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treats…

01 Monday Dec 2014

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yesterday an Advent calendar was delivered to my door… it was from my daughter in Ottawa…

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a carton filled with 24 boxes… such fun to open one each day…

this morning I opened box 1 and discovered striped purple socks and a dragonfly stick-on…

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wore them when I went for a walk today…

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at work I wear sandals and don’t usually wear socks in my boots unless I am going to be doing a lot of walking…

still thinking about where to put the dragonfly…

1000 days…

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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I have this app called Dreamdays on my phone… it counts up to and down from important dates…

today marks 1000 days since my beloved left this world… in four days it would have been his 66th birthday…

we went to Rona today to pick up a tile and a new faucet for the kitchen as the old one has been dripping for a few weeks…

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thankfully Jeff was able to replace it for me… don’t even think there was any cursing, lol…

when my chariot arrived, it even included a snow shoveler…

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for most of our years together George did all the shovelling, other than the few years his heart wouldn’t let him…

a thousand days seem like forever and a blink of an eye all at the same time… I’ve missed him every single one of those days…

snow…

29 Saturday Nov 2014

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was up at 5:30 this morning and looked out the window to see a bunny wandering through the back yard…

Friday morning when I was putting out the garbage there was a bunny sitting in the middle of the back lane… spent a few moments watching until it moved into a yard…

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those are bunny footprints…

it snowed through the night and a bit this morning… trees look stunning…

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the garden is beautiful all covered in the snow…

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sunshine added to the beauty today…

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got lots done… reorganized the laundry room by putting the dressers back… never did hear back from those foundation guys… did laundry and cleaned out the cabinets under the fish tank…

finishing the day with some tv…

diagnosis…

28 Friday Nov 2014

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well, the results are in… been diagnosed with diabetes…

not exactly how I was imagining spending the next stage of my life…

I guess I should be happy that it hadn’t come on earlier in my life, as many of my elders dealt with the disease…

had been once to the doctor, and was semi-prepared for what I heard yesterday… already been cutting back on sugar, but I hadn’t even thought about having to stick myself with a needle 3 times every day…

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been having a bit of a pity party but hoping to be over that in a few days…

good news is that I should be able to deal with this by watching my diet and getting more exercise…

a friend is diabetic and is a walking dictionary on the disease… another has a partner with it, and she knows tons as well… my daughter is on Weight Watchers and is sharing food information… so there’s lots of help for me as I move forward, learning as I go…

sad about the chocolate though…

filter…

25 Tuesday Nov 2014

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first thing this morning the sky was amazing…

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it stopped me in my tracks and I spent a few minutes enjoying the moment…

before I left the house I added in the first of the chemicals to the hot tub as the temperature had finally reached the nineties…

on my way home I stopped in at Pet Traders to get an opinion on the pump in the fish tank… we’ve had the tank for at least twenty years… got some great assistance and came out of the store with a replacement pump, filters and a large container of fish food… and they were having a Black Friday sale so I saved 30% on everything…

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when I got in I added the next chemical and had supper… after a nap I read the manual but felt a bit intimidated… think I’m going to wait for my son-in-law to help me put it in properly, lol…

now I’m heading out for a hot tub… haven’t had one in a couple of weeks… woo hoo…

watery…

24 Monday Nov 2014

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yesterday there seemed to be lots of watery work…

had to pick up a new short hose in the morning so that I could empty the hot tub… also got more fish food…

took a couple of hours for the tub to drain and then had to use pliers to get the water running into the tub once the filter was changed… process was a tad cold…

thirty minutes and it was full again… now just waiting for it to get warmed up…

then I spent some time taking water out of the fish tank… once a third of it was out I added fresh water…

looking a lot better but I think it might be time for a new pump…

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always some reason to put on those big girl pants, lol…

pretty…

22 Saturday Nov 2014

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had a very full week and today was busy too…

spent a few hours at work and the little boys met me there…

we went to the Zoo for the afternoon… had a wonderful time… focussed on the Journey to Churchill… saw most of the bears and got to sit beside Hudson for a few minutes…

the boys were amazing and we had tons of fun…

came home and met up with mom and the biggest boy…

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lots of cuddles…

they left and I had a nap and watched tv for a while until a friend stopped by… we have been having such fun…

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pretty:-)…

mothers…

18 Tuesday Nov 2014

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had a great conversation about mothers recently…

from a group of six, one had an excellent relationship with their mom, two had regular ones and three had difficult connections with their mothers…

always interesting to learn about other people’s history and how it shaped them…

my mother had a nervous breakdown when my brother was born and spent the next twenty years in and out of hospital… certainly affected our relationship… although we didn’t connect for most of my life, we did become very close during the last years of her life…

for the last four months we spent every day together… I was extremely blessed to have that time with her and get to say all the things I needed…

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I wonder about my legacy to my girls…