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yard work…

22 Sunday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, difference a year makes, gaggle of geese, garden, last year, recovering, Snow Birds, yard work

spent some time in the garden today…

weather was very nice… it was warm, but there was a lovely breeze which kept it cool…

cleaned out the planters around the deck and watered the remaining baskets…

then emptied and refilled the hot tub…

I think the Snow Birds flew out of the city, because there were three batches of jets that left in twos and threes, making a lot of racket… by the time I had my camera out the third batch were leaving and they weren’t visible… they were the red and white of the Snow Birds but I hadn’t heard that any events were on in the area…

while I was making my dinner, a great gaggle of geese flew over and again I didn’t have time to get the camera and take a picture…

i have been hearing the geese daily for the last while as they head out to the fields for their last feeds before heading south…

here’s a picture of the geese that I took last year about this time…

geese in the Park, September 2012...

geese in the Park, September 2012…

just realized that last year at this time I was on my last few days of sick leave, following my surgery, before getting back to work…

I spent the majority of the summer in the back yard recuperating… what a difference a year makes…

changing colours…

21 Saturday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, camera problem, changing colours, flickers, little yellow bird, lovely day, purple finches, robins, sparrows, Top Pot Hand Forged Doughnuts, trees, virginia creeper, watching

what a lovely day…

spent some time at the front window this morning watching all the critters outside…

purple finches and sparrows...

purple finches and sparrows…

there were flickers, robins, sparrows, chickadees, purple finches, nuthatches and this very cute bird that at first I thought was a goldfinch, but I don’t think it was… one of the neighbourhood squirrels was out as well…

cute bird on the feeder, not sure what it is...

cute bird on the feeder, not sure what it is…

took a walk around the creek and got a few shots of the leaves which are beginning to change en masse… on Thursday as I was driving to work I noticed a small tree at the end of the street and thought I should get a picture of it…

tree at the end of the street which was my first glimpse of the leaves changing colours...

tree at the end of the street which was my first glimpse of the leaves changing colours…

forgot on Friday, so decided to get a few pictures today… in the process realized more than one little tree was putting on its fall coat…

virginia creeper filled with berries and gone from green to red...

virginia creeper filled with berries and gone from green to red…

wasn’t out for too long as my battery was low and as I got home my camera lens cover stopped opening… will have to take it in on Monday… sure hope they can fix it as I do love that particular camera…

 

glory in the morning…

20 Friday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, cooler weather, frost, garden, glory in the morning, morning glories

got a few pics on my way to the garage this morning… the morning glories are really enjoying this cooler weather and I am enjoying them… they really are one of my favourites…

there were a number of blooms when I left…

love the two-tone quality of this one...

love the two-tone quality of this one…

even four or five when I got home, which is unusual, as they are normally done by about noon… today was quite overcast and cool so that must have encouraged them to bloom longer…

couldn't decide if the lighter coloured one was opening or closing...

couldn’t decide if the lighter coloured one was opening or closing…

the weather people are forecasting frost tonight… I hope they are wrong… but it does encourage me to get out into the garden and do some cleaning up…

being sure to take a moment whenever I go by them to enjoy their beauty as soon they won’t be blooming :-)…

mirrors…

19 Thursday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, Champagne Bubble Party, mirrors, squirrels, sunflower

this morning it was overcast but I stepped outside to take a few pictures…

I was particularly wanting a couple of shots of the sunflower, which is about the same height as me… looking out the window daily I can see the seed area filling in…

closeup of sunflower in the front flower bed...

closeup of sunflower in the front flower bed…

also took a couple of pictures in the back yard… for a few days now I’ve been noticing that the mirrors, which were up for the Champagne Bubble Party, and which have been slowly falling off the various surfaces, have been moved around…

when they have fallen off, I have picked them up and put them along the top of the deck… they seemed to sit there for quite a while, but lately they have moved… I don’t think it is the wind because that would have blown them all into one area… there are some on the decks – all three levels, and some in the grass, but very few left on the ledge…

mirrors scattered about the garden...

mirrors scattered about the garden…

am starting to think that maybe my squirrel friends are playing with them, although I haven’t caught any in action…

what do you think…

technology…

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, great fun, one-on-one, peak performance, Technology, trainer

been a wonderful few days around the office… recently we upgraded our computers and software and were fortunate to have a trainer in to spend some one-on-one time with each staff person…

one-on-one time with the trainer...

one-on-one time with the trainer…

many thought they wouldn’t need all of the time allotted to them, but in the end everyone used every moment they had…

it was great fun listening as she moved from office to office… I would hear aha moments and little sighs of pleasure as each person learned better, easier, quicker ways to get their work done…

what I have learned about technology is that it is quite wonderful when we are able to use it at peak performance… if we are having trouble making things work then it doesn’t feel so helpful…

spending the time with the trainer has increased everyone’s productivity… I learned a few very useful tips and tricks and am looking forward to more improvements as we learn from one another…

red and white…

17 Tuesday Sep 2013

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air plants, big girl pants, change of seasons, moon shots, Olympus camera, preparing to bloom, red and white, stars

yesterday my daughter was telling me she discovered that when air plants are getting ready to bloom they turn red… she had learned this when she purchased a number of air plants for her apartment…

this morning I looked at my three air plants and discovered that one of them has indeed turned quite red… I took a picture and made sure to spritz it as you are supposed to water them a bit more as they go through this process…

air plant turning red...

