10 Sunday Dec 2023
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well, last Sunday I finally made it into the plunge tub…
didn’t get as deep as my neck… it was chilly, but I made it to two minutes…
maybe, if I do it again, I will try to get down to my neck, lol…
certainly did wake me up, but I was still shivering and my legs were cold half an hour later;-)…
fun😳🤪🤔…
09 Saturday Dec 2023
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battery, big girl pants, blessed, charger, counting, Fitbit, moments, nature, shovelling, snow, Technology, weather, widow
waited for my Fitbit to charge before going out to shovel the sidewalk today…
and when I got back into the house, there was the Fitbit, sitting on the counter, still attached to the charger…
really not counting the steps, lol…
06 Wednesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleanup, family, foray, garage, grandson, lumber, memories, moments, truck, widow, wood
back at it in the garage… our last foray out there, a few weeks ago, involved dumping everything onto the floor to be sorted…
this time we went through and put items back up in the rafters that seemed like good things to keep… I let a lot go, although I know many people who might have wanted some of the bits, lol…
then we put the excess lumber (from the fence build) up there… it had been under a tarp along the edge of the driveway since June when the fence was finished…
everything else on the floor was loaded into the back of the truck and driven away…
there were still a number of items on the floor that needed to find homes…
we “finished” in the garage late Sunday afternoon…
the floor was finally cleared and vacuumed and there was a lot of dust from the wet-vac, lol…
the bench got slightly rearranged as we still need more work done there, lol… and then Indi made it into the space…
woohoo;-)…
05 Tuesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, delivery apps, family, garage, gathering, moments, nature, pho, project, recommend, restaurants, supper, weather, widow
at our time together last Monday, it was lovely to have everyone in the room, with no technology required…
amongst our conversations, we talked about our favourite pho restaurants… it is always great to hear about spots that others recommend…
later my grandson and I worked away on the garage project even though it was rather cold out, lol…
when we came in, with frozen fingers, the pho we’d talked about earlier called to me;-)…
those delivery apps are very handy, lol…
it was just what those cold fingers needed;-)…
03 Sunday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, careful, Christmas mug, holiday season, labelled, memories, moments, mug, Tea, widow
I was happy to have my first cup of tea in one of the Christmas mugs last Friday…
for a few years I couldn’t find them as they had been put away carefully in a closet that was packed overly full…
when I found them a while back, I was careful to put them in a location which I labelled so I couldn’t miss them, lol…
the holiday season has clearly arrived…
30 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bungee, bungee cord, doorknob, family, garage, grandson, moments, neighbour, project, weather, widow
last spring the doorknob on the garage door seized up… the door hadn’t been closing properly for a long time as it had shifted… I’d been using a bungee cord to close it from the outside for ages, lol…
I had done research on how to remove the doorknob, but no matter what I did, couldn’t get it off the door…
eventually my neighbour came over and removed it although he had to hammer it off in the end, lol…
since then the bungee cord has been the way to keep the door closed…
I need a new door, but that didn’t make the project list this year, so I hadn’t done anything about fixing this…
last week we were at the hardware store, picked up a new doorknob, and on Monday while I was visiting with my friends, my grandson installed it…
woohoo…
29 Wednesday Nov 2023
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amaryllis, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, gifts, growing, moments, Shelmerdine, shopping, wax, widow
had a fun trip to Shelmerdine today…
wasn’t going to get anything, but three Christmas gifts jumped right into the cart…
and I found one of the amaryllis plants coated in wax, that grow without water… hummed and hawed, but in the end had to get one…
it is now sitting on the living room table and I can’t wait to see it grow and produce some flowers;-)
25 Saturday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, carefully, decorations, drawer, fabric, favourite, happy, holidays, living room, memories, moments, ornaments, purple, sleighs, table, widow
redid the living room table on Thursday…
usually for the holiday season I’ve filled it with glittery purple, silver, and clear ornaments…
this time I decided to change up the display…
first I found a nice piece of fabric and then a a collection of some of my favourite ornaments which would usually be hung on the tree but instead went into the drawers…
I took the glass off the top of the table and filled it with the ornaments before carefully putting it back on…
then three sleighs were set on top… looks good…
24 Friday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, centre, droppings, holidays, kitchen, memories, moments, reindeer, snowflakes, widow
decided that snowflakes and reindeer were not taking centre stage this holiday season… most were put away…
a few snowflake cards made it onto the bathroom door…
the Advent reindeer made it into the kitchen with a couple of others, mostly clear… and there appear to be chocolate droppings in the calendar…
bit by bit, the transformation is happening;-)…
23 Thursday Nov 2023
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5°, big girl pants, blessed, garden, heater, moments, nature, plunge, Technology, tub, water, weather, widow
last week a big black tub landed on the deck…
a few days later, in the evening, it got filled up with water…
then a cover went over it… and a heater to keep the temperature at 5° Celsius was added…
now, after a shower, someone uncovers the tub and sits in it for 3 minutes, which seems like a long time, lol…
this is what I spotted this morning;-)…
I am going to give it a try on a Sunday morning… wish me luck…
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