21 Wednesday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, Fleurs de Villes, flowers, friends, laughs, moments, The Leaf, time, weather, widow
had a wonderful time today with friends at The Leaf…
we travelled together and had a lot of laughs in the process, then checked out all of the displays, and had one of the volunteers take our photo…
ended the day with a lovely lunch and visit at Gather;-)…
dropped off one of us and had a short visit…
what a fun time we had;-)…
20 Tuesday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, buddies, Fleurs de Villes, flowers, friends, gift, moments, nature, The Leaf, widow, wonder
had a lovely visit to Fleurs de Villes WONDER at The Leaf…
for Christmas I had given my buddies tickets to the show… such a great gift which adds another celebration for everyone…
we had lunch at Gather to celebrate our January birthday woman before the tour;-)…
we had dropped our birthday person at the back entrance, which is much closer for anyone with walking issues and then drove around and parked at the front…
for this visit, we skipped the Tropical biome and moved right into the Mediterranean biome to see the fifteen displays…
every time I walk through the area I spot details I hadn’t noticed before;-)…
I’ve volunteered twice, and visited three times so it is quite astonishing that I keep discovering new things…
the group enjoyed all of the displays and it was fun as each person made their choice of favourite piece…
I keep vacillating between three, lol…
19 Monday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, Fleurs de Villes, food, friends, Gather Craft Kitchen and Bar, gyro, lunch, moments, striploin, widow
had lunch at Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar before checking out Fleurs de Villes WONDER in the Mediterranean biome with my BS buddies…
it was nice to be inside after the -30°C walk from the car, lol…
I had the gyro – beef striploin gyro, grilled naan, cucumber relish, arugula, garlic tzatziki… I have had this before and, as previously, it was tasty…
other items at the table included the classic burger, the pasta with shrimp, and the house salad…
everyone enjoyed their meal and there were a few desserts afterwards, lol…
it was rather busy, so it did take a little longer than usual for our meal…
always a treat;-)…
18 Sunday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, calendar, family, flowers, handcrafted, happy, mail, moments, widow
recently, a package came in the mail from my daughter in Ottawa…
in it was a delightful handcrafted calendar that is a bouquet…
it is going to look different every month as the twelve pieces move from front to back;-)…
I am so blessed;-)…
17 Saturday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, car, drone, lane, moments, Technology, widow
so the other day, as I was sitting in the living room, I spotted a drone lift off from a car which stopped in the lane across the way…
it flew right over the house and didn’t return to the car for at least fifteen minutes…
I’m guessing it was doing some shots for a real estate video…
I couldn’t catch it on video but got a few photos of it coming down to land on the top of the vehicle…
I drew circles around it, lol… the brush behind it certainly didn’t help make it visible…
16 Friday Jan 2026
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adventure buddy, big girl pants, decisions, Fleurs de Villes, flowers, moments, nature, orchids, The Leaf, widow
spent time this morning at Fleurs de Villes, at The Leaf, with my adventure buddy;-)…
what a treat…
each display had many gorgeous flowers and lots of very interesting details… it was hard to decide which one I liked the most…
so many orchids caught my attention;-)…
decisions, decisions;-)…
then we headed to Myer’s Delicatessen for lunch… yum, our first visit, and we look forward to another…
15 Thursday Jan 2026
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apples, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, crisp, family, food, housemate, moments, snow, vacuum sealer, widow
my housemate decided to make apple crisp with all the apples he purchased and then forgot to eat, lol…
I found a recipe and we peeled, cored, and sliced what felt like a ton of apples before they went bad…
next he mixed in the sauce and then used the vacuum sealer to package two bags of the apples…
when he decided to make the apple crisp, he gathered the ingredients for the crisp portion, put everything together and baked it in the oven…
it came out delicious… reminded me of my beloved whose favourite thing to bake was apple pie;-)…
14 Wednesday Jan 2026
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advent calendar, big girl pants, blessed, calendar, moments, nature, phases, phases of the moon, weather, widow
one of my Advent calendar items was a phases of the moon one page calendar…
it is very cool and it has taken a while to decide where to put it…
it finally went on the bathroom door…
it is the one place that I pass all the time…
13 Tuesday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, corner closet, laundry, messy, moments, organizing, reused, tidy, widow
another organizing day… someone suggested I was having a new year cleaning, lol, as opposed to spring cleaning…
this time it was in the bottom of the corner closet where the tea towels, dishcloths, and “paper” towels (which are now small pieces of fabric that are reused) are located…
the space had got a bit disorganized, lol… too messy to share a photo, lol…
everything went into the washing machine, dryer, and then was all folded…
I found two boxes to add a shelf area…
looks lovely and tidy… wonder how long it will stay that way🤔…
12 Monday Jan 2026
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alphabetizing, big girl pants, family, label maker, moments, revolving tray, shopping, spices, Technology, widow
we were looking for brown sugar and somehow decided to tidy the cupboards, duh…
everything came down, quite a few rather old items were discarded, and the remaining containers went back in…
then we headed to the grocery store and while we were there, found a couple of revolving trays and new spice jars…
once we were done putting groceries away, we added the trays, which of course meant taking all of the containers out again…
it is going to be so much easier to find the item I am looking for now…
then, we got out the label maker, which I am still learning how to use, and made labels as we filled the jars that would fit in the two spice racks…
now we are working on alphabetizing them;-)…
such fun, but we were both exhausted…
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