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14 Sunday Dec 2014

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the weather has been absolutely silly lately…

Friday night we walked back from our Christmas party in shoes and with our jackets open…

yesterday when I went out, I wore a spring jacket with a vest and was perfectly warm…

took this picture out the window this morning…

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it went to zero Celsius today…

when I had an early morning hot tub today I had to wear a baseball cap as it was misting/foggy, but lovely and warm… as I sat there, I could hear water dripping from the eaves…

silly, lol…

it was warm enough that we were able to pull out dead plants from a planter on the steps and put in the spiral tree…

it looks lovely when the snow covers it… gonna have to wait a while for that…

the swag is on the outside of the door and the silver snowflake wreath is on the inside… looks good…

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spent time organizing and decluttering…

feels like another productive day… maybe my energy is returning…

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surprise…

11 Thursday Dec 2014

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couple of lovely surprises today…

my friend drove me to my doctor’s appointment this afternoon as she has been using my car…

afterwards we went to her house and she showed me a few exercises with weights and then she gave me two three-pound ones…

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and they are purple… slightly different from the four pound pair I have…

was cooking my dinner when the doorbell rang and a friend of my Ottawa kids handed me a beautiful swag which my daughter had ordered from them…

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it smells gorgeous… now I have to figure out where to put it…

how special is that…

love…

09 Tuesday Dec 2014

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sat eating my breakfast looking at Love which my beloved made with his scroll saw… he was very talented…

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been going through a bit of poor me… missing George and feeling a bit down with all the health stuff…

on our way home tonight we saw some spectacular sun dogs…

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was hard to get great shots as the traffic was whizzing past…

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so tired I wasn’t sure I would make it through aquasize class, but I did… then I made some soup with squash and chicken and onions… very nice…

now to bed…

evening…

08 Monday Dec 2014

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quite a busy evening for me, lol…

put something into the oven after I got home, and headed upstairs for a nap…

heard a quiet ring and decided to go see if there was someone at the door… and discovered my grandson who has been hired by my Ottawa kids to shovel for me…

he had taken the bus from school and had a fair walk as he might have been on the wrong bus… after he warmed up for a few minutes he shovelled… not too much snow had come down, but it had swirled around a bit…

once he finished, I made him some hot chocolate and we had a visit before he headed off to catch a bus home…

what a lovely Christmas gift, clean walks and visits with a special young man…

had my supper and napped a tiny bit… my BS friends arrived just after eight and we had an excellent time catching up… we hadn’t met for a few weeks…

while we were sitting there, cars were coming and going on the street and people were getting in and out of them… then more cars were in the lane, and finally people were walking along the creek with flashlights… bizarre… it will be interesting to hear about what was going on…

all was quiet when everyone left…

fish are happy and the tank is finally clear…

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evening…

08 Monday Dec 2014

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quite a busy evening for me, lol…

put something into the oven after I got home, and headed upstairs for a nap…

heard a quiet ring and decided to go see if there was someone at the door… and discovered my grandson who has been hired by my Ottawa kids to shovel for me…

he had taken the bus from school and had a fair walk as he might have been on the wrong bus… after he warmed up for a few minutes he shovelled… not too much snow had come down, but it had swirled around a bit…

once he finished, I made him some hot chocolate and we had a visit before he headed off to catch a bus home…

what a lovely Christmas gift, clean walks and visits with a special young man…

had my supper and napped a tiny bit… my BS friends arrived just after eight and we had an excellent time catching up… we hadn’t met for a few weeks…

while we were sitting there, cars were coming and going on the street and people were getting in and out of them… then more cars were in the lane, and finally people were walking along the creek with flashlights… bizarre… it will be interesting to hear about what was going on…

all was quiet when everyone left…

fish are happy and the tank is finally clear…

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trees…

06 Saturday Dec 2014

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it was beautiful outside today…

got some lovely shots of the sun rising…

caught the red sun at just the right moment...

caught the red sun at just the right moment…

just a few minutes later the colours changed dramatically…

just a few minutes later...

just a few minutes later…

was in the computer room and had to take a picture of the trees outside the window… the hoarfrost was absolutely beautiful…

through the computer room window...

