28 Monday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, closet, family, happy, light, moments, motion sensitive, Princess Auto, Technology, widow
on Saturday we went shopping at Princess Auto… lots of fun wandering around to see what they had…
in the process I found a light for the bedroom closet… there is no power in there and it is rather dull, lol…
this light is charged via usb and it is motion activated… didn’t take too long to charge it and get it installed…
I think it is going to be wonderful;-)…
27 Sunday Aug 2023
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barn, big girl pants, blessed, cats, chicken and dumplings, drive, Dugald, moments, requests, roasting chickens, tasty, widow
drove out to Dugald on Thursday to pick up some roasting chickens from a new place – Hoogies Ranch…
it was a lovely drive and the weather vacillated between sun and cloud…
besides two dogs wandering the yard, these cute barn cats were very friendly…
so far, we’ve had one of the chickens and it was delicious… there was lots for supper, a chicken salad is in my future, and chicken vegetable soup with dumplings has been requested;-)…
I’m sure we will order from them again…
25 Friday Aug 2023
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2x4, big girl pants, blessed, bolt, broken, chair, family, footstool, happy, home, living room, moments, widow
a bolt let go on one of the chairs in the living room…
it has been sitting with a sign saying broken on it for months…
I’ve been looking everywhere to find something to replace it, without success…
it finally made it out onto the deck where we had a look at it…
a piece of 2×4 was cut to size, painted black, and then screwed to the edge of the chair…
it is as good as new… and the footstool still fits underneath…
I am very happy;-)…
18 Friday Aug 2023
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BBBS, big girl pants, blessed, boxes, dates, email, giveaway, house, moments, oops, preparation, surprise, Technology, widow
last night I ran around the house gathering all the boxes for a Big Brothers Big Sisters pickup today…
had all the boxes in the dining room and marked as required…
set the alarm to be sure I was up at 7:30 to put the boxes on the front steps…
made sure they were all on the steps before 8 but then when the boxes weren’t picked up by noon, I went back and reread the email from them…
apparently they are coming next Friday, not today… oops…
so I went out and brought all the boxes back in, lol…
13 Sunday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, family, happy, light, moments, nature, plant light, plants, pots, potted, rocks, shopping, Technology, widow
had some fun on Thursday…
had breakfast out and then we went to Home Depot, found plants, pots, and rocks… then it was on to Rona to check for different pots, and back to Home Depot to pick up the first one, lol…
when we got home the plant light that had been ordered had arrived…
at last, everything was potted, put together, and set up;-)…
I think it was a good birthday for the twenty-three year old;-)…
12 Saturday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, carpet, family, happy, IKEA, kitchen, moments, purple, rug, runner, shopping, widow
on Thursday, amongst all the shopping, we ran over to IKEA to pick up a lamp…
while we were there we came across a runner that was purple and gray-blue, and just the length I was looking for… on sale, it jumped right off the shelf into my arms…
when I got home I realized that the two ends were a shade of yellow and wondered if it would spoil the look…
but that bit of yellow goes perfectly with the wood on the wall…
it took a while for it to flatten out, but I am very pleased with how it looks…
what do you think;-)…
11 Friday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, dryer, fixed, fritz, Hameed Appliance Repair, Home Depot, moments, repair, shopping, Technology, tube, widow, working
the dryer has been on the fritz for a week or so… we’d tried a few things, but nothing made a difference…
I sent a message to Hameed Appliance Repair on Wednesday and this morning Ron arrived and had a look…
he was able to replace a piece (even for this old dryer) and got it working;-)…
he advised we needed to change the vent tube, so we went to Home Depot again, lol… we’ve been there a number of times in the last few days…
now the tube has been replaced, the dryer is back in its spot, and laundry is being done;-)…
09 Wednesday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, categories, computer, garden, learning, memories, moments, Mylio, photos, pictures, Technology, webinar, widow
had some fun the other evening when I watched a webinar on Mylio… it was a beautiful evening so I watched it on the deck…
I had tried the free version, and eventually bought the better one as I have so many pictures on my various pieces of technology…
one of the things it does is combine all your photos and remove duplicates… still working on that one, lol…
it also puts them in a calendar which can make finding them simpler than having to search through a bunch, guessing when the one you want may have been taken…
the photographer on the webinar mentioned that he no longer uses categories, because the program can find basically anything you ask for…
made me think I need to get back in there and play with it more;-)…
06 Sunday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, inukshuk, moments, nature, plants, springing, widow, wild flowers
last year my daughter sent me wildflower eggs…
this spring I planted one of them into this fairly large pot and have been amazed at all the flowers…
the pot is right next to my Inukshuk…
everyday there are new flowers springing up…
what a treat…
05 Saturday Aug 2023
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barrel, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, irrigation, moments, nature, pictures, planters, rain barrel, rainwater, Technology, watering, weather, widow
spent the first part of this morning watering everything…
while the irrigation system was looking after the veggie patch and pond garden, I used the rain barrel at the front to water the planters out front…
I’ve been lazy and have been using the hose most of the time, but I did enjoy using the rainwater from the barrel… and I’m pretty sure the plants were happy;-)…
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