04 Sunday Feb 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, moments, nature, orchid, phalaenopsis, plants, purple, widow
I’ve been waiting patiently for this phalaenopsis orchid to open…
here it was on Friday…
Saturday…
and today…
it is beautiful and different from the other one that has been open for awhile…
in my mind I was thinking they might turn out to be the same, lol… but not;-)…
whenever I look at my orchids I always think of my beloved, who brought them to me all the time…
02 Friday Feb 2024
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, donation, family, friends, health, Heart and Stroke Foundation, hearts, house, love, memories, moments, remembering, touched, widow
first thing I did on Thursday was put the heart wreath on the front door…
a little later, I brought down the rest of the love items and set them around the house…
that was fun;-)…
February is Heart and Stroke month and a time when I make a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in memory of my beloved and those who have been touched by heart disease…
lots to think about…
28 Thursday Dec 2023
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bandages, beloved, big girl pants, bled, blessed, cut, family, injury, memories, moments, remembering, screwdriver, widow
one of my gifts was a cool screwdriver…
as I was trying to remove it from the packaging before bed, I cut my finger… it bled quite a bit so I put a bandage on it…
it reminded me of my beloved;-)…
he had bandages everywhere in the house, garage, the car, his pockets…
and that was because he was always injuring himself as he worked away at whatever project was happening…
memories;-)…
04 Monday Dec 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, birthday, blessed, burgers, celebration, computer, family, home, love, memories, moments, Technology, tradition, viper, widow
tonight we had supper with my son-in-law in Ottawa… earlier today my daughter, on vacation in Europe, texted me that she’d had a burger for her lunch, in memory of her dad;-)…
we tried a new app called Viper, and it worked great… think I will use it again…
burgers were had by all… ours came from one of my beloved’s favourite burger places… and we even shared a chocolate milkshake here… it was delicious…
birthdays often seem hard, but coming together to share a meal is a lovely tradition to remember him…
and it is always such a delight when the technology works, lol…
02 Saturday Dec 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blog, congratulations, day-to-day, moments, Technology, widow, WordPress
yesterday, WordPress sent me congratulations on my blog, which turned eleven…
since then I have posted 4031 blogs, which is slightly over one per day…
the blog began 271 days after I lost my beloved, and many of the first ones covered the complications of moving forward as a widow… a lonely business…
sometimes I have deep thoughts, although most of the time they are just about what is happening around me and in my day-to-day life…
it is still fun to think of something to write about…
eleven years…
04 Saturday Nov 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, clean-up, continues, family, garage, grandson, moments, never ending, ongoing, rafters, reorganize, stuff, tidy, treasures, weather, widow
we were back in the garage last weekend and spent an hour reorganizing…
we planned to spend another few hours to make enough space to get the car inside, particularly as we have tons of snow already…
we did spend another focussed time in the space… this time all of the stuff that was in the rafters came down to be sorted…
there is a ton of wood and other items on the floor now, in various piles… for garbage, giveaway, and a small pile to keep… but the space above is cleared out and ready for whatever needs to go back up there…
no room for the car just yet…
03 Friday Nov 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, memories, moments, moose, neighbour, pattern, remembering, sanding, scroll saw, tidying, widow, wood
when we were cleaning out the basement back room in the spring, I came across some wood that my beloved had drawn moose on, but hadn’t cut out…
I took them over to my neighbour who has been working with a scroll saw for the last few years…
he brought them back a few days ago…
he did a great job but left the final sanding because he thought my grandsons might like to finish grandpa’s project;-)…
27 Friday Oct 2023
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adrenaline, appointment, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dentist, family, garden, grandson, hidden, moments, nature, photos, pretty, ride, shovelling, snow, spare, taxi, trees, walk, weather, widow
this morning I got up early as I had a dentist appointment and my grandson was going to drive me down before he went to class…
it was dark and there was a lot of snow out there…
I put on a vest, dug out a hat and gloves, and made sure I had cash for the taxi…
it lightened up before we left and I went out to start cleaning off the car… there was easily six or seven inches of snow on it…
made it to my appointment, and when it was done walked to the Delta Hotel to get a taxi…
got a few nice photos of snow-covered trees on the short walk…
as I was riding along in the taxi, I realized that I didn’t have a house key😳…
thankfully, after my beloved died and I was on my own in the house, I put a spare key in the backyard for just such an occasion…
and, I was able to get through the snow and collect it, lol…
I unlocked the door and put the key back before shovelling the front sidewalk and steps and the back deck and hot tub area…
got that adrenaline going, in the taxi, and in the yard;-)…
25 Wednesday Oct 2023
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14 years, bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, broken, family, fit, grandson, handwritten, Home Depot, medicine cabinet, moments, new, plastic, Rona, search, stock, widow
been having trouble keeping one of the medicine cabinet doors closed for the last few weeks…
I thought it was because the magnet on the mirror was separating from the plastic behind it…
the other morning I looked at it and thought it was no longer level…
at which point I discovered that the plastic where the door attached to the cabinet had broken… it took two of us to remove the broken cabinet…
what a treat to discover my beloved’s handwritten measurements inside the hole🤗…
after measuring the space, it was off to Home Depot to see if we could find something that would fit into the hole in the wall… and of course I needed two, sigh…
we found a cabinet that should work, but the store we were at didn’t have any in stock, so it meant another trip… after trying two other stores it was off to Rona, where we found two of the same cabinet at an even better price;-)…
it has been fourteen years since my beloved installed these cabinets when we redid the bathroom, so I guess it did pretty well, being opened more than ten thousand times, lol… that wasn’t a bad run…
and, just like that we have two new cabinets, although the space inside them is smaller, but they will work fine;-)…
21 Saturday Oct 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, car, car racing, devoted, family, formula 1, grandson, happy, hooked, learning, moments, naps, sports, Technology, widow
my grandson has got me devoted to Formula 1 car racing…
a few years back, he used my car to drive to a race in Montreal…
often the races are rather early in the day, so sometimes I end up needing a nap on race day…
today I watched a few hours of cars shooting around a racetrack in Austin, Texas…
I am learning more of the nuances during each race and have been having a good time getting questions answered by my own expert, lol…
I think that my beloved would have enjoyed it as well;-)…
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