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08 Thursday Dec 2022

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the fifty pound bag of birdseed was recently delivered in the evening…

I had forgotten they were coming so was startled when they arrived and didn’t have them put it into the garage, where I had made a spot on the table for it…

they brought it into the house and left it by the front door…

it was heavy but in the morning I dragged it through the house to the back door…

then I went out and brought in the two pails that hold it, filled them up, and carried them out, one at a time, lol…

the bag was much lighter at this point and I was able to carry it out and fill the bin with the last portion…

those big girl pants;-)…

particular…

07 Wednesday Dec 2022

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stood at the window and watched chickadees, a nuthatch, and sparrows at the feeders…

and my neighbour shovelling his sidewalk… he is very particular and does a great job every time… it is fun to watch and makes me giggle every time, because my beloved would have been very impressed;-)…

besides shovelling, he also swept the front steps…

turnover…

06 Tuesday Dec 2022

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Sunday we celebrated my beloved’s birthday…

the kids in Ottawa ordered A&W and I ordered it here… this was as close as we could manage to get burgers which were one of his favourites, lol…

ordering and having the meal delivered makes it easy to meet and eat at a specific time without going crazy in the kitchen trying to get separate meals ready…

we met online and enjoyed our burgers and chatted about him…

whenever we meet up we like to “cheers”… in person or over screens…

after we finished our call, I had one of their apple turnovers… he loved apple pie;-)…

it was a low key and enjoyable way to remember him…

sudden…

05 Monday Dec 2022

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I was watching tv and all of a sudden decided I needed to dig out the Christmas mugs… they haven’t been used for a few years as they were at the bottom of the overflowing closet in the computer room…

so I spent a couple of hours purging…

got down to the mugs, ran them through the dishwasher and changed them out for the current mugs…

in the process, I gathered up six or eight boxes of goodies for the giveaway pile, including two boxes of mugs…

way to go me, lol…

although there are still items all over the room that need to be dealt with…

that is a tomorrow project;-)…

talented…

04 Sunday Dec 2022

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a few days ago my buddy arrived with a wreath and a huge container of poinsettias…

she took the bow off the wreath, added a silver ornament, and finally made and attached a new snowflake ribbon…

then she hung it up on the front door…

it looks great and very Christmas-y… she is very talented;-)…

ten…

03 Saturday Dec 2022

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Thursday marked 10 years since I started blogging…

and when I looked at my stats, they tell me I have reached 500 followers… wow…

it also means that ten years have passed since my beloved left me…

just yesterday a delivery arrived and the box smelled of cigarette smoke… haven’t smelled that for years and it reminded me of him, as he was a smoker…

I miss him all the time, but I also know he would be proud of how I have grown over these years…

main…

02 Friday Dec 2022

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the main tree went up… and I even put one into the dining room…

a dear friend came over and decorated the one in the living room…

she did a great job, as always… especially since I didn’t contact her until noon once I decided that was the day, lol…

I brought up many, many, boxes of ornaments which we went through and decided on what to use this year…

once she left, I worked on the dining room tree and put most of the leftovers back downstairs…

in the morning I put up the snowflakes and put away the last bits and pieces…

I was especially happy when I found my embroidered snowflake picture…

which may have been hiding for a few years;-)…

ten…

01 Thursday Dec 2022

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today marks 10 years since I started blogging…

and when I look at my stats, it tells me I have reached 500 followers… wow…

it also means that ten years have passed since my beloved left me… ten years…

just yesterday a delivery arrived and the box smelled of cigarette smoke… haven’t smelled that for years and it reminded me of him, as he was a smoker…

I miss him all the time, but I also know he would be proud of how I have grown over these years…

this photo includes a wooden angel that he made for me;-)…

ten years…

quick…

30 Wednesday Nov 2022

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I received a box of individually wrapped pieces of chocolate in the mail to fill my Advent calendar…

was very happy and quick to pop one into each of the twenty four squares in the box… and there are two on the last day so that I can enjoy one on Christmas Day;-)…

now to wait for tomorrow, when I get to open the first one;-)…

plugged…

29 Tuesday Nov 2022

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the trees made their way up the stairway…

found the box and had some fun placing them…

have one that needs to be plugged in, so I need to figure out how to get it connected…

the rest look great… Facebook told me I had done the same thing on this date two years ago… and I was thinking it was kind of early, lol…

a final few went onto a table by the front door… these include a few that my beloved made many years ago…

I like how they look, and they are connected to Google;-)…