25 Thursday Oct 2018
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early morning… beautiful sky… changed every few minutes as I drove downtown…
saw dozens of geese flying low overhead… what an amazing sight… and a wonderful way to start the day…
had a smoothie for breakfast, butternut squash soup for lunch and ended the day with a late supper of jumbo shrimp and wild rice… healthy and tasty…
good way to start off my weekend;-)…
24 Wednesday Oct 2018
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today was Election Day…
was at the polling station ten minutes before it opened as I was trying to vote and get to work on time…
when I arrived I checked my information to be sure I was at the correct location because there wasn’t a single car in the lot or any signs… at five to the cars started to pull in and filled the parking pad… shortly after that a person came out and put up a sign advising that this was a polling station…
waited until 8:01, only to discover about 15 people lined up inside… the door didn’t open for another few minutes… often the first people are guinea pigs as the various workers figure what to do, sigh… bit of that this morning…
finally got out and headed to work… would have been on time except for the lights all flashing red along Portage…
miss my beloved on days like this… voting was something we always did together…
23 Tuesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, garden, leaves, quote, raking, snow, son-in-law, widow, winter, yard cleaning
spent part of the day yesterday trying to find someone to clean up the leaves in the yard… eventually I hired my son-in-law who came today and raked everything up… then he put away all of the lawn furniture… looks great…
also trying to find a snow-clearing company as my grandson who has been doing the snow removal for the last few years is now busy with university and work and not available…
of three places I contacted, two were already filled up for the winter…
I have received a quote from the third place and will be in touch with a few questions…
hoping that it all works out because I don’t need to be worrying about snow when it starts falling, lol…
22 Monday Oct 2018
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so excited to pick up my new camera on Friday… the old one died while we were camping this summer and I have been missing it tremendously… decided not to have it repaired again as it would be expensive and I had already had it repaired three or four times… made more sense to put that money towards a newer model…
was hoping to make it to Christmas to buy one but Thursday night I was at an event and was very disappointed in my pictures…
so Friday I went and purchased this one… it is basically the same model, only upgraded…
many things are similar but there are nuances that I am going to have to study up on, lol…
I’ve been able to connect it to my phone to download pictures but haven’t figured out how to use my phone to depress the shutter button…
there is a new automatic setting that adds effects and I really want to understand a few of the other settings…
it connects to my phone or computer via wifi, the screen moves to make taking pictures easier and it has a better zoom function…
looking forward to delving into all the details…
21 Sunday Oct 2018
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bakery, beloved, big girl pants, change, daughters, exciting, family, memories, playground, walk, widow
early this morning I walked to and from La Belle Baguette to pick up some bread…
the sun was in my eyes on the way there as I walked past the park between Amherst and Sackville at Ness…
on my way home I stopped and got a few pictures of the construction… no changes have happened in this playground for thirty years or so that I can remember…
it is going to be exciting to see what the final area is going to look like…
20 Saturday Oct 2018
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arm, big girl pants, filling, grandson, hot tub, temperature, widow
today I emptied and refilled the hot tub after my grandson arrived to move the tub a tiny bit before it was refilled…
when we replaced the arm on the hot tub a while ago, we moved it out a bit which meant that I couldn’t open one side of the cover without opening the gate… bit of a pain on a cold night…
it takes about 3 hours to empty and about half an hour to fill…
waiting now to see how long it will take to get up to the correct temperature…
19 Friday Oct 2018
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this morning, early, I went across to the drugstore in Cityplace and finally got my flu shot…
I’ve been trying to get over ever since it was available… besides hopefully protecting me, it might save someone else who I come into contact with who might have a compromised immune system…
I always think of my dad when he was in hospital toward the end of his life… family and friends didn’t want to visit him if they had the sniffles… eventually we decided that if someone was going to make him sicker, it might as well be one of us, rather than a hospital staff person… it was more important to spend what little time we had with him…
only waited a short time for the shot and then had to wait the obligatory few minutes afterwards to be sure I wasn’t having any reaction…
so far I haven’t experienced any side effects…
guess we’ll see how it is in the morning;-)…
18 Thursday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, care, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fun, time, WEYA, widow
what a great evening spent with three of my colleagues…
always a treat to get to visit and enjoy time together…
the women entrepreneurs who were celebrated at WEYA tonight were all about health and wellness… a good reminder to take time to care for yourself…
they are an amazing group… our province is in good hands;-)…
17 Wednesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, Fall, garden, leaves, parking lot, piles, trees, weather, widow
a few days ago when I was heading home from work I stopped and took some pictures of the piles of leaves in the parking lot…
as I walked through the backyard I took some shots of the leaves there too…
I haven’t been enjoying this Fall because it hasn’t been very Fall-like, sigh…
cold, snowy, overcast… what a drag…
but the leaves are incredible… even if they are all on the ground…
16 Tuesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, dinner, friend, Good Earth, goody, lazy, restaurant, walk, widow
had dinner out with a good friend tonight… nearly forgot because I don’t usually go out on a weeknight, lol…
it was wonderful to walk over to the restaurant as I’ve been rather lazy recently…
dinner was delicious and we both left with goody bags filled with leftovers…
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