30 Saturday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, buns, Easter, family, flowers, hot cross buns, moments, treat, tulips, vases, widow
so excited tonight when my grandson arrived with hot cross buns, which we have been looking for over the last week or so…
going to enjoy some of those for breakfast tomorrow;-)…
and he brought me tulips…
I filled five vases: one went downstairs in his space, one went into the den, one went into the living room and a final one for the bedroom…
what a lovely Easter treat…
19 Tuesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, element, fixed, foot, Hameed Appliance Repair, moments, oven, stove, Technology, widow
so, this morning at 8:15, Ron, from Hameed Appliance Repair Inc. arrived…
forty-five minutes, and $250 later, he was gone…
in between, he fixed a foot that had come off the stove and replaced the bake element…
woohoo…
at first I thought he was taking the stove’s blood pressure as he had these nifty little pads that pumped up and raised the side of the stove so he could get in to work on the foot, which fought pretty hard, but he won the battle, lol…
the element was an easy fix as he had one in his vehicle, it took minutes to replace…
we had a lovely conversation about the lifespan of older versus newer appliances and I got a card for someone they recommend for refurbished appliances… hope I don’t need that for a long time;-)…
so I think I will roast something for supper…
18 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, dad, family, garden, grandson, meatballs, melting, memories, moments, nature, oven, remembering, shovelling, snow, supper, weather, widow, youngest
had my youngest grandson over for dinner last night…
had to think for a while to decide on what to make as the oven is still not working, lol…
decided on spaghetti with meatballs and sauce… while I was making the meatballs, I was remembering doing that with my dad… he made great ones and they were very small… and they never fell apart, lol…
mine came out okay, but a few of them did seem to disintegrate… I used the broiler, which is still working, to warm up the garlic bread…
my grandson is on a moneymaking kick as there is a big school trip planned for next year, so he did some shovelling for me in the garden… the plan was to move the snow around that was in the mountain at the edge of the deck… he did a good job;-)…
hopefully this will help in the melting process…
14 Thursday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, food, hungry, moments, oven, Pi, pizza, problems, repair, supper, Technology, widow
today was Pi day, lol, so we decided to bake a frozen pizza for supper… it wasn’t cooked after the correct amount of time, nor after more time… eventually we realized that the oven wasn’t heating…
tried using the frypan, but that did not work…
so, then we ordered…
it was tasty, particularly after we’d been trying to have supper for a long time, lol…
now to figure out why the oven isn’t working…
06 Wednesday Mar 2024
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"A", beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, food, grandson, health, memories, moments, passing, routine, slippery, snow, treat, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk on Sunday morning… the front steps were covered with slippery ice pellets, so we walked carefully…
the temperature was around 0°C and it felt like -8°C… not bad and the wind was behind us as we walked towards Portage…
we arrived at the “A” and had a lovely breakfast…
it has been many months since I’ve been there and it was a nice treat…
breakfast here used to be one of our regular activities on the weekends… I would walk over and my beloved would drive… after breakfast we would head out in the car to do errands or take a drive…
it was nice to eat here this week as we come to the anniversary of his passing…
I sure do miss him…
25 Sunday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, food, freezers, grandson, groceries, housemate, Life, lists, moments, Technology, widow
a number of months ago my housemate and I took the time to go through the two fridge freezers and make a list of what was in them…
the concept worked fairly well, although sometimes we didn’t remember to change the lists as we took things out for meals…
we’ve been planning to update the lists for a few weeks and finally on Thursday we got to it… apparently, I’ve had a real desire for potato patties as we now have three large packages… oops…
I’ve printed out the lists and this time, besides the one on the fridge downstairs, I’ve got both on the upstairs fridge so I should be on top of what needs to be replaced and what is getting used…
I also spent time reorganizing the magnets and sticky notes, lol…
22 Thursday Feb 2024
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Assiniboine Park, banana, big girl pants, blessed, breadfruit, cacao, cacao pods, food, fruit, kapok tree, moments, nature, plants, star fruit, Technology, The Leaf, widow
recently I’d seen an Instagram post about one of the trees in the Tropical Biome that was flowering…
the branches of the Kapok are bare, but at the very top of the tree, flowers were budding…
I was happy to spot it on our visit Tuesday…
there were lots of volunteers throughout the space and they provided a great deal of information particularly about some of the fruiting trees… we saw cacao pods, jackfruit, star fruit, breadfruit and the fingerlings of bananas…
we had a quick visit with the lead gardener as we discussed the three cacao trees, two of which currently have pods growing on them…
the Tropical Biome is really beginning to feel like the old Conservatory with all the lush growth…
so blessed to have this amazing space to spend time in on a regular basis;-)…
21 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, family, food, frenzy, grandson, housemate, moments, organizing, pantry, remembering, reorganizing, suppose, widow
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…
17 Saturday Feb 2024
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A1C, big girl pants, blessed, bloodwork, Dynacare, eating, food, habits, home, moments, nervous, Technology, test, waiting, widow
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;-)…
16 Friday Feb 2024
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baking, big girl pants, blessed, cookie cutters, cutters, family, fun, holidays, memories, moments, project, shopping, sugar cookies, widow
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…
