06 Thursday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, colours, decorations, Fall, halloween, moments, nature, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk the other day and enjoyed the colours…
the trees were looking so beautiful…
I came across these Halloween decorations just waiting to be turned on…
I bet they will look great when they are blown up…
I had a lovely time…
03 Monday Oct 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, garden, haircut, memories, moments, murals, nature, responded, walk, weather, widow
my hair went from being fine… to unmanageable, in what felt like a minute, about last Wednesday… I nearly tried out the freshly sharpened scissors, but managed to hold off until this morning when I walked over to Ultracuts to get it dealt with… had to wait for a bit, so went for a walk, rather than sit inside…
the weather was nice, particularly as it was supposed to rain all day…
along the way I spotted some murals and got a nice shot of this one…
pleased with the cut…
on the way home I passed a person and said good morning… it wasn’t until I was a few steps past them that I realized it was one of my neighbours…
I laughed as I thought of how my beloved would have responded… he would have turned back, called out their name, and had a half hour conversation…
I just kept walking, lol…
01 Saturday Oct 2022
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spent some time in the garden repotting a few plants to come into the house…
this silver falls had been in a pot hanging on the side of the house and was so pretty I thought I’d give it a try in the house…
I separated a couple of plants and put them in a slightly smaller pot…
finally, I brought in some of the floating pond plants…
it will be interesting to see how they all manage…
30 Friday Sep 2022
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was talking with someone recently and making tea at the same time…
as I was squeezing the teabag, they mentioned hearing that doing this bruised the tea, which was a bad thing…
made me laugh as I’ve done it forever to get any additional flavour out of the bag before discarding it…
29 Thursday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, food, groceries, hibernation, meals, moments, preparations, recipes, weather, widow
made a hot breakfast, cause it felt like that kind of day, and then gathered the ingredients to prepare ham, cabbage and potatoes…
this would give it time to cook and then cool before heating it up for supper…
while that was cooking, I finished shredding the rest of the cabbage, a bit of green onion, and some carrot… I added the last of the dressing I had in the cupboard and finished that recipe…
finally, I cut and scooped three ripe avocados into containers to go into the freezer for smoothies…
yesterday I prepared zucchini basil soup…
feels a bit like I am getting ready for hibernation…
26 Monday Sep 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
