… Crystal and Cyndi get quite a kick out of the whole process…

purple toes...

purple toes…

just came in from a hot tub… while I was out there I could hear gaggles of geese flying over in the dark, although I couldn’t spot any of them… but certainly a sound that makes one think of Spring…

and, even more exciting… the solar light by the pond was flickering… which means that the snow is nearly gone by the pond, and the sun s getting strong enough to give it a charge…  sadly my dragonflies don’t seem to be lighting up…

dragonfly solar lights...

dragonfly solar lights…

maybe Spring is really on the way…

helping hands…

19 Friday Apr 2013

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my back is still a pain… been going on for a week now and the twisting and turning I do at night makes it very sore in the morning… by night time it is much better, but then I go to bed and irritate it all over again… it has been improving, very slowly, which is often what happens when you pull a muscle…

and then we went swimming on Tuesday, which may have put the recovery back a bit… if the car had been here this morning I think I would have gone to see the doctor because it felt miserable…

last week I didn’t put out the garbage and recycling because I didn’t think I could drag the bins over the snow to the lane so I really felt I had to do it this morning for today’s collection…

was on the way to the bins in the back yard when I heard my neighbour in the lane… he’s always asking if he can help me with anything, so I called him over and he took both bins and put them out for me…

was so thankful because they were sitting in a low spot where water had melted and then frozen so you had to wrench them to get them to start moving… and wrenching is just not a good thing to be doing these days…

tonight he brought the empty bins back into the yard which was also great… ever since I put the note on the garbage bin, it has been picked up without a problem… guess I should have done that a lot sooner…

garbage and recycling bins out while still light Thursday, February 21, 2013...

garbage and recycling bins out while still light Thursday, February 21, 2013…

I walked from the end of the street with my daisies in hand tonight and got a shot of the creek with water flowing in it… the snow is finally starting to melt away, yay…

water finally in Truro Creek...

water finally in Truro Creek…

 

 

today its my birthday…

18 Thursday Apr 2013

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felt a little sorry for myself when I woke up at 5 this morning… after a short pity party I went back to sleep and at 6:15 felt more excited about the day…

had calls and singing from my kids and grandkids and lots of happy birthdays at the office… for our Souper Club a colleague made my favourite Thai soup and also picked up summer rolls… great group of people to enjoy a birthday lunch with…

a friend dropped by with a gorgeous cupcake, which I ate without taking one single picture, lol…

after work my daughter picked me up and we stopped at the mall and picked up a cute top for me with an orchid on it… then we headed to The Keg for dinner – steak and crab, very yummy… the place was nearly empty when we got there and the hostess couldn’t find a single booth for us to sit in as they were all reserved… when our wait person arrived and asked how we were I mentioned that I was disappointed that we weren’t in a booth… he checked and was able to find one (of the 20 or so that were empty) for us… the service and dinner were excellent and the wait person brought a piece of of Billy Miner pie to celebrate my birthday, which was much better than staff singing to you…

came home, had a nap, watched tv and talked with family across the country, shopped by phone with Cyndi and then spent some quality time in the hot tub…

I was looking at the stars and remembering how George could always spot the satellites going over… he had eagle eyes…  I don’t think I’ve seen a single one in the last year…

all day the tune today its my birthday has been running around in my head… I believe the new name for that is an ear worm… but I’m not sure I like that name, lol…

a beautiful potted plant that George bought me a few years ago...

a beautiful potted plant that George bought me a few years ago…

well, time for bed… and a new day in the new journey…

standing firm…

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

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not long ago I was in a situation where someone was questioning me about something and I didn’t go to the what did I do wrong place… I’ve talked with many women about this place, and how quick many of us are to go there… this has also been very beneficial, as previously I thought I was the only person who could get there in a nano second, and apparently others go there as well…

I remained calm, brought forward the appropriate information and stood my ground on the matter…

path is clear although there is still lots of snow...

path is clear…

not exactly sure how I got to that place… whether I was feeling particularly knowledgeable about the subject, whether I just didn’t care about the outcome, whether I was just too tired, or whether I had just arrived in the place where I knew what I knew and believed it…

it was quite liberating and I hope I can find that place again and again…

a little chilly on the toes this morning...

big girl pants influence???…

maybe it was the big girl pants influence, lol…

snow…

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

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so, had in my mind that I would Google whether it has ever snowed here on April 18th… seemed like a simple thing, but I have now spent an hour trying to get the information…

found a nice chart on weatherspark.com but couldn’t copy it into the blog… anyway, it basically said that it should be way warmer than it is… nothing about snow, lol…

tomorrow is supposed to be sunny with a few clouds with the temperature going to plus 3 Celsius… let’s hope there is no snow…

flowers for the three birthday celebrants...

