07 Friday Mar 2025
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spent a good part of Friday watching two elm trees across the creek being removed…
they’ve had the deadly orange dot on them since the fall, a sure sign their time was up…
because they were in a field it was obviously more difficult to take them down as they couldn’t get one of the big trucks close to them…
it was entertaining;-)…
06 Thursday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, framed, friends, fun, installation, matting, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, project, remembering, slipped, water lilies, widow
had a fun time remembering the “installation” which a friend helped me install a number of years ago as I was making adjustments to them…
the installation consists of twenty-nine photos of water lilies which I had taken…
over the years a number of the pictures had slipped in the frames and I finally got around to removing them one by one and taping the photos to the matting before reinstalling them on the wall…
there had been wine and a lot of laughter as we worked away to get all the pictures up on the wall, lol…
this time my housemate was able to help with the pieces I couldn’t reach, lol…
happy to have this project completed…
05 Wednesday Mar 2025
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, death, family, grumpy, love, March, moments, remembering, time, weather, whacked, widow
I’ve been a bit off, and grumpy, for the last little while, and it wasn’t until I was talking with my daughter that I realized the cause…
I hadn’t been paying much attention to the calendar as most of the time feels like Saturday or Sunday now that I am retired, lol…
it has been thirteen years to the day since my beloved passed…
feels a bit like it snuck up on me although in the past month I have had several dreams about finding him in the hospital with a disconnected breathing tube in his mouth… no one had told me he was dead…
seems strange that after all this time I can still be whacked with the grief…
the good news is that once I figure out what has been causing the discomfort, it usually passes and I am able to move forward in a more positive frame of mind…
I don’t forget him, but can get back to remembering all of the wonderful times we had together and make new memories of the wonderful life that I do have…
this photo of trees is one of the last I took with him… we had taken a drive through the park to see the hoarfrost…
so many wonderful memories;-)…
04 Tuesday Mar 2025
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time to change up the drawer in the living room table for this next season…
put away the L O V E letters, butterflies, and dragonflies that have been in it since sometime after Christmas… I also packed up all of the heart decorations that had been out…
I put a colourful sarong in each of the four squares and then put all the crystals, which had been part of the last display, back on top of them…
looks good and I topped it off with my rock bowl filled with my Crystal Oracle cards;-)…
03 Monday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, food, happy, health, information, made in Canada, moments, parmesan cheese, product, raspberries, shopping, Technology, widow
went to Costco on Wednesday morning and clearly picked a great time as parking was easy and the store wasn’t too busy…
I was very happy that the frozen raspberries I use were not a product of the USA, and neither was the Parmesan cheese…
it is kind of difficult on most packaging to find the information that tells you clearly where it comes from 😬…
02 Sunday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, book, chair, cooperative, cushions, deck, family, feeder, garden, micro-climate, moments, nature, reading, weather, widow
spent a delightful hour on the deck in the sunshine…
last evening my housemate dug out one of the deck chairs from under the tarp so there would be a place to sit when the weather is cooperative…
I found a set of cushions in the garage and brought out my Assiniboine Park blanket…
pulled over a small table and put my current book on it…
I did have my winter jacket on, but the sun on my face as I was reading was wonderful;-)…
there is still lots of snow in the garden, but the deck is always its own little micro-climate…
I even filled up a few bird feeders…
01 Saturday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, deliveries, doorknob, family, house, housemate, moments, repair, tool, weather, widow
the other day, as my housemate was leaving the house, the handle for the front door came off in his hand…
he wasn’t able to fix it then and when he got home we discovered that we didn’t have the correct tool to make the repair…
happily, no deliveries arrived and I didn’t have to go out the next day, lol…
once he had the right implement, it only took a few minutes to fix the problem;-)…
now I’m not afraid to open the door;-)…
28 Friday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, cold, door, impossible, moments, nature, Technology, warm, weather, widow
it was much warmer for a few days last week and when I went to check the doorbell camera one evening, it was impossible to see anything…
after cleaning the camera portion, it was much easier to see…
made me laugh as it hasn’t been working due to the cold weather…
27 Thursday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, moments, nature, pattern, solar power, Spring, strength, sunshine, Technology, weather, widow
to continue with the strength of the sun, I got this photo of one of the solar-powered lights…
it is one of four that I received from the Ottawa kids… I had put three away, but left this one out…
rather excited to see the lovely pattern of light on the deck;-)…
spring is really coming…
26 Wednesday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, door, freezing, moments, nature, night, open, screen, warmer, weather, widow, window
for most of the winter the bedroom window has been closed all the time, partly because it was frozen shut and partly because it has been incredibly cold…
a few nights ago it was finally warm enough to open it and keep it open for the night…
and I also opened the screen door during the day for a little while to let some of that – not freezing – fresh air into the house;-)…
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