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neighbourly…

07 Monday Jan 2019

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my oh my… it snowed quite a bit last night… and then the wind took over… blew the side door of the garage open and quite a bit of snow went inside…

looked pretty as I was leaving the house this morning, although the driving wasn’t great…

at the end of the day we left the office in groups to be sure that no one got stuck in the parking lot…

when I arrived home I turned into the driveway and couldn’t get up the slope as my snow clearing person hadn’t made it over yet…

vehicles were parked on the street so I was worried I might back into one of them if I tried to make a run for it… I went and knocked on a neighbour’s door… the vehicle wasn’t his but he thought it was from the house right across the street from me… that neighbour was shovelling so I went and asked about the vehicle… it was his, but he said I had lots of room…

he came over and tried to drive Indi up the driveway… as he was trying, the first neighbour came out to help… with a number of tries, and two of us pushing, Indi made it to the flat section of the driveway… thank goodness for winter tires…

I was able to get her into the garage from there…

I opened the side door to see that my back lane neighbour had snow-blowed the sidewalk from the lane to the deck;-)…

I took a picture of the spot where Indi got stuck, but it doesn’t look like a problem…

here’s the driver as he finished shovelling his sidewalk…

pretty neighbourly, I’d say;-)…

tasty…

30 Sunday Dec 2018

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big girl pants, breakfast, cake, Christmas, Facebook, family, grandsons, hot tub, lonely, memories, missing, snow, tasty, widow

I’ve been a bit lonely over the last week or so… most Christmases my older daughter and her husband have come home… it didn’t work out this year…

was out in the hot tub this morning, first time in ages… a bit later these two pictures came up in my Facebook memories…

the first is deadly chocolate mousse cake, her favourite… I always make sure to have it in the house when she comes… in fact whenever I go to visit her, I take some as well… we always have the cake for breakfast, which the grandsons think is amazing;-)…

the second is of our water boots from last Christmas… she loves the hot tub and our usual pattern is a late night dip before bed…

it was my other son-in-law who suggested water boots many years ago… they work perfectly so that my feet never get cold or snowy…

today I spent some time cooking… turkey and dumplings, and mashed potato and garlic soup…

they both came out pretty tasty, although I am not going to be able to have the potato soup for work lunches because it reeks of garlic, lol…

courier…

17 Monday Dec 2018

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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, courier, friends, home, Ottawa, parcel, widow

been thinking of how blessed my life is…

this morning I packed up a parcel for my kids in Ottawa who are not coming home for Christmas this year…

called a courier (integrated freight and parcel solutions provider – fancy title, lol) and arranged for it to be picked up…

without much thought, was able to be sure it will be delivered in the next few days… it cost a bit more, but meant I wouldn’t need to worry about when it would arrive…

tonight we talked about how we take so many things for granted… a secure place to live… clean flowing water at the turn of a tap… warm comfortable beds to sleep in… pantries full of food… health care… safe vehicles to travel in… and friends who care for us…

calendar…

09 Friday Nov 2018

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big girl pants, calendar, Chihuly, garden, glass, installations, memories, moments, special places, widow

really can’t believe how fast time is going by…

seems like it was just yesterday that I turned the page to November on my Chihuly calendar…

rather like this picture…

looking forward to getting a 2019 Chihuly calendar and wondering what spectacular photos will be included…

whenever I look at the calendar I remember the amazing places I have been to see Chihuly installations…

the mind blowing Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle…

the gorgeous installations at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens…

the chandeliers at the Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau…

wonder where I might see some next;-)…

neighbours…

26 Friday Oct 2018

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adapt, appointment, big girl pants, breakfast, buddy, English Garden, friend, geese, halloween, honking, insurance, Leo Mol Garden, neighbours, widow

this morning I started my day at the clinic doing bloodwork before my next appointment…

on my way back to the car I kept having to stop and watch the geese flying overhead… I cannot keep from looking up when I hear them honking…

then I met up with my walking buddy… we had breakfast at The Park Cafe, and noticed that all the geese that usually spend time in the pond were off filling up somewhere else, lol… afterward we wandered through the English and Leo Mol Gardens which are rather sad just now but it was great to be outside…

