26 Monday Sep 2022
Posted in garden, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
over the last week or so I’ve been making sure to have a hot tub each night…
I find that the quiet time in the water clears my mind and makes sleep come easier, last longer, and be more restful…
getting back into a habit is always a bit of a process, lol…
25 Sunday Sep 2022
Posted in family, food, garden, health, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
beloved, big girl pants, blessed, drawers, family, file drawers, garden, grandson, memories, moments, planter, raised bed, stuff, widow
last year I removed the drawers and took a file cabinet outside to become a raised garden planter… it has worked very well…
the drawers, which were filled with my beloved’s stuff, have been stacked on a table in the basement since then…
finally I set up a box for giveaway, one for things to keep, a recycling bin, and a garbage bag…
worked away for a few hours and was able to move items into the various options without a problem…
the drawers went to the back lane, and someone collected them for scrap;-)…
makes me happy to have been able to declutter…
18 Sunday Sep 2022
Posted in food, garden, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, bruschetta, food, garden, grape tomatoes, moments, widow
found an interesting grape tomato recipe on Instagram…
gave it a try… it used grape tomatoes, olive oil, garlic and basil…
it smelled delicious while it was baking…
then it went into ziplock bags and into the freezer for use in sauces although I think it might be nice as a bruschetta…
17 Saturday Sep 2022
Posted in business, food, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, bounty, delicious, flowers, food, garden, moments, nature, shopping, supper, treat, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
had a delicious supper on Tuesday…
visited the Wolseley Farmers Market and got some lovely items…
flowers; a beautiful pork chop; green, yellow, and purple beans; garlic; small new potatoes; little eggplants; free range eggs; an acorn squash; and a cob of corn…
cooked up, cooled and reheated the potatoes… then warmed up some chicken wings from the night before and boiled some of the beans…
yum…
looking forward to more delicious meals from this bounty…
19 Friday Aug 2022
Posted in business, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
one of today’s projects was to change the water in the hot tub…
started this morning… brought out the sump pump, hooked up a hose and then relaxed for an hour as it emptied out the water…
the next step was to wipe everything down and then use the wet vac to suck up the last of the water and grunge…
after I put away the vac, I spent another bit of time filling up the hot tub…
now I am waiting for the temperature to make it to the 102°C that I keep it at in the summer…
16 Tuesday Aug 2022
Posted in business, food, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, bread, flowers, garden, gladiola, moments, nature, purple, shopping, treat, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
went to the Wolseley Farmers Market with a friend and had a great time…
came home with a bag filled with beans, peas, green onions, a zucchini, baby potatoes, garlic, bread, a mushroom galette, and a beet and pesto treat…
and two gorgeous stalks of purple gladiola;-)…
13 Saturday Aug 2022
Posted in business, health, life, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, change, happy, moments, paper towel, reuse, roll, transition, trying, widow
so pleased…
in January, 2020, after a visit with the kids in Ottawa, I put the paper towel roll away in the cupboard and began using cloth instead in an effort to reuse and not waste…
I replaced that roll in March of 2021… that was fourteen months…
yesterday I used the last piece from that roll… that is sixteen months;-)… doing better…
the old cloth napkins, face cloths and finger towels have worked beautifully and wash very well… and they were all extras that were in drawers around the house…
today I put a new roll in the cupboard and will see how long this one lasts…
I have been surprised at how easy the transition has been…
just a small change, but it makes me happy…
12 Friday Aug 2022
Posted in business, health, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, display, impossible, moments, Technology, time, widow
my Fitbit has been nearly impossible to read for the last while, so I went online and found directions to reset it, which was supposed to fix the problem…
followed the directions but it didn’t make any difference…
dug out my old one and charged it and added it in the app and happily it is working, even saved my steps… and I can see it, lol…
hope it lasts for a while…
03 Wednesday Aug 2022
Posted in business, garden, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized
I’ve been enjoying my time reading in the garden…
the one issue has been a lack of steps, lol…
recently, I’ve set a timer for twenty minutes of reading and then five minutes of walking, either around the garden or in the spot…
I’ve had some success with a few days of over ten thousand steps… which makes me happy…
now there is no guilt whatsoever about spending the entire day reading😊…
02 Tuesday Aug 2022
Posted in food, garden, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
beans, big girl pants, blessed, bowlful, delicious, garden, moments, neighbours, widow
my neighbour brought me a few handfuls of beans… mainly green, but a few yellow and one purple…
I made a delicious bowlful for lunch…
so fresh and delicious… a wonderful treat…
