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10 Sunday Feb 2019

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my older daughter, who lives in Ottawa, surprised me on Wednesday… she arrived to help with a big event I’ve been working on…

after the event, she was able to visit with a few of her friends and we spent Saturday in our jammies doing nothing…

it was divine as both of us have been very busy for the last month…

we made macaroni and cheese with lobster for supper… at the same time I learned more about Instagram stories and a new app that slices videos to Instagram size;-)… as I was going through my photos looking for one of the mac and cheese to put in this post, I was giggling because we took two sets of videos and there wasn’t a single photo of the process that was good enough to use, lol…

we did manage to get into the hot tub once… our usual routine is to spend a few minutes at the end of each evening there…

this morning we were up early and took our requisite selfie, lol… we used her fancy Huawei phone which has some smoothing aspect in the pic… we look pretty fine…

I got her to the airport by 6:30 am for her flight… and took our final selfie…

a wonderful gift…

teeny…

09 Saturday Feb 2019

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started the day with a teeny, but delicious, piece of deadly chocolate mousse cake from Baked Expectations…

made homemade lobster macaroni and cheese for dinner… first time I’ve added lobster… it was a lovely addition…

and got this late shot of the sun going down…

wonderful relaxing day…

counter…

08 Friday Feb 2019

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found all these chocolate items on the counter this morning… they include some of my all time favourites… as well as a few I haven’t tried yet…

delicious black currant, coconut and chocolate… looks like I am going to be busy for the next while;-)…

schedule…

05 Tuesday Feb 2019

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what a wonderful surprise…

the cleaners were supposed to be here yesterday but they took a snow day because of the weather which made perfect sense… I couldn’t get out of the driveway…

I was thinking they wouldn’t be here today although I asked if they might be able to fit me in…

it was a very long day so when I walked through the door and saw they’d been here it was such a treat…

just what I needed;-)…

drifted…

04 Monday Feb 2019

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this morning I was rather surprised by how much snow had fallen overnight…

when I opened the back door there was easily six inches of snow up against it… I figured it had just drifted and when I stepped over it there was six inches of snow on the deck and all the way to the garage…

when I opened the big door there was four or five inches… I walked along the driveway to see how deep the snow was and decided that I might not be able to get the car out…

back inside and called a cab… didn’t want to get stuck at the bottom of the driveway…

but it sure was pretty, lol…

was able to get a ride home with a colleague and walked from the end of the street to be sure she didn’t get stuck…

there was even more snow when I walked up the driveway… snow pants would have been helpful, lol…

the steps and sidewalk were completely covered…

my shoveler isn’t available tonight, but will be here at 7:30 am so that I can get out in time for work…

level…

03 Sunday Feb 2019

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this morning I finally made it out for a hot tub… it has been crazy cold here and I just didn’t have the energy to get out there…

when I opened the lid I discovered that a lot of water had evaporated and the jets were shooting through the air… which, of course, leads to more evaporation, lol…

usually, when the water level is low, once I am in the tub, I use up enough space to stop the jets from overshooting, but not this morning…

needless to say, I didn’t stay out too long…

once I was dressed I went out and put water in… it is a bit of a process… have to put a hose through the dryer vent, then go outside and put the hose into the hot tub, usually using one side of the cover to hold it in place… then it is back downstairs to turn on the water, using a pair of pliers to turn it because my fingers aren’t strong enough… back outside to be sure the water is going in and not spraying the wall…

while I was waiting for it to fill, I took out the recycling and garbage… also had a few minutes to take some photos of the frost on one of the windows in the garage…

when it was full, back downstairs to turn off the water, run up and push the hose back into the basement, close the cover and run down to hang up the hose and connect the vent back up to the dryer… good exercise, lol…

quynh…

02 Saturday Feb 2019

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finally had the time to take a photo of the February Chihuly calendar… the piece is called blue frog foot fiore… this installation was at the New York Botanical Garden in 2017…

was picked up by friends, went to the Nhu Quynh for a lovely lunch before we headed to PTE for this month’s show, which was excellent…

nice to spend time with friends…