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03 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, travel, Uncategorized

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bears, big girl pants, boating, camping, campsite, family, fishing, hot tub, Opapiskaw, sunset, widow

yesterday my son-in-law and I came home after supper as he had to work today and I was looking for a quiet day before going back to work…

Sunday started with solo time at the water’s edge…

while we were eating pancakes and bacon one of the Park rangers came by to advise everyone that a momma bear and her two cubs had been spotted nearby and to be sure to clean up their site before heading out for the day… not five minutes later the middle grandson saw them in the campsite across from ours… we jumped into the car, with our breakfast and hollered out the windows to let the other campers know… within a few minutes the bears were gone but it was pretty exciting…

then it was off for a day on the water… we’d found a measuring scale for seeing how long the fish are and took it with us…

sadly, only one of us caught anything and the fish were a bit small, lol…

when we got back to the campsite we made a lovely chicken dinner and said farewell to the three who were remaining…

good drive home, a hot tub with the my oldest grandson and son-in-law and then a sleepover at their house…

zoo…

04 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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bears, big girl pants, butterflies, dinosaurs, evening, flower, horses, member, treats, widow, zoo

right after work was picked up by the kids and headed to the Assiniboine Park Zoo for a special member only evening…


especially nice to get to spend time there in the evening, as the zoo usually closes at 5…

we finally managed to check out the dinosaurs…


all of the food was half price so it made for a very reasonable option for dinner…


and treats;-)…

we saw a couple of bears, one of the horses and finished at the Butterfly Garden…


checking out the variety of chrysalis… not too many butterflies to see today… likely because it was cooling off and the sun wasn’t out…

always manage to find a flower to get a picture of, lol


great way to end my week…

light…

30 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, nature, technology

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bears, big girl pants, horse, lights, pasta, solar, timers, tomatoes, whole wheat, wolves, zoo

was rather proud of myself tonight… instead of tossing some overripe grape tomatoes I made sauce for whole wheat pasta… not that long ago I would have thrown them out and certainly wouldn’t have eaten whole wheat pasta, lol…

  
made it up as I went along with the tomatoes, herbs, garlic, and some leftover mozzarella cheese… very tasty…

while it was cooking, I looked out into the backyard and saw the solar lights glowing under the snow… so cute… 

was a bit surprised because the sun wasn’t out very much today… took the boys to the zoo this afternoon and there wasn’t any sun shining the entire time we were there… saw lots of wolves and bears and spotted a new heavy horse…

  
even put its head over the fence so I could get a good shot…

earlier my son-in-law had fixed one of the timers for a light in the living room… somehow we had pushed a button and the light just stayed on, so I’d been turning it on and off manually…

  
happily it is now working perfectly…

the other light in the corner, along with the silver trees, comes on and turns off exactly on schedule…

  
just love it when things work as they’re supposed to…

wish I could figure out how to put the light on the fish tank on a timer, lol..

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