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Amaluna…

29 Sunday Sep 2019

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last night I had dinner with a trio of special women, two of whom I just met, lol…

I had soup and five mini crab cakes with roasted garlic mayo, apple salad and mixed greens… very tasty… everyone else had scallops…

after a relaxing meal we travelled to the Cirque du Soleil tent on Kenaston to see Amaluna…

it was excellent… I’m always amazed at the flexibility of the performers and what they can make their bodies do… it was also fun to see a performance under the big top, which reminded me again of my first time at Cirque du Soleil in Montreal many years ago;-)…

a wonderful treat…

hips…

28 Saturday Sep 2019

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so yesterday I discovered that the issue isn’t really osteoarthritis in my knee… it is a problem with my hips…

at the physio office they discovered that one leg was longer than the other, my hips were out of alignment and my spine was twisted…

some things were done to me that were a little painful, but will help with the situation and I think my legs were back to normal length by the time I left…

now it is up to me to do some exercises and I will go back and see my guy next week…

lots of elevation, icing and heat for the next while…

ear…

27 Friday Sep 2019

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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…

unfurling…

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

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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…

thunder…

23 Monday Sep 2019

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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…

flicker…

22 Sunday Sep 2019

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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…

cane…

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…

skip…

20 Friday Sep 2019

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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;-)…