09 Thursday Sep 2021
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I went for a walk… outside… in the neighbourhood… no idea when I did that last…
walked with my daughter in my ear…
didn’t go too far, up to and around Bruce Park… it was lovely to see flowers, the creek, and get some photos…
felt fine at the end… only met a few people and they weren’t close to me…
04 Saturday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grass, lawnmower, moments, mow, nature, pond, Technology, water lily, weather, widow, working
this morning when I looked outside the sun was shining and it was a nice temperature…
but, the grass was so tall I didn’t want to go into the garden… since we’ve had a bit of rain and cooler weather it has grown like crazy and my grandsons hadn’t been able to come over and mow for me…
I decided that I would mow it myself… I did buy a lawnmower that starts easily and doesn’t have any cords for just this situation…
so, I moved furniture, mowed, whippersnipped, put furniture back, brought out cushions and finally sat down with a cup of tea to enjoy the space…
it looked spectacular;-)…
and I spotted a water lily bud… yay…
01 Wednesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cacao, chocolate, crossword, eNews, fun, garden, happy, HappyMailforChocoholics, learning, moments, nature, pond, Technology, widow
the cleaners were here today and while they were inside the house, I was in the garden on the back deck spending time with googly finding the answers to the Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers crossword that I received in an email mid-August;-)…
it was fun learning new facts about the various places where cacao grows…
28 Saturday Aug 2021
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after considering all the options I applied online to safely vote by mail…
thanks to an email from the David Suzuki Foundation I was able to get to the correct spot without difficulty and submit the application fairly easily…
we shall see if I get the ballot in time and how this new way of voting (for me) goes…
wish me luck, as once you’ve applied to vote by mail you cannot vote in any other manner;-)…
I received my voting package the next day… wow 🤩…
now to find out who is running in my area…
21 Saturday Aug 2021
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18 Wednesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, friends, garden, happy, laughter, memories, moments, nature, Technology, time, widow
had a lovely in-person gathering with my BS buddies…
Monday evening is our usual time to gather, and we’ve been doing that for many years…
since the lockdown we’ve been connecting via Skype, but for the last number of weeks we’ve been meeting on the deck in the garden, unless the weather doesn’t cooperate…
it is wonderful to be together again… we sit apart, but are able to enjoy each other with a cup of tea or coffee…
laughter fills the air…
13 Friday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, earbuds, fit, happy, iPhone, moments, music, online, shopping, sound, Technology, widow
received my new earbuds…
two or three weeks ago my pretty Samsung Earbuds just stopped working… all of a sudden they wouldn’t pair with my phone… of course they were not under warranty… the service department suggested I have them repaired locally but the local people advised they would have to send them away… it was going to cost $55 if they sent them away and I decided not to have them repaired… and it wasn’t clear how much the repair might cost…
I thought about it for quite a while and did a ton of research before deciding on these ones…
I want them mainly for phone calls which meant there weren’t that many options and ones that would be comfortable in my ears…
I finally ordered them on Wednesday, and they were delivered on Friday;-)…
they were easy to pair with my iPhone and music sounds good…
will have to see how they are on phone calls…
wish me luck;-)…
12 Thursday Aug 2021
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on Monday the slinky arrived in the mail…
we’d been looking for a while and apparently everyone has been buying them as there were none available nearby…
this one was ordered on Thursday and turned up just four days later…
once the rain stopped I put it on the bird feeder pole…
I didn’t pin the bottom down as I read that this wasn’t required…
we will see if it keeps the squirrels from getting to the feeder…
11 Wednesday Aug 2021
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on Sunday night I slept for 8 hours…
now that the Olympics are over I can turn the tv off at night and get a great sleep…
well, I could have turned it off during the Olympics, but that just wasn’t in the cards, lol… I would slide in and out of sleep to watch whatever might be getting the announcer excited…
retirement has certainly made watching middle of the night events easier…
8 hours;-)… woohoo…
05 Thursday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, calendar, dinner, fun, google, learning, moments, steak, supper, Technology, widow
today I learned that if you put the word supper in the title of an appointment in the Google calendar, this is what it shows…
but, if you put dinner in it, you get a cute little picture;-)…
clearly Google doesn’t know that supper and dinner mean the same thing to me, lol…
always enjoy learning new things, particularly concerning technology;-)…
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