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26 Thursday Jun 2014

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this morning as I was walking down the stairs a wave of sadness swept over me… I was missing George so much, I could hardly stand it…

as I was leaving the house I got some shots of the clematis… we were both so excited that it continued to return year after year and bloom so beautifully…

many blooms on the clematis this morning...

many blooms on the clematis this morning…

I felt his loss all day… I had an appointment at CancerCare and remembered how he was always there for any appointment I had, just as I was always there for his appointments… Crystal wasn’t able to go with me for this one, and I was a bit nervous as the last two times the examination had been extremely painful… happily, today it was a piece of cake… I was in and out within 20 minutes…

when I got home and was taking off my shoes I looked down and saw this…

Cyndi wore these while she was here and they were just sitting at the front door...

Cyndi wore these while she was here and they were just sitting at the front door…

hard to believe that there are such hard moments after 842 days…

great close up... took these before I even got into the car, lol...

great close up… took these before I even got into the car, lol…

 

pictures…

25 Wednesday Jun 2014

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a couple of days ago my iPhone wouldn’t let me take a picture, because it said it was full… at the time I just deleted a few pictures and forgot about it…

earlier today a message flashed across my screen about memory being full…

tonight I spent about an hour copying and then deleting pictures…

I took this one as I was heading toward the car after dropping off our mail…

this sculpture is called Emptyful and has water coming down as well as mist floating through the air… at night the lights on it rotate through three or four colours…

empty/full...

emptyful…

you have to be careful which side you walk through so that you don’t get misted on… always seems to be misting on overcast cool days and it never mists on you on the hot days as you walk past…

the weather has been a bit odd, mainly cloudy and cool, and the blue sky was just starting to emerge  as I was leaving work… rain has been threatening for a few days but keeps holding off… tomorrow morning I am going to have to water the plants in the garden… that will probably bring the rain, lol…

surprised…

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

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was a long day at work and I had to stop and pick up some groceries for a meeting tomorrow, so by the time I drove up to the house I was feeling tired and a bit sorry for myself…

as I turned into the driveway the flower beds jumped out at me…

20140624-203504-74104910.jpgI realized that my son-in-law had been over and dug out most of the grass that was filling the bed…

20140624-203744-74264414.jpgthis showed what it looked like when we put the planters into it, and that was weeks ago…

I’ve been able to see the grass moving from the living room while sitting down, lol…

apparently my irises have been blooming and I didn’t even know it…

besides the two flower beds he also mowed the grass in the front yard and the back garden…

perked me right up…

now I have to decide whether to just put down newspaper over the bed and around the plants in it or dig up the five or six plants I want to keep and put them into pots on top of the newspaper which will kill the grass under it…

hmmmmm…

bamboo…

23 Monday Jun 2014

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this afternoon was given a bamboo plant…

reminded me of the one that a friend of the girls’ brought me four years ago when I had gall bladder surgery following a bad bout of pancreatitis…

20140623-231036-83436213.jpgit is still doing very nicely although I’ve been a bit remiss in watering, lol…

usually the plants in the house get watered on Saturday mornings… strange schedules have caused me to forgot for the last few weeks…

happily, when I went to take this picture, I remembered and it is now happily wet…

as I was heading out to work this morning, the clematis had buds opening, so I had to stop the car, climb out in a very awkward spot, reach into the back of the car to get my camera and then got this shot…

20140623-231725-83845286.jpgwe had tried growing them for many years and this one finally took in 2010 and has come back each year since then…

unexpected…

22 Sunday Jun 2014

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had a very poor sleep last night… when I got up I started the day with a hot tub…

20140622-195524-71724240.jpgafter a shower I sat out in the garden and read and thought about doing a bit of weeding…

designed and printed a birthday card for my grandson, which I was able to do from my chair in the garden, thanks to some of the work of my son-in-law when they were here last weekend…

was just thinking about making something to eat when my daughter texted to let me know she was at the hospital with a possible broken foot…

spent the next three hours with her in Emergency…

20140622-200238-72158166.jpgshe was right, it was broken and they put a splint on it… we made it to their house for the birthday party with an hour to spare…

helped with the party and got a ride home and am now heading for bed… the day didn’t turn out quite as planned or expected…

