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23 Tuesday Oct 2018

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spent part of the day yesterday trying to find someone to clean up the leaves in the yard… eventually I hired my son-in-law who came today and raked everything up… then he put away all of the lawn furniture… looks great…

also trying to find a snow-clearing company as my grandson who has been doing the snow removal for the last few years is now busy with university and work and not available…

of three places I contacted, two were already filled up for the winter…

I have received a quote from the third place and will be in touch with a few questions…

hoping that it all works out because I don’t need to be worrying about snow when it starts falling, lol…

upgrade…

22 Monday Oct 2018

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so excited to pick up my new camera on Friday… the old one died while we were camping this summer and I have been missing it tremendously… decided not to have it repaired again as it would be expensive and I had already had it repaired three or four times… made more sense to put that money towards a newer model…

was hoping to make it to Christmas to buy one but Thursday night I was at an event and was very disappointed in my pictures…

so Friday I went and purchased this one… it is basically the same model, only upgraded…

many things are similar but there are nuances that I am going to have to study up on, lol…

I’ve been able to connect it to my phone to download pictures but haven’t figured out how to use my phone to depress the shutter button…

there is a new automatic setting that adds effects and I really want to understand a few of the other settings…

it connects to my phone or computer via wifi, the screen moves to make taking pictures easier and it has a better zoom function…

looking forward to delving into all the details…

playground…

21 Sunday Oct 2018

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early this morning I walked to and from La Belle Baguette to pick up some bread…

the sun was in my eyes on the way there as I walked past the park between Amherst and Sackville at Ness…

on my way home I stopped and got a few pictures of the construction… no changes have happened in this playground for thirty years or so that I can remember…

it is going to be exciting to see what the final area is going to look like…

arm…

20 Saturday Oct 2018

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today I emptied and refilled the hot tub after my grandson arrived to move the tub a tiny bit before it was refilled…

when we replaced the arm on the hot tub a while ago, we moved it out a bit which meant that I couldn’t open one side of the cover without opening the gate… bit of a pain on a cold night…

it takes about 3 hours to empty and about half an hour to fill…

waiting now to see how long it will take to get up to the correct temperature…

flu…

19 Friday Oct 2018

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this morning, early, I went across to the drugstore in Cityplace and finally got my flu shot…

I’ve been trying to get over ever since it was available… besides hopefully protecting me, it might save someone else who I come into contact with who might have a compromised immune system…

I always think of my dad when he was in hospital toward the end of his life… family and friends didn’t want to visit him if they had the sniffles… eventually we decided that if someone was going to make him sicker, it might as well be one of us, rather than a hospital staff person… it was more important to spend what little time we had with him…

only waited a short time for the shot and then had to wait the obligatory few minutes afterwards to be sure I wasn’t having any reaction…

so far I haven’t experienced any side effects…

guess we’ll see how it is in the morning;-)…

WEYA…

18 Thursday Oct 2018

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what a great evening spent with three of my colleagues…

always a treat to get to visit and enjoy time together…

the women entrepreneurs who were celebrated at WEYA tonight were all about health and wellness… a good reminder to take time to care for yourself…

they are an amazing group… our province is in good hands;-)…

piles…

17 Wednesday Oct 2018

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a few days ago when I was heading home from work I stopped and took some pictures of the piles of leaves in the parking lot…

as I walked through the backyard I took some shots of the leaves there too…

I haven’t been enjoying this Fall because it hasn’t been very Fall-like, sigh…

cold, snowy, overcast… what a drag…

but the leaves are incredible… even if they are all on the ground…

goody…

16 Tuesday Oct 2018

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had dinner out with a good friend tonight… nearly forgot because I don’t usually go out on a weeknight, lol…

it was wonderful to walk over to the restaurant as I’ve been rather lazy recently…

dinner was delicious and we both left with goody bags filled with leftovers…

craving…

15 Monday Oct 2018

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yesterday my son-in-law and middle grandson came over and we went to Costco to pick up a few things…

they carted stuff in and put it away while I prepared the meat for tacos… serendipitous as my grandson mentioned he’d been craving them for a few days…

the boys use both hard and soft shells, but I like to make salad with mine…

after supper we jumped in the car and drove to Boon Burger for some vegan pumpkin pie ice cream… my son-in-law is having to watch his dairy intake and was very excited to learn that they have this particular ice cream and that he could eat it…

it was snowing a bit as we left with our treats, lol…

falafel…

14 Sunday Oct 2018

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yesterday saw Prairie Nurses at PTE… it was funny and entertaining…

first show of the season and there was a full house…

beforehand we went out for lunch at the Falafel Place…

had some delicious falafel, and salad with hot cooked onions and garlic as part of the dressing… wasn’t sure how I would like it, but it was delicious…

enjoyed the show and had a lovely snack of Callebaut chocolate and some almonds…

walked home from the end of the street and got this shot of the many bare trees…