05 Wednesday Aug 2026
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first thing the other day, I turned the mattress and changed all the bedding, including putting on a different comforter…
looked pretty good…
when the cleaners came they rearranged it and made it look so much nicer…
maybe I am too lazy to change up the pillows every time I make the bed😂…
04 Tuesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, exercises, insurance, moments, physio, reimbursed, Technology, widow
very happy to discover that the physio I’ve been paying for is covered under my insurance…
I had gone online to check for amounts and annual start date but couldn’t find any information…
I finally got around to calling and discovered, after talking to a very helpful woman, that I do have coverage and could submit my claims online to be reimbursed…
made me quite pleased as the visits are costly…
after filing the required information, it just took a few days for the money to make its way back into my credit union account…
and I continue to do new and interesting exercises to get back to my best…
02 Sunday Aug 2026
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anniversary, apartment, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Chevelle, friends, memories, widow
yesterday marked fifty-six years since my beloved and I were married…
unbelievable that I have spent the last fourteen without him…
just last week I discovered that a young friend has moved into the apartment building where I lived with my parents at that time…
I can still remember looking down from the balcony and seeing our brown Chevelle, as the guys dropped it off that morning…
and bursting into tears of excitement;-)…
yesterday, I got this photograph looking down from their apartment balcony to where our car would have been that morning…
I spent some time looking for a photo that I was sure I had, of the decorated car from the balcony of our apartment, but could not find it, lol…
amazing that they are living there now😊…
01 Saturday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fixed, garden, grandson, moments, temporarily, vinyl siding, widow
this morning my middle grandson arrived with a coworker to silicone the vinyl siding that he’d temporarily fixed a while ago…
they were here for less than fifteen minutes, and in that time fixed the siding and checked out an issue on the shed roof which he will come back to sort out when he has time…
and then, off they went 😊…
I certainly am blessed…
30 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, deadhead, garden, moments, nature, plants, trimmed, unbearable, virginia creeper, water, weather, widow
up early on Wednesday to tidy the garden and water everything… even gave the new grass a dribble…
started with the hose and gave big drinks to all three pots in the front yard, and those in the garden…
then, while the irrigation system and drip hose did their thing, I filled a bucket with overly eager virginia creeper and did some deadheading…
finally, the cushions came out and I was able to sit, read, and enjoy the garden before it became unbearable outside…
29 Wednesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dwarf morning glory, envisioned, family, flowers, garden, nature, obelisk, plants, widow
I planted these morning glory seeds that my daughter sent to me from Ottawa as part of my Advent Calendar…
I didn’t read anything about them and envisioned they would grow up this obelisk…
apparently, they are dwarf morning glories…
and that means they don’t climb, lol…
28 Tuesday Jul 2026
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the new arch has already produced enough purple beans for a meal;-)…
this makes me very happy as the tomatoes and beans in the side garden are doing nothing 😔…
I topped and tailed them, and then cut them into bite-sized pieces…
as they boiled, of course the colour dissipated, and they turned into green beans…
but, they were delicious and I enjoyed every last one…
26 Sunday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, chrysalises, garden, hamper, moments, monarch, nature, pop-up, widow
went out to get a couple of pop-up laundry hampers for the monarch caterpillars…
hope they protect them from the birds…
so far I’ve spotted three, which is about the correct number for the amount of leaves on the milkweed plants;-)…
and I’m hoping that they might end up building their chrysalises in them as well…
25 Saturday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, chocolate-covered, family, grandson, macadamia nuts, sarong, sea turtle, spoiled, widow
my housemate was away on vacation and just returned…
I was treated to an absolutely beautiful kitchen towel that has a sea turtle on it…
a light and airy sarong…
and 3 boxes of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts…
Costco used to carry them in a big plastic jug, but they haven’t had them for ages…
talk about spoiled 😊…
23 Thursday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, cancer-free, core, difficult, exercise, moments, physiotherapist, surgery, widow
I’ve had my yoga mat out for a few weeks now… since I saw my physiotherapist…
for the first week I did a couple of exercises involving rocking my legs and lifting them to my chest… not too difficult and they seemed to help with the twisted knee…
then, the next week a new exercise involving my core came along…
this one seems more complicated and harder… which also makes it harder to get down and do them, lol…
but, this week marks 14 years since I had a hernia/hysterectomy surgery to deal with cancer of the uterus which made me cancer-free…
that puts a little thing like a difficult exercise into perspective, doesn’t it🤨….