through the computer room window…

heading out to do some shopping, I had to stop the car and get a few pictures of the trees on the street covered in hoarfrost… still have to check how the ones I took with my Nikon came out…

hoarfrost down the street...

hoarfrost down the street…

I was trying to get a shot of the snowflakes on the windshield, but that didn’t work with my phone, lol…

ended the day putting up a small tree in the living room and started putting on the ornaments… this year I am trying to do some of the decorating differently and am having to choose what I will put out and where I will put it which certainly slows down the process…

after all that discovered that the light in the bedroom wasn’t working and changing the bulb didn’t fix it… gave up and will deal with it tomorrow… I did see a lovely table lamp on tv tonight that might look very nice…

there were a lot of trees in my day…

memories…

04 Thursday Dec 2014

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a good day… very few rough moments, which was lovely… birthdays have always been special in our family so marking George’s is important…

started the day by taking the last of the antibiotics, yay… been using George’s pill container as I need to take the pills with my breakfast now…

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last pill…

Crystal and I walked over to the Burger Place and picked up burgers and milkshakes for our supper…

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moon through the trees…

made her hold everything while I took the picture on my phone… met up with all the boys at home and then FaceTimed with the kids in Ottawa… they had picked up burgers and milkshakes at McDonalds… we had apple pie in both places as well…

supper was busy and we shared various favourite memories of Dad/Grandpa… from reading every word of a very long story to the little boys, to always starting a new conversation when someone was trying to hang up or walk out the door, to working with the boys around the house and a love of the garden and ponds…

he would talk to any and every person he came in contact with… and he would know lots about them afterwards… just today I was mentioning how that is one of the most difficult things – not having anyone here to share with…

it was good to all be together, even if it was over the airwaves with the iPad… we continue to talk about him so that we won’t forget how special he was…

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all of the kids, some being naughty…

today’s Advent gift was a bottle of Baileys so I had just a little bit after everyone left… it will be interesting to see what that does to my blood sugar, lol…

what a gift to have met and married my beloved, and spend over forty years together…

CPR…

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

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spent the morning in a refresher first aid course… we’ve done one every couple of years… this is my third…

always seem to do them in early December… just before or after George’s birthday…

the whole conversation around CPR is always difficult and brings me right back to the night he died… but practising what to do is also cathartic…

I keep thinking about the person who called 911 and then stayed with him until the emergency team arrived… did they hold his hand, did they give him CPR…

I miss him so much, and try to remember the good things and not focus on the sadness…

tomorrow he would have turned 66…

the moon was nearly full as I walked home from the grocery store after work… I was too cold to stop and take a picture of it, but took this when I got home…

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and noticed that a critter has been running all over the roof of the garage…

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maybe one of George’s squirrel friends, lol…

blogging…

02 Tuesday Dec 2014

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yesterday marked my second year on WordPress…

in that time I have written nearly every day, 747 posts to be exact…

more than 150 people follow my blog and the most popular topics include life, her big girl pants, and nature…

pretty good considering the day I started I was just going to see what it was about, lol…

my goal had been to share the experiences I had gone through following the passing of my beloved… not sure if I’ve done that…

for the last few weeks, every time I walk by the garden window at night, three of the solar lights twinkle all night long… I’ve decided that George is helping them twinkle:-)…

I’m learning to deal with my new reality and am finally over the poor me stage…

so far the sugar hadn’t been too much of a problem, but I guess the real test will come around Christmas…

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snow…

29 Saturday Nov 2014

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was up at 5:30 this morning and looked out the window to see a bunny wandering through the back yard…

Friday morning when I was putting out the garbage there was a bunny sitting in the middle of the back lane… spent a few moments watching until it moved into a yard…

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those are bunny footprints…

it snowed through the night and a bit this morning… trees look stunning…

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the garden is beautiful all covered in the snow…

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sunshine added to the beauty today…

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got lots done… reorganized the laundry room by putting the dressers back… never did hear back from those foundation guys… did laundry and cleaned out the cabinets under the fish tank…

finishing the day with some tv…