27 Thursday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, moments, nature, pattern, solar power, Spring, strength, sunshine, Technology, weather, widow
to continue with the strength of the sun, I got this photo of one of the solar-powered lights…
it is one of four that I received from the Ottawa kids… I had put three away, but left this one out…
rather excited to see the lovely pattern of light on the deck;-)…
spring is really coming…
24 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, bins, blessed, deadline, deals, delivery, efficient, food, grandson, groceries, moments, plastic bags, read, Save-On-Foods, shopping, Technology, widow
my housemate has been picking up groceries for me so I haven’t ordered from Save-on-Foods for quite a while, but on Thursday I put an order in for delivery…
I had received an email advising of a $25 refund if I spent $75, so I went ahead and ordered some regular items on my shopping list, lol…
I made sure to call their info line because one item was buy-one-get-one-free, and I couldn’t remember if I should put two, or one, on the order…
the phone was answered quickly and the customer service person had the answer right away…
I also appreciate that they no longer use plastic bags, except for produce… I put out my own boxes and the driver transfers from their bins to mine…
when my order arrived, there wasn’t a credit so I went back to the email, only to discover that the deadline had just passed… by a few days, lol… apparently I should have read it better or put the order in sooner…
but, I did get the free item;-)…
18 Tuesday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, gift, grape, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, plants, tulips, widow
my housemate treated me to fresh flowers…
lovely white and pink tulips, and a pot with daffodils, tulips, primrose, grape hyacinth and regular hyacinth…
sock a wonderful treat;-)…
flowers really do make me happy…
17 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, car, clean, cold, dirty, family, filthy, grandson, happy, Indy, moments, weather, widow
I’ve been asking my grandson to get the car washed for ages…
he had numerous reasons why it didn’t happen, but they boiled down to the fact that it would just get dirty again…
I finally gave an ultimatum that it had to be washed… poor thing was filthy…
he went out Wednesday evening and brought Indy home clean… even though it was dreadfully cold, thankfully, none of the doors froze up…
she looks so nice;-)…
15 Saturday Feb 2025
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Banff, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, buddies, card, clothing, family, friends, hearts, moments, pizza, red, Valentine's Day, widow
yesterday, for Valentine’s Day, I wore a lovely red pullover that my beloved got me in Banff, many, many, years ago;-)… it is one of the few pieces of red clothing that I own…
a lovely reminder of him and how romantic he was, particularly at Valentine’s…
I received an early phone call from my daughter and had my breakfast in a heart-shaped bowl…
lunch was a heart-shaped pizza, yum…
all of which was quite lovely…
ended the day with a hand-delivered card from my little buddies next door;-)… what a treat;-)…
12 Wednesday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, changing, cold, eco, family, moments, Technology, thermostat, weather, widow
my Nest thermostat is ticking me off…
for the last few weeks it has been telling me that it is figuring out the best way to be eco friendly for the winter season…
at bedtime it goes down to 16.5°C instead of the 18° where I want it to be…
although at night that isn’t such a problem, lol…
during the day, if I sit reading for too long, it drops the temperature by a couple of degrees… makes it rather chilly when it is cold, sigh…
a few nights ago, we changed a few things and it appears that it has made a difference… it looks like it won’t go below 21°C during the day;-)… woohoo…
02 Sunday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, moments, offline, orientation, photo frame, photos, pictures, Technology, vertical, widow
was having some trouble with the new photo frame…
for some reason it stopped accepting photos that were sent to it…
after some investigation I discovered that it was offline… wasn’t sure why or how to fix that…
then all of a sudden it was working again…
I’ve also decided to turn it to vertical rather than horizontal… the majority of pictures I take use that orientation…
and was able to change the piece on the back so that the frame stands up the way I want, lol…
29 Wednesday Jan 2025
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basement, big girl pants, blessed, family, friends, grandson, housemate, memories, moments, Technology, tidy, tour, widow
on Monday, we had a “tour” of the redone basement when everyone arrived for our weekly gathering…
my housemate had tidied it up the evening before to be sure it was ready for the event, lol…
there is a lot of technology used in the space and it has been fun to watch as each piece has been installed…
it was interesting listening to the comments particularly as no one had been down there in years…
28 Tuesday Jan 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, carpet, couch, den, family, grandson, health, moments, nature, orchids, order, plants, widow
by Monday morning the den was back to normal…
the mattress had gone upstairs on Saturday, and the tables and couch put back in their usual space… I also changed the orchids on the sofa table, putting the ones that are blooming onto the dining room table and the ones that aren’t into the den…
it wasn’t until Monday morning that the carpet and coffee table made it back into their spots… my housemate had to lift the couch so I could slide the carpet under the feet to hold it in place…
I’ve now added a tray on the side table to keep it from getting scratched and added some flowers…
nice to have things in order…
