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21 Wednesday Feb 2024

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arrived home yesterday to a cupboard cleaning frenzy…

everything had been removed from two cupboards and partially put back…

not necessarily the way I would like…

as I look at the result, it occurs to me that we use a great number of different items that I used previously, lol…

reminded me of when my beloved was off of work and doing most of the cooking… he had some bizarre idea that things should be organized the way he liked 😳…

considering that my housemate has been here for just over a year, I suppose he should have a say in how things are organized, but still🤔…

and then we dealt with the pantry together…

habits…

17 Saturday Feb 2024

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on Friday Dynacare came out to the house and took some blood for my next doctor’s appointment in a few weeks… the appointments are in four hour blocks and they arrived within half an hour of the start time…

hoping that my A1C remains in a good place as I continue to be careful about my eating habits… I am always nervous that the numbers may have gone up…

the technician was in and out of the house inside of ten minutes… for the first time they used a pillow to raise my arm to make the process simpler for them…

they are very good at what they do and once again there was barely a bruise…

happy to have the test done… no point in worrying anymore as I will find out in a week how I am doing;-)…

cutters…

16 Friday Feb 2024

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over the last two or three weeks I’ve purchased a few different sets of Valentine cookie cutters as I’ve worked on a project…

the end result of the project didn’t turn out quite as well as I wanted, but after a lot of trial and error I was satisfied with the results…

so I decided to use the cookie cutters for their actual purpose, lol…

I made cookies for the first time in I don’t know how long…

I can’t even think of how many I have made over the years… I made them for every holiday for the girls’ classmates as well as for family and friends…

it was fun to make them again as I remembered so many I had previously produced…

they came out very nicely and we have been enjoying them…

leaking…

14 Wednesday Feb 2024

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Tuesday we went to Costco and I got a new set of attachments for the hose…

sadly, the current attachment has been leaking for awhile and the hose doesn’t expand without an attachment…

hoping that all three will work well… fingers crossed…

checkout…

12 Monday Feb 2024

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yesterday we went to Superstore for some groceries…

while we were in the checkout line I spotted these cute little heart-shaped containers…

they had no price tag, but I decided I needed them, lol… they ended up being about $4.00…

today I filled some of them with a few treats for a gathering of friends…

they are so cute and useful with their little covers…

and fun…

heart-shaped…

08 Thursday Feb 2024

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I have a small collection of heart-shaped objects and the other day I bought a new bowl to add to the collection…

I have really enjoyed using it;-)…

it is slightly larger but goes perfectly with the other three heart-shaped bowls I already have…

for the month of February I’ve been trying to use them as much as possible❤️…

lightweight…

07 Wednesday Feb 2024

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had a fun time yesterday with my buddy…

we went clothes shopping and I got a beautiful lightweight purple sweater with pearls and silver dots on it… and it was on sale…

after that we stopped and picked up a few groceries before going to the Good Earth for the lunch buffet…

I got to visit with the koi for a few moments…

I even walked up from the end of the street, lol…

then there was a nap;-)…

kernels…

01 Thursday Feb 2024

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recently I saw something on social media about popcorn…

it recommended soaking the kernels in water for a while before draining and popping them and there would be less unpopped kernels…

so I gave it a try and it worked great… it did take longer to get popped but there were less leftover kernels and the popped corn seemed larger…

a couple of days ago I used this method again… while the last bit of it was popping I ran downstairs to bring up the laundry…

when I got upstairs, it smelled odd and as I opened the microwave the Kleenex that covers the spout on the glass measuring cup was smouldering… tossed it into the sink…

I’ve used folded Kleenex for at least six or seven years…

so, don’t think I will use that system again, lol… took some time for the smell to leave both the microwave and the house…

difficulties…

27 Wednesday Dec 2023

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had a quiet and relaxed day on Christmas…

got up late for me, about eight;-)… made tea and watched a Christmas movie while I had my breakfast and waited for the Ottawa family to contact me…

after some technical difficulties, we had a lovely visit and opened presents;-)… technology really is an amazing thing…

after saying goodbye to them, I got the chicken into the oven and may have watched another Christmas movie, lol…

my grandson arrived home from one set of parents, we opened gifts, and had a lovely lunch…

then he was off to visit the other set of parents and I may have had a nap…

tv shows and leftovers took up the rest of the day…

thawing…

26 Tuesday Dec 2023

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I found out in the morning on Christmas Eve that we were going to have lunch on Christmas Day between trips my grandson was making between his various family clans;-)…

it was a quick trip to the freezer to pull out a beautiful chicken and get it thawing… I had been planning on a Cornish hen, with all the fixings, so it wasn’t a lot more to do to cook the chicken;-)…

a turnip was peeled, cut, boiled (so that the water would be available for the chicken gravy), and mashed…

mashed potatoes were also prepared and put into the fridge which helps with making a resistant starch…

stuffing was made and packaged, ready to go into the chicken…

took most of the day to thaw the chicken, lol, but it was ready for the oven in time…

everything turned out beautifully and we had a delicious Christmas lunch…

possibly a new tradition;-)…