air plant turning red…

i am quite excited to see what happens…

I have just spent half an hour outside on the deck trying to get a good shot of the moon… had the tripod and both cameras going in an effort to get a picture… don’t understand why I can’t get what I see with my eyes into a picture…

moon a few days from full...

moon a few days from full…

but I did persevere and tried every option on both cameras… got a couple of fairly good shots, but have no idea what setting they were on… in the end the best pictures were from the Olympus although when I was taking them they didn’t look good at all, lol…

think the change of seasons and less light are getting me down a bit… I am feeling tired and a bit out of sorts, but am looking forward to more lovely evenings in the hot tub… this is a wonderful time of year where you are lovely and warm in the tub and the air is just a bit crisp… and the stars have been quite amazing lately…

great customer service…

16 Monday Sep 2013

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BestBuy, big girl pants, customer service, Future Shop, great customer service, kudos, Supreme Basics

in July we bought a new printer… took a while to set it up, and then a while to realize that it really didn’t work well with envelopes… we hummed and hawed for a while and finally I called BestBuy where we had purchased it and asked if they might take it back as we weren’t happy with it…

after a bit of a wait, the young woman I spoke with advised us to bring it in and they would see what they could do…

we took it in the next morning and spoke with a lovely woman – Jasmine – who advised that this particular model wouldn’t be taken back by the manufacturer, and usually they couldn’t do anything in that circumstance, but she would give us the trade in value if we found something else to purchase…

we went over to the printers and checked them out and eventually found one that we thought would do the trick… amazingly it was the same price as the first one as it was on a great discounted sale…

Jasmine made the exchange, and we were on our way…

new printer...

new printer still in the box…

was talking later with our usual office supplier from Supreme Basics and she advised that if we liked that printer we should go back to get the second one we were considering as it was an amazing price which she couldn’t match…

when I called, BestBuy didn’t have them in any of their stores here or on their website… went online at Future Shop and discovered this lovely service where you choose what you want and they set it aside so you can go and pick it up without having to go in and search for it… the young man who took my money happily brought the printer to the car and put it in for me…

great customer service is a rare find… kudos to all of these folk…

relaxing day…

15 Sunday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, corn chowder, moon, reading, relaxing day, sunflower

been watching the sunflower plant and it is not following the sun… we think it might be that the sun is reflected in the living room window and it is confused about which way to turn… every day the centre is growing and changing…

sunflower...

sunflower…

had a very relaxing day… watched a few cooking shows this morning…

spent some time making corn chowder and tidying up the kitchen… chowder came out very nice…

spent the remainder of the day reading… lovely to be able to read and nap and read some more…

boiled some small potatoes with dill and a few fresh peas to go along with the little bit of leftover roast from last night and also produced a little cucumber and tomato salad…

better shot of the moon through the tree...

better shot of the moon through the tree…

heading out for a late evening hot tub and then to bed…

 

breakfast…

13 Friday Sep 2013

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bananas, big girl pants, breakfast, habit, morning, morning routine, shake, strawberries, vitamin D

I don’t really like to eat first thing in the morning… this has been my pattern for most of my adult life…around 9 or so, I would happily have bacon and eggs and toast or potatoes if I had the time…

for quite a while over the last year I was getting up and making a shake for breakfast and drinking it before going to work…

spring came and I fell out of the habit, but was having a breakfast bar or some cheese before leaving home, or else taking it with me to have at the office when I arrived…

then I fell completely off the wagon and wasn’t eating anything in the morning…

for the last few weeks I have renewed the habit… I have been having shakes with bananas and strawberries or just strawberries…

I think I feel better when I remember to prepare and drink the shake and will have to get some more bananas for next week as I am out… I have some lovely frozen whole strawberries which I purchased for the Champagne Bubble Party and they are very nice… although they make the shake into a very cold drink which takes quite a while to get down, lol…

I like to put it in the thermos that I got from Cyndi when I was there in June…

purple thermos from Cyndi...

purple thermos from Cyndi…

I am almost out of the shake mix I was using, which I was getting through a friend who ordered it from the States, so I had to be paying attention to when it was starting to run low… am planning to go to SuperStore as they apparently have a good one which I am going to try…

I do find that a routine in the morning is very helpful, although it is easier when it is light… now when I get up for work I need to turn on a light as it is dark outside… guess it is about time to resume the Vitamin D regime…

toothpaste cap…

12 Thursday Sep 2013

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bad habits, big girl pants, messy, toothpaste

been thinking and talking about this quite a bit lately…

messy toothpaste cap...

messy toothpaste cap…

for over 30 of our 41 plus years, I blamed George for the messy toothpaste cap…

so, one would think that now the toothpaste cap would be neat and tidy… but apparently George wasn’t the only one who messed it up… although someone did suggest that he was coming back and messing it up as a little joke…

makes me giggle a bit and also feel a bit bad that I was putting all the blame on him when just possibly I had something to do with it…

wonder what else may have fit in that category…

 

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