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ahhhhh…

21 Saturday Jun 2014

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was supposed to rain, so I got up early and had a peaceful hot tub to start the day…

then into the garden to read and enjoy a cup of tea…

20140621-191900-69540956.jpglately I’ve been using a travel mug so that my tea doesn’t get filled with elm seeds, lol, although I think they are just about finished raining down from the trees…

20140621-192406-69846634.jpgsome areas of the garden are stunning, while others need work…

spent a bit of time preparing five pounds of potato salad for the nine year old’s birthday party tomorrow…

20140621-193102-70262512.jpgnever did rain but a few times there was thunder and spectacular clouds…

20140621-193244-70364622.jpga good day…

growth…

20 Friday Jun 2014

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I am very happy it is Friday…

seems like it has been a long week… think that last weekend was a huge emotional drain on my mind and body and I am not yet recovered…

then I was out for two evenings and had the little flood in the basement…

looking forward to some quiet time and lots of recuperating…

this morning I took this shot of the planters on the front step…

20140620-212642-77202579.jpghere’s the shot I took on June 8…

20140620-212907-77347139.jpgamazing how much they have grown in just under two weeks…

much easier to see the growth in the garden, than in oneself…

rainy…

19 Thursday Jun 2014

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this morning it was overcast but there were a number of poppies blooming…

20140619-203807-74287158.jpgoff and on throughout the day the rain came down…

had a great visit over the lunch hour while we shared a fabulous salad…

after work, went out with a few colleagues and it was only spitting, but when we headed home it was pouring…

went to the basement and discovered the water had come in through the back corner…

20140619-204139-74499706.jpgthankfully it hadn’t gone into the carpeted area and the towels should keep it from getting there…

20140619-204253-74573427.jpggoing to have to face the fact that someone will need to come in and suggest ways to fix it… hopefully they can do something from the inside, sigh…

handy…

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

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had done everything we could ahead of time on Father’s Day to be sure Jeff didn’t have to do anything…

he is my main handy person… within the last month or so he has built a home for the chair cushions, a shelf in the garage, got a pond running, mowed the lawn and helped me take the capstone to be engraved…

on Sunday morning I looked out into the garden and realized that although there was lots if water – the rain had been coming down for nearly 24 hours – the waterfall in the pond wasn’t going… the electricity was on but I checked the garage and the electrical panel and everything was fine… plug seemed to be in properly so I came in out of the rain and sent an email to my pond guy… then I went back out and unplugged everything because I didn’t want the pump to burn out…

when the kids arrived Jeff went out and got it going… apparently it is on a GFI plug… after he showed me how to reset it I felt kind of silly but if it goes again I will know what to do…

20140618-203952-74392741.jpgI sure have the two best sons-in-law possible…

technology…

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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while the kids were here we visited Best Buy and Future Shop a number of times and Ron was kept busy…

we picked up a USB hub…

20140617-205125-75085988.jpgand went back for a new card reader…

both of these items made me very happy… now I can finally plug in a USB stick and my camera memory card at my desktop… for months I haven’t been able to, which means I have basically had to write my blog on my phone… if I had a photo on the camera, I had to take a picture of the photo with my phone…

20140617-212404-77044058.jpgthen we got a new power bar which also has USB ports in it and that got put up on the wall… it is very handy and now there aren’t cords all over the floor… and I am going to be able to plug in my phone or fitbit in the living room…

best of all we picked up an additional router so that I can access wifi in the garden… all that work the MTS guy did, didn’t solve the wifi problem at all…

even the loaner laptop was fixed… apparently the date on it was wrong and that was causing it to refuse to go to any website… I can now access my email as well…

20140617-213301-77581594.jpgall the technology is working beautifully…

we won’t talk about the electronic frame which, just this morning, is telling me there are no photos on it, sigh…