10 Friday Oct 2014
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day started out with a bright spot…
that sweet hibiscus with blooms… great way to start the day…
not such a bright spot when I headed outside and saw windows covered with frost…
but when I got out of the car at the office and looked up, saw a lovely moon…
bright spot number three was getting to see my grandsons and have dinner with them and their parents… after dinner my son-in-law brought me home, on his way to work, and I had to take a picture of the beautiful sky…
great day…
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
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had a wonderful surprise this morning when I came downstairs…
the hibiscus was blooming… often when you bring a plant indoors it will die back, so this was quite wonderful…
looked out the window and watched the moon… the eclipse had finished earlier and the moon was no longer red, but it sure was big… the picture doesn’t do it justice, lol…
once I got home from work I jumped in the car and raced to the grocery store… I am on for soup tomorrow and am doing a recipe I haven’t tried before, and because I didn’t feel great last night I didn’t get the shopping done… once home I peeled carrots and yams and tossed everything into a soup pot and got cooking…
the really funny part was that this was a crockpot recipe but I didn’t have time to use the crockpot to cook it…
surprisingly it isn’t as orange as expected because I got yams instead of sweet potatoes and they were white inside…
think it tastes okay…
guess we will know for sure tomorrow…
07 Tuesday Oct 2014
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seems like I’ve done a lot of waiting for the last while…
waited for my ear infection to go away… and to be finished with those drops, euwwwww…
waiting for the pond to be working properly… my pond guy replaced the pump with a smaller version as the manufacturer felt the uv filter was causing a problem and they needed a smaller pump… that was a week ago Saturday… last Wednesday I noticed that the water was barely running and on Thursday morning turned off the pump as there was barely a trickle… hoping my guy gets here before it freezes… looks like we will still be dealing with this in the spring…
waiting to hear from the foundation people… I understood they were planning to do the work on my foundation the first week of October, so I am wondering when I will hear from them… particularly as the weather is getting colder every day… and there has even been a suggestion that we might be getting flurries…
waiting for the stove to have its new top and the fridge to be in the right space and have all the doors on, lol… think my boys will be coming by one evening this week to finish this up…
going to focus on these beautiful flowers instead of all that waiting stuff…
06 Monday Oct 2014
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it really is Fall… the temperature is proving it every day…
it 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…
missing 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…
most of the trees are bare….
yesterday morning I believe I saw frost in the garage roof…
05 Sunday Oct 2014
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brought in the hibiscus as the temperature has been going down…
think 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…
months 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…
still yummy…
quiet but productive day…
04 Saturday Oct 2014
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the sky was lovely this morning… I got a shot of the clouds…
did a bit of tidying up while I was waiting for my new stove and fridge…
they 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…
the 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…
to finish off the day I watched the moon go by my window… it was beautiful…
lots of changes today…
03 Friday Oct 2014
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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…
the 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…
there are no leaves left on this tree today…
02 Thursday Oct 2014
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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…
an early morning glory today…
01 Wednesday Oct 2014
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today when I turned the page on the calendar in the hall I saw this…
brought back the wonderful day we spent at Chihuly Garden and Glass at the base of the Seattle Space Needle…
I was taken with the gardens of blue and purple…
the reflection in this globe shows me and the Space Needle…
my daughter was mesmerized by the yellows and oranges…
spent a lovely few minutes resting in this gorgeous purple garden…
an amazing day I will never forget…
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
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it was overcast and cool this morning… the morning glories were struggling with the temperature… not sure how many more blooms there will be…
the leaves are falling very quickly and there are less than half of the coloured Virginia creeper ones left along the garage…
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…
I 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…
how many people have a workplace where yoga mats have showers:-)…
