01 Monday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaners, hide, moments, productive, shred, Technology, widow
I am getting more comfortable with the cleaners coming into the house…
my technique is to decide where I will hide while they are cleaning… I don’t emerge until they have left the house, lol…
today, I spent the time in the computer room and shredded a ton of documents… had to empty the shredder at least three times…
felt quite productive…
28 Sunday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, family, grandson, moments, nature, shovelling, snow, Technology, time, tools, visit, widow
my grandson came over to shovel today… and pick up a few woodworking tools for his online woods class…
just before he arrived I watched a couple of bunnies eating on the deck…
it was much easier to clean up the snow as it was fairly fresh… the last time it was a few weeks before he was able to get here, mainly due to the crazy cold we went through…
today, he was dropped off and wasn’t picked up for a few hours, so after he finished shovelling, he came inside and we had a visit… we sat as far as possible from one another in the living room and both wore masks…
I learned about his classes and what he has been up to, as well as how he is planning to make money in the future…
we talked about how he will go about taking drivers Ed in these strange times, and it is hard to believe that he will be driving this summer;-)…
it was lovely to spend time with him, even just sitting playing on our phones, lol…
he was picked up, the tools were gathered into the vehicle, and off they went…
looking forward to seeing what he makes…
27 Saturday Feb 2021
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accomplished, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, food, grandsons, light, lightstrip, moments, painting, plants, Technology, widow
busy day yesterday…
in the morning I attached the Philip’s lightstrip that I got for Christmas from my grandsons… I had played with it a bit the day before…
I am pleased with how it turned out…
moved around more plants and made a meal that needs to sit for a day…
after that I finished with making a dozen cards from the watercolour painting I’ve been doing…
felt very accomplished, lol…
26 Friday Feb 2021
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had some fun painting… well, playing with watercolour paint, lol…
got organized one day, when I taped the papers to a counter in the kitchen… thought that the height would be good for the activity…
the next day I tried different materials to paint with… used paper towel, aluminum foil, saran wrap…
it was fun to experiment and see what using each produced…
eventually, I was able to put them onto card stock… I am pleased with how they turned out…
since then I’ve done another batch… painted, separated the sections, trimmed the corners, put double-sided tape on them, attached to card stock and put them in envelopes…
25 Thursday Feb 2021
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24 Wednesday Feb 2021
Posted in garden, health, life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
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big girl pants, fever, garden, happy, moments, nature, orchid, plants, purple, reorganize, widow
I seem to be in the midst of Spring fever…
spent time rearranging plants around the main floor trying to change it up a bit…
moved one of the orchids from the dining room garden to the living room window and placed it into a vase I received when I retired… I think I like it…
I clustered the African violets together and moved a fern from one spot to another…
it will be interesting to see if they all like their new locations…
I am also watching the mandevilla, which I think, has a bud starting… very exciting…
23 Tuesday Feb 2021
Posted in food, health, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized, weather
on Sunday I took out a couple of little bacon wrapped steaks to barbecue, being as it was so warm out…
earlier in the day I baked a potato and then cooled it in the fridge so the sugars would be better…
moved Barbie into the middle of the garage and got her going…
the steaks cooked nicely and the potato warmed up just right…
I had a few Brussels sprouts which I cooked with garlic…
it turned out delicious… the steak was exactly the way I like it…
getting more used to using the barbecue…
22 Monday Feb 2021
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beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blue jay, grandson, moments, widow, wood, woodworking
my middle grandson brought me a beautiful picture that he made in woodworking class at school last year…
it is a blue jay made from different woods… he did a great job… my beloved would have been very proud…
I’ve put it on the credenza in the dining room… will need to decide if I will leave it there or not…
21 Sunday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, change, garden, hearts, memories, moments, pictures, purple, squares, table, widow
spent time today putting away all the hearts and refreshing the living room table…
often at this time of year I would be filling it with rocks and shells, but that seems a little early…
I gathered up all the silver and purple ornaments and took them downstairs…
then I put some Chihuly calendar pictures in the four squares and added a few other items… one square has my gardening books as I’ve been looking through them to work on the garden design for the summer…
another has a few of my favourite children’s books in it, and some cards with fun pictures of time on Maui…
the third one holds my new pouch and postcards…
the last one has items to read… magazines, my tablet and kobo… and some butterfly things…
looks good and makes me happy…
19 Friday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fish, fish tank, goldfish, moments, nature, pond, suspended, watching, widow
I’ve been watching the fish more lately and have come to realize that they have favourite places to rest…
one little one looks like it is stuck under a rock on a regular basis… makes me think of how they always rest under the bridge in the garden…
it is interesting to watch them suspended in the water, often for quite some time…
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