29 Friday Mar 2024
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I’ve been taking pictures regularly as the view changes out the front window…
I was so happy this afternoon as I took this photo of the front yard… looks like the snow is slowly melting away…
looking forward to a snow-free front lawn…
and sadly, this is what the front door camera showed a few minutes ago, sigh…
sigh…
28 Thursday Mar 2024
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the moon has been doing some odd things over the last while…
three days before the full moon the moonlight was amazing… it looked as though it was a full moon and this is very odd…
I’ve caught a few interesting photos over the last few days…
this was from the 5:30 on Tuesday morning, taken without my glasses on, lol……
this one was from 7:30 this morning…
the moon is so mesmerizing;-)…
24 Sunday Mar 2024
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22 Friday Mar 2024
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I’ve been trying to note how long I am out in the hot tub each night, so I take a screenshot of the time as I leave the house and another once I come in…
tonight I made it out to the hot tub in time to watch the Space Station fly over… I haven’t seen it for quite a while…
this time, as it came over the house it was a bright light, but about halfway across the open space above me it started to dim and then it vanished…
it has done this before and I wonder if it is rotating a bit and then doesn’t have the sun shining on it…
it always makes me happy to see it, especially on such a beautiful evening…
18 Monday Mar 2024
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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…
17 Sunday Mar 2024
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recently I purchased a new set of nozzles for the hose after having looked for a long time for just the right ones…
today I used one to top up the hot tub and plunge tub…
this nozzle seems to have more pressure so the filling took way less time than previously;-)…
made me happy as it was a bit chilly out there…
12 Tuesday Mar 2024
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what a delightful time I had yesterday…
spent an hour and a half on the deck, reading in the glorious sunshine…
started out with a blanket and my winter jacket, but eventually put away the blanket and changed to my spring jacket… woohoo…
while I was out there I heard at least two skeins of geese fly by, although I never did see any of them, lol…
spent a few hours with my Monday buddies, read in the living room, and napped;-)…
04 Monday Mar 2024
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Sunday night I really had to talk myself into going out to the hot tub…
it wasn’t cold, but it was snowing, sigh…
I do not like to get my face wet or my glasses covered in snow, so it was a bit of an issue, lol…
instead of taking my towel out with me, I hung it on the inside handle of the patio door so it wouldn’t be covered in snow when I got out of the tub…
made sure to put my peaked hat on over my toque… it had a bit of snow on it when I got back into the house…
on my way upstairs I took a picture of the garden, looks pretty but it was still snowing…
well, I didn’t break my streak… there have only been two days I haven’t been in since January first, both when the temperature felt like -41°C…
24 Saturday Feb 2024
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was so tickled on Thursday morning… I spent just under an hour sitting on the deck reading in the sunlight…
the temperature was 3°C, and the weather channel suggested it felt like -2, although the deck is often warmer…
it was a bit of a process as I had to bring out a cushion for the chair and a small table for my tea, lol… I wore my winter jacket and had my Assiniboine Park Conservancy blanket over my legs, although I was in my slippers and was very comfortable…
what a treat to feel that warmth on my face…
and, when I went upstairs to lay down, the sun was shining along the bottom of the bed, so I napped sideways, with scrunched up legs;-)…
20 Tuesday Feb 2024
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had a fun time at The Leaf today…
went with a friend to see Flora of the Philippines…
we couldn’t figure out the new markers on many of the plants in the Tropical Biome, but eventually realized they represented the flag of the Philippines and demonstrated how many of the plants in the biomes originated there…
besides seeing where so many plants came from, there were hundreds of orchids… heaven for me…
what a treat…
after our wander through the biomes, we had lunch at Gather…
what a delightful way to spend time together;-)…
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