18 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, clogging, fish, glass, goldfish, moments, nature, pumps, tank, water, widow
Wednesday, I spent time cleaning two of the pumps…
Thursday was glass cleaning day, lol…
luckily it didn’t take too long and now the tanks look so much better;-)…
seems to me the pumps are clogging up more quickly than previously;-(…
17 Thursday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, garden, gauge, moments, plants, Shelmerdine, solar, treat, widow, workshop
went to Shelmerdine with friends on Sunday…
after checking out all the plants, we sat in on a workshop about using all your outdoor space…
and I won a prize;-)… because it is almost my birthday… woohoo…
a rain gauge with solar flowers;-)…
lovely to be in a space filled with so much greenery…
and the flowers lit up after a sunny afternoon;-)… gotta find just the right spot for this in the garden…
16 Wednesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, blustery, creek, flowers, leaf, moments, nature, snowdrops, walk, weather, widow, windy
started the day with a morning walk…
it was chilly and the wind was a bit blustery…
not much new growth, but the snowdrops I saw the other day had multiplied;-)…
the ice is completely gone so the creek is running clear now…
looking forward to the trees leafing out;-)…
15 Tuesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, enthralled, friend, moments, playwright, PTE, season, Technology, widow
a busy weekend;-)…
on Saturday we went to see Raised by Women at PTE… it was our last play of the season…
it was a seventy minute performance by the playwright Keith Barker… he did a great job and the time went by quickly as he held everyone enthralled with his stories…
14 Monday Apr 2025
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ankles, big girl pants, boots, Canadian, fit, happy, landfill, moments, shopping, snow, Technology, Vessi, waterproof, widow
so excited today to get my new winter boots…
the pair I’ve been wearing for well over twenty years have begun to fall apart in front of me;-(…
I wanted Canadian-made and decided to try Vessi… besides being made in BC, they are also waterproof…
I had hoped to try a pair on and went to the mall, but they aren’t carried in Manitoba…
so, I took a chance and ordered them online and was pleased to get free shipping…
I ordered them last week and they arrived today…
and they fit… I was worried as often when I’ve tried pull-ons, they wouldn’t go over my ankles, but I had no problem… yay…
now they will get put away for when the snow starts in the Fall and the falling apart pair will sadly head to the landfill…
13 Sunday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flora, flowers, koi, Mediterranean, moments, nature, plants, pond, solo, The Leaf, trees, tropical, weather, widow
had another solo visit to The Leaf on Friday as I’d read that the flowering trees in the current display area were nearly finished blooming due to the heat…
I was surprised at how many people were there as I expected everyone to be outside enjoying the 17° C gorgeous weather…
as I entered the Tropical Biome I had to stop and wait a minute for the fog to clear from my glasses, lol…
happy to see the tiny flowers on two of the three cacao trees…
everything looked lush amidst the cooling mist that seems to be keeping the flora happy… quite surprised at how much the plants have grown… just last week it was easy to see all the way to the waterfall and now it is blocked again…
fun to watch one of the zoo keepers feeding the koi as I don’t often get to see that;-)…
the Mediterranean Biome had many flowers and the Babs Asper Display area held lots of plants, flowers, small trees, topiaries, and a truck filled with tulips…
the Butterfly Garden was busy with butterflies flitting about happily as they enjoyed the sunlight… the misting machines were also busy adding to the humidity and it felt very warm, lol…
so lucky to have this amazing place to visit;-)…
12 Saturday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bunny poop, cedar, deck, fly, garden, moments, nature, reading, swept, tarp, tidying, warm, weather, widow
it was gorgeous out yesterday…
sat out on the deck and read for a while and then, when I got too hot (!!!), I worked on the back deck…
moved a few pieces of furniture and swept all the dead cedar and bunny poop off of it, although the tarp is still frozen into the ground in a few places…
before long we will be able to sit out there in the afternoons;-)…
I was just thinking about how great this season is as there are no bugs and about five seconds after that thought, a fly landed on my leg, lol…
11 Friday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, gone, moments, nature, plants, rain barrel, snow, straighten, weather, widow, wind
shhhhh… the snow is gone from the front yard…
and I finally took a few minutes to straighten up the rain barrel which had been blown over weeks ago from some of the crazy winds we’d been having…
now we are ready for some rain;-)… and plants popping up from the ground…
10 Thursday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, creek, flowers, moments, nature, snowdrops, Spring, walk, weather, widow
finally made it outside for a walk…
it was overcast and around +2°C…
had on my sandals, gloves, a toque, and a spring jacket…
walked by some infill housing construction but happily didn’t get my shoes too muddy…
lovely to be outdoors… I was watching for signs of spring and was happy to see the water flowing in parts of the creek, although closer to home the creek was still ice-covered…
did find these cute little snowdrops…
but that was it… guess it is going to be a while yet before things start to pop up;-)…
09 Wednesday Apr 2025
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aquasize, big girl pants, blessed, buddy, key, lockers, moments, nature, quarter, sandals, towel, weather, widow
we went to Aquasize today… we were happy because we found the lockers that returned your quarter… I’d put all my possessions into the locker, before I realized that there was no safety pin on the key…
I had a towel above the locker, so I placed the key inside it and saved having to change lockers… when we left I advised the front desk staff and they will have it fixed…
and I wore my sandals for the first time… actually had on socks when we went but didn’t wear them on the way home;-)…
yay…
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