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eight…

05 Thursday Mar 2020

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today commemorates eight years since my beloved left me… he walked with me longer than I walked alone before and since his death…

I miss him… every day and in every way… I have grown so much since that day… and continue to as I move forward…

I’ve been thinking of many of the fun things that we did during our forty-plus years together… from camping in tents and pop-up trailers, to zip lining and riding up a mountain in a chairlift (for 2 people afraid of heights)… from Grand Beach to Goose Spit… from gardening to bathroom renovations… from family meals on the deck to dimsum in restaurants…

this morning I received a parcel from the kids in Ottawa… 3 cute plants in a wooden box… a great addition to the forest, lol…

the outdoors looked stunning after a night of snow, but the delivery person had to make a path to get to the door…

also received some earbuds in the mail that I had ordered from our AirMiles account, so it was like a gift from my beloved… took me a while to figure out how to connect them…

made steak, potatoes and mushrooms for my dinner… he would have grilled it, but I cooked it in the oven, lol…

poppyseed…

04 Wednesday Mar 2020

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was recently enjoying a Sweet Kale salad… I’d picked up a large bag at Costco and had been eating it over a week or so…

it comes with a poppyseed dressing and reminded me of the first time I had poppyseeds…

my beloved and I had announced our engagement and his best friend’s parents invited us over for a special dinner…

the first course was a poppyseed soup… it was the only item I remember from the entire meal… can’t even remember if it was cold or hot, lol…

my taste buds did not enjoy it at all and I can remember struggling to get it down, because in those days, when someone made you something special you ate it, lol…

I don’t think I’ve eaten anything else with poppyseeds in it until this particular salad, which I’ve been eating for a few years and quite enjoy…

package…

03 Tuesday Mar 2020

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got some treats in the mail…

the first was a package from my daughter… another of my Advent All Year gifts…

it held the cutest zippered bag with sea turtles on it… I think it might be the perfect size for my travelling technology…

and the package from Amazon with the two items I ordered just four days before… I had tried to purchase both items at local stores but wasn’t able to find them so went online and ordered them…

fun to get stuff, lol…

I also ordered a cube for the kitchen so that the pot lights can be connected all the time, and using one of the Kasa plugs we can turn them on and off as needed… it will also offer the option of plugging in a USB cord if necessary…

slowly but surely, the house is getting smarter…

a person could just live by ordering things online and never leaving the house, lol…

trim…

02 Monday Mar 2020

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finished tidying the house this morning and then spent time reading while I waited for my cleaners…

once they arrived I got dressed and walked over to the hairdresser to get a trim… we both noticed that my hair seems to be growing a bit more quickly right now… once it was cut there was still a tiny bit of purple remaining…

it was a nice stroll there, a bit breezy, but on the way back big snowflakes were coming down and the wind was blowing sideways… happily my son-in-law picked me up part way home…

cleaners had gone, I made tea and we had a visit before he was off to his next activity…

finished the afternoon reading;-)…

snow finally stopped and it looked so quiet and peaceful out there…

friends came by for coffee and a visit, and when they left it was snowing again;-(…

bend…

01 Sunday Mar 2020

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part of the reason I shopped at Safeway yesterday was to be able to get some flowers… they almost always have something I like;-)…

I picked up tulips and a few carnations…

instead of making one arrangement, I divided them… one for the living room, one for the dining room, one for the bathroom and one for the bedroom…

the photos above were from yesterday… tulips move in their vase on a regular basis so they are fun to watch throughout the day…

so far today they have opened up and started to bend over in the light…

I’ve enjoyed watching them as I was reading, particularly as it was a bit overcast and very windy out today…

watercolour…

29 Saturday Feb 2020

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over the last week or so I’ve been collecting things so that I can do some watercolour painting…

yesterday I gathered up all the equipment and sat down to paint…

when I did some of this at Christmas in Ottawa it was more difficult than I’d imagined it would be…

here at home I think it was even more difficult without my daughter’s mentorship, lol…

it was a fun hour, although I need to practice more;-)…

address…

28 Friday Feb 2020

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on my final day of work I took a selfie with each person on staff…

I’ve since used those photos to update their contact and address information in my phone…

at first I was cropping myself out of the pictures, but then I realized how nice it was to see us together;-)… so I’ve left them as I took them…

it is lovely when I am sending a text or email to see their faces;-)…

sort of…

27 Thursday Feb 2020

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this week was Shrove Tuesday and I decided to make pancakes… I sort of followed my recipe, but cut it back by two-thirds and adapted the ingredients…

took the page from my new cookbook and stuck it up on the message board so I could read it easily…

as I’ve typed the recipes, for many of them I’ve added two sets of quantities so there is less likelihood of messing up the ingredients… I will redo this one with the smaller amount for next time, lol…

I used to make this recipe for the family and would take the last few tablespoons to mix with grated potatoes to make potato pancakes for me…

worked out well with the adjustments and they were delicious…

usually I’d use sour cream, but this time I used Greek yogurt and it worked well…

there were a few pancakes left for breakfast;-)…

bevels…

26 Wednesday Feb 2020

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recently I was checking out the rainbows on the kitchen floor… there has been lots of sun;-)…

thought they were coming through the patio door, but then I figured out they were coming from the back door window which has a number of bevels on it…

brought back memories of our time in Maui where there were rainbows all the time…

one day there were seven different rainbows within about an hour… it was amazing…

I do love rainbows…

relish…

25 Tuesday Feb 2020

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had a lovely day…

my son-in-law arrived and we had breakfast at the “A” before we headed to Costco…

I really enjoy spending time with him and relish every moment… lots of great conversation as we talked about their upcoming vacation…

off to Costco where we picked up a few things and renewed my membership as well as used my annual refund towards paying the bill… this time when the renewal notice arrived, the cheque was on the first page, lol… last time it was on the second page and I didn’t see it… maybe I wasn’t the only one who didn’t see it…

I always appreciate when one of the kids come shopping with me… once we were back home, he helped put everything away and we had a cup of tea before he left to get his errands done…