24 Saturday Aug 2024
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I have had the cushions for my outdoor chairs for over a year and I love them…
last Sunday I discovered a much simpler way to put them on the chairs, lol…
previously I would open them up and push down the bottom cushion and then make sure to raise the top cushion above it…
the new method puts both cushions on the chair and push it to the back, then raise the top (back) cushion…
so much easier;-)…
too funny, lol…
22 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, De Luca's, food, friend, lunch, moments, pizza, vegetarian, widow
went to De Luca’s on Portage Avenue for lunch the other day…
ordered the vegetarian mushroom, spinach, and cheese pizza, along with half of a shared Greek salad…
it was delicious…
and I brought some home which I had for lunch the next day…
so good;-)…
21 Wednesday Aug 2024
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adventure, bagel, big girl pants, blessed, Bothwell Cheese, buddy, cream cheese, friends, happy, market garden, moments, shopping, treat, widow
yesterday, on an excursion with my adventure buddy, we picked up bagels from Fromagerie Bothwell…
we also visited St. Leon’s Gardens where we both filled our bags with delicious fresh produce…
I had also been gifted some salmon cream cheese by that same friend…
today, for lunch, I had a toasted everything bagel with salmon cream cheese, onion, and fresh radishes and cucumbers…
it was delicious…
17 Saturday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, Bruce Park, ditched, family, grandson, moments, nature, the "A", trailer, walk, widow
had breakfast with my grandson at the “A” a few days ago…
it was a nice walk there and back…
we had the breakfast special, our usual…
on our way home we had a good look at a trailer that has been sitting near the end of the street…
it has been there for a long time… we are wondering if it has been ditched…
13 Tuesday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, casting, coverage, moments, night and day, Olympics, sports, Technology, time, tv, wake-ups, widow
well, I have emerged from the Olympics cycle…
I have watched all kinds of sports, some for the first time…
as mentioned previously, I like to watch in real time and managed to do that for a good portion of the sports I was interested in… although I did sleep through one of the medals that Canada won, lol… it meant a lot of 2:30 and 4:00 am wake-up’s…
my hope for every event that I watch is that each person does their best and I like flipping between channels, if I can, to hear commentary from different points of view…
I am less interested in team sports such as soccer or basketball or football… and I’m not too fond of fighting in any of its numerous forms…
the technology at these games had some interesting highlights… I was particularly taken with the cauldron;-)…
I am happy that this portion is over and I have a few weeks before the Paralympics begin…
hopefully there will be lots of it on tv and Gem as well;-)…
11 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Chihuly, hat, memories, moments, Olympics, shopping, Technology, widow, worn
I’ve been wearing this Chihuly hat since we visited Atlanta in 2016 and love it…
it has turned that very sad gray/black colour and looks completely worn out…
haven’t been able to figure out how to save it, sigh…
got this new hat a few days ago… it was part of the 2024 Canadian Olympics clothing line and I hope it lasts as long and as well as the Chihuly…
07 Wednesday Aug 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, flowers, garden, happy, hues, Lilystone Gardens, moments, nature, pink, plants, purple, surprise, treat, weather, white, widow
I have been so excited…
for a number of years, I’ve been overwintering dahlia corms, but haven’t had tons of luck… sometimes I know what they are and other times they are a surprise when they get put away…
one white one has proven very prolific and it has produced at least a dozen blooms so far this year in three different pots…
these are about the size of my palm…
a delightful feathery one that I purchased last year at Lilystone Gardens has come back nicely and has a number of blooms and buds in one pot…
each bloom is bigger than my hand…
these have all been white so I was particularly excited to see one come up in a pot that looked like it was pinky/purple…
it is a bit smaller than the white pompom-looking ones, but stands out in all its pink and purple hues…
nature is so amazing…
04 Sunday Aug 2024
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bedroom, big girl pants, blessed, drill, glass, glass shelves, happy, installed, moments, screwdriver, shelves, Technology, widow
well, I pulled out those big girl pants and installed two glass shelves in the bedroom…
both shelves had been broken during cleaning over the last few years but I had one available to replace the first one…
after the second one broke, the cleaning company was able to find some that were similar, but they used different hardware than what was on the wall…
the shelves have been sitting in the box they arrived in for quite a few weeks, but today I brought out my screwdriver and the drill and went at it…
took awhile because I had trouble with getting just the right screw head for the screwdriver…
but I persevered and did it and they look good;-)…
I am very pleased because the bedroom has been looking untidy, which makes me a bit crazy, and I have spent a lot of time in it over the last week, with another one to go…
25 Thursday Jul 2024
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adventure, big girl pants, blessed, buddy, delicious, drive, food, friend, fun, lunch, moments, Pineridge, Pineridge Hollow, restaurant, shopping, treat, weather, widow
it was a beautiful day for an adventure yesterday… and we hadn’t been on one for awhile…
my adventure buddy and I drove out to Pineridge Hollow for lunch and a wander around the new shops that are there…
we had a lovely drive out and only got a little lost, lol…
we were just in time for our lunch reservation so we ate first… we shared a number of things…
rosemary and salt beet chips with a goat cheese ranch dipping sauce… my oh my, those were addictive…
next we shared a small Pineridge salad with mixed greens, apples, candied pecans and smoked Gouda tossed in a maple Dijon dressing… I forgot to take a photo before we dived in, lol… the small was more than enough for the two of us… and it was delicious… actually it was my favourite of all we ate…
she had the pulled pork tacos and I had the carpaccio – seared beef tenderloin, pickled rhubarb, strawberry gastrique, fresh herbs, arugula, pistachios, and a garlic scape aoli…
it was fun to try something different;-)…
and because we hadn’t eaten enough, she had schmoo and I had panna cotta with haskap berries…
we could have just had the beet chips and salad, maybe with a bit of chicken in it…
but we enjoyed everything and had leftovers to bring home…
from there we wandered through the shops and picked up a few items before heading home for naps, lol…
23 Tuesday Jul 2024
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, cook, food, garden, green beans, lunch, moments, nature, shopping, summer, supper, trimmed, widow
yesterday a friend brought me a large bag of fresh green beans…
this morning while I was watching a tv show I trimmed them all and put some into two pots…
I cooked the first batch for my lunch…
then the second for supper, with a few leftovers for tomorrow…
they were delicious…
I do love fresh veggies;-)…
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