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19 Friday Jan 2024

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Wednesday was my third and final visit to Voyage at The Leaf…

took another friend who hadn’t been to The Leaf previously…

the parking lot was beyond crazy, apparently there was a big event on in the building… thankfully there weren’t tons of people going through the biomes…

we had a great time and a fabulous visit;-)… I keep seeing new things in many of the displays, and got a few interesting photos of details…

we had fun deciding on our favourite display, and this time I chose the Japanese display, prepared by Fache Floral… I liked the simplicity and the amount of work it must have taken to strip the colour out of the leaves…

we also found the cutest T-shirts with the saying – flowers make me happy – which happens to be the first hashtag I have used since I started on IG…

voyages…

18 Thursday Jan 2024

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Monday I had another wonderful visit to see Voyages by Fleurs de Ville at The Leaf…

it was a treat to share this special place with friends, some of whom hadn’t been before…

every time I am there I see something different or learn something from the gardeners or volunteers… we had searched all over for the name of this flower/plant…

this trip I learned that this gorgeous flower is a heliconia, thanks to one of the gardeners;-)…

we wandered through the Tropical Biome and then enjoyed the Voyages exhibit in the Mediterranean Biome…

seeing the displays in person is so very different than looking at photos…

this time I chose a different favourite display, lol… I loved the sweetgrass hair and the birch bark bodice…

it was nice to see so many people enjoying the exhibition and learning about The Leaf…

from there we moved into Gather Craft Kitchen and Bar for a lovely lunch to celebrate a birthday…

what a wonderful way to enjoy a freezing cold day… it is always a treat to spend time together and make memories;-)…

mannequins…

16 Tuesday Jan 2024

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what a delightful time I had on Friday for my first visit to Voyage by Fleurs de Villes at The Leaf…

went with a friend who hadn’t made it to The Leaf before and it was such a treat to show her this gem…

we went around 2 pm and the parking lots were all full… we found a spot when someone left, at the very end of the gravel lot… even though there were many people, there were a good number of hangers to make leaving coats outside the biomes easy…

there was a lineup to get into the biomes, but it moved quickly and most people went directly into the Mediterranean Biome for the display, but we went through the Tropical Biome and admired the lush growth… my friend said she thought it was like the old Conservatory, but on steroids, lol… the plants are getting enormous and we were dripped on a few times, maybe from the humidity…

from there we moved into the Mediterranean Biome to see all the beautiful mannequins…

there were many people when we started our tour, but by the end it had thinned out nicely… I took photos of all the descriptions as it was so crowded around each one, lol…

after we sat and reviewed all the pictures we took, we decided on our favourites and filled out our ballots before heading home;-)…

fun way to spend a cold and snowy afternoon…

plows…

15 Monday Jan 2024

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yesterday was the first night of snow clearing on side streets this winter, and I have finally figured out which zone we are in…

I have learned to go out as soon as the plows go by to shovel the end of the sidewalk otherwise it turns to concrete and is nearly impossible to move…

they arrived about 10:45 pm and my housemate went out and shovelled our sidewalk and the one next door… in his shirtsleeves, but he did have his gloves on…

a nice treat, although I was dressed and ready to go, lol…

they did a great job at the end of the driveway so there was nothing to shovel there…

I did stand in the window and wave to each of the drivers of the graders and plows as they went by…

it was bitterly cold and I didn’t take a photo until they were doing the other side of the street, lol…

mall…

14 Sunday Jan 2024

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had a lovely time on Thursday…

started out with shovelling the sidewalk… my oh my, we had a lot of snow since yesterday…

then friends arrived to pick me up and take me to Polo Park to mall walk… it was very nice to be able to walk in a space without ice and snow, where there was lots of space, and few people…

forty minutes and three laps later, we went to their house and had a lovely visit and lunch…

we topped lunch off with a few pieces of dark chocolate…

later I was brought home with a bagful of books to add to the stair bookshelf;-)…

what a wonderful treat…

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10 Wednesday Jan 2024

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about ten years ago I got a new set of pots and hung them up on the kitchen wall…

over the last year I have replaced a few of them and the new pans fit well on the original screws…

except for the lid for one of the new pots… it was just a bit too close to the bottom of the largest pan… my solution had been to hang the lid on top of the pot it worked with…

yesterday morning I decided to move the screw with my new Christmas screwdriver…

it was a bit of a process, as I had to find the correct bit, and figure out how to reverse the direction on the screwdriver, lol…

took about ten minutes total and now the lid finally has its own spot again…

interesting how some days those big girl pants fit so well…

bookshelf…

06 Saturday Jan 2024

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I haven’t been doing much reading lately… I was not enjoying the book I was working on and it really slowed down my desire to read…

also, it was cold in the living room in December, so that kept me from reading a bit also…

for Christmas I got a biography and it has been slow going, lol… a good friend brings me books all the time and there is quite a stack…

I decided to put all the books I have to read up the stairs… they had been looking kind of empty since the Advent boxes were emptied;-)…

a new version of a bookshelf;-)…

I think this is going to encourage me to get back into the reading habit…

catches…

04 Thursday Jan 2024

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for years the catches on the cabinet under the fish tank have not worked…

last week we picked up some new fasteners that I wasn’t sure would fix the problem…

Monday morning I took out the magnetized pieces, added gorilla tape to each of them and fastened them to the door after removing one magnet and cleaning off the tape and glue with one of my Christmas presents, a scraping tool…

such a little thing, but fixing it and having it work properly makes me so happy;-)…