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urge…

31 Sunday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, drawer, jobs, pictures, printer, Technology, tidy, trees, un-decorate, urge, widow

had the urge to get a few unfinished jobs completed, so while my son-in-law was here we tacked a couple of them…

last night I printed a number of pictures to put in a frame that I’d picked up a while ago and hadn’t been able to decide on what should go in it… I’d been waiting for the professional photos that we had taken in October… but once I started choosing I ended up with pictures that I, or the kids, had taken… it was fun because my son-in-law had got the wifi printer working perfectly so that I could print right from my phone… I do love technology, lol… unfortunately I stayed up very late to finish the job…

so this morning I hung the frame up… yay me, although consensus has it that it might need to come down a bit on the wall…

then he helped un-decorate the two small trees, box them up and put them away in the basement… looks way more roomy in the living room now… left everything else up for New Year’s dinner tomorrow…

I’ve had an IKEA drawer for ages that needed to be put together and installed so he also did that… took a few minutes to decide where it would actually fit…

it is going to make getting the pots out a lot simpler, although it has to be held open or else it slides shut on its own… apparently the kitchen cupboards might not be perfectly level…

and finally this evening I emptied out a drawer that was filled with expired crackers and cereal, lol…

I feel very accomplished;-)…

ice…

30 Saturday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, boots, Canadian Footwear, castles, chocolate, cold, ice, membership, sign, widow

out and about today…

found some warm and non-skid boots for my daughter at Canadian Footwear… they still measure your feet there… who knew… these will keep her on her feet when there is ice on the sidewalks in Ottawa…

had a lovely visit and some delicious hot chocolate with Constance as we browsed and found just the chocolate that we needed at Chocolatier Constance Popp…

stopped in at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to pick up my membership…

got a few pictures with the Winnipeg sign, being as we’ve done the Ottawa and Kingston ones, lol… a lot warmer when we did them… there is a new ice rink in front of the sign now… very cool…

and then popped over to see the ice castles, although they don’t open for another week… already look spectacular…

pictures came out rather well considering that my glasses were foggy from the cold…

pretty full morning…

kit…

29 Friday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, Christmas Eve, family, fun, gingerbread, gingerbread house, grandsons, kit, memories, widow

been thinking back to some of the best memories of the last week…

one involved the gingerbread house… my son-in-law and I were shopping together in November and we spotted this gingerbread house kit that came with the house already built so that all that would need to be done was decorate… we’ve tried to do this before but have always struggled with getting the house constructed, lol…

we took the kit with us on Christmas Eve and it was a hit…

work began with Auntie helping the younger two… eventually she moved on to something else, but they both kept returning to continue with the decorating…

the final product looked great and the boys were entertained for ages… such fun…

was thinking how George would have loved working on this with they boys…

detector…

28 Thursday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, Christmas, detector, kids, nest, presents, safe, smoke detector, widow

well I am safe now…

thanks to all my kids I finally have a new smoke detector upstairs…

for Christmas, the Winnipeg kids got me a Nest smoke detector…

and today, my Ottawa son-in-law installed it and connected it to an app on my phone…

it even shows me the temperature outside when I open the app… how cool is that…

think I will save up for the thermostat and maybe a few more of the detectors… checked for Boxing Day sales but there weren’t any huge discounts…

sure do have a great bunch of kids…

opening…

27 Wednesday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, flowers, happy, hibiscus, opening, tree, violets, widow

enjoyed some beautiful flowers today…

was at the office for a few hours and the African violet was still blooming and looked so nice…

I was laughing when I got home to see that the hibiscus was blooming again… the buds started opening when my daughter arrived in the city… she and my son-in-law have been house-sitting for a friend and while she’s been gone it has not bloomed… she arrived home about five minutes before I took this shot…

finally, while I was out today, I picked up this cute little tree that was on sale at Safeway… I bought it instead of flowers;-)…

a lovely addition to my tree collection;-)…

drive…

26 Tuesday Dec 2017

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Assiniboine Park, beloved, big girl pants, drive, hoarfrost, photos, remembering, trees, widow

been thinking of my beloved a lot over the last few weeks…

recently took a drive through the Park and was remembering all the drives we had taken through it… we often enjoyed going to the Park Cafe for breakfast on a weekend morning and then taking a drive around the Park so that I could get some photos…

we particularly liked it when there was hoarfrost covering the trees… haven’t seen any this year but as I drove through it was overcast and a bit dull, which was a reminder…

he would have been interested in the construction going on for the new project… he would have explaine all that was happening and whether he thought they were doing it correctly, lol… he always knew what every piece of equipment was used for…

took these shots as I circled around…

it really is a beautiful place for a walk or a drive…

sugar…

25 Monday Dec 2017

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big girl pants, cake, cookies, Deadly Chocolate Mousse, family, health, obsess, sugar, treats, widow

took my doctor at his word today, when he said…

don’t let obsessing over food keep you from living a happy life…

while we were opening our presents I had a couple of sugar cookies which my daughter had made… they were delicious… when they were younger I made sugar cookies for every special celebration, so it is fun to eat cookies that the kids make…

once presents had all been opened and we’d had a lovely vegetable quiche we had some cherry surprises… a treat that our next door neighbour would make and share at Christmas… and which my younger daughter has perfected…

finished the day off with Deadly Chocolate Mousse from Baked Expectations, after a very well-balanced turkey dinner…

hope that your day was filled with fun moments…

appetizers…

24 Sunday Dec 2017

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appetizers, big girl pants, Christmas, family, goodies, snacks, tree, widow

have arrived at the kids’ house for Christmas Eve…

took a while to bring in all the goodies and get them under the tree…

then there was gingerbread house decorating… this year I found a house that was already put together… much better…

finally, we ate four million appetizers and soon we will be going to bed…

and hope that Santa finds us…

socks…

23 Saturday Dec 2017

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Advent, big girl pants, slippers, socks, treats, widow

this morning my Advent treat was a pair of fuzzy socks with grips on the bottom…

which was quite funny as I almost slipped as I came down the stairs in my slippers…

a bit later my Facebook memories showed a few of my Advent treats over the last few years on this day…

they included a pair of socks; a tea towel (which I just put over the handle on the stove yesterday); and a dragonfly that is currently perched on one of the trees…

pretty fine treats;-)…

jump…

22 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, hot tub, jump, Krevco, problems, snow, technician, temperature, widow

and so the ongoing saga of the hot tub continues…

yesterday I spoke with the technician from Krevco… we were on the phone for nearly half an hour… we went over all his previous ideas, a few times… then he asked me to send him pictures of the readout a few times over the next few days…

the temperature in the hot tub continues to jump between 104 and somewhere in the 80s… no pattern… I’ve been recording the temperature for days and had sent the chart to them last week…

after our very long conversation my daughter and I went out for our evening hot tub and as we were opening the cover, one of the arms snapped…

haven’t heard back from the technician… so on top of the temperature fluctuations not sure I can open the tub on my own, sigh…

hope that Krevco is open next week;-(…

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