08 Wednesday May 2019
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, geese, grass, nesting, Qualico Family Center, roof, walk, widow
took these photos Sunday, on my walk in the Park…
clearly some geese were setting up their nest on the roof of the skating shelter by the Duck Pond…
sort of funny when you think that the roof on the Qualico Family Center, just a few steps away, is made of grass, lol…
07 Tuesday May 2019
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beaver, big girl pants, geese, lodge, rear view mirror, teacher, widow
this morning there were a pair of geese at the end of the street as we were heading to work… caught this cool shot of them in the rear view mirror… hope they decide to nest here…
as I walked up the street on my way home, chatted with a woman who was looking into the creek… she’s a teacher and was trying to find the beaver’s lodge so she could bring her class to see it… that’s pretty cool…
on Sunday I took this shot of one of the trees that the beaver has been working on…
06 Monday May 2019
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as I walked up the street tonight I saw a few couples…
the mallard couple have been coming to this creek for many years… these might be the children or even grandchildren now…
a few steps further along I came across the bunny couple… they weren’t sitting quite as close together, lol…
nice walk…
05 Sunday May 2019
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big girl pants, cold, gloves, May, sandals, shivers, snowflakes, Tea, walk, widow
this morning the sun was shining as I got dressed to go for my first Spring walk to the Park…
temperature was a bit cool, right around 1° Celsius, but it looked pretty nice out…
so, I wore short pants and sandals… by the time I was heading out the door the sky looked a bit dark (like snow) so I did add my hat…
a bit of wind as I was walking, but not too bad… I had on my Spring/Fall jacket and my little gloves were in my pocket…
before too long I had on the gloves and took most of my pictures wearing them… luckily the camera doesn’t insist on bare skin the way the iPhone does, lol…
snowflakes did fall every now and then… May 5th, sigh…
I was happy to get home but didn’t realize until I was laying under a blanket with a hot cup of tea in my hands how cold I had been… I did sit in the bathroom for a while to warm my toes on the floor;-)…
my entire body shivered for ages, lol…
hope my next walk is a bit warmer…
04 Saturday May 2019
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basement, big girl pants, birdseed, deck, feeders, furniture, garden, reading, ready, widow, wind
a beautiful day out…
it was fairly windy so I wasn’t going to go and do anything outside, but had a conversation with my Ottawa daughter who had been busy in her yard…
so, I had a nap and then went out for a bit…
brought up the birdseed from the basement and filled the feeders as well as the two pails that live in the garage…
then I did a little cleaning on the back deck and moved the furniture around to get the garden ready…
and finally, I spent some time reading in the sunlight…
03 Friday May 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, bliss, favourite, favourite thing, flowers, food, garden, leaves, moments, nature, orchid, orchids, photos, pictures, trees, vacation, waterfall, weather, widow
I’ve been asked by a number of people to share my favourite thing about Maui…
so I’ve been thinking about it… and I can’t come up with just one thing…
over the last week I’ve printed a group of my favourite photos… and have been looking them over and remembering the particular moments each one represents…
there were so many special times… the ocean, the beaches, the rainbows, the trees, the turtles, the vegetation, the orchids, the flowers, snorkelling, the waterfalls, the food, the helicopter flight, the cacao trees, and on and on…
it really was two weeks of bliss;-)…
02 Thursday May 2019
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01 Wednesday May 2019
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big girl pants, black currant, chocolate, purple, spill, Tea, treat, whale, widow
last night I made some of my new black currant tea…
got out my special cup, filled up my Bino with extra hot water, put milk in my cute little purple whale jug and found a few pieces of chocolate to go with everything and put it all on my new tray…
had two lovely cups…
and then…
as I was pouring the third cup… knocked over the milk which spilled everywhere on the tray and onto me, lol…
but those first two cups were excellent;-)…
30 Tuesday Apr 2019
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big girl pants, birthday, black currant, family, flowers, girl, mailbox, memories, moments, parcel, postcard, Tea, treat, widow
started the day admiring a few of the flowers from my birthday bouquet… yesterday morning I removed a few and returned the remainder to the office…
when I got home and checked the mailbox I was very happy…
there was a parcel and a postcard from Hawaii;-)…
the parcel was from one of my “girls” who lives in Vancouver now… she sent me some lovely black currant loose tea… what a sweet girl…
the postcard was from my daughter… she is always sending postcards and while we were on Maui she found one with orchids on it and sent it to me;-)…
just made a cup of the tea… it is lovely…
29 Monday Apr 2019
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barbecue, big girl pants, croaking, frogs, garden, grandson, pond, Sargent Sundae, son-in-law, spawn, steak, walk, widow
yesterday my son-in-law and youngest grandson came over…
we ran out and got a few errands done and then made a late lunch…
my son-in-law barbecued steaks and my grandson sliced mushrooms and chopped lettuce for our salad…
first barbecue of the year and it was delicious…
while the steaks were cooking my son-in-law cleaned up a bit of the yard and the pond… and he found three clumps of frog spawn…
been listening to frogs croaking since I’ve been home, so very excited and hopeful that we will have lots of tadpoles and frogs…
then we walked over to Sargent Sundae for ice cream, although it was a bit chilly, lol…
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