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Hawaii…

30 Sunday Apr 2023

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four years ago in April, we arrived on Maui to celebrate my birthday…

I had always wanted to go to Hawaii, but never made it happen until then…

I have been enjoying the memories that have come up in my social media…

on our way into our first hotel, we spotted orchids in the lobby…

we went to the beach to watch the sun set, got our toes in the ocean, found a great spot to watch, settled in to wait, and then had this group of people walk right in front of us to get their pictures, lol…

I have the amethyst heart that I purchased on my bedside table and enjoy seeing it all the time…

one of my favourite memories is of our time at the orchid farm… a huge space bursting with the most beautiful plants, most of which were in full bloom…

it was delightful…

there were fish and sea turtles…

saw cacao trees with cacao pods on them, jacaranda trees in bloom (purple), and the most amazing banyan tree which took up an entire block…

it was an amazing time and we enjoyed every minute… it lived up to all of my expectations and then some… so lucky this happened before covid…

mushrooms…

26 Wednesday Apr 2023

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Tuesday we went to aquasize as my buddy had an appointment on Thursday…

from there we drove to Oak Bluff, where we had lunch at Roxy’s Restaurant & Lounge… I was very excited to find battered mushrooms on the menu, so we started with those… and they were delicious;-)… then I had a tasty beef dip with Caesar salad… the service was excellent, the food good and it was a nice spot…

onward to Carman where we visited the Golden Prairie Arts Council to see an exhibition by Connie Bart Hamel which was filled with a variety of mediums… she is very talented and a neighbour of my friend…

we stopped at Syl’s for ice cream and had a lovely drive home in the sunshine…

wonderful day;-)…

white…

02 Thursday Mar 2023

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happy that I finally got a nice photo of the cute new little white orchids…

have had the plant for a few weeks now, but just couldn’t get a nice shot of a single bloom…

looks cute on the living room table along with the other new orchid and two little grape hyacinths which have just started to scent the air;-)…

and the new display in the table looks nice as well… some of my rock collection from Goose Spit with a few crystals thrown in;-)…

bedside…

02 Thursday Feb 2023

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to make cleaning easier I always put most of the items on the bedside table into the drawer before the cleaners arrive…

after they leave I bring the items back out…

I absolutely love the amethyst heart that I purchased for my birthday when we were in Hawaii…

it sits at the edge of the Google Display and makes me smile every time I see it;-)…

took it downstairs into the sunlight to get a good photo before returning it back to its spot;-)…

hand…

15 Sunday Jan 2023

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the Audubon calendar for Friday and Saturday was a chickadee…

and yesterday a memory came up on Facebook of me feeding a chickadee in Mer Bleu three years ago while I was visiting…

I had hoped to train my chickadees to eat from my hand, but so far, no luck…

I did catch this little one dashing to and from the feeder, lol…

Audubon…

02 Monday Jan 2023

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January first was new calendar day…

for many years we have had Chihuly calendars… either my daughter or I would get two and give one to the other person;-)…

one year I even made one filled with photos from our trip to see his installation in Atlanta…

this year I changed it up…

I found an Audubon calendar online that shows a different bird each day… ordered two and sent one off with the other Christmas presents…

took down the old one and put up the new one…

I think I will learn a bit and maybe it will even help me with bird identification in the garden…

taxi…

24 Monday Oct 2022

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took my first taxi since before the pandemic…

arranged ahead of time for a pickup to go downtown, and then walked to the Delta to get another one to come home…

had to go in and ask the concierge to call for one… I guess with less people downtown the taxis don’t sit outside the hotels all the time…

wore my mask for both trips and so did they…

sourdough…

27 Tuesday Sep 2022

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got fresh sourdough bread recently, so decided on toast with peanut butter for breakfast… this is a treat as bread isn’t on the menu very often…

brought down my left-handed cutting board and it reminded me of fun times at Hillside Beach many, many, years ago…

I love how it cuts the bread to the exact size required for the toaster… and then the knife slides into the tray…

we picked this up at one of the Victoria Beach Country Markets and it has cut many loaves of Village Green Bakery bread, lol…

lovely memories…

switch…

20 Saturday Aug 2022

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my Ottawa son-in-law arrived today to spend a few weeks with me…

he has plans to help get a few jobs done around my house…

we had breakfast out and then he changed the light switch in the kitchen to one that is compatible with my Google Home…

it felt like I pushed every one of the switches in the basement before we found the correct one to be sure the power was off, lol…

got out the tools Kasa recommended and in a few minutes he had it switched out and working…

then he changed the bulb on the ceiling fixture and put the cover back on… it has been off for months as the Philips Hue I was using needed airflow around it…

looks so much better now…

one job done… not saying how many are left on the list😂…

chance…

30 Saturday Jul 2022

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this picture came up on my Facebook memories a few days ago…

it was a reminder of the frightening ride we had on the chairlift at Mount Washington eleven years ago…

we sat at the bottom of the chairlift for a long time… both of us had a fear of heights… but we decided to do it…

we got on the lift and started up, but the person who helped us didn’t put the bar down…

I felt so scared that I may have bent the side and back bars on the chair, lol… when we came down they were careful to make sure all the safety features were in place…

we were proud of one another;-)…

this photo came up too…

it was from a few years ago when my kids tried to get me up on a wakeboard…

we tried for what felt like hours to do it… one was in the water with me and one was driving the boat carefully… it just never happened…

but, once again, I was pleased that I had taken the chance and tried new things, lol…

my beloved would have laughed and laughed, although he didn’t love being on the water…