kaleidoscope…

12 Tuesday Dec 2023

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this morning in my Advent box I received a kaleidoscope of butterflies…

I love that name for a group of butterflies;-)…

some of them had broken free of their original home and had stuck themselves all over the inside of the box… it took a bit of time to get them all out, lol…

the glue on them is just down the centre of each one so their wings raise up a bit and they do look as though they are fluttering…

I put them on the bathroom mirror and they look very sweet there…

we will see if they stay or flutter to the ground as there isn’t much stickiness to them;-)…

bodes…

11 Monday Dec 2023

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so, the strangest thing happened…

I looked out at the bird feeders and discovered this…

I think that maybe the squirrel has stuffed the feeders full of grass and fur…

I have never seen this before…

wonder what it bodes for the winter…

if…

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😳🤪🤔…

counting…

09 Saturday Dec 2023

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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…

clicking…

07 Thursday Dec 2023

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sounds can make me a little crazy when I hear them and can’t figure out what they are…

once I know what they are then I am fine…

recently, whenever I closed the fridge door, this odd clicking sound happened…

I tried a few things but couldn’t figure it out… eventually I realized it was the feet on the little reindeer… as the door closed they moved and banged onto the Advent calendar the small reindeer was sitting on…

once I crossed them, the noise disappeared;-)…

foray…

06 Wednesday Dec 2023

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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;-)…

recommend…

05 Tuesday Dec 2023

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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;-)…

viper…

04 Monday Dec 2023

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tonight we had supper with my son-in-law in Ottawa… earlier today my daughter, on vacation in Europe, texted me that she’d had a burger for her lunch, in memory of her dad;-)…

we tried a new app called Viper, and it worked great… think I will use it again…

burgers were had by all… ours came from one of my beloved’s favourite burger places… and we even shared a chocolate milkshake here… it was delicious…

birthdays often seem hard, but coming together to share a meal is a lovely tradition to remember him…

and it is always such a delight when the technology works, lol…

labelled…

03 Sunday Dec 2023

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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…