18 Tuesday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, gift, grape, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, plants, tulips, widow
my housemate treated me to fresh flowers…
lovely white and pink tulips, and a pot with daffodils, tulips, primrose, grape hyacinth and regular hyacinth…
sock a wonderful treat;-)…
flowers really do make me happy…
17 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, car, clean, cold, dirty, family, filthy, grandson, happy, Indy, moments, weather, widow
I’ve been asking my grandson to get the car washed for ages…
he had numerous reasons why it didn’t happen, but they boiled down to the fact that it would just get dirty again…
I finally gave an ultimatum that it had to be washed… poor thing was filthy…
he went out Wednesday evening and brought Indy home clean… even though it was dreadfully cold, thankfully, none of the doors froze up…
she looks so nice;-)…
16 Sunday Feb 2025
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, concentrate, focus, moments, reading, snow, Technology, torpedo, weather, widow, wire
had trouble staying focussed on my book on Wednesday as there was a lot of activity across the way…
two workers spent the entire morning stringing a new wire…
it was so cold I felt bad for them, but they seemed comfortable as I watched…
the most interesting thing was what appeared to be a torpedo shaped object which one person pulled along the line… I think it was winding the new wire around the old ones…
my beloved would have been able to tell me exactly what it was and how it worked, lol…
but, all of those goings-on really made it hard to concentrate on my book;-)…
13 Thursday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, eagle, look up, missed, moments, nature, out the window, pelican, sky, tree, widow
as I sat on the couch reading and occasionally looking out the front window, I spotted a large bird soaring high in the sky… at first I thought it was a pelican, but as I watched it more closely, I realized that it was a bald eagle…
got my camera out, but didn’t get a good shot, it was very fuzzy, lol…
watched it until it disappeared from view…
right behind that tree…
such a treat;-)…
10 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, daytime, garden, hot tub, lens, moments, nature, pictures, shovelling, snow, Toque, weather, widow
went out for a hot tub on Sunday afternoon… and tested out my new toque…
can’t even remember the last time I was out in the daytime… it has been too cold at night and when it wasn’t the deck hadn’t been shovelled, lol…
I went out a few days ago and got the space cleared off so it was ready…
it was only -21°C and I had a lovely time, although the mitten that I had put the phone into got wet while I was taking pictures, lol…
sometimes the lens gets a bit foggy when taking pictures from the tub…
the mountain of snow is quite high and I am hoping we can move some of it because it is getting difficult to throw the snow over the top of it;-)…
09 Sunday Feb 2025
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adventure buddy, big girl pants, blessed, crowd, date night, fun, light ballet, moments, out late, Technology, weather, widow
wow, last night we went to see a light ballet…
it was fun to go out in the evening because I don’t do that very often anymore, lol…
reminded me of when my housemate and I went to see a candlelight music presentation last year… standing in a long line beforehand and then how quickly it moved once the doors opened…
there was wine available and it was interesting to see the variety of people who attended, from young girls to elderly couples… seemed like date night for many in attendance…
besides the five dancers, a violinist played at various points during the show…
while the performance was on there was not a sound in the audience…
parking went well and even the cold temperatures didn’t bother the crowd…
07 Friday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, changing, cold, eco, family, moments, Technology, thermostat, weather, widow
my Nest thermostat is ticking me off…
for the last few weeks it has been telling me that it is figuring out the best way to be eco friendly for the winter season…
at bedtime it goes down to 16.5°C instead of the 18° where I want it to be…
although at night that isn’t such a problem, lol…
during the day, if I sit reading for too long, it drops the temperature by a couple of degrees… makes it rather chilly when it is cold, sigh…
a few nights ago, we changed a few things and it appears that it has made a difference… it looks like it won’t go below 21°C during the day;-)… woohoo…
03 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, coyote, den, garden, moments, nature, solar lights, strong, stunned, sunlight, tarp, weather, widow
I’ve been watching the solar lights in the garden over the last few days and have noticed that they are lighting up, having not been working for the last few months…
clearly the sun is getting much stronger, even though it has been cold…
so, tonight I was trying to get a shot of the solar light on the deck working and was stunned to see a coyote cross the pond and go behind the tarp which covers the outdoor furniture…
of course, I wasn’t fast enough to catch it in a photo…
I am a bit worried that it might be using the tarp as a den, so we will have to check into that in the morning 😬…
31 Friday Jan 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, chickadees, giggle, happy, memories, moments, mug, nature, widow
had a bit of a giggle the other day…
as I pulled out my newest mug in the morning – the chickadees – I looked up at the kitchen display and saw that it was showing a photo of the first time I took a photo of the mug;-)…
I particularly enjoy the fact that this mug shows two chickadees, one on each side so that I can see the bird, even as a leftie;-)…
seemed a bit serendipitous…
30 Thursday Jan 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cap, crystals, garden, hot tub, ice, icicles, moments, nature, snow, Technology, weather, widow
Monday night I went out for a hot tub…
it had been warm during the day and there were a ton of icicles over the tub, so I sat in the opposite corner from usual so nothing could fall onto my head, lol…
as I stepped outside I could hear the ice crystals falling so I grabbed my cap to protect my glasses…
it was a bit chilly for anything above the water as the ice crystals continued to fall…
I am still having trouble with the Ring light, which I have to turn off from the garage, no matter what I try on the app…
I was out for quite a while and when I came inside I realized how much snow had come down, lol…
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