13 Sunday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cheated, dinner, family, food, lobster, moments, pie, steak, thanksgiving, weather, widow
for Thanksgiving dinner we had steak and lobster… enjoyed setting the table a little fancier than normal..
a fun change, and happy to have the steak grilled..
and it was delicious…
as was the cute little half pumpkin pie for dessert, lol…
even cheated and used canned whipped cream, which saved time and energy;-)…
09 Wednesday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, family, garden, gather, moments, nature, out-of-town, Technology, The Leaf, walk, widow
another wonderful visit to The Leaf… this time with family from out-of-town…
we were there Monday, just after eleven and it wasn’t crowded… we began with a quick walk through the Diversity Gardens…
inside the Tropical Biome, we stopped to visit the three cacao trees, lol…
we had a great time in the Mediterranean Biome checking out the new display – Yasuragi: The Gardens of Japan…
I will be coming again and again to enjoy this serene spot…
from there we had lunch at Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar… delicious, as always…
a visit to the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, where there were many varieties of butterflies, ended our time before we walked home…
certainly a delightful way to spend the day…
28 Saturday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, food, gathering, lamb, moments, Persian, restaurant, rice, supper, Tehran Market and Cafe, time, waitperson, widow
had fun last night… our group went to Tehran Market & Cafe for Persian food…
it was fun to decipher the menu and and then see exactly what we ordered, lol…
we had this cute little button on the table to connect with the servers… it was very handy because it took us quite a while to decide what we wanted, lol…
our lovely waitperson took pictures of us with all the food…
I had lamb… it was very tasty and came with a huge portion of dill rice;-)…
there was even a spot on the button to advise when we were ready to pay… they came quickly whenever we pushed one of the buttons…
enjoyable evening with wonderful friends…
17 Tuesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, falafels, flowers, friends, gardeners, gardens, hummingbird, moments, nature, overcast, Park, Park Cafe, plants, purple, steps, stroll, weather, widow
met up with my adventure buddy and we went for a stroll through the English and Leo Mol Gardens at the Park…
it was an overcast day, but the rain held off…
there were gardeners working everywhere to keep the space beautiful…
here are a few things I took photos of…
we spotted a hummingbird and watched it for a few minutes amongst the purple flowers…
had a break on our bench before enjoying a bit of lunch at the Park Cafe where I had some tasty falafels…
it was spitting when I left the Park…
managed over 12,000 steps for the day, woohoo…
11 Wednesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, family, Fern Michael, food, happy, library, moments, order, potato salad, reading, supply, treat, widow
was very happy on Sunday afternoon when a new supply of Fern Michaels books arrived…
I was on the last two books, so it was perfect timing;-)…
I also got a container of homemade potato salad, woohoo…
took a bit of time on Monday to add them to the stair library;-)… before setting them on the steps, I had to sort them in order…
lots of great reading ahead;-)…
08 Sunday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, IKEA, jug, measuring cup, moments, smoothie, Technology, widow
had a laugh this morning when I realized I had made my smoothie in the suntea jug instead of my usual IKEA measuring cup…
couldn’t see the measurements on the side which tell me how much almond milk to add…
apparently I was only half awake…
01 Sunday Sep 2024
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, garden, moments, nature, plants, stepstool, stool, tomatoes, top and tail, widow
I picked beans for my supper a few days ago and had to use the step stool again, lol…
I also brought in the last tomatoes although they weren’t ripe…
I still have to cut the tomato plants down, but haven’t quite got to that piece of work…
it is always an enjoyable and relaxing job to top and tail the beans before cooking them…
and they were delicious…
26 Monday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, bites, blessed, bruises, compost, food, garden, moments, nature, plants, ripe, squirrels, tomatoes, widow
it’s been fun watching the tomatoes grow over the season…
last week they started to turn orange and then red…
a few, closer to the bottom of the planter, were taken off the plant, had a few bites out of them, and I found them on the ground…
I decided to leave them there and a few days later discovered they were completely gone… just an outline left on the stepping stone, lol…
today I went out to pick the ripe ones only to discover that they all had large bruises on them…
decided to compost them, sigh…
25 Sunday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cover, delicious, food, garden, hamper, moments, nature, plant, plants, pollinated, strawberries, strawberry, tasty, treat, widow
the strawberry plant, from last year, is doing very well…
we found a hamper at the store on July 5th, after either the birds or squirrels had eaten the ripe strawberries before we got to them, lol…
I kept the cover on them until a few ripe ones were ready to eat and then after we had those ones, I took the cover off so that the flowers could be pollinated…
as a number of yellow/green berries started to appear, the cover went back on the plant…
on Thursday I could see the ripe berries, through the screen…
removed the cover and picked three beautiful strawberries…
they were so sweet, yum…
22 Thursday Aug 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, De Luca's, food, friend, lunch, moments, pizza, vegetarian, widow
went to De Luca’s on Portage Avenue for lunch the other day…
ordered the vegetarian mushroom, spinach, and cheese pizza, along with half of a shared Greek salad…
it was delicious…
and I brought some home which I had for lunch the next day…
so good;-)…
