gravy…

02 Tuesday Mar 2021

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one of my go to foods is chicken leg with back on, or leg and thigh as I call it…

last night I baked the chicken and warmed up some frozen mashed potatoes…

the treat was gravy with mushrooms and garlic…

I was pleased with both the gravy and the potatoes… it was the first time I had frozen and then thawed them…

this is going to be a game changer as I can now make a good size batch of mashed potatoes and freeze them in single meal sizes…

yum…

hide…

01 Monday Mar 2021

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I am getting more comfortable with the cleaners coming into the house…

my technique is to decide where I will hide while they are cleaning… I don’t emerge until they have left the house, lol…

today, I spent the time in the computer room and shredded a ton of documents… had to empty the shredder at least three times…

felt quite productive…

lightstrip…

27 Saturday Feb 2021

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busy day yesterday…

in the morning I attached the Philip’s lightstrip that I got for Christmas from my grandsons… I had played with it a bit the day before…

I am pleased with how it turned out…

moved around more plants and made a meal that needs to sit for a day…

after that I finished with making a dozen cards from the watercolour painting I’ve been doing…

felt very accomplished, lol…

paint…

26 Friday Feb 2021

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had some fun painting… well, playing with watercolour paint, lol…

got organized one day, when I taped the papers to a counter in the kitchen… thought that the height would be good for the activity…

the next day I tried different materials to paint with… used paper towel, aluminum foil, saran wrap…

it was fun to experiment and see what using each produced…

eventually, I was able to put them onto card stock… I am pleased with how they turned out…

since then I’ve done another batch… painted, separated the sections, trimmed the corners, put double-sided tape on them, attached to card stock and put them in envelopes…

fever…

24 Wednesday Feb 2021

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I seem to be in the midst of Spring fever…

spent time rearranging plants around the main floor trying to change it up a bit…

moved one of the orchids from the dining room garden to the living room window and placed it into a vase I received when I retired… I think I like it…

I clustered the African violets together and moved a fern from one spot to another…

it will be interesting to see if they all like their new locations…

I am also watching the mandevilla, which I think, has a bud starting… very exciting…

bacon…

23 Tuesday Feb 2021

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on Sunday I took out a couple of little bacon wrapped steaks to barbecue, being as it was so warm out…

earlier in the day I baked a potato and then cooled it in the fridge so the sugars would be better…

moved Barbie into the middle of the garage and got her going…

the steaks cooked nicely and the potato warmed up just right…

I had a few Brussels sprouts which I cooked with garlic…

it turned out delicious… the steak was exactly the way I like it…

getting more used to using the barbecue…

creative…

18 Thursday Feb 2021

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I’ve been trying to do something creative most days…

today I cut back all the roses and made a few different arrangements with them…

I liked the look of this Japanese teapot…

this is a fire pot so it was fun to use it in a different way…

here is what they looked like before the rearrangement…

lots of fun…

on my way out of the kitchen after doing the flowers I spent time walking on the spot and watching a bunny on the deck snacking at the saucer where I had just put some seed…

it was nice to see that the sparrows came right up to the feeder, even when the bunny was there… the squirrels always chase everyone else away… they are greedy, lol…

repotting…

17 Wednesday Feb 2021

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recently I had fun repotting a few plants…

used soil from a dead plant that was in the basement…

first up was the avocado… it has been looking a bit sad and after doing some research it seemed like time to increase the size of the container… good thing because it was root bound…

it is also getting leggy, and I am trying a technique to get it to bush out a bit more… we shall see…

next was the Japanese Maple… the kids brought it from BC when they moved to Ottawa so it has been in the same pot for eight years…

it took a lot of muscle to remove it, and for a few minutes I thought I’d have to cut it out, lol… no rocks, so I used coffee filters for the bottom…

it has many tiny roots and it took a knife to scarify it so that it will grow better in the new container…