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26 Saturday Mar 2016

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active, big girl pants, chemicals, dumplings, hot tub, Pro-Activ, shopping, tracks, widow

started off the day listening to a lovely song that a friend had posted on Facebook… it was so nice…

then I headed out to do a bit of shopping… took a shot of the animal tracks in the backyard on my way…

  
went to pick up the pro-activ margarine I’m using and a few potatoes for tomorrow’s dinner..

had a bit of fun and came home with these…

  

three pairs of pants, three tops and a pair of shorts… most will be great for New York I think…

emptied, cleaned and refilled the hot tub… going to try a new process that is more natural and uses less chemicals…

  
takes quite a long time to empty, but a short time to fill… I had to take out a few bucketfuls before I could turn it on, lol… that’s never happened before…

for supper I made chicken and dumplings made with whole wheat flour… decided to divide the recipe in half, which I did for the dry ingredients… but then I used the liquid measurement for the whole recipe… came out a little interesting… and very light, lol…

  

not quite the usual colour and the pot looks disgusting as it was full and some of the dumpling overflowed down the sides… maybe I need to write the proportions down right in the recipe book…

enjoyed the day…

 

flowers…

25 Friday Mar 2016

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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, happy, jammies, moon, snow, sun, sunshine, widow

woke up to snow on the ground this morning… really, lol… it was lovely because I didn’t have to go outside into it… 

  
there was also a beautiful moon…

  
spent the entire day in my jammies taking it easy… 

did walk for half an hour on the treadmill and made zucchini basil soup… I might be a bit addicted to that one…

the whole house is permeated with the smell from the hyacinth… so I took a few pictures of all the flowers in the house today…

  
the light was wonderful in the dining room…

  
the sunlight on them was lovely… 

and finally I got a picture of the sun streaming into the living room…

  
so happy to have the flowers filling the house…

they make me happy… 

remembering my beloved who would make sure I had lots around, particularly at this time of the year…

sweet…

24 Thursday Mar 2016

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. soup, big girl pants, blossoms, bunny, carrots, chocolate, Easter, fun, headache, orchid, potatoes, Souper Thursday, sweet, widow

last night I made soup for today’s Souper Thursday… stopped on our way home and picked up sweet potatoes, carrots and coconut milk… this sweet potato and carrot soup is really easy…

  
it turned out very well… veggies, salad, crackers and fruit appeared and we had a great lunch… and everyone enjoyed it… every last drop was eaten…

a while ago I ordered a number of chocolate bunnies for a fundraiser, so this morning the Easter Bunny dropped them off at each person’s desk…

  
made some cute little notes to go with them…

such fun…

  
spent a few minutes admiring my beautiful new orchid this morning… the older one still has four or five blossoms on it…

although I’ve been struggling with a headache it was a pretty sweet day…

pictures…

23 Wednesday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, geese, glittering, light, pattern, pictures, sun, widow

over the weekend I took a few interesting pictures…

this one is of the glittering snow on the roof of the garage…

  
a lovely pattern showed up as well…

when we were coming out of the store on Sunday I could hear the geese and when I looked up I saw them… it was so bright that I couldn’t see them, but snapped a few pictures…

  
not bad when I couldn’t actually see…

and finally I got this shot of the sun behind haze…

  
pulled over to take the shot… it was a strange sky…

the light was bright for all of these, lol…

view…

22 Tuesday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, camera, iPhone, orchid, photoshoot, teammate, view, widow

this morning I wanted to take a few pictures in the living room… the hyacinth is almost in full bloom and the orchid is quite lovely…

my camera wouldn’t work… tried all the things I could think of but nothing seemed to make a difference…

was very stressed because we were going to a photoshoot and I wanted to record the process with pictures…  


finally put the camera away and used my iPhone… this was my view of the new orchid… beautiful…

the photoshoot went well… I find it fun to watch the photography team work with the client…

  

my view of them keeping the conversation going to relax the person being photographed…

  
my teammate produced a smile even as she was feeling stress about the whole process… she really didn’t want to have her picture taken…

  
checking out how the shots came out…

when it was my turn we talked about how much easier it is to be behind the camera as opposed to in front of it… I posed as requested and didn’t bother to see how they came out… one thing I’ve learned is that the person in the picture isn’t usually able to see how great they look, so I was happy to trust the professionals…

watching Ian take the pictures you could often see when he knew he had the photo he wanted… in my own way sometimes I have that feeling…

he had a peek at my camera and figured out that one of the buttons was stuck… I couriered it over to a local repair shop and hope they can fix it… haven’t heard back yet…

