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signs…

07 Thursday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, grayness, happy, late, orchids, signs, snow, Spring, sunlight, sunshine, widow

no time to walk on the treadmill this morning but I did get a nice picture of the Japanese Maple… the leaves are coming out in full force…

  
this is a real sign of spring…

the snow that keeps coming down isn’t the most difficult thing we’ve had to deal with lately… it is the grayness… the sun hasn’t been out very much over the last few weeks and that affects many of us…

have noticed that it occasionally comes out late in the afternoon… 

and so it did today… got this lovely shot of the orchids in the sunshine…

  
and this one…

  
just amazes me how happy a few minutes of sunlight can make me…

delight…

06 Wednesday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, chips, delight, eating, George, kind, moments, orchid, special, treats, Vietnamese shrimp rice rolls, widow

took some pictures of my newest orchid this morning… it is such a delight to gaze upon…

  
great way to start the day… beautiful flowers and photos…

a colleague was out for an errand and brought back a bag of chips… as it happened there weren’t any in my treat drawer… nice to have a few goodies available at all times, lol…

it was my lucky day because someone else brought me Vietnamese shrimp rice rolls... one of my all-time favourite things to eat…

came home and enjoyed them as a late afternoon snack while dinner was cooking…  

  
I remember how my colleagues came to see me a few at a time during the days right after George died… they brought me many of my favourite things as well as their company… these rolls were one of the items they brought and were the first thing that I eventually ate… wasn’t eating or drinking at all for a number of days and when I finally felt able to get something, down the rolls were exactly what called to me… enjoyed them for a few days as I was trying to get my appetite back…

kind of giggled when they arrived today as I had just been thinking of them…

special moments… all in all, a delightful day…

technology…

05 Tuesday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, camera, computer, eyefi, histograph, iPad, iPhone, pictures, snow, Technology, widow

happy today to get my camera back from the hospital… it had been there for a couple of weeks and I was really missing it…

  
pleased it wasn’t an expensive fix and it is back to its usual wonderful self…

  
am going to have to re-enter all the info about my eyefi to get it connected again, so that will be a job for the next few days…

had a friend look at the Olympus to remove the histograph from the view on the screen… I had tried a few times, without any success, to delete it as I find it distracting… he couldn’t figure it out either, lol…

had some fun downloading pictures from my iPhone to my computer at work… this was great because I had taken 77 pictures of an event last week and wanted to get them into a folder on my office computer and didn’t want to send them in groups of four by email… much simpler and way quicker… 

technology is great when you think about it…

just this afternoon we were looking at a form we had used six years ago when I started… it collected all the information but was handwritten so then we had to guess what had been entered… now, we email a fillable form which comes back typed and makes entering the data simple… if it isn’t filled out when a person arrives, we have an iPad available so that it can be completed in the office…

here’s the view out the window today…

  
enough with the snow already…

view…

04 Monday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, envision, friends, kitchen, light, open mind, snow, sun, view, widow

the sun was shining brightly into the living room tonight as I sat waiting for my friends to arrive… four of the five of us were going to be together…

  
so amazing to be sitting in the bright light at seven thirty at night… yay… 

unfortunately there is still a bit of snow on the ground…

received the first drawings of the kitchen today… trying to look at them and decide whether it is just what I want…

  
interesting to see the kitchen from someone else’s point of view… 

been doing a lot of looking at things with an open mind lately and need to stay in that state of mind…

it is so easy to only see things the way you’ve done them for ages… much more difficult to envision possibilities…

need to keep that open mind…

progress…

03 Sunday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, cleaning service, JUNOs, Polished, progress, sea shells, snow, table, widow, wooden spoon

watching the JUNOs and enjoying all the performances…

more time in the computer room… not sure you can tell that I spent hours in there today, but progress is being made…

  
it was too funny this afternoon… as I was putting the sea shells into the drawers of the living room table, snow was falling outside…

  
the best news was that I knew exactly where the shells were located… no vanishing this year…

  
went to the Home and Garden show this afternoon with the kids… picked up a lovely wooden spoon… I have a bit of a thing for wooden spoons… don’t seem able to get rid of any old ones…

also found a new cleaning service… very happy about that as my cleaner just advised yesterday that she isn’t able to continue due to the distance from her area to mine… makes sense, but made me sad as they were excellent…