I dropped her off and we checked out her newly renovated garden… as I was leaving I got this pic of a neighbour’s Halloween decorations;-)…

when I arrived home, had a lovely visit with one of my neighbours… haven’t been outside at the same time for ages so it was great to catch-up… they usually spend a few months at their property in Arizona but with health issues they can’t get insurance so will be selling… they do have a winterized cottage just outside the city, so will spend time there…

seems like we have to adapt quite a bit as we get older…

flight…

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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big girl pants, Dow’s Lake, family, flight, heron, hot air balloon, memories, moments, text, trip, widow

woke up to a text from my daughter in Ottawa sending me some photos and video of a great blue heron…

I love them and she spotted this one while having her breakfast at Dows Lake before walking to her office…

a few minutes later I came across this memory on Facebook… two years ago we decided at the last minute to see if we could get a balloon flight… and we made it…

I had booked a trip a few years before just to be able to have an opportunity to fly in a hot air balloon… that time, it took five tries to actually get up into the air, so this was a treat…

lovely way to start the day…

Opapiskaw…

03 Monday Sep 2018

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bears, big girl pants, boating, camping, campsite, family, fishing, hot tub, Opapiskaw, sunset, widow

yesterday my son-in-law and I came home after supper as he had to work today and I was looking for a quiet day before going back to work…

Sunday started with solo time at the water’s edge…

while we were eating pancakes and bacon one of the Park rangers came by to advise everyone that a momma bear and her two cubs had been spotted nearby and to be sure to clean up their site before heading out for the day… not five minutes later the middle grandson saw them in the campsite across from ours… we jumped into the car, with our breakfast and hollered out the windows to let the other campers know… within a few minutes the bears were gone but it was pretty exciting…

then it was off for a day on the water… we’d found a measuring scale for seeing how long the fish are and took it with us…

sadly, only one of us caught anything and the fish were a bit small, lol…

when we got back to the campsite we made a lovely chicken dinner and said farewell to the three who were remaining…

good drive home, a hot tub with the my oldest grandson and son-in-law and then a sleepover at their house…

Opapiskaw, Sunday…

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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another beautiful day in paradise…

early this morning I walked down to the beach and got a few great pictures…

in an effort to find a good internet connection I walked down a very narrow trail to get to a spot where there was LTE service…

the trail brought back so many memories… all the years we camped at Falcon and Birds Hill and went on many hikes along trails that were just like this one…

at the end of the trail were some pretty rocks which I clearly am not going to be able to take home, sigh…

there are many poplars here and the sound of the wind blowing through them is also a reminder of camping in Birds Hill with friends…

missing my beloved… he would have loved this…

Opapiskaw, Saturday…

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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boating, camping, family, fishing, fun times, memories, Opapiskaw, Saturday, water sports

up early and, after the rather long hike to the bathroom, spent some time at the water’s edge… beautiful view as the fog rolled across the still water and I could hear fish jumping just out of sight…

nice way to start the day… tomorrow I might take a chair down to watch the sunrise…

breakfast made on the campfire, followed by fishing, tubing, wakeboarding and kneeboarding…

in amongst all that I had a boat driving lesson and did quite well…

Opapiskaw, Friday…

31 Friday Aug 2018

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big girl pants, calm, camping, family, Friday, fun times, Labour Day, long weekend, moments, Opapiskaw, water, widow

Labour Day long weekend… last camping trip of the year…

three of us grocery shopped, hooked up the trailer, filled up with gas, and hit the road for Opapiskaw…

when we arrived we set up the trailer and fetched the boat from a friend’s seasonal site… the other two arrived a bit later…

we are now working on supper, doing some relaxing and exploring… a few of us played catch and some went for a walk to check out the water… it was so calm…

hope it is like that when we want to go wakeboarding and kneeboarding tomorrow, lol…

trying to figure out how I can take some of the rocks home, although they are a bit big…

now to walk down by the water so I can post this;-)…

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