bookends…

21 Monday Mar 2016

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beauty, big girl pants, bookends, bunny, Hershey kiss, hyacinth, Manitoba Orchid Society, nature, orchid, perfume, purple, widow

didn’t have to be at work until eleven so I relaxed with a cup of tea in the living room while enjoying the perfume from the blooming hyacinth…

  
such a delicious smell… and I was so pleased that it turned out to be purple, lol…

also saw a bunny hop across the street while I was soaking up the quiet…

this afternoon I received this in my email…

  
a Hershey’s kiss in a purple wrapper from my kids who are visiting Las Vegas… makes me giggle because Hershey chocolate tastes like soap to me… but I love kisses…

to bookend the great start to the day, tonight a dear friend came over with her freshly made hot cross buns… they are soooo delicious…

  
we had a lovely visit and both enjoyed the new orchid which I picked up at the Manitoba Orchid Society’s show and sale yesterday afternoon at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory…

  
the beauty that surrounds us is most amazing…

yoga…

20 Sunday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, Friday, restorative, slow-flow, surgeries, weight loss, widow, yin, yoga

Friday is yoga at the gym in our office for those who would like to participate… 

this week I asked our yogi to take a few picture for a blog because I would always think about it after the class…

  
we circulate between yin, slow flow, and restorative – which is my favourite…

  
there is yoga on Tuesday’s which is more strenuous, but I only attend the Friday sessions…

  
was worried about how I would feel the next couple of days because we really focussed on the legs…

this morning my legs were very stiff and walking was a little painful, lol… I did walk to the park and that certainly helped…

  
I am constantly surprised at how much more I can do now than when I started… still can’t do much but when I started I had to adjust every pose because I couldn’t do anything… 

two surgeries, months away from work and a big weight loss have all contributed to the healthy body I have now…

trying to figure out how I can keep doing some yoga once I start having every Friday off… hope we are able to sort out a way to have it a different day of the week…

I really enjoy it now… who knew, lol…

LoveLocalMB…

19 Saturday Mar 2016

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bessie's best, big girl pants, cauliflower, chocolate, LoveLocalMB, Manitoba, producers, productive, purple, taste, tzatziki, widow

productive day…

picked up some purple cauliflower yesterday on the way home… 

  

so today I made soup… it actually came out purple…

  
pretty, but it doesn’t taste that great… think I might need to add spice of some kind to perk it up…

tonight I went to #LoveLocalMB… had the opportunity to chat with many of the food producers in a large room crammed full of people who feed Manitobans…

  
bought a number of items as it was a great way to support the people who make our food…

was most excited to get bessie’s best tzatziki… I fell in love with it last summer at the Downtown Thursday Farmers Market… it hasn’t been available since then and I really enjoy it… what a treat… 

going to have some yummy things to eat over the next while…

wonder…

18 Friday Mar 2016

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awe, big girl pants, blanket, nature, snow, widow, wonder

I have been in complete awe over the last few days with the beauty and wonder of nature…

  
yesterday morning the world was covered with a thick blanket of snow… kept going from window to window looking out at the wonderful views…

  
the snow clung to the tree branches and bushes… 

 
as I was getting into the car had to take out my camera and get a picture of this…

  
my neck swivelled all the way downtown as I admired the gorgeous views of snow in trees… 
this morning it was still there…

  
and again I couldn’t get enough of it…

  
the trees across the creek were still stunning in their beauty…

  
walked down the street a bit so I could take a few more pictures…

such an exquisite couple of days… holding the beauty close…

learning…

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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beloved, big girl pants, car, clock, growing, learning, proud, remote, widow, Wii

been learning new things in the last few days and am pretty pleased with myself, lol…

I figured out how to change the clock in the car… 

 

pretty simple actually… I would never have been able to do that before…

even better was the fact that I sorted out the remote in the basement… 

  
there are three down there but the middle one is the special one which does everything except pour tea… 

of course the problem has always been that if it wasn’t set on the tv I could never get it back there… it is also connected to the Wii and a video player and Netflix and I’m not sure what else… 

the little boys change it over to the Wii sometimes and forget to put it back… then I struggle for ages trying to get the morning show to come on that I watch as I walk on the treadmill… end up calling my kids to walk me through the process to get it working again…

this time my son-in-law thought there might be something wrong with the remote itself…

after a bit of work I figured out how to open the back, find appropriate batteries, change them and get the cover back on…

then it couldn’t find the tv… finally figured out that I needed to use one of the other remotes to set the input to the proper thing…

and it worked… did it all myself…

my beloved would have been so proud…

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