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yank…

13 Monday Apr 2026

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big girl pants, chairs, cushions, deck, frozen, garden, moments, nature, rainy, weather, widow, windy, yank

well, had a surprise Sunday morning…

I opened the patio door to feel the temperature, and realized it had rained during the night…

and apparently there had been a strong wind as I discovered that one of the chairs on the deck had blown over and down the steps on the far side… the footstool was the only thing still on the deck…

went out and brought up the chair… had to yank one of the cushions out of the snow…

brought the cushions into the house, as well as the footstool, to dry out, sigh…

didn’t put the cover back on the chair… don’t want it to fly off the deck, lol…

pleased that I dealt with this early, as the next time I looked out it was raining;-)…

crossbody…

12 Sunday Apr 2026

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bag, big girl pants, butterflies, craft sale, crossbody, moments, widow

went to a craft show the other day…

found a crossbody bag which will be excellent for a fall trip that is in the planning stages…

I think it will be perfect for a small water bottle, my camera, and maybe a scarf or sarong…

next I found a beautiful purple plant pot… haven’t quite decided what plant is going to go into it… it is bottom heavy so it won’t tip over and has drainage holes in it…

finally, ordered a cute purple duck tape wallet…

what a fun time;-)…

fishtanks…

11 Saturday Apr 2026

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beloved, big girl pants, cleaning, family, fishtanks, glass, memories, moments, pumps, widow

cleaning the pumps in the fishtanks is not one of my favourite things to do… my beloved took care of this job… then for a number of years, my son-in-law looked after the task, lol…

now, it is up to me…

once I get started it isn’t that big a deal and doesn’t really take that long…

and to top it off this week, I scrubbed the algae from the glass front…

always happy when all the cleaning is complete…

and I think the fish like it as well;-)…

back…

09 Thursday Apr 2026

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this is how the day went yesterday…

woke up, looked out the bedroom window, and went back to bed…

took this photo at 8:17 am…

took this one at 12:03 pm…

and finally, this one at 2:48 pm…

happily most of the snow vanished by the end of the day…

Easter-y…

06 Monday Apr 2026

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barbecued steak, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, Easter-y, family, grandsons, moments, widow

for Easter dinner this year, we had barbecued steak, twice-stuffed potatoes, mushrooms, broccoli, and caesar salad…

I’d had great fun the day before, setting the table and adding a few Easter-y details…

dinner was delicious and we had carrot cake to finish it off…

wonderful to have a houseful of young people, lol… and between them the table was cleared and the kitchen cleaned up…

what a treat….

nothing…

05 Sunday Apr 2026

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a while ago, when I opened one of the drawers in the dining room, I realized that the bottom was coming away from the sides…

this had nothing to do with the weight of the dishes in the drawer🤪…

I mentioned it to my middle grandson, who advised he could fix it… he’s been a few times since then, but it finally worked out when he was here yesterday, for Easter dinner…

I had emptied the drawer before he came to help speed along the process…

it took a few trips to the basement for tools and a struggle with warped wood, but he got it fixed…

still waiting to put things back into it, after I remove some of the items that had been in it…

obviously there will be something for the pass-along box;-)…

draft…

04 Saturday Apr 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, draft, happy, moments, nature, virginia creeper, widow, window

I often have an afternoon nap in the den…

I’ve found, for most of the winter, that I needed my blanket to be up by my neck because of the draft…

I just figured that the window needed some insulation…

a few days ago, I realized that there was a piece of virginia creeper between the window and the screen… and of course I didn’t take a before picture, lol…

yesterday, my housemate was able to dislodge it and close the window properly…

no draft now…

sandals…

03 Friday Apr 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, feet, hot, moments, sandals, weather, widow

yay!!! finally got back into my sandals today…

really happy I put them on as it was rather hot in the biomes today😊…

case…

02 Thursday Apr 2026

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big girl pants, case, giggle, iPhone, moments, phone case, purple, research, Technology, widow, zipper

my phone case was starting to show its age, so I spent time researching what was out there to replace it…

having the spot where cards and a bit of money fit makes it easy for me just to take the phone and not need a purse…

took quite a while, but eventually I found two that I thought might work…

ordered both and discovered, for now, that the smaller one will work perfectly;-)…

the best thing is that it doesn’t have a zipper, like my last one, where the pull tab kept finding its way into my photos, lol… and it is very slim…

the part that makes me giggle is that it is harder to tell the top from the bottom when I take it out of my pocket…

broom…

01 Wednesday Apr 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, broom, chairs, cleaned, cushions, deck, garden, moments, nature, sunshine, Technology, warm, weather, widow

got to sit outside on the deck Sunday morning… yay:-)…

moved the chairs into their usual spots, took off the covers, brought out the clean cushions, and put them on the chairs…

got out the broom and swept up the cedar bits and elm leaves that were all over the deck… even used the leaf blower to finish up…

put on a light jacket and brought out tea and my book and enjoyed the sun, birdsong, and my book for a wonderful hour and a half;-)…

haven’t made it out since then, what with the snow and overcast skies🥺…

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