30 Saturday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, buns, Easter, family, flowers, hot cross buns, moments, treat, tulips, vases, widow
so excited tonight when my grandson arrived with hot cross buns, which we have been looking for over the last week or so…
going to enjoy some of those for breakfast tomorrow;-)…
and he brought me tulips…
I filled five vases: one went downstairs in his space, one went into the den, one went into the living room and a final one for the bedroom…
what a lovely Easter treat…
29 Friday Mar 2024
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I’ve been taking pictures regularly as the view changes out the front window…
I was so happy this afternoon as I took this photo of the front yard… looks like the snow is slowly melting away…
looking forward to a snow-free front lawn…
and sadly, this is what the front door camera showed a few minutes ago, sigh…
sigh…
28 Thursday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, full moon, garden, mesmerizing, moments, moon, moonlight, nature, odd, photos, sky, Spring, weather, widow
the moon has been doing some odd things over the last while…
three days before the full moon the moonlight was amazing… it looked as though it was a full moon and this is very odd…
I’ve caught a few interesting photos over the last few days…
this was from the 5:30 on Tuesday morning, taken without my glasses on, lol……
this one was from 7:30 this morning…
the moon is so mesmerizing;-)…
27 Wednesday Mar 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blink, family, friends, journey, loss, memories, moments, nature, pivot, remembering, time, widow
this month commemorated the twelfth anniversary of my beloved’s passing…
it is always a reminder of how one’s life can change in the blink of an eye… mine certainly did at that time and again when I was diagnosed with cancer, and later diabetes…
the thing I have learned is that we can pivot and move forward, even if in a slightly different direction…
I have spent time remembering what a wonderful life we had together and how blessed I have been been and continue to be…
thinking of those who are at that pivot point in their journey…
26 Tuesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, family, girls, memories, moments, read, shopping, Technology, widow
since the girls were born, I’ve been giving them books for birthdays and holidays… I’ve done the same for my grandkids, but now we’ve worked up to gift cards as it isn’t clear what they might like to read…
now I don’t really have anyone to buy books for, but I have a new neighbour who has just turned two, so I’m getting books for him now…
it is such fun to buy little people books…
25 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fire hydrant, hose, hydrant, moments, Technology, testing, water, widow
on Friday a city (I think) truck came by and stopped in front of the house…
the person got out, undid something on the fire hydrant that lives in front of the cedar, and put a ten or twelve foot hose down it…
nothing happened… then they took out the hose, closed the hydrant and got back into the vehicle…
after a few minutes they drove away…
so the question is, does the hydrant work or not… kind of concerned 😟…
24 Sunday Mar 2024
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23 Saturday Mar 2024
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Ali’i Kula Lavender, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, happy, lavender, Maui, memories, moments, nature, pictures, plants, purple, remembering, vacation, widow
recently I saw something on Instagram which reminded me of our wonderful visit to Ali’i Kula Lavender on Maui…
it was a beautiful place, with nice lavender fields, but also amazing gardens filled with stunning flowers…
I found a few photos from that day…
this hand towel usually hangs in the bathroom as a lovely reminder of that wonderful day and trip…
so nice when something comes along and reminds you of special moments…
22 Friday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bright, dim, garden, hot tub, moments, moon, nature, sky, space station, Technology, weather, widow
I’ve been trying to note how long I am out in the hot tub each night, so I take a screenshot of the time as I leave the house and another once I come in…
tonight I made it out to the hot tub in time to watch the Space Station fly over… I haven’t seen it for quite a while…
this time, as it came over the house it was a bright light, but about halfway across the open space above me it started to dim and then it vanished…
it has done this before and I wonder if it is rotating a bit and then doesn’t have the sun shining on it…
it always makes me happy to see it, especially on such a beautiful evening…
21 Thursday Mar 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, bunny, create, Easter, eggs, flowers, fun, moments, purple, widow
this morning I spent time with the flowers from March 5th…
last week I took out the carnations and today I divided the remaining mums into three containers…
one went into a glass vessel and made its way onto one of the kitchen counters…
the second container held two and went into the bathroom…
the final batch went into a purple mug on the living room table…
I also added a bunny, a glass egg, a candle, and chocolate mini eggs… Easter is coming after all;-)…
such fun to create something new from a single bouquet…
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