22 Sunday Mar 2026
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anticipating, big girl pants, blessed, covers, family, garden, ice, melting, moments, snow, weather, widow, wind
we finally got the deck shovelled… there is still a bit of snow and ice, but now it should melt more quickly…
we also got the last of the snow off the two chairs on the deck, but I am anticipating that the cushions underneath the covers will be wet…
unfortunately, the cover is still frozen to the deck… but the wind was sure blowing the covers around now that the snow is gone…
21 Saturday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly, butterfly blanket, happy, light, moments, monarch, naps, nature, warm, widow
I have been loving my new butterfly blanket…
it is much lighter than the blanket that I’ve been using for naps in the den…
and although it is lighter it is just as warm and cozy;-)…
I think it is going to be lovely when I’m in my chair on the deck —- soon I hope —- as the weather warms up;-)…
17 Tuesday Mar 2026
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16 Monday Mar 2026
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finally had the time to spend curled up in the sun on the bed… usually by the time I think of it, the sun has already left the bed;-)…
it was warm and cozy, lol…
so happy that the season is moving forward and before you know it, there will be time spent on the deck in the sunshine as well…
15 Sunday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dragonfly, family, living room drawers, moments, nature, seeds, spring-y, widow
time to change the living room table…
put away the L O V E letters and found a beautiful spring scarf that my daughter gave me from her trip to Italy…
once the scarf was down, all of the seed packets we have went into the four squares…
then I put the driftwood with the dragonfly on it onto the table…
finally, cushions came down from upstairs and replaced the ones that had been on the sofa…
feels spring-y…
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…
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…
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;-)…
16 Monday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, grandson, ice, moments, nature, remiss, shovel, shovelling, snow, weather, widow
we’ve been a bit remiss in clearing the back decks on the way to the gate and garage, sigh… and it has become rather dicey when I’m getting into and out of the hot tub🤪…
it had gotten very rough and slippery so we tried a few weeks ago to chip away at it… unfortunately it was still too cold and the snow and ice were rather deep…
Sunday, I went out in the afternoon when it was quite warm (-2° C with windchill)… I took out one of the small, metal shovels from the beautifully organized wall in the garage and spent a half hour or so removing the slush and chunks of wet, snowy, ice, clearing a path to the garage side door (almost), hot tub, and driveway gate… due to winter ground heaving in the garage, we aren’t using the side door just now…
it was lovely out and I took my time with constant breaks…
it is down to the wood now, and will likely dry up nicely…
fingers crossed;-)…
14 Saturday Feb 2026
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air-dried, big girl pants, blessed, cold weather, early, frozen, hot tub, moments, nature, Olympics, widow
I’ve been going out to the hot tub for the last week or so…
it had been a long time since I’ve been out there because the weather had caused the lid to freeze over…
last night when I came in there was some Olympic replays of the day on which I watched as I air-dried on the bed, lol…
then it was off to sleep so getting up at 3:30 am wouldn’t seem too tiring;-)…
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