decorating…

08 Sunday Dec 2013

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big girl pants, bubbles, Champagne Bubble Party, decorating, decorations, George would be proud, glass ornaments, Gordon Ramsey, importance of family, Pinterest

didn’t leave the house today…

spent a lot of time watching Gordon Ramsey cook Christmas dinners… yum… couldn’t drag myself away, lol…

bubbles in the window…

also put up some decorations… I’d seen something on Pinterest and had wanted to try it and had fun hanging up some glass ornaments using the idea…

through the window…

broke one in the process, but was very happy with the outcome… it also reminded me of the special time we had at the Champagne Bubble Party this summer because I was using the clear glass ornaments that we hung all over the garden to represent bubbles…

moved the Norfolk pine into the window but not sure if I will leave it there…

stuck cover on hot tub…

never did get out to try and open the lid of the hot tub… maybe after work tomorrow…

been thinking of the importance of family and how blessed I am with the wonderful family that I have… George would be so proud of all the kids…

sunshine…

07 Saturday Dec 2013

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big girl pants, brutally cold, hot tub, rabbit tracks, shovel, snow, snow drift, sunshine, sweet memories

today the sun came out and shone for the entire day… it was glorious… haven’t had much sun in the last few weeks…

beautiful shadow effect on the trellis by the garage.. also shows how much snow has fallen…

it was also brutally cold.. on my way out I took a few minutes to shovel off the two lower decks so that I could have a hot tub later… by the time I got into the car my fingers were numb, felt like I didn’t even have any gloves on…

after I got home I went out to put chemicals into the hot tub and couldn’t open it… the cover is frozen closed… hope to try again tomorrow with warmer clothes on…

drift across the garden..

there is a lot of snow in the backyard… and there is a very interesting drift across the yard… it’s a new one, must have something to do with the pond reconstruction…

if you look close you can see where the rabbit hopped onto the deck…

bunny prints on the deck..

made me think of how George always took care of me.. making sure that the decks were cleared and the lid was open when I headed out for a hot tub…

sweet memories…

snow covered…

06 Friday Dec 2013

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this is what I saw when I went to step out the door this morning…

this little tree is lit in the evening and looks very nice…

I had to hook it to the rail because it kept falling over, lol…

there is a lot of snow out there… when I took the garbage and recycling out this morning there were big drifts that I could hardly get through but I had to get them out as last week there was no way I could get though the snow…

been a really long week and I am hoping to rest and recuperate over the weekend…

meltdown…

05 Thursday Dec 2013

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been a very full week…

out for lunch and dinner Monday… dinner out Tuesday and the furniture arriving… yesterday’s celebration of George…

today started with an event early this morning… and then busyness throughout the rest of the day…

just before the end of the day I had a meltdown… completely lost it over a problem with some technology…

at first I was thinking I was just a bit tired, but when I thought about it for a while I realize that maybe it was left over from yesterday… although I got through the day and evening very well, it was difficult…

probably wasn’t the best week for me to be so busy, because I do need a good amount of quiet time…

walked from the end of the street and shovelled the sidewalk when I got to the house… think all of that helped…

didn’t nap as I was waiting for a young friend to stop by but he didn’t make it so I had my dinner and watched a bit of TV…

made myself some popcorn and got ready to watch one of my favourite shows…

going to sleep early tonight and hoping for a better day tomorrow…

plan to focus on the beautiful African violet that is blooming very happily at the office…

one step forward, one step back…

65…

04 Wednesday Dec 2013

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George would have turned 65 today…

it snowed all day long… Crystal thought it was his revenge, lol…

this morning the snow had covered the steps and the sidewalk I had cleaned twice last night…

the drive home was slow, but steady… the kids came from two directions… Crystal from her work and Jeff and the boys from home…

family all together... Cyndi and Ron are on the phone in Jeff'hand...

