04 Monday Jan 2016
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beauty, big girl pants, crystallizing, garage, hoarfrost, iPhone, window
got a few shots of the hoarfrost on the garage door windows…
took these with my iPhone and then blew them up a bit…
can’t believe how beautiful they can be…
wondering how I can get more of them on the window… maybe if I warm it up and wipe it off and then let it start crystallizing again… hmmmm…
03 Sunday Jan 2016
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quiet day…
had my first hot tub of the year… the birds were twittering and the squirrel was busy running back and forth in the cedar trees at the back of the yard…
made some red lentil curry and it came out great… will certainly make that again, which is good because I bought four different types of spices to make it, lol…
had a lovely visit with a good friend and spent some FaceTime with my Ottawa daughter… we are starting to consider some lakeside vacation time in July for the whole family…
got in a bit of reading…
supper with most of the kids… one was on a play date, so only four of them were here…
relaxing after dinner…
02 Saturday Jan 2016
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app, big girl pants, bunny, decorations, exercise, fun, lentils, orchid, plants, read, return, sunshine
decided that today was the day to put away all the Christmas decorations…
for the last few days I’ve taken pictures of many of the ornaments as I knew they’d be coming down soon… used one of my apps to make a nice collage…
got my exercise as I brought up boxes, put away ornaments, and took them back downstairs…
always a bit sad to take everything down… and it took a good portion of the day… maybe because I took a few breaks for reading and napping, lol… did spend some of the time thinking about the fun I had with my friend when we put all the decorations up…
the living room has returned to normal… my plants are happy because they’d been relegated to a back room for the duration…
was happy to get a few pictures of the orchid… it really is amazing…
enjoyed seeing the sunshine again…
the paths continue to be used constantly… recently the bunny spent a good portion of a day sitting in the garden so I saw it a number of times… it is really big…
tomorrow is my last day before going back to work… gonna try a lentil recipe and get in a bit more reading…
01 Friday Jan 2016
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big girl pants, Chihuly, excited, homemade, macaroni, memories, Seattle, unforgettable, white sauce
yesterday my daughter in Ottawa asked for my recipe for homemade macaroni and cheese…
it is one of her favourites and we didn’t have an opportunity to have it while they were home…
it is in a duo tang from high school home ec class that I keep on the shelf in the kitchen with my other cookbooks…
excited that she wanted to make it… came out very nice and they enjoyed it…
the white sauce in that recipe is my go to… I can’t even think how many times I’ve made it for various dishes… best thing I ever learned in home economics…
the most exciting thing today was getting to turn the calendar to January…
I purchased this calendar in August and have been waiting to get to use it… the last one I had was for 2014 and I didn’t open it until January only to discover that it had the previous November and December included… was so excited that this one would have the same thing…
but it didn’t… been waiting since September to get to a full size calendar…
I just love Dale Chihuly’s work… one of the most memorable moments for me was standing in Chihuly Garden and Glass at the base of the Seattle Space Needle and hearing his voice as he walked into the room we were in… to listen as he answered students’ questions and then get a picture with him… was like meeting a rock star…
funny what makes an unforgettable memory…
27 Sunday Dec 2015
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big girl pants, KG Saigon, moments, orchid, sister-in-law, snow, sunshine, windows
this morning, while I was coming and going doing some chores around the house, I took this picture of the sun shining out the front window…
I sure do love the sunshine… and take the time to enjoy it every day it is out… we don’t get as much of it as we used to…
also put my orchid back on the table in the living room… it has been in amongst the garland in the dining room for the last few weeks while a hydrangea had the top spot in the living room… I left the greenery on the table when the flower died, but rearranged it today… the orchid has been blooming for months…
had a lovely lunch out with my sister-in-law, nephew and his friend… we had some very nice Vietnamese food at one of my nephew’s favourite places, KG Saigon… after tea here, she was heading to the airport for a flight to Vancouver for the remainder of her holiday… it was great to spend a bit of time together…
didn’t get photos of the whole table but these days I take pictures of everything I eat… really helps with recording my food intake…
another shot looking out the bedroom window as the sun was going down…
