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havoc…

02 Monday Dec 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, climate change, happy, havoc, moments, nature, photos, steps, sunshine, walking, weather, widow

Monday morning the sun was shining, woohoo…

I was so excited about it that I did some of my steps in the kitchen, as the sun shone onto me…

I was so happy about the beautiful light that I didn’t even take a photo, lol…

it looked a lot better in the sunshine…

over the last few months there have been so many overcast days, not our usual sunshine…

climate change is certainly creating havoc with our weather…

string…

27 Wednesday Nov 2024

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the trees made their way up the stairs…

a string of lights went up first and then each tree was removed from the box…

once they were all out, I had a fun time deciding where each one would go and then adding the smaller ones to every step…

I am always happy to add the various wooden ones that my beloved made;-)…

there are a couple left that will find their way into other rooms to bring holiday cheer;-)…

seven…

25 Monday Nov 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, fluffy, light, minutes, moments, nature, seven, shovelling, snow, weather, widow

only took seven minutes to shovel the front sidewalk and a path to the driveway…

didn’t need to shovel to the neighbours as Canada Post isn’t coming right now…

a nice start to the season, the snow was light and fluffy and there wasn’t too much of it ;-)…

freedom…

24 Sunday Nov 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, F1, freedom, Las Vegas, late night, moments, race, time, widow

last night I stayed up late to watch the F1 Las Vegas race…

I was thinking how lucky I am to have the freedom to do that… there was nothing special on today… and basically, every day is Saturday for me;-)…

it was a great race and I enjoyed it…

even slept in a bit this morning, lol…

soft-spoken…

23 Saturday Nov 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, dad, fair, family, generous, home, kind, memories, missing, moments, photos, quiet, remembering, soft-spoken, widow

November 18 was my dad’s birthday and I’ve been thinking of him a lot lately…

he was kind, generous with what he had, and always thinking of others…

he looked after my brother and I for many years while my mom was in hospital and he took care of her when she was home…

he was soft-spoken and I don’t think I ever heard him shout or speak in a loud voice to anyone, but if he gave you the look (which didn’t happen too often), you knew to pay attention…

he was also the one who taught me that everyone deserved fairness, a second chance, and appreciation for a job well done…

he was very special;-)…

sections…

20 Wednesday Nov 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, family, favourite, flowers, garden, living room, moments, nature, sections, table, Technology, things, widow

it was time to redo the living room table, but I wasn’t quite ready for the full-on Christmas ornaments…

once I thought about it for a while and decided to fill the four sections with some of my “favourite things” I sat and made a list of what those things were to me at the moment, lol…

my list included: family, friends, garden, flowers, books, animals, nature, photography, holidays, technology, rocks, seashells, and crafts…

so I went around the house and found items that represented all of those things… after putting a red and green tablecloth in the bottom I found spots for all of the things…

I’m pleased with how it turned out;-)…

cover…

17 Sunday Nov 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, cover, deck, garden, moments, pond, rocks, tarpaulin, weather, widow

early Saturday morning I went out to cover the garden furniture with a tarpaulin before the rain started…

it took a while, but eventually I got it all covered and also moved all the rocks that had come out of the pond…

now the garden is ready for winter…

recovered…

16 Saturday Nov 2024

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bunny, family, George, heart surgery, memories, moments, recovered, remembering, widow

just yesterday I was looking at this bunny which we gave to my beloved when he had his heart surgery…

today in my memories this photo of my beloved in the hospital as he recovered came up…

I sure do miss him, sigh…

plastic…

15 Friday Nov 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, cheese slice, food, grilled cheese, moments, onion, plastic, sandwich, sourdough, widow

made a grilled cheese sandwich for supper…

I like to use packaged sliced cheese and put two on the first piece of bread to see if I needed three… the two were perfect, so I put the other one away…

next I got an onion, peeled and sliced it on top of the cheese… I added butter to the second slice of sourdough, topped the first and buttered the outside…

put the sandwich in the frying pan and cooked it slowly before turning it over…

came out beautifully…

because the bread was large I proceeded to cut it into four and was irritated that it wasn’t cutting well…

at which point I realized the plastic was still on the cheese, omg…

took a while to squeeze the cheese out of the plastic and add another piece of cheese (without the plastic) to make up for the cheese that didn’t make it out, lol…

too funny…

mess-making…

13 Wednesday Nov 2024

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

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big girl pants, blessed, dirt, fern, garden, lemon tree, mess-making, moments, nature, plants, pot, transplant, widow

Saturday’s project was to transplant the lemon tree and the fern…

had to run out to the garage to get gloves and into the basement for a pail and spoon, lol…

after a bit of digging and mess-making the two plants were in their new pots, trimmed, fertilized, and watered…

the fern was absolutely jammed into the pot and took quite a bit of work to get it thinned out, cut back and set into its new home…

it was much simpler to put the lemon tree into the larger pot and add some soil… it looks good;-)… I cannot remember when I started this, maybe this spring or last spring, lol…

hopefully they will both thrive…

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