16 Saturday Nov 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bunny, family, George, heart surgery, memories, moments, recovered, remembering, widow
just yesterday I was looking at this bunny which we gave to my beloved when he had his heart surgery…
today in my memories this photo of my beloved in the hospital as he recovered came up…
I sure do miss him, sigh…
07 Thursday Nov 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cold, complaining, garden, hot tub, moments, nature, Toque, water shoes, weather, widow
well, last night, when I went out for a hot tub, I put on my water shoes and toque…
the toque always reminds me of my beloved;-)…
when I’d gone out the night before and climbed up the steps in my bare feet, they were cold;-(…
and so it begins…
I was feeling bad about needing them already, but when I looked at previous times I’d started wearing them it had been towards the end of October, so I guess I shouldn’t be complaining…
26 Saturday Oct 2024
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today I worked on one of my least favourite jobs…
I cleaned a pond pump…
it is grungy and messy work, but I am always happy when all the bits and pieces are clean and ready to be put away for the winter…
one down and one to go, lol…
am missing my beloved, who would have got the job done in a flash;-)…
those big girl pants, sigh…
01 Tuesday Oct 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, changes, family, fireplace, friends, grandson, maneuver, memories, moments, remembering, widow
the fireplace is gone…
in 2019 the chimney came down…
currently my grandson is redoing his space and part of the plan was to remove the fireplace to make a bit more room, as it was a corner unit…
it was quite the job, as they had to saw through the pipe where it went through the wall…
then they recruited some additional muscle and rigged up ropes to help with the weight of the unit… quite a process…
it was touch and go as they maneuvered the stairs and just made it through the doorway…
from the door to the garage was a piece of cake, lol…
now it is waiting for a new home… hopefully someone out there will be able to make use of it;-)…
I don’t remember it being so difficult to bring into the house, but that was years ago when my beloved brought it in😊…
16 Monday Sep 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, empty, family, garbage bags, garden, grandson, jammed, moments, nature, pack rat, shed, stuff, weather, widow
it was hot but we had a crazy busy and productive day yesterday… the shed, which I haven’t been to the back of for over fifteen years, got emptied…
it had been jammed with all kinds of goodies over the years… let’s be honest, my beloved was a pack rat… and, I may have added a few items…
part way through the process it looked a bit better…
once all the “stuff” was removed, they had to shovel out twelve garbage bags filled with seeds, nuts, bits of cardboard, chewed up wood, and insulation…
when all was said and done, the space looks huge…
on to next part…
04 Wednesday Sep 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, floating, hot air balloon, memory, moments, remembering, time, weather, widow
ten years ago I was floating over Gatineau in a hot air balloon… along with dozens of other balloons;-)…
I’d been waiting over twenty years for this experience… for my fortieth my beloved bought us tickets to fly at home, but the company ran away with the money…
it was everything I imagined and a very special moment in my life… the memory continues to be bright;-)…
02 Friday Aug 2024
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, furniture, garden, grandson, grass, irrigation, memories, moments, nature, pressure, remembering, sorry, supper, treat, weather, widow
yesterday I woke up feeling a bit sorry for myself…
it would have been our 54th wedding anniversary, but instead it is the 12th year without my beloved…
I went out early and watered the grass as we’ve been working on adding some to bald spots in the garden… my beloved loved it when the grass looked good, lol…
I also ran the irrigation system at the same time… first time I’ve done that and it worked fairly well… the pressure for the grass watering portion was not as strong as usual, but it meant that I could get all the watering done at once…
I turned the PVR on so I wouldn’t miss any Olympics, lol…
then I reorganized the lawn furniture… took a bit of effort to get the lounger where I wanted, but I think it should work for the next while… all of the cushions came out…
while there was still shade, I filled up the four bird feeders and then I sat on the back deck to read and enjoy the garden before it got too hot…
later we went out for supper as a treat from the Ottawa kids;-)…
was feeling much better by the end of the day…
31 Wednesday Jul 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, construction, garden, gate, grandsons, memories, moments, nature, pergola, photographs, remembering, time, waterbed pond, widow
a friend sent me some photographs recently and in amongst them was this picture of my beloved in front of the just finished pergola/gate…
it had the cutest fastener on the gate… I can’t remember when we put all of the pergolas in, but at that time – many moons ago – we still had the waterbed pond beside it…
then I dug out this one from July, 2009 (a bit fuzzy), when he added a shelf for stuff to sit on while we were in the new hot tub… that was fifteen years ago🤪…
and this is how it looks today;-)…
I showed the original picture to my grandsons and it took them a minute to recognize it, lol…
it does need a trim so that the Virginia creeper isn’t overpowering it and the gate could have a prettier fastener…
time flies…
18 Thursday Jul 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, health, hernia, hysterectomy, memories, moments, remembering, surgeons, surgery, widow, without
it was twelve years ago today that I had surgery for a hernia and a hysterectomy… it took a while to get organized as two different surgeons were required to work together so that both issues could be taken care of at the same time…
it was particularly difficult because it was the first time I went through a serious health issue without my beloved there to support and look after me…
thinking back to that time, I realize how far I have come and how well I am doing now…
I still miss him every single day…
15 Saturday Jun 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, buds, family, flowers, garden, happy, memories, moments, nature, orange, pictures, plants, poppies, thirty-two, weather, widow, wild
the other day I counted thirty-two poppy buds…
since then twenty-six have opened… I go out every morning to take pictures and count them, lol…
they look so beautiful weaving back and forth in the breeze…
they were one of my beloved’s favourite flowers… maybe because they signalled the beginning of summer…
they decide where they will pop up and I am always so happy when they turn up each year… this time they are in the front of the garden;-)…
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