27 Thursday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, food, fried egg, gadget, home, kitchen, learning, moments, Technology, tools, widow
we got a new kitchen gadget recently…
its purpose is to make a circular fried egg…
it is going to take a while to figure out how best to use it, but these came out not too bad…
I tend not to order a one-use item, but maybe we can figure out something else to use it for, lol… any ideas;-)…
19 Wednesday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, blizzard, bouquets, cards, dinner, family, flowers, food, friends, happy, hot tub, lobster, miraculously, moments, presents, Technology, treats, widow
had a lovely day yesterday…
started with an early morning hot tub as the sun shone… then had pie for breakfast…
there were phone calls, text messages, visits, it was great and a DQ blizzard miraculously appeared;-)…
I spent time reading, napping, and watching a few programs…
we had steak and lobster for supper and I didn’t even have to clean up;-)…
my kids gave me another subscription for eight bouquets this summer… I loved the ones last summer… and this afternoon flowers arrived to brighten the dull day…
all in all, a pretty fine few days…
birthday week’s are fun;-)…
08 Saturday Apr 2023
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aunt, Aunty Vi, big girl pants, blessed, dad, family, food, knickknacks, love, memories, mom, moments, photographs, photos, treat, wave, widow, window
seems like I have been working in the computer room forever, lol…
every time I think I’ve done all the papers, I find another box or bag, sigh…
this time I came across two very old photos…
one of my mom… she was a beauty;-)…
and one of my Auntie Vi, one of my dad’s sisters… she and my uncle lived in a tiny house in River Heights which was packed full of knickknacks… every surface was covered, lol… she made all kinds of things… she painted ceramics, knit numerous things, and always had delicious treats to eat whenever you arrived at the house…
she is also the reason that I stand at the window and wave to everyone as they leave my house just as she always did…
01 Saturday Apr 2023
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beige, big girl pants, blessed, cooking, dinner, family, food, grandsons, happy, home, home cooked, moments, widow
had a delightful day yesterday… got to cook for my grandsons…
made stuffing (one of their absolute favourites), prepped mashed potatoes, boiled a turnip (to use the water in the gravy), cut up cucumbers, cooked mushrooms, and opened a can of cranberry jelly…
such a treat to have them for a home-cooked meal, lol… and fun to make dinner for more than one or two people…
put the chicken into the oven and the final piece was to make the gravy and pull out the cranberry jelly (only two of us like that)…
as always, while I work away making the pieces of the meal, I am thinking about the people who will be eating the meal with me…
dinner turned out delicious, although it was a bit on the beige side, lol… sadly, only one of them was able to come as the other was home sick with a stomach bug;-(… I did send home a goodie bag for when he feels better…
27 Monday Mar 2023
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AirPods, bicker, big girl pants, blessed, Chinese food, driveway, family, food, grandsons, happy, lost, moments, shovelled, snow, supper, time, treat, visit, weather, widow
got to have my grandsons over for dinner…
haven’t seen them for ages, so it was a wonderful treat;-)…
we caught up and they shovelled part of the driveway for me…
the shovelling was a big job as the driveway hasn’t been cleared for months, but it was a beautiful day… and, in the process, the youngest lost his AirPods… in a white container;-(… we spent quite some time digging through all the snow they had moved but did not find them…
we had Chinese food for supper…I’ve been craving it for a while so that made it especially good…
after supper I dug out a set of earbuds from my collection of ones that don’t fit my ears and gave him those… everyone played on their phones for a while as we chatted before they headed home;-)…
they have become lovely young men, although they still bicker like brothers, lol…
24 Friday Mar 2023
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abalone, big girl pants, blessed, collection, lost, memories, Mexico, moments, nature, pictures, remembering, seashells, shells, store, widow
came across this picture from a trip to Mexico in 2017…
I have loved and collected seashells since I was given an abalone shell when I was young…
this store was amazing;-)…
I have lost the main part of my collection… this is a very old picture from when I was a teenager…
I think these shells may have ended up in the garbage years ago;-(…
now I fill the drawers with a collection of more recently purchased pieces…
it was fun to remember the store and my collection…
16 Thursday Mar 2023
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arrangements, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, designing, flowers, foam, happy, moments, nature, purple, vase, widow
Wednesday was the day… I took the bouquet that came twelve days ago and separated it into three different arrangements…
the roses have been gone for quite a while but the remainder were doing quite well…
the biggest problem had been getting the water into it as the foam really filled up the top so there wasn’t room to easily add water…
started with designing this first arrangement in an oval shaped vase… it came out nicely I think… it is going upstairs into the bedroom…
there were so many greens that I filled another small container with them and added two of the carnations… this one has gone into the bathroom…
finally, the mums and a couple of daisies went into a very small bottle and were put in the den…
so that meant that the orchid collection has returned to the living room table…
flowers everywhere;-)…
12 Sunday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blizzard, family, moments, nature, shovel, sidewalks, snow, sun, two inches, weather, widow
well, it was called a blizzard, but it just felt like a lot-of-snow day, lol… Google tells me we had about two inches…
it looks pretty now that the sun has returned… and everything is very quiet… not sure how long that will last before cars and people take over the street…
hopefully, someone else is going to shovel the sidewalks;-)…
09 Thursday Mar 2023
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08 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, difficult, family, flowers, foam, moments, photos, treat, vase, water, widow
dug out an old watering jug so that I could set the vase of flowers into it and fill it with water so the floral foam inside the vase could soak up all the water it needed…
took a while, but after half an hour or so I was able to get it out with a bit of finagling…
it is amazingly difficult to add fresh water to the container every day, lol…
