crew…

13 Thursday Jan 2022

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recently watched an interesting Cornell Lab webinar about chickadees and learned something about squirrels…

gray squirrels hide their food – one seed, peanut, or acorn – at a time, with each item in a different place… and they remember where each bit is…

red squirrels hide theirs in one spot…

now it makes more sense to me as to why they scare birds and other squirrels away from any of the feeders as they consider them to be their property, lol…

this little red guy was at it this morning, chasing away the crew of sparrows…

and a bit later, this gray one was sharing the deck happily with the sparrows;-)…

maybe the red one was having a nap, lol…

chickadees…

12 Wednesday Jan 2022

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spent time in the garden on a beautiful warm day… we’ve been under extreme cold warnings for what seems like forever… shovelled a path to the garbage can and back gate… also cleaned the area around the hot tub…

finally cleaned off a good portion of the upper deck so I can get to the bird feeder… it was difficult to get the snow and old seeds out of the feeder, but I managed…

and just a few minutes later the chickadees were back for fresh snacks…

that made me happy…

couch…

11 Tuesday Jan 2022

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I’ve been putting a cushion behind me when I sit on the couch and they tend to fall over when I get up, so I am constantly adjusting them as I sit…

the other day I used a blanket to hold them in place, but it was just a bit too short…

then I tried a different blanket which is a bit bigger…

I think it looks good and keeps the cushion in place when I get up and down…

and a bit more purple never hurt;-)…

so, then I did the same thing in the den…

brightens it up nicely…

game…

10 Monday Jan 2022

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the tv in the den has been playing a game with me…

I turn it off… and then it often turns itself back on…

but it doesn’t do it every time…

and not always right away…

I might have left and suddenly notice there is a light in the space…

tricky…

sharpened…

09 Sunday Jan 2022

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a while ago my grandson took a few of my knives to sharpen for me…

they were from the WearEver collection that had belonged to my parents…

recently he dropped them back off… he had sharpened them and cleaned and oiled the one with a wooden handle…

today, I finally used a couple of them…

they were so sharp and cut beautifully… reminded me how good sharp knives are, lol…

pudding…

08 Saturday Jan 2022

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so happy to have my Friday night dinner delivered from ModernPlate… they produced weekly meals between November, 2020 and May, 2021…

at that time they ended the Friday night meals, so I was pleased (for me) to see that it was back, but sorry (for them) that we’ve come back to this…

I also ordered a spinach salad with feta, fennel, seeds and pecans, which I had for lunch… it was very tasty…

the dinner is for two so I get at least two meals from it… this one was pork loin with smashed potatoes and Brussel sprouts…

and then there was dessert;-)… kept half of one piece of the cranberry and orange sticky toffee pudding…and sent the rest home with my grandson… which was a good plan, because I would have eaten more if it was here, lol…

such a treat to have meals made for me… and they are always delicious…

instant…

07 Friday Jan 2022

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got a text from my grandson advising he would be dropping a few things off for me today… he was supposed to let me know the day before he was coming, lol…

I had promised to make red curry lentils so I got started…

usually I put the uncooked lentils into the sauce to cook slowly as they simmer, but as I wanted to be sure they were cooked in time, I did them separately…

while the sauce and lentils were cooking, I made the rice in the Instant Pot…

felt a little more rushed than normal, but I had everything cooked and in containers in about an hour…

he picked the containers up along with some other treats when he dropped off items he had collected for me;-)…

he also brought a couple of gifts from my younger grandsons… an Indigo gift card and a monopod for my camera;-)…

lovely to get a few late gifts…

toothbrush…

06 Thursday Jan 2022

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so excited to get an electric toothbrush for Christmas… I’ve been wanting one for a number of years, but just hadn’t gotten around to doing anything about it…

once I figured out how to get it put together, I sat it on the edge of the sink and plugged it in…

it took quite awhile to charge, but once it was done I unplugged it and put the charger away… I didn’t want it sitting so close to the water…

eventually I figured out that it could sit in the cabinet to charge, so that is what I did when it needed to be recharged… feels safer as it charges, without being near the water;-)…