19 Wednesday Sep 2018
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over the last week or so, on our way home from work, my travel buddy has taken these pictures of the crane for me…
my beloved was always interested in construction in the city…
for so many years there were no cranes anywhere to be seen…
seeing this one every day makes me think of him…
16 Sunday Sep 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, family, fern, grandparents, green thumb, parents, plant, widow
today, while I was out I picked up this cute little asparagus fern…
my parents had one in their apartment… I believe it was passed down from one set of grandparents, although I don’t remember which ones… my beloved would have known that little detail;-)… both of them had green thumbs…
was very happy that it fit right into one of the pots in the cupboard…
the fern reminds me of my mom and dad… hope it likes its new spot…
02 Sunday Sep 2018
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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…
27 Monday Aug 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, hot tub, love at first sight, memories, morning glories, orchids, remembering, sight, widow
yesterday when I was shopping I picked up an orchid…
I’ve been remembering times with my beloved a lot lately…
hot tubs and morning glories and orchids…
wonderful memories…
recently I heard someone ask if people believed in love at first sight…
I do…
the first time I met him I knew he was the one for me… and I was right, he most certainly was;-)…
22 Wednesday Aug 2018
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was thinking about how our camping game has improved…
in August of 2015 we camped in two tents… one for the boys and one for the adults… we also had thick air mattresses and a tarp that covered both of the tents…
there was a humongous thunderstorm during the night and the tarp saved us from being drenched… after it started to rain again in the morning we decided to pack up and go home…
we camped the second night in the basement of the kids new house, lol…
August 2018… for the last ten days we were in this tent trailer… we bought it last year and after the first trip one of the ends broke…
the kids finished making repairs, painting and replacing the floor just before we left… so much more comfortable than the tents, lol…
it reminds me of the camping trips we made when the girls were young as it is very similar to the one we had then;-)…
my beloved would have enjoyed it…
01 Wednesday Aug 2018
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been thinking of forests a lot lately…
after being in Cathedral Grove, BC, it has felt like we don’t really have many forests around here…
but when I walk through the forest in the Park I remember how special and rejuvenating trees are… it always seems extra peaceful and other sounds are blocked out…
took this shot looking up through the tree in the Leo Mol Garden… can never remember what the name of this particular tree is, although it is one of my favourites…
this photo is from July 2011 in Cathedral Grove…
we had a memorable time while visiting Courtenay and surrounds… it was a very special time and it was our last anniversary…
24 Tuesday Jul 2018
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wondering if the reason I’ve been missing my beloved so much lately has to do with the social media reminders of how difficult Julys have been for me…
he was always there to look after me…
eight years ago today I had a procedure which gave me pancreatitis and kept me in hospital for six weeks… my beloved came everyday and often brought photos of the morning glories that were blooming that day… this was by far the most painful health experience of my life and I cannot imagine how I would have managed without him…
six years ago in July I had surgery for cancer and to repair a hernia… he wasn’t there to support me for that one…
but I also remember the wonderful trip we had in July of 2011 when we went to Courtenay to visit the kids… we saw hundreds of classic cars, walked among the huge redwoods, went up the chairlift on Mount Washington and lived to tell the tale… anyone who knows us would know how afraid of heights we both were, and I still am…
a glorious time…
so amongst the dark times there were also some great times…
really, how blessed have I been…
23 Monday Jul 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, close, flashbacks, flowers, lonely, mandevilla, missing, moments, widow
not sure why, but I’ve been missing my beloved a great deal…
having flashbacks to walking into the hospital room the night he died…
this photo of some of the mandevilla blooms reminded me of how close we were…
18 Wednesday Jul 2018
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this morning I was reminded that six years ago today I had surgery to remove my uterus and repair a large hernia… just a few months after losing my beloved…
how my life has changed since then…
I did have cancer, but removing the whole thing meant no further treatment needed to happen, other than frequent checkups for the next five years…
for ten weeks I couldn’t lift anything… friends and family came by to do everything that needed to be done…
since then I have been well, although two years later I was diagnosed with diabetes… I’ve lost weight, been more active and changed my diet… thankfully I do not need to take any meds…
tonight, as I ate rice rolls that a colleague brought me, I was reminded of how little I ate during those first weeks… I had no appetite and a friend who came to stay with me worked very hard to find foods that would temp my taste buds, lol…
one of my fondest memories was the day I was able to walk out of the house and into the garden after being stuck inside on the main floor for over a week because I couldn’t manage stairs…
the garden is such a healing place…
16 Monday Jul 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, garden, hibiscus, memories, roof, squirrel, taunt, upset, widow, yelling
just heard one of the squirrels outside yelling at something or someone…
reminded me of a couple of things…
first was the squirrel on the roof this morning as I was taking a picture of the hibiscus flowers…
it was quite upset that I was standing there and I suggested that it could stop the yelling as it was my roof and I wasn’t doing anything to cause a problem…
got the picture of the hibiscus, the cloudy sky and the pond that is losing water at an alarming rate again… could just be the amount of water falling with the wind and heat… we shall see…
was also thinking of the squirrel that used to holler at my beloved every time he would walk out of the house… or when he came out of the garage… just to taunt him, lol… eventually he caught it and we drove out to a forested area and dropped it off…
so, yelling squirrels bring back many memories, lol…
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