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boots…

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

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snow was on the ground again this morning… had to put my boots on… I go as long as possible wearing my sandals… even once I am wearing my boots I use my sandals at work… they are by far the most comfortable shoes I have…

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after work I helped a friend download and learn a new computer program… great fun… whole process went very well… download was a piece of cake, and we were able to copy data into the program without any issues either… we entered new data and saved it easily… looks like it is going to be a great program…

tonight I am feeling cold and tired… going to climb into my pyjamas, get under the covers and get lots of sleep…

remembering…

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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woke up to snow on the ground this morning…

snow on the ground...

snow on the ground…

when I went downstairs a red hibiscus was in full bloom and I could see the snow on the ground… reminded me of a poppy…

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hibiscus with snow through window…

spent a good portion of the morning watching the Remembrance Day service from Ottawa…

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sunrise…

remembering my mother and father and George’s father and their service to our country… neither my father or George’s ever talked about what they did…

my mom’s work involved removing or adjusting pictures of ships so that when they were published in newspapers anywhere in the world they wouldn’t be recognizable as a certain ship… she was heavily involved in having this statue designed and raised at the Legislative grounds… this picture was one I downloaded from the internet, and there was no information about who took it…

statue of women in the three services at the Manitoba Legislature building...

statue of women in the three services at the Manitoba Legislature building…

had a quiet day thinking of them and also George… his dad died just a few days before Remembrance Day which made the day very special for both of us…

home…

10 Monday Nov 2014

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spent the majority of the day at home…

did some laundry and brought in a couple of plants from the garden… saw the pictures from our photo shoot a while back… they came out very nice…

spent some time in the kitchen… made chicken soup and home-made macaroni and cheese… put together a spinach salad and picked up chocolate haystacks and raspberries…

had a nap and finished my preparations for dinner…

texted with my daughter in Ottawa who is sick with the flu… my home-made macaroni and cheese is one of her favourite meals when she is here… she was a bit sad, although she really isn’t eating…

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I might have made a bit more than we needed for our dinner tonight…

it was lovely to have the day off so that I was well rested and enjoyed getting ready for our ReImagining gathering… because we meet in Mondays, I am often rushed after work…

great to spend time together and learn at the same time…

freezing…

09 Sunday Nov 2014

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went to the dentist a little over a week ago… for a filling… can’t remember the last time I’ve had a filling, sigh…

it went very well and I was rather proud of my calm throughout the whole procedure…

she froze the top right side of my mouth where she was working… seemed to recover fine…

a day or so later, my lips felt very dry and I was wondering if I wasn’t drinking enough water… after a few days I was even using some balm to try to make my lips feel better…

a day or so after that I got a big pimple under my nose… it really hurt… then three or four more erupted along the right topside of my lip all the way to the crease of my lips…

I was wondering if I’d eaten too many leftover Halloween chocolates, but didn’t think I had…

yesterday it occurred to me that this all might be a reaction to the freezing…

I have reached the point that I don’t use any drugs because my body reacts so poorly… when I had my hernia/hysterectomy I stopped taking the drugs within a very short period as they were making me feel terrible… dealing with pain was better than being so sick… I know the pain will eventually go away…

today there is still one very angry looking spot, but I think the others are starting to subside…

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today’s hibiscus bloom…

honking…

08 Saturday Nov 2014

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this morning I heard geese going over, honking all the way… there were quite a few from the sound…

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the sunrise was beautiful and I was lucky to catch it…

I love the sound of the geese as it heralds the coming of spring and fall… if I am outside I can’t keep from gazing up to see where they are…

I haven’t been able to get pictures of the geese flying but took this picture a few weeks ago… you can spot them in nearly any body of water around the city…

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this one was taken when we were wandering through the zoo at the end of August…

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it is important not to get too close because they can be very ornery… a goose bite really hurts… had the experience when I was about five, ugh…

still, I do love that sound…

vision…

07 Friday Nov 2014

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this morning I took a picture of my buddies having breakfast…

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still figuring out exactly how much to feed them…

must say I am happy to have them as company again…

yesterday I went for another field test… I had gone for one a few months ago but was called back because one eye didn’t do so well… thankfully both eyes did fine this time… then they took some scans of my eyes and I saw the doctor… he was pleased with all the results and said my current eye drops would still be fine… amazing what stress can be involved in something as simple as a vision exam…

this morning I also got a few pictures of the hibiscus in full bloom…

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a reminder that being able to see is a wonderful thing…

blooming…

06 Thursday Nov 2014

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took this picture yesterday morning of a bud…

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the hibiscus tree has about 20 leaves on it… the rest fell off once the flowers bloomed the first few weeks after I brought it in…

full moon today… when we were driving to swimming the moon was huge above the trees… by the time we finished it had risen quite a bit higher, but was about half the size…

happily I had scalloped potatoes and ham for my supper, which my friend dropped off tonight… I cooked some snow peas to go along with it… these were the scalloped potatoes that our group had peeled and sliced for her family dinner after her brother’s memorial service last week… they were delicious… although there were lots of onions in them, her system of cutting the slices into small pieces infused the potatoes with the flavour but not great bits of onion…

this is the blossom tonight…

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so happy to have blooming flowers in the house… George brought me orchids or other blooming plants often throughout the cold weather…

sky…

05 Wednesday Nov 2014

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this morning the sky was absolutely beautiful… took many pictures on the way to work… it was mesmerizing…

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a bit later in the morning I ran across the street to pick up some milk and cream for our coffee… as I was walking back I was compelled to take a picture of Emptyful… could see some great reflections in the new police building…

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ended the day with a shot of another lovely sky as we drove home…

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I stopped for a haircut and then walked home in the crisp evening air… made it home just before the light went…

enjoying these wonderful Fall days…

suspicious…

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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not long after we got to the office this morning I heard sirens and two fire trucks pulled up beside our building…

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they sat there with lights flashing for a long time…

my daughter called to tell us they had evacuated the hotel that is about a block away from our building as there was a suspicious parcel and the bomb squad was on the way…

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the streets were blocked all around us as traffic was re-routed through morning rush hour… we kept working and staff dribbled in as they made it through the snarled streets…

eventually the fire trucks left and the streets were opened… it was after lunch before people were able to return to the hotel…

we laughed and joked about it, but it was a dramatic reminder of how a day can change and things can turn upside down in a flash…

spending time with these amazing colleagues is also a reminder of what a blessed life I lead…

a wonderful family, lifelong friends, and colleagues who make me want to go to work every morning…

treat…

03 Monday Nov 2014

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have enjoyed a couple of lovely treats in the last few days…

while we were on our trip to and from Carberry we stopped at the Robin’s Nest Cafe where we picked up some delicious battered mushrooms…

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today I took leftovers from our Saturday night dinner for my lunch… but one of my colleagues made me a toasted salmon sandwich with avocado and apple…

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I brought in the last of the Halloween hands to share…

it is quite amazing how the simplest things can make your day…