27 Thursday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, food, fried egg, gadget, home, kitchen, learning, moments, Technology, tools, widow
we got a new kitchen gadget recently…
its purpose is to make a circular fried egg…
it is going to take a while to figure out how best to use it, but these came out not too bad…
I tend not to order a one-use item, but maybe we can figure out something else to use it for, lol… any ideas;-)…
26 Wednesday Apr 2023
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art, big girl pants, blessed, Connie Bart Hamel, drive, friends, fun, happy, ice cream, lunch, moments, mushrooms, nature, Roxy’s, sunshine, Syl’s, treat, widow
Tuesday we went to aquasize as my buddy had an appointment on Thursday…
from there we drove to Oak Bluff, where we had lunch at Roxy’s Restaurant & Lounge… I was very excited to find battered mushrooms on the menu, so we started with those… and they were delicious;-)… then I had a tasty beef dip with Caesar salad… the service was excellent, the food good and it was a nice spot…
onward to Carman where we visited the Golden Prairie Arts Council to see an exhibition by Connie Bart Hamel which was filled with a variety of mediums… she is very talented and a neighbour of my friend…
we stopped at Syl’s for ice cream and had a lovely drive home in the sunshine…
wonderful day;-)…
25 Tuesday Apr 2023
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arch, big girl pants, blessed, boxes, chill, garden, moments, morning glories, nature, perfectly, plants, seeds, trellis, water barrel, weather, widow
had a bit of fun in the garden Monday…
there was a chill in the air, but we were able to install the arch in the side garden, and then I put up the trellises on the planter boxes…
the arch fits perfectly and it will be exciting to see what will grow up and over the path;-)…
while I was outside I managed to get the slinky back on the bird feeder pole and flipped the water barrel over…
started the day planting some tomato seeds and trying again with the datura, which hadn’t started a single sprout…
we will see if there are any sprouts this time… maybe one day it will be warm enough to plant outside, lol…
24 Monday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, communication, computer, connecting, friends, gathering, moments, person, Technology, together, treat, widow
so happy today…
after three months we were all together again… in person… what a treat;-)…
it had me thinking of the various places our group has taken part from for our gatherings…
over the last twenty years, a few spots in British Columbia, Minneapolis, Ontario, and even here in Winnipeg…
from using borrowed business speaker phones, to Skype and Zoom on computers, to most recently FaceTime…
and as times have changed, we have moved with them;-)…
23 Sunday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, living room, moments, pillows, purple, quilt, sofa, widow
my sofa had a blanket on it for most of the winter…
when the weather changed, I used the back of the handmade quilt produced by my friends on it…
the reason for the covering involves two pillows I have put on the sofa so that it isn’t so deep…
now I’ve used two pillowcases and pinned them to the back cushions…
think I like it…
22 Saturday Apr 2023
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21 Friday Apr 2023
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20 Thursday Apr 2023
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19 Wednesday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, blizzard, bouquets, cards, dinner, family, flowers, food, friends, happy, hot tub, lobster, miraculously, moments, presents, Technology, treats, widow
had a lovely day yesterday…
started with an early morning hot tub as the sun shone… then had pie for breakfast…
there were phone calls, text messages, visits, it was great and a DQ blizzard miraculously appeared;-)…
I spent time reading, napping, and watching a few programs…
we had steak and lobster for supper and I didn’t even have to clean up;-)…
my kids gave me another subscription for eight bouquets this summer… I loved the ones last summer… and this afternoon flowers arrived to brighten the dull day…
all in all, a pretty fine few days…
birthday week’s are fun;-)…
18 Tuesday Apr 2023
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Monday another hole was made in the sky…
first thing in the morning a number of trucks filled up the street…
they were there to cut down one of the elm trees… I hadn’t realized that it had been marked…
it took four hours to get it down to the stump… and then they left… about an hour later a few of them returned and ground it down to nothing…
amazing how complicated the process is… it was interesting to watch…
