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blooming…

06 Thursday Nov 2014

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took this picture yesterday morning of a bud…

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the hibiscus tree has about 20 leaves on it… the rest fell off once the flowers bloomed the first few weeks after I brought it in…

full moon today… when we were driving to swimming the moon was huge above the trees… by the time we finished it had risen quite a bit higher, but was about half the size…

happily I had scalloped potatoes and ham for my supper, which my friend dropped off tonight… I cooked some snow peas to go along with it… these were the scalloped potatoes that our group had peeled and sliced for her family dinner after her brother’s memorial service last week… they were delicious… although there were lots of onions in them, her system of cutting the slices into small pieces infused the potatoes with the flavour but not great bits of onion…

this is the blossom tonight…

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so happy to have blooming flowers in the house… George brought me orchids or other blooming plants often throughout the cold weather…

sky…

05 Wednesday Nov 2014

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this morning the sky was absolutely beautiful… took many pictures on the way to work… it was mesmerizing…

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a bit later in the morning I ran across the street to pick up some milk and cream for our coffee… as I was walking back I was compelled to take a picture of Emptyful… could see some great reflections in the new police building…

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ended the day with a shot of another lovely sky as we drove home…

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I stopped for a haircut and then walked home in the crisp evening air… made it home just before the light went…

enjoying these wonderful Fall days…

suspicious…

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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not long after we got to the office this morning I heard sirens and two fire trucks pulled up beside our building…

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they sat there with lights flashing for a long time…

my daughter called to tell us they had evacuated the hotel that is about a block away from our building as there was a suspicious parcel and the bomb squad was on the way…

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the streets were blocked all around us as traffic was re-routed through morning rush hour… we kept working and staff dribbled in as they made it through the snarled streets…

eventually the fire trucks left and the streets were opened… it was after lunch before people were able to return to the hotel…

we laughed and joked about it, but it was a dramatic reminder of how a day can change and things can turn upside down in a flash…

spending time with these amazing colleagues is also a reminder of what a blessed life I lead…

a wonderful family, lifelong friends, and colleagues who make me want to go to work every morning…

treat…

03 Monday Nov 2014

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have enjoyed a couple of lovely treats in the last few days…

while we were on our trip to and from Carberry we stopped at the Robin’s Nest Cafe where we picked up some delicious battered mushrooms…

IMG_9156.JPGwe were very good, and only got one order to share, lol…

today I took leftovers from our Saturday night dinner for my lunch… but one of my colleagues made me a toasted salmon sandwich with avocado and apple…

IMG_9155.JPGwonderful treat…

I brought in the last of the Halloween hands to share…

it is quite amazing how the simplest things can make your day…

look…

02 Sunday Nov 2014

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look up, look out…

that was today’s motto as I took a drive to Carberry with my friend…

weather was perfect and there was lots of conversation and snacking going on…

IMG_9151.JPGstopped in Spruce Woods Provincial Park and got a few nice pictures…

IMG_9152.JPGthe wind was making this little guy’s tail wave in a tree at the rest stop…

IMG_9147.JPGwe were astonished at the waterline, visible on the trees for miles, from the flooding this past summer…

IMG_9148.JPGthere were wonderful cloud formations all the way along… just caught the sunset in the rear view mirror…

IMG_9149-0.JPGdidn’t last more than about thirty seconds…

IMG_9150.JPGfinally enjoyed these beautiful pink tinged clouds… just before the dark took over the sky… last night we changed from Central Daylight to Central Standard time so it got dark an hour earlier than the night before… of course it is lighter when we get up…

wonderful day…

condo…

01 Saturday Nov 2014

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last night when the boys came by after going out for Halloween, Jeff put the new top on the stove…

IMG_9132.JPGof course there were no directions, but he figured it out and it now looks great and works perfectly…

they came over late this afternoon and he and the boys started catching the fish to bring them into their winter condo…

IMG_9130.JPGhe worked for an hour and a half… the boys lasted about twenty minutes, lol…

IMG_9131.JPGthe last few fish didn’t want to be caught, even though there was ice on the top of the pond, but he wasn’t giving up…

IMG_9128.JPGwe now have thirty fish in the tank…

IMG_9129.JPGhappy to have the company back in the house…

halloween…

31 Friday Oct 2014

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barely slept last night and my cold seems to be a bit worse so I decided to stay home… slept for most of the day…

put up the last few decorations in between and took a few pictures…

IMG_9100.JPGpicked this up at the dollar store and put it on the front door… looks pretty good…

IMG_9109.JPGfinally got dressed around 4:30… put on my new velour cape and my witch hat from a few years ago… kids started coming about 5:45… by 6:30 there weren’t any more… most of them commented on the candies being in the hand:-)…

the little boys came about 7:30 and we got a picture together, thanks to daddy…

IMG_9108.JPGmy total was 18, counting my boys… too funny, because when they started coming I was worried I was going to run out…

prep…

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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this morning I prepared for an afternoon memorial service as I got dressed… chose a purple top and a special scarf so that I could leave right from the office…

saw these geese as we were driving…

IMG_9032.JPGthey were everywhere… sadly I didn’t get a shot of them flying overhead…

here’s a picture of my afternoon snack…

IMG_9033.JPGtook the smallest plate because it had purple on it…

today the sky went from dark and filled with clouds, to sunny and clear as we drove home…

after supper I prepared the goodies to give out tomorrow… I put together 30 medical gloves filled with candy and 3 sets of Halloween gloves for my boys…

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headache…

29 Wednesday Oct 2014

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this morning I woke up with a headache… not the greatest start to the day…

had an 8 am dentist appointment for a filling… was very proud of myself… for the first time ever I wasn’t gripping the chair the entire time… I have been very nervous of dentists since I had a bad experience when I was little… my dentist specializes in “chickens“, lol…

IMG_9022.JPGthe sky had some mighty ugly clouds as we drove home…

the headache didn’t go away, so when I got home, I slept for an hour and a half… still there when I got up, but I made some supper and got ready to go out…

one of my BS buddies picked two of us up, and we peeled and sliced just under 15 pounds of potatoes for another member of the group… her brother’s memorial service is tomorrow and the extended family will be gathering at her place for dinner… she is a great cook and it was fun to see her family recipe for scalloped potatoes, slightly different than the ones we each use…

were done in an hour and home shortly after…

heading to bed looking forward to waking up with a clear head…

dinner…

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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been a long day… hard to get out of bed as I felt very tired…

on top of that it snowed today… thankfully it melted as it hit the ground…

usually we get our first snow on Halloween…

dark and overcast all day… bit of a downer…

really thought about putting the meat in the crockpot, although I wasn’t sure how long it would take so I decided not to…

when I got home I got the pot with my dinner in it all organized, but didn’t turn it on… still not sure of the new stove so I didn’t want to be worrying about whether the liquid might be evaporating and burning up…

after aquasize I put it on and then watched some tv while it was cooking…

should really have simmered a bit longer, but after an hour or so I had some and it was good…

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