02 Friday Jun 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, huge, memories, moments, nature, plants, poppies, remembering, widow
for whatever reason the poppies opening is a huge deal for me…
this morning Facebook shared a memory from this date in 2012 when there was an abundance of poppies blooming…
and when I went into the garden, the first one this season was open…
what a treat, and a lovely reminder of my beloved, who also loved poppies;-)…
27 Saturday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, cover, dahlia, garden, mistake, moments, morning glories, nature, weather, widow, wind
just possible that I made a mistake when I brought out the morning glories and the dahlia from Lily Stone Gardens and planted them last Saturday…
the wind has been very strong and it has been cool in the evenings…
the dahlia hasn’t been looking at all happy and on Wednesday evening I covered it with sheets hoping to block the wind…
it is still not happy… we shall see…
25 Thursday May 2023
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big girl pants, broken, garden, hammock stand, moments, nature, repaired, umbrella, weather, widow, wind
I was surprised yesterday morning when I looked out the window to see the hammock stand on its back against the planter… clearly the wind had lifted the umbrella and blew it over…
when I went out I saw that the umbrella on the top was perfectly fine so I took it off… the wind has been very strong since Tuesday and may continue for a number of days… a section of the edging had broken right off…
the umbrella went into the garage and I was able to put the stand back up… not going to put the umbrella back on until the weather improves…
now to arrange to have the planter repaired;-)…
11 Thursday May 2023
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again, arms, big girl pants, blessed, bolt, chemicals, empty, fill, fourteen, garden, grandson, happy, hot tub, Krevco, memories, moments, Mother's Day, move, widow
early Monday morning I unplugged the hot tub again and put the pump in to empty it…
with the new hose it only takes about fifteen minutes… so much better than the old two hour procedure…
Mike from Krevco arrived later and moved the tub away from the wall… then he spent a good half hour trying to remove the bolt in the broken arm…
eventually both arms were attached and the lid was back on… yay…
once my grandson got home in the evening we were able to get the hot tub back into the correct spot… sounds easy, but if it isn’t in just the correct place, the lids won’t open… but we got it into place and then it took an hour and a half to fill…
a slow process, but done… then it was restarted and will take quite a while to come up to temperature as it is plugged into an outlet, not hardwired, lol…
tonight I have been adding the start-up chemicals, with twenty minutes between each addition, and am looking forward to a lovely late evening time in it;-)…
Sunday (well, Mother’s Day) will mark the fourteenth year since I had the first dip in it;-)…
I truly am blessed…
05 Friday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, early, easier, giveaway, hardest, health, landfill, moments, stuff, Technology, widow
I’ve been thinking about all of the stuff I’ve given away over the last six months…
it makes me so happy to be able to share with others and not add unnecessarily to the landfills…
it is also getting easier to let go of stuff… and the simple way to arrange a pickup by going online is also helpful…
currently the hardest part is to remember to get up early enough to get all of the boxes onto the front steps…
18 Tuesday Apr 2023
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Monday another hole was made in the sky…
first thing in the morning a number of trucks filled up the street…
they were there to cut down one of the elm trees… I hadn’t realized that it had been marked…
it took four hours to get it down to the stump… and then they left… about an hour later a few of them returned and ground it down to nothing…
amazing how complicated the process is… it was interesting to watch…
09 Sunday Apr 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, collection, found, lost, memories, moments, nature, original, resources, seashells, shells, widow
feels like working to clean up the computer room is a never-ending project…
but…
on Saturday I found my original seashell collection…
I can’t believe it… I came across a box that hadn’t been opened yet and figured it was filled with more papers… and when I took off the lid, this is what I saw;-)…
yikes, not even going to think how long that corner of the room hasn’t been touched…
what a lovely time I had today, unwrapping each one and putting them in the table and credenza…
memories came flooding back as I remembered names of many of the shells as they emerged from the 1998 newspapers they were wrapped in…
going to take out my resource books and do a bit of a refresher, lol…
27 Monday Mar 2023
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AirPods, bicker, big girl pants, blessed, Chinese food, driveway, family, food, grandsons, happy, lost, moments, shovelled, snow, supper, time, treat, visit, weather, widow
got to have my grandsons over for dinner…
haven’t seen them for ages, so it was a wonderful treat;-)…
we caught up and they shovelled part of the driveway for me…
the shovelling was a big job as the driveway hasn’t been cleared for months, but it was a beautiful day… and, in the process, the youngest lost his AirPods… in a white container;-(… we spent quite some time digging through all the snow they had moved but did not find them…
we had Chinese food for supper…I’ve been craving it for a while so that made it especially good…
after supper I dug out a set of earbuds from my collection of ones that don’t fit my ears and gave him those… everyone played on their phones for a while as we chatted before they headed home;-)…
they have become lovely young men, although they still bicker like brothers, lol…
24 Friday Mar 2023
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abalone, big girl pants, blessed, collection, lost, memories, Mexico, moments, nature, pictures, remembering, seashells, shells, store, widow
came across this picture from a trip to Mexico in 2017…
I have loved and collected seashells since I was given an abalone shell when I was young…
this store was amazing;-)…
I have lost the main part of my collection… this is a very old picture from when I was a teenager…
I think these shells may have ended up in the garbage years ago;-(…
now I fill the drawers with a collection of more recently purchased pieces…
it was fun to remember the store and my collection…
22 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, computer, disconnected, internet, moments, something, technician, Technology, widow, work
I’ve been having trouble with the computer upstairs… for the last few weeks it kept advising that it wasn’t connected to the internet… tried many things, but nothing seemed to work… the wifi had been coming and going as well…
a few days ago I went to call MTS about my services and thought I should just take a quick look to be sure it was still disconnected…
and, of course, it connected right away, lol…
when I spoke with a technician, they advised they did something while we were on the call and it shouldn’t be a problem anymore…
I guess we will see;-)…
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