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spring-y…

15 Sunday Mar 2026

Posted by sulis303 in food, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, dragonfly, family, living room drawers, moments, nature, seeds, spring-y, widow

time to change the living room table…

put away the L O V E letters and found a beautiful spring scarf that my daughter gave me from her trip to Italy…

once the scarf was down, all of the seed packets we have went into the four squares…

then I put the driftwood with the dragonfly on it onto the table…

finally, cushions came down from upstairs and replaced the ones that had been on the sofa…

feels spring-y…

upload…

14 Saturday Mar 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, computer, donations, moments, scans, taxes, Technology, upload, widow

been putting off dealing with the taxes, sigh…

finally sat down in the computer room and got to work on all the documents I needed to send in…

just recently a friend shared that the pharmacy could provide a list of all my prescriptions for the year… saved me a lot of pasting, as I would organize and stick all the receipts in date order from the pharmacy on letter paper and then scan the pages, lol…

thankfully I had printed a hard copy of most of the donation receipts which was handy when I was searching for all of them in my email, lol…

took a minute, but eventually I figured out how to scan things to the computer and locate where they landed…

then shockingly, I also remembered how to get into the Portal and was able to upload all of the pieces of information…

I think, 🤞…

06 Friday Mar 2026

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went to our aquasize class today…

had fun;-)…

evaporates…

03 Tuesday Mar 2026

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big girl pants, conversations, evaporates, fish condos, humidity, moments, nature, Tupperware, water, widow

I am always surprised as to how much water evaporates in the house on a regular basis…

Monday mornings I add about twelve litres of water to the fish condos as the water has gone down a significant amount since the previous week…

I have a Tupperware container that lives under the kitchen sink and is filled with water for the plants…

the plants get watered on Wednesdays weekly, but the tanks are topped up on Mondays…

the reason it is Monday is that my friends come every Monday afternoon and the less water in the tanks, the more noise the pumps make, and the loud noise can disrupt our conversation…

cannot interrupt important conversations, especially if one of us is on the phone…

March…

01 Sunday Mar 2026

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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, calendars, flowers, March, moments, month, Technology, widow

the calendars changed today to March;-)…

new flock of birds to see…

and the little bouquet has changed a bit as the front vase moved to the back;-)…

it is also a birthday month in our family, lol…

pantry…

28 Saturday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, comfort, craving, food, Kraft dinner, moments, pantry, supper, widow

I was wanting some comfort food recently and couldn’t think of what I wanted…

eventually I decided on Kraft Dinner… hadn’t had any in ages, but had a box in the pantry;-)…

it was delicious and just what I needed…

funny what can provide comfort when you are craving it…

muscle…

24 Tuesday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, family, moments, muscle, nature, shovel, snow, Technology, weather, widow

a while ago, I pulled a muscle in my lower abdomen…

it took awhile to get confirmation as I thought it was something else, lol…

apparently, shovelling is a really bad thing to do, which is unfortunate… usually I shovel the steps and front sidewalk… it doesn’t take that long, but after I shovelled last week, the pain got more intense…

so, today, when I had to go out, I decided not to shovel… it was difficult, but I remember the pain…

so I went out the back and walked in the tire tracks down to the street to get in the Uber…

will be getting my housemate to clear it up;-)…

batter…

21 Saturday Feb 2026

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batter, big girl pants, blessed, food, moments, pancakes, potato, sour cream, Tuesday, widow

thinking back to Tuesday’s pancake supper…

besides the lovely pancakes, I made a potato pancake with the last little bit of batter to which I added a shredded potato…

topped it with sour cream and a slice of bacon…

this continues to be my favourite pancake;-)…

cam…

20 Friday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, cam, door cam, fresh air, moments, nature, shovelled, sidewalk, snow, Technology, weather, widow

took a little time yesterday morning to shovel the sidewalk and steps…

was able to wear a lighter jacket as it was nearly zero out…

it doesn’t take long and it is great to be outdoors…

the door cam very nicely took my picture, lol…

evacuate…

19 Thursday Feb 2026

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alarm, aquasize, bagels, big girl pants, evacuate, fire truck, grandson, inukshuk, lights, moments, nature, Olympics, pool, weather, widow

as I was waiting for my ride to the pool for aquasize, I took a few photos…

this one is the Inukshuk in a circle in the snow… I need to find another piece of limestone to finish it off better, lol…

then a shot of the snow on the cedar branches at the front door…

we were happy to be going because last week we missed due to the Olympics, lol…

we were in the water for about ten minutes when an alarm went off… we were told to evacuate the pool and then to head to the lounge at the entrance and not to stop for our clothes or other items…

besides our class, there were at least two classes of school kids, as well as those who had been in the gym… quite a few people…

during all that time the alarms were ringing and lights were flashing… after about ten minutes a firetruck arrived and the firefighters headed to the back of the building…

another ten minutes or so went by and finally the lights and ringing stopped…

we headed back to the change rooms, dressed and left the building… as a treat we picked up bagels…

mine was quite delicious;-)…

also meant I made it home in time to watch the women’s free skate…

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