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blooming continued…

27 Wednesday Nov 2013

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today the African Violet blooms were open…

African Violet blooming...

African Violet blooming…

talked with a friend about how flowers can open so quickly…

thought about the morning glories and how they are all closed up in the morning and then by mid day are all open… hibiscus open in a similar fashion… and they are usually only open for one day…

you have to be paying attention or you can miss the whole thing…

my absolute favourite to watch though are poppies… if you sit quietly and watch you can actually see them open and the cover pop off…

always a wonder to spend the few minutes it takes for them to open…

makes me think about life and how we need to enjoy and celebrate every moment as we don’t know what is in store for us, or for others…

just spent an hour searching for four pictures of George to use for a project… was bittersweet… I miss him so much…

remember to tell the important people in your life that you love them… never know if you will have another opportunity to do that…

getting ready…

26 Tuesday Nov 2013

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tonight I spent another hour searching through the Christmas boxes trying to find the Advent calendar that Cyndi sent to me two years ago…

it is made of two muffin baking pans and twenty-four magnetic covers… I saw them in July when I was gathering items for the Champagne Bubble Party…

Advent calendar 2012

Advent Calendar 2012…

now I’ve been through everything twice and still can’t find it… last year she sent a package to the office and my colleagues filled all the spots and put on the covers… it was fun for them as well as for me…

I’ve now decided that I can use some small paper bags that she had used and were left from her business because apparently I am not going to find it, sigh…

did find some other Advent things and set them aside… have organized a few gifts but need to deal with quite a few more…

technology is also being a bit difficult as my desktop computer has died and I have to take the time to figure out how to print on the printer that was hooked up to the desktop…

a big job I have is to get the computer room tidied and organized… this will also help with being able to sort out the printer problem, lol…

trying hard not to let myself wallow in the sad place… a friend had told me that often year two is worse than year one, and that is what I seem to be experiencing…

blooming…

25 Monday Nov 2013

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feeling so much better… amazing how a headache can debilitate a person…

this morning I got this great shot of one of my African Violets at the office… the buds are just about open… I love this one because it is kind of lacy looking with white flowers edged in purple…

buds on violet...

buds on violet…

the Christmas cactus continues to bloom, but it still looks a little off…

loss…

24 Sunday Nov 2013

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spent a quiet day at home and got some chores taken care of around the house…

spent quite a while trying to find my advent calendar – 2 muffin tins with magnetic covers – which was very frustrating as I had seen it over the summer… did find the reindeer calendar, lol…  will have to actually go through each of the Christmas boxes one night this week…

spent a lovely afternoon working on a project which is coming along very nicely…

thought about friends who have recently lost parents and remembering the loss of our parents… how slowly the process of dying can be, and then how quickly it happens… thinking you are prepared and discovering that you are not at all ready… the guilt of feeling relief that the process is over… the exhaustion…

I have been feeling a bit alone for the last while… missing my beloved more, rather than less, these days…  working hard to remember all the special times with him…

last year at this time we were all focused on our family vacation to Mexico right after Christmas, and I think it helped me keep my mind off Christmas without him… this year I don’t have that distraction, so I am trying to live each moment, whether happy or sad…

finished off my fishy weekend with a lovely dinner of shrimp, left-over garlic mashed potatoes and Caesar salad…

shrimp, garlic mashed potatoes and Caesar salad...

shrimp, garlic mashed potatoes and Caesar salad…

fishy day…

23 Saturday Nov 2013

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worked around the house for a bit today…

got some things packed up to give away… cleaned out some baskets…

went to Sobeys with Crystal and wandered around The Forks… haven’t been there for years, but had a fun time checking the place out…

picked up the boys and came home for lobster dinner… a few weeks back I had purchased some whole lobsters and we decided to try them out tonight…

lobster for dinner...

lobster for dinner…

too funny because the only pictures I took today were of food… fish and chips that we shared at The Forks and the lobster we had for dinner… really cracked me up when Crystal reminded me to take a picture, lol…

mine...

mine…

lobster was good, but a lot of work… we made the little boys pizza and then they watched a movie while we worked our way through the lobsters…

but we did have fun… oh and while we were out, we bought food for the fish…

Jupiter…

22 Friday Nov 2013

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for the last few days I’ve been trying to capture a picture of the moon with the star/planet that’s been hanging around it at night and in the morning…

I’ve done some research and tried out a few apps – tonight I was using Sky Map and SkyView Free – and one of them suggested it might be Jupiter…

online research was suggesting it might be a different planet in the morning, maybe Venus…

don’t know which it is but is is quite lovely…

on my way out to the hot tub tonight I had to go back and get my phone and take a few pictures… this one is about the best although the star/planet is not very bright…

moon and planet/star tonight...

moon and planet/star tonight…

i took a few in the morning yesterday with the camera but they weren’t so great…

maybe I will get up early tomorrow and use the tripod and see what I can capture…

quite mesmerizing…

the great root bear…

21 Thursday Nov 2013

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tonight I had supper at A & W with a colleague…

it was lovely to eat out, particularly since I’d been craving a Teen burger for a few days… I haven’t had much of an appetite lately, so this was a lovely treat…

we talked about our experiences with A & W over the years and having baby Root Beers when we were young…

I remembered how George would pretend to be the Great Root Bear when the girls were little as he danced along forest paths…

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planning a remembrance…

20 Wednesday Nov 2013

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when we were together on Sunday we talked about how we would remember Grandpa’s birthday… Tavin and I had spent some time looking at the video from George’s memorial service… it was lovely as he was able to watch the pictures and think about Grandpa… he wasn’t able to do that at the service…

the boys decided on hamburgers and milkshakes from his favourite burger place and apple pie with ice cream… ice cream was included because some of us don’t really like apple pie, lol…

hopefully we will FaceTime or Skype with the kids in Ottawa… last year one of them was in Calgary and the other in Courtenay… it will be nice that they are together…

snowflake picture taken on George\s last birthday...

snowflake picture taken on George\s birthday, 2011…

not feeling well for the last few days has made me feel a bit sorry for myself, missing my beloved who always looked after me…

remembering my dad…

18 Monday Nov 2013

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today would have been my dad’s 91st birthday… he’s been gone for 26 years…

he was an amazing man who taught me many life lessons… he was always my sounding board… for many years I drove him to and from work and he introduced me to some amazing people… he worked for Canada Manpower and spent his days helping people to figure out what they wanted to do with their lives… we spent a few years in the north where he opened Manpower offices and taught me to help set them up and organize them… maybe that’s were I got my love for organization…

throughout their marriage I never heard him be rude or raise his voice to my mom…

he looked after her for many years as she spent nearly half of each year in the psych ward and he looked after us on his own during all that time…

a tare photograph of mom and dad...

a rare photograph of mom and dad…

when the girls were little they could always find candies in his pockets…

some lovely memories today…