13 Saturday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, container, kleenex, LastTissue, moments, reuse, Technology, widow
got another batch of reusable tissues and had fun figuring out how to best set them out…
found a small Kleenex box, opened one end, folded the tissues over one another, placed them in the box, used double sided tape to close it, and popped the first one out;-)…
works perfectly…
then I dug out a small container to put the used ones into until they get washed;-)…
01 Monday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, hide, moments, productive, shred, Technology, widow
I am getting more comfortable with the cleaners coming into the house…
my technique is to decide where I will hide while they are cleaning… I don’t emerge until they have left the house, lol…
today, I spent the time in the computer room and shredded a ton of documents… had to empty the shredder at least three times…
felt quite productive…
28 Sunday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, family, grandson, moments, nature, shovelling, snow, Technology, time, tools, visit, widow
my grandson came over to shovel today… and pick up a few woodworking tools for his online woods class…
just before he arrived I watched a couple of bunnies eating on the deck…
it was much easier to clean up the snow as it was fairly fresh… the last time it was a few weeks before he was able to get here, mainly due to the crazy cold we went through…
today, he was dropped off and wasn’t picked up for a few hours, so after he finished shovelling, he came inside and we had a visit… we sat as far as possible from one another in the living room and both wore masks…
I learned about his classes and what he has been up to, as well as how he is planning to make money in the future…
we talked about how he will go about taking drivers Ed in these strange times, and it is hard to believe that he will be driving this summer;-)…
it was lovely to spend time with him, even just sitting playing on our phones, lol…
he was picked up, the tools were gathered into the vehicle, and off they went…
looking forward to seeing what he makes…
27 Saturday Feb 2021
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accomplished, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, food, grandsons, light, lightstrip, moments, painting, plants, Technology, widow
busy day yesterday…
in the morning I attached the Philip’s lightstrip that I got for Christmas from my grandsons… I had played with it a bit the day before…
I am pleased with how it turned out…
moved around more plants and made a meal that needs to sit for a day…
after that I finished with making a dozen cards from the watercolour painting I’ve been doing…
felt very accomplished, lol…
20 Saturday Feb 2021
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chocolate bar wrappers, fun, her big girl pants, Instagram, Instagram Live, keep learning, laptop, live, Soma Chocolatemaker, widow
this morning I learned something new… well, a few things, lol… I wanted to watch my daughter in a Live on Instagram, and thought I would watch it on my laptop…
searched the internet and discovered I could download an app from the Microsoft Store so that I would be able to…
downloaded it, but of course there were no Lives happening in my feed and the time to watch was getting closer… by then I had both my phone and the app open, to be sure I wouldn’t miss it… just before she was to come on, someone else started a Live and I could see it on the computer screen… yay…
happily watched the presentation and then decided that I would follow the directions to make a pocket for the back of my Chocolate Notebook…
went to my chocolate bar box and looked for a wrapper to use… I don’t have many bars just now and no empty wrappers because I send them to my daughter who uses them for a number of things…
I found a Soma Twinkle Bar that I love and decided to use the back of the wrapper… it has the saying “travelling without moving” which seemed perfect, especially these days… I enjoy everything from Soma and not long ago put in an order with a friend to help with the shipping costs…
I put the washi tape into a regular scotchtape dispenser and it worked perfectly…
used mountain scape washi tape to go around the wrapper on the three sides, following the directions provided by Genevieve and then I added tape across the top, on the wrapper only, so that it looked framed!
it was fun to find a new way to see Instagram, although a bit stressful with the timing… and fun to make something…
13 Saturday Feb 2021
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arrival, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, books, flowers, memories, missing, moments, roses, treats, widow
I miss my beloved all the time but seems more so around this time of year…
he was a romantic and always made it a special holiday for me… usually that included roses…
of course there haven’t been too many for me recently, lol…
I ordered books as a treat and didn’t expect them until the 15th, but they arrived early…
woohoo, looking forward to reading in the sunny living room over the next while…
30 Saturday Jan 2021
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months ago the Nest smoke detector on the ceiling upstairs stopped connecting to the wifi because the password changed and I couldn’t figure out how to reset it…
a few weeks ago I decided to delete it from my app and add it again so that I could get the correct password installed…
after I deleted it, and tried to add it back, I discovered that I needed the bar code or serial number… I was so excited that I had the box it came in… but, no serial number… it was located on the back of the detector… so, I just left it alone…
while the ladder was in the house I took it upstairs, removed the detector from the ceiling, found the code, added it to the app, and got it up and connected again… then attached it back to the ceiling and took the ladder back to the garage…
glad I thought of it while the ladder was still in the house…
20 Wednesday Jan 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, computer, family, iPhone, laptop, moments, printer, printing, Technology, widow
the printer works, the printer works…
this, after over an hour on the phone with my son-in-law as he climbed into my desktop and laptop to sort out the issue…
this new printer leaves the paper tray open about two inches… the strangest thing I have seen…
but it prints perfectly using the laptop and the iPhone… still not so happy when the main computer gives the order… we may have to delete the driver and reinstall, but it will do for now…
finally…
18 Monday Jan 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, blood, bloodwork, crazy times, Dynacare, health, house, moments, widow
today, a Dynacare technician came to the house and drew my blood in preparation for my doctor’s appointment next week…
she was efficient and knowledgeable and it took about fifteen minutes in total… she was masked and put on a gown before doing the draw… she was also very excited to see all my orchids;-)…
I was very happy when I learned that they can come out to the house… apparently they have done that for years… there was a $35 charge, but it was simpler to have them come out rather than have to get the car from my grandson, go to the clinic, and then have him come back for the car…
my appointment next week is by phone so I don’t have to go to the clinic…
crazy times…
04 Monday Jan 2021
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big girl pants, books, charger, garden, Kobo, light, moments, reader, reading, sun, Technology, weather, widow
I’ve been frustrated for a long time because I couldn’t find my Kobo reader… I think I started the search around May…
I came across it ages before that and put it away carefully, sigh… at that point I also had no idea where the charger was for it…
so, I knew it was here, and I’d been searching everywhere for it, particularly after my daughter suggested that one of the universal chargers would likely power it up…
I’ve been using the tablet, but that only works in the house due to the way that the light bounces off it outside… so that meant I needed paper books all summer, lol… I still have one last book from my last online summer purchases…
this morning I was tidying in the bedroom and there it was tucked in along the edge of one of the shelves…
honestly…
and I even found a charger that worked, from my old Blackberry, lol…
woohoo… gonna get reading;-)…
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