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chilly…

06 Monday Oct 2014

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big girl pants, chilly, Fall, fish, leaves

it really is Fall… the temperature is proving it every day…

IMG_8710.JPGit is chilly in the morning, and often in the evening as well… hard to know what to wear because it may or may not be hot in the office, depending on how the boiler is feeling, lol…

IMG_8707-0.JPGmissing my fish as I haven’t been out in the garden for ages… hopefully we can bring them into the house soon… think it is going to be fun trying to catch them all…

IMG_8708.JPGmost of the trees are bare….

yesterday morning I believe I saw frost in the garage roof…

hibiscus…

05 Sunday Oct 2014

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big girl pants, comforter, hibiscus, Pho Hoang, Skip the Dishes

brought in the hibiscus as the temperature has been going down…

IMG_8681.JPGthink I’ve found a good spot for it… one of the plants around the bottom of it is blooming today… think it was happy to be a bit warmer…

IMG_8679.JPGmonths ago I bought a new comforter and it has been in the cupboard since, but today I put it on the bed… looks nice…

last night I ordered from Pho Hoang through Skip the Dishes… this is the restaurant that we sometimes would go to after aquasize… nice to be able to have it delivered… when the pho arrived, I gobbled it up so fast that I didn’t even get a picture… today I had the leftovers for my lunch…

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still yummy…

quiet but productive day…

changes…

04 Saturday Oct 2014

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big girl pants, changes, clouds, door, fridge, moon, stove

the sky was lovely this morning… I got a shot of the clouds…

IMG_8661.JPGdid a bit of tidying up while I was waiting for my new stove and fridge…

IMG_8662.JPGthey are not brand new, but new to me… my son-in-law, and his brother, brought them over and put the stove in easily… we weren’t able to replace the glass on top, but hope to do that in the next week or so…

IMG_8663.JPGthe fridge on the other hand was a different story… had to take off the back door to get it into the house… then they had to take off the door in the basement… then they had to take off the two fridge doors… then they had to take off two fasteners at the bottom of the fridge and that was when they ran out of time…

so there is a fridge with no doors in the middle of the basement, waiting to get into the back room and be put back together…

IMG_8664.JPGto finish off the day I watched the moon go by my window… it was beautiful…

lots of changes today…

nearly…

03 Friday Oct 2014

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her big girl pants, hot tub, nearly, rustling, trees

great time in the hot tub tonight…

it is a bit chilly and feels wonderful when your head is cool and your body warm…

could hear the leaves rustling in the neighbour’s tree as the wind blew gently and admired their lovely yellow colour as they were backlit by the streetlight…

the Virginia creeper leaves along the garage and pergola are nearly gone… interesting to see the shape of the vines now, quite different from just a few weeks ago…

IMG_8571.JPGthe jets didn’t come on the entire time I was out so I could hear the sounds of the evening…

as well as the rustling leaves I heard the planes landing and a neighbour’s dog barking… and the quiet…

a few raindrops landed in the water but not on my head because I put a hat on when I went out… I don’t like water on my head and thought that it might rain as I was heading out, so I grabbed it… fun to watch those drops as they landed in the water…

wonderful end to a Friday…

IMG_8362.JPGthere are no leaves left on this tree today…

technology…

02 Thursday Oct 2014

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apps, big girl pants, internet, Technology, tv

had a wonderful discussion with a couple of people as we shared ways that technology can help us…

talked about apps that make it possible to use your phone to do things more easily… and apps that help you streamline your email… energizing…

then, when I got home, I discovered that the tv in the bedroom had no signal… ignored it for a while hoping it would get its signal back… had a nap, tried it again… still nothing…

checked the main floor tv and it worked perfectly… went to the basement and turned the router off and on and came back upstairs… and the tv worked…

then I tried to send an email from my phone… and it wouldn’t connect…

shut down and restarted the computer… still nothing…

called MTS and went through the whole process again…

got a great workout running up and down the stairs, lol…

finally everything is working…

IMG_8604.JPGan early morning glory today…

glass…

01 Wednesday Oct 2014

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big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly Garden and Glass, glass, Seattle Space Needle

today when I turned the page on the calendar in the hall I saw this…

IMG_8588.JPGbrought back the wonderful day we spent at Chihuly Garden and Glass at the base of the Seattle Space Needle…

