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followers…

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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kind of excited to see that I have 223 followers…

in 2015 I have had 2,251 visits but the most interesting thing is that people from ten countries have read one of my blogs…

  
not big numbers if you compare them to others, but big numbers to me, lol…

getting likes and comments and new followers certainly gives me energy…

always fascinating which posts get the most response… I might write something and think it isn’t particularly interesting and then have lots of activity… another time I will feel I’ve written something which everyone will resonate with and it gets no interest at all…

started out as a method to share how I was dealing with the loss of my husband and now it is more general, although everything I do is really about moving forward on my own without my beloved…

this bouquet, in the living room this morning, reminds me of how he always made sure I had fresh flowers…

  

hot…

13 Monday Jul 2015

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was another hot day… got up and was out of the house before 8 to go for a walk… didn’t want to be out there when it got really hot…

  
crossing over the bridge got a few shots of the barn swallows... in Ottawa they have just built houses for their barn swallows where they were doing some work on a bridge… apparently they are endangered there… not here, lol…

the English Garden had very few visitors but was filled with gardeners… they were working in every area… looks beautiful…

  
usually I am drawn to the purple/blue flowers but today I kept leaning toward the orange ones…

   
 
my friend loved that colour…

  
can’t even guess how many pictures I have taken of the water lilies in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden… hundreds for sure… the tropical lilies are just starting to bloom…

got home, welcomed a new cleaning crew and went into the garden to be out of their way… mowed and whipper-snipped the back yard… did some weeding and watering… was dancing around on the deck and in the garden because the ground was soooo hot…

  
finally got to sit down in the shade… nice…

beautiful hot summer day… really enjoying my Mondays off…

loss…

12 Sunday Jul 2015

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recently lost a good friend to cancer… she was a very special person and many people are feeling her loss…

  
this morning I sat in the hot tub looking into the garden crying, for her and for me…

always shocking how the loss of one person brings back other losses you’ve experienced in your own life…

been reliving the day that George died… I can remember some of it… but I don’t really want to… not sure I have done anything harder than call each of my girls to tell them their dad was gone…

interesting that I haven’t thought about my cancer… the diagnosis, wait, surgery, recovery and finally results of the pathology… just about losing my beloved…

life goes on and I wear those big girl pants more and more… but I don’t have to like it…

and some days I just need to wallow in that feeling sorry for myself place…

  

  

storm…

11 Saturday Jul 2015

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am dripping wet right now…

  
hard to see but there is a rainbow in this picture… this is what it looked like after I ran out in the pouring rain and put away all the cushions… first time they have been soaked, sigh… should have put them away before supper…

the day had been perfect up till the storm…

  
fish were out and about…

  
watered all the planters and baskets and they are doing well…

  
found a small tomato…

  
couple of green peppers…

  
and an eggplant… woo hoo…

  
mandevilla is ready to open…

  
and the million bells basket is beautiful…

the rain has ended but the thunder is still rolling… 

yum…

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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great food today…

met a good friend for lunch at Chamberlyn’s in Winnipeg Square and had Crepes St. Jacques…

  
very tasty, even with the tomato in it, lol… 

just saw a chef on tv the other day saying just try it the way we made it for heaven’s sake… so that’s what I did… reminded me of The Garden Creperie which was one of my favourite restaurants a long time ago…

had a wonderful visit too, catching up on each other’s lives and events…

tonight decided to use up the last few left-over whole wheat tortillas from Sunday’s tacos for my supper…

 so, picked basil, cut up Brie and some tomatoes, and put the “pizzas” on the pizza stone in the oven…

  

  
when I took them out, added a little drizzle of olive oil, salt and pepper and then gobbled them up…

  
yum… finished my dinner with a handful of peas which I shelled and ate one at a time…

been doing a much better job of using up everything in the fridge and pantry and having less go bad and into the garbage…

gosh darn those big girl pants, lol…

henna…

08 Wednesday Jul 2015

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had a wonderful experience at lunchtime today…

a young woman I recently met gave me a henna tattoo…

we had talked about it and I decided on a dragonfly… she did some research and we picked today at noon to get the job done…

  
she is clearly an artist… filled with talent… so steady with her hands…

she reminded me of George… he was always meticulous when working on a project and was very precise and his hands were always steady…

he would have been impressed with her skill…

had to let it dry for the afternoon and evening… then I picked off the ink and rubbed oil on the tattoo…

here’s a picture, but I must say it is hard to take pictures of your own arm… 

  
it will be interesting to see how long it lasts…

got dropped off and had a nice walk home… the green of the grass and trees, and blue of the sky, looked very nice…

  
ahhhhh, home…

glorious…

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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beautiful day… the sun was shining, yay…

  
those are shadows on the wall and door… very exciting after the last week of hazy skies when everyone was getting down and feeling bad…

as I was driving to work the sun was in my eyes and I had to put down the visor… amazing how wonderful it felt, lol…

this evening I am at a soccer game… it is a bit cool but the sun is shining and everyone is in a great humour…

  
great shot of the action, with the light shining on their backs…

just a glorious evening…

life is wonderful and I am lucky to be able to enjoy these special moments…

iPhone…

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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quite the day… got this shot of the wasps building a nest on my deck…

  
was able to get really close as they weren’t moving much… cool this morning after yesterday’s heat and humidity…

walked to the grocery store to get hamburger for tonight’s dinner with the kids and as I was walking up the street to the house reached for my phone to take a picture of the haze and couldn’t find it…

kind of freaked out thinking I might have dropped it in the store… rushed into the house and tried phoning it before jumping into the car and racing back to the store… and there it was, singing in my bag, just not in its usual place… hiding under my OneTouch Mini…

took a few minutes to calm down, lol… I am rather meticulous about putting things away in the same place in whatever bag I have so this doesn’t happen often… thank goodness…

my daughter and I went out to get some fresh veggies and stopped and picked up some groceries for their family…

when we were home a bit later I mentioned how my phone was running out of charge much more quickly these days…

she had a look at it and then checked to see when my contract was up… at 4:45 she discovered that it was already  up and at 5:00 we were at the phone store in the mall:-)…

got an iPhone 6… didn’t take too long and it is saving me $5 or so a month…

because I don’t use iCloud to back my phone up, they weren’t able to set it up for me…

had to check out all the phone stores to get a case… eventually got two…

  
this one and a clear one which I will put one of my photos in…

came home and my daughter started backing it up… but it took longer than they were here for, so she told me what to do when it finished…

  
took some great pictures with it but, in the very long and convoluted process to get it set up, had to delete them all… 

but the sun was really red as it was going down tonight, lol…

well, it is almost set up, sigh… I am on hold with MTS because I can’t remember that password… looks like everything else is good to go…

who knew it would take minutes to buy and then hours to set up, lol…

technology at its finest…

camping…

03 Friday Jul 2015

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been waiting for a nice evening to go camping… 

on the deck…

tonight is the night… might not see any stars as it is still hazy, but you never know…

only concern is the mosquitoes… I do have a great comforter that can go over my head if necessary…

fun little adventure… I’ve been needing something special and am looking forward to going to sleep to the sound of the waterfall…

although there is a concert in the Park at the Lyric so I might be going to sleep to the sounds of Streetheart, lol…

  

we shall see…

was thinking back to our many camping experiences… we used heavy canvas tents, light nylon tents, a pop up trailer, and sometimes hotels… great fun over the years… enjoyed Birds Hill, Hecla, Falcon Lake, Rushing River and Sioux Narrows…

looking forward to spending a few days camping with the kids this summer… 

but I do plan to bring my air bed:-)…