stumbled upon Polished Cleaning Services at the event and was impressed with them… looking forward to a great relationship… and pleased to have this all sorted out…

progress made on many fronts…

motivation…

02 Saturday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, conversation, edit, hot tub, motivation, organize, paper, snow, sun, widow

didn’t make it out to the hot tub last night, but first thing this morning I put on my water boots and trod through the snow to enjoy a great time in the tub…

  
wasn’t too chilly and the sun was shining… 

  

squirrels and blue jays were dashing about with peanuts… the hot tub is a bit overfull so the water was right up to my neck…

had a giggle as I walked back to the house…

  
was just a few weeks ago that I was sitting in this very chair having lunch and getting a bit of sun…

came in and was watching some tv… having trouble getting motivated but a conversation with my daughter helped get me off my butt and doing some organizing in the computer room and bedroom…

  
hard to tell from this picture, but I shredded bags full of paper and packed a box of goodies to give away while organizing my paper supplies… always happy when I can let go of things at the same time as I am looking at them, lol…

still have some work to do in there, lol… 

also spent some time editing jewelry and knick knacks in the bedroom… might have been wise to only focus on one room at a time…

snowflakes…

01 Friday Apr 2016

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big girl pants, daffodils, flowers, Krevco, snowflakes, Spring, widow

from Spring flowers to huge snowflakes… what a day…

  
yesterday I picked up some daffodils and irises… really wanted to add some life to the house… have some upstairs and others in the living room…

  
makes me happy to have the bright colours around…

also fairly sure I listened to a robin singing while I was laying in bed… and the geese flying over… seems like every day I am hearing new bird songs as they are returning…

around six fifteen tonight I looked outside and saw huge snowflakes coming down very quietly…

  
had stopped at Krevco earlier and had the water tested… made sure to put all the chemicals in so that I could go out and have a hot tub… been waiting for the fresh water to get up to the correct temperature… not sure now if I’m going out there tonight or not…

  
pretty though…

guests…

31 Thursday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, breakfast, countertop, geese, granite, guests, kitchen, moon, reno, restaurant, widow

woke early and looked out to see this lovely view of the moon…

 
a bit later I got ready and walked over to the “A” to meet my daughter for breakfast…
  
waiting for my guest… getting easier and easier to sit in a restaurant on my own… big girl pants, lol…

we went to a tile store to look at countertops for my upcoming kitchen reno…

it was great fun to walk through the shop, where they were cutting with giant tile saws, and the yard, looking at all the different options… they had to lift one out of a warehouse and bring it outside with a forklift… I think this is it…

  
made the whole process more real… I am getting a new kitchen…

we ran a couple of other errands before she dropped me at home and I was surprised to see these guests across the street…

  
we do have mallard ducks who live in the creek, but can’t remember the last time I saw geese around here… maybe they will stay and have babies;-)…

Olympus…

30 Wednesday Mar 2016

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balloons, big girl pants, camera, feast, moments, Olympus, sky, widow, window

last night I happened upon one of those moments… looked out the window as I was heading downstairs and thought I needed to check out the view from the living room… 

 
and this is what I caught… beautiful…

been taking quite a few pictures with the Olympus this week and rather pleased with these ones…

  
colourful balloons as a centrepiece… 

  
and balloons in a plant…

this one came out nicely as well… 

 
lovely feast…

had been worried that the shots wouldn’t come out as I am still working at refamiliarizing myself with the Olympus… 

happily, they turned out well… phew…

excellent…

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, birthday, buds, excellent, friend, goose, lunch, Peasant Cookery, rain jacket, snow, tulips, walk, widow

had an excellent day yesterday…

early in the morning got this great shot of the garage roof which glittered with a thin blanket of fresh snow…


took a few pictures of the buds on the Japanese Maple, which is a sure sign of Spring for me…

  
then it was off to help with the set up for a special event…

a good friend picked me up and we went to Peasant Cookery for a lovely early birthday lunch… delightful…

from there we stopped at UN Luggage where I found a rain jacket… my current one is on the large size and I heard that I should have one in New York…

  

bit of a colour departure for me but the magenta leans towards purple, lol…

our last stop was a walk through the Gardens at Assiniboine Park… it was a gorgeous day…

  

this goose seemed to be looking for the water, lol…

spent some time playing with my Olympus camera as my Nikon is still at the hospital…

rather pleased with this shot…

  

  

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