always so happy when I catch these beautiful moments…
26 Saturday Dec 2015
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this morning I wandered around and took a few pictures of the snow…
through the living room window… sun was shining… nice…
and from the dining room window… trees are very pretty…
my amaryllis is growing nicely, although no buds have started…
had a lazy day in my jammies watching tv, sleeping and eating…
seemed to be just the right thing to do…
25 Friday Dec 2015
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big girl pants, Christmas, colouring, French fries, gifts, house, moments, moon, Technology, tree, waffles
woke at five, then climbed back into bed to finally get up around seven…
my son-in-law worked the overnight shift and got home about 7:15 so we had tea and waited for the rest of the family to wake up… he’d seen the beautiful full moon on his way home and heard that it won’t fall on Christmas again until 2034 and that it hadn’t happened since 1977…
so I had to go out into the middle of their street to see it and get a few photos before it vanished… didn’t have my tripod so was pleased that this one came out…
then I took a few photos of their house in the early morning light…
everyone got up, with a bit of coaxing, and we opened gifts… we all did very well…
lots of technology this year with tablets and wired headphones for the little people…
and a wireless headset for the oldest, who was visibly pleased… which, for a teenager, is pretty spectacular… well done mom and dad…
my stash included some cool technology for meal prep and a few purple items, lol…
we sat down to freshly made waffles and covered them with fresh fruit and a bit of whipping cream…
by the time we finished making them no one was left at the table, so this is a picture of what I had, lol… it was delicious…
rests were had, games were played, books were read, naps were taken…
dinner was a lovely roasted chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, brussel sprouts, raw carrots and French fries made in the new fryer that only used a few tablespoons of oil…
quiet time with a bit of colouring after dinner…
home now and planning to head to bed… full day…
hoping that you were able to find some special moments in your day…
24 Thursday Dec 2015
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this morning I watched the sun rise from nothing to a gorgeous yellow orb…
sun isn’t quite up yet… shortly after that it peeked through the trees…
a while later it was much more visible…
and the window multiplied the reflection…
opened the upstairs window to take this one so there wasn’t any reflection…
but it had a cool sun circle around it…
finally took this shot of the gazing ball under a top hat of snow… sun was glittering off it…
haven’t had much sun for the last week or so… just revelled in it this morning… makes me feel so much better when it shines…
what a treat…
23 Wednesday Dec 2015
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beloved, big girl pants, Christmas, companions, emptiness, gifts, moments, Ottawa, snow, wonderland
it was so beautiful outside this morning…
even though it was overcast the snow covering everything made it a wonderland…
love to get shots of the pergola which my beloved built along the neighbour’s garage many years ago… there are often beautiful sculptures there…
so pretty…
today both kids left for Ottawa, one flying commercial and the other via a military Christmas flight… we had a wonderful five days together but I am always sad to see them go…
heading off to Ottawa…
my BS companions came by tonight for our Christmas celebration… there were snacks, baking and gifts galore… a wonderful evening that certainly helped perk me up after the kids had gone…
I find I notice the emptiness after I’ve had company for a while… makes perfect sense, and after a few days it doesn’t feel empty… just normal:-)…
great moments have been made today and will be remembered…
22 Tuesday Dec 2015
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big girl pants, breakfast, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Embrace, Fitbit, giggles, the "A", XOXO
up early and walked over to the “A” for breakfast…
here are the kids as they waited for their breakfast…
and how they passed the time… made me giggle…
cute eh…
I walked home… and my daughter took this shot of me…
was lovely out and I enjoyed the walk… the giggle was that I forgot to put my Fitbit on in the morning, so none of the steps were recorded…
been looking at this tree down the street for the better part of a week because the snow on it was very pretty…
we spent a few hours at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights where we had some fun in the XOXO exhibit…
here my daughter is making a love letter memento to give to her husband… hard work to produce it, lol…
I got to hug the Embrace which said ahhhh when it was hugged:-)…
while she was waiting for me she spotted these very pretty cream and sugar containers, but by the time we got back there, someone had purchased them…
lots of fun and giggles…
