29 Wednesday Nov 2023
Posted in business, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
amaryllis, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, gifts, growing, moments, Shelmerdine, shopping, wax, widow
had a fun trip to Shelmerdine today…
wasn’t going to get anything, but three Christmas gifts jumped right into the cart…
and I found one of the amaryllis plants coated in wax, that grow without water… hummed and hawed, but in the end had to get one…
it is now sitting on the living room table and I can’t wait to see it grow and produce some flowers;-)
28 Tuesday Nov 2023
Posted in health, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
air, big girl pants, blessed, friends, health, help, hermit, holidays, illness, memories, moments, prayers, thoughts, weather, widow, worry
as the holiday season approaches, I’ve been thinking about friends who are going through difficult times…
seems the air is filled with illness… many are dealing with infections and some, even more serious stuff…
feeling like I should be doing more to support them, but not sure how to do that other than sending thoughts and prayers their way…
it also feels like it is becoming less safe away from the house, and I am moving back into hermit-ville…
27 Monday Nov 2023
Posted in business, family, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, decorations, disco, enjoy, memories, moments, purple, reduce, reindeer, silver, slowly, snow people, snowflakes, time, tree, widow
the Christmas boxes came out from under the staircase last Sunday… the goal is to reduce the size of the collection as each box is gone through…
Monday, the snow people were moved into the den… they look very cute in there… none were disposed of…
Tuesday, a great number of glass balls were hung in the dining room window… this involved separating ones which had been hung together previously and then hanging them individually… took some time, but came out nicely I think…
Wednesday, more ornaments were put up with the pottery and some of the most beautiful ones were hung on the dining room chandelier…
Thursday was about reindeer and sleighs… and even some snowflakes…
Friday involved the tree… it is filled with purple, silver and glittery ornaments… quite different from my usual choices…
there are lots of little disco balls on it and the ceiling and walls were quite sparkly as the sun shines through the window;-)…
I have been enjoying the process of focussing on one item each day and taking my time completing the decorating…
I did decide to give away some blue and red ornaments and a few wreaths, lol…
way to go me;-)…
26 Sunday Nov 2023
Posted in life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
bathroom, big girl pants, blessed, hammering, injury, level, moments, Technology, toilet roll holder, tools, widow
tried again to level the toilet paper holder…
took a bit of time and a number of tools…
took it off the wall, unscrewed the fasteners, drilled the holes slightly bigger and then hammered in a little plastic piece before reinserting the screws;-)…
was slightly injured in the process…
maybe it will stay level…
25 Saturday Nov 2023
Posted in life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, carefully, decorations, drawer, fabric, favourite, happy, holidays, living room, memories, moments, ornaments, purple, sleighs, table, widow
redid the living room table on Thursday…
usually for the holiday season I’ve filled it with glittery purple, silver, and clear ornaments…
this time I decided to change up the display…
first I found a nice piece of fabric and then a a collection of some of my favourite ornaments which would usually be hung on the tree but instead went into the drawers…
I took the glass off the top of the table and filled it with the ornaments before carefully putting it back on…
then three sleighs were set on top… looks good…
24 Friday Nov 2023
Posted in business, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, centre, droppings, holidays, kitchen, memories, moments, reindeer, snowflakes, widow
decided that snowflakes and reindeer were not taking centre stage this holiday season… most were put away…
a few snowflake cards made it onto the bathroom door…
the Advent reindeer made it into the kitchen with a couple of others, mostly clear… and there appear to be chocolate droppings in the calendar…
bit by bit, the transformation is happening;-)…
23 Thursday Nov 2023
Posted in business, family, health, life, moments, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
5°, big girl pants, blessed, garden, heater, moments, nature, plunge, Technology, tub, water, weather, widow
last week a big black tub landed on the deck…
a few days later, in the evening, it got filled up with water…
then a cover went over it… and a heater to keep the temperature at 5° Celsius was added…
now, after a shower, someone uncovers the tub and sits in it for 3 minutes, which seems like a long time, lol…
this is what I spotted this morning;-)…
I am going to give it a try on a Sunday morning… wish me luck…
22 Wednesday Nov 2023
Posted in business, health, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, buds, dining room, flowers, happy, moments, nature, newest, orchid, plants, time, widow
so happy to see new tiny buds on all of the orchids on the dining room table…
it was an exciting surprise to see the newest buds on the one plant that hadn’t had a new stalk…
looking forward to some blooms around Christmas…
21 Tuesday Nov 2023
Posted in family, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, F1, family, Formula One, fun, Las Vegas, moments, night, race, snack, surprise, weather, widow
I had a nap in the afternoon and went to bed a little early Saturday night so I could get up to watch the F1 race from Las Vegas… usually the races are much earlier in the day, but this was a night race…
set my alarm for midnight and got up without a problem…
found a snack and drink and curled up in bed to watch the race…
stayed awake the entire time and enjoyed the action…
then I may have slept in a bit, lol…
20 Monday Nov 2023
Posted in business, garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, technology, Uncategorized, weather
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, cleaned, dahlias, dirt, experiment, garden, jobs done, moments, nature, paper bags, separated, shrivelled, Technology, tubers, widow
all of the garden work has now been completed for the winter… yay…
about a week ago I finished cleaning and putting away the last pond pump…
Saturday I finally got around to the dahlias… after watching a few videos, I used a knife to clean out the bits of dirt that were still on the tubers and then cut them to separate those with eyes, which should produce next year…
after doing a bit of research, I left a few (after cleaning them), to see if I will be able to separate them more easily in the spring when they start to sprout…
packaged them in paper bags, put them back in the pot, which went into a box in the coolest area of the basement… and wrote on the box to remember that is where they are, lol…
we will see what shape they are come spring… sometimes when the bags are open, there is nothing but shrivelled up bits of nothing;-(…
always an experiment…
herbiggirlpants 