snowblows…

13 Friday Jan 2023

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Friday is garbage and recycling day and I usually only take mine out every three or four weeks…

Thursdays are the day to take them out and put them into the lane… I am blessed because my neighbour snowblows behind his garage so there is a spot to put them…

I find that I only need to take one or the other out, which is good because there isn’t always room for both, lol… this time it was the garbage, and I should have shovelled the snow on the path, but didn’t;-)…

now to remember to bring it in later on Friday…

gnocchi…

12 Thursday Jan 2023

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had a good time at aquasize and then we took a drive to DeLuca’s…

I got spinach wraps, gnocchi, canned tomatoes and two different types of bread…

apparently I am still craving bread, lol… now I just need to learn how to cook the gnocchi…

once home I made two little peanut butter and banana sandwiches for my lunch…

they were very tasty…

microwave…

11 Wednesday Jan 2023

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ordered a light strip to replace the pot lights that have stopped working under the kitchen counter…

took a while to arrive and then I needed to read the directions a few times before installing it…

had to move the microwave and it took some effort but eventually I got the old lights removed…

then it took another while to figure out how to connect the app I downloaded and get the light to work…

and at that point I discovered that the new light strip didn’t provide enough light, sigh…

now to decide on next steps…

gear…

10 Tuesday Jan 2023

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yesterday my new swim gloves arrived…

and they happen to be purple;-)…

our instructor recommends them as essential gear… can’t wait to try them out later in the week…

difficult…

08 Sunday Jan 2023

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great excitement as I have discovered three orchids that are setting buds;-)…

this makes me very happy as January and February can be difficult months – usually cold and dull…

the one orchid which is blooming is sitting on the middle of the living room table and doing very well…

rime…

07 Saturday Jan 2023

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the trees have been stunningly beautiful over the last while…

quite a bit of that time the sky was gray so even though it was lovely, it didn’t make for any great photos…

the last few days the sun has been shining brightly…

this frost appears to be rime frost…

from Weather Lab:

“With rime, the moisture comes from freezing fog water droplets that turn directly from a liquid state to a solid state, or through direct freezing. On the other hand, hoar frost occurs on a clear, cold night where water vapor sublimates: transitioning immediately from a gaseous state to a solid state.” Jan 5, 2021

we have certainly had a lot of fog recently…

scraggly…

06 Friday Jan 2023

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spent some time trimming the hibiscus now that most of the buds have opened…

here it was before the haircut, kind of scraggly…

and after, being careful not to cut off any of the remaining buds;-)…

I think it looks much tidier and it is much easier to walk past it, lol… and then it had another bloom;-)…

here it is five years ago… so tiny…

and since then it has lost one whole stem…

stairs…

05 Thursday Jan 2023

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spent Tuesday putting away the little trees…

now the stairs look a bit naked…

the front trees are put away but that space looks filled with the plants that returned from the den…

I’ve been trying to add a new tree to the collection most years, but didn’t manage it this year… maybe next year;-)…

escargot…

04 Wednesday Jan 2023

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for years we celebrated New Year’s Eve with steak and lobster… this started with friends before we had kids;-)…

at some point it moved to New Year’s Day as the kids wanted to participate but were off celebrating on the night before…

this year I enjoyed the preparation as I worked on getting escargot stuffed mushrooms, baked potatoes, fried mushrooms and sautéed Brussels sprouts ready…