04 Saturday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, decorating, drawers, February, living room table, love, moments, red, seasons, widow
emptied the living room table a few days ago…
today I brought the LOVE letters down and put them into the squares…
it looks okay, but I am not sure if I am happy with the result…
hmm, may need something else added in…
the orchids look quite nice on it although the O kind of gets lost, lol…
03 Friday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fourteen, garden, grandson, hot tub, memories, moments, remembering, stress, time, trajectory, trauma, widow, work
my youngest grandson just turned fourteen…
brought back a number of memories as his birth changed the trajectory of my life…
because I refused to miss his birth, I ended up leaving a job I had been at for ten years, as the boss wasn’t pleased that I had taken away time from my position… a lot of trauma occurred over the next while and eventually I was walked out of the office…
one good thing that came out of that was the hot tub, as I was awarded a year’s salary due to my wrongful dismissal and purchased it with some of those funds…
there was huge stress and tension and the hot tub has helped with that for many years now;-)…
after a number of months I found the perfect position where I flourished for nearly ten years before my retirement…
lots of things to sift through…
this photo was taken in 2020, when I was still keeping my distance from everyone, but it does show him and the hot tub together, lol…
hard to believe it all began fourteen years ago…
02 Thursday Feb 2023
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amethyst, bedside, big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, happy, heart, Maui, moments, nature, purple, widow
to make cleaning easier I always put most of the items on the bedside table into the drawer before the cleaners arrive…
after they leave I bring the items back out…
I absolutely love the amethyst heart that I purchased for my birthday when we were in Hawaii…
it sits at the edge of the Google Display and makes me smile every time I see it;-)…
took it downstairs into the sunlight to get a good photo before returning it back to its spot;-)…
01 Wednesday Feb 2023
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author, big girl pants, blessed, books, happy, JD Robb, moments, neighbour, reading, shopping, Technology, thrift, widow
great excitement…
got a call from my next door neighbour… we are both readers and share books on a regular basis…
she was at a thrift store and found books by one of our favourite authors… she wanted to check to see if we had read all the ones that were available…
we chatted and went through the list that I’ve made as I’ve read the books… I used the list inside one of the covers and have noted each book we’ve read…
we discovered six… yay…
once she dropped them off, I went through the list and marked the books in order of where they are on the list, which is the order I will read them… I also included three that I had just purchased…
so, you may not hear from me for a while, lol…
31 Tuesday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, flowers, hibiscus, laundry, moments, nature, recycling bin, remembering, shovelled, sun, tidying, towels, weather, widow
had a busy day…
enjoyed the hibiscus which surprised me with a new flower yesterday and is still blooming, cozied up agains the wall;-)…
ran towels through the washer, folded and put them away…
it has been crazy cold here, but the sun was shining as I shovelled the snow to get to the garbage and recycling bins and then took out a ton of stuff, completely filling the recycle bin… will need to remember to put it in the lane for pickup day, lol…
did some tidying as the cleaners are coming tomorrow…
as I tidy I always remember how blessed I am;-)…
30 Monday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blocking, cold, furnace, moments, nature, shovelling, snow, vents, weather, widow, windy
went out on Friday and shovelled the sidewalk and the path to the furnace vents…
it was cold and blowy, but there was quite a bit of snow that needed to be moved…
didn’t take too long and there was a lot of snow by the vents…
glad I got to it…
29 Sunday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flowers, garden, moments, Morpho, nature, plants, search, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, Technology, widow
lots of butterflies in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… also many people…
the sun was shining so they were flitting about the whole space…
the blue Morpho butterfly is very sneaky and would not let me catch a single photo of it with the gorgeous blue when the wings are open…
next time I will take a video and then a still from that, lol…
the butterflies arrive as chrysalis from Costa Rica on a regular basis and are released into the space once they emerge…
so, each time you are in the Garden, there will likely be different varieties…
it is such fun to search for them in amongst the foliage…
28 Saturday Jan 2023
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adventure, aquasize, big girl pants, blessed, coconut cream, doughnut, food, friends, moments, Nanaimo bar, Oh Doughnuts, treat, widow
Thursday’s adventure after aquasize was a trip to Oh Doughnuts…
it was close to the pool and had a buy one, get one sale…
not that I should have had any, but I chose a coconut cream and Nanaimo bar…
ate the entire coconut cream after a very healthy lunch;-)…
on Friday, I cut the Nanaimo bar doughnut and had half with lunch and the final half with dinner…
also got extra steps in after each meal…
they were both very tasty;-)…
27 Friday Jan 2023
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amaryllis, begonia, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, living wall, Mediterranean biome, moments, nature, plants, spiral, Technology, The Leaf, Tyndall stone, walk, widow
enjoyed the Mediterranean biome… as soon as I enter I am reminded of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights… I think it is all the Tyndall stone, the spiral walkway, and the industrial looking steel…
the living wall is huge and amazing…
and the spiral begonia was so pretty…
the amaryllis are stunning…
it is lovely to have such a beautiful space to visit during the winter months…
26 Thursday Jan 2023
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A1C, appointment, big girl pants, blessed, bp, doctor, good news, happy, health, moments, report, sushi, Technology, widow
excellent report at my recent appointment with my doctor…
both my blood pressure and A1C results were good and after some conversation we agreed that I don’t need to have my A1C tested for six months… and I don’t need to have my blood pressure checked until then either…
so I don’t need to see him again until July, woohoo…
he had mentioned last time that he may have to let go of some of his patients as everyone has come back after not seeing a doctor for two or three years and the load is just too heavy and isn’t slowing down at all…
that made me worry a bit, but while we were talking he advised that he won’t let any of his seniors go… a weight off my shoulders, lol…
great news all around…
celebrated with sushi for lunch;-)…
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