26 Wednesday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, happy times, harder, memories, moments, nature, photos, plants, purple, treat, weather, widow
recently I wandered around my space and took photos of all the blooming or nearly blooming things…
January and February are often harder months for me and having flowers blooming really lifts my spirits…
so much beauty in this space and I am grateful;-)…
20 Thursday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, bins, blessed, deep, drag, driveway, furnace, garden, moments, nature, shovel, sidewalk, snow, vents, widow
back to shovelling…
it was cold out there – felt like -35 Celsius – but I had to take out the garbage and recycling…
Friday is garbage day, so I wanted to check whether the bins needed to get to the back lane or not, lol…
happily, once the path was cleared, there wasn’t enough in them to need to drag them out this week, but next week may be a different story…
the snow is getting deeper and the pile alongside the deck is higher than the deck boards… this time I was really working at tossing it further, but it is a struggle…
I also dug a narrow path along the driveway to get to the vents for the furnace, to be sure they were clear of snow…
there is a ton of snow on the driveway, but I just moved it over so I could make my way…
19 Wednesday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, coleus, garden, hopeful, moments, morning glories, nature, planting, plants, sticks, widow
on November 22nd I transplanted the coleus that had been rooting in water… and for a while they grew… then, they all died off…
yesterday I used the soil from one of the containers to plant some morning glory seeds…
also added three sticks so that when they grow there will be a place to climb…
hopefully they will do better than the coleus did…
18 Tuesday Jan 2022
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out this morning to shovel the sidewalk…
it was still snowing but I thought it better to clear it a few times if needed…
only did it once… the snow stopped shortly after I finished, but the wind is going to be strong overnight so I will decide tomorrow if it needs to be done again…
later in the day the sun came out and I got some lovely photos…
so interesting how the view changes from moment to moment… I am so happy to have the time to observe the changes…
17 Monday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, deep, front, moments, nature, photos, pictures, sky, snow, sunrise, weather, widow
today I woke to this view of the sky…
and a bit later I took this photo of the front yard to show someone how much snow was on the ground…
a tiny bit of snow had fallen yesterday and overnight and we are waiting for a storm tonight so I expect there will be more to shovel tomorrow…
15 Saturday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, dimsum, dinner, food, Gimli Fish, moments, tasty, Technology, widow
had some very nice dimsum for dinner recently…
I love dimsum but appear to be out of the delivery area for any of the restaurants I like…
not too long ago I found some frozen when I was shopping online at Gimli Fish so I ordered three items…
finally got around to having them… they only took about five minutes in the microwave and were tasty…
going to order those again;-)…
08 Saturday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, COVID, delicious, dinner, food, Modern Plate Catering, moments, pudding, widow
so happy to have my Friday night dinner delivered from ModernPlate… they produced weekly meals between November, 2020 and May, 2021…
at that time they ended the Friday night meals, so I was pleased (for me) to see that it was back, but sorry (for them) that we’ve come back to this…
I also ordered a spinach salad with feta, fennel, seeds and pecans, which I had for lunch… it was very tasty…
the dinner is for two so I get at least two meals from it… this one was pork loin with smashed potatoes and Brussel sprouts…
and then there was dessert;-)… kept half of one piece of the cranberry and orange sticky toffee pudding…and sent the rest home with my grandson… which was a good plan, because I would have eaten more if it was here, lol…
such a treat to have meals made for me… and they are always delicious…
06 Thursday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, charger, electric, family, happy, moments, Technology, toothbrush, tricks, widow
so excited to get an electric toothbrush for Christmas… I’ve been wanting one for a number of years, but just hadn’t gotten around to doing anything about it…
once I figured out how to get it put together, I sat it on the edge of the sink and plugged it in…
it took quite awhile to charge, but once it was done I unplugged it and put the charger away… I didn’t want it sitting so close to the water…
eventually I figured out that it could sit in the cabinet to charge, so that is what I did when it needed to be recharged… feels safer as it charges, without being near the water;-)…
once fully charged, I will move the charger back under the sink…
05 Wednesday Jan 2022
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bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cavalry, family, happy, lightbulb, loss, moments, proud, Technology, widow
for the first time since my beloved left me, I was able to change a lightbulb in the bathroom…
doesn’t sound like much, but I have tried numerous times without success and had to call in the cavalry to fix the problem…
but, I did it;-)…
felt like one of those big girl pants moments…
02 Sunday Jan 2022
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anticipation, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, quarter, turn, waiting, widow
received three more amaryllis bulbs and got right to getting them in the soil…
used a coffee filter in the bottom of the pot and then added the soil that came with each one…
they look cute all lined up in the sunshine;-)…
as with this one in the living room, which has a bud on it now, they will have a quarter turn each day…