IMG_8599.JPGI was taken with the gardens of blue and purple…

IMG_8597.JPGthe reflection in this globe shows me and the Space Needle…

IMG_8598.JPGmy daughter was mesmerized by the yellows and oranges…

spent a lovely few minutes resting in this gorgeous purple garden…

IMG_8596-0.JPGan amazing day I will never forget…

five years…

30 Tuesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, five years, leaves, morning glories, virginia creeper

it was overcast and cool this morning… the morning glories were struggling with the temperature… not sure how many more blooms there will be…

IMG_8570.JPGthe leaves are falling very quickly and there are less than half of the coloured Virginia creeper ones left along the garage…

IMG_8571.JPG today marked the fifth anniversary at my work…

we each have a box where other staff members can write and put notes of appreciation and thanks… my box used to be purple, but has faded to blue, lol…

so, to celebrate, I wrote a note to each person on staff thanking them for their contribution to these five years… and I brought in some nuts and a lovely chocolate haystack… we do love treats to eat…

we have been through a lot during this time… I have struggled with two serious illnesses/surgeries and my colleagues have been walking this new journey with me since George’s death… they really are amazingly supportive…

one of my colleagues had brought in some flowers from home yesterday, and this morning she shared them with me…

IMG_8572.JPGI have been blessed in all of the positions I have held… from a year at a law office, eight years at Transport Canada, contract work from home while our girls grew up, assisting my sister-in-law with her real estate business, a year at The Faculty of Theology at the U of W, ten years at a theological college, to these last five wonderful years…

IMG_8573.JPGhow many people have a workplace where yoga mats have showers:-)…

weeds…

29 Monday Sep 2014

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coneflowers, garden, George, sunflower, weeding, weeds

been missing George a lot lately… maybe it has to do with how bad the garden looks, lol…

haven’t done any weeding for weeks and haven’t touched the side garden all summer…

this sunflower has grown up from seeds tossed out of the feeder by the birds… George would never have let that happen… he spent time nearly every day weeding the various beds and they usually looked tidy…

wild sunflower...

wild sunflower…

of course, the purple coneflowers have survived since I planted them last year… George wasn’t here to pull them out as they popped through the soil in the spring… if you know this plant you will know that it does look similar to a weed… George would pull them out every spring after we had planted them the previous year…

purple cone flower...

purple cone flower…

it got to be a family joke…

just yesterday the little boys were asking me to read The Pink Giraffe to them and I couldn’t bear to… it was one of the last books he read to them before he died… maybe next time they ask I will be able to read it to them…

gone…

28 Sunday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, cold, gone, leaves, overcast, rain

looking out the window this morning the sky was overcast and the temperature had fallen… the warm weather has gone…

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IMG_8552.JPGthe remainder of the day wasn’t any better… one minute it would be pouring and the next just overcast…

had to run out and pick up a few things for our dinner for my daughter and her husband who celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary last Thursday…

IMG_8554.JPGgot a picture of the tree that has lost all of its leaves…

we had steak, lobster, twice-stuffed potatoes, mushrooms and salad… and for dessert we made s’mores cooked on a fire pot in the dining room…

seemed like a busy day…

purple…

27 Saturday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, goldfish, pedicure, pond, purple

spent some time by the pond this morning… weather was beautiful and I hadn’t been in the garden for ages…

IMG_8543.JPGit was quiet as the pump has been out of the pond for over a week… took pictures of the fish which was a great opportunity as the water was still…

IMG_8542.JPGthen I headed out to get my hair purpled…

IMG_8539.JPGgot home, had a snack and then my daughter and I went for pedicures…

IMG_8540.JPGyou will have to guess which foot is mine, lol…

she helped me clean out the freezer and on our way to the garbage I realized that my pond guy had been and had the water running again and I was very happy…

IMG_8541.JPGthink the fish were happy as well…

IMG_8544.JPGwonderful day…

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