29 Tuesday Nov 2016
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big girl pants, container, designer, greenery, planters, Shelmerdine, widow
great fun tonight… quick trip to Shelmerdine to pick up greenery to make a planter for the front step…
here’s the designer and the container before she started work… then she spent an hour using her magic fingers…
and here’s the gorgeous result…
looking forward to taking a few shots on the front steps in the daylight…
28 Monday Nov 2016
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started the day with a picture of the front of the house…
just a dusting of snow on the ground…
the wreath looks wonderful… it took a lot of time and two people to get it just right, lol…
so happy with the freshly purpled door… looks lovely with the snow…
27 Sunday Nov 2016
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Advent, big girl pants, bubbles, Christmas, decorations, feather, friends, glitter, pottery, purple, trees, widow
what a wonderful afternoon… two dear friends came over to help me put up my Christmas decorations… one focussed on the living room and the other made the pottery on the dining room wall sparkle… we had such fun and great conversation as we worked away… well, mostly they worked, and I sat on the couch… my knee was not happy with the fall yesterday…
one tree went into the bay window inside one of my favourite sleighs… two of the drawers in the table were filled with silver and purple ornaments…
the second tree went across the room next to an angel and a large purple glitter ball…
purple feather trees and a family-made nativity lamp go together beautifully…
the stunning glitter trees with glass reindeer are lovely on the fish tank… of course there is glitter everywhere on the main floor now, lol…
these bubbles have lived in the dining room window at Christmas for the last three years… love how they look with the various ribbons that hold them up…and they reflect so nicely…
and all the pottery looks beautiful, newly organized in the nooks…
things can look so different from another viewpoint…
now all that’s needed are my advent boxes;-)…
26 Saturday Nov 2016
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big girl pants, breakfast, ChefsPlate, Christmas, errands, hot tub, internet, list, progress, purple, smoothie, widow
knew I had lots to do today so was up early and made bacon and eggs with rösti and spinach… smoothies make up my morning meals on weekdays, so I always enjoy having time to make something special on the weekend…
made a list to be sure I remembered everything that needed to be done…
paid some bills, ordered a few things on the Internet and then headed out to do some errands…
picked up the cutest purple magnetic white board and put it up on the cabinet door by the stove…
then I spent quite some time emptying, and then filling, the hot tub… it is a process… first I had to check if I needed any chemicals, then had to pick up a filter… empty the tub which takes at least a few hours… wipe it down, put in the new filter and fill it up… when I restart the pump sometimes it takes a while for the jets to work… only had to reset it once tonight… it was getting dark as it filled up and I went flying when checking the water level… the deck had become slick as the temperature dropped…
now it is a waiting game as it warms up… always like to have a fresh filter and water for when my daughter comes home… she really enjoys the hot tub…
made supper with one of my ChefsPlate meals and used the new magnetic board… worked perfectly to hold the recipe out of the way, but handy…
exactly what I was hoping for… supper was good too…
made a lot of progress on my Christmas list, which makes me happy…
25 Friday Nov 2016
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big girl pants, bowl, ChefsPlate, containers, flowers, harissa, popcorn, purple, salmon, vase, widow
had fun making my supper tonight… another ChefsPlate meal which went into the new bowl I picked up at the Chinese market last week…
Mediterranean Salmon with sun tomatoes and pearl couscous pilaf… also learned that Harissa is a hot sauce… not so wise to dip a finger in it to taste, lol… I like pearl couscous…
enjoying my flowers at home, as well as the ones at the office…
did giggle when I saw how the water in the vase had turned purple…
tonight’s final treat was a bowl of popcorn…
always have popcorn in my fish bowl…
funny how we like certain things in certain containers…
24 Thursday Nov 2016
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as I was leaving the house this morning spotted this on the deck…
thinking that the squirrels were looking for a snack and pushed the alyssum, that was still blooming, off the deck… sad because I really liked that pot…
at noon I got this shot of the tree in City Place… quite lovely…
and tonight, this cute tree…
a lot of greenery in my day, lol…
23 Wednesday Nov 2016
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last night on my way home I stopped and picked up some beautiful flowers…
divided them up and took half to the office this morning…
have a new technique when I take flowers in the car… put them in one of the cloth/fabric grocery bags and then strap them into the car seat…
works great to keep them from getting crushed and they stay upright on the trip…
enjoyed them all day;-)…
the others are in the bedroom where I can enjoy them all evening…
22 Tuesday Nov 2016
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big girl pants, boots, footprints, hubcaps, snow, tires, traffic, widow
put on my boots this morning because there was snow…
wonderful to see the glistening snow all clean and bright on the ground… been missing it a bit, lol…
fun to make the footprints and then take their picture…
couldn’t believe the traffic… everyone was moving appropriately, but it was slow going…
had the all season tires on when I got to the office… they are so pretty…
but, when I headed for home, had snow tires…
they look much better with the fancy hubcaps on, although not as pretty as the all season ones, lol…
21 Monday Nov 2016
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acceptance, big girl pants, Bruno Mars, conversation, Just the Way You Are, rainbow, ReImagining, widow
drove home from a gathering with my ReImagining friends listening to Bruno Mars singing Just the Way You Are…
reminded me of our conversation about spirituality and being accepting of others, and ourselves…
the light made me think of a rainbow this morning…
20 Sunday Nov 2016
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since we’ve lived in our house, there have been four owners of the house next door…
when we moved in, the young couple were newly adoptive parents and then had another little one inside of eight months, so moved to a larger house close by… we became friends and she cut my hair for years after they left…
then came our dear friend Ellen and her husband… they lived in the house for about 25 years and became family… looking after the girls, giving us breaks at mealtimes, babysitting on a regular basis when we went bowling, sharing meals, being a sounding board… we built a gate in the fence between our yards, lol… really missed her when they moved to a seniors complex… she died not long after that in 2009 and we spent a wonderful afternoon in the garden with friends celebrating her life…
then an older single woman moved in for about a year, followed by two young men… cousins who were both pilots… last year one got married and they recently had a baby… we didn’t connect that much with any of them…they moved out on Saturday….
the house is empty as it waits for the next owners to arrive…
wonder who will move in… hope we connect…
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