25 Saturday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, chicken dinner, food, frozen, leftovers, moments, scratch, supper, widow
on Friday I heated up one of my frozen chicken dinners…
worked perfectly and tasted delicious…
happy that it worked out so well… and a lovely option to not have to start something from scratch…
24 Friday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, cold, dawdle, friends, moments, nature, Park Cafe, walk, weather, widow
went to The Park Cafe and met up with two friends…
we had a lovely breakfast and then a couple of us took a quick walk through the English and Leo Mol Gardens…
it was cool out so we didn’t dawdle… still a few beautiful colours out there…
then I walked across the bridge to where I’d parked the car…
23 Thursday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, cacao, cake, daughter, family, food, moments, Ottawa, short, The Leaf, time, treat, visit, widow
had a wonderful, but short, visit with my Ottawa daughter over the last few days…
she had been to Calgary for an event and stopped here on her way home…
lots of time together as we caught up in person… late nights and early mornings while she was here… and lots of laughter…
always cake from Baked Expectations when she arrives;-)…
we spent a lovely morning at The Leaf noticing the growth since she was last here and counting cacao pods…
she also spotted the first chileo on the second tree… made me laugh cause I’ve been looking for ages trying to spot one on that tree…
we visited the butterflies although they weren’t very active as it was cool and overcast but it was fun to see them together… the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa, currently has a butterfly display as well so we often compare which butterflies we each see, lol…
we worked on a plan for our next trip together and did lots of research on the computer…
dinners in and out as we ate some of her favourites and then we were headed back to the airport for her flight home…
always a treat;-)…
22 Wednesday Oct 2025
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21 Tuesday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly bench, flowers, garden, invasive, moments, morning glories, nature, plants, weather, widow
out in the garden and front yard on Sunday morning…
pulled out a huge clump of self-seeded morning glories in the front flower bed… the frost got them a few days before…
I can understand how they are considered invasive in BC… but they weren’t causing any problem in the flower bed and added some lovely flowers for the last month or so…
nearly filled one of the yard waste bags and then I swept up Virginia creeper branches on the bottom decks… the bag was pretty full by the time I was done…
final piece of work was removing all the morning glory vines from the butterfly bench…
still a few jobs to do to close down the garden for the season…
20 Monday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cushions, Fall, living room, moments, October, traded, weather, widow
traded cushions in the living room from the summer ones to the fall ones…
seems like October is flying by;-)…
next up will be the coffee table, lol…
19 Sunday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, company, den, family, guest, guest room, moments, preparation, ready, widow
took some time on Saturday turning the den into a guest room…
the sofa table makes its way to the dining room window as well as all the plants that are on it… tables and carpet are removed… the bed opens up…
the headboard mattress from the upstairs bedroom comes down to make the sofa bed more comfortable…
fresh sheets go onto the bed, a comforter, and pillows…
and it is done;-)…
all ready for company…
18 Saturday Oct 2025
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bachelor buttons, big girl pants, dehydrator, dragon, family, flowers, garden, grandson, housemate, moments, nature, pansies, petunias, plants, treat, weather, widow
last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…
next they went into the dehydrator to dry…
took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…
hope the dragon likes them…
17 Friday Oct 2025
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bearded dragon, big girl pants, driftwood, grandson, lizard, moments, pet, plants, preparation, preps, tank, widow
my housemate has been preparing for over a month for a pet bearded dragon…
he picked up a large glass enclosure which he then adapted (a lot) for the lizard to live in…
it took a great deal of thought and ingenuity to get the tank the way he wanted it…
once it was done, he moved the tank to its location and added in bricks, rocks, plants, driftwood, and a number of lights…
everything was ready about four hours before the lizard arrived;-)…
16 Thursday Oct 2025
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. soup, big girl pants, blessed, chicken soup, dinner, food, frozen, frozen dinners, grandson, gravy, homemade, moments, simmer, widow
I started soup on Tuesday afternoon and let it simmer for hours…
while that was happening, I also made a batch of mashed potatoes for the frozen dinners I was preparing from some of the leftovers…
we had these containers that were divided into three sections, so I decided to use them…
mashed potatoes went into each and then, turnip and peas and carrots into another spot… chicken, stuffing and cranberry sauce went into the final spot…
once more gravy was made, it was frozen and then fit in on top of the potatoes… all three meals have gone into the freezer for another day…
once we had soup for supper three containers were packaged up, two went into the fridge for the next few days and one went into the freezer…
nice to have a few meals ready for nights when I can’t think of what to have;-)…
