24 Thursday Feb 2022
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spent some quality time in the kitchen recently…
I made Thai Shrimp Soup from leftover shells and shrimp that I had a few days before…
I cooked enough spaghetti for three meals and then prepared a mushroom and chicken sauce which will go with two meals of the spaghetti…
finally, I produced a grilled cheese and onion on sourdough sandwich for my lunch…
I enjoy working in the kitchen, particularly when I can assemble a number of meals for the coming days…
23 Wednesday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, brain, iPhone, learning, moments, overworked, photos, Technology, webinars, widow, WordPress, yoga
gosh, I think my head might be hurting, lol…
I spent time watching three different webinars all on the same day…
the first was a chair yoga session… planning on doing these three days a week…
then I learned some interesting things regarding my website and ways to improve it…
and finally, information on using my iPhone to take better photos…
I enjoyed it all and in the end it was a good day, although my brain may have been slightly overworked, lol…
22 Tuesday Feb 2022
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21 Monday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, drifts, fallen, garden, moments, nature, record amounts, snow, weather, widow
after all these days of snow I hadn’t felt like that much had fallen…
this was the garden Saturday at 3:06 pm…
and this was the same spot yesterday at 7:40 am… the gazing ball on its stand is no longer visible…
I guess more came down than I thought, lol…
the last few years we haven’t had much snow, but we appear to be making up for that now… a number of reports are suggesting that we’ve hit some records…
in this photo from yesterday, you can see how high the snow is on the railing… and the lovely drifts along the sidewalk…
19 Saturday Feb 2022
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the violets are doing well…
I moved one that was rather one-sided and put it onto the living room table… it straightened out nicely…
another is in the front window now and I hope it will straighten out as well…
the third has a few blooms on it and has started a new plant on the side…
nature is quite wonderful… so happy to have the time to watch each little step…
18 Friday Feb 2022
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beginning, big girl pants, blessed, blooming, flowers, happy, moments, nature, opening, orchid, plants, purple, widow
had the opportunity to watch the beginning of the opening of one of the orchid buds…
in the morning…
through the afternoon…
and into the evening…
really, nature is spectacular;-)…
17 Thursday Feb 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Cathedral Grove, family, forest, goosebumps, memories, moments, nature, remembering, time, trees, Vancouver Island, walk, widow
got a message today from someone who I had given a recommendation of places to visit on Vancouver island…
I had suggested Cathedral Grove in MacMillan Provincial Park… they thought it was amazing…
it is one of my favourite places ever…
within steps of the highway all traffic noises are gone and the walk through the giant trees is meditative and soul filling…
these pictures are from a visit with my beloved in the summer of 2011…
still gives me goosebumps when I remember what a special place it was…
16 Wednesday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, deep, garbage bin, garden, moments, nature, path, shovelled, snow, weather, widow, wrangled
out in the snow again today…
after clearing a path to the back lane, I wrangled the garbage bin to a spot just outside the gate…
the drift there was about a foot deep so it took me a while to make a spot for the bin…
sure hope they empty it on Friday…
15 Tuesday Feb 2022
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amaryllis, big girl pants, blessed, furnace, moments, nature, shovel, snow, vase, vent, weather, widow
I’m trying to laugh at the snow… it is that or cry, lol… laughing seems more sensible…
when I was out shovelling the sidewalks a few days ago, I walked up the driveway to check on the furnace vents…
and found them nearly covered with snow…
took a few minutes to get them cleared by tossing the snow into the middle of the driveway as I don’t need to get a car in and out of it… and there is nowhere else to throw it…
I was getting out of my jacket and heard a sound… when I turned and saw that one of the amaryllis had fallen off the table… there was mud on the carpet so I quickly picked it up… only to discover that the stalk had bent over and the blooms were hanging down… I got scissors, cut it and put the blossoms into a vase… after sweeping up the dirt I got a few pictures…
I guess it was getting too heavy to hold its head up;-(…
lots of activity… after that I had some time reading in the sunshine…
and, of course, more snow has fallen since then…
14 Monday Feb 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, charcuterie, dinner, family, memories, Michael Buble, missing, moments, red, steak, sun, sweatshirt, treat, treats, widow
today I wore a red sweatshirt that my beloved bought for me many years ago on a trip to Banff…
I also wore my leggings that have maple leaves down the side for our team members…
I’ve enjoyed a few treats over the last few days and for lunch finished the charcuterie board that came on Saturday… the board itself is lovely…
for supper I made a steak using a method my daughter recommended… no barbecuing as I haven’t cleaned the path to the garage yet and there is a big drift in front of the door, lol… baked a potato earlier in the day and heated that up to go with it… finished with a cucumber salad… a nice treat as I haven’t had steak for a while…
missing my beloved, but as I sat in the sun, listening to Michael Bublé, enjoyed lots of wonderful memories…
what a great guy;-)…
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