22 Monday Jul 2013
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today when I arrived at the office I was a little early so I walked over to the Library and checked out the pond… my colleague had mentioned it just last week…
lovely pond on the Millennium Library grounds…
there was a lovely little duck family there…
duck family…
what fun to watch them flit about the area…
great start to the week…
21 Sunday Jul 2013
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big girl pants, closet doors, construction, fantails, laid carpet, on crutches, picture troubles, remote for waterfall, trim around door, vanishing feeder fish
this morning Jeff and the little boys came over for breakfast and I showed them the remote… they all thought it was pretty cool and when we had company at dinner, Gray ran into the house and found it so we could show it off…
after breakfast they went home and I went shopping with Dan to get the doors for the closet, which he then installed, as well as putting the trim around the back door… all that’s left is to paint the doors…
doors on the basement closet look wonderful…
once he left I laid down for a short nap, which turned out to be shorter than anticipated as I got a call from Crystal needing me to pick the boys up at the hospital where she was going to have her knee looked at…
the boys and I stopped and picked up more goldfish – some fantails this time, as of the 50 feeder fish purchased last week, there appear to be about 3 left… now we have 16 good sized fish in the pond… I sure hope they like it there, lol…
we organized supper and laid a carpet in the living room before our company arrived… Crystal and Jeff came just after we finished dinner… her knee is taped up and they think it will be fine, but she is hobbling around on crutches in the meantime…
we put down the carpet only to discover it is about a foot or so too wide, sigh…
since yesterday I have been having trouble attaching pictures from my iPhone to the laptop… very frustrating and I hope I can figure it out sooner rather than later…
two more jobs for those big girl pants…
been a long and full day… off to bed…
20 Saturday Jul 2013
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brunch, Cedar Wood Camp, dear friends, her big girl pants, memorial service, slide shows, sliders, video, wonderful day
got up and packed our snack bag and headed to Cedar Wood Camp to pick up Kyler… nice drive and when we got there we had brunch with the campers, saw a great video and headed over to our dear friends’ cottage (well, home really) just a few minutes drive from the camp… first time I had seen them since George’s memorial service…
had a wonderful day visiting and enjoying the beauty of their space… after a great dinner of sliders, and a few great slide shows we headed for home…
lovely things to see…
even quieter drive home as some folks napped and others watched movies…
drove home from Crystal’s, put chemicals in the hot tub, sorted through my pictures and now off to bed…
19 Friday Jul 2013
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put out the garbage and watched a bit of tv… then spent the morning working in the front flower beds with two great helpers… got a lot done… the wild roses are gone for now and we moved the woman water feature into one of the beds…
the side bed got weeded and we divided and moved a hosta… then after they left I sat in the garden and read for a while… spent the rest of the day waiting for someone to come and fix the bathroom door in the basement… never did show up…
my lovely young carpenter friend came by to put a last coat of paint on the closet that George started four or five years ago… Sunday we are going to pick up doors for him to install and he is going to put the trim up around the back door too…
then the kids arrived and Jeff got the water running in the fountain… he headed to work and we headed to their house for a sleepover… picked up a few groceries and a new umbrella for the deck…
now to bed, I’m tired:-)…
18 Thursday Jul 2013
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a year, difficult but healing, Dobby, excellent care, friends, grieve the loss of my beloved, her big girl pants, hysterectomy and ventral hernia repair, my girls, organizing fridge and freezer, roses amongst baby's breath, shifts in the hospital, sister-in-law, surgery, water the plants, wonderful doctors
it is a year today since my hysterectomy and ventral hernia repair…
I can remember the fear, and the relief when I woke up… my sister-in-law coming to be with me and spending the night because I was afraid to be alone following the surgery and having to leave early the next morning to catch a plane to get her to work on time…
frst night at the hospital…
and I also remember the excellent care I received and the wonderful doctors I dealt with… and how my friends rallied around me with shifts as my support in the hospital, and then at home as I slowly recovered…
I remember the problems with the drugs and how I made the decision to stop taking them just hours after the surgery… the pain was severe but my body was so happy not to have all that stuff in it… drugs just really aren’t my friend…
it was a difficult time but also very healing as during those ten weeks before I was able to get back to normal living I had the opportunity to grieve the loss of my beloved…
thinking back to all the company that came and delivered food, sat with me, and did the things I couldn’t… Dobby who stayed for a week and tempted me with wonderful tidbits to encourage me to eat… organizing the fridge and freezer so when she left I would be able to manage on my own… my nephew staying with me for the first two days after they sent me home early, picking me up and sitting with me through the pain… friends who came by to water the plants because I couldn’t lift anything… my girls doing everything possible for me…
maybe that is what I have been struggling with this week…
now I am healthy and doing well… I can water my own plants, make my own food and do my own chores… what a difference a year can make…
as someone put it today it seemed like a very long time ago, or was it just a few months?!?!?
