I spent five glorious days with friends’ at their beach cottage…
the first thing I always do is jump out of the car and run down to be sure the beach and lake are still there, lol…
what a wonderful time it was… delicious food (that I didn’t have to prepare); wonderful conversations, stories, and laughter; listening to birds and the waves; lots of time on the beach and in the water; relaxing, reading and sleeping…
spent time in the garage bringing the floor back into view…
the car hasn’t been here for an overnight since the fall so the garage has filled up with a number of things… a couple of the chairs waiting for their new brackets, a table with bits and pieces on top, numerous boxes, a few cushions not put into their proper place and some pumps…
I had moved a few items around the day before and yesterday I finished and was able to put the table away…
then I even swept the floor… Indi may not have recognized the space when she showed up this afternoon… my grandson didn’t even open the door when he arrived because he had been in it recently, lol…
had him put her into the garage and I opened all the windows and hope that any aerosols will be gone by morning when I need to head to an appointment…
spent time today putting away all the hearts and refreshing the living room table…
often at this time of year I would be filling it with rocks and shells, but that seems a little early…
I gathered up all the silver and purple ornaments and took them downstairs…
then I put some Chihuly calendar pictures in the four squares and added a few other items… one square has my gardening books as I’ve been looking through them to work on the garden design for the summer…
another has a few of my favourite children’s books in it, and some cards with fun pictures of time on Maui…
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 myChocolate 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 wrappersbecause 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…
I always put sweetener and evaporated milk in my tea… usually the can goes into the fridge, but yesterday I poured my evaporated milk into a container as the can had a dent from being dropped as it was brought up to the house, lol…
the container came from Atlanta when we were there in 2016 to see the Chihuly Exhibit… we went to a Farmers Market and I picked up a chocolate drink in it… it was tasty…
lovely to remember the fun we had;-)…
it also reminded me of our camping trips over the last few years… well, not last year…
keeping my milk in the jar saved spills in the cooler, not that that ever happened;-)…
fun to remember the history of items in the house…
for many years, since my trip to Seattle in 2013, I have had a Chihuly calendar… either my daughter or I have purchased them for Christmas gifts to one another…
this year that didn’t happen, so we were discussing how we missed it the other day…
she suggested that I make one using Vistaprint… I had gone online and found them on the Chihuly Garden and Glass website, but the shipping charge was more than double the cost of the calendar…
so I did… I used the photos from our visit in 2016… it took about an hour to prepare and order…
that was on Monday… on Thursday it arrived;-)… it is beautiful, the photos came out clear and crisp and it is just slightly smaller than the Chihuly ones…
I am very happy…
I had fallen in love with a photo of the garden goddess many years ago that was taken in Montreal… on one of my visits to see the kids in Ottawa, we planned a visit to see it… unfortunately the picture was old and the structure was not in the garden…
in 2015, my daughter sent me information about a goddess structure in Atlanta, and that there was a Chihuly installation happening as well in 2016… I was very excited and so away we went…
it was a special time… I am going to enjoy this calendar…
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