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performance…

02 Monday Feb 2026

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on Saturday afternoon, we went to our PTE play, Big Stuff…

as we park underground we always leave our coats in the car which makes sitting in the theatre more comfortable…

as we entered the theatre we were given a card with a pencil in it… most people did respond and the actors collected all of them and dumped them into a couple of boxes…

throughout the performance they connected with some of the people who had responded on the cards…

it was quite delightful and one of our favourite shows;-)…

driven…

31 Saturday Jan 2026

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I don’t think I’ve driven at all this winter…

since the snow started, I have been relying on my housemate and Uber to get me where I need to go… and my adventure buddy who always does the driving (yay to her!)…

my newest process is to volunteer at The Leaf from three until six… that way I can Uber there and my housemate can pick me up… seems to be working quite well…

recently I had a ride in a Tesla, which had the entire roof made of glass… I knew how to get in, from a previous encounter, although the driver automatically opened the door, but it took a while to figure out how to open the door from the inside to exit at my destination, lol……

I was thinking how cool it would be to drive out of the city and watch the stars or the aurora in comfort from the back seat without having to leave the vehicle, lol…

striploin…

19 Monday Jan 2026

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had lunch at Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar before checking out Fleurs de Villes WONDER in the Mediterranean biome with my BS buddies…

it was nice to be inside after the -30°C walk from the car, lol…

I had the gyro – beef striploin gyro, grilled naan, cucumber relish, arugula, garlic tzatziki… I have had this before and, as previously, it was tasty…

other items at the table included the classic burger, the pasta with shrimp, and the house salad…

everyone enjoyed their meal and there were a few desserts afterwards, lol…

it was rather busy, so it did take a little longer than usual for our meal…

always a treat;-)…

drone…

17 Saturday Jan 2026

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so the other day, as I was sitting in the living room, I spotted a drone lift off from a car which stopped in the lane across the way…

it flew right over the house and didn’t return to the car for at least fifteen minutes…

I’m guessing it was doing some shots for a real estate video…

I couldn’t catch it on video but got a few photos of it coming down to land on the top of the vehicle…

I drew circles around it, lol… the brush behind it certainly didn’t help make it visible…

devoured…

09 Friday Jan 2026

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was picked up by a friend and we headed to the Park Cafe for brunch…

I had seen a new January offering they had, and wanted to try it out…

the place was jumping when we arrived, but we had a great visit while we waited to be seated, which took less than ten minutes;-)…

we both ordered the special – maple pecan stuffed french toast – and hoped it would look as good as the picture, lol… and it did…

aaaaand… it was delicious and we both devoured the whole thing;-)… what a lovely treat…

if you have a chance this month, you should go and check it out…

Goodreads…

03 Saturday Jan 2026

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while talking with someone about the 100 books I read in 2025 (yay me), I discovered there were apps out there to track your reading… who knew🤪…

my method had been to take a photo of the book when I finished it and add it to a Books Read album on my phone… this worked well until I dumped my photos, lol… then I would record the count in a new album and continue adding photos of books as I went along…

I am trying one called Goodreads… this one has many options… you can join groups, accept challenges and review books you’ve read… all I want is a place to record what I’ve read…

so, we will see how it goes…

face-to-face…

25 Thursday Dec 2025

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all the jobs were done and the living room set up for our morning video call when I went to bed at 11 pm on Christmas Eve…

put my head down thinking I might nap for an hour and then have a Christmas hot tub around midnight…

woke up at 5:15, yikes… apparently no hot tub for me…

laid back down, didn’t really sleep, and got up at 6:30, lol…

made tea and texted a video of me banging pots and slamming doors, (possibly like I used to do when the families would be here overnight, so they would get up), to the kids in Ottawa…

we met and had a lovely time opening gifts and enjoying all of the loot…

what a gift to be able to meet with them face-to-face…

such a lovely Christmas morning;-)…

famous…

24 Wednesday Dec 2025

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had a bit of a giggle this morning when I went to make my ‘famous’ spinach dip…

I haven’t made it in ages and decided to check the recipe to be sure I remembered it correctly… took me ages to find where that particularly recipe was located… NOT in the recipe book I’d prepared a few years ago…

eventually I remembered that it was in the Baton cookbook that I’d help prepare when the girls were maybe ten and twelve🤪…

hadn’t forgotten anything and it turned out great 😊…

looking at that cookbook now reminds me how much things have changed in thirty years… at the time it was very well done… now I think it looks rather dreadful… although the recipes are excellent, lol…

whiff…

21 Sunday Dec 2025

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for the last few days we’ve caught a whiff of gas smell in the basement by the gas water heater and gas furnace…

today I called and was advised they would send someone out within a few hours…

the person didn’t arrive for four hours, but between only three people on shift, and dealing with a real emergency, it took a while to get here…

they always ask if it was gas that I smelled, and I always assure them that it was… I have quite an ability to smell things that others can’t… my grandson says I have the nose of a bloodhound, lol…

when they arrived, they checked the outside gas meter and the pipes for the furnace… both of which were fine…

once inside, they began checking all of the spots where there might be a problem… they came upstairs to say I did have a good nose because something in the furnace had come loose and was leaking gas…

after getting some tools and the furnace getting turned off, they fixed it and then pointed out that on this type of furnace, a piece is held together by magnets and may not close exactly as it should… so if there are future leaks, this piece may need to be replaced 🤪…

but they did say calling the emergency line was the correct thing to do…