19 Wednesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cooked, delicious, dinner, family, garden, happy, moments, roast, weather, widow
had a delicious dinner recently…
it was great to share a meal inside as we’ve eaten outdoors all summer…
the roast came out perfectly, which made me very happy as the last time I cooked one, it was overdone, lol…
the gravy and the carrots were yummy… and I did have salad afterwards;-)…
good times…
17 Monday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, BS, delicious, doors, food, friends, gather, inside, macarons, meet, moments, normal, pandemic, together, treat, weather, widow, zoom
today, my BS group gathered in the living room…
we’ve been meeting in the garden but it was only going to 2 degrees Celsius so we decided it was time to come inside…
one person joined via Zoom and had dropped off a lovely treat for us beforehand… boob (for breast cancer awareness month) and regular macarons from Jenna Rae Cakes…
I left the front and back doors open to move fresh air… everyone wore masks until we were all seated…
it was the first time we’ve met in the house since the pandemic began…
felt lovely and odd at the same time, lol…
soon we will all have had the fifth shot which will make us feel a bit more confident about being in a closed space together…
so happy to be getting back to more ‘normal’ times…
16 Sunday Oct 2022
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autumn, big girl pants, blessed, flipped, frozen, garden, memories, moments, nature, prep, rain, rain barrels, water, weather, widow, winter
went outside and flipped the two rain barrels… one in the garden, and the new one next to the front flowerbed…
although we had drained both, they still had water inside, but once they were turned over, it poured out through the screen…
now they are ready for winter, sigh…
I learned a few years ago that not flipping them can cause serious consequences… lucky for me, the bottom of the one in the garden has returned to flat, lol…
13 Thursday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, Fall, fish, garden, goldfish, leaves, moments, nature, plants, pond, tarp, weather, wetvac, widow
spent a good portion of Tuesday afternoon in the pond…
I removed the last of the water, by hand scooping, and then using the wet vac…
caught the last three small fish but only found two of the babies…
after that, I vacuumed up most of the leaves I could reach, and then covered the pond with a large tarp…
happy that it will catch the rest of the falling leaves and should make cleaning the pond in the spring much easier…
sadly, it doesn’t look exactly pretty, lol…
12 Wednesday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, garden, happy, Merlin App, migration, moments, nature, sound, time, treat, weather, widow
the other day, my Merlin sound app found many different birds inside an hour and a half… even though I didn’t see them all…
what a treat to have confirmation of some of the little birds flitting about the garden…
we are clearly in the middle of migration season…
11 Tuesday Oct 2022
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autumn, beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, kitchen, light, moments, nature, son-in-law, weather, widow
one of the loveliest things about this time of the year is the beautiful light in the kitchen…
makes me smile when I walk into the space in the morning…
especially after all the work my son-in-law got done in the summer;-)…
10 Monday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, garden, happy, memories, moments, nature, plants, pond, projects, regular, remembering, summer, sun, Technology, thankful, time, widow
so much to be thankful for…
this year my daughter was here in March and my son-in-law in August…
I spent hours in the garden…
met my friends on a regular basis in the garden all summer… previously, we haven’t met very often during that time as everyone was busy…
saw, texted, and spoke on the phone with many friends… made a new one and enjoyed getting to know them…
worked on changes in the vegetable garden… grew peas, beans, cucumbers, and tomatoes…
was visited by monarchs and swallowtails and a beautiful little hummingbird…
enjoyed bouquets of flowers all summer, thanks to a birthday subscription from the kids…
had many projects completed, in the house and the garden…
life is very good…
09 Sunday Oct 2022
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08 Saturday Oct 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, deck, door, family, garden, grandson, happy, levelled, memories, moments, Nathan the Handyperson, projects, repairs, Technology, tilting, tools, widow
sooooo happy…
today, three jobs that have been on the list for ages, got done, thanks to Nathan the Handyperson, and my grandson;-)…
first, the front door sweep got reset and the edging tightened to close up any open spots… happy this took place before the really cold weather… it was first worked on about a year ago and the piece came off early in the spring…
next, the deck got levelled…
it has been sinking more and more over the summer and when they got the underside open, there was the tiniest piece of rotten wood holding it up😳…
we’ve lived here for just over forty-nine years and the deck was probably built at least thirty-five years ago… the top has been replaced once and is still in excellent condition… there was one piece of the frame that had to be replaced, but the rest was in great shape…
the steps to the side garden were removed for the work and then reattached and feel much sturdier now…
and the rail was redesigned, is much more stable, and matches the rail on the other side…
I am so thrilled it has been fixed…
finally, the rotten section on the bathtub pond ledge has been repaired…
back to normal… safe and level;-)…
what a great day;-)…
06 Thursday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, colours, decorations, Fall, halloween, moments, nature, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk the other day and enjoyed the colours…
the trees were looking so beautiful…
I came across these Halloween decorations just waiting to be turned on…
I bet they will look great when they are blown up…
I had a lovely time…
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