08 Thursday Nov 2018
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big girl pants, clothes, memories, paper doll, play, tabs, widow
recently I was looking at photos on a website and came across this picture…
it reminded me of paper dolls when I was small…
it was fun dressing them… doesn’t it look like the little tabs used to hold the clothes on the doll…
of course that was a while ago, lol…
07 Wednesday Nov 2018
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. soup, big girl pants, bread, chocolate, La Belle Baguette, lemon, shrimp, snow, tart, widow
started my day at La Belle Baguette to pick up some bread for lunch… found a few lemon tarts and a couple of chocolate bars to go along with it…
went nicely with the zucchini basil soup at lunch…
snow… not exactly how I wanted to arrive home at the end of the day although they’ve been threatening it for a few days, lol… you will notice that I gave in and actually had socks on;-)…
ended the day with a large bowl of Thai shrimp soup… lovely as all I had to do was warm it up…
06 Tuesday Nov 2018
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. soup, big girl pants, dad, down, flowers, friends, happy, memories, November, orchids, sad, widow
recently have had conversations with a few people about being down, feeling sad, being depressed… seems like many in my circles are struggling this month…
November doesn’t seem to be a particularly good month for me… not sure if it is the time change, gray days, cold weather or what… seems like many have similar feelings…
my dad’s birthday was in November… he was a great guy and I miss him…
I like to remember that where there are downs, there will be ups…
today I bought some orchids to brighten my space which always perks me up…
then I made a lovely pot of Thai shrimp soup which was delicious and a wonderful treat…
05 Monday Nov 2018
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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, feeder, garden, grandson, moments, plants, shopping, supper, widow
yesterday my oldest grandson came over and we cleaned up all the pots and planters in the garden…
well, he did most of the cleaning up while I worked on a few things in the house…
we did work together to get the bird feeder hooked up so that it won’t lean over…
we ran out for groceries and then had ribs, baked potatoes and Brussels sprouts for dinner…
when he was picked up I went to bed, lol… fun, but long, day…
04 Sunday Nov 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, facecloth, garage, hands, little things, missing, now, spiders, widow
it’s the little things…
was sitting in the hot tub this morning thinking of my beloved… realizing that some of the things I miss most are the little ones…
like having him wring out facecloths and towels and swimsuits… he had the strongest hands… now, I’ve developed more strength in my hands and wring things out myself…
like dealing with spiders… I have always been afraid of them… and always felt that they search me out… he would save me when I would come across one… my shriek would be a fairly clear sign for him, lol… I can now find the nearest item to use to smack down a spider when I come across one… just the other day I was surprised by a big one and I didn’t even freeze… just grabbed something and wacked it…
like being there to commiserate with… this morning I banged my foot on the door… it really hurt… no one to say poor you;-(… haven’t found a solution for that yet…
like driving the car into the garage… it was always stressful for me because of the slight jog in the driveway… now I just drive right on in, even when I know I have to go out again soon…
and of course holding hands… I really miss that…
03 Saturday Nov 2018
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went shopping this afternoon…
the stores were all very full… apparently I should have left home sooner, lol…
first one I went into, I walked right out of because there were people lined up all the way down the aisle waiting for a cashier… as it happened I didn’t really need anything from there today…
then I walked around a home repair store where it seemed like everyone needed to stop in the middle of the aisle to chat with the person they were shopping with… and nearly everyone had a buddy…
finally, at the grocery store, I continued to end up behind people who needed to look at every item on the shelves to decide which one they wanted… and of course they stopped in the middle of the aisle… must have seen at least six staff people gathering groceries to be picked up… maybe I will give that a try one of these days…
can’t believe that five bags of groceries cost two hundred dollars, sigh… times, they certainly have changed…
02 Friday Nov 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, drive, hand, hoarfrost, holding hands, memories, Park, remembering, trees, widow
found this photo on Facebook… happy that I get these reminders of wonderful memories…
it is from ten years ago and is one of the few pictures that I have of my beloved and I holding hands… it is lovely to see him and such a great reminder of a fun day…
one of the things I miss is having his hand to hold when out and about…
the beautiful trees after the snow this morning were another reminder…
brought back memories of the day before he died when we drove all around the Park so that I could get pictures of the trees covered in hoarfrost…
01 Thursday Nov 2018
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yesterday I picked up flowers and never got around to taking any pictures…
today I stopped and took a few moments to snap a few…
still getting used to the new camera but enjoying the opportunities to practice with it…
and my African violet is blooming again;-)…
31 Wednesday Oct 2018
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had some great Halloween fun tonight…
driving buddy came for supper, passing out goodies to trick-or-treaters, and a sleepover…
there was quite a bit of hilarity as costumes were donned…
not many kids this year… just twelve;-(… not the kind of record I was hoping for… the weather was lovely but maybe that made it easier for them to keep walking and focusing on longer streets filled with houses… a short street that has a park on both sides of one end isn’t too popular…
but, the very first one was dressed as a witch, just like me… we did not see any superwomen riding horses, like what we had in the house, lol…
it is certainly more fun to welcome the little people when you have company…
30 Tuesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, computer, connect, conversation, pictures, telephone, widow, work
in the middle of a telephone conversation tonight I realized I needed to look for something on the computer I’d brought home from work a month or so ago…
what a process… had to find a spot on my desk… find the slots to plug in the keyboard and mouse and get them in the right way… search through the files only to discover that what I was hoping to find was not there;-)…
in the end had both computers going and kept using the wrong mouse or keyboard and wondering why they weren’t working, lol…
now to get some help transferring everything from the old computer to the new one… not even gonna think about how many pictures I have to move…
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