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concoction…

12 Sunday Nov 2023

Posted by sulis303 in food, health, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather

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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, concoction, experiment, moments, omelette, practise, tasty, Technology, waffle maker, widow

now that I have access to the waffle maker, I keep wanting to make other things in it… and with the colder weather, I want warmer things to eat;-)…

I found a recipe online for an omelette, so I decided to give it a try…

it was simple, yay, which made me happy…

I did wonder about using three eggs, but decided that for this first time I would try to follow the directions, lol…

it had a breakfast sausage, but I just used half of it… it also called for red pepper, but I didn’t have any so used extra onion instead… and I used more or less the amount of cheese mentioned…

hmmmm, maybe I did change it quite a bit, oopsie…

as I poured the concoction into the waffle maker, I realized I had been right, two eggs would have been much better… there was some leaking at the edges…

it came out pretty good, but I think using less egg would have helped it cook better… so I am going to make it again tomorrow;-)…

WREN…

11 Saturday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, cancer, family, memories, moments, mother, remembering, Remembrance Day, strong, time, widow, WREN, WWII

I’ve been thinking of my mom a lot in the last few days…

she spent the last months of her life at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, in the final stages of esophageal cancer…

I was blessed with the time to be able to spend those final days with her…

they were hard but so important…

she was a WREN during WWII, a survivor of mental illness, a caregiver for her husband, a poet, a proud Legion and Army and Navy member, and a participant in the organizing of the Women’s War Memorial by the Legislature…

she was strong, but it took me many years to really understand that;-)…

postcard…

10 Friday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, moments, nature, postcard, shovelling, snow, trees, weather, widow

much as the snow can be a pain, it is also beautiful… especially if you don’t have to be somewhere and drive through it, lol…

the view out the windows were delightful on Thursday morning…

the snow clung to the trees and made it look like a postcard outside…

and the squirrels were busy at one of the feeders… if you look closely you will see the three in this picture…

I went out and shovelled the sidewalks and got a few photos while I was out there…

such a blessing to be able to be home, able to shovel, and enjoy the beauty;-)…

cheery…

09 Thursday Nov 2023

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the plants in the basement were not doing well, so they were moved upstairs…

they, along with some others that had been on the dining room table, moved into the den…

it looks like a garden in there now;-)… a lovely cheery location to start the day…

reach…

08 Wednesday Nov 2023

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it was overcast, but not too cold on Saturday, so I went out and was able to fill all the bird feeders…

even the one that I won’t be able to get to before too long, as the snow will make it difficult or impossible to reach, lol…

then I spent half an hour shovelling the driveway…

my grandson had done it awhile ago, but there were icy tire tracks on the slope so I broke them up and tossed the bits to the sides…

the next day my hamstrings and butt were a bit sore from all the bending as the metal shovel I was using was short, lol…

I will be happy when the tires get changed in a few weeks, but now the slope won’t be difficult to get up;-)…

story…

07 Tuesday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, poppies, poppy, poppy stories, remembering, Remembrance Day, story, Technology, veterans, widow

we got our poppies a week ago and I put the buttons on them so they won’t get lost… I’ve been wearing mine daily, even though I don’t go out much, lol…

I’d seen something on social media about scanning your poppy to read a story about a veteran;-)…

Sunday morning I came across a link that took me to a story about a fallen soldier once I scanned my poppy…

I tried it on another poppy and got another story…

here is the link so that you can scan yours;-)…

poppy stories

what a wonderful use of technology;-)…

smallest…

06 Monday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, garage, goldfish, moments, rocks, smallest, tank, weather, widow

when we were working in the garage recently, I found a collection of rocks and put some in a container to bring in the house for the smallest fish tank….

the fish didn’t want to move as I was putting the rocks into the tank, which was missing coverage on the bottom…

once done, the tank looked better and the fish seemed to approve;-)…

last year this tank held pond plants, but as the fish have grown, it seems like a good idea to provide a bit more room…

ghost…

05 Sunday Nov 2023

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big girl pants, blessed, cold, frozen, ghost, moments, nature, November, poppy, poppy feeder, remember, snow, steps, weather, widow

on November 1st I took down the ghost from the front step… it was difficult, because the sheet had frozen into the step, lol…

then I took the poppy bird feeder that I received as a Christmas gift and tied it to the rail… this was a process, because it was cold and my fingers kept trying to stick to the metal, lol…

looks pretty good, right;-)…

rafters…

04 Saturday Nov 2023

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, clean-up, continues, family, garage, grandson, moments, never ending, ongoing, rafters, reorganize, stuff, tidy, treasures, weather, widow

we were back in the garage last weekend and spent an hour reorganizing…

we planned to spend another few hours to make enough space to get the car inside, particularly as we have tons of snow already…

we did spend another focussed time in the space… this time all of the stuff that was in the rafters came down to be sorted…

there is a ton of wood and other items on the floor now, in various piles… for garbage, giveaway, and a small pile to keep… but the space above is cleared out and ready for whatever needs to go back up there…

no room for the car just yet…

moose…

03 Friday Nov 2023

Posted by sulis303 in life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, memories, moments, moose, neighbour, pattern, remembering, sanding, scroll saw, tidying, widow, wood

when we were cleaning out the basement back room in the spring, I came across some wood that my beloved had drawn moose on, but hadn’t cut out…

I took them over to my neighbour who has been working with a scroll saw for the last few years…

he brought them back a few days ago…

he did a great job but left the final sanding because he thought my grandsons might like to finish grandpa’s project;-)…

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