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light…

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, garden, geese, George, light, morning glory, sun

noticing every day how there is less light… waking up in the dark and needing to turn on the lights to get ready…

the sun is setting around eight so it is dark before you know it… less than thirteen hours of light each day…

the garden is struggling as well, what with the low temperatures… I check as soon as I get outside to see if any morning glories have braved the weather and bloomed…

IMG_8256.JPGI can’t see a morning glory without thinking of George counting how many were blooming each morning when I was in hospital for a six week period, and often bringing me a picture… sure do miss him…

IMG_8257.JPGhard to see, but this is a picture of some geese flying over first thing… the sound of their honking makes it clear that Fall is coming, lol…

IMG_8258.JPGfresh tomato with my chicken, potatoes and roasted garlic tonight… love popping something into the oven and napping while it cooks…

even with a persistent cold, life is good…

comfort

15 Monday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, BS friends, comfort, companions, tomatoes

too cold for the morning glories today… but it was beautiful when I left the office… sun was shining and it was around 20 Celsius… very nice after a week of rather chilly temperatures…

the tomatoes were looking rather sad, so I took them off the vine… certainly didn’t get as many as usual…

IMG_8239.JPGwas very happy to spend a couple of hours with my BS friends… it is always great to be together and we haven’t met for a while – I was away and then there were scheduling conflicts… these women have been my companions for over two decades… being with them provides comfort and balance in my life…

storage…

14 Sunday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, George, Rona, shoes, storage, Trones

had a quiet morning, taking it easy… then I cooked the meat for our taco supper…

kids picked me up and we went to Rona to get screws and anchors to hang up the shoe storage containers at the front door… still find it difficult to go there without seeing George… today one of the people helping us said I looked familiar, and when I said I was George’s wife, he said they still miss him… while we were out we ran a couple of errands, got home and finished the prep for dinner while Jeff put up the units…

IMG_8233.JPGJeff figured out how to give me access to the plug through the first bin… still have to put a board across the top to finish it off…

IMG_8234.JPGthe front area looks great and I got most of the shoes in and put a couple aside to give away… think I will hang scarves in front of these…

cold…

13 Saturday Sep 2014

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alyssum, big girl pants, chicken soup, cold, hot tub, spider

been a very quiet day… taking it easy in the hopes of shaking this cold…

went outside a few times, mainly to put chemicals in the hot tub…

IMG_8227.JPGwhile I was out there took a pic of the fish in the tub pond…

IMG_8228.JPGone of the pots is gorgeous, filled with beautiful alyssum which smells absolutely gorgeous…

IMG_8226.JPGmade some chicken soup in the hope that it will help fight the cold…

had my big girl pants on when a huge spider ran across the ceiling in the bedroom… got a book and dealt with it without even cringing…

fighting…

12 Friday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, cold, fighting, hot tub, Kraft dinner

been fighting with a cold for the last few days…

sadly I think it might be winning…

last night when I got home I climbed into my pyjamas and then into bed… woke up two hours later, made some Kraft dinner, had a quick hot tub and went back to bed…

IMG_8192.JPGmade it through the day but am back in bed…

hopefully a quiet day tomorrow will sort things out…

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maybe…

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, flowers, lock, maybe

the other day when I was cleaning out that difficult drawer, I came across this key…

IMG_8148.JPGthought it looked like the one for the safety deposit box they showed me at the credit union …

very excited and hopeful, I stopped in on my way home tonight to see…

the person I showed it to thought it was theirs as well… she found another
staff person and we went into the vault and they tried it in two boxes, both with the same number…

it didn’t fit either… we’ve had that
safety deposit box for probably forty years… think they moved it when the credit union moved to its new location, lol… haven’t been in it since 2005… and I’m fairly sure it is empty…

they can have a locksmith come in and drill it open for about $150, so if I can’t find the key I may have to do that…

currently I pay around $50 per year for it… used to be about $15 which didn’t seem too expensive…

tonight a few flowers were still blooming, even though the temperature has been very chilly for the last few days…

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maybe the right key will turn up…

steps…

06 Saturday Sep 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, leaking, pond, steps

was going to try to put the shoe storage units on the wall this morning, but I didn’t have any screws… a bit humorous because somewhere in the garage I expect there are hundreds of them…

then I moved to organizing a drawer and in the process had to destroy some items of my beloved’s… still amazingly difficult…

I went to the grocery store to pick up a few items and when I got home discovered that the pond was nearly out of water… turned it off and filled it up again…

listened to geese flying over as I was filling the pond… I do love that sound…

the moon is gorgeous tonight…

IMG_8073.JPGlittle steps as I continue to wear those big girl pants…

spiders…

04 Thursday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, house, spiders

can’t believe the number of spiders I have found in the house in the last few weeks…

yesterday they seemed to be everywhere… this one was under the fridge…

IMG_7990.JPGI wasn’t able to deal with it… and not ten minutes later I found this one in a pot on the stove…

IMG_7991.JPGI was able to take the pot outside and dump it over the deck…

today I was sorting through some baskets at the front door and found one in the brim of a hat and got it outside… another on a cupboard door and finally one on the back door…

enough already… I am still afraid of them, but I get the fly swatter or Kleenex or a shoe and do what needs to be done…

they’ve been in the bathroom and even the bedroom…

wearing those big girl pants a lot lately…

home…

02 Tuesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, hibiscus, home, hot tub, hydrangea

this morning I woke in my own bed… it was lovely… the bed I was in over the last week was fine, but there is something about being in your own…

last night I thought about having a hot tub but could hear the police helicopter flying over in circles… usually that means they are searching for someone so I don’t like to sit out there, lol… and I was rather tired…

this morning I went out for one… sigh… I do love my hot tub and miss it when I am away from home…

relaxed for the remainder of the day although I did wander through the garden a few times…

brought in two hydrangea flowers and put them in a vase…

IMG_7941.JPGalso got a nice pic of a hibiscus flower…

IMG_7940.JPGtomorrow I will have to unpack my suitcase, lol…

finally…

01 Monday Sep 2014

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ballooning, big girl pants, fearless, finally, Intuit, spectacular

this morning we arrived at the sign-in area for the balloon rides… there wasn’t much wind and we could see lots of stars… the energy seemed higher but we didn’t want to get over excited…

we were called up to the lines and then the pilots came over and got us… we went to the seven sections of the field which were each divided into five or six areas…

the teams started to get their equipment out… it was amazing to stand in a field with thirty plus balloons filling with air…

IMG_7801.JPGeach of the four times we had been, we took a photo in front of one of the trucks… this time we are in front of the balloon we will rise in…

IMG_7811.JPGafter filling the balloon with air, they start to heat it and the basket stands up gently…

IMG_7818.JPGand the next thing we are in the air… we were the third balloon off the ground… watching the other balloons rise from the field was truly an unforgettable event…

IMG_7837.JPGwe flew for 45 mind-expanding minutes and then floated down into a soccer field…

IMG_7857.JPGwe walked the balloon from one end of the field to the other and then everything happened in reverse order, although the balloon didn’t want to give up flying and it was difficult to get the air out…

IMG_7862.JPGthere were six balloons which landed in the field and everyone supported everyone else… great to see…

IMG_7874.JPGafter a great ride back in the pursuit van we got a picture of the Intuit team, captain Hal Cooper, his two sons and two volunteers from the Festival, as well as the four of us who rode in the balloon…

the twenty-five year wait was worth it… I wasn’t afraid for even one second… wow…

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