15 Sunday Jan 2023
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Audubon, big girl pants, birds, calendar, chickadee, cold, eating, hand, memories, moments, nature, remembering, seeds, train, travel, widow
the Audubon calendar for Friday and Saturday was a chickadee…
and yesterday a memory came up on Facebook of me feeding a chickadee in Mer Bleu three years ago while I was visiting…
I had hoped to train my chickadees to eat from my hand, but so far, no luck…
I did catch this little one dashing to and from the feeder, lol…
14 Saturday Jan 2023
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13 Friday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, garbage, garbage day, moments, nature, recycling, remember, snow, snowblows, widow
Friday is garbage and recycling day and I usually only take mine out every three or four weeks…
Thursdays are the day to take them out and put them into the lane… I am blessed because my neighbour snowblows behind his garage so there is a spot to put them…
I find that I only need to take one or the other out, which is good because there isn’t always room for both, lol… this time it was the garbage, and I should have shovelled the snow on the path, but didn’t;-)…
now to remember to bring it in later on Friday…
12 Thursday Jan 2023
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aquasize, banana, big girl pants, blessed, bread, craving, De Luca's, food, gnocchi, loaves, moments, sandwiches, shopping, treats, widow, wraps
had a good time at aquasize and then we took a drive to DeLuca’s…
I got spinach wraps, gnocchi, canned tomatoes and two different types of bread…
apparently I am still craving bread, lol… now I just need to learn how to cook the gnocchi…
once home I made two little peanut butter and banana sandwiches for my lunch…
they were very tasty…
11 Wednesday Jan 2023
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app, big girl pants, blessed, light strip, microwave, moments, pot light, Technology, widow
ordered a light strip to replace the pot lights that have stopped working under the kitchen counter…
took a while to arrive and then I needed to read the directions a few times before installing it…
had to move the microwave and it took some effort but eventually I got the old lights removed…
then it took another while to figure out how to connect the app I downloaded and get the light to work…
and at that point I discovered that the new light strip didn’t provide enough light, sigh…
now to decide on next steps…
10 Tuesday Jan 2023
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aquasize, big girl pants, blessed, essential, gear, instructor, moments, pool, purple, swim gloves, swimming, Technology, water, widow
yesterday my new swim gloves arrived…
and they happen to be purple;-)…
our instructor recommends them as essential gear… can’t wait to try them out later in the week…
09 Monday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, daily, flower, flowers, hibiscus, moments, nature, sunrise, widow
lovely sunrise through the trees this morning…
and then I spotted what I think is going to be the last bloom on the hibiscus for now…
a bit sad as I’m not sure when it might start blooming again, but I will keep checking daily…
I’ve been sure to stop and check it out throughout the day;-)…
08 Sunday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, difficult, flowers, growing, happy, moments, nature, orchid, orchids, plants, setting buds, widow
great excitement as I have discovered three orchids that are setting buds;-)…
this makes me very happy as January and February can be difficult months – usually cold and dull…
the one orchid which is blooming is sitting on the middle of the living room table and doing very well…
07 Saturday Jan 2023
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cold, frost, learning, moments, nature, photos, rime, sky, trees, weather, widow
the trees have been stunningly beautiful over the last while…
quite a bit of that time the sky was gray so even though it was lovely, it didn’t make for any great photos…
the last few days the sun has been shining brightly…
this frost appears to be rime frost…
from Weather Lab:
“With rime, the moisture comes from freezing fog water droplets that turn directly from a liquid state to a solid state, or through direct freezing. On the other hand, hoar frost occurs on a clear, cold night where water vapor sublimates: transitioning immediately from a gaseous state to a solid state.” Jan 5, 2021
we have certainly had a lot of fog recently…
06 Friday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bloom, cutting back, growing, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, scraggly, tidy, tree, trimmed, widow
spent some time trimming the hibiscus now that most of the buds have opened…
here it was before the haircut, kind of scraggly…
and after, being careful not to cut off any of the remaining buds;-)…
I think it looks much tidier and it is much easier to walk past it, lol… and then it had another bloom;-)…
here it is five years ago… so tiny…
and since then it has lost one whole stem…
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