25 Monday Apr 2022
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recently I washed my tissues and paper towels… now they are all reusable…
once the tissues were clean, dry, and folded, I put them into the old Kleenex box I’ve been using for them… it works great to dispense them one by one…
since I’ve been using them I’ve taped one end of the box over and over but it is getting a bit messy looking…
this time I thought about using an elastic band instead, and it worked perfectly…
what a great idea… nothing slow about me, lol…
23 Saturday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, bunnies, listened, moments, nature, overcast, rain, reading, snow, thunder, weather, widow
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately…
today I spent most of the time in the living room, with the light on, as it has been raining off and on the whole time…
besides enjoying my book I’ve also watched birds and bunnies and listened to thunder roll across the sky…
there were chickadees and house finches and juncos… a squirrel has been trying to get to the feeder on the window and I kept rapping on the window to discourage it, lol…
across the street, three bunnies have spent a good portion of the day snacking on goodies in the grass… the rain has certainly melted most of the snow, so I guess new treats have come to light…
as I write this, there is even more thunder and now a bit of lightning…
not sure if I will finish the book today…
22 Friday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, Earth Day, forests, happy, healing, memories, moments, nature, reconciliation, remembering, SCO, Technology, trees, walk, widow
this morning I received an email from the David Suzuki Foundation about Healing Forests…
forests are one of my favourite places and I had already been thinking of Cathedral Grove and the banyan tree in Lahaina on Maui…
as a matter of fact I chose a tree mug for my tea…
for years I have walked through a portion of the forest at Assiniboine Park on my way to the English Gardens…
after making a donation to the Healing Forests, I came across an IG Live as they were broadcasting a ceremony from The Bay where it was transferred to the Southern Chiefs Organization…
the project looks amazing and is supported by all levels of government…
I have always found forests, whatever their size, to be restorative and healing, so these two things that came to me on Earth Day made me very happy…
happy earth day 🌏🌍🌎…
20 Wednesday Apr 2022
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19 Tuesday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, card, family, food, moments, nature, nervous, out and about, Park Cafe, restaurant, semi-normal, weather, widow
today, I went to a restaurant… first time in over two years…
I wasn’t sure how I would feel… whether I’d be nervous or stressed out, lol… happily I didn’t feel either of those things…
we arrived and there were few people in the space, so that was good…
we were seated near the windows and watched many geese fly up and over the building…
our server, one of my favourites, was masked and pleasant… after breakfast I ordered a beet salad and some falafels to have for my lunch…
it was nice to do something semi-normal…
a bit later in the day a friend dropped by with a beautiful handmade birthday card and we had a brief chat on the steps…
a bit of shovelling, a nap, and reading took up the rest of the day…
18 Monday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, bonbons, bouquet, chocolate, Decadence Chocolates, flowers, friends, moments, seventy-first, treats, weather, widow
today, for my seventy-first birthday, I’ve been treated to phone calls, texts, and messages on social media…
I’ve also received a gift of a flower bouquet subscription, an actual bouquet of flowers, and chocolates… these people know me well, lol…
my buddies also came by and sang to me on the sidewalk…
our birthday bag has travelled many a mile from one house to the next and has been repaired a number of times… it has even gone missing for a year or two, but always turns back up…
just before they surprised me, I had been listening to music released in 1951… much of it seems very old, lol…
first thing this morning, I went out and shovelled the steps and sidewalk after more snow over the last few days… it was a treat to have blue sky, sunshine, and weather warm enough to wear a spring jacket… and the snow on the trees was pretty…
I also did some yoga, had a nap, took flower photos, got some reading done in the sunshine, attended a Zoom meeting and possibly ate a bonbon or two with some tea…
pretty fine way to spend a birthday…
17 Sunday Apr 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, Easter, food, happy, lunch, memories, microwaved, moments, supper, treat, widow
today is Easter, so I decided to make all my meals a treat;-)…
for breakfast I had two poached eggs with a potato patty…
there may have been a little chocolate eaten…
lunch was the last of my dimsum from Gimli Fish… the three packages are around $10 each and they provide three meals… it is a great option for me…
I did have a laugh when I microwaved the first batch… instead of using the timing for the microwave, I used the ones for steaming… it didn’t taste quite as good as usual that time, lol…
supper was a version of stuffed pork chops which I used to make for my beloved and I all the time… I used country style spareribs over my homemade stuffing…
came out beautifully and the bottom of the stuffing was deliciously crisp…
great food;-)…
16 Saturday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, cozy, garden, happy, hooting, moments, nature, owls, time, trees, widow
as I was getting ready for bed last night I heard hooting…
I went into the computer room and checked out the trees and spotted two very large owls getting cozy in the tree…
one flew away and the other stayed on the branch… didn’t hear any more hoots…
how blessed was I to be at the right place and time to see this;-)…
checked the tree out today but so far there doesn’t appear to be any nesting happening…
15 Friday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, moments, nature, neighbour, shovelling, snow, snowblower, treat, weather, widow
what a treat this morning;-)…
I’d been planning to go out and shovel the steps and sidewalk to the street and had even put on the extra pants this morning…
I had also moved my winter jacket from the bottom of the door and was surprised to find snow along the threshold… put my jacket next to the vent to warm it up a bit…
just before I was getting ready to head out, I heard my neighbour’s snowblower…
not only did he do the main portion of the sidewalk and the paths from his driveway to mine, he also shovelled the front steps;-)…
I finished dressing and went out and shovelled the last six or eight feet to the road so that people can make it to the door, lol…
we had a nice little visit outside before heading into our houses…
later, I went out back and shovelled a path to the hot tub… not sure if it will open as there is a lot of ice along the edges…
but, I have the option if the ice melts…
14 Thursday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, moments, portal, son-in-law, taxes, Technology, widow
technology is a wonderful thing…
a while ago I gathered all my donation documents and printed them so I would have them ready to go with my tax documentation…
then I got a notice reminding me I could upload everything to their portal…
after that I had to consult with my computer geek to sort out where scans went once they made it past the printer, lol… he even put a link on my desktop so I would be able to find them, lol…
I scanned and named all of the pieces of information… at last I got everything uploaded and then waited…
before long I heard back by email that there were documents for me to review…
once I’d reviewed, signed and scanned them, I uploaded them to the portal…
and before you know it my taxes had been submitted…
always makes me think of how tax time was so stressful for my beloved and how much easier it is now to get them done…
