05 Monday Sep 2022
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bacon, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, food, lunch, moments, son-in-law, supper, Technology, treats, widow, work for food
while he was here we worked at having all the foods my son-in-law has missed…
we’ve had burgers and bacon in many forms… we’ve been to a few favourite places…
we ordered samosas and butter chicken… and had Chinese food…
and then there was Tony Roma’s and Captain’s Table and Dairy Queen;-)…
and a few of my recipes were included, lol…
a delicious two weeks😁…
04 Sunday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, dreaming, family, finished, google, kitchen, moments, painting, son-in-law, Technology, widow
the kitchen is finished;-)… I am sooooo happy… my son-in-law has done a stellar job…
the ceiling was scraped, primed and painted…
the cabinet doors were removed…
everything came out, was sorted, and lots of things went into boxes to give away…
the doors were primed and painted…
the inside of the upper cupboards (which were red) were given two coats of primer and one coat of paint… I have been dreaming about this for at least the last five years…
the doors and drawers and front of the lower cupboards were painted…
the cutting board and end countertop got a coat of paint along the edges…
new hardware was installed on all the doors..
and the light switch (which works with Google) and new light fixture were added…
everything is bright and back where it belongs and I love it;-)…
03 Saturday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, hummingbird, moments, morning glories, nature, petunias, purple, treat, widow
had the most five or six delightful minutes in the garden this afternoon;-)…
I was eating the last delicious bits of yesterday’s Blizzard on the back deck and spotted a hummingbird in the garden…
for a long time we had feeders, but no hummingbirds, so we gave up… a few have flown through over the years, but none stayed around to snack…
it moved around slurping from the petunias which are everywhere in the space this year… from the six planters around the deck, to the morning glories in the dahlia planter in the centre of the yard, to the baskets hanging along the neighbour’s garage… and back again…
my camera was close by, but I just enjoyed the moment…
I’m fairly sure it was a female ruby-throated hummingbird…
how blessed that I was sitting in that spot and looked up at that exact moment…
02 Friday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, creeper, family, fish, garden, grandson, moments, nature, Nestor’s, pond, shubunkin, tad, widow
Wednesday, the kids met us for breakfast and then came by to pick up a few items from the giveaway collection…
while they were here, they pulled down some wayward Virginia creeper along the garage and moved some unsightly cord off the pond bridge…
then they ran over to Nestor’s to get me a shubunkin to add to the pond… there weren’t any available, so they came home with this beauty…
which was a tad bigger than I expected, lol… they all seem to be getting on fine in the school so we are good;-)…
01 Thursday Sep 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, doors, drying, family, kitchen, memories, moments, rain, shopping, son-in-law, weather, widow
Monday was a bit of a slower day with rain during the morning… we had breakfast out and I put the foodstuff back on the shelves while my son-in-law ran out to get a few things we needed…
then we took everything out of all the bottom cabinets, and while he washed the shelves and removed a few extra shelves in the back of two of them, I went through and set aside items for the giveaway boxes…
the frame and all the doors were primed and there were doors and drawers drying all over the place, lol…
31 Wednesday Aug 2022
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banner, big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, family, happy, moments, projects, rain, son-in-law, Technology, weather, widow
Sunday, now that the two coats of primer were on, the actual paint went onto the shelves and the doors… and because it was going to rain, we had to do the doors inside, rather than on the deck, lol…
then we got to relax as we waited for it to dry…
we checked out a few other projects and I put back the banner that had come down in the hall…
looks so much better now that the holes have been repaired…
30 Tuesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, Dairy Queen, doors, ice cream, kitchen, moments, projects, screws, son-in-law, washers, widow
Thursday, the actual paint went on the shelves and doors…
the dishes that weren’t staying were all packed up and a pickup scheduled for next week…
we had to run out to pick up some washers and screws to use on the doors…
we also stopped for ice cream… I got a blizzard and my son-in-law a banana split… yum…
what a great treat after all the work…
29 Monday Aug 2022
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arrange, big girl pants, blessed, cupboards, dishes, family, foodstuff, kitchen, moments, painting, widow
Saturday morning, all the dishes went back into the cupboards… woohoo…
it was fun to arrange, and then rearrange, everything until it was just right;-)…
we left the doors off to be sure there is good airflow to get rid of any paint smell…
then we removed all the foodstuff from the cupboards on the other side of the sink… and put them on the table in the dining room… it was a bit of a process, but we eventually removed the shelf liner… what a difference between the dark and light insides…
once the doors came down, I took them outside to remove hinges and knobs and then cleaned them…
while that was happening, the shelves were sanded and two coats of primer put on them…
coming along nicely…
28 Sunday Aug 2022
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27 Saturday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, happy, interior, moments, painting, projects, son-in-law, Technology, widow
Thursday started with breakfast at the “A”…
once we got home the ceiling received its second and final coat of paint… looks great…
and the new light fixture is super bright and very cool looking… by accident, the Tp-Link switch we put in a few days ago makes the light dimmable… woohoo…
we moved all the dishes from the upper cabinets to the dining room table and then I went through everything and was able to delete about a third of it…
now to box those items up and arrange to give them away…
while that was happening, the doors on the cupboard were removed, the inside sanded and two coats of primer rolled on… what a difference it has already made to the dark red interior…
next will come the actual paint, lol…
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