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evaporates…

03 Tuesday Mar 2026

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big girl pants, conversations, evaporates, fish condos, humidity, moments, nature, Tupperware, water, widow

I am always surprised as to how much water evaporates in the house on a regular basis…

Monday mornings I add about twelve litres of water to the fish condos as the water has gone down a significant amount since the previous week…

I have a Tupperware container that lives under the kitchen sink and is filled with water for the plants…

the plants get watered on Wednesdays weekly, but the tanks are topped up on Mondays…

the reason it is Monday is that my friends come every Monday afternoon and the less water in the tanks, the more noise the pumps make, and the loud noise can disrupt our conversation…

cannot interrupt important conversations, especially if one of us is on the phone…

passed…

02 Monday Mar 2026

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always with me, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, passed, remembering, widow

it is the beginning of March and I realized I hadn’t remembered that this week marks 14 years since my beloved passed…

at first I felt bad because I hadn’t remembered, but then I realized how often I think of him during each and every day and no longer focus on the day he died…

March…

01 Sunday Mar 2026

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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, calendars, flowers, March, moments, month, Technology, widow

the calendars changed today to March;-)…

new flock of birds to see…

and the little bouquet has changed a bit as the front vase moved to the back;-)…

it is also a birthday month in our family, lol…

pantry…

28 Saturday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, comfort, craving, food, Kraft dinner, moments, pantry, supper, widow

I was wanting some comfort food recently and couldn’t think of what I wanted…

eventually I decided on Kraft Dinner… hadn’t had any in ages, but had a box in the pantry;-)…

it was delicious and just what I needed…

funny what can provide comfort when you are craving it…

roosts…

27 Friday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, moments, nature, roosts, The Leaf, widow

had some fun today during my shift in the butterfly garden;-)…

there were a number of butterflies flying around as they were heading off to their night time roosts…

also enjoyed a trip through the Mediterranean Biome…

snowploughs…

26 Thursday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, buckets, driveway, family, moments, nature, removal, snow, snowploughs, weather, widow, windrow

the snowploughs came along the street about 10:30 this morning…

there were a lot of them… maybe two or three of the big ones that move the snow from the road to the curb…

and block off the driveway…

then come the buckets which clean up the windrow… I think there were three of them…

they always take a scoop by the fire hydrant so that it is accessible if needed… unfortunately they didn’t scoop out the sidewalk… sometimes if you are outside already shovelling, they might take a scoop there as well;-)…

not this time, but my housemate dug through it on his break;-)…

switch…

25 Wednesday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, cold tub, dishwasher, light, moments, power, switch, Technology, widow

last week we discovered that the heater, that keeps the cold tub at 5° C, had tripped the power switch…

we couldn’t figure out what caused the problem, but it didn’t happen again… until this morning…

twice, while I was making soup in the kitchen, it tripped again…

seems to be some connection with the dishwasher and light above the stove and maybe the heater in the cold tub… turned off the stove light and didn’t have anymore problems…

fingers crossed 🤞…

muscle…

24 Tuesday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, family, moments, muscle, nature, shovel, snow, Technology, weather, widow

a while ago, I pulled a muscle in my lower abdomen…

it took awhile to get confirmation as I thought it was something else, lol…

apparently, shovelling is a really bad thing to do, which is unfortunate… usually I shovel the steps and front sidewalk… it doesn’t take that long, but after I shovelled last week, the pain got more intense…

so, today, when I had to go out, I decided not to shovel… it was difficult, but I remember the pain…

so I went out the back and walked in the tire tracks down to the street to get in the Uber…

will be getting my housemate to clear it up;-)…

extension…

23 Monday Feb 2026

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big girl pants, blessed, connect, extension, friends, gathering, moments, phone, power, talk, Technology, widow

had a bit of a laugh last week when we had our gathering…

currently one of us is away, so we added her by phone to our time together…

I connected the phone to the charger to be sure there was sufficient charge to get through the call…

was thinking how clever I was, until after the call when I realized that I hadn’t turned on the power to the extension cord, lol…

this week I remembered;-)…

riveting…

22 Sunday Feb 2026

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athletes, big girl pants, blessed, moments, Olympics, riveting, sports, Technology, time, widow, withdrawal

and so, after seventeen days, the 2026 Olympics are over, sigh…

it was a delight to watch so many different sports, including some new ones, and learn about the individual athletes… I can no longer pick a particular favourite sport because so many are riveting… could not be more proud of all of our athletes who represented us so well…

there will likely be some withdrawal pains over the next few days…

now to get back to reading, and actually leaving the house, lol…

I am blessed…

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