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07 Thursday Dec 2023

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sounds can make me a little crazy when I hear them and can’t figure out what they are…

once I know what they are then I am fine…

recently, whenever I closed the fridge door, this odd clicking sound happened…

I tried a few things but couldn’t figure it out… eventually I realized it was the feet on the little reindeer… as the door closed they moved and banged onto the Advent calendar the small reindeer was sitting on…

once I crossed them, the noise disappeared;-)…

foray…

06 Wednesday Dec 2023

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back at it in the garage… our last foray out there, a few weeks ago, involved dumping everything onto the floor to be sorted…

this time we went through and put items back up in the rafters that seemed like good things to keep… I let a lot go, although I know many people who might have wanted some of the bits, lol…

then we put the excess lumber (from the fence build) up there… it had been under a tarp along the edge of the driveway since June when the fence was finished…

everything else on the floor was loaded into the back of the truck and driven away…

there were still a number of items on the floor that needed to find homes…

we “finished” in the garage late Sunday afternoon…

the floor was finally cleared and vacuumed and there was a lot of dust from the wet-vac, lol…

the bench got slightly rearranged as we still need more work done there, lol… and then Indi made it into the space…

woohoo;-)…

recommend…

05 Tuesday Dec 2023

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at our time together last Monday, it was lovely to have everyone in the room, with no technology required…

amongst our conversations, we talked about our favourite pho restaurants… it is always great to hear about spots that others recommend…

later my grandson and I worked away on the garage project even though it was rather cold out, lol…

when we came in, with frozen fingers, the pho we’d talked about earlier called to me;-)…

those delivery apps are very handy, lol…

it was just what those cold fingers needed;-)…

viper…

04 Monday Dec 2023

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tonight we had supper with my son-in-law in Ottawa… earlier today my daughter, on vacation in Europe, texted me that she’d had a burger for her lunch, in memory of her dad;-)…

we tried a new app called Viper, and it worked great… think I will use it again…

burgers were had by all… ours came from one of my beloved’s favourite burger places… and we even shared a chocolate milkshake here… it was delicious…

birthdays often seem hard, but coming together to share a meal is a lovely tradition to remember him…

and it is always such a delight when the technology works, lol…

labelled…

03 Sunday Dec 2023

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I was happy to have my first cup of tea in one of the Christmas mugs last Friday…

for a few years I couldn’t find them as they had been put away carefully in a closet that was packed overly full…

when I found them a while back, I was careful to put them in a location which I labelled so I couldn’t miss them, lol…

the holiday season has clearly arrived…

day-to-day…

02 Saturday Dec 2023

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yesterday, WordPress sent me congratulations on my blog, which turned eleven…

since then I have posted 4031 blogs, which is slightly over one per day…

the blog began 271 days after I lost my beloved, and many of the first ones covered the complications of moving forward as a widow… a lonely business…

sometimes I have deep thoughts, although most of the time they are just about what is happening around me and in my day-to-day life…

it is still fun to think of something to write about…

eleven years…

versions…

01 Friday Dec 2023

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happy first day of Advent… it has always been a special time for me…

this year there are three different calendars for me…

the first is a digital version which comes via email every day with things to do or think about;-)… all focussed on chocolate, without any calories… this was the first one, which provides an opportunity to check items off over 25 days…

the second is on the wall in the living room and this year is filled with nuts and seeds and the odd bit of chocolate…

the third climbs the stairway… it is made up of twenty-four different sized boxes with items in them from the kids in Ottawa… last week a parcel arrived addressed to my grandson, who then filled each one… they look very cute on the stairs…

as I empty a box, I am breaking it down and stashing it at the top behind the last few… I don’t want to lose any of them…

every day is a treat;-)…

bungee…

30 Thursday Nov 2023

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last spring the doorknob on the garage door seized up… the door hadn’t been closing properly for a long time as it had shifted… I’d been using a bungee cord to close it from the outside for ages, lol…

I had done research on how to remove the doorknob, but no matter what I did, couldn’t get it off the door…

eventually my neighbour came over and removed it although he had to hammer it off in the end, lol…

since then the bungee cord has been the way to keep the door closed…

I need a new door, but that didn’t make the project list this year, so I hadn’t done anything about fixing this…

last week we were at the hardware store, picked up a new doorknob, and on Monday while I was visiting with my friends, my grandson installed it…

woohoo…

wax…

29 Wednesday Nov 2023

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had a fun trip to Shelmerdine today…

wasn’t going to get anything, but three Christmas gifts jumped right into the cart…

and I found one of the amaryllis plants coated in wax, that grow without water… hummed and hawed, but in the end had to get one…

it is now sitting on the living room table and I can’t wait to see it grow and produce some flowers;-)

air…

28 Tuesday Nov 2023

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as the holiday season approaches, I’ve been thinking about friends who are going through difficult times…

seems the air is filled with illness… many are dealing with infections and some, even more serious stuff…

feeling like I should be doing more to support them, but not sure how to do that other than sending thoughts and prayers their way…

it also feels like it is becoming less safe away from the house, and I am moving back into hermit-ville…