snake…

20 Thursday Aug 2026

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I spent a delightful five days with friends at their family beach cottage…

delicious food, great company, naps, lots of conversation, and I was in the lake, at least once, up to my neck…

spent lots of time on the beach, early in the morning, on my own, and all together on a few days…

we walked a good portion of the beach a few times with our newly prepared walking sticks…

and walked the road to the pump, which had a snake handle…

there was also a real snake😳… which had me stomping and speaking loudly as I walked along where it had been seen…

weather was nice, lots of sunshine, a bit of wind and some rainy/overcast times… so, a bit of everything…

my particular expertise is washing the dishes…

other than that it was all about reading…

we did play ladder golf, a new game to me, (although I may have seen my grandsons play a version of it a number of years ago), which was fun…

what a treat 😊…

trip…

13 Thursday Aug 2026

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my daughter recently sent me this postcard to remind me how close we are to our big trip…

for my birthday – the big 75 – I decided to take the train through the Rockies and visit gardens on Vancouver Island…

planning started last summer, and we had to book our train trip by December to be able to travel in September… crazy, lol…

next we searched for gardens that we would like to visit, besides the Butchart Gardens, which were first on the list…

then came looking at other spots in and around Victoria that we would like to see… we are going to have as many afternoon teas as possible, lol…

finding accommodations for our stay took a bit of work, but we found a lovely AirBnB close to the Butchart Gardens (and a Butterfly garden)… our second place to stay is a cute little hotel that faces the ocean in Victoria…

and finally, first class flights were booked back home… as I haven’t travelled for ages, the flights were covered by points… how cool is that;-)…

now to think about what I need to pack for a train trip and fall on Vancouver Island…

chocolate-covered…

25 Saturday Jul 2026

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my housemate was away on vacation and just returned…

I was treated to an absolutely beautiful kitchen towel that has a sea turtle on it…

a light and airy sarong…

and 3 boxes of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts…

Costco used to carry them in a big plastic jug, but they haven’t had them for ages…

talk about spoiled 😊…

reruns…

06 Friday Feb 2026

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so, the Olympics have started, woohoo;-)…

I like to watch the original, not the reruns, lol…

which means I will be watching a lot in the middle of the night for the next few weeks…

see you then…

driven…

31 Saturday Jan 2026

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I don’t think I’ve driven at all this winter…

since the snow started, I have been relying on my housemate and Uber to get me where I need to go… and my adventure buddy who always does the driving (yay to her!)…

my newest process is to volunteer at The Leaf from three until six… that way I can Uber there and my housemate can pick me up… seems to be working quite well…

recently I had a ride in a Tesla, which had the entire roof made of glass… I knew how to get in, from a previous encounter, although the driver automatically opened the door, but it took a while to figure out how to open the door from the inside to exit at my destination, lol……

I was thinking how cool it would be to drive out of the city and watch the stars or the aurora in comfort from the back seat without having to leave the vehicle, lol…

completed…

05 Friday Dec 2025

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enjoyed time in the computer room wrapping up the Christmas presents…

this year there was just a small box to go to Ottawa which went into the mail a few days ago… a few items were ordered and delivered directly to them…

the remainder of the presents are now under the tree…

happy to have this piece of work completed…

flattened…

27 Thursday Nov 2025

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a very large, and heavy, box arrived in the mail…

I am sure that it is full of items for my Advent calendar… woohoo…

just yesterday morning I brought down the bag full of boxes which have been flattened…

my housemate will be rebuilding the twenty-four boxes and inserting the various items from my daughter into them…

then I will get the boxes and set them out to be opened one at a time during Advent;-)…

short…

23 Thursday Oct 2025

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had a wonderful, but short, visit with my Ottawa daughter over the last few days…

she had been to Calgary for an event and stopped here on her way home…

lots of time together as we caught up in person… late nights and early mornings while she was here… and lots of laughter…

always cake from Baked Expectations when she arrives;-)…

we spent a lovely morning at The Leaf noticing the growth since she was last here and counting cacao pods…

she also spotted the first chileo on the second tree… made me laugh cause I’ve been looking for ages trying to spot one on that tree…

we visited the butterflies although they weren’t very active as it was cool and overcast but it was fun to see them together… the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, currently has a butterfly display as well so we often compare which butterflies we each see, lol…

we worked on a plan for our next trip together and did lots of research on the computer…

dinners in and out as we ate some of her favourites and then we were headed back to the airport for her flight home…

always a treat;-)…