table…

21 Wednesday May 2014

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so I bought that coffee table a while ago… it is lovely…

there is one small problem… it is a bit shallow…

I’ve been searching the house for the box of shells… I saw it not two months ago and I went right to the spot where I was sure it was… but it wasn’t…

so far I have only filled up one quarter of the drawer, and it is looking good… I have many shells other than the ones in the box, lol…

20140521-214616-78376419.jpgunfortunately some of the nicest shells are too big to fit in it, lol… hoping that someday soon the box will jump out of it’s hiding place… and most of them will fit in the drawer…

fish…

20 Tuesday May 2014

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this is too silly for words, but I am feeling lonely in the house now that the fish have moved out to the pond…

I’ve been feeding them first thing in the morning and last thing at night and usually talked to them at that time…

last night and this morning I headed to the tank before realizing they weren’t there…

I checked on them when I headed out to work… they were under the bridge and weren’t moving very much… it was obviously quite chilly in the pond… but the good news was that none of them were floating, lol…

on my way in from work I wandered by the pond and found them swimming around very happily…

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maybe I’ll start chatting with the house plants…

snakes…

19 Monday May 2014

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well… today we drove to Narcisse to see the garter snake dens…

just to be clear… I am afraid of snakes, very afraid…

we spotted this crocus on the way in…

20140519-200210-72130909.jpgit was raining when we arrived and there were very few snakes and they weren’t moving much…

20140519-200300-72180667.jpgeveryone touched and/or held one… the boys had great fun…

20140519-200939-72579182.jpgthen I held one for just a couple of seconds… was rather proud of myself…

20140519-201032-72632987.jpgwe were lucky to get a couple of shots with the tongue out…

20140519-201245-72765205.jpgeventually the rain stopped and the snakes appeared to materialize out of nowhere and were writhing all over each other…

20140519-201558-72958973.jpgwhen we got home – without any snakes, although many in the vehicle thought we should bring one home – Jeff caught the fish and took them out to the pond…

20140519-201820-73100578.jpgI hope they are not frozen out there…

inside…

18 Sunday May 2014

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spent the day inside…

went grocery shopping this morning… ended up with so much that they had to use a second cart to put the last of the bags in…

once I got home it took a while to get everything put away… but eventually it all found a home…

had wanted to go out for a walk but it was quite cool so I had a nap instead…

spent a few minutes with a tiny friend and did some laundry…

for my dinner I barbecued a steak…

20140518-204127-74487579.jpgrarely do I barbecue but I’ve been craving a steak for a while, so I put on the big girl pants and did it myself… baked a potato, cooked up some mushrooms, and made a tomato/Bocochini/basil salad…

it was excellent…

put the car back into the garage just as it began to spit…

a quiet evening of tv and then early to bed…

gardening…

17 Saturday May 2014

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what a beautiful day…

spent it outside… the new cushions are very comfy, but I still have to figure out what to do with the stools…

spent some time reading and some time working in the garden…

I work in short spurts and then rest a bit and then work a bit more…

20140517-215439-78879318.jpgit always amazes me how grass can get into the flower beds so easily…

the pond guy came by and we both think that the leak is fixed… he will come and cover up some of the liner that is showing and glue down a loose stone sometime this week…

20140517-221041-79841214.jpghoping to move the fish from their condo to their summer home in the next few days…

20140517-221912-80352817.jpgthere are brown bits everywhere as the buds open on the trees…

enjoyed every minute…

dreaming…

16 Friday May 2014

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a couple of days this week I found myself behind cars with vanity plates…

made me giggle and think of George… he was always quick to figure out what they meant… I was always much slower to get them…

this week I got both of them right away…

last night I dreamt about George… this is unusual because I rarely remember dreams… I can’t even remember what the dream was about now…

very happy that it is the weekend as it has been a very full week and I need to do some serious resting…

started as soon as I got home…

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learnings…

15 Thursday May 2014

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started the day early with the sun rising as I headed out to the first event of the day…

20140515-222950.jpgas we arrived at the location a beautifully shaped tree was budding out…

20140515-223118.jpgI arrived home as the street lights were just coming on…

was talking with someone about all the learning that took place following George’s death and how it felt important to share some of those with others who may be going through a similar experience… heard very familiar examples of struggles that others have gone through…

learned some great ways to speak up this morning, and this evening was amazed at the bravery and strength of women entrepreneurs…

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prep…

14 Wednesday May 2014

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woke up to a skiff of snow on the bench that circles the deck… it is May 14 people!

it was still cool when I got home from work, but I took the time to finish filling the pond…

20140514-224445.jpgwas running in and out to be sure it didn’t overflow because it was too cold to stand out there…

20140514-224612.jpg in between the running out I made pasta with the leftover crab and asparagus from Sunday’s dinner… it was delicious…

20140514-224842.jpgbeen thinking of George a lot lately… he would have been out in the garden and the garage puttering and getting things ready for spending time outside… I just need someone to come and do some of that work, lol…

water…

13 Tuesday May 2014

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the day started with me running around in the basement trying to figure out how to make sure that cold water would run in the hose outside…

once we purchased the hot tub George put a system in place where he could run hot water outside so we could put it into the hot tub and in the little wading pool we had for the grandkids… of course I never learned the “how to”…

part way through the winter Jeff adjusted the pipes so that we had the hot water… but yesterday I was talking with my pond guy who was coming today to clean out the pond and would need cold water to fill it…

20140513-221919.jpgJeff and I were on the phone and then we face timed and eventually I turned the correct knob and we have cold water outside… yay for me and my big girl pants…

when I got home, after working the late shift, I added more water to the clean pond while I was organizing my supper… didn’t get it completely full, but will top it up when I get home tomorrow…

the weather has been kind of cool and rainy so I have brought in the plants… they are now living in front of the fish tank, lol…

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