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heartbeat…

09 Thursday Feb 2023

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I was working away on the computer in the den, all by myself, and was startled to hear a loud bang from upstairs…

ran up, asking Google to turn on the bedroom light, and discovered that the glass shelf beside the closet had fallen to the ground… it and the weights that were sitting on it were fine😳…

put everything back and wondered if it was a reminder that I need to start using the weights, rather than just admiring their beauty, lol…

my heartbeat has returned to normal now…

scrunch…

08 Wednesday Feb 2023

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this morning, I dragged the hose up from the basement, out through the backdoor, and into the tub…

last night I had a great time in the hot tub, but had to scrunch down as the water was rather low…

only took about ten minutes to fill it up… now we will see if it gets up to temp by tonight;-)…

simmered…

07 Tuesday Feb 2023

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spent a good portion of the day in the kitchen… it smelled lovely the whole time…

pork hocks and cabbage slowly simmered all day long…

then I made garlic mashed potatoes mid day so that they had time to cool before being reheated…

and then it was supper time;-)…

all that simmering worked as the meat was fork tender and delicious;-)…

virus…

05 Sunday Feb 2023

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been doing a little decorating for February…

it is Heart month and I dug out the hearts from various spots around the house and put them out…

the stairway came out quite nicely;-)…

every time I go up or down the stairs, I am reminded of my beloved…he dealt with a number of heart issues over his last few years…

he had been in good health, until a virus caused serious cardiomyopathy and later he had a quadruple bypass… all of that before he was finally taken with a heart attack… his father also died from a heart attack…

this month I will be making a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in celebration of our wonderful life together…

LOVE…

04 Saturday Feb 2023

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emptied the living room table a few days ago…

today I brought the LOVE letters down and put them into the squares…

it looks okay, but I am not sure if I am happy with the result…

hmm, may need something else added in…

the orchids look quite nice on it although the O kind of gets lost, lol…

trajectory…

03 Friday Feb 2023

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my youngest grandson just turned fourteen…

brought back a number of memories as his birth changed the trajectory of my life…

because I refused to miss his birth, I ended up leaving a job I had been at for ten years, as the boss wasn’t pleased that I had taken away time from my position… a lot of trauma occurred over the next while and eventually I was walked out of the office…

one good thing that came out of that was the hot tub, as I was awarded a year’s salary due to my wrongful dismissal and purchased it with some of those funds…

there was huge stress and tension and the hot tub has helped with that for many years now;-)…

after a number of months I found the perfect position where I flourished for nearly ten years before my retirement…

lots of things to sift through…

this photo was taken in 2020, when I was still keeping my distance from everyone, but it does show him and the hot tub together, lol…

hard to believe it all began fourteen years ago…

bedside…

02 Thursday Feb 2023

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to make cleaning easier I always put most of the items on the bedside table into the drawer before the cleaners arrive…

after they leave I bring the items back out…

I absolutely love the amethyst heart that I purchased for my birthday when we were in Hawaii…

it sits at the edge of the Google Display and makes me smile every time I see it;-)…

took it downstairs into the sunlight to get a good photo before returning it back to its spot;-)…

thrift…

01 Wednesday Feb 2023

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great excitement…

got a call from my next door neighbour… we are both readers and share books on a regular basis…

she was at a thrift store and found books by one of our favourite authors… she wanted to check to see if we had read all the ones that were available…

we chatted and went through the list that I’ve made as I’ve read the books… I used the list inside one of the covers and have noted each book we’ve read…

we discovered six… yay…

once she dropped them off, I went through the list and marked the books in order of where they are on the list, which is the order I will read them… I also included three that I had just purchased…

so, you may not hear from me for a while, lol…

tidying…

31 Tuesday Jan 2023

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had a busy day…

enjoyed the hibiscus which surprised me with a new flower yesterday and is still blooming, cozied up agains the wall;-)…

ran towels through the washer, folded and put them away…

it has been crazy cold here, but the sun was shining as I shovelled the snow to get to the garbage and recycling bins and then took out a ton of stuff, completely filling the recycle bin… will need to remember to put it in the lane for pickup day, lol…

did some tidying as the cleaners are coming tomorrow…

as I tidy I always remember how blessed I am;-)…