22 Friday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, food, fritters, garden, health, lunch, moments, sunshine, waffle maker, widow, zucchini
made zucchini fritters with two lovely zucchinis I got from Jonathan’s Farm…
grated them and wrapped them in a towel to wring out extra moisture…
after they were mixed with egg, cheese, and breadcrumbs, added them to the waffle maker…
came out nicely, although they could have used a bit of flour, which I decided to leave out…
I will make these again;-)…
21 Thursday Sep 2023
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Armstrong & Small, big girl pants, blessed, colleague, eye doctor, eye glasses, glasses, memories, moments, simpler, Technology, time, vision, widow
went for my annual eye exam, and while I was waiting, saw a former work colleague…
had a lovely catch-up…
I went through the gamut of tests and then got to spend time with my doctor… I’ve been going to him for ten years and they’ve been gathering data on my eyes over all that time… I don’t mind waiting, because when he is with me, there is no rushing through the explanations and all questions are answered…
eyes are in good shape and I learned a new way to clean my glasses while I was there…
will give it a try and see if it makes cleaning them simpler;-)…
20 Wednesday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, compost, garden, moments, nature, neighbour, shovel, veggie garden, wheelbarrow, widow
spent some time in the veggie garden shovelling the compost that I received from my neighbour into the planters…
happy to empty the wheelbarrow and get it back next to the garage…
19 Tuesday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, exercise, little library, moments, nature, neighbourhood, routine, walk, weather, widow
went for another walk around the neighbourhood… it was a bit cool and windy, but the sun was shining so it was enjoyable… hoping to get back into a regular routine, lol…
took another book to drop off at the Little Library and while I was there I picked up two to bring home to read…
good exercise carrying them as I walked;-)…
18 Monday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, feeder, flowers, friends, garden, hummingbird, hummy, moments, nature, purple, salt, sugar, syrup, widow
I’ve spotted the hummingbird a number of times in the garden over the last few weeks… I have basically given up trying to get a photo, lol…
last Sunday I was in the living room on the phone with my daughter and looked out the window to see the hummy shoot by…
that made me go out to the garage to find the hummingbird feeder, bring it into the house, make syrup and fill the feeder… took it out and hung it in the garden near the purple flowers it seemed to like…
I sat out for awhile to watch for it, but nothing…
the next day, my buddies were here and when one tasted her coffee she spit it out… apparently I had put salt in the sugar bowl… which had also been what I used to make the syrup for the feeder… no wonder nobody showed up to drink from it…
brought the feeder back in, made real syrup, and put it outside…
maybe the hummingbird will come back, but it looks like it may have headed south;-(…
17 Sunday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, buds, cover, flowers, frost, garden, ghost, mandevilla, moments, nature, plants, protect, weather, widow
Monday and Tuesday night I went out and covered the mandevilla as there was a chance of frost…
it looks like the rest of the week will be warmer so rather than start the process of bringing the plant in, it seemed better to protect it and keep it outside for the next week…
it has been filled with blooms and looks wonderful… unfortunately, once it comes into the house the unopened buds will likely fall off…
but, it looked a lot like a ghost in the garden…
16 Saturday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, growing, moments, nature, neighbour, plants, sunflower, surprise, visible, widow
a neighbour is growing sunflowers…
for the longest time we couldn’t figure out what the plants were, lol…
they are as tall as their house and just recently the sunflower head became visible… obviously, these plants have enjoyed the weather…
15 Friday Sep 2023
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50, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, changes, family, flowers, garden, happy, house, memories, moments, moved, plants, pond, purple, remembering, widow
we moved into this house in September of 1973… 50 years ago:-)…
this is rather astonishing to me, lol…
early on, there was a lot of red everywhere, inside and out… then we went to some light pink, gray, and finally to touches of purple…
the garden started out as a grassed square, then a space for a kid swing set, a small pool, a giant sandbox, a two story playhouse, and then plants and ponds…
so many changes, so many memories;-)…
what a life…
14 Thursday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, books, flowers, happy, little library, moments, nature, picnic, pictures, purple, walk, weather, widow
finally went for a walk a week ago…
took a few books and dropped them off at a Little Library…
on my walk I got a few nice photos…
this flower bed had purple in it and on the planter and behind is a purple picnic table;-)…
didn’t go all the way to the Park, but want to get back into the habit, so decided to start small…
felt good;-)…
13 Wednesday Sep 2023
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bacon, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, delicious, family, food, garden, lunch, Miracle Whip, moments, mouthwatering, sandwich, tomato, widow
on Monday, I made a toasted tomato and bacon sandwich, with a tomato from a friend…
it was delicious and reminded me of my beloved…
he made the most delicious tomato sandwiches…
I couldn’t figure out why they were so delicious… at some point I realized that he used a ton of Miracle Whip…
but, my oh my, they were mouthwatering…
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