26 Wednesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, bivalent, COVID, flowers, garden, moments, nature, needles, Technology, vaccines, widow
got two shots…
both needles in my right arm…
the flu shot was at the doctor’s office, but then I had to go to a local drugstore for the Pfizer bivalent vaccine…
apparently the Manitoba immunization schedule says that six months is needed between the boosters although drugstores are allowed to give the vaccine after three months…
interesting times…
24 Monday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, Delta, downtown, masks, moments, pandemic, taxi, Technology, travel, widow
took my first taxi since before the pandemic…
arranged ahead of time for a pickup to go downtown, and then walked to the Delta to get another one to come home…
had to go in and ask the concierge to call for one… I guess with less people downtown the taxis don’t sit outside the hotels all the time…
wore my mask for both trips and so did they…
21 Friday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, data, family, grandson, iPhone, moments, new, photos, purple, Technology, transfer, widow
a few days ago my new iPhone arrived…
my grandson arranged the whole thing and brought over the new phone…
he transferred all the data, made sure everything was working and added a protective screen…
transferring from one phone to another is certainly much easier than the last time I upgraded my phone…
I’ve taken a few pictures and am very impressed with the results…
now I will have to learn what is new and different…
wish me luck🤪
20 Thursday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, bird feeder, birds, blessed, camera, garden, mandevilla, moments, nature, pond, Technology, tripod, view, weather, widow, wireless
now that the pond is empty and covered with the tarp, the camera isn’t really needed, so it came into the house…
happily, the bottom of it fit perfectly on the camera tripod…
set it up by the window where the bird feeder is attached…
this is particularly good now as the mandevilla blocks the view through the window…
looking forward to getting some great views of the guests at the feeder;-)…
17 Monday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, BS, delicious, doors, food, friends, gather, inside, macarons, meet, moments, normal, pandemic, together, treat, weather, widow, zoom
today, my BS group gathered in the living room…
we’ve been meeting in the garden but it was only going to 2 degrees Celsius so we decided it was time to come inside…
one person joined via Zoom and had dropped off a lovely treat for us beforehand… boob (for breast cancer awareness month) and regular macarons from Jenna Rae Cakes…
I left the front and back doors open to move fresh air… everyone wore masks until we were all seated…
it was the first time we’ve met in the house since the pandemic began…
felt lovely and odd at the same time, lol…
soon we will all have had the fifth shot which will make us feel a bit more confident about being in a closed space together…
so happy to be getting back to more ‘normal’ times…
16 Sunday Oct 2022
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went outside and flipped the two rain barrels… one in the garden, and the new one next to the front flowerbed…
although we had drained both, they still had water inside, but once they were turned over, it poured out through the screen…
now they are ready for winter, sigh…
I learned a few years ago that not flipping them can cause serious consequences… lucky for me, the bottom of the one in the garden has returned to flat, lol…
12 Wednesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, garden, happy, Merlin App, migration, moments, nature, sound, time, treat, weather, widow
the other day, my Merlin sound app found many different birds inside an hour and a half… even though I didn’t see them all…
what a treat to have confirmation of some of the little birds flitting about the garden…
we are clearly in the middle of migration season…
08 Saturday Oct 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, deck, door, family, garden, grandson, happy, levelled, memories, moments, Nathan the Handyperson, projects, repairs, Technology, tilting, tools, widow
sooooo happy…
today, three jobs that have been on the list for ages, got done, thanks to Nathan the Handyperson, and my grandson;-)…
first, the front door sweep got reset and the edging tightened to close up any open spots… happy this took place before the really cold weather… it was first worked on about a year ago and the piece came off early in the spring…
next, the deck got levelled…
it has been sinking more and more over the summer and when they got the underside open, there was the tiniest piece of rotten wood holding it up😳…
we’ve lived here for just over forty-nine years and the deck was probably built at least thirty-five years ago… the top has been replaced once and is still in excellent condition… there was one piece of the frame that had to be replaced, but the rest was in great shape…
the steps to the side garden were removed for the work and then reattached and feel much sturdier now…
and the rail was redesigned, is much more stable, and matches the rail on the other side…
I am so thrilled it has been fixed…
finally, the rotten section on the bathtub pond ledge has been repaired…
back to normal… safe and level;-)…
what a great day;-)…
07 Friday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, kleenex, LastObject, laugh, moments, reusable, Technology, widow
I’ve been laughing since Wednesday, when my wonderful cleaning crew came and cleaned the house…
I was in the bathroom after they left and realized that they had tossed the box I had been using for my reusable tissues… it was empty because all of the tissues were in the midst of being laundered…
I checked in the recycling bin, but they must have tossed it into the garbage bag and I wasn’t digging through that…
after thinking about it for a while, I opened the end of the actual Kleenex box that was there for anyone else who comes over and popped them into it…
think it should work fine and I will be careful not to let it sit on the shelf empty, lol…
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
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