27 Friday Sep 2019
Posted in health, life, loss, Uncategorized
so this ear looks quite normal, right…
sadly it has been irritated for the last four days and even though I started on drops yesterday morning, it has been very unhappy…
feels like my headset is on all the time and I can’t hear much out of it…
couldn’t swallow yesterday so ended up not eating…
thankfully the medicine has started to work and it is not nearly as painful as it was…
but really, enough…
26 Thursday Sep 2019
25 Wednesday Sep 2019
Posted in garden, health, moments, nature, Photography
I have learned to appreciate the little moments in my life…
this morning I got this shot of the hibiscus…
one flower was fully open and the second flower was just unfurling…
I was home a bit early at the end of the day as I had to get my ear checked out at the doctor’s office… I spent a few minutes enjoying the hibiscus…
the second flower had unfurled as well…
I get to walk past the hibiscus, morning glories and mandevilla on my way to and from the garage…
so blessed to have such a special garden…
24 Tuesday Sep 2019
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amazing, atmosphere, big girl pants, blessed, moments, sky, widow
the sky was absolutely amazing tonight…
so happy that I looked outside at just the right moment…
23 Monday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, cars, classic cars, odour, picture, smell, smoking, thunder, thunderbird, widow
tonight I followed a car with the licence plate “57TBIRD” all the way along Portage Avenue…
I couldn’t get a photo as I was driving, but I went online and found this photo of a thunderbird…
made me laugh a bit as the exhaust smelled terrible… the windows were open and at least one person was smoking a cigarette…
seemed like they were still living in 1957, lol…
also made me think of the thunderstorm on Friday night…
22 Sunday Sep 2019
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berries, big girl pants, birds, cane, Fall, flicker, nature, virginia creeper, widow, window, woodpeckers
for the last few days I’ve been watching the flickers on the roof of the garage enjoying the berries on the Virginia creeper… it has been a nice distraction as I go up and down the stairs, still using the cane…
they seem to gather around this time of year to fill up on ants and berries before heading south…
the other interesting thing about them is although they are woodpeckers, usually I see them on the ground, or in this case, on the garage roof…
21 Saturday Sep 2019
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been thinking a lot of our dear friend Margaret…
she was my parents’ neighbour and our good friend since I was about fifteen…
I remember our Chinese food parties on payday Fridays… my beloved and I would go over and mom and dad would come from next door and we would have a delicious dinner…
she enjoyed the girls when they came along and loved spending time with them…
the cane I am using belonged to her…
I can remember saying to her later in her life “you have to put the cane on the ground, not just carry it”…
lovely memories…
20 Friday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, friends, healthy, knee, La Belle Baguette, meals, recovery, skip, SkipTheDishes, widow
all in all I think I’ve been making some reasonable choices regarding what goes into my body as I recover from my knee issue;-)…
I am so grateful that we have SkipTheDishes as I haven’t been making many meals over the last week…
I’ve ordered a few times recently… when I do, I always make sure to order enough for a few meals…
last night I ordered from Pho Hoang, a favourite… I ended up with enough for four meals…
I did make a grilled cheese sandwich the other day with some marble rye bread a friend brought from La Belle Baguette…
have really appreciated not having to prepare meals, but planning to actually cook my dinner tomorrow;-)…
19 Thursday Sep 2019
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2500, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, blogs, Life, memories, missing, moments, moving forward, one step at a time, time, widow
today marks my 2,500th blog post…
seems like an amazing accomplishment for me…
hard to believe that on December 1st, 2012, I started writing this blog so that I could share about the changes to my life and the things I’ve had to do following the death of my beloved…
there was such a learning curve about all the issues I have had to deal with as a widow…
it has morphed into more of a daily journal of my life and what I see around me…
it is also hard to realize that my beloved has been gone for 7 1/2 years – that’s 90 months – 2,751 days… an instant… forever…
although I am truly blessed, I sure do miss him…
18 Wednesday Sep 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, blink, cane, difficulties, ER, health, knee, moments, recovery, slow, walk, widow
been pondering how life can change in the blink of an eye…
there I was on Saturday, going for a walk, and then suddenly unable to walk…
luckily I am recovering very nicely, but spending five hours in the Emergency Room and having to use crutches for just three days has opened my eyes to difficulties that others face…
I expect a full recovery… I am now using a cane, but just for a short while, as my knee improves… and I’m able to take the time to recover properly…
of course I have to remember to take it slow and steady, lol…
