21 Tuesday Sep 2021
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20 Monday Sep 2021
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ballot, big girl pants, blessed, moments, Technology, voting, widow
I received my vote by mail ballot at the end of August…
once I knew who was running in my area I filled in the ballot with the first and last name of the person I decided on and filled all of the various envelopes being sure to follow all the directions…
eleven days ago I gave the envelope to my wonderful mail carrier who dropped it into the mail for me…
think I have now voted in all the ways you can, lol… at the polling station, at an advance poll, and now by mail…
16 Thursday Sep 2021
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begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, purple, rainy, weather, widow
yesterday I went around the garden and gathered all of the open dahlias and one of the begonia flowers…
made a lovely little bouquet…
I am happy to see that the begonia has stayed fresh looking…
on this rainy day I have enjoyed these flowers…
they look great on the new coffee table;-)…
09 Thursday Sep 2021
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I went for a walk… outside… in the neighbourhood… no idea when I did that last…
walked with my daughter in my ear…
didn’t go too far, up to and around Bruce Park… it was lovely to see flowers, the creek, and get some photos…
felt fine at the end… only met a few people and they weren’t close to me…
08 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, garden, growing, careful, moments, plants, secateurs, trim, virginia creeper, widow
decided the Virginia creeper over the hot tub was starting to creep too much towards the water…
grabbed my secateurs and a pail… moved the steps to the other side of the hot tub and climbed up…
was careful not to fall as I climbed onto the cover and along the edge to get to the window…
happy to get back on the ground when it was done…
looks much tidier now…
and I am still in one piece;-)…
04 Saturday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, pond, Technology, water lily, weather, widow, working
this morning when I looked outside the sun was shining and it was a nice temperature…
but, the grass was so tall I didn’t want to go into the garden… since we’ve had a bit of rain and cooler weather it has grown like crazy and my grandsons hadn’t been able to come over and mow for me…
I decided that I would mow it myself… I did buy a lawnmower that starts easily and doesn’t have any cords for just this situation…
so, I moved furniture, mowed, whippersnipped, put furniture back, brought out cushions and finally sat down with a cup of tea to enjoy the space…
it looked spectacular;-)…
and I spotted a water lily bud… yay…
30 Monday Aug 2021
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29 Sunday Aug 2021
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had a burst of energy and spent a couple of hours in the garage cleaning…
was able to give away a few outdoor games to a neighbour… filled up the garbage and recycling bins… and cleaned off about half of the bench and one shelf…
thinking about painting the bench purple;-)…
every little step feels like progress;-)…
26 Thursday Aug 2021
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all of the day’s meals had some portion of leftovers from the day before…
breakfast was some of the leftover boiled new potatoes scrambled up with fresh eggs…
lunch was a salad made with some of the leftover chicken… it also included onion, fresh dill, celery, a bit of miracle whip… and a few slices of the baguette from the night before…
supper was a lamb shank with a leftover veggie medley of the new potatoes, carrots and asparagus… added a bit of red wine to the lamb gravy…
all of them delicious…
25 Wednesday Aug 2021
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beans, big girl pants, blessed, food, garden, happy, moments, nature, planted, plants, weather, widow
big excitement when I discovered 2, yes 2, beans growing, lol…
I had planted a number of seeds but thought that none of them had survived… I’m not sure whether the crazy hot weather affected them…
happily, my neighbour brought me another feed which I had with my supper…
not exactly sure what I will do with two as they still aren’t quite ready, lol…
