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nursery…

22 Saturday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, biomes, blessed, butterflies, cacao trees, fish, flowers, koi, moments, nature, nursery, on my own, orchids, plants, The Leaf, weather, widow, zoo staff

had a lovely wander around The Leaf on Wednesday…

I went on my own for the first time and for anyone who knows me, that is pretty good…

the cacao trees are looking a bit sad, but most of the Tropical Biome looked good…

I spent quite some time watching the fish… they were very active swimming around the pond and a number of plants have been trimmed back so they are also much easier to see;-)…

the orchids in the Mediterranean Biome are still doing very well, with tons of blooms on them…

and the biggest surprise was the Butterfly Garden, which had more butterflies flying around than I’ve ever seen here…

zoo staff were letting a good number emerge from the nursery and there were many people admiring them as well… it is always fun to hear what the keepers have to say about the butterflies… they record each one as they release it…

then I took one last walk through the biomes as I waited for my ride…

carbs…

19 Wednesday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, carbs, family, food, meatballs, moments, remembering, sauce, spaghetti, supper, widow

this morning I dug meatballs out from the freezer…

then I made a sauce to go with them and decided to add the spaghetti to cook in the sauce…

once it was cooked, it went into the fridge to cool down which helps reduce the carbs…

when I reheated half of it for my supper, it was delicious;-)…

black…

18 Tuesday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, black, charger, connect, Fitbit, instructions, moments, online, screen, Technology, widow

a few days ago my Fitbit wouldn’t connect to my phone… very odd…

then, all of a sudden, the screen went black… I put it on the charger, but that didn’t make a difference…

eventually I went online and found instructions on how to restart the Charge 5…

I followed the instructions and put it on the charger overnight…

happily, it worked perfectly after that;-)…

scarf…

17 Monday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, green, moments, scarf, St. Patrick's Day, widow

spent a bit of time this morning trying to find something green to wear for St. Patrick’s day…

apparently I do not have any green clothing, lol…

in the end I wore this beautiful scarf that my daughter brought me from her trip to Italy last year;-)…

pumps…

16 Sunday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, clean, fish, fishtanks, moments, nature, project, pumps, top up, water, widow

Friday’s project was to clean out the pumps on each of the three fishtanks…

it always slips down towards the bottom of the list, but once I get going, it isn’t that difficult, and doesn’t take that long either…

usually I only do one or two, but this time I did all of them at the same time…

the pumps are now running beautifully, and I topped up the water in each one… usually I do the topping up on Mondays, but was just a bit sooner this time;-)…

butt…

13 Thursday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, butt, documents, email, help, moments, portal, taxes, Technology, time, widow

today’s project was to get all the tax documents gathered, scanned, and uploaded to the accountant portal…

seemed like a simple piece of work, but…

that business of changing my email address keeps biting me in the butt…

because it was changed, and currently, my new email isn’t available on the main computer, it involved a number of phone calls to get help…

eventually I was able to get into the portal, and after scanning all of the documents, upload everything…

I am always so pleased when everything is completed and on its way…

now to wait to hear back from them…

springier…

11 Tuesday Mar 2025

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afghan, big girl pants, blessed, moments, purple, sheets, Spring, springier, warmer, weather, widow

turned the mattress and changed the sheets on Sunday morning…

it is feeling much springier, lol…

also put away the big, heavy, sun and stars blanket and brought out one of the afghans I made a number of years ago;-)…

can’t wait for more sunshiny warm days…

fingers…

08 Saturday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, book, cold, deck, feet, fingers, garden, lunch, moments, nature, reading, sunshine, weather, widow

yesterday I had lunch on the deck… in my winter coat and bare feet, lol… I must say, my fingers were cold by the time I was done, lol…

today, I was out without a coat, although I did have a blanket over my legs and slippers on…

I spent hours out there in the sunshine and didn’t come in until the chair was in the shade at which point it was too chilly to stay out…

reading, a lovely lunch, and warm fingers;-)…

matting…

06 Thursday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, framed, friends, fun, installation, matting, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, project, remembering, slipped, water lilies, widow

had a fun time remembering the “installation” which a friend helped me install a number of years ago as I was making adjustments to them…

the installation consists of twenty-nine photos of water lilies which I had taken…

over the years a number of the pictures had slipped in the frames and I finally got around to removing them one by one and taping the photos to the matting before reinstalling them on the wall…

there had been wine and a lot of laughter as we worked away to get all the pictures up on the wall, lol…

this time my housemate was able to help with the pieces I couldn’t reach, lol…

happy to have this project completed…

sarong…

04 Tuesday Mar 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, crystals, drawer, moments, nature, rock bowl, sarong, table, widow

time to change up the drawer in the living room table for this next season…

put away the L O V E letters, butterflies, and dragonflies that have been in it since sometime after Christmas… I also packed up all of the heart decorations that had been out…

I put a colourful sarong in each of the four squares and then put all the crystals, which had been part of the last display, back on top of them…

looks good and I topped it off with my rock bowl filled with my Crystal Oracle cards;-)…

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