05 Wednesday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, clean-ish, family, garden, moments, nature, pond, pumps, water, weather, widow
cleaned out the first of the garden water pumps last week…
always happy when they are all clean-ish and packed away for the winter…
this morning I was able to pull out, clean and put away the last two…
all the jobs in the garden are done and it is now ready for the winter…
01 Saturday Nov 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, building, family, garage, garden, lawn furniture, moments, moving, organizing, persevered, project, shelves, tarp, tidying, weather, widow
finished up the project in the garage Wednesday evening…
I spent some time earlier in the day, moving as many boards as I could out of the way so the table was usable for sawing, lol…
it was rather chilly out there, but we persevered and finished the new shelves…
then we spent time organizing all the shelves along that wall…
in the end it looks very tidy… wonder how long it will stay that way…
on a roll, “we” then moved a few items from the garage and all of the lawn furniture into the shed…
the garden will look much nicer over the winter without all the furniture covered in a big tarp on the back deck…
29 Wednesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, caught, counted, family, fish, garden, grandson, indoors, moments, nature, pond, water level, weather, widow
a few fish came into the house around Thanksgiving…
on Tuesday morning we went out to collect the rest, as it is seems to be getting cooler every day…
part of the process was to empty a good amount of water, particularly as the pond was as high as I’ve seen it, since we’ve had so much rain lately…
then it was fairly easy for my housemate to catch the remaining fish…
once they were in the tanks, I counted thirty, which is about right, so we were pleased that we’d got them all…
we will check the pond over the next few days to see if there are any stragglers that we missed…
27 Monday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, Chinese food, company, delicious, family, grandsons, happy, moments, numerous, supper, treat, widow
had a delicious dinner last night…
our company chose Chinese food, so I tried to order from our favourite spot, around 5:30…
it took at least ten minutes and numerous attempts to get through… apparently everyone in the city wanted Chinese food too…
and then, the pick up time was an hour and a half, yikes…
but, when we got it, it was as always, delicious 🤤…
26 Sunday Oct 2025
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basement, big girl pants, blessed, busy, constructing, family, garage, grandsons, housemate, lumber, moments, shelves, weather, widow
well, what a day, phew… it was chilly, overcast, and windy…
spent the morning in the garage moving bits and pieces out into the driveway to make room for an empty table to work on…
then my housemate met up with his grandfather to go and pick up lumber for the new shelves planned for the basement and the garage…
once he returned home, we moved more things and then updated a shelf beside the door for my gardening gloves and tools…
it is stronger, looks amazing, and now each tool is much more accessible underneath;-)…
we worked on the basement shelves, his brother arrived, and they finished them…
they ended up looking excellent and adding more useful space for organizing our stuff, lol…
they continued to work in the garage to redo a section of shelves and add counter space…
I didn’t quite get a picture of the finished product, before we moved all the bits and pieces back into the garage for the night…
it is going to be so organized that I might not be able to find anything 🤪…
25 Saturday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, chicken dinner, food, frozen, leftovers, moments, scratch, supper, widow
on Friday I heated up one of my frozen chicken dinners…
worked perfectly and tasted delicious…
happy that it worked out so well… and a lovely option to not have to start something from scratch…
23 Thursday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, cacao, cake, daughter, family, food, moments, Ottawa, short, The Leaf, time, treat, visit, widow
had a wonderful, but short, visit with my Ottawa daughter over the last few days…
she had been to Calgary for an event and stopped here on her way home…
lots of time together as we caught up in person… late nights and early mornings while she was here… and lots of laughter…
always cake from Baked Expectations when she arrives;-)…
we spent a lovely morning at The Leaf noticing the growth since she was last here and counting cacao pods…
she also spotted the first chileo on the second tree… made me laugh cause I’ve been looking for ages trying to spot one on that tree…
we visited the butterflies although they weren’t very active as it was cool and overcast but it was fun to see them together… the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, currently has a butterfly display as well so we often compare which butterflies we each see, lol…
we worked on a plan for our next trip together and did lots of research on the computer…
dinners in and out as we ate some of her favourites and then we were headed back to the airport for her flight home…
always a treat;-)…
22 Wednesday Oct 2025
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19 Sunday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, company, den, family, guest, guest room, moments, preparation, ready, widow
took some time on Saturday turning the den into a guest room…
the sofa table makes its way to the dining room window as well as all the plants that are on it… tables and carpet are removed… the bed opens up…
the headboard mattress from the upstairs bedroom comes down to make the sofa bed more comfortable…
fresh sheets go onto the bed, a comforter, and pillows…
and it is done;-)…
all ready for company…
18 Saturday Oct 2025
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bachelor buttons, big girl pants, dehydrator, dragon, family, flowers, garden, grandson, housemate, moments, nature, pansies, petunias, plants, treat, weather, widow
last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…
next they went into the dehydrator to dry…
took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…
hope the dragon likes them…
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