10 Monday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, game, moments, Technology, tricky, tv, widow
the tv in the den has been playing a game with me…
I turn it off… and then it often turns itself back on…
but it doesn’t do it every time…
and not always right away…
I might have left and suddenly notice there is a light in the space…
tricky…
09 Sunday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, family, happy, knives, moments, parents, sharp, sharpened, WearEver, widow
a while ago my grandson took a few of my knives to sharpen for me…
they were from the WearEver collection that had belonged to my parents…
recently he dropped them back off… he had sharpened them and cleaned and oiled the one with a wooden handle…
today, I finally used a couple of them…
they were so sharp and cut beautifully… reminded me how good sharp knives are, lol…
08 Saturday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, COVID, delicious, dinner, food, Modern Plate Catering, moments, pudding, widow
so happy to have my Friday night dinner delivered from ModernPlate… they produced weekly meals between November, 2020 and May, 2021…
at that time they ended the Friday night meals, so I was pleased (for me) to see that it was back, but sorry (for them) that we’ve come back to this…
I also ordered a spinach salad with feta, fennel, seeds and pecans, which I had for lunch… it was very tasty…
the dinner is for two so I get at least two meals from it… this one was pork loin with smashed potatoes and Brussel sprouts…
and then there was dessert;-)… kept half of one piece of the cranberry and orange sticky toffee pudding…and sent the rest home with my grandson… which was a good plan, because I would have eaten more if it was here, lol…
such a treat to have meals made for me… and they are always delicious…
07 Friday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cook, curry, family, gifts, instant, Instant Pot, lentils, moments, red curry lentils, Technology, treat, widow
got a text from my grandson advising he would be dropping a few things off for me today… he was supposed to let me know the day before he was coming, lol…
I had promised to make red curry lentils so I got started…
usually I put the uncooked lentils into the sauce to cook slowly as they simmer, but as I wanted to be sure they were cooked in time, I did them separately…
while the sauce and lentils were cooking, I made the rice in the Instant Pot…
felt a little more rushed than normal, but I had everything cooked and in containers in about an hour…
he picked the containers up along with some other treats when he dropped off items he had collected for me;-)…
he also brought a couple of gifts from my younger grandsons… an Indigo gift card and a monopod for my camera;-)…
lovely to get a few late gifts…
06 Thursday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, charger, electric, family, happy, moments, Technology, toothbrush, tricks, widow
so excited to get an electric toothbrush for Christmas… I’ve been wanting one for a number of years, but just hadn’t gotten around to doing anything about it…
once I figured out how to get it put together, I sat it on the edge of the sink and plugged it in…
it took quite awhile to charge, but once it was done I unplugged it and put the charger away… I didn’t want it sitting so close to the water…
eventually I figured out that it could sit in the cabinet to charge, so that is what I did when it needed to be recharged… feels safer as it charges, without being near the water;-)…
once fully charged, I will move the charger back under the sink…
05 Wednesday Jan 2022
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bathroom, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cavalry, family, happy, lightbulb, loss, moments, proud, Technology, widow
for the first time since my beloved left me, I was able to change a lightbulb in the bathroom…
doesn’t sound like much, but I have tried numerous times without success and had to call in the cavalry to fix the problem…
but, I did it;-)…
felt like one of those big girl pants moments…
04 Tuesday Jan 2022
Posted in garden, life, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized, weather
had a fun time with camera and the birdies at the front window…
there were house finches, chickadees, the nuthatch and a downy woodpecker…
even used the remote control feature on my phone with the camera, lol…
03 Monday Jan 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, goldfish, grandson, light, moments, nature, pump, sucked, tank, Technology, water, widow
very happy that the pump on the small fish tank is working once again…
had to have it replaced as it just stopped a week or so ago…
I was able to use the old (and rather large) pump while waiting for the replacement…
happily, no fish were sucked up into the much larger and stronger system…
they are happy and enjoying the better light, as the big pump blocked a lot…
and I can see them much better;-)…
02 Sunday Jan 2022
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anticipation, big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, quarter, turn, waiting, widow
received three more amaryllis bulbs and got right to getting them in the soil…
used a coffee filter in the bottom of the pot and then added the soil that came with each one…
they look cute all lined up in the sunshine;-)…
as with this one in the living room, which has a bud on it now, they will have a quarter turn each day…
01 Saturday Jan 2022
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Baileys, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, coal, cookies, dinner, family, first-foot, flowers, friends, lobster, memories, moments, movies, New Year's, purple, remembering, Rose Parade, steak, widow
had a lovely New Year’s day…
I watched the Rose Parade which was something we’ve done with my parents for years…
dear friends stopped by to first-foot me… and brought the usual coal, orange, cookies, alcohol, with a beautiful card… and a gorgeous bouquet of orchids and allium… my bouquet from last week is just on its last legs so the timing was perfect…
orchids are one of my favourites and allium was one of my beloved’s…
after that, I made a delicious steak and lobster meal for my lunch… it is usually the meal for New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day dinner…
I decided on lunch so the day would be easier… and to broil instead of barbecue as it was so cold out…
it turned out delicious and then I spent the day watching movies…
and carrying the flowers from room to room, lol…
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