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hopefulness…

15 Friday Jun 2018

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beloved, big girl pants, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, dove, flowers, hope, hopefulness, orchid, photos, sky, special, threatening, widow

always amazes me how some of the best photos happen…

I’ve been trying to get a great shot of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights for ages… when I am near it, I am either driving, in a car and going too quickly, or else something just isn’t right when I am walking in the area…

I have taken many photos of the building but nothing particularly good…

last night I was the passenger in a car as we went past and took a number of shots… cars and people kept interrupting a good shot, but when I checked my photos I found this great one…

I think the threatening sky had something to do with it…

the lighting in the Museum helped too…

earlier I had taken a very quick shot of an orchid that I walked past…

it came out nicely as well…

I often see a dove in close ups of orchids and they always remind me of hopefulness and my beloved…

kind of fun to have good shots of CMHR and an orchid taken so close together… both of which are such signs of hope…

a memorable photo day;-)…

sheets…

14 Thursday Jun 2018

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big girl pants, dinner, fireworks, friends, lightening, pedicure, purple, rain, sheets, spa, stunning, thunder, toes, widow

what a wonderful evening…

supper out with some very special women…

tried shrimp stuffed eggplant at Blaze Bistro… tasty…

then it was off for pedicures… such fun…

as we left the spa the sky was dark gray… getting into the car it was starting to spit…

by the time I arrived home I’d driven through sheets of rain, loads of lightening and waterlogged streets… that part wasn’t so fun, lol…

as I write this the thunder is rolling around the sky… it looks amazing out there… and is currently sounding like fireworks… yikes…

but my toes are stunning;-)…

rays…

13 Wednesday Jun 2018

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big girl pants, clouds, colours, focus, memories, moments, pictures, rays, sun, sunshine, widow

the last few days I’ve been watching the sky on my travels to and from the office…

a few mornings the sun has been sending rays through the clouds… of course I never get to take pictures on the drive…

this particular picture is from the night we went to a soccer game close to me… the sky that night was a show of great views… in the end the game was cancelled due to lightning… I really liked the sun shining down through the clouds…

the sun against the blue sky in the evenings has been lovely as well…

I was looking through my photos to find a picture that would show the beauty…

the pinks and blues of this shot last Friday don’t really replicate the amazing colour that evening…

it is always wonderful to take the time to enjoy the beauty around us…

more and more I focus on those moments…

bakery…

12 Tuesday Jun 2018

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bakery, big girl pants, bun, cooking, flowers, groceries, leftover, one, popcorn, Smak Dab, widow

was talking with someone recently about the difficulty of cooking for one…

cooking for one is definitely different and certainly takes more thought, preparation and effort… really easy to have a bowl of popcorn instead…

my technique is to make enough for two meals and then have leftovers for lunch or supper the next day…

I’ve been trying to think about what I will have in the evening and take whatever I’ve decided on out for supper in the morning before leaving for the office…

the plan for tonight was to cook a couple of herb and garlic sausages and pick up a bun to put one of them in…

stopped at the bakery but they didn’t have a single stick of bread left… great for them, but not so good for me, lol…

then it was off to the grocery store to pick up a few buns… also found a nice steak, some chicken and a bit of hamburger…

came home, cooked the sausages, added Smak Dab mustard, Miracle Whip, grated onion and lettuce to a whole wheat bun… it was delicious…

and I have enough to make another bun for my lunch…

recording…

11 Monday Jun 2018

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big girl pants, iPhone, recording, simple, technique, Technology, text, widow

have spent the last hour or so trying to record my iPhone screen so that I can show the steps necessary to complete a particularly task… interesting learning process…

sounds really simple, except for when you go too fast, or slow… or someone sends you a text, or Twitter let’s you know someone is tweeting after a long time… all in the middle of the recording…

then, after all that, when I emailed it, the video was a bit fuzzy…

but, I think I’ve got it;-)…

bushes…

10 Sunday Jun 2018

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big girl pants, bushes, butterfly bush, flowers, garden, hot tub, planting, pond, reading, resting, sunrise, weeding, widow

spent the day in the garden… was up early with a quiet hot tub as the sun rose…

did quite a bit of weeding in amongst watering, reading and resting… took a number of photos along the way… always nice at the end of the day to remember what it looked like at the beginning;-)…

planted some butterfly bushes although they don’t really look very lively and potted up the last of the plants I’d bought recently… I was very happy when I came across the bushes because they are difficult to find as they are annuals here, not perennials, which is what the packaging always says…

had all three meals in the garden with a short nap in the house…

enjoyed the time out there, even the weeding…

Ex…

09 Saturday Jun 2018

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beloved, big girl pants, Ex, family, memories, rain, Red River Ex, sign, summer, widow, work

been watching ads on tv for the Red River Ex, which is always a sign of summer…

they brought back some wonderful memories…

when our kids were in baton – so, quite a few years ago – my beloved and I worked at the gates welcoming guests… it was fun and paid well for the four or five years we participated… always so interesting to see how people present themselves…

people were either thrilled and happy to be there or irritated beyond belief, lol…

the other piece it reminded me of is how often it rains during the Ex, lol… rain suits were a staple… should be good for the garden…

fun memories…

took this picture last week;-)…

motor…

08 Friday Jun 2018

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big girl pants, dishwasher, glasses, motor, son-in-law, stuck, widow

Tuesday morning I texted my son-in-law to see if he could stop by and check out the dishwasher…

the day before it had stopped working… the powdered soap was still in it and it looked like it had run without water…

I had tried to turn it off and on without success so had contacted him as he is very good with small motors…

it took a few days for me to wash everything that was in it… I don’t mind washing dishes… except glasses, never feel as though they get clean…

he didn’t make it over until this afternoon… at first he thought it was dead, but then he fiddled with a few things and discovered something was stuck and once he popped it back down the dishwasher worked…

it just finished running through a cycle…

yay;-)…

poppy…

07 Thursday Jun 2018

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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, blooms, flowers, garden, George, poppies, poppy, widow

been thinking about poppies…

over the last forty years we’ve always had poppies in the garden… some years there would be fifteen or twenty … other years, maybe three…

the spring following George’s death there were over fifty…

it was amazing and so beautiful… seemed like he was here with me…

this year there are plants, but not a single bloom…

connect…

06 Wednesday Jun 2018

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big girl pants, connect, fish, hose, pond, water, widow

so happy this morning as I was able to top up the pond easily…

over the winter the connection at the wall had broken so that only one hose could be hooked up instead of the two I need…

this meant that every time the pond needed water I had to drag out the hose to fill it and then drag it back to put it away… which usually ended up with my hands black from the hose and smelling like rubber…

looked for quite a while to find a replacement and eventually found one last week… on Sunday my grandson was over and hooked it up for me…

excited when I arrived home tonight and found the fish out and about in the pond…

happy they are finally more comfortable and connecting to the space…

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