16 Monday Dec 2024
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out for a lovely dinner a few days ago and came home with a box of delicious frozen treats…
there were five or six types of cookies and a few butter tarts, one of my favourites;-)…
what a delightful surprise…
now to eat some and share some too;-)…
15 Sunday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, checkout, efficiently, friends, lines, moments, people, rows, shopping, widow
my goodness, we went to Costco on Friday morning…
the parking seemed fairly full but we got a spot after only a few minutes…
when we got into the store it seemed busy, but just a little more than usual…
then we went down the first few rows and had a bit of trouble getting around the middle section as carts were lined up, but that is fairly usual that close to the checkout lines…
but then we discovered that the line to the checkout area went all the way to the very back of the store, and there were two lines!
it became easier to return to where we had begun in each row rather than attempt to make it through and around the line, lol…
what was most amazing was that not a single person – staff or shopper, grumbled or made negative comments…
once we were in the line, it moved along quickly and efficiently… we were out of the store in a short time…
and I did manage to get the two items which my housemate had requested, lol…
13 Friday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, five years, garden, hermit, last day, memories, moments, retirement, staff, widow, work
hard to believe yesterday marked five years since my last day of work before retirement…
I remember what a special day it was… I did all the things I wanted to do, the way I wanted;-)…
it was always fun to gather the group for a photo, kind of like herding cats, lol…
since then I’ve travelled a bit, enjoyed being a hermit through Covid and beyond, spent hours in the garden, read a ton of books, and enjoyed every minute… I truly am blessed;-)…
it’s a wonderful life…
12 Thursday Dec 2024
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11 Wednesday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Chapters, Christmas, cold, D. A. Niels, friends, Lee Valley, moments, restrained, shopping, shovelling, Sleepy Owl Bread, snow, treat, weather, widow
fun morning… picked up by a friend after shovelling the sidewalk… my fingers were very cold in my gloves when I put the shovel away, and I discovered that it felt like -40°… no wonder I thought it was cold, lol…
we visited a number of spots and I got some goodies;-)…
a nice loaf of rustic sourdough which made a lovely grilled cheese, with onion and pistachios for my lunch…
we visited Chapters where I found a few fun books for some little friends and got the cutest cloth bags to put them in…
then a wander around Lee Valley where I picked up a couple of things, including this 2 tablespoon silicone freezer tray… leftover pesto and tomato sauce went into it after my lunch…
finally we had a great time at D. A. Niels where I saw many things I would like, but restrained from purchasing anything today, lol…
what a fun way to spend the morning;-)…
10 Tuesday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, hopeful, housemate, Japanese Maple, moments, nature, plants, solar lights, Technology, weather, widow, wrapping
I came up with the idea of wrapping my Japanese Maple with some solar lights…
so, my housemate lifted the plant onto the living room table and then I spent an hour walking in circles with the string of lights…
had to stop occasionally when I got a bit dizzy, lol…
it came out nicely, although I had to wait a day so that the power in the solar panel had a chance to charge…
I am hopeful that I can leave the lights on, even in the summer when the Maple moves outside;-)…
09 Monday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, difference, moments, nature, overcast, shovelled, sidewalk, sky, snow, sunshine, weather, widow
this morning I went out around ten and shovelled the sidewalk… it was overcast, chilly, and a bit windy…
it only takes about fifteen minutes to get the job done and then I took out my camera to get a few photos of the snow on the trees…
just before my friends arrived for our weekly gathering, the sun came out… yay…
and I got a very similar picture…
amazing what a difference a bit of sunshine makes…
08 Sunday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, day and night, falling, family, grandson, moments, nature, pretty, shovelling, snow, soundless, weather, widow
it has been doing this since before I woke up this morning…
and it is still going on… it feels like it is soundless, quietly encompassing everything…
it is causing a lot of work…
but so pretty;-)…
07 Saturday Dec 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, cushions, decorations, moments, widow, wreath
Thursday, the wreath went up on the front door…
Friday, the winter cushions came out to brighten the space…
and I was really enamoured with the quote from my cards…
06 Friday Dec 2024
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went to take out the last sleeve of crackers and thought it had already been opened because it was so low in the box…
it wasn’t, and I was shocked when I measured the sleeve alongside the box…
it was way shorter…
maybe the price hasn’t changed much, but there are way less crackers in it…
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