applesauce…

18 Tuesday Oct 2022

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my neighbour brought over a container of chili and asked if I would like more apples…

a month ago they had given me a large bowl full and I made applesauce…

I used small baggies in a muffin tin and it worked well…

this time, I put the sauce directly into the tins, put them in the freezer, and when they were frozen, packaged and popped them back into the freezer…

they were a little difficult to remove from the cold metal, but this will save excess plastic and also take up less space…

macarons…

17 Monday Oct 2022

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today, my BS group gathered in the living room…

we’ve been meeting in the garden but it was only going to 2 degrees Celsius so we decided it was time to come inside…

one person joined via Zoom and had dropped off a lovely treat for us beforehand… boob (for breast cancer awareness month) and regular macarons from Jenna Rae Cakes…

I left the front and back doors open to move fresh air… everyone wore masks until we were all seated…

it was the first time we’ve met in the house since the pandemic began…

felt lovely and odd at the same time, lol…

soon we will all have had the fifth shot which will make us feel a bit more confident about being in a closed space together…

so happy to be getting back to more ‘normal’ times…

flipped…

16 Sunday Oct 2022

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went outside and flipped the two rain barrels… one in the garden, and the new one next to the front flowerbed…

although we had drained both, they still had water inside, but once they were turned over, it poured out through the screen…

now they are ready for winter, sigh…

I learned a few years ago that not flipping them can cause serious consequences… lucky for me, the bottom of the one in the garden has returned to flat, lol…

gemstones…

15 Saturday Oct 2022

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had an idea the other day when I was watching tv upstairs… I’ve been thinking it was time to change up the display in the living room table, so I got started…

found a number of framed photos from the computer room and my collection of fancy gemstones…

I gathered up some of my angels… I have given away most of them, but kept a few of my favourites, lol…

brought everything to the living room table and had a lovely time putting them into the squares…

remembering where they came from and why they were special to me…

such a lovely walk down memory lane;-)…

turning…

14 Friday Oct 2022

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last year I moved four amaryllis bulbs to the basement when they finished blooming…

I brought them up on Monday, gave them a good dose of water, and put them onto the dining room table…

a couple had already started to grow… one already had a green frond and there were a few with little bits of green starting…

I am turning them every time I feed the fish…

and this is how they look today;-)…

they are shooting up very quickly… and I am excited to see what will happen with them… hoping they end up producing some flowers and not just leaves, lol…