12 Sunday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blizzard, family, moments, nature, shovel, sidewalks, snow, sun, two inches, weather, widow
well, it was called a blizzard, but it just felt like a lot-of-snow day, lol… Google tells me we had about two inches…
it looks pretty now that the sun has returned… and everything is very quiet… not sure how long that will last before cars and people take over the street…
hopefully, someone else is going to shovel the sidewalks;-)…
12 Tuesday Apr 2022
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it looks like the goose couple may be moving in across the way… I’ve seen them two or three times recently…
this morning I spent time enjoying their activities…
one eats while the other acts as a guard to be sure no enemies come along and disturb them…
I think they are spending time in the creek, but I haven’t spotted them there yet…
maybe I will see a nest before long…
that is of course if they stay through the blizzard🤪…
20 Sunday Feb 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blizzard, furnace, knee-deep, moments, nature, Olympics, shovel, snow, Technology, vents, weather, widow
got up at 5:30 am to watch the Olympics closing ceremony…
while I was cozied up in the bed, I could hear the furnace turn on and then off, and on and off, and on and off… I knew immediately what the issue was…
for the last three days we have been under a blizzard warning… I hadn’t thought that much snow had fallen, but I was wrong…
put on leggings, socks and my outer gear and went out the front door with a shovel and a straightened coat hanger… over the last years I have learned how to clean out the vents and be sure there is no snow inside them…
the snow was knee-deep in many places and I didn’t shovel, I just climbed through…
the vents weren’t visible except for a small hole where the exhaust vent was still blowing out air… the intake was under about eight inches of snow…
only took about ten minutes to dig them out… the snow was tossed into the middle of the driveway because there isn’t anywhere else to put it… did a quick swipe with the hanger and headed back in…
once I was in the house I could hear the furnace working… yay…
climbed back under the covers and watched the rest of the show, although about half an hour later my legs started to feel cold…
another example of those big girl pants, lol…
01 Tuesday Feb 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, blizzard, moments, nature, rough, shovelling, snow, squirrel, widow, wind, window
we’ve had some rough weather over the last few days… they called it a blizzard, although not too much snow fell, but it certainly blew around…
as I was making my breakfast I looked outside and saw this squirrel, covered in snow, stuffing its face at the feeder…
it looked very cold…
a bit later, I took some pictures in the den…
the window was covered in sticky snow…
the blowing continued for most of the day, and finally stopped in the evening…
I see more snow shovelling in my future, lol…
26 Sunday Jun 2016
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big girl pants, blizzard, Dairy Queen, drive, flowers, goldfinch, overcast, serendipity, swimsuits, widow
up early again… no doubt tomorrow I will want to sleep in…
another serendipitous moment when I peeked out the patio doors and caught sight of this beautiful goldfinch having breakfast at the feeder, on this overcast/rainy day…
put on those big girl pants and drove around the Perimeter to get to my daughter’s place… we went shopping before the family birthday party for the middle grandson and his daddy…
picked up new swimsuits for everyone to have here for the hot tub and one for me to leave at their house for their new hot tub…
tested out the hot tub, and both it, and the new swimsuit, were great…
also picked up a Canada Day t-shirt…
my older daughter encouraged me a few years ago to have an appropriate shirt on Canada Day so I’ve been doing that…
after supper the birthday boys blew out the candles on a Blizzard Cake from Dairy Queen…
drove home and got a shot of two more hibiscus flowers…
quite a fun day, even if I am exhausted, lol…
28 Saturday Dec 2013
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big girl pants, blizzard, cake for breakfast, Canada Goose jacked, Christmas pedicures, memories, snow on the ground
was surprised this morning when I woke up… heard a truck and jumped up to put out the garbage and recycling thinking the trucks were already in the lane… was shocked when I saw how much snow was on the ground… probably was stepping through 5 inches as I dragged out the bins… it would have looked lovely, if I hadn’t needed to go out in it, lol…
snow coming down first thing…
the sleepover party was still sleeping but then Ron got up and went out to shovel, even through it was still snowing… could barely see my footprints as they had filled in with fresh snow…
kids got up and we had cake and milk for breakfast… Crystal and Jeff came over and we girls headed over to a local Spa for Christmas pedicures… thank goodness Crystal was driving with snow tires, because the roads were pretty bad… when we got there the plow was cleaning out the parking lot and we hoped that we wouldn’t be snowed in when we left…
the Spa was empty, very strange as it is usually very busy… we were some of their last clients as most people decided to stay home rather than go out in the bad weather…
happy pedicured toes…
driving home the wind was blowing the snow and we could barely see where we were going… good thing we live so close, lol… we were not going to miss our pedicures…
beautifully cleaned fish tank…
arrived home to a beautifully cleaned fish tank… I think the fish were even happier than I was…
had various leftovers for lunch and the sleepover crowd left… naps were had all around… Ron went out to do some more shovelling and tested my warm jacket…
the shoveller trying out my Canada Goose cold temperature jacket…
finally the sun came out and the wind died down in the backyard and I got this picture…
the sun came out, there is a lot of snow out there…
made some turkey soup and finally had my leftover turkey dinner… then watched some TV… one child is out, the other playing games…
what a memory-filled day…
11 Thursday Apr 2013
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a while ago I rented a limo for my guests, to bring them to our party and then take them home again… I wasn’t really happy with the service and after speaking with a few people, wrote to the owner of the company… I wanted to wait till I heard back from him before writing about it, but he hasn’t responded…
in January I had arranged for a limo to take us to the airport for our family vacation to Mexico… there was a blizzard taking place so we ended up going to the airport in a van as there was some concern about getting there in the limo… when they picked us up on our return from Mexico they had an SUV limo which was a lovely treat and made the boys very happy…
wonderful SUV limo that brought us home from the airport…
this time, the limo driver arrived for the first pick-up an hour early, requested a gratuity, even before he had picked anyone up, and then didn’t even open and close doors for them… it was very disappointing and I felt my guests had not had a very good experience…
now, the question will be, do I ever give them a call for another trip, or not…
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