stargazing…

06 Sunday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, deck, garden, hot tub, sleeping outside, space station, squirrel, stargazing, stars, widow

been planning to spend a night sleeping under the stars for a while and tonight is the night…

it was a lovely day and I spent a good part of it in the garden watching a red squirrel stash peanuts from the neighbour’s feeder…

there’s been a hole beside the back deck for a while and today this little guy spent time going into and out of it, lol…

now we know for sure who lives there…

my bed is nearly ready for tonight… just have to bring out the pillows…

the plan is to be in bed for the 9:36 fly past of the Space Station and then maybe a late night hot tub… looking forward to some great stargazing in the night;-)…

dogs…

05 Saturday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, dogs, errands, family, garden, moments, remembering, supper, widow

the day took an interesting turn…

beautiful morning in the garden and then family arrived from out of town…

had a lovely visit in the garden and then ran around doing a few errands…

we met up again for lunch, in one of her favourite spots…

a few more errands and we headed to my nephew’s for dinner and playtime with the fifteen huskies and malamutes…

the kids all had a wonderful time… supper and time together was delightful… my sister-in-law is a marvellous cook and a great story teller…

she used to live here and we worked together, so I really miss her… happy to have this time together…

collections…

04 Friday Aug 2017

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big girl pants, collections, Corelle, holiday, plates, purple, shopping, treats, widow

being as I’m on holiday, it seemed only fitting that I should get a few treats;-)…

yesterday I picked up this cute case to add to my iPhone case collection… I also got a clear one and will have to choose a few of my pictures to print and put in it…

I’ve been changing up my cases on a regular basis and for the last few weeks was using the one that holds a credit card… works great but will only hold one card and I really need to carry two…

I also picked up some clothes… a warm hoodie, a long sleeve t-shirt and a pair of patterned pants…

my final treat was this morning when I found three cute plates…

I’ve been enjoying eating off different plates for the last while, and have been adding to my collection of fun dinner ware… only need one so it isn’t too expensive to add a few new ones… the two tree ones are Corelle which also means they can go into the dishwasher, and won’t break…

happy holidays… lots of treats;-)…

gardens…

03 Thursday Aug 2017

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had a lovely early morning walk to and around the Gardens at the Park…

first time the pelicans have been around this year when I’ve been on my walks…

the Gardens are lovely right now…

the gardeners were everywhere and the sprinklers were rather a danger… took quite different paths so I didn’t get drenched…

last week I got a shot of this bench with a woman seated on it from the other side of the garden… looks different from this point of view…

the view from our bench… and here’s the bench…

as I left the Gardens the path was beautiful with the dappled light…

great start to the day…

process…

02 Wednesday Aug 2017

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spent the day doing things around the house…

longest job involved the hot tub... ran some chemicals through, and then had to wait for an hour and run the pump again…

eventually was able to drain it…

remembered to take a picture as it began draining… takes a couple of hours to empty completely…

then I had to find the shop vac, which I have never used, and vacuum out all the last bits of crud and water from the bottom… that was a process… you’d think it would dump out water in a simple manner, like maybe push a reverse button, but no, you have to take off the top and then dump it… got a wet sandal in the process… didn’t take any pictures…

now to the filling portion… remembered the pic again, lol…

takes over an hour to fill and while I was doing that I got out Barbie and cooked a steak and some zuchinni…

this little guy was having a snack at the same time…

new to the neighbourhood, we haven’t had chipmunks around for years… goes right past my feet but didn’t want me to get too close to take a pic… apparently shy, lol…

steak was delicious, not sure how I felt about the zuchinni, but I did eat it… finished supper with salad and a few tiny new potatoes with dill…

all of the above jobs used to be taken care of by my beloved… some are easier than others and I continue to learn things…

those big girl pants…

years…

01 Tuesday Aug 2017

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forty-seven years ago on this day I married the love of my life…

the years we had together were filled with many memories, two children, and three grandchildren…

for the last five years I have celebrated the forty-one plus years we shared together, alone…

still not sure if I should be celebrating, but not commemorating the day at all doesn’t seem right either…

some years I have stayed home and had a quiet day remembering some of the highlights… some years I’ve spent time with my daughters…

this year I was up and out of the house by 5:45 on the way to Kenora to watch rowing at the Canada Summer Games with my grandson…

had lots of treats in amongst the watching…

still have many of the questions I pondered a few years back… not sure I will ever have the answers…

surgery…

31 Monday Jul 2017

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appointment, big girl pants, cancer, CancerCare, discharged, Facebook, five years, gallbladder, surgery, widow

today in my Facebook feed the following memory came up…

I had been in the hospital for a few days with pancreatitis when I wrote the above post, and ended up there for six weeks… during that time I also had my gallbladder removed… I was very sick and when we left the hospital I was afraid, I’d been there so long I wasn’t sure how I would manage at home… I still had a drainage tube in my side and was barely able to eat…

a lot has happened in seven years…

the tube came out just a few days before our younger daughter’s wedding and I finally started to have an appetite…

two years later my husband died suddenly in March and within a few weeks I was diagnosed with uterine cancer… I’d been waiting for hernia surgery and so there were lots of discussions with the various doctors as they figured out how they could do both surgeries at the same time…

in July of 2012 I had a combination surgery and spent ten weeks recovering…

my body does not handle drugs well and within 8 hours following the cancer surgery I stopped taking all drugs…

dealing with pain is easier than dealing with the side effects of drugs…

this afternoon I had my final appointment at CancerCare… after eleven visit… saw my surgeon, who I rarely see as they work on a rotation, and was discharged from the program…

life is pretty darn good even with all the changes;-)…

emptyful…

30 Sunday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, Canada Summer Games, Emptyful, kids, lights, mist, Opening Ceremonies, photo, widow

on our way to the car after the Canada Summer Games Opening Ceremonies I took a few pictures of Emptyful…

I see it all the time, but usually in the daylight, so it was lovely to see it as the lights were more visible…

the kids got a kick out of it too…

the colours change quickly…

we often enjoy sitting near it during lunch as the mist is quite refreshing, particularly on hot sunny days…

hunt…

29 Saturday Jul 2017

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big girl pants, comforter, cushions, dragonflies, garden, happy, hunt, morning glories, pillows, widow

accomplished three things today…

changed the bed and put on the new comforter that I picked up a few weeks ago… a bit of a process as I had to turn the mattress around on my own…

also climbed under the bed hunting for a couple of the dragonflies which had flown off the Love sign over the bed, lol…

looks pretty good… although I’ve already removed some of the pillows…

then I spent time putting out all the cushions in the garden… it was hot out…

finally I took pictures of the morning glories… this is the first time I’ve had them in so many places and it is fun to hunt throughout the garden to see which ones are blooming…

they continue to make me happy every time I look at them…