person…

24 Monday Apr 2023

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so happy today…

after three months we were all together again… in person… what a treat;-)…

it had me thinking of the various places our group has taken part from for our gatherings…

over the last twenty years, a few spots in British Columbia, Minneapolis, Ontario, and even here in Winnipeg…

from using borrowed business speaker phones, to Skype and Zoom on computers, to most recently FaceTime…

and as times have changed, we have moved with them;-)…

pillows…

23 Sunday Apr 2023

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my sofa had a blanket on it for most of the winter…

when the weather changed, I used the back of the handmade quilt produced by my friends on it…

the reason for the covering involves two pillows I have put on the sofa so that it isn’t so deep…

now I’ve used two pillowcases and pinned them to the back cushions…

think I like it…

craziness…

22 Saturday Apr 2023

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looked out the window just after seven in the morning on Friday…

and then again twelve hours later…

this is craziness… hope the snow is done now…

woodpecker…

21 Friday Apr 2023

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had fun watching this downy woodpecker at the feeder this afternoon;-)…

first one I’ve seen this year…

and just yesterday I caught this blue jay at the suet feeder too…

book…

20 Thursday Apr 2023

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spent most of this snowy/rainy day in the living room reading a book by my favourite author and enjoying my beautiful bouquet…

did manage to get my steps in…

miraculously…

19 Wednesday Apr 2023

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had a lovely day yesterday…

started with an early morning hot tub as the sun shone… then had pie for breakfast…

there were phone calls, text messages, visits, it was great and a DQ blizzard miraculously appeared;-)…

I spent time reading, napping, and watching a few programs…

we had steak and lobster for supper and I didn’t even have to clean up;-)…

my kids gave me another subscription for eight bouquets this summer… I loved the ones last summer… and this afternoon flowers arrived to brighten the dull day…

all in all, a pretty fine few days…

birthday week’s are fun;-)…

stump…

18 Tuesday Apr 2023

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Monday another hole was made in the sky…

first thing in the morning a number of trucks filled up the street…

they were there to cut down one of the elm trees… I hadn’t realized that it had been marked…

it took four hours to get it down to the stump… and then they left… about an hour later a few of them returned and ground it down to nothing…

amazing how complicated the process is… it was interesting to watch…

pie…

17 Monday Apr 2023

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as the birthday week celebrations continue, today I gathered with my BS buddies and they brought the birthday bag, a beautiful card, and cherry pie…

we have used the birthday bag for maybe twenty years… found this old photo from 2014 that has the bag in it, lol…

it used to hold a gift, but at this point in our lives we really don’t need anything, so now it contains a card…

this one was a beautiful painting by one of our group… it is a park bench and represents the bench that my beloved and I would sit on in the Leo Mol Garden during our walks…

happy birthday was sung and we had cherry pie with whipped cream… sooooo delicious;-)…

lots of conversation, laughs, and good eats…

now to be sure I don’t lose the bag before it is needed for the next birthday…

apparently…

16 Sunday Apr 2023

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spent time in the garden because the sun was shining… and apparently that might not be the case for the next week…

enjoyed my book, even though I wore my jacket and had a blanket over my legs… mornings are always warmer on the deck than the weather reports, as the sun beats down on it…

later in the day I removed the tarp from the chairs and small tables on the back deck, folded it up and put it away in the garage…