22 Sunday Mar 2026
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anticipating, big girl pants, blessed, covers, family, garden, ice, melting, moments, snow, weather, widow, wind
we finally got the deck shovelled… there is still a bit of snow and ice, but now it should melt more quickly…
we also got the last of the snow off the two chairs on the deck, but I am anticipating that the cushions underneath the covers will be wet…
unfortunately, the cover is still frozen to the deck… but the wind was sure blowing the covers around now that the snow is gone…
21 Saturday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly, butterfly blanket, happy, light, moments, monarch, naps, nature, warm, widow
I have been loving my new butterfly blanket…
it is much lighter than the blanket that I’ve been using for naps in the den…
and although it is lighter it is just as warm and cozy;-)…
I think it is going to be lovely when I’m in my chair on the deck —- soon I hope —- as the weather warms up;-)…
20 Friday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, books, GLOBOsapiens, moments, reading, sale, shopping, stair library, widow
went to Globosapiens to pick up some books…
they have a great sale on now…
updated the stair library, and plan to go back in the next while to pick up more great reads;-)…
19 Thursday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cupcakes, food, grandson, housemate, Jenna, Jenna Rae Cakes, moments, shopping, treat, widow
visited Jenna Rae Cakes on Academy for the first time today;-)…
was just planning to look…
but ended up with 3 cupcakes to share with my housemate;-)…
this one ended up being my favourite;-)…
18 Wednesday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, facecloth, kleenex, Last Object, moments, paper towel, widow
recently someone commented on my Last Object “kleenex”…
I have been using them for about six years and am very happy with them…
it also brought to mind my “paper towels”…
since the beginning of 2020, I have been using old facecloths and napkins instead of paper… there are still a few thing I use actual paper towels for… particularly things like bacon when it cooks in the microwave, lol…
once they get used, they go into a basket in the laundry room and when it is full, into the washer… dried, folded, and returned to the cupboard, then the top of the microwave to be used…
and repeat…
17 Tuesday Mar 2026
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16 Monday Mar 2026
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finally had the time to spend curled up in the sun on the bed… usually by the time I think of it, the sun has already left the bed;-)…
it was warm and cozy, lol…
so happy that the season is moving forward and before you know it, there will be time spent on the deck in the sunshine as well…
15 Sunday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dragonfly, family, living room drawers, moments, nature, seeds, spring-y, widow
time to change the living room table…
put away the L O V E letters and found a beautiful spring scarf that my daughter gave me from her trip to Italy…
once the scarf was down, all of the seed packets we have went into the four squares…
then I put the driftwood with the dragonfly on it onto the table…
finally, cushions came down from upstairs and replaced the ones that had been on the sofa…
feels spring-y…
14 Saturday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, computer, donations, moments, scans, taxes, Technology, upload, widow
been putting off dealing with the taxes, sigh…
finally sat down in the computer room and got to work on all the documents I needed to send in…
just recently a friend shared that the pharmacy could provide a list of all my prescriptions for the year… saved me a lot of pasting, as I would organize and stick all the receipts in date order from the pharmacy on letter paper and then scan the pages, lol…
thankfully I had printed a hard copy of most of the donation receipts which was handy when I was searching for all of them in my email, lol…
took a minute, but eventually I figured out how to scan things to the computer and locate where they landed…
then shockingly, I also remembered how to get into the Portal and was able to upload all of the pieces of information…
I think, 🤞…
13 Friday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, deck, flowers, moments, monarch butterfly, stare, The Leaf Gift Shop, weather, widow
I’ve been watching this item in the Gift Shop at The Leaf for well over a week now…
on one of my spots, I would stare at it, through the exit doors, but when my shift ended, the shop would be closed…
I kept planning to stop in before starting my volunteer time, but kept forgetting…
until today…
lucky for me the shop stayed open past the end of my shift for an event that was happening at the event centre;-)…
and I came home with this lovely blanket… it is a monarch butterfly (which I love) and is soft and cozy…
I think it will be perfect when I start to sit on the deck as the weather gets warmer;-)…
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