18 Tuesday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, gift, grape, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, plants, tulips, widow
my housemate treated me to fresh flowers…
lovely white and pink tulips, and a pot with daffodils, tulips, primrose, grape hyacinth and regular hyacinth…
sock a wonderful treat;-)…
flowers really do make me happy…
17 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, car, clean, cold, dirty, family, filthy, grandson, happy, Indy, moments, weather, widow
I’ve been asking my grandson to get the car washed for ages…
he had numerous reasons why it didn’t happen, but they boiled down to the fact that it would just get dirty again…
I finally gave an ultimatum that it had to be washed… poor thing was filthy…
he went out Wednesday evening and brought Indy home clean… even though it was dreadfully cold, thankfully, none of the doors froze up…
she looks so nice;-)…
16 Sunday Feb 2025
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, concentrate, focus, moments, reading, snow, Technology, torpedo, weather, widow, wire
had trouble staying focussed on my book on Wednesday as there was a lot of activity across the way…
two workers spent the entire morning stringing a new wire…
it was so cold I felt bad for them, but they seemed comfortable as I watched…
the most interesting thing was what appeared to be a torpedo shaped object which one person pulled along the line… I think it was winding the new wire around the old ones…
my beloved would have been able to tell me exactly what it was and how it worked, lol…
but, all of those goings-on really made it hard to concentrate on my book;-)…
15 Saturday Feb 2025
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Banff, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, buddies, card, clothing, family, friends, hearts, moments, pizza, red, Valentine's Day, widow
yesterday, for Valentine’s Day, I wore a lovely red pullover that my beloved got me in Banff, many, many, years ago;-)… it is one of the few pieces of red clothing that I own…
a lovely reminder of him and how romantic he was, particularly at Valentine’s…
I received an early phone call from my daughter and had my breakfast in a heart-shaped bowl…
lunch was a heart-shaped pizza, yum…
all of which was quite lovely…
ended the day with a hand-delivered card from my little buddies next door;-)… what a treat;-)…
14 Friday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, furry, hearts, memories, moments, ready, Valentine's Day, widow
yesterday I remembered a bag of hearts, so I brought it downstairs and had some fun putting them around the house…
started in the bathroom with three small hearts…
then I put two furry hearts over the plants…
two glass hearts replaced the dragonfly and angel sun catchers which usually hang in the front window…
put the bag they came in at the top of the stairs…
finally, I put the heart wreath on the front door…
it was fun to decide where to place each piece, or grouping…
so I was all ready for today;-)…
13 Thursday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, eagle, look up, missed, moments, nature, out the window, pelican, sky, tree, widow
as I sat on the couch reading and occasionally looking out the front window, I spotted a large bird soaring high in the sky… at first I thought it was a pelican, but as I watched it more closely, I realized that it was a bald eagle…
got my camera out, but didn’t get a good shot, it was very fuzzy, lol…
watched it until it disappeared from view…
right behind that tree…
such a treat;-)…
12 Wednesday Feb 2025
11 Tuesday Feb 2025
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. soup, big girl pants, blessed, cold, hungry, mashed potatoes, moments, naps, tired, widow, wonton
had wonton soup for supper…
seemed like just the thing as I haven’t felt particularly hungry…
I’ve been eating yellow peppers and vitamin C throughout the day in an effort to stop a cold from giving me grief…
the only thing I’ve been feeling is tired… I slept for eight hours straight overnight, which is not my usual pattern, and was still tired all day…
made mashed potatoes for tomorrow’s supper to go along with a roasted chicken and some type of salad…
then took a few naps and read a bit…
a quiet and restful day…
10 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, daytime, garden, hot tub, lens, moments, nature, pictures, shovelling, snow, Toque, weather, widow
went out for a hot tub on Sunday afternoon… and tested out my new toque…
can’t even remember the last time I was out in the daytime… it has been too cold at night and when it wasn’t the deck hadn’t been shovelled, lol…
I went out a few days ago and got the space cleared off so it was ready…
it was only -21°C and I had a lovely time, although the mitten that I had put the phone into got wet while I was taking pictures, lol…
sometimes the lens gets a bit foggy when taking pictures from the tub…
the mountain of snow is quite high and I am hoping we can move some of it because it is getting difficult to throw the snow over the top of it;-)…
09 Sunday Feb 2025
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adventure buddy, big girl pants, blessed, crowd, date night, fun, light ballet, moments, out late, Technology, weather, widow
wow, last night we went to see a light ballet…
it was fun to go out in the evening because I don’t do that very often anymore, lol…
reminded me of when my housemate and I went to see a candlelight music presentation last year… standing in a long line beforehand and then how quickly it moved once the doors opened…
there was wine available and it was interesting to see the variety of people who attended, from young girls to elderly couples… seemed like date night for many in attendance…
besides the five dancers, a violinist played at various points during the show…
while the performance was on there was not a sound in the audience…
parking went well and even the cold temperatures didn’t bother the crowd…
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