14 Wednesday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, happy, laundry, long sleeve, memories, moments, stain, sweater, Technology, widow
I’ve been taking the time to enjoy the moments…
one of those moments was my delight at finally getting a stain out of this sweater;-)…
seems like a little thing, but I had tried for ages to get it out… particularly as I have been wearing more long sleeved warm tops…
reminded me of my mom, who loved doing laundry, and could just about remove any stain…
13 Tuesday Dec 2022
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Advent, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, family, gifts, memories, moments, parcels, preparations, time, widow
been wrapping presents and in the process, making a bit of a mess, lol…
things are now ready to pop in the mail and the finished parcels have found their way into the living room…
Christmas is coming and things are getting organized;-)…
almost ready;-)…
12 Monday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, chicken soup, delicious, dumplings, food, gummy, homemade, moments, relaxing, time, widow
felt a bit like I was getting a cold, so I dug in the freezer for some chicken and made chicken soup…
just the making of the soup is always relaxing… you can’t really do it quickly… slow and steady;-)…
I also decided on Mom’s dumplings to go with it… that reminded me of the time I took chicken soup with dumplings for my colleagues… a few hadn’t had dumplings, so I made very small ones which I thought would work well… NOT… they were gummy and yucky, sigh… clearly not the way to serve them… so funny, lol…
six o’clock came and I enjoyed a bowl filled with delicious broth, veggies and dumplings…
felt way better🤗…
and then there were a couple of meals ready in the fridge…
11 Sunday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, door, extendible, garage, garage door, garden, hose, hot tub, memories, moments, open, Technology, washer, water, weather, widow
it was around zero, so today’s project involved hooking up the extendible hose in the basement and then topping up the hot tub…
in the process of connecting the hose I had to go out to the garage for a washer… at which point I discovered that the garage side door wouldn’t open… I tried the key, as it seemed locked, but that didn’t work…
I went in through the overhead door and tried to open it from that side, but no luck there either…
in previous winters the problem had been that it wouldn’t stay closed, lol…
so, will have to see what happens in the next while, sigh…
10 Saturday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, Canadian Tire, eventually, family, grandson, moments, out and about, shopping, Subway, Technology, water shoes, widow
out and about today!
well, I went to Canadian Tire and Subway, lol…
my grandson picked me up and once we were in the store we asked for help finding the water shoes I was looking for… the young man we dealt with didn’t seem to be having a good day… he appeared a bit unfriendly, but eventually did produce the shoes…
then, in another section of the store, the woman helping us was very knowledgeable and friendly and found what I needed quickly;-)…
and the cashier was pleasant, so all in all a good experience… and the store wasn’t crazy busy…
at the sandwich store, the young woman we dealt with was very helpful even though we caused her some confusion with our order, but she figured it out…
we enjoyed our subs when we got home…
a couple of jobs around the house and off he went;-)… then I had a nap😂…
09 Friday Dec 2022
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alarm, big girl pants, blessed, closet, decluttered, giveaway, memories, moments, share, treasures, widow
spent time in the computer room again yesterday and found additional items for the giveaway collection… happily there were a number of Christmas treasures amongst them…
eventually I was able to bring down the last of the boxes… it was filled with books and was really heavy…
added it to all the other items and had quite the pile…
set the alarm and got up early this morning to get everything onto the steps before eight… in the dark, sigh…
took a while to get them all out there, lol, and by nine they were gone…
it sure feels great to have the closet cleaned out and more space…
08 Thursday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, delivery, dragged, food, garage, heavy, moments, nature, startled, sunflower seeds, widow
the fifty pound bag of birdseed was recently delivered in the evening…
I had forgotten they were coming so was startled when they arrived and didn’t have them put it into the garage, where I had made a spot on the table for it…
they brought it into the house and left it by the front door…
it was heavy but in the morning I dragged it through the house to the back door…
then I went out and brought in the two pails that hold it, filled them up, and carried them out, one at a time, lol…
the bag was much lighter at this point and I was able to carry it out and fill the bin with the last portion…
those big girl pants;-)…
07 Wednesday Dec 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, bird feeders, birds, blessed, happy, iPhone, memories, moments, nature, neighbour, particular, shovelling, snow, sun, sunshine, swept, weather, widow
stood at the window and watched chickadees, a nuthatch, and sparrows at the feeders…
and my neighbour shovelling his sidewalk… he is very particular and does a great job every time… it is fun to watch and makes me giggle every time, because my beloved would have been very impressed;-)…
besides shovelling, he also swept the front steps…
06 Tuesday Dec 2022
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A&W, apple turnover, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, burgers, cheers birthday, dinner, family, food, happy, memories, moments, ordered in, Technology, time, treat, turnover, widow
Sunday we celebrated my beloved’s birthday…
the kids in Ottawa ordered A&W and I ordered it here… this was as close as we could manage to get burgers which were one of his favourites, lol…
ordering and having the meal delivered makes it easy to meet and eat at a specific time without going crazy in the kitchen trying to get separate meals ready…
we met online and enjoyed our burgers and chatted about him…
whenever we meet up we like to “cheers”… in person or over screens…
after we finished our call, I had one of their apple turnovers… he loved apple pie;-)…
it was a low key and enjoyable way to remember him…
05 Monday Dec 2022
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Advent, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas mugs, giveaway, happy, memories, moments, mugs, purge, sudden, urge, widow
I was watching tv and all of a sudden decided I needed to dig out the Christmas mugs… they haven’t been used for a few years as they were at the bottom of the overflowing closet in the computer room…
so I spent a couple of hours purging…
got down to the mugs, ran them through the dishwasher and changed them out for the current mugs…
in the process, I gathered up six or eight boxes of goodies for the giveaway pile, including two boxes of mugs…
way to go me, lol…
although there are still items all over the room that need to be dealt with…
that is a tomorrow project;-)…
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