03 Sunday Dec 2023
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I was happy to have my first cup of tea in one of the Christmas mugs last Friday…
for a few years I couldn’t find them as they had been put away carefully in a closet that was packed overly full…
when I found them a while back, I was careful to put them in a location which I labelled so I couldn’t miss them, lol…
the holiday season has clearly arrived…
02 Saturday Dec 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blog, congratulations, day-to-day, moments, Technology, widow, WordPress
yesterday, WordPress sent me congratulations on my blog, which turned eleven…
since then I have posted 4031 blogs, which is slightly over one per day…
the blog began 271 days after I lost my beloved, and many of the first ones covered the complications of moving forward as a widow… a lonely business…
sometimes I have deep thoughts, although most of the time they are just about what is happening around me and in my day-to-day life…
it is still fun to think of something to write about…
eleven years…
01 Friday Dec 2023
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Advent, big girl pants, blessed, calendars, chocolate, family, grandson, memories, moments, nuts, Technology, treat, versions, widow
happy first day of Advent… it has always been a special time for me…
this year there are three different calendars for me…
the first is a digital version which comes via email every day with things to do or think about;-)… all focussed on chocolate, without any calories… this was the first one, which provides an opportunity to check items off over 25 days…
the second is on the wall in the living room and this year is filled with nuts and seeds and the odd bit of chocolate…
the third climbs the stairway… it is made up of twenty-four different sized boxes with items in them from the kids in Ottawa… last week a parcel arrived addressed to my grandson, who then filled each one… they look very cute on the stairs…
as I empty a box, I am breaking it down and stashing it at the top behind the last few… I don’t want to lose any of them…
every day is a treat;-)…
30 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bungee, bungee cord, doorknob, family, garage, grandson, moments, neighbour, project, weather, widow
last spring the doorknob on the garage door seized up… the door hadn’t been closing properly for a long time as it had shifted… I’d been using a bungee cord to close it from the outside for ages, lol…
I had done research on how to remove the doorknob, but no matter what I did, couldn’t get it off the door…
eventually my neighbour came over and removed it although he had to hammer it off in the end, lol…
since then the bungee cord has been the way to keep the door closed…
I need a new door, but that didn’t make the project list this year, so I hadn’t done anything about fixing this…
last week we were at the hardware store, picked up a new doorknob, and on Monday while I was visiting with my friends, my grandson installed it…
woohoo…
29 Wednesday Nov 2023
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amaryllis, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, gifts, growing, moments, Shelmerdine, shopping, wax, widow
had a fun trip to Shelmerdine today…
wasn’t going to get anything, but three Christmas gifts jumped right into the cart…
and I found one of the amaryllis plants coated in wax, that grow without water… hummed and hawed, but in the end had to get one…
it is now sitting on the living room table and I can’t wait to see it grow and produce some flowers;-)
28 Tuesday Nov 2023
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air, big girl pants, blessed, friends, health, help, hermit, holidays, illness, memories, moments, prayers, thoughts, weather, widow, worry
as the holiday season approaches, I’ve been thinking about friends who are going through difficult times…
seems the air is filled with illness… many are dealing with infections and some, even more serious stuff…
feeling like I should be doing more to support them, but not sure how to do that other than sending thoughts and prayers their way…
it also feels like it is becoming less safe away from the house, and I am moving back into hermit-ville…
27 Monday Nov 2023
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the Christmas boxes came out from under the staircase last Sunday… the goal is to reduce the size of the collection as each box is gone through…
Monday, the snow people were moved into the den… they look very cute in there… none were disposed of…
Tuesday, a great number of glass balls were hung in the dining room window… this involved separating ones which had been hung together previously and then hanging them individually… took some time, but came out nicely I think…
Wednesday, more ornaments were put up with the pottery and some of the most beautiful ones were hung on the dining room chandelier…
Thursday was about reindeer and sleighs… and even some snowflakes…
Friday involved the tree… it is filled with purple, silver and glittery ornaments… quite different from my usual choices…
there are lots of little disco balls on it and the ceiling and walls were quite sparkly as the sun shines through the window;-)…
I have been enjoying the process of focussing on one item each day and taking my time completing the decorating…
I did decide to give away some blue and red ornaments and a few wreaths, lol…
way to go me;-)…
26 Sunday Nov 2023
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bathroom, big girl pants, blessed, hammering, injury, level, moments, Technology, toilet roll holder, tools, widow
tried again to level the toilet paper holder…
took a bit of time and a number of tools…
took it off the wall, unscrewed the fasteners, drilled the holes slightly bigger and then hammered in a little plastic piece before reinserting the screws;-)…
was slightly injured in the process…
maybe it will stay level…
25 Saturday Nov 2023
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redid the living room table on Thursday…
usually for the holiday season I’ve filled it with glittery purple, silver, and clear ornaments…
this time I decided to change up the display…
first I found a nice piece of fabric and then a a collection of some of my favourite ornaments which would usually be hung on the tree but instead went into the drawers…
I took the glass off the top of the table and filled it with the ornaments before carefully putting it back on…
then three sleighs were set on top… looks good…
24 Friday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, centre, droppings, holidays, kitchen, memories, moments, reindeer, snowflakes, widow
decided that snowflakes and reindeer were not taking centre stage this holiday season… most were put away…
a few snowflake cards made it onto the bathroom door…
the Advent reindeer made it into the kitchen with a couple of others, mostly clear… and there appear to be chocolate droppings in the calendar…
bit by bit, the transformation is happening;-)…
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