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mailbox…

30 Tuesday Apr 2019

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started the day admiring a few of the flowers from my birthday bouquet… yesterday morning I removed a few and returned the remainder to the office…

when I got home and checked the mailbox I was very happy…

there was a parcel and a postcard from Hawaii;-)…

the parcel was from one of my “girls” who lives in Vancouver now… she sent me some lovely black currant loose tea… what a sweet girl…

the postcard was from my daughter… she is always sending postcards and while we were on Maui she found one with orchids on it and sent it to me;-)…

just made a cup of the tea… it is lovely…

Maui, day nine…

19 Friday Apr 2019

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today is my birthday…

how amazing to be in such a beautiful place to celebrate…

we started out early this morning to get to the paddle board place by seven, as the water is calmer first thing… my daughter had a great time out on the water and I read and beach-combed… she saw many turtles and fish while she was out there…

we sat on the beach and relaxed for a while and then put on our new dresses (in the bathroom at the beach) and headed to The Mill House for lunch… I’ve been following them on Instagram for quite some time so was excited to get to eat there…

another visitor at The Mill House offered to take our picture and had us move here and there until she got just the shot she wanted, lol…

the food was very tasty and besides the restaurant there were gardens, ponds, zip lines, a farm tour and a few shops… we had a lovely wander around enjoying the beauty… especially enjoyed feeding the ducks, little turtles and fish in the ponds…

what a treat…

shortly after we arrived in Maui, I picked up this amethyst as my birthday present… it is gorgeous…

there were lots of birthday messages, some coming at four in the morning as friends weren’t aware of the time difference, lol…

it is lovely to be feted on your special day…

here is a picture that my daughter took of our AirBnB host Eve, who is also an April 18 birthday person… how cool is that;-)…

Co-op

04 Tuesday Dec 2018

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on my way home from work today I stopped at Co-op to fill up the tank… I do not put gas in the car, mainly because I can’t stand the smell… my beloved always looked after making sure the car was always filled and at top performance…

today marks the seventh birthday for my beloved without him… he would have been seventy…

he liked the gas at Husky… something to do with the quality… for the longest time after he died my kids would fill up the tank for me whenever it was low…

finally I went to get gas, only to learn that they hadn’t pumped gas for ages, lol… pretty embarrassing…

so, now it is Co-op for me… happily they still serve…

today I had them wash the windows and they did a great job… having worked so long at his dad’s service station my beloved was very particular about the cleaning of windshields…

he would have been happy with the job… although maybe not so pleased with how dirty the car is, lol…

goat…

17 Saturday Nov 2018

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yesterday my BS friends and I went out for a birthday lunch… wasn’t really sure whose it was as we are way behind in our celebrating, lol…

only to discover it was my birthday lunch…

what a wonderful time we had… my first time at Little Goat on Portage…

I had moules et frites… very tasty…

such fun spending time with these amazing women…

we have a tradition that the birthday person gets their card in a very old gift bag that we put a photo of us into many years ago… it is rather delicate now after years of travelling from one person to the next…

part of the deal is that you are in charge of the bag once you get it and have to remember where it is for the next time it is needed…

how lucky am I to have these very special women in my life…

camping, day nine…

18 Saturday Aug 2018

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long night with very noisy camper neighbours…

had a big breakfast and then packed up for a family birthday party on the beach…

we went from smoky skies with the sun behind the haze to it peeking out through clouds…

the afternoon was filled with eating, tubing, kneeboarding, wakeboarding, visiting and tanning…

today my daughter and son-in-law had fun on the wakeboard… my son-in-law also played on the kneeboard while my daughter drove the boat… he doesn’t get to do this often, but he still puts everyone else to shame with his skills, lol…

back to the campsite for steak and shrimp dinner and then a fire with lots of family guests…

many of these folks have camped in this area for thirty years… when they move around the campground they often come across others they have camped with when they were young…

camping, day one…

10 Friday Aug 2018

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well, we really weren’t camping as we went to Rabbit Lake for the Northwestern Regatta…

the eldest grandson turned eighteen today so we were up early and drove for an hour, arriving just in time for his first race…

watched races, visited with people, dropped the younger boys off at a friend’s where we had a lovely visit before returning to the regatta for his next race…

at the end of race day, seven of us went out to celebrate the big birthday…

had a great time on a patio, then said goodbye to the older boys and headed back to the campground…

now we are in bed looking forward to day two of the regatta…

graduate…

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

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what a great evening…

met up with a group of friends and family for an early dinner at Hermanos to celebrate the graduate… we also toasted the dad on his birthday…

on to the Concert Hall for the graduation ceremony… there were many early birds like us who wanted to get great seats, lol…

we are so very proud of this young man, who moved from a French immersion school to a fully French school in grade nine, and in the process completed the International Baccalaureate program…

following the ceremony there was lots of photo-taking with proud friends and family;-)…

grandpa would be pleased and I am sure he was watching… I was happy to see that he was wearing my beloved’s high school ring and my mother’s chain;-)…

exciting to see where his next steps will take this very special young man…

grad…

18 Monday Jun 2018

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this is a crazy busy few weeks for our family…

the oldest grandson is graduating from grade 12 next week so we’ve been deciding on gifts and doing some shopping… it’s taken a while but eventually he and I agreed on a leather briefcase/computer bag… he’s planning many more years of schooling so that seems like a great idea…

that same day is the dad’s birthday…

Thursday the middle one turns 13…

a few days after grad, the mom, dad and graduate are heading off on a trip to the east coast…

so there has been lots of collecting and shopping for that as well…

yesterday we picked up a sleeping mat for the grownups and then went in search of the bag for the graduate…

we found a number of options at Bentley and the one he chose is beautiful and had everything he wanted in it… much like his mom, he has expensive taste, lol…

but this will last him for many years, and hopefully he will remember the fun we had picking it out;-)…

then it was off to find a catfish rod for the soon to be thirteen year old… he got to pick a nice one, they added the line to it and we got a few other basics that he will need…

while we were there I got my fishing license… looking forward to time with the boys in the boat or on the dock;-)…

cafe…

14 Monday May 2018

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took some nice shots over the last few days… the cloud formation was very pretty last night… and this morning I took a few photos of the flowers that we picked up yesterday… one is quite beautiful, called starry sky… it is a petunia and I’m not fond of them but it was too beautiful not to bring home…

once I got home tonight I walked over to the Yafa Cafe to meet my buddies for a birthday dinner… we tried a number of items and enjoyed them all…

lovely time with wonderful women;-)…

sentiments…

18 Wednesday Apr 2018

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very early this morning, as I was waking up, I heard the geese fly overhead… what a lovely way to begin my birthday…

sunshine and warm temperatures also contributed to a great day…

had a rose and balloons and a card filled with lovely sentiments…

throughout the day texts came, phone calls of people singing happy birthday, emails, Facebook posts, a gift card…

all of which made me feel very special…

missing my beloved but wearing those big girl pants, lol…

and as I write this, more geese are flying overhead…

I truly am blessed…