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27 Friday Mar 2020

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at least two weeks ago I started to clean out the kitchen junk drawer…

started, as in I took a bunch of stuff out of it and left all of it on the kitchen counter…

finally, today I finished the job… yay…

some things went into my toolbox in the basement… some went into a box to go upstairs to the computer room… and some went back – neatly – into the drawer…

I even tidied up the next drawer, which mainly has my collection of technology in it…

the counter looks much better as well;-)…

happy to have that done, although apparently I wrote about it before, lol… not sure what happened;-)…

noticed…

12 Thursday Mar 2020

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had a bit of a giggle on Monday night…

while I was having a visit with my BS buddies, one of them noticed that I had a dryer sheet attached to the back of my shirt… when she took it off, there was a second one as well…

what made it particularly funny was that I had removed two sheets from the sleeves of the shirt in the morning when I got dressed… apparently that particular shirt likes to collect stuff…

I rip the sheets in half and reuse them a number of times which means that there could be a number of them in a load of laundry…

I also went out for lunch… there were no diners behind me and luckily my friend didn’t notice, I hope, lol…

the next day I put on a pair of Spring-looking leggings which I thought I’d worn before… at the end of the day I discovered they had the plastic size information still on the leg…

lucky for me, I spent the day at home;-)…

my beloved would have noticed these things…

cap…

09 Monday Mar 2020

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had quite the giggle this morning…

last night I had rolled up the toothpaste container and then put a bulldog clip on it to keep the toothpaste closer to the top…

this morning when I unscrewed the cap, the toothpaste shot out… clearly there was a bit too much pressure, lol…

reminded me of how I always blamed my beloved for the messy toothpaste tube… amazingly, even after he was gone the tube sometimes gets messy;-)…

strange…

eight…

05 Thursday Mar 2020

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today commemorates eight years since my beloved left me… he walked with me longer than I walked alone before and since his death…

I miss him… every day and in every way… I have grown so much since that day… and continue to as I move forward…

I’ve been thinking of many of the fun things that we did during our forty-plus years together… from camping in tents and pop-up trailers, to zip lining and riding up a mountain in a chairlift (for 2 people afraid of heights)… from Grand Beach to Goose Spit… from gardening to bathroom renovations… from family meals on the deck to dimsum in restaurants…

this morning I received a parcel from the kids in Ottawa… 3 cute plants in a wooden box… a great addition to the forest, lol…

the outdoors looked stunning after a night of snow, but the delivery person had to make a path to get to the door…

also received some earbuds in the mail that I had ordered from our AirMiles account, so it was like a gift from my beloved… took me a while to figure out how to connect them…

made steak, potatoes and mushrooms for my dinner… he would have grilled it, but I cooked it in the oven, lol…

poppyseed…

04 Wednesday Mar 2020

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was recently enjoying a Sweet Kale salad… I’d picked up a large bag at Costco and had been eating it over a week or so…

it comes with a poppyseed dressing and reminded me of the first time I had poppyseeds…

my beloved and I had announced our engagement and his best friend’s parents invited us over for a special dinner…

the first course was a poppyseed soup… it was the only item I remember from the entire meal… can’t even remember if it was cold or hot, lol…

my taste buds did not enjoy it at all and I can remember struggling to get it down, because in those days, when someone made you something special you ate it, lol…

I don’t think I’ve eaten anything else with poppyseeds in it until this particular salad, which I’ve been eating for a few years and quite enjoy…

grow…

23 Sunday Feb 2020

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had a wonderful lunch out the other day…

arrived at the restaurant early and was very relaxed as I had a glass of water and looked around as I waited for my friend…

usually when I am waiting for someone at a restaurant I focus on my phone, lol… today I didn’t feel the need to do that…

what a difference eight years makes… before my beloved died, I had never been in a restaurant on my own…

I continue to grow as time goes by…

valued…

22 Saturday Feb 2020

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I was recently reminded how important it is to hear that you are valued…

if others only point out negative things, even if they aren’t true, it is easy to fall into the trap of believing them and forgetting your best qualities…

don’t let the negativity make you forget your own value;-)…

remember your worth, because you have many excellent talents…

grateful…

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

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this morning my Seize the Day calendar reminded me to start each day with a grateful heart... it was a good reminder…

I am grateful for the birdseed in the feeders in the front and back yards… thanks to my middle grandson who filled them all on Saturday…

so far only the squirrel has found the one in the front, I had a quiet time watching for the birds through the window as I sat in the sunshine…

both birds and squirrels have found the one in the garden…

I am grateful for an early morning rainbow on the kitchen floor, new leaves on the Japanese Maple, and sunlight shining on orchids…

I am grateful for time to read, food to eat, a comfortable home to live in, and wonderful memories…

sometimes a reminder is just what’s needed…

hearts…

18 Tuesday Feb 2020

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I was looking through some albums recently and came across this photo from Christmas…

it was an ornament on one of my daughter’s presents… a family tradition has been to give an ornament to each person on one of their gifts…

made me think of all the love signs around the house which I have put out for the month…

there are hearts all over the place… in the kitchen, bathroom, dining, living room, bedroom… and on the stairway…

these two hearts are within eyesight in the bedroom… I bought the purple one, and the wooden one was made by my beloved… he was a very talented craftsperson…

I put up some pictures of the various hearts when I wrote this post… I enjoy seeing them and will leave them up for the month…

February is also Heart and Stroke month… a reminder of my beloved, who died just two years after a quadruple bypass…

blown…

14 Friday Feb 2020

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went out in the very cold weather this morning and was nearly blown into a fence… put on my warmest jacket but didn’t realize that the hood wasn’t attached… yikes…

spent the remainder of the day remembering my beloved and how we enjoyed this particular holiday… found this photo from our last Valentine’s Day…

besides the rose, he gave me a beautiful purple jacket which I put on this morning;-)…