light…

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, garden, geese, George, light, morning glory, sun

noticing every day how there is less light… waking up in the dark and needing to turn on the lights to get ready…

the sun is setting around eight so it is dark before you know it… less than thirteen hours of light each day…

the garden is struggling as well, what with the low temperatures… I check as soon as I get outside to see if any morning glories have braved the weather and bloomed…

I can’t see a morning glory without thinking of George counting how many were blooming each morning when I was in hospital for a six week period, and often bringing me a picture… sure do miss him…

hard to see, but this is a picture of some geese flying over first thing… the sound of their honking makes it clear that Fall is coming, lol…

fresh tomato with my chicken, potatoes and roasted garlic tonight… love popping something into the oven and napping while it cooks…

even with a persistent cold, life is good…

still…

16 Tuesday Sep 2014

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this morning it was warmer out and the morning glories were trying to open…

when I looked up the clouds in the sky were like a picture…

as the day went on I felt less and less well… by the time I left the office my throat was very sore and I was coughing more…

I am still sick with this cold and decided to head right to bed…

phone seemed to ring off the hook, but eventually the calls stopped… made some orange and strawberry juice which usually makes me feel better…

really need to shake this…

comfort

15 Monday Sep 2014

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too cold for the morning glories today… but it was beautiful when I left the office… sun was shining and it was around 20 Celsius… very nice after a week of rather chilly temperatures…

the tomatoes were looking rather sad, so I took them off the vine… certainly didn’t get as many as usual…

was very happy to spend a couple of hours with my BS friends… it is always great to be together and we haven’t met for a while – I was away and then there were scheduling conflicts… these women have been my companions for over two decades… being with them provides comfort and balance in my life…

cold…

13 Saturday Sep 2014

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alyssum, big girl pants, chicken soup, cold, hot tub, spider

been a very quiet day… taking it easy in the hopes of shaking this cold…

went outside a few times, mainly to put chemicals in the hot tub…

while I was out there took a pic of the fish in the tub pond…

one of the pots is gorgeous, filled with beautiful alyssum which smells absolutely gorgeous…

made some chicken soup in the hope that it will help fight the cold…

had my big girl pants on when a huge spider ran across the ceiling in the bedroom… got a book and dealt with it without even cringing…

look…

11 Thursday Sep 2014

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this morning I was taking a picture of the morning glories… I can’t really go past them without checking to see how many are blooming…

this one was particularly beautiful as it looks like the light is glowing from the centre…

heard the geese and looked up to see them flying by the trees… such a beautiful sight and sound…

as I drove to work the sky was quite amazing and I was able to get a picture at a stop light…

lovely what you see if you take the time to look…

full…

10 Wednesday Sep 2014

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this morning I got a couple of shots of the moon… it was full last night but cloudy here, so I was happy to see it this morning…

weather has been very cool and the plants in the garden are shivering…

brought in the Japanese Maple because I don’t want it to lose all its leaves again…

enjoyed the beauty of the clouds in the sky as I drove to the office, the sound of the geese flying over and also my lovely ornament hanging from the rear view mirror…

it is a sterling Christmas ornament that spells out JOY… it is hanging there to help me find my car, lol… but it also reminds me to see the joy in everything…

maybe…

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, flowers, lock, maybe

the other day when I was cleaning out that difficult drawer, I came across this key…

thought it looked like the one for the safety deposit box they showed me at the credit union …

very excited and hopeful, I stopped in on my way home tonight to see…

the person I showed it to thought it was theirs as well… she found another
staff person and we went into the vault and they tried it in two boxes, both with the same number…

it didn’t fit either… we’ve had that
safety deposit box for probably forty years… think they moved it when the credit union moved to its new location, lol… haven’t been in it since 2005… and I’m fairly sure it is empty…

they can have a locksmith come in and drill it open for about $150, so if I can’t find the key I may have to do that…

currently I pay around $50 per year for it… used to be about $15 which didn’t seem too expensive…

tonight a few flowers were still blooming, even though the temperature has been very chilly for the last few days…

maybe the right key will turn up…

ahhhhh…

07 Sunday Sep 2014

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ahhhhh, butterflies, Hudson, reward, shower, twins, zoo

finally have my feet up after a very full day…

kids called to see if I’d like to go to the zoo… said yes and made spinach dip while I waited for them to pick me up…

we had a great time… one of the bears was swimming, one was by the open space where they can connect with people – I’m guessing that was Hudson – and one wandered in the area by the Tundra Grill so we got to watch for quite a while as we had a bite to eat… took very few pictures as I wanted to just watch…

got a pic with all my grandkids…

we spent time in the butterfly garden and I took this photo…

then we went outside and found this butterfly, too funny…

when we got home we prepped for a shower for our friend and her twins… we worked right up to, and during the shower…

my reward…

steps…

06 Saturday Sep 2014

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was going to try to put the shoe storage units on the wall this morning, but I didn’t have any screws… a bit humorous because somewhere in the garage I expect there are hundreds of them…

then I moved to organizing a drawer and in the process had to destroy some items of my beloved’s… still amazingly difficult…

I went to the grocery store to pick up a few items and when I got home discovered that the pond was nearly out of water… turned it off and filled it up again…

listened to geese flying over as I was filling the pond… I do love that sound…

the moon is gorgeous tonight…

little steps as I continue to wear those big girl pants…