04 Friday Jan 2019
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thinking of so many who are not well these days…
also been doing some reading on grief… it is always comforting to see that others have similar feelings and many of them can express themselves much more eloquently than I…
03 Thursday Jan 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, delicious, flowers, garage, groove, moments, smell, treadmill, walking, widow
been back in the groove of walking on the treadmill every morning… kind of fell off the wagon over the holidays, lol… happy to get back on track…
before I left the house I sat and enjoyed the flowers that I picked up on Monday… a lovely treat to have the moment to focus on the beauty…
when I got into the garage it still smelled delicious… just like barbecued steak… yum… pretty nice after three days… didn’t smell when I got home… will check it out tomorrow, lol…
02 Wednesday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, email, NASA, sky, station, Technology, view, widow
I get an email whenever the space station flies over the house…
there will be a week or so when the messages come once or twice a day and then weeks go by with no notifications…
I’ve had a number of emails over the last week, but as the fly past has been first thing in the morning I haven’t gotten up to look for the station…
but the emails last night mentioned two fly-bys this morning… one at 6:21 and the second at 7:55, which is just about when I leave for work…
so I headed outside to watch for it… stayed out for about five minutes but didn’t spot it… think it might have been behind the neighbour’s tree…
it is always exciting when I do see it;-)…
01 Tuesday Jan 2019
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for the last four or five years one of my first acts of the New Year has been to change my Chihuly calendar from the last year to the coming one…
when I went to change it this morning and turned up the last page of the 2018 calendar it was a lovely photo of a Float Boat… I love the circular shapes and gorgeous colours and was sad that I wouldn’t see them…
when I opened up the 2019 calendar the first photo was of Mille Fiore… lovely blues and purples… the calendars have a few months before January and a few after December…
the January picture was all clear and didn’t make me at all excited…
so I changed it… cut the photo out and put it over the clear pic, lol..
I am pleased with the final product…
later in the afternoon I spent some time in the hot tub and thought of the various places I have seen Float Boats… the first place was at Chihuly Gardens and Glass in 2013 with my daughter and son-in-law when they were living on Vancouver Island…
I’ve also seen lots of photos in books on Chihuly…
and my favourite was from our visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2016…
lovely memories…
31 Monday Dec 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, ended, family, flowers, kids, lobster, New Year's Eve, orchid, treat, widow
ended 2018 with a delicious family dinner…
I ran out this morning to find some lobster tails and picked up a tiny orchid and some flowers… thought it would be lovely to start the new year with flowers… my beloved would have brought some home for me…
once home I prepared the twice stuffed potatoes…
then I relaxed and watched tv… I’ve been on a Bones marathon for days now, lol…
when the kids got here we finished getting organized… the younger boys helped set the table… the oldest grandson got Brussels sprouts ready and then cooked them… my daughter made sure the butter warmers were ready and my son-in-law barbecued the steak and lobster… had a FaceTime visit with the Ottawa kids and then dinner…
our traditional New Year’s Eve (or New Year’s Day) dinner was a treat… besides the steak and lobster, there were mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, salad, escargot sauce, twice-stuffed potatoes, and garlic butter…
yummy… we ended with lemon meringue pie…
everything was cleaned up and the kids headed home…
will be interesting to hear if they last until midnight, lol… not sure that I will…
30 Sunday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, breakfast, cake, Christmas, Facebook, family, grandsons, hot tub, lonely, memories, missing, snow, tasty, widow
I’ve been a bit lonely over the last week or so… most Christmases my older daughter and her husband have come home… it didn’t work out this year…
was out in the hot tub this morning, first time in ages… a bit later these two pictures came up in my Facebook memories…
the first is deadly chocolate mousse cake, her favourite… I always make sure to have it in the house when she comes… in fact whenever I go to visit her, I take some as well… we always have the cake for breakfast, which the grandsons think is amazing;-)…
the second is of our water boots from last Christmas… she loves the hot tub and our usual pattern is a late night dip before bed…
it was my other son-in-law who suggested water boots many years ago… they work perfectly so that my feet never get cold or snowy…
today I spent some time cooking… turkey and dumplings, and mashed potato and garlic soup…
they both came out pretty tasty, although I am not going to be able to have the potato soup for work lunches because it reeks of garlic, lol…
29 Saturday Dec 2018
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art, big girl pants, blanket, collage, colouring, crafty, crocheting, food, friends, fun, happy, knitting, widow
time with friends… had a wonderful afternoon with a very crafty group of women…
there was knitting, colouring, collage-ing, crocheting, eating, drinking, and lots of conversation…
my project…
it is going to be a blanket for my bed… I worked on it while I was there and when I got home…
this morning as I was crocheting away I realized that it was way too long, sigh… would have been great for someone seven feet tall, lol…
so I unraveled it and started over…
this time it will be about four feet wide which should work nicely on the bed…
back to crocheting;-)…
28 Friday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, computer, duplicates, followers, memories, photos, sun dogs, widow
this morning I spent time using the new computer…
the pictures are all in one folder which I have started to go through looking for duplicates… so happy they are all in the same place… I used to have to go searching through a number of drives to find some of them…
while I was sorting out various bookmarks I noticed that I now have 300 followers… this is much more visible viewed on the computer… kind of giggled because the number has been hovering just under for quite some time…
also, I’ve noticed many people or organizations celebrating ten or fifteen thousand followers… makes my 300 seem rather inconsequential…
but it made me happy…
shortly before that I had watched beautiful sun dogs out the back… first ones I’ve seen this season…
27 Thursday Dec 2018
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Best Buy, big girl pants, breakfast, cleanup, computer, Freshii, Google Home, grandson, music, pictures, rest, shopping, Technology, trash, widow
another wonderful day…
grandson slept over… we made breakfast and then spent a few hours doing a cleanup in the computer room… filled bags of garbage, recycling and a few boxes of giveaways…
my grandson figured out how to get my 500 plus songs onto Google Play… it took about four hours… I am so happy to have them available…
he took out all the trash and then we ran over to Best Buy to pick up a few more plugs for my Google Home… had lunch at Freshii and then back home to connect one of the plugs…
the Himalayan Salt Lamp is now able to turn on and off by voice…
then my work computer person came over and moved computers, drives, pictures and got Outlook working for me… I am very pleased…
now to rest;-)…
26 Wednesday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, books, bookshelf, Christmas, cupboard, dishes, give away, place, plates, tidy, widow
on Christmas Eve day I bought some new plates I’d been eyeing for a while…
last night we used them for Christmas dinner…
today I had to find a place to put them… had a good time going through one of the kitchen cupboards and making space… was able to let a number of things go which always makes me happy…
later in the day I spent some time searching for something on the hallway bookshelf… and in the process was able to set aside a number of children’s books… again, way to go me…
dishes have been put away, give aways packed up, and books ready to be picked up by a young friend…
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