10 Thursday Jan 2019
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been enjoying some beautiful flowers lately…
the cutest little orchid…
and I’ve been watching and waiting for my amaryllis to grow and bloom… I bought two at the same time and the one my daughter had bloomed beautifully at Christmas time…
mine did nothing for over a month… now it has started to grow in a manner that looks more like a hyacinth… will be interesting to see what happens…
a rose from the beginning of the week…
07 Monday Jan 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, clearing, driveway, group, neighbourly, neighbours, snow, snowblower, widow
my oh my… it snowed quite a bit last night… and then the wind took over… blew the side door of the garage open and quite a bit of snow went inside…
looked pretty as I was leaving the house this morning, although the driving wasn’t great…
at the end of the day we left the office in groups to be sure that no one got stuck in the parking lot…
when I arrived home I turned into the driveway and couldn’t get up the slope as my snow clearing person hadn’t made it over yet…
vehicles were parked on the street so I was worried I might back into one of them if I tried to make a run for it… I went and knocked on a neighbour’s door… the vehicle wasn’t his but he thought it was from the house right across the street from me… that neighbour was shovelling so I went and asked about the vehicle… it was his, but he said I had lots of room…
he came over and tried to drive Indi up the driveway… as he was trying, the first neighbour came out to help… with a number of tries, and two of us pushing, Indi made it to the flat section of the driveway… thank goodness for winter tires…
I was able to get her into the garage from there…
I opened the side door to see that my back lane neighbour had snow-blowed the sidewalk from the lane to the deck;-)…
I took a picture of the spot where Indi got stuck, but it doesn’t look like a problem…
here’s the driver as he finished shovelling his sidewalk…
pretty neighbourly, I’d say;-)…
03 Thursday Jan 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, delicious, flowers, garage, groove, moments, smell, treadmill, walking, widow
been back in the groove of walking on the treadmill every morning… kind of fell off the wagon over the holidays, lol… happy to get back on track…
before I left the house I sat and enjoyed the flowers that I picked up on Monday… a lovely treat to have the moment to focus on the beauty…
when I got into the garage it still smelled delicious… just like barbecued steak… yum… pretty nice after three days… didn’t smell when I got home… will check it out tomorrow, lol…
29 Thursday Nov 2018
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snow fell all day long yesterday and it has finally accumulated a bit… we’ve seen very little snow up till now… this was how Indi looked when I got out to the parking lot…
it wasn’t too cold and the snow was still falling gently… I actually enjoyed brushing the car off… which was funny because a man walking by asked if I was having fun… and I said yes, I was… not sure I will feel the same in a month…
last night as I was walking by the hallway window I took this picture of the beautiful scene in the garden… tonight I got a few shots of the freshly shoveled yard…
snow is so wonderful to look at when you don’t have to go out, or shovel it, lol…
02 Tuesday Oct 2018
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, cards, flowers, Kings Florist, moments, nine, widow, work
Sunday marked nine years that I have been at my current work…
it is a great place to work and I have enjoyed being there since day one…
over the last few weeks I prepared thank you cards and ordered flowers…
they arrived on Monday morning… beautiful…
it is always a treat to see how much everyone enjoys receiving a note and choosing a flower…
ordered enough so we could put a few at the front desk;-)…
Kings Florist do a great job and even sent a few extras… I sure am blessed…
02 Sunday Sep 2018
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, camping, family, friends, internet service, LTE, memories, moments, nature, Opapiskaw, path, pink rocks, Sunday, widow
another beautiful day in paradise…
early this morning I walked down to the beach and got a few great pictures…
in an effort to find a good internet connection I walked down a very narrow trail to get to a spot where there was LTE service…
the trail brought back so many memories… all the years we camped at Falcon and Birds Hill and went on many hikes along trails that were just like this one…
at the end of the trail were some pretty rocks which I clearly am not going to be able to take home, sigh…
there are many poplars here and the sound of the wind blowing through them is also a reminder of camping in Birds Hill with friends…
missing my beloved… he would have loved this…
07 Thursday Jun 2018
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been thinking about poppies…
over the last forty years we’ve always had poppies in the garden… some years there would be fifteen or twenty … other years, maybe three…
the spring following George’s death there were over fifty…
it was amazing and so beautiful… seemed like he was here with me…
this year there are plants, but not a single bloom…
05 Tuesday Jun 2018
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beautiful, big girl pants, bouquets, flowers, fuchsia, garden, happy, moments, pictures, stopped, widow
was able to take pictures of flowers today which always brightens my day…
when I first stepped out of the house this morning the fuchsia was so stunning that it stopped me in my tracks… had to take a some photos…
there are a number of small bouquets in the office and I was able to wander around and get a few shots…
and then I spotted the blooms getting ready to open on one of the African violets in my office…
flowers make me happy and I was pleased to be able to spend a few moments enjoying the ones I came across…
17 Thursday May 2018
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the sky was absolutely amazing this morning…
I took these pictures between 6:07 and 7:15 am…
the sunrise was spectacular… on the drive downtown the sunlight was streaming through the clouds… not a single red light all the way to the office… and by the time I got there the clouds had filled the sky…
just before I left the office for the weekend, I got a photo of my amethysts… today we heard a designer talk about the importance of feeling good in your workspace and as I get used to my office I do enjoy all of the bits and pieces that make it mine and make me feel happy…
once I arrived home I took a picture of a piece of the Rice Krispie cake that my sweet colleague brought me this afternoon…
was so busy getting ready to leave the house early this morning that I forgot to take something out for dinner, but made a veggie omelette… it was tasty…
and now for a four day weekend;-)…
06 Tuesday Mar 2018
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there had been lots in the news for a few days that we were going to get a big snowstorm but we’ve dodged every one that had been mentioned all winter…
until Sunday night, lol… it started with rain and by morning everything was covered in snow… 
and it kept falling all day… stopped late in the afternoon…
we are used to snow and storms here… most people went about their daily business… it was just a storm, lol…
when I got home I could not see where the sidewalk was… the snow had covered everything completely… even the trees were weighed down with the beautiful, but very heavy, snow…
I was very lucky because my kids came over and shoveled and snowblowed, clearing the sidewalks and driveway…
today it was as if nothing had happened… another example of how things can change in a very short time…
