09 Saturday Dec 2023
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battery, big girl pants, blessed, charger, counting, Fitbit, moments, nature, shovelling, snow, Technology, weather, widow
waited for my Fitbit to charge before going out to shovel the sidewalk today…
and when I got back into the house, there was the Fitbit, sitting on the counter, still attached to the charger…
really not counting the steps, lol…
05 Tuesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, delivery apps, family, garage, gathering, moments, nature, pho, project, recommend, restaurants, supper, weather, widow
at our time together last Monday, it was lovely to have everyone in the room, with no technology required…
amongst our conversations, we talked about our favourite pho restaurants… it is always great to hear about spots that others recommend…
later my grandson and I worked away on the garage project even though it was rather cold out, lol…
when we came in, with frozen fingers, the pho we’d talked about earlier called to me;-)…
those delivery apps are very handy, lol…
it was just what those cold fingers needed;-)…
04 Monday Dec 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, birthday, blessed, burgers, celebration, computer, family, home, love, memories, moments, Technology, tradition, viper, widow
tonight we had supper with my son-in-law in Ottawa… earlier today my daughter, on vacation in Europe, texted me that she’d had a burger for her lunch, in memory of her dad;-)…
we tried a new app called Viper, and it worked great… think I will use it again…
burgers were had by all… ours came from one of my beloved’s favourite burger places… and we even shared a chocolate milkshake here… it was delicious…
birthdays often seem hard, but coming together to share a meal is a lovely tradition to remember him…
and it is always such a delight when the technology works, lol…
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;-)…
23 Thursday Nov 2023
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5°, big girl pants, blessed, garden, heater, moments, nature, plunge, Technology, tub, water, weather, widow
last week a big black tub landed on the deck…
a few days later, in the evening, it got filled up with water…
then a cover went over it… and a heater to keep the temperature at 5° Celsius was added…
now, after a shower, someone uncovers the tub and sits in it for 3 minutes, which seems like a long time, lol…
this is what I spotted this morning;-)…
I am going to give it a try on a Sunday morning… wish me luck…
20 Monday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaned, dahlias, dirt, experiment, garden, jobs done, moments, nature, paper bags, separated, shrivelled, Technology, tubers, widow
all of the garden work has now been completed for the winter… yay…
about a week ago I finished cleaning and putting away the last pond pump…
Saturday I finally got around to the dahlias… after watching a few videos, I used a knife to clean out the bits of dirt that were still on the tubers and then cut them to separate those with eyes, which should produce next year…
after doing a bit of research, I left a few (after cleaning them), to see if I will be able to separate them more easily in the spring when they start to sprout…
packaged them in paper bags, put them back in the pot, which went into a box in the coolest area of the basement… and wrote on the box to remember that is where they are, lol…
we will see what shape they are come spring… sometimes when the bags are open, there is nothing but shrivelled up bits of nothing;-(…
always an experiment…
19 Sunday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, dad, family, father, memories, moments, remembering, special, Technology, time, widow
I don’t always remember, but first thing yesterday I realized it would have been my dad’s birthday…
my father was a special person and although he’s been gone a very long time, I still miss him…
a bit later in the day his picture came up in my Facebook memories…
this photo was taken not too long before his death…
15 Wednesday Nov 2023
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ache, big girl pants, blessed, blood pressure, doctor, drive, good news, health, moments, shingles, Shingrix, walk, weather, weight, widow
went for my second Shingrix shot… wasn’t looking forward to it as the first one made my arm ache for days…
I knew that I would also be getting weighed and have my blood pressure checked which was a bit of a stress… happy to see a new scale that digitally records weight, in both kilograms and pounds… should be more accurate, lol…
the good news is that I’ve lost five pounds (with another ten to go) and the blood pressure wasn’t too bad…
I always park as far away from the clinic as possible so I can get extra steps, and enjoyed my walk to and from the office…
what a beautiful day… 5° Celsius, on November 14th, woohoo…
14 Tuesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, exercise, expandable, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, pliers, run, top up, weather, widow
yesterday was a beautiful day… the sun shone and the temperature made it to 6° Celsius…
took the opportunity to top up the water in the hot tub…
now that the hose is hooked up in the basement it is a bit of a process…
the hose comes upstairs and just reaches to the outside of the door… then it has to be turned on with pliers at the tap at which point it expands so I can reach the hot tub…
takes a while to fill it to above the top hole on the filter, then I run downstairs and close the tap, again with the pliers… and run back up as the hose starts to contract before it yanks out of the tub… and finally taking the hose downstairs and hanging it up for the next time…
so I did get a bit of exercise;-)…
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