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17 Sunday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, blessed, boot prints, car, prints, reminders, repair, snow, widow

recently, in amongst the times I was feeling sorry for myself, I’ve also been thinking of how blessed I am…

looked out the window into the backyard and could see the boot prints of my snow shoveler… how blessed am I to know that someone will come after it snows and clean my sidewalks and driveway…

had to take the car in because the plug for the block heater had been ripped off… lesson is, be careful who you lend your car to, lol…

anyway, I can afford to get it fixed properly…

good reminder for when I am feeling down;-)…

vent…

16 Saturday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, bunny, family, hot tub, moments, Rona, shopping, vent, widow

spent some time with my son-in-law yesterday…

one of the things we did was go to RONA and pick up a new cover and clamp for the dryer vent…

we’ve figured out a different way to add water to the hot tub, so that the vent doesn’t have to be removed for the hose to go through it…

as soon as we got home, he popped it into place and hooked up the inside vent…

while he was doing that, the bunny was sitting under a tree on the other side of the yard, watching;-)…

today, when I returned home from brunch out, she was sitting in the same spot… I feel a bit sorry for her…

but not enough to let her back into the house, lol…

owl…

15 Friday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, google, hooting, hot tub, owl, watching, widow

last night I made it out to the hot tub for the first time since my daughter left…

one side of the cover wouldn’t open all the way but that was okay…

while I was sitting there I could hear hooting…

this was the second time I’ve heard an owl in the last week… it flew away and all I saw was a large wingspan…

the other time was early morning and I barely saw it, but it looked a bit like a pheasant with two necks…

today I was googling to see what owls are common around here and found this…

what I thought were two necks is likely the ears…

gonna be watching for it now…

blubbered…

14 Thursday Feb 2019

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bannock, big girl pants, blubbered, difficult, flowers, heart, La Belle Baguette, loss, missing, sadness, tears, The Stoneware Gallery, widow

what a difficult day… i never know when one of these days will come along…

I’m a bit worn out from recent events so that may have exacerbated the feelings…

anyway, I blubbered throughout the morning at the office… my colleagues were all so kind…

I left after lunch and went to The Stoneware Gallery and found the cutest heart shaped bowls…

picked up bannock and rye bread from La Belle Baguette, which made me happy because they’ve been out of the bannock every time I’d stopped by previously…

filled up the car and got home in time to have a lovely afternoon nap…

looking forward to my first Friday off in many weeks…

pellet…

13 Wednesday Feb 2019

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adrenaline, big girl pants, blocked, bunny, carrot, door, pellets, surprise, widow

so last night I was in the bathroom and noticed a little piece of something on the ground… wondered if it was a piece of chocolate… it wasn’t, but I couldn’t figure out what it was…

spotted a few more as I walked to the kitchen and there were some on the floor there as well…

by then I was thinking that someone had been in the house… picked up all the bits and tossed them out…

headed upstairs and while I am watching tv saw a little head and then heard the pitter patter of little feet… when I looked down at the end of the bed I saw this…

the cutest little bunny… she let me take her picture and then hopped into the computer room…

I went downstairs to find some water and a carrot but I was still trying to figure out how she got in…

downstairs she came and sat in the doorway between the living and dining rooms…

I made a few phone calls and sent a few pictures… I like bunnies so I wasn’t scared but didn’t want one running around the house all night, leaving little pellets behind…

once she was in the dining room, I used chairs to block her in… then I made a path from there out the front door…

good thing it wasn’t too cold because the door was open for a while… once I moved the barricade to the dining room, she followed the path and went right outside where I had put a few more pieces of carrot for her…

eventually my heart stopped pounding, the furniture was all back in place, and I went downstairs to hook the vent back up, which was how she got in… will be buying something so that nobody else can come in that way;-)…

certainly had the adrenaline flowing…

deep…

12 Tuesday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, deep, flowers, morning, relax, snow, widow

this morning I spent some time relaxing in the living room before heading off to work…

it had snowed again during the night but it wasn’t too deep…

looked beautiful and as I drove away the trees were a treat to see…

sprouts…

11 Monday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cook, dad, family, favourite, grandson, meat sauce, memories, remembering, shopping, sprouts, widow

whenever I grocery shop with my grandson and ask if he wants Brussels sprouts for dinner he always says yes…

they are clearly his favourite vegetable, although he also has a thing for raw carrots, lol…

he cooks them much better than I, so I always get them ready, set out the butter and garlic, and have him do the cooking… sometimes we add a bit of red wine, if there is any around…

this time they went with leftover macaroni that I added to some meat sauce… tasty…

while I was making the sauce I was remembering my dad… his meat sauce was delicious, partly because he added something from every bottle in the pantry, lol…

he’s been gone for over thirty years… always surprises me what might bring up a memory…

arrived…

10 Sunday Feb 2019

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arrived, big girl pants, blessed, family, hot tub, iPhone, Ottawa, pictures, SHEday 2019, surprise, treat, widow

my older daughter, who lives in Ottawa, surprised me on Wednesday… she arrived to help with a big event I’ve been working on…

after the event, she was able to visit with a few of her friends and we spent Saturday in our jammies doing nothing…

it was divine as both of us have been very busy for the last month…

we made macaroni and cheese with lobster for supper… at the same time I learned more about Instagram stories and a new app that slices videos to Instagram size;-)… as I was going through my photos looking for one of the mac and cheese to put in this post, I was giggling because we took two sets of videos and there wasn’t a single photo of the process that was good enough to use, lol…

we did manage to get into the hot tub once… our usual routine is to spend a few minutes at the end of each evening there…

this morning we were up early and took our requisite selfie, lol… we used her fancy Huawei phone which has some smoothing aspect in the pic… we look pretty fine…

I got her to the airport by 6:30 am for her flight… and took our final selfie…

a wonderful gift…

teeny…

09 Saturday Feb 2019

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Baked Expectations, big girl pants, cheese, deadly chocolate mousse cake, lobster, macaroni, sunset, teeny, widow

started the day with a teeny, but delicious, piece of deadly chocolate mousse cake from Baked Expectations…

made homemade lobster macaroni and cheese for dinner… first time I’ve added lobster… it was a lovely addition…

and got this late shot of the sun going down…

wonderful relaxing day…

counter…

08 Friday Feb 2019

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big girl pants, black currant, chocolate, counter, delicious, family, raspberry, treats, widow

found all these chocolate items on the counter this morning… they include some of my all time favourites… as well as a few I haven’t tried yet…

delicious black currant, coconut and chocolate… looks like I am going to be busy for the next while;-)…

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