17 Monday Feb 2020
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14 Friday Feb 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blown, flowers, moments, purple, Valentine, weather, widow, windy
went out in the very cold weather this morning and was nearly blown into a fence… put on my warmest jacket but didn’t realize that the hood wasn’t attached… yikes…
spent the remainder of the day remembering my beloved and how we enjoyed this particular holiday… found this photo from our last Valentine’s Day…
besides the rose, he gave me a beautiful purple jacket which I put on this morning;-)…
11 Tuesday Feb 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, celebrate, cleaning, corningware, eraser, hands, memories, moments, Mr. Clean, strength, treat, Valentine's Day, widow
been thinking of my beloved a lot lately… Valentine’s Day is coming up and we always celebrated…
as I was washing dishes I was reminded of his strong hands and how he always dealt with the seriously dirty pots…
he could clean them up in no time, unlike me who used the same items to clean them but they never came out as good as when he did it, lol…
today I was scrubbing one of the Corningware pots that we’ve had since we were first married… it looked terrible so I dug out the Mr. Clean eraser…
I didn’t take any photos before I started, just part way through, and at the end…
with a bit of elbow grease I was able to improve the look a lot… not as good as he would have done, lol…
not sure what is in them, but they are rather amazing and the pot looks excellent…
those big girl pants…
06 Thursday Feb 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, family, grandfather clock, memories, moments, parents, plans, ringing, weather, widow
had some plans to head out to get some things done this morning…
but, it was really cold and none of them had to happen, so I decided to stay home…
got dressed, first time in a few days… did some work on the computer and read some of my current book…
also wound the clock which hasn’t been going for a few days…
nice to hear the ringing… reminds me of my mom and dad… this clock came from their apartment…
31 Friday Jan 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, cluttered, fun, hearts, memories, moments, Valentines, widow
had some fun when I was tidying up the tv/guest room… the cleaners are coming on Monday and it was a bit cluttered in there…
put many things away and in the process found some valentine hearts and other items and put them out;-)…
love is in the air;-)…
27 Monday Jan 2020
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one of the reasons I went shopping on Sunday was to get flowers…
it is that season again when I really need them to brighten the atmosphere in the house… it is also a time when I particularly miss my beloved…
he always made sure I had flowers all the time during these cold and dreary months… and all over the house…
I can see and smell them in every room;-)…
I hope you have something in your life that brings you happiness…
18 Saturday Jan 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, complicated, family, LRSP, moments, pension, signing, trees, widow, work
recently I spent an hour with my finance guy signing what felt like a million papers… felt sorry for all the trees we destroyed…
complicated business to start collecting locked in RSP money… of course I didn’t remember to take a pic of the very large pile of papers that were taken away, lol…
these are just a few of the ones that were left for me…
good thing he understands this stuff and can explain it so well…
I will be thanking my beloved every day as the reason I am able to retire is due to his pension which came directly to me on his death…
15 Wednesday Jan 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, decluttering, friends, good times, Instant Pot, journey, moments, retirement, sky, sun dog, widow
had a very productive and enjoyable day…
spent time in the morning decluttering, deep-cleaning and reorganizing a rolling cupboard that my beloved built many years ago…
felt very pleased with the outcome… got rid of some stuff and made space for the Instant Pot;-)…
then had a delightful visit and some treats with a dear friend…
followed by some reading and a few phone calls… caught this sun dog as I looked out the window;-)…
enjoying the moments in this new portion of the journey;-)…
13 Monday Jan 2020
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basement, big girl pants, ceiling, fish tank, leaking, misbehaving, moments, solution, solution stressful, water, widow
went into the kitchen late last night and heard something dripping… thought it was outside, but then realized it was in the basement…
ran down to discover a ceiling tile on the floor, two wet couches, soaked carpet and water pouring down…
when I could move, I found towels and pails to put down and moved cushions into the basement bathtub…
went upstairs to the main floor and tried to figure out what was leaking… opened the front door to see if something was happening outside….
it was the pump in the fish tank… water was pouring out of it… I turned it off and put down more towels there and moved the pump to the main floor bathtub…
more towels on the floor and then up and down to be sure that all the dripping had stopped…
made for a stressful couple of hours… not sure what caused the problem, but had to leave it for the night…
must have run up and down the stairs a dozen times checking to be sure that no water was misbehaving…
tonight my grandson and I figured out that somehow the pump had tilted and the water had run down the back of it… we put a towel in the back and it has been working perfectly fine for five hours;-)…
25 Wednesday Dec 2019
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, engine, family, memories, moments, remembering, widow
for the first time ever, I was alone on Christmas morning…
it was odd and I spent some time thinking back to so many Christmas morning celebrations over the years…
there were no stockings to open as the kids had come over on Sunday and had fun opening them then…
part way through the morning, as I was watching a Christmas movie, I heard an engine running so came downstairs to see what was going on…
it was a fire truck and ambulance parked across the street in front of a neighbour’s house… took a while to figure out which house they were at, and the good news is they took someone out who was using oxygen… they didn’t rush off, so that was also good news… I don’t know this particular neighbour and hope they are going to be okay…
did bring back some memories… some of losing my beloved, but others of some of the crazy things that have happened to us over Christmas Eves in the past, lol… from water heaters needing to be replaced, furnaces not producing heat, to sewers backing up… we went through a number of special times, lol…
but, issues would always be resolved by Christmas morning…
here is a photo of our last Christmas season with my beloved…
as I was looking back through my posts I came across this one that was also titled engine, lol… seemed to fit with the theme…
later today I am heading to Ottawa to spend time with my kids there and meet my son-in-law’s mom for the first time…
my grandson will be house sitting while I am gone;-)…
how blessed I have been and continue to be…
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