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11 Sunday Jan 2015

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had a very busy day today…

slept in until 8, and don’t think I stopped since then, until about an hour ago…

met the kids for breakfast at The Original Pancake House where I got to have my favourite chicken livers and potato pancakes… yum, can’t even remember the last time I had these…

from there we went shopping where I found two pairs of pants and a new scarf… we looked at chairs and treadmills… had our toes pedicured and I even got a dragonfly painted on one of mine…

finally, got this beautiful shot of the sky as we were getting into the car just before I dropped the kids off at the bus stop…

bought groceries, came home and unloaded all my purchases…

had leftover chicken livers for my supper, and napped for an hour… thinking about heading out for a hot tub…

clear…

08 Thursday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, clear, diabetic apps, grandson, snow

this morning I took this picture of the fresh snow on the ground… the window acted like a mirror and so the living room was clear as well…

kind of fun…

busy day and when I got home my grandson arrived to clear that snow…

he stayed for dinner and then headed home… on his way to the bus his dad turned up, on his way home from work, and gave him a ride… that made me happy because it is cold out there…

too chilly to hot tub and I am missing my time out there…

still searching for a good app to keep track of my blood sugar and what I have been eating… the ones I’ve looked at have very complicated food records so I will keep searching…

light…

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, light, Millennium Library, sad, Shelmerdine

Shelmerdine spent weeks working on a corner of the Millennium Library Park as the weather turned cold and the snow began to fall… we think part of the construction was a pad for food trucks to park on, but we won’t know until Spring comes… this portion is right behind our building…

the other thing we noticed was balls hanging from the trees…

they weren’t lit for quite a while but about a week ago they started to light up the area… got this shot on the way into the office this morning… still rather dark as you can see…

have been using my SAD light and I think it is helping keep me happier…

came home a bit later tonight and did notice that it is staying a bit lighter in the evening…

looking forward to each additional minute of light…

tree…

05 Monday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, moon, rest, tree, work

this morning as I was getting ready for work I stepped outside and looked at this tree covered in snow…

as I looked across the street the moon was full and over the neighbour’s house… pictures on my phone didn’t turn out, sadly…

full day back at work after two weeks away… happy to get home and have a rest before supper…

cleared…

04 Sunday Jan 2015

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chores, cleared, quiet day, shoveler, snow

spent a very quiet last day of holidays…

lots of TV watching and napping…

did a few chores around the house and got supper ready for the kids…

my shoveler worked very hard when he arrived…

that driveway is a lot bigger when there is five inches of snow on the ground and it is minus 40 with the windchill…

all cleared now so I am able to exit the premises, lol…

guess that means I can get to work tomorrow…

covered…

03 Saturday Jan 2015

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covered, patterns, snow, snowblowers

this morning there was way more snow outside… everything was covered…

looking out the door…

got a few great shots of the garden where the snow had made designs everywhere… couldn’t tell if it was the squirrel or bunny who left tracks in the snow…

gazing ball with a hat…

pattern on the trellis…

when I opened the front door it was clear that a lot of snow had fallen overnight… my snow guy was busy today, but luckily I didn’t need to go anywhere, so could just look out and admire it…

deep snow…

spent time listening to neighbours’ with their snowblowers and shovels as they cleaned sidewalks and driveways…

de-cluttered a closet, put away Christmas ornaments and did some walking…

now to bed…

snow…

02 Friday Jan 2015

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beauty, blanket, grandson, morning, snow

looked outside this morning and saw such beauty…

everything had been covered with a blanket of light fluffy snow…

luckily I didn’t need to leave home… always so much more beautiful if you don’t have to go out in it, lol…

this afternoon my grandson came over and shovelled the sidewalk, driveway and back path…

he did a good job and then came in for hot chocolate while we waited for his mom to pick him up, when she got off work…

a friend stopped by a few hours later and there was more snow on the ground… we went out for supper and while we were visiting the wind was blowing the snow around…

wonder what it is going to look like in the morning…

bright…

29 Monday Dec 2014

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app, bright, bulb, iPhone, sunshine, Technology

another sunshiny day…

stayed in for breakfast… felt like –41 Celsius outside…

went out for lunch with a friend and his three children… busy, lol…

one of my gifts was a light that I can turn on with an app on my iPhone… besides white, it can also turn any colour I’d like… guess which colour I’ve made it so far…

in the background is my new picture which the kids picked for me at IKEA… it looks lovely against the purple wall…

I do love technology…

sunlight…

28 Sunday Dec 2014

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big girl pants, daylight, George, stained glass angel, sunlight

spent a relaxing day…

sun has been shining for the last few days… lovely as we have been dealing with many days of overcast skies for what seems like weeks…

while we were visiting in the living room the sun shone through and made a rainbow effect where it reflected on one of the stained glass angels that George made a number of years ago…

looked beautiful and I was able to get a good picture after a few tries…

later in the afternoon it was clear that there is more light…

already the days are getting longer and that extra sunlight makes me very happy…

feeding…

26 Friday Dec 2014

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birds, feeding, kids, moments, nuthatch, woodpecker

couldn’t get any pictures of the chickadees and nuthatch on Tuesday, but got a few good shots on Wednesday just after the kids arrived… apparently they brought some good luck…

nuthatch and a chickadee at the feeder…

not only did we get the nuthatch and chickadees, but we also caught a woodpecker at the feeder…

woodpecker…

that was excellent… I’d seen the nuthatch, but the woodpecker was a great surprise…

today, I pulled a chair up to the window and sat there with my phone for quite a while as I had seen the birds flitting to and fro, but not a one would come by so I could get something on my phone, lol…

we’ve had a lazy, relaxing day… kids slept in and we walked over to The “A” for the breakfast special… walked from there to the grocery store, and home with the fixings for our dinner…

feeding has been an important part of the day, lol… finished making turkey soup, which we had for our lunch… sat and visited for the rest of the afternoon…

topped off the day with steak and lobster and macadamia clusters which I had picked up at least a couple of months ago, so that I would have then when the kids arrived…

none for me, but I did have one delicious little shortbread cookie…

enjoying the moments with my kids…

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