09 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cheery, family, garden, happy, houseplants, light, moments, nature, plants, sunshine, weather, widow
the plants in the basement were not doing well, so they were moved upstairs…
they, along with some others that had been on the dining room table, moved into the den…
it looks like a garden in there now;-)… a lovely cheery location to start the day…
08 Wednesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, bird feeders, birds, blessed, grandson, health, ice, metal shovel, moments, nature, reach, seed, shovelling, snow, sore, weather, widow
it was overcast, but not too cold on Saturday, so I went out and was able to fill all the bird feeders…
even the one that I won’t be able to get to before too long, as the snow will make it difficult or impossible to reach, lol…
then I spent half an hour shovelling the driveway…
my grandson had done it awhile ago, but there were icy tire tracks on the slope so I broke them up and tossed the bits to the sides…
the next day my hamstrings and butt were a bit sore from all the bending as the metal shovel I was using was short, lol…
I will be happy when the tires get changed in a few weeks, but now the slope won’t be difficult to get up;-)…
07 Tuesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, poppies, poppy, poppy stories, remembering, Remembrance Day, story, Technology, veterans, widow
we got our poppies a week ago and I put the buttons on them so they won’t get lost… I’ve been wearing mine daily, even though I don’t go out much, lol…
I’d seen something on social media about scanning your poppy to read a story about a veteran;-)…
Sunday morning I came across a link that took me to a story about a fallen soldier once I scanned my poppy…
I tried it on another poppy and got another story…
here is the link so that you can scan yours;-)…
what a wonderful use of technology;-)…
06 Monday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, garage, goldfish, moments, rocks, smallest, tank, weather, widow
when we were working in the garage recently, I found a collection of rocks and put some in a container to bring in the house for the smallest fish tank….
the fish didn’t want to move as I was putting the rocks into the tank, which was missing coverage on the bottom…
once done, the tank looked better and the fish seemed to approve;-)…
last year this tank held pond plants, but as the fish have grown, it seems like a good idea to provide a bit more room…
05 Sunday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, frozen, ghost, moments, nature, November, poppy, poppy feeder, remember, snow, steps, weather, widow
on November 1st I took down the ghost from the front step… it was difficult, because the sheet had frozen into the step, lol…
then I took the poppy bird feeder that I received as a Christmas gift and tied it to the rail… this was a process, because it was cold and my fingers kept trying to stick to the metal, lol…
looks pretty good, right;-)…
04 Saturday Nov 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, clean-up, continues, family, garage, grandson, moments, never ending, ongoing, rafters, reorganize, stuff, tidy, treasures, weather, widow
we were back in the garage last weekend and spent an hour reorganizing…
we planned to spend another few hours to make enough space to get the car inside, particularly as we have tons of snow already…
we did spend another focussed time in the space… this time all of the stuff that was in the rafters came down to be sorted…
there is a ton of wood and other items on the floor now, in various piles… for garbage, giveaway, and a small pile to keep… but the space above is cleared out and ready for whatever needs to go back up there…
no room for the car just yet…
03 Friday Nov 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, memories, moments, moose, neighbour, pattern, remembering, sanding, scroll saw, tidying, widow, wood
when we were cleaning out the basement back room in the spring, I came across some wood that my beloved had drawn moose on, but hadn’t cut out…
I took them over to my neighbour who has been working with a scroll saw for the last few years…
he brought them back a few days ago…
he did a great job but left the final sanding because he thought my grandsons might like to finish grandpa’s project;-)…
02 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, car, family, garage, grandson, hung, mess, moments, organized, sorting, tools, weather, widow
nearly a year ago, my eldest grandson and I began working away in the garage… he has a very organized mind…
a few weeks later, we cleaned out a spot and moved the shelves further along the wall…
the next time we worked in it, after purchasing additional hardware, we attached hooks and hung up a number of garden and winter tools… like items were gathered together and placed on the shelves… we came in when we started to get cold…
we spent another few hours another day working away in the space… more tools were hung on the other side of the space, the garbage bin was filled with broken, unusable items, two boxes were filled with giveaway items and the bench had much more space…
great strides were made each time we were in there and we were able to get the car in when it was home over the winter…
then we didn’t do anything more, because it got warm and the car didn’t need to live inside…
so, maybe it got filled up with other stuff, lol…
over the summer, it was great to be able to find tools without effort…
01 Wednesday Nov 2023
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yesterday, I set up pumpkins with lights in them, and put a witch’s hat on the larger one…
I filled a bowl with chocolate bars and set it by the door…
we had twenty kids, about average for our neighbourhood… this was a good number considering how cold it was… I was surprised at how quiet they were – many of them just rang the doorbell, lol…
two of them were from Sturgeon Heights collecting non-perishable items for Christmas hampers… last week there was a flyer in the mailbox advising they would be coming so I had gathered a few items to donate… made sure they got candy too;-)…
the house looked good with the ghost on the steps and pumpkins in the window;-)…
31 Tuesday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cold, decorating, decorations skeletons, displays, fun, ghosts, halloween, moments, October, photos, pumpkins, scary, snow, treats, walk, weather, widow
I’ve been collecting photos of Halloween displays since the very beginning of October when they started popping up on my walks in the neighbourhood;-)…
here are some that I enjoyed🎃…
decorating for Halloween has certainly become a popular pastime…
the very tall skeletons were cool, but I kind of like the happy displays, more than the scary ones, lol…
the majority of these were taken before the snow landed (and hasn’t left) which has since curtailed my walks;-)…
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