17 Sunday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, garden, hose, hot tub, moments, nature, nozzle, plunge tub, shopping, water, weather, widow
recently I purchased a new set of nozzles for the hose after having looked for a long time for just the right ones…
today I used one to top up the hot tub and plunge tub…
this nozzle seems to have more pressure so the filling took way less time than previously;-)…
made me happy as it was a bit chilly out there…
15 Friday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, brightly, melting, moments, nature, rain, sun, sunshine, weather, widow
yesterday, at 8:00 am, saw the beautiful trees across the creek with the sun shining brightly on them…
at 11:30 big beautiful snowflakes were coming down…
at 5:00 pm the sun was shining and water was running down the street…
lots of changes throughout the day…
13 Wednesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bookshelves, family, giveaway, hallway, health, memories, moments, remembering, reorganize, time, widow
yesterday I had a good time cleaning and organizing the upstairs hall bookshelves… I had hoped to spend time on the deck, but it was overcast and cool so instead I tackled the shelves… apparently the last time may have been in February of 2014…
it is quite a gift that I can wait until I feel like doing something to do it, lol…
and Tuesday morning I was ready to go…
found a box for the pass-me-overs and then started going through all the stuff on the shelves…
the box was mainly filled with books that seemed easy to let go…
items were rearranged and I even found a container of rocks and some small seashells…
happy with the outcome;-)…
now, I wonder how long I can keep it this way, hmmmm…
12 Tuesday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, buddies, deck, friends, garden, geese, happy, jacket, moments, nap, nature, outside, skeins, sunshine, weather, widow
what a delightful time I had yesterday…
spent an hour and a half on the deck, reading in the glorious sunshine…
started out with a blanket and my winter jacket, but eventually put away the blanket and changed to my spring jacket… woohoo…
while I was out there I heard at least two skeins of geese fly by, although I never did see any of them, lol…
spent a few hours with my Monday buddies, read in the living room, and napped;-)…
11 Monday Mar 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, cut, family, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, plants, purple, scent, widow
yesterday I received a beautiful bouquet of hyacinths… I’ve never had them as cut flowers, always in soil…
what a lovely treat…
they are in a vase on the living room table and I am looking forward to them opening and scenting the house…
09 Saturday Mar 2024
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amount, big girl pants, blessed, driveway, housemate, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, snowfall, weather, widow
the weather has been quite silly lately…
there was hardly any snow on the ground last week, but then it snowed all afternoon on Wednesday…
a lot of snow came down… the only thing I shovelled then was a path to the hot tub…
very late that night my housemate shovelled the sidewalk and two-thirds of the driveway…
Friday I did about half of the bottom of the driveway as my friend would be picking me up on Saturday…
I was so proud that it only took me about fifteen minutes… and then my housemate did the same amount in five minutes…
kids, lol…
06 Wednesday Mar 2024
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"A", beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, food, grandson, health, memories, moments, passing, routine, slippery, snow, treat, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk on Sunday morning… the front steps were covered with slippery ice pellets, so we walked carefully…
the temperature was around 0°C and it felt like -8°C… not bad and the wind was behind us as we walked towards Portage…
we arrived at the “A” and had a lovely breakfast…
it has been many months since I’ve been there and it was a nice treat…
breakfast here used to be one of our regular activities on the weekends… I would walk over and my beloved would drive… after breakfast we would head out in the car to do errands or take a drive…
it was nice to eat here this week as we come to the anniversary of his passing…
I sure do miss him…
04 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, hat, hot tub, moments, nature, snow, streak, Toque, towel, weather, widow, windchill
Sunday night I really had to talk myself into going out to the hot tub…
it wasn’t cold, but it was snowing, sigh…
I do not like to get my face wet or my glasses covered in snow, so it was a bit of an issue, lol…
instead of taking my towel out with me, I hung it on the inside handle of the patio door so it wouldn’t be covered in snow when I got out of the tub…
made sure to put my peaked hat on over my toque… it had a bit of snow on it when I got back into the house…
on my way upstairs I took a picture of the garden, looks pretty but it was still snowing…
well, I didn’t break my streak… there have only been two days I haven’t been in since January first, both when the temperature felt like -41°C…
03 Sunday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bookshelf, February, hallway, hearts, love, memories, moments, purple, remembering, widow
on Thursday I wandered around the house and took down all of the hearts, including the ones on the front door… they made their way back upstairs…
it always feels a bit naked when there is nothing hanging on the door…
I also took down the L O V E letters and put them back into their spot on the upstairs hallway bookshelf…
on to March, the birthday month, lol…
29 Thursday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Bluetooth, health, Louise Penny, moments, Penny, reading, selfie stick, sunlight, Technology, weather, widow
over the last week I have read three Louise Penny books, one after the other…
it appears that I like her writing, lol, so will be picking up a few more…
today I was sitting in the sunlight reading the last one…
I had fun setting up the selfie stick to get this shot, particularly considering that I don’t use it too often…
but I can now set it up, connect the button to Bluetooth and take photos easily;-)…
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