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evening…

08 Monday Dec 2014

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evening, fish, grandson, shovelling

quite a busy evening for me, lol…

put something into the oven after I got home, and headed upstairs for a nap…

heard a quiet ring and decided to go see if there was someone at the door… and discovered my grandson who has been hired by my Ottawa kids to shovel for me…

he had taken the bus from school and had a fair walk as he might have been on the wrong bus… after he warmed up for a few minutes he shovelled… not too much snow had come down, but it had swirled around a bit…

once he finished, I made him some hot chocolate and we had a visit before he headed off to catch a bus home…

what a lovely Christmas gift, clean walks and visits with a special young man…

had my supper and napped a tiny bit… my BS friends arrived just after eight and we had an excellent time catching up… we hadn’t met for a few weeks…

while we were sitting there, cars were coming and going on the street and people were getting in and out of them… then more cars were in the lane, and finally people were walking along the creek with flashlights… bizarre… it will be interesting to hear about what was going on…

all was quiet when everyone left…

fish are happy and the tank is finally clear…

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evening…

08 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, nature, Uncategorized

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evening, fish, grandson, shovelling

quite a busy evening for me, lol…

put something into the oven after I got home, and headed upstairs for a nap…

heard a quiet ring and decided to go see if there was someone at the door… and discovered my grandson who has been hired by my Ottawa kids to shovel for me…

he had taken the bus from school and had a fair walk as he might have been on the wrong bus… after he warmed up for a few minutes he shovelled… not too much snow had come down, but it had swirled around a bit…

once he finished, I made him some hot chocolate and we had a visit before he headed off to catch a bus home…

what a lovely Christmas gift, clean walks and visits with a special young man…

had my supper and napped a tiny bit… my BS friends arrived just after eight and we had an excellent time catching up… we hadn’t met for a few weeks…

while we were sitting there, cars were coming and going on the street and people were getting in and out of them… then more cars were in the lane, and finally people were walking along the creek with flashlights… bizarre… it will be interesting to hear about what was going on…

all was quiet when everyone left…

fish are happy and the tank is finally clear…

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preparing…

07 Sunday Dec 2014

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big girl pants, Christmas, decorating, jammies, parcels, preparing, tree

spent the day in my jammies…

had a lovely time preparing parcels, listening to the Christmas music of Neil Diamond and Michael Buble…

wrapped parcels went by the tree…

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might add a few more ornaments as I go through the remaining boxes, but it looks pretty good…

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the coffee table looks exactly how I imagined, but still needs more purple balls… with any luck I will find more as i go along…

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the little boys helped me decorate the stairs with trees when they arrived for supper… things are sticking out a bit more than usual… it would make George crazy because he didn’t like stuff taking up space on the steps…

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beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

CPR…

03 Wednesday Dec 2014

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CPR, first aid course, moon, squirrels

spent the morning in a refresher first aid course… we’ve done one every couple of years… this is my third…

always seem to do them in early December… just before or after George’s birthday…

the whole conversation around CPR is always difficult and brings me right back to the night he died… but practising what to do is also cathartic…

I keep thinking about the person who called 911 and then stayed with him until the emergency team arrived… did they hold his hand, did they give him CPR…

I miss him so much, and try to remember the good things and not focus on the sadness…

tomorrow he would have turned 66…

the moon was nearly full as I walked home from the grocery store after work… I was too cold to stop and take a picture of it, but took this when I got home…

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and noticed that a critter has been running all over the roof of the garage…

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maybe one of George’s squirrel friends, lol…

blogging…

02 Tuesday Dec 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, blogging, Christmas, garden, posts, sugar

yesterday marked my second year on WordPress…

in that time I have written nearly every day, 747 posts to be exact…

more than 150 people follow my blog and the most popular topics include life, her big girl pants, and nature…

pretty good considering the day I started I was just going to see what it was about, lol…

my goal had been to share the experiences I had gone through following the passing of my beloved… not sure if I’ve done that…

for the last few weeks, every time I walk by the garden window at night, three of the solar lights twinkle all night long… I’ve decided that George is helping them twinkle:-)…

I’m learning to deal with my new reality and am finally over the poor me stage…

so far the sugar hadn’t been too much of a problem, but I guess the real test will come around Christmas…

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treats…

01 Monday Dec 2014

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advent calendar, big girl pants, daugjter, sandal, socks, treats

yesterday an Advent calendar was delivered to my door… it was from my daughter in Ottawa…

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a carton filled with 24 boxes… such fun to open one each day…

this morning I opened box 1 and discovered striped purple socks and a dragonfly stick-on…

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wore them when I went for a walk today…

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at work I wear sandals and don’t usually wear socks in my boots unless I am going to be doing a lot of walking…

still thinking about where to put the dragonfly…

treats…

01 Monday Dec 2014

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advent calendar, big girl pants, daugjter, sandal, socks, treats

yesterday an Advent calendar was delivered to my door… it was from my daughter in Ottawa…

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a carton filled with 24 boxes… such fun to open one each day…

this morning I opened box 1 and discovered striped purple socks and a dragonfly stick-on…

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wore them when I went for a walk today…

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at work I wear sandals and don’t usually wear socks in my boots unless I am going to be doing a lot of walking…

still thinking about where to put the dragonfly…

1000 days…

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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1000 days, beloved, big girl pants, Dreamdays, faucet, George

I have this app called Dreamdays on my phone… it counts up to and down from important dates…

today marks 1000 days since my beloved left this world… in four days it would have been his 66th birthday…

we went to Rona today to pick up a tile and a new faucet for the kitchen as the old one has been dripping for a few weeks…

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thankfully Jeff was able to replace it for me… don’t even think there was any cursing, lol…

when my chariot arrived, it even included a snow shoveler…

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for most of our years together George did all the shovelling, other than the few years his heart wouldn’t let him…

a thousand days seem like forever and a blink of an eye all at the same time… I’ve missed him every single one of those days…

snow…

29 Saturday Nov 2014

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beautiful, big girl pants, bunny, footprints, snow, trees

was up at 5:30 this morning and looked out the window to see a bunny wandering through the back yard…

Friday morning when I was putting out the garbage there was a bunny sitting in the middle of the back lane… spent a few moments watching until it moved into a yard…

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those are bunny footprints…

it snowed through the night and a bit this morning… trees look stunning…

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the garden is beautiful all covered in the snow…

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sunshine added to the beauty today…

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got lots done… reorganized the laundry room by putting the dressers back… never did hear back from those foundation guys… did laundry and cleaned out the cabinets under the fish tank…

finishing the day with some tv…

diagnosis…

28 Friday Nov 2014

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big girl pants, diabetes, diagnosis, diet, exercise, needle, pity party

well, the results are in… been diagnosed with diabetes…

not exactly how I was imagining spending the next stage of my life…

I guess I should be happy that it hadn’t come on earlier in my life, as many of my elders dealt with the disease…

had been once to the doctor, and was semi-prepared for what I heard yesterday… already been cutting back on sugar, but I hadn’t even thought about having to stick myself with a needle 3 times every day…

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been having a bit of a pity party but hoping to be over that in a few days…

good news is that I should be able to deal with this by watching my diet and getting more exercise…

a friend is diabetic and is a walking dictionary on the disease… another has a partner with it, and she knows tons as well… my daughter is on Weight Watchers and is sharing food information… so there’s lots of help for me as I move forward, learning as I go…

sad about the chocolate though…

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