family all together… Cyndi and Ron are on the phone in Jeff’s hand…

Cyndi and Ron FaceTimed us… they had burgers from Burger King and little individual apple pies… we had burgers and milkshakes from the Burger Place on Portage, which was George’s favourite…

we ate together and talked about our favourite George story…

apple pie…

Jeff picked up an apple pie from Perkins on the way over and we had that with ice cream for dessert… George did love apple pie…

ice cream and pie getting dished out…

after dinner Tavin found our I Miss You storybook and we read it and talked about how we were feeling…

cleared front yard…

while we read, Jeff was outside snow blowing… and he figured out why my outside tree wasn’t lit…

a number of people have talked about year two being more difficult than year one… today was hard, but also a day of remembering and celebrating my beloved… it was very good to be with my whole family…

air miles…

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

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on Saturday I went to Safeway to get some groceries… a good thing, because I hadn’t been out shopping for about 3 weeks and the cupboards were rather bare…

happily it was one of the weekends where there were bonus air miles available…

I decided to do a good size shop and get some staples to be sure I spent sufficient money to get the deal…

kept track of what I was spending as I went through the store… did I mention that I got there at 7:30 am… had them delivered which is very handy, particularly when buying lots…

after my surgery two summers ago, I couldn’t lift anything over 5 pounds for a few months and that is when I tried having the groceries delivered…

ran to Rona and picked up a few small trees instead of a large one and was able to use my air miles card there as well…

arrived home in time for the delivery of frozen meals from Food for Thought who do a great job with single meals… I haven’t had any desire to prepare dinner recently so haven’t been eating well… when I have some of these dinners in the freezer I can pop something into the oven, have a nap and get up to dinner…

then the furniture fiasco…

diamonds in the snow…

today I woke up to diamonds glittering all over the snow… even in the dark it was very lovely so I took a few pictures before getting picked up for work…

glittering snow…

wasn’t quite dark when we left work and headed out for dinner at Original Joe’s where we had a great visit… but it was very dark when we blasted home so I would be here to receive my hide-a-bed… the guys were late getting here which gave me time to go out and shovel the sidewalk for them…

finally the living room is complete…

eating out…

02 Monday Dec 2013

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good day at work…

lunch out with a couple of friends who I haven’t seen for quite some time… lovely to spend time with them and catch up on their lives…

then after work, headed to a gathering of friends where we enjoyed a wonderful dinner, had a great program and excellent conversation…

on top of all that, my daughter dropped off my Advent calendar which she put together after receiving the insides from the other daughter…

advent calendar 2013…

usually it is quite beautiful, but I never did find the covers for my muffin tins, so I numbered 24 small paper bags and put them in a silver snowflake basket which I gave to Crystal yesterday and she filled and delivered today…

woo hoo… I love Advent…

furniture…

30 Saturday Nov 2013

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big girl pants, broke sand dollar wreath, furniture, hide-a-bed, love seat, ripped it

so, I went out in October and purchased a new hide-a-bed and love seat for the living room… it was supposed to be a surprise for Cyndi and Ron as the bed they sleep on when they visit is not very good… unfortunately somebody might have accidentally mentioned it… but I still hadn’t…

empty living room waiting for furniture…

a number of weeks ago they delivered the hide-a-bed and in the process ripped it, and broke a few of the sand dollars on the wreath Cyndi had made me two years ago… the love seat was still on its way from somewhere else…

after talking with the company they agreed to order another hide-a-bed and replace the one with the rip, as opposed to repairing it… this made me very happy…

love seat coming in…

today, they came with both the new hide-a-bed and the love seat and were going to take the one that was here back… I had also asked if they would give my old sofa and love seat to someone who could use it and they advised they could do that…

they got out the ripped hide-a-bed without too much trouble… brought in the love seat and then discovered that they couldn’t take off one of the legs on the hide-a-bed as a nut was stripped… there was no way it would fit through the doorway with a leg still on it… so, they took it back… they also took my old sofa and love seat…

which means, of course, that my living room is a bit empty…