flowers for the three birthday celebrants…

I will be sixty-two… today at work we celebrated three birthdays… it is quite amazing to me that with only 12 people on staff, 3 of us have our birthdays in one week… there was singing, icing topped muffins and cute little flower arrangements for each of us…

my lovely birthday flowers...

my lovely birthday flowers…

later I went for a birthday lunch with another friend who shares an April birthday… it was very pleasant to spend time with them and enjoy lunch at Bistro Dansk in Wolseley…

at the end of the day on our way home we stopped by Rona for a few items for the office and I think I found a lounge chair for the deck so will have to go back in the next few days to pick that up…

missing my beloved… he always made my birthday a special event…

missed post…

15 Monday Apr 2013

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was talking with my daughter the other day and mentioned that I wasn’t feeling too great…

a few days later she texted me early in the morning because she couldn’t see a post on my blog for the previous evening and was worried that I might still be feeling poorly…

it does make me giggle a bit that she is using my blog to check on me… when I started I didn’t really have a plan to write something every day, but a friend commented on how she was using the blog as her Advent daily reading and so I tried to write each day… now it just seems like part of my routine…

not completely sure what the problem was… seemed to have something to do with the fact that I was using the desktop and my work computer to get the post written and up… and then I went back in and re-posted it a couple of times because it had a few little errors in it…

now I make sure that the posts go up before midnight so there is one each day… a couple of times I have worked late into the night and the post has gone up as the next day… I am trying not to do that anymore, lol…

lots of snow on the ground when I woke up...

lots of snow on the ground when I woke up…

this morning the ground was covered with snow again, and it snowed all day… beginning to wonder when spring will actually arrive…

snow stuck to the trees, was pretty, but needs to stop...

snow stuck to the trees, was pretty, but needs to stop…

up early…

14 Sunday Apr 2013

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still feeling some discomfort in my side/back which seems to get worse overnight… apparently sleeping is not really that good for me, lol…

this morning I got up at 5 and had a peace-filled hot tub which did help a bit…

heading off for breakfast with some great women with hopes that the walk there  would help with whatever it is that I have done to the silly thing…

along the way I came across a very sad Canada Goose that was hollering – because there was very little water, as the Assiniboine is still 95% frozen…

very little open water on the Assiniboine...

very little open water on the Assiniboine…

he yelled for the longest time while I was taking his picture as he wandered along the edge of the open water while his mate quietly stood waiting…

hollering goose, maybe the water was toooooooo cold...

hollering goose, maybe the water was toooooooo cold…

further down the river I could see more of them… they must be wondering whether they took a wrong turn on their way north because it doesn’t seem very spring-like around here…

the Duck Pond is closed to skating but there are no ducks on/in it yet, lol…

thin ice, although there is still plenty of snow...

thin ice, although there is still plenty of snow…

after a lovely time with my friends, I was picked up and ran a few errands with my daughter… then it was home for a steak and lobster dinner to celebrate my upcoming birthday…

my back is still grumpy, much like the goose but feeling slightly better as the day progresses… hope it smartens up soon…

reminiscing…

13 Saturday Apr 2013

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recently I had to work on the desktop computer because my laptop was being a bit fussy, and I spent some lovely moments checking out pictures…  the desktop shares pictures with the laptop but it doesn’t work the other way around… found some lovely ones of the garden and George… also reminded me of how long ago some things happened…

it always seems like it was just a couple of years ago that something took place, but when you check out the pictures you realize it might be that six or eight years have passed…

also spent some time going through photo albums and I took out a great one that Cyndi had made for us from our family trip to Courtenay… I realize that it was five years ago…

the top of Mount Washington was rather cool...

the top of Mount Washington was rather cool…

it reminded me of the trip across the country with the kids, and meeting up with everyone else there…  George was slowly recovering from his heart failure and couldn’t drive out with us… the doctor advised that he needed to fly which would be less of a stress on his body…  Crystal and Jeff and the two boys drove out around the same time and we had a lovely time together and got to see all the special places around Courtenay…

fun time at Goose Spit...

fun time at Goose Spit…

we all loved Goose Spit and had a wiener roast on the beach together… that year, on our anniversary, we took the little boys for a walk along the Puntledge early in the morning so that all the grownups could sleep in a bit…

it was a wonderful time and we had an adventure when we took a wrong path and wandered down a tiny waterway that didn’t really go anywhere… we saw slugs and bugs, and I got a wonderful picture of George and the boys stretching their arms out to circle one of the very large trees…

George and the boys stretching to reach around the tree...

George and the boys stretching to reach around the tree…

wow, five years… amazing what things have happened in that time…  how my life has changed…