10 Sunday Mar 2024
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anthurium, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, moments, nature, open, patience, plants, purple, recent, widow
watching the anthurium blossom open involves a good deal of patience…
this was the first photo I took of the most recent flower… it was on February 11…
this one on February 20…
February 27 photo…
and this one was from yesterday…
still a ways to go before it is completely open…
09 Saturday Mar 2024
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amount, big girl pants, blessed, driveway, housemate, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, snowfall, weather, widow
the weather has been quite silly lately…
there was hardly any snow on the ground last week, but then it snowed all afternoon on Wednesday…
a lot of snow came down… the only thing I shovelled then was a path to the hot tub…
very late that night my housemate shovelled the sidewalk and two-thirds of the driveway…
Friday I did about half of the bottom of the driveway as my friend would be picking me up on Saturday…
I was so proud that it only took me about fifteen minutes… and then my housemate did the same amount in five minutes…
kids, lol…
07 Thursday Mar 2024
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battery, big girl pants, blessed, charge, fiddle, Fitbit, moments, Technology, widow
woooo, my Fitbit was mad at me Monday morning…
the battery was so low it didn’t want to charge so I had to fiddle with it quite a few times to get it started…
apparently I should have plugged it in before I went to bed 😳…
didn’t get a picture at the time, lol…
06 Wednesday Mar 2024
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"A", beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, food, grandson, health, memories, moments, passing, routine, slippery, snow, treat, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk on Sunday morning… the front steps were covered with slippery ice pellets, so we walked carefully…
the temperature was around 0°C and it felt like -8°C… not bad and the wind was behind us as we walked towards Portage…
we arrived at the “A” and had a lovely breakfast…
it has been many months since I’ve been there and it was a nice treat…
breakfast here used to be one of our regular activities on the weekends… I would walk over and my beloved would drive… after breakfast we would head out in the car to do errands or take a drive…
it was nice to eat here this week as we come to the anniversary of his passing…
I sure do miss him…
04 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hat, hot tub, moments, nature, snow, streak, Toque, towel, weather, widow, windchill
Sunday night I really had to talk myself into going out to the hot tub…
it wasn’t cold, but it was snowing, sigh…
I do not like to get my face wet or my glasses covered in snow, so it was a bit of an issue, lol…
instead of taking my towel out with me, I hung it on the inside handle of the patio door so it wouldn’t be covered in snow when I got out of the tub…
made sure to put my peaked hat on over my toque… it had a bit of snow on it when I got back into the house…
on my way upstairs I took a picture of the garden, looks pretty but it was still snowing…
well, I didn’t break my streak… there have only been two days I haven’t been in since January first, both when the temperature felt like -41°C…
03 Sunday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bookshelf, February, hallway, hearts, love, memories, moments, purple, remembering, widow
on Thursday I wandered around the house and took down all of the hearts, including the ones on the front door… they made their way back upstairs…
it always feels a bit naked when there is nothing hanging on the door…
I also took down the L O V E letters and put them back into their spot on the upstairs hallway bookshelf…
on to March, the birthday month, lol…
02 Saturday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, body soap, faint, family, grandson, health, hint, moments, pipe, scent, scentless, widow
I am particularly sensitive to scents so the products I use are usually scentless – as much as possible…
lately I’ve been catching a hint of a scent as I walk through the main floor hallway…
it reminds me of pipe smoke, a scent that I have enjoyed as it makes me think of some very special people;-)…
but, I haven’t been able to figure out where it was coming from…
until today…
my housemate has a new bar soap and the scent is not in the bathroom, but in the hall…
it is very faint so was hard to track down… but I am always happy when I figure it out;-)…
28 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, gratitude, happy place, health, moments, plants, replete, safe, sunshine, widow
often, as I sit in the sunlight here in the living room, I take a moment to celebrate how blessed I am…
a comfortable home, food to eat, family and friends to spend time with, plants and flowers to enjoy, birds and fish to watch, books to read, and good health…
my entire being is replete with gratitude for my life…
then I take a few moments to send thoughts and prayers to so many who are currently not so lucky…
27 Tuesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, correct, food, friends, furnace, happy, inspection, moments, nature, shovelling, snacks, snow, snowfall, Technology, weather, widow
the weather report had suggested a good amount of snow overnight, and they were correct, lol…
yesterday morning the ground was covered with at least two inches of snow… it looked pretty though…
it was deeper where it had blown into drifts… which, of course, were along the sidewalks and bottom of the driveway, lol…
I went out just after eight and got the sidewalks cleared as well as a portion of the driveway where my friends park on Monday afternoons…
thankfully, my housemate shovelled the remainder of the driveway…
my friends arrived and we had a great time with lots of delicious snacks;-)…
a bit later a Hydro Inspector arrived and reviewed the work done by the furnace installation company…
I was very happy that this time we passed the inspection… yay…
busy, busy…
26 Monday Feb 2024
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applause, big girl pants, blessed, dad, effort, family, happy, memories, moments, sports, Technology, time, widow
I’ve spent the week watching PVRed sports on tv…
it has been so interesting to see all the technology that has improved many of the sports, from starting blocks to lights around the track showing world record speeds…
the athletics have been excellent and have brought many memories flooding back from magical times with my dad…
we used to attend events at the old Arena and had fun watching and cheering on all of the participants…
my dad really embedded the idea in my head that every person deserved applause, even if they weren’t from a team you were cheering for…
lovely memories;-)…
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