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18 Monday Mar 2024

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had my youngest grandson over for dinner last night…

had to think for a while to decide on what to make as the oven is still not working, lol…

decided on spaghetti with meatballs and sauce… while I was making the meatballs, I was remembering doing that with my dad… he made great ones and they were very small… and they never fell apart, lol…

mine came out okay, but a few of them did seem to disintegrate… I used the broiler, which is still working, to warm up the garlic bread…

my grandson is on a moneymaking kick as there is a big school trip planned for next year, so he did some shovelling for me in the garden… the plan was to move the snow around that was in the mountain at the edge of the deck… he did a good job;-)…

hopefully this will help in the melting process…

brightly…

15 Friday Mar 2024

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yesterday, at 8:00 am, saw the beautiful trees across the creek with the sun shining brightly on them…

at 11:30 big beautiful snowflakes were coming down…

at 5:00 pm the sun was shining and water was running down the street…

lots of changes throughout the day…

skeins…

12 Tuesday Mar 2024

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

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what a delightful time I had yesterday…

spent an hour and a half on the deck, reading in the glorious sunshine…

started out with a blanket and my winter jacket, but eventually put away the blanket and changed to my spring jacket… woohoo…

while I was out there I heard at least two skeins of geese fly by, although I never did see any of them, lol…

spent a few hours with my Monday buddies, read in the living room, and napped;-)…

cut…

11 Monday Mar 2024

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yesterday I received a beautiful bouquet of hyacinths… I’ve never had them as cut flowers, always in soil…

what a lovely treat…

they are in a vase on the living room table and I am looking forward to them opening and scenting the house…

recent…

10 Sunday Mar 2024

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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…

amount…

09 Saturday Mar 2024

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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…

fiddle…

07 Thursday Mar 2024

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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…

passing…

06 Wednesday Mar 2024

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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…

streak…

04 Monday Mar 2024

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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…

hallway…

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…

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