31 Monday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, decorations, family, grandsons, halloween, memories, moments, neighbourhood, official, tradition, widow
walking in the neighbourhood I’ve spotted a few cool Halloween decorations…
and came across a few fun memories from Facebook…
for many, many years, the kids came over on Halloween before heading out to collect candy, so we could get official pictures… too old for that now, lol…
no snow this year, and it is a balmy 8 degrees Celsius…
22 Saturday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, collect, iPhone, moments, nature, pictures, red squirrel, seeds, squirrel, stink eye, weather, widow
yesterday morning, while I was sitting in the living room, I had some fun watching this little guy collect and snack on sunflower seeds in the sunlight;-)…
they may have given me the stink eye…
20 Thursday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, bird feeder, birds, blessed, camera, garden, mandevilla, moments, nature, pond, Technology, tripod, view, weather, widow, wireless
now that the pond is empty and covered with the tarp, the camera isn’t really needed, so it came into the house…
happily, the bottom of it fit perfectly on the camera tripod…
set it up by the window where the bird feeder is attached…
this is particularly good now as the mandevilla blocks the view through the window…
looking forward to getting some great views of the guests at the feeder;-)…
19 Wednesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cooked, delicious, dinner, family, garden, happy, moments, roast, weather, widow
had a delicious dinner recently…
it was great to share a meal inside as we’ve eaten outdoors all summer…
the roast came out perfectly, which made me very happy as the last time I cooked one, it was overdone, lol…
the gravy and the carrots were yummy… and I did have salad afterwards;-)…
good times…
18 Tuesday Oct 2022
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applesauce, big girl pants, blessed, chili, food, freezer, homemade, moments, muffin tins, prep, widow
my neighbour brought over a container of chili and asked if I would like more apples…
a month ago they had given me a large bowl full and I made applesauce…
I used small baggies in a muffin tin and it worked well…
this time, I put the sauce directly into the tins, put them in the freezer, and when they were frozen, packaged and popped them back into the freezer…
they were a little difficult to remove from the cold metal, but this will save excess plastic and also take up less space…
17 Monday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, BS, delicious, doors, food, friends, gather, inside, macarons, meet, moments, normal, pandemic, together, treat, weather, widow, zoom
today, my BS group gathered in the living room…
we’ve been meeting in the garden but it was only going to 2 degrees Celsius so we decided it was time to come inside…
one person joined via Zoom and had dropped off a lovely treat for us beforehand… boob (for breast cancer awareness month) and regular macarons from Jenna Rae Cakes…
I left the front and back doors open to move fresh air… everyone wore masks until we were all seated…
it was the first time we’ve met in the house since the pandemic began…
felt lovely and odd at the same time, lol…
soon we will all have had the fifth shot which will make us feel a bit more confident about being in a closed space together…
so happy to be getting back to more ‘normal’ times…
30 Friday Sep 2022
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was talking with someone recently and making tea at the same time…
as I was squeezing the teabag, they mentioned hearing that doing this bruised the tea, which was a bad thing…
made me laugh as I’ve done it forever to get any additional flavour out of the bag before discarding it…
29 Thursday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, food, groceries, hibernation, meals, moments, preparations, recipes, weather, widow
made a hot breakfast, cause it felt like that kind of day, and then gathered the ingredients to prepare ham, cabbage and potatoes…
this would give it time to cook and then cool before heating it up for supper…
while that was cooking, I finished shredding the rest of the cabbage, a bit of green onion, and some carrot… I added the last of the dressing I had in the cupboard and finished that recipe…
finally, I cut and scooped three ripe avocados into containers to go into the freezer for smoothies…
yesterday I prepared zucchini basil soup…
feels a bit like I am getting ready for hibernation…
27 Tuesday Sep 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bread, bread knife, family, Hillside Beach, memories, moments, sourdough, Village Green Bakery, widow
got fresh sourdough bread recently, so decided on toast with peanut butter for breakfast… this is a treat as bread isn’t on the menu very often…
brought down my left-handed cutting board and it reminded me of fun times at Hillside Beach many, many, years ago…
I love how it cuts the bread to the exact size required for the toaster… and then the knife slides into the tray…
we picked this up at one of the Victoria Beach Country Markets and it has cut many loaves of Village Green Bakery bread, lol…
lovely memories…
25 Sunday Sep 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, drawers, family, file drawers, garden, grandson, memories, moments, planter, raised bed, stuff, widow
last year I removed the drawers and took a file cabinet outside to become a raised garden planter… it has worked very well…
the drawers, which were filled with my beloved’s stuff, have been stacked on a table in the basement since then…
finally I set up a box for giveaway, one for things to keep, a recycling bin, and a garbage bag…
worked away for a few hours and was able to move items into the various options without a problem…
the drawers went to the back lane, and someone collected them for scrap;-)…
makes me happy to have been able to declutter…
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