23 Friday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, friends, Gather Craft Kitchen and Bar, lunch, moments, pasta, prawn, widow
had a delicious lunch at Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar on Wednesday…
my main was:
it was delicious and I ate every bit of it…
and for dessert I had:
also delicious, although I didn’t eat it all…
just enough to enjoy it, yum…
and, to top it all off, my friends treated me to lunch;-)…
21 Wednesday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, Fleurs de Villes, flowers, friends, laughs, moments, The Leaf, time, weather, widow
had a wonderful time today with friends at The Leaf…
we travelled together and had a lot of laughs in the process, then checked out all of the displays, and had one of the volunteers take our photo…
ended the day with a lovely lunch and visit at Gather;-)…
dropped off one of us and had a short visit…
what a fun time we had;-)…
15 Thursday Jan 2026
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apples, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, crisp, family, food, housemate, moments, snow, vacuum sealer, widow
my housemate decided to make apple crisp with all the apples he purchased and then forgot to eat, lol…
I found a recipe and we peeled, cored, and sliced what felt like a ton of apples before they went bad…
next he mixed in the sauce and then used the vacuum sealer to package two bags of the apples…
when he decided to make the apple crisp, he gathered the ingredients for the crisp portion, put everything together and baked it in the oven…
it came out delicious… reminded me of my beloved whose favourite thing to bake was apple pie;-)…
14 Wednesday Jan 2026
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advent calendar, big girl pants, blessed, calendar, moments, nature, phases, phases of the moon, weather, widow
one of my Advent calendar items was a phases of the moon one page calendar…
it is very cool and it has taken a while to decide where to put it…
it finally went on the bathroom door…
it is the one place that I pass all the time…
11 Sunday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, binge, blessed, books, favourites, JD Robb, moments, Nora Roberts, organized, widow
been on a decluttering binge… who knew…
started in the computer room closet and found some comforters to give away…
next I sorted the JD Robb books I’ve recently received and put them in order… there are still a few missing, but the collection is nearly complete…
and then I went through the Nora Roberts library to see which ones I could let go, lol…
I really enjoyed the trilogies, so was able to gather a fairly big pile of others to give away;-)…
10 Saturday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, Christmas, dishes, family, grandson, moments, putting away, step-stools, widow
spent a little bit of time in the kitchen…
went upstairs and brought down the regular mugs and changed them out for the holiday ones…
next, with help from my housemate, I changed out the dinner plates and saucers… it is always a bit of a process as one set comes down from the top of the cabinet and the other goes up…
step-stools are involved and I am always surprised at how much the Christmas plates weigh, lol…
06 Tuesday Jan 2026
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got a ride to Ultracuts for a haircut… apparently the last time I was there was early October which explains why my hair seemed to have grown like crazy…
had to have the top trimmed a second time as it was still a bit long;-)…
what a difference a trim makes…
I feel much more tidy;-)…
04 Sunday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, blowing, family, leaf blower, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, weather, widow
Saturday morning I wandered around the house going to each window to look out and take photos of the beauty outside…
it snowed a lot overnight, but the lovely light kind of snow… the trees were gorgeous…
sometime later my housemate was outside blowing the steps and sidewalks…
he doesn’t like to be photographed, lol…
on his return home later he made sure the driveway was shovelled…
I truly am blessed;-)…
01 Thursday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, first-foot, hot tub, moments, picky, weather, widow
prepped my first-footer bag with a few additional items… besides the usual coal, an orange, and a little bottle of Bailey’s; added in some cookies, a toonie, salt, and chocolate…
then, just after midnight, I put on my coat and boots, walked around the house from the backdoor and first-footed myself;-)…
I used to be very picky and insisted on a dark-haired male, but have come to the realization that a dark-haired woman is equally as good;-)…
after that I changed and went out for my first hot tub of the new year…
the temperature was -32° C with the windchill, but once I got in, it was quite lovely… it was overcast, so no stars, and I could hear fireworks going off in various areas, lol…
what a lovely way to begin the year;-)…
30 Tuesday Dec 2025
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today, I finished my hundredth book of 2025…
I am very happy… I would have done better except for one book which I didn’t like, so kept on putting reading off, lol… but I did finish it…
so many of the books were enjoyed in the garden over the spring, summer, and fall;-)…
I need to work on putting a book aside, without finishing it, if I don’t like it, lol…
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