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13 Wednesday May 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, comfort, comfort food, family, food, meals, memories, remembering, supper, widow

had a bit of a giggle when I told my daughter that I had mushrooms and bacon with croutons for my supper recently…

she wondered if it was an actual meal…

I shared how it was certainly a meal when I was a teenager although then when my mom or dad made it, it was on toast, not with croutons…

so, for me it is comfort food… I feel that we are eating a lot of comfort food these days as we try to figure out what our next steps will be…

so many of the meals we ate a long time ago might not have been considered as nutritious as what is being eaten these days… I think of corn on the cob and fresh tomatoes, spaghetti and meatballs without any vegetables, macaroni and cheese on its own, lol… a lot more fresh veggies are part of our meals today…

but it is fun to remember, and recreate some of those old recipes…

projects…

12 Tuesday May 2020

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big girl pants, computer, directions, forget, learning, moments, patience, projects, Technology, training, understanding, widow

I’ve been working on a few technology projects, including reading a very long manual, lol… I am amazed at how easily and quickly I seem to have forgotten how to spend a serious amount of time learning…

I’ve also been learning and sharing information on how to make programs work… this makes me think about what a great job those who provide this type of information over the phone or computer do… clearly, they are amazing and should get lots of kudos…

it takes excellent understanding and clear directions to help get something working for someone from a distance… I think of my son-in-law who climbs into my computer from away and figures out the problem and either fixes it, or walks me through the process to get things working again… all without a single complaint about what I might have done that may have caused the problem in the first place…

thinking this is good practice in patience and happy to be relearning this skill…

 

rims…

10 Sunday May 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, car, family, garden, happy, moments, pond, pump, rims, tires, waterfall, widow

had the loveliest surprise on Friday… my son-in-law and two of my grandsons arrived in my garden… the oldest grandson was picking up my car so that the winter tires can be removed and replaced with the summer beauties – they have wonderful rims…

I stayed on the deck and they stayed on the grass… it was wonderful to see them and we had a nice visit…

while they were here my son-in-law got the pump running in the pond… I am so happy to hear the water cascading over the rocks… there was ice in the water as it has been below zero for a couple of nights…

they got the tires into their vehicle and we had to ask the moving truck that was parked right at the bottom of my driveway to back up so the car could get out…

too funny considering I haven’t taken the car out in 52 days, and the one day it needed to move, there was a truck in the way, lol…

it was great to see them as we haven’t been together since just before Christmas…

vines…

09 Saturday May 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, cards, delicious, friend, moments, napkins, nature, purple, scones, treats, vines, virginia creeper, widow

got a text this afternoon from a wonderful friend advising she was going to drop something off…

one day last week I had gathered up some Virginia creeper vines and she had picked them up, so I think this was a little thank you…

I was excited because she makes the world’s best scones… and I was hoping that was what she was bringing…

we had a lovely chat and exchanged items… she got a card from my stash for Mother’s Day, and I got craisin scones, made with sweetener, and some purple napkins… I think I got the best of the deal, lol…

I said I wasn’t going to eat them until tomorrow, but I had to have a taste, lol…

what a lovely surprise…

feeders…

08 Friday May 2020

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big girl pants, birds, birdseed, blessed, feeders, garden, grandson, moments, nature, purple, shopping, widow

I’ve been out a few times topping up the feeders, and I even added a new one I discovered in the garage…

a friend dropped off some sunflower seed for me but I am getting a bit worried that it will run out before I can get more from the store… hopefully my grandson will be by and able to pick some up for me…

watching the new arrivals to the garden is such fun and I’ve started a list of everything I see this spring and summer…

thought I’d spotted a purple finch, but discovered that it is likely a house finch, lol…

waste…

07 Thursday May 2020

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big girl pants, birds, finches, garbage, garden, Google Home, home, moments, nature, remembering, waste, widow, yard waste

today, Google Home reminded me to put out the garbage and recycling… I also remembered that tomorrow will be the first day that yard waste will be collected…

I was very happy about that because there were quite a few bags and a garbage can full of leaves, branches and old plants waiting to be disposed of…

this photo was from last week after Hilda the Gardener was here and it shows all the detritus that was needing a place to go…

this photo is from today after I moved all of the bags out to the lane… some of them were heavy…

amazing how moving a few bags makes the whole area look better…

when I went to take today’s photo I also spotted more finches at the feeder…

good day all around…

 

dahlias…

06 Wednesday May 2020

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for a number of days I was moving the dahlia pots outside in the morning and back into the house in the evening…

then they lived in the house for a few days as the weather was rather cool…

and I had such fun checking on them throughout the day to see if they had sprouted, and if so, to see how they had grown…

once again they’ve been moving out and back… most are coming up nicely…

watching new growth is so satisfying, particularly in this time of great unrest in our lives… still waiting for a couple to pop through the soil…

looking forward to the permanent move outside… still haven’t decided where they will each end up…

taste…

05 Tuesday May 2020

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, moments, travel, Uncategorized

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bag, big girl pants, blessed, boiled, daughter, delicious, dinner, Florida, Hawaii, Maui, memories, moments, remembering, Shrimp Hale, taste, vacation, walk, widow

someone recently talked about taking the time to enjoy eating, whether it is a snack, a meal, a treat…

tonight I had shrimp with cocktail sauce for my dinner…

while I was eating, I was remembering…

many years ago I flew to Florida with a dear family friend on vacation… I was there in case she had any problems with her health… we had a wonderful time and I enjoyed every minute with her…

one of the things you could do there was order cooked shrimp while shopping at the grocery store… while you shopped they were boiled and bagged for you to take home fresh… many evenings we peeled these delicious cold shrimp for our dinner as we discussed our day and life in general…

the other special memory was when we were in Hawaii last year and went to Shrimp Hale… it was a little restaurant in a strip mall just a short walk from where we were staying that we just happened upon…

the shrimp were boiled, butter, garlic and fresh lemon were added, and it was brought hot to the table in a plastic bag… we were given plastic bibs and gloves… the shells just went onto the paper on the table… it was such fun and so delicious…

such wonderful and special moments and memories… how blessed I am…

made my dinner taste even better…

number…

04 Monday May 2020

Posted by sulis303 in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, birds, blessed, feeder, garden, moments, moon, number, take the time, widow

saw a lovely view of the moon the other day while I was bird watching in the garden…

saw a number of birds… juncos, white throated sparrows, flickers and nuthatches…

pho…

03 Sunday May 2020

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big girl pants, blessed, Canada Takeout, ChowNow, eat, food, meals, moments, pho, Pho Hoang, staying home, Technology, treat, widow

Wednesday was Canada Takeout day and I decided to support Pho Hoang, a local restaurant which always produces delicious food…

I used a different app than normal, which appears to make sure that all the money goes to the restaurant…

whenever I order I try to get enough for at least a couple of meals…

this time I got 3 different things… the pho soup is always enough for two meals…

I also got shrimp garden rolls which I had for my supper as they are best when eaten fresh… finally I ordered sweet potato and shrimp crepes… I had a couple with the rolls;-)…

my dinner was delicious…

since then I’ve had pho for two meals as well as enjoying the sweet potato and shrimp crepes for a breakfast…

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