roses to celebrate a great year…
17 Wednesday Jul 2013
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had to giggle when the light was installed in the pond…
came with a remote…
George loved remotes… he had quite a fabulous one for all his equipment in the basement… I couldn’t even get the tv to turn on with it, lol…
now I have this cute little waterproof job which I am stroll trying to figure out…
the solar lights I put around the pond are looking very nice…
took a few pictures of the light in the pond but it is hard to get a good representation… maybe I’ll try with the actual camera tomorrow…
16 Tuesday Jul 2013
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missing my beloved, remember good times, sadness, sadness float away, shingling the roof, talking with the kids, the pond, wave of sadness, who to talk to
as I drove home from work tonight a wave of sadness overcame me…
I haven’t been able to shake it… I have been missing my beloved so much this last week or so… don’t know if it is the pond… he always gave me action about the ponds but he loved to look after them, and the fish, even as he complained…
was talking with someone about having the roof reshingled and thinking how he would have known who to talk to and sort out the best people to do the work, and even whether we needed the work done…
even talking with my kids couldn’t lift the sadness…
well, I am going for a short hot tub and then to bed… tomorrow is another day and a great opportunity to remember good times and let the sadness float away…
smiling as I was taking his picture…
15 Monday Jul 2013
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big girl pants, light installed in waterfall, lovely visit, memories, Mexico vacation book, Monday night gathering, purple, Regina, sad hydrangeas, six months since we were there, three surprises, wonderful day
three lovely surprises today…
our Mexico Vacation books arrived this afternoon… they are lovely and show all the fun we had when we were there… we have one for each family to keep… it is nearly six months since we were there, and the book brings back lots of memories of the fun times we had when we were all together…
Mexico Vacation book…
when I got home I checked the pond out and realized that someone had been by and watered the hydrangeas – one of which is looking exceptionally sad…
checked the phone and had a message telling me that a light had been installed in the waterfall portion of the pond and that it had a remote control and could change colours… I tried to take a picture of it purple, but it was a bit too dark to see anything but the purple light… will have to take another picture tomorrow night before it gets too dark…
then one of our BS group who has been living in Regina and popping into and out of Winnipeg arrived in person for our Monday night gathering… another of the group made it as well while the two remaining members were off to the lake and out for dinner…
we had a lovely visit on the deck and enjoyed the breeze while we chatted…
all in all, a wonderful day…
14 Sunday Jul 2013
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bird friends, breakfast, degreaser, goldfinch, more shy, neighbour, oil on the deck, Olympus, purple finch, reading, visitors, waterfall, weeding
had breakfast with some bird friends this morning…
the goldfinch couple are regulars and often announce themselves with some lovely singing…
goldfinch having breakfast…
they have come to accept me as long as I move around the garden slowly, otherwise they fly away, but they always return later when it is quieter in the garden…
the purple finch couple have been coming quite regularly as well, but they are much more shy, and if I move more than quietly picking up the camera, they are gone and it takes a while for them to return…
purple finch couple…
the blue jays fly through the garden but don’t stop and the crows fly past now and again… haven’t heard any geese for a while…
got a shot of the waterfall today with the Olympus and notice that it shows the water a bit differently…
waterfall taken with the Olympus…
a neighbour stopped by with some degreaser to see if it would lift the oil what was spilled on the deck over the winter… will see what it looks like tomorrow…
did some weeding, and quite a bit of reading, today…
13 Saturday Jul 2013
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beautiful day, Caprese salad, garden, Goldeye, her big girl pants, my beloved, planting, reading by the pond, tomatoes, weeding
had a wonderful day in the garden…
the weather was hot but a breeze blew for most of the day, making it comfortable…
weeded along the driveway and finally planted the two tomato plants… one of them has fruit that is heart shaped…
continued with planting some purple and white coneflowers that I picked up yesterday…
watered the sod and dug up quite a few dandelions which were trying to take over the yard during the construction… consulted with a neighbour about how to raise the level where the sod has been put down as it is a little low and I keep tripping when I walk over it, lol…
in amongst all that, I finished book 3 and started on book 4 of Game of Thrones…
had a nap and a lovely dinner of Goldeye and Caprese salad with my fresh basil…
lots of time remembering fun in the garden with my beloved, particularly when I was trimming the Virginia creeper by the hot tub:-)…
