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05 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by sulis303 in food, health, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, containers, freezer, fridge, moments, organizing, outcome, stool, widow

got close up and cozy with the fridge freezer this morning… my technique is to use my bathroom stool to sit in front of the fridge while the freezer door is open…

was chilly work, but put like things together and in containers… was a bit surprised with how many little freezer packs I have ;-)…

pleased with the outcome and hopeful that I will remember what went into each of the containers, lol…

hemmed…

01 Sunday Nov 2020

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big girl pants, cold, comfy, fleece, hand-sew, hemmed, long, moments, pyjamas, weather, widow

I’ve had these pyjamas for years… the pants have been too long the entire time… I usually wear them when it is cold as they are made of a soft and comfy fleece…

today I hand-hemmed three inches off them, lol…

they are much more comfortable now…

stopper…

30 Friday Oct 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, coat, cold, funny, fur, moments, nature, purple, reading, stopper, weather, widow, winter

I’ve been thinking of a friend’s mother who used fur coats as draft stoppers… she had numerous fur coats and it just seemed like the funniest thing to me, although even in those days people were no longer wearing fur, so it was a good use of the coats, lol…

there is a vertical space along the bottom of my front door and I have been trying to figure out what needs to be done to fix it…

my handiperson is supposed to be coming before too long to check it out, but as I sit reading in the living room there is quite a cold draft across the floor…

this afternoon I took one of my winter coats and hung it on the doorknob and I think it is stopping the cold air;-)… or at least slowing it down…

too funny, lol…

ignoring…

27 Tuesday Oct 2020

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big girl pants, cleaning, closet, food, found, ignoring, lost, moments, sorting, treat, widow

I spent the entire day working on a closet that I’ve been ignoring for years…

packed up a number of things; some games and toys going to someone I know who has people in mind; a picture for my grandson, and items to be given away…

I’ve also found a few things which I am going to put online… one is the massage table we covered with glass… I don’t need it and it is silly to keep it underneath a counter, lol…

I’ve done laundry, moved items to different areas, reorganized clothes and thrown items into the garbage… and found a few items that have been lost;-)…

I ordered sushi from one of my favourite places – Tokyo Sushi – which I didn’t know was available through SkipTheDishes… got enough for lunch and supper… it was the only break I took all day… I ordered the sushi pizza which is delicious… haven’t found any place else that makes it this good…

tomorrow I will finish… the closet and the sushi;-)…

foil…

26 Monday Oct 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, foil, friends, gift, loose tea, memories, moments, purple, scones, treat, widow

yesterday a friend dropped off a purple parcel for me…

in it were two packages… the first was wrapped in foil and was filled with five beautiful scones… still warm from the oven…

the second was also wrapped, but in purple paper… in it was a lovely tea mug with a strainer…

I barely unwrapped the scones before I buttered one, put jam on it and scoffed it down…

the mug is clean now and ready for some loose tea;-)…

toque…

24 Saturday Oct 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, cold, dark, health, hot tub, moments, nature, snow, Toque, water shoes, weather, widow

well, the time has come…

had to put on the water shoes and toque for the first time this year…

not a good sign…

and it gets dark out so much earlier in the evening;-(…

trying…

22 Thursday Oct 2020

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, garden, health, life, moments, nature, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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last night my grandson came over just after dark to bring me a few items and do some jobs around the garden… here he is arriving, thanks to my new camera…

and the goodies he brought… I’m excited to try the purple popcorn…

he took the pump out of the pond, moved the heavy furniture onto the back deck, and then we spent time trying to catch fish…

two cellphone flashlights lit up the pond as he searched for the fish… amazingly he caught one of the shubunkins… quite a feat as they look mainly black in the pond and by then it was very dark out, lol…

I’ve been masking up now whenever he is over because of where he works… last night I ended up taking off my glasses as they kept fogging up, so I was trying not to fall into the pond… which was a feat as there are a bunch of rocks that have been pulled out of the water and are all over the deck, lol…

because I knew he was coming I had made our favourite red curry lentils and packaged up some for him to take home, along with a couple of items for the others… he was sad to hear he had to share the lentils;-)…

had some of mine for breakfast…

feed…

21 Wednesday Oct 2020

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

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big girl pants, birds, deck, family, feed, garden, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, surprise, widow

woke up to this…

we often get a bit of snow before Halloween, but it usually disappears… not sure that is going to happen this year…

I went out to the garden, dug the shovels out of the garage and shovelled off the top deck and by the hot tub… I set up a few spots for bird seed…

this winter I am going to keep the top deck clear so that I can feed the birds… last year the kids didn’t come by to shovel and my guy only does the bottom so the deck became impassible… still need to figure out how to attach a feeder to the deck…

with retirement, I can clean the deck whenever it works best for me, or a little at a time, lol…

pots…

20 Tuesday Oct 2020

Posted by sulis303 in garden, health, life, moments, nature, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, cold, family, furniture, garden, moments, nature, photos, pond, pots, snow, widow

went outside this morning and moved as much of the furniture as I could…

a few pieces are very heavy so I left them to be dealt with by the boys…

I also moved all the planter pots under the deck…

here’s the view once I was done…

that was around 10 am… I took this photo at 5:30 pm…

;-(…

panels…

13 Tuesday Oct 2020

Posted by sulis303 in garden, health, life, moments, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, garden, hot tub, leak, moments, nature, panels, Technology, water, weather, widow

this afternoon I spent three hours outside with the hot tub technicians while they emptied, moved, opened all eight panels, filled, found two small leaks, repaired them, emptied, replaced the panels, moved back, refilled and turned the tub on… it was cold and windy…

now waiting for the two days it will take to heat the water and hoping that this has fixed the problem…

since then I’ve been trying to warm up… finally, about half an hour ago – after five hours – I don’t need any additional blankets and have taken off my sweater…

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