27 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, iPhone, light, memories, moments, nature, Photography, pictures, red, shadows, sunshine, vase, widow
had some fun with shadow pictures… it reminded me of the great photography class I took with a colleague many years ago… we had so much fun…
the vase looks pretty cool in these photos…
enjoying the afternoon sunshine…
26 Sunday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, filler, fixing, moments, porcelain, projects, sanding, sink, stove, Technology, widow
thanks to a suggestion from a friend, we picked up some porcelain filler for the stove and basement pedestal sink…
after sanding, painting, re-sanding, and drying a number of times, the stove looks great… can’t spot the fix unless you get real close and know where to look…
sadly, I forgot to get a before picture…
the sink is taking a bit more time…
but coming along nicely…
25 Saturday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, control, moments, MTS, remote, Technology, tv, volume, widow
when the MTS people were here the other day, they replaced the remote for the bedroom tv…
the good news is that now I won’t need to press my finger through the remote to make some of the actions happen, lol…
at the last minute they mentioned that the new remote didn’t turn the tv on or off, or change the volume…
really 🤪…
the good news is that Google Home can turn it on and off and change the volume level…
22 Wednesday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, connecting, Google Home, grandson, internet, moments, Technology, tv, weather, widow, wires
my goodness, seemed like a very long day…
MTS came around noon and spent two hours outside (in the very cold weather)… going back and forth many times between a ladder up to wires in the back lane, through the snow, and up the side of the house… eventually, they made a connection which should double the speed of my internet….
then they spent over an hour in the house changing the router and the boxes for the TVs…
none of it seemed to go smoothly, lol…
after they left, we spent another hour updating all of the Google Home devices and we still have a few that are not cooperating…
14 Tuesday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, BS buddies, chocolate, coffee, friends, moments, someone, Technology, time together, treat, Valentines, widow
had a great visit with my BS friends…
there were candy hearts, chocolates, nuts, and cards… oh yes, and coffee…
one of us is away and joined via FaceTime…
she is mixed in amongst the orchids, lol…
remember to let someone know you love them today and every day🥰…
12 Sunday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, charged, early, iPhone, moments, moon, nature, pass-me-along, sky, Technology, weather, widow
up early on Friday to put out the box of pass-me-along items…
had to go back upstairs and get the phone to take a few shots of the beautiful moon…
tried to use my Nikon, but the battery was dead, lol… it is now sitting on the counter getting charged… I think I’ve hit something that is keeping it on wifi all the time which is why the battery keeps dying… going to have to do a bit of research to fix that😳…
so, the moon isn’t quite as clear as I was hoping for, but it does show how beautiful the morning was;-)…
good start to the day;-)…
11 Saturday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, garden, light, moments, nature, pond, snow, solar light, spotlight, sunny, Technology, warm, weather, widow
excited to discover the spotlight on the upper deck is working again…
it had been covered with snow for many weeks and I was thinking it wasn’t going to work in the cold…
as I was walking down the stairs on Thursday night, I looked out and saw the light….
apparently the warm and sunny weather uncovered the solar panel on the top of it, lol…
makes me happy, although the camera isn’t out there now…
not like there are fish in the pond that need to be protected, lol…
09 Thursday Feb 2023
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bang, big girl pants, computer, heartbeat, moments, shelf, startled, surprise, Technology, use, weights, widow
I was working away on the computer in the den, all by myself, and was startled to hear a loud bang from upstairs…
ran up, asking Google to turn on the bedroom light, and discovered that the glass shelf beside the closet had fallen to the ground… it and the weights that were sitting on it were fine😳…
put everything back and wondered if it was a reminder that I need to start using the weights, rather than just admiring their beauty, lol…
my heartbeat has returned to normal now…
01 Wednesday Feb 2023
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author, big girl pants, blessed, books, happy, JD Robb, moments, neighbour, reading, shopping, Technology, thrift, widow
great excitement…
got a call from my next door neighbour… we are both readers and share books on a regular basis…
she was at a thrift store and found books by one of our favourite authors… she wanted to check to see if we had read all the ones that were available…
we chatted and went through the list that I’ve made as I’ve read the books… I used the list inside one of the covers and have noted each book we’ve read…
we discovered six… yay…
once she dropped them off, I went through the list and marked the books in order of where they are on the list, which is the order I will read them… I also included three that I had just purchased…
so, you may not hear from me for a while, lol…
29 Sunday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, flowers, garden, moments, Morpho, nature, plants, search, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sunshine, Technology, widow
lots of butterflies in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden… also many people…
the sun was shining so they were flitting about the whole space…
the blue Morpho butterfly is very sneaky and would not let me catch a single photo of it with the gorgeous blue when the wings are open…
next time I will take a video and then a still from that, lol…
the butterflies arrive as chrysalis from Costa Rica on a regular basis and are released into the space once they emerge…
so, each time you are in the Garden, there will likely be different varieties…
it is such fun to search for them in amongst the foliage…
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