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…
18 Monday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, dad, family, garden, grandson, meatballs, melting, memories, moments, nature, oven, remembering, shovelling, snow, supper, weather, widow, youngest
had my youngest grandson over for dinner last night…
had to think for a while to decide on what to make as the oven is still not working, lol…
decided on spaghetti with meatballs and sauce… while I was making the meatballs, I was remembering doing that with my dad… he made great ones and they were very small… and they never fell apart, lol…
mine came out okay, but a few of them did seem to disintegrate… I used the broiler, which is still working, to warm up the garlic bread…
my grandson is on a moneymaking kick as there is a big school trip planned for next year, so he did some shovelling for me in the garden… the plan was to move the snow around that was in the mountain at the edge of the deck… he did a good job;-)…
hopefully this will help in the melting process…
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…
