12 Tuesday Apr 2022
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it looks like the goose couple may be moving in across the way… I’ve seen them two or three times recently…
this morning I spent time enjoying their activities…
one eats while the other acts as a guard to be sure no enemies come along and disturb them…
I think they are spending time in the creek, but I haven’t spotted them there yet…
maybe I will see a nest before long…
that is of course if they stay through the blizzard🤪…
11 Monday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, car, concerning, creek, moments, nature, new normal, shopping, snow, walk, weather, widow
the creek is very full as the majority of snow has melted…
a bit concerning as we are expecting a blizzard with upwards of 15 inches of snow in a few days…
I walked down and took a few photos today after returning home from the appointment with my doctor…
the other concerning thing was the doctor’s comment after I told him I had actually gone into a store recently… he knows how careful I’ve been and noted that he didn’t need to tell me I shouldn’t take any unnecessary risks…
made me think we aren’t quite as far along in returning to the new normal as we’ve been thinking;-(…
10 Sunday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, feeder fish, food, moments, nature, pond, tanks, widow
today, my grandson came over and we went to the fish store to pick up food for the goldfish and a couple of filters for the pumps… you read that right… I went shopping;-)…
I ended up buying a ginormous pail of fish food but it is way more cost effective this way… I will fill a number of ziplock bags and pop them into the freezer… won’t be needing more for quite some time, lol…
I also picked up some feeder-fish…
not that I needed more fish, but they were a great size – about the same as the babies when they came into the house in the fall… and were only a dollar each;-)…
there will be a couple of big schools this summer…
09 Saturday Apr 2022
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amazing, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, companion, flowers, flying, Hawaii, Maui, moments, nature, nervous, travel, widow
three years ago today we arrived on Maui… and the first thing we spotted in the hotel was an orchid… how cool was that…
I had been thinking of visiting Hawaii since my beloved’s parents went the first time, many, many, years ago…
it lived up to everything I imagined;-)…
travelling had always made me a bit nervous, but having a companion certainly made it easier… I am wondering about how I will feel about future trips…
08 Friday Apr 2022
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beauty, big girl pants, blessed, Chihuly, hand blown glass, moments, tolerate, widow
I had a bit of a giggle the other day when I was taking a pill…
years ago, pill-taking was a serious and stressful business… swallowing them was difficult and whenever I needed medication, I would try to have it in liquid form, or the smallest possible tablet…
a dietitian shared the information that if you turn your head to the left things go down more easily and that was very helpful knowledge for me…
currently, one of the pills I take is ginormous as far as I am concerned… it is still difficult to get down, but I am able to do it…
interesting what you can learn to tolerate over time…
07 Thursday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, moments, nature, purple, Spring, sprouting, weather, widow
as I watch the plants start sprouting for spring, I also watch more snow falling outside…
and the morning glories I planted awhile ago have started to bloom daily…
the slow warmup and lots of wind have been good as the snow banks have been melting away and there is not tons of standing water in the yard…
06 Wednesday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, morning glories, nature, purple, seeding, seeds, snow, tomatoes, widow
this morning I was happy to discover two blooms on one of the morning glories…
that encouraged me to do some seeding for the garden…
I had decided not to do any, but felt a need to start morning glories so they can begin blooming earlier…
I cut toilet paper rolls in half, then cut slits at one end, folded them and put a piece of tape across the bottom…
then I put all of those into a spinach clamshell, filled them with soil, and dropped a few seeds into each one… I also planted three of them with grape tomatoes…
watered each one and closed the clamshell…
now for the waiting game… and we won’t mention the snow that was falling as I wrote this, sigh…
05 Tuesday Apr 2022
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beta fish, big girl pants, blessed, family, fun, grandson, hat, memories, moments, nature, river, tubing, widow
recently my grandson and I had a conversation about some fun times… two of the things he remembered are below…
one was a tubing trip down the river in Courtenay, BC, where I was knocked off the tube by a tree branch and lost my new hat… everyone but me was quite happy as they hadn’t liked it, lol… he was around seven at the time… I ended up with a bruised leg and a gash on my head… it certainly was something I won’t forget, and apparently neither will he…
the other memory was around a beta fish in a vase that I kept on my desk at one of my workplaces… he has always been interested in fish and is a great collaborator with the goldfish…
so interesting to hear the things he remembers;-)…
04 Monday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, charcoal, daughter, first footing, gift, hair, moments, scent, shampoo, sliver, widow
a year ago my daughter sent some gifts for a friend to drop off to me on January 1st…
amongst the items was a bar of charcoal hair shampoo… I have really enjoyed it and it is now a sliver, lol…
apparently the company may have closed, and the shampoo doesn’t appear to be available…
I went online and found something that might work, ordered it and it arrived last week…
not sure if it is going to work… it has a fairly strong smell so I have set it out on the window ledge in the bathroom and will see if the smell dissipates…
then I will try it on my hair and see how it goes…
03 Sunday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, bunny, fun, garden, happy, hop, hot tub, moments, nature, treat, widow
not long ago I wrote about all the bunny tracks in the fresh snow and wondering if it was one busy bunny or many…
a few nights ago, as I was starting to get out of the hot tub – I was feeling a bit lonely without my recent companion – I watched four little bunnies shoot through the gate beside the hot tub, hop down the path and across to the far corner of the garden…
and then they raced around the garden, onto the deck and up and down the snowbanks before hopping past me a few more times…
they were having a blast and so was I;-)…
once I came in, I spotted another one out the front window on the front sidewalk…
what a treat;-)…
I took these pictures today…
