20 Thursday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, delicious, dinner, eaten, eaten out, food, happy, lunch, widow
I can’t think of a week that I’ve eaten out more…
Monday was an amazing catered dinner at the office…
Tuesday was lunch out with a good friend…
Wednesday, it was breakfast out, followed by pizza brought in for lunch…
today, had delicious homemade muffins and scones, wth fruit and cheese for breakfast, and went for lunch at Smith…
don’t have any plans for tomorrow, lol… how sad is that…
19 Wednesday Jun 2019
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early this morning watered all the plants in the garden with a bucket… it meant that I got lots of steps in and did a bit of weight training, lol…
summer is nearly upon us…
so enjoy the time to wander around the space and enjoy the beauty…
morning is my best time… by the end of the day I am often just interested in vegging out in front of the tv…
18 Tuesday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, delicious, dinner, menu, Modern Plate Catering, purple, treat, widow
had the most delicious dinner last night…
started with a salad of compressed melon, whipped goat cheese and apple compote, mint, red wine vinaigrette, dill salt, local pea shoots… it was yummy…
and then we had a wonderful chicken breast that was so moist… lemon brined chicken, rhubarb and brown butter sauce, crispy quinoa, beets, Swiss chard…
ended the meal with strawberry shortcake, with a purple flower on it… sugar scone, macerated strawberries, coconut whipped cream, hibiscus and ginger syrup… oh my…
Lyndsay, from Modern Plate Catering, did a magnificent job… she arrived with a chef and a server… they looked after everything…
the menu descriptions above come directly from her;-)…
what a wonderful treat…
already dreaming about the next time…
17 Monday Jun 2019
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android, big girl pants, Excel, internet, iPhone, Outlook, quest, tabs, Technology, tips, widow, work
I was scrolling through facebook the other day and came across some tips…
the absolute best one was about closing tabs when on the internet, thanks to diply.com…
we’ve been on a quest at work to find ways to save time and I’d found a great one about closing all open Excel files at once… then I found the one that lets you close all open emails in Outlook…
this one is even better, because I often have many internet tabs open, particularly on my phone…
I just tried it now and there were eighty open… see how handy this is going to be for me!!
on the bottom right of your screen you see the icon that looks like a couple of pages… hold it down and it will offer options… one of which is close all tabs…
it also appears to work on androids, maybe at the top of the screen…
I love technology;-)…
16 Sunday Jun 2019
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this morning I had a cup of my favourite tea with a bowl of red curry lentils and rice… not my usual breakfast…
yesterday I made the curry as a gift, and kept a tiny portion for me… and apparently was craving it…
we had ribs and potato salad for supper… delicious… always love the first potato salad of the year;-)…
so happy about the tea… great to have a full box… it makes it even more special and I enjoyed every sip…
also got the waterfall running, and the fish are in the pond…
my grandson and I are planning to pick up some new goldfish in the next few weeks as we are down to three… it will be nice to have a small school, lol… hopefully the big ones won’t eat the new little ones…
15 Saturday Jun 2019
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been watching track and field on tv and thinking of my dad…
in his youth he was a runner and involved in many sports…
all that changed when he returned after the war… his lungs had been permanently affected from the time he spent in foxholes in the cold and rain…
watching sports on tv and attending the occasional event at the arena were fun times we spent together…
he never complained… he had a hard life, but always made the best of every situation…
a great example of how to live one’s life…
14 Friday Jun 2019
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today the chimney came down…
just before Christmas I had planned to get a chimney sweep out to make sure it was safe to use the fireplace as I hadn’t used it since my beloved died… decided to wait until the weather was more conducive to someone climbing up onto the roof…
I finally made an appointment a few weeks ago for someone to come out to inspect and clean it… they looked at the fireplace and said we needed to go outside so I could see why they weren’t going to clean it…
they explained that the chimney had rusted out and would either need to be replaced or removed…
in the end I chose removal as the cost of a new chimney was prohibitive for the amount the fireplace is used…
this morning they came and took it down…
apparently the chimneys of this era rusted from the inside and out… my beloved would have realized that the rust on the outside of the chimney was a sign that it needed to be checked… I was just lucky that I didn’t start a fire…
now that it is capped there won’t be any drafts, lol…
maybe in the Fall I will have Ye Olde Soot Sweepers out to show me options for changing it to gas… will have to see…
13 Thursday Jun 2019
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the clematis is growing beautifully…
I’ve been taking photos when I leave the garage to record how quickly it is climbing…
these ones started on June 5th… they go clockwise and end yesterday when I saw the two buds getting ready to bloom…
the plant is much fuller than last year… my beloved and I planted this one…
memories…
12 Wednesday Jun 2019
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I cannot believe it…
June 11 and all of the flowers had to be covered because there was a frost warning…
sigh…
good thing there was a bag full of old sheets in the garage… and that I knew exactly where they were, lol…
not sure the temperature fell below zero, but glad I protected them…
spent some time this morning removing the sheets and hanging the baskets back up… they were a little sad to have been covered up, but they were all alive, lol…
11 Tuesday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, busy, creeping Charlie, dandelions, garden, grandson, happy, mowing, patch, schedule, widow
happy that my grandson has been able to add mowing my grass on Sunday’s to his schedule… he has a busy one now that he is working a full time job, a part time job, volunteering weekly, and participating in rowing events…
as he was mowing the back I went out to take a picture and he stopped so I couldn’t get him in the shot… brat…
I did catch him a couple of minutes later, lol…
nice to have the creeping Charlie and dandelion patch trimmed back…
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