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all-the-things…

27 Monday Jan 2025

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began Saturday morning with my usual cup of tea in the living room…

the house was very quiet after all the activity over the week…

Monday, my group attended The Leaf and Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar to celebrate a birthday and view the Fleurs de Villes display, so that was a busy day…

it was nearly midnight when we picked up my daughter at the airport and we stayed up late (early!) catching up and eating Baked Expectations deadly chocolate mousse…

Tuesday we went for pedicures, stopped for lunch at a local coffee shop, picked up a few groceries and then returned home… I also learned the ins-and-outs of Uber… my housemate made us a delicious supper and lots of visiting happened…

Wednesday, we went to The Leaf and spent the entire day there doing all-the-things as she would say… in the evening she went to MTC with a friend while I took it easy, lol…

Thursday, after a quiet morning, she headed to The Forks for coffee with other family and later my middle grandson arrived for a visit and supper;-)…

Friday, we started our morning at Stella’s on Portage for breakfast and then spent four hours wandering through the WAG/Quamajuq… it was my first visit since the new addition and I was impressed with how great it turned out…

every day she brought out gifts for me🤗, what a treat…

it was a wonderful week and I enjoyed every single minute…

WAG…

26 Sunday Jan 2025

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Friday, we started our day at Stella’s on Portage, before visiting the Winnipeg Art Gallery…

after avocado toast with poached eggs and hashbrowns, I finished my meal with a haystack (or fiddle diddle), and I even shared, lol… yum…

once at the WAG, we left our jackets in lockers and explored… so much art to see… my favourite was this carving…

we had a snack in the Katita cafe and wandered around the vault…

it was spectacular;-)…

from there we hurried home, grabbed her bag, and dropped her at the airport for her flight home…

what a wonderful way to end our time together;-)…

touched…

24 Friday Jan 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, family, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, family, foot, happy, health, massage, moments, pedicure, purple, touched, treat, widow

can’t think of the last time I had a pedicure so it was such a treat to have one on Tuesday afternoon…

surprisingly, my toes got painted purple, lol…

as always, my favourite portion of the experience is the foot and leg massage;-)…

and I am getting much better with having my feet touched, lol…

freshly…

21 Tuesday Jan 2025

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Monday we celebrated a birthday…

we had lunch at Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar…

the food was tasty and we had an excellent time…

I had:

and vanilla coconut ice cream…

we sang and presented the birthday bag, which was freshly made by one of our crafty group… our last one had completely worn out…

such a fun time…

tail…

18 Saturday Jan 2025

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woke up early, and for whatever reason, decided to look out the front window…

the moon was still up and shining brightly, and at the bottom of the bird feeders I spotted a bunny friend…

it was busy eating the seeds that had blown out of the feeders during all the strong winds over the last day or so…

I stood watching it for quite a while, before heading back to bed… it is very interesting to watch the way they move…

and I love that cute little white tail…

backtracked…

17 Friday Jan 2025

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at 6 am, it looked great out the window… when I woke up again at 8, the window was covered with snow and it was blowing like crazy outside…

but my buddy and I went on an adventure anyway, lol…

when I started down the sidewalk I realized how deep the snow was, so backtracked and went down the driveway, which was clear…

as soon as I arrived home, I shovelled the sidewalk… some places were six inches deep…

didn’t do anything else as I assumed it was still going to blow more snow around…

looked good, especially from in the house, lol…

we will see how it looks tomorrow;-)…

integral…

16 Thursday Jan 2025

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had a most wonderful visit with a dear friend who I haven’t seen for ages…

one of those people where the conversation just continues as though you’d seen one another the day before…

lots of talk about plants and gardens and how integral they are for both of us…

health and family also were covered…

and I received a container of delicious date squares…

so blessed to have time with special people…

red…

14 Tuesday Jan 2025

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big girl pants, blessed, cooking, food, lentils, moments, recipe, red, spices, widow

finally got around to making some red lentil curry…

hadn’t made this recipe for a very long time, so had to follow the recipe so as not to miss anything, particularly as there are many spices in it…

ended up using two pots so that it wouldn’t overflow the pan I started with, lol…

five and a half containers in total…

later…

11 Saturday Jan 2025

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the stair library has returned;-)…

now to get back to the work of reading them all;-)…

see you later…

uninsured…

09 Thursday Jan 2025

Posted by sulis303 in business, health, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, Canada Post, house, insurance, mail, moments, paid, Technology, uninsured, widow

so, in today’s Canada Post mail, I received a letter from my house insurance company advising that a payment was due on December 14th…

the date on the letter was November 23rd…

I called my insurance company right away and paid the invoice over the phone…

my first question to my agent was whether the house had been uninsured since mid December…

thankfully the house was covered…

I have now entered the date for the next payment to be sure it doesn’t get missed, lol…

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