19 Sunday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, dad, family, father, memories, moments, remembering, special, Technology, time, widow
I don’t always remember, but first thing yesterday I realized it would have been my dad’s birthday…
my father was a special person and although he’s been gone a very long time, I still miss him…
a bit later in the day his picture came up in my Facebook memories…
this photo was taken not too long before his death…
11 Saturday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cancer, family, memories, moments, mother, remembering, Remembrance Day, strong, time, widow, WREN, WWII
I’ve been thinking of my mom a lot in the last few days…
she spent the last months of her life at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, in the final stages of esophageal cancer…
I was blessed with the time to be able to spend those final days with her…
they were hard but so important…
she was a WREN during WWII, a survivor of mental illness, a caregiver for her husband, a poet, a proud Legion and Army and Navy member, and a participant in the organizing of the Women’s War Memorial by the Legislature…
she was strong, but it took me many years to really understand that;-)…
07 Tuesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, poppies, poppy, poppy stories, remembering, Remembrance Day, story, Technology, veterans, widow
we got our poppies a week ago and I put the buttons on them so they won’t get lost… I’ve been wearing mine daily, even though I don’t go out much, lol…
I’d seen something on social media about scanning your poppy to read a story about a veteran;-)…
Sunday morning I came across a link that took me to a story about a fallen soldier once I scanned my poppy…
I tried it on another poppy and got another story…
here is the link so that you can scan yours;-)…
what a wonderful use of technology;-)…
05 Sunday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, frozen, ghost, moments, nature, November, poppy, poppy feeder, remember, snow, steps, weather, widow
on November 1st I took down the ghost from the front step… it was difficult, because the sheet had frozen into the step, lol…
then I took the poppy bird feeder that I received as a Christmas gift and tied it to the rail… this was a process, because it was cold and my fingers kept trying to stick to the metal, lol…
looks pretty good, right;-)…
04 Saturday Nov 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, clean-up, continues, family, garage, grandson, moments, never ending, ongoing, rafters, reorganize, stuff, tidy, treasures, weather, widow
we were back in the garage last weekend and spent an hour reorganizing…
we planned to spend another few hours to make enough space to get the car inside, particularly as we have tons of snow already…
we did spend another focussed time in the space… this time all of the stuff that was in the rafters came down to be sorted…
there is a ton of wood and other items on the floor now, in various piles… for garbage, giveaway, and a small pile to keep… but the space above is cleared out and ready for whatever needs to go back up there…
no room for the car just yet…
03 Friday Nov 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, memories, moments, moose, neighbour, pattern, remembering, sanding, scroll saw, tidying, widow, wood
when we were cleaning out the basement back room in the spring, I came across some wood that my beloved had drawn moose on, but hadn’t cut out…
I took them over to my neighbour who has been working with a scroll saw for the last few years…
he brought them back a few days ago…
he did a great job but left the final sanding because he thought my grandsons might like to finish grandpa’s project;-)…
02 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, car, family, garage, grandson, hung, mess, moments, organized, sorting, tools, weather, widow
nearly a year ago, my eldest grandson and I began working away in the garage… he has a very organized mind…
a few weeks later, we cleaned out a spot and moved the shelves further along the wall…
the next time we worked in it, after purchasing additional hardware, we attached hooks and hung up a number of garden and winter tools… like items were gathered together and placed on the shelves… we came in when we started to get cold…
we spent another few hours another day working away in the space… more tools were hung on the other side of the space, the garbage bin was filled with broken, unusable items, two boxes were filled with giveaway items and the bench had much more space…
great strides were made each time we were in there and we were able to get the car in when it was home over the winter…
then we didn’t do anything more, because it got warm and the car didn’t need to live inside…
so, maybe it got filled up with other stuff, lol…
over the summer, it was great to be able to find tools without effort…
27 Friday Oct 2023
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adrenaline, appointment, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dentist, family, garden, grandson, hidden, moments, nature, photos, pretty, ride, shovelling, snow, spare, taxi, trees, walk, weather, widow
this morning I got up early as I had a dentist appointment and my grandson was going to drive me down before he went to class…
it was dark and there was a lot of snow out there…
I put on a vest, dug out a hat and gloves, and made sure I had cash for the taxi…
it lightened up before we left and I went out to start cleaning off the car… there was easily six or seven inches of snow on it…
made it to my appointment, and when it was done walked to the Delta Hotel to get a taxi…
got a few nice photos of snow-covered trees on the short walk…
as I was riding along in the taxi, I realized that I didn’t have a house key😳…
thankfully, after my beloved died and I was on my own in the house, I put a spare key in the backyard for just such an occasion…
and, I was able to get through the snow and collect it, lol…
I unlocked the door and put the key back before shovelling the front sidewalk and steps and the back deck and hot tub area…
got that adrenaline going, in the taxi, and in the yard;-)…
25 Wednesday Oct 2023
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14 years, bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, fit, grandson, handwritten, Home Depot, medicine cabinet, moments, new, plastic, Rona, search, stock, widow
been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…
I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…
the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…
at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…
what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…
after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…
we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…
it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…
and, just like that we have two new cabinets, although the space inside them is smaller, but they will work fine;-)…
14 Saturday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, clouds, eclipse, glasses, moments, nature, sky, Technology, viewing, weather, widow
well, didn’t use those eclipse glasses as the sky was completely filled with clouds all morning…
my daughter in Ottawa, who also had clouds, suggested the viewing was top secret only, lol…
viewing party was cancelled and everyone stayed in their warm houses (it was 9° Celsius) getting other chores taken care of…
will put the glasses away for the next one, which looks to be in April;-)…
looked outside at 5:30 pm to see this, lol…
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