03 Thursday Apr 2025
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April, big girl pants, blessed, books, crystals, living room, memories, moments, nature, shells, square, table, weather, widow
started April by changing up the living room table…
this time I moved all the crystals to one square, filled a second square with shells… the third square included birds and critters… the final square with some of my favourite books…
looks good…
08 Saturday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, cleaning, fish tanks, fixed, happy, moments, oopsie, plants, pumps, trickery, widow
had an oopsie yesterday as I was in the process of cleaning out two of the pumps…
the pothos that sits on the shelf above the tanks had gotten really full and long, so I decided to trim it, sigh…
apparently I should have measured, lol…
the reason the plant is there is to cover up the space between two of the tanks where the pump fits…
so, once the pumps were cleaned up, a little bit of trickery took place…
I found a vase and filled it with the cut off pieces of the plant trying to have as many as possible high inside the vase…
it was still obvious that there was a space, so I added three paperback books that I had already read and put the vase back….
can’t even tell now… and once all the cuttings take root, I will pot them up and add them to the indoor garden, whew;-)…
11 Saturday Jan 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, books, later, library, moments, read, Technology, time, widow
the stair library has returned;-)…
now to get back to the work of reading them all;-)…
see you later…
29 Friday Nov 2024
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19 Tuesday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, collection, family, Fern Michaels, JD Robb, moments, reading, widow
on Sunday I finished the last of a large collection of books by Fern Michaels…
I had received the first of two boxes and a bag full of them at the beginning of August…
I have enjoyed every single one of the fifty-four and was a bit sad that I’ve finished them all… I can’t even think of how many hours I’ve spent in the garden and the living room devouring them, lol…
not half an hour later, the next book by JD Robb was delivered, woohoo;-)…
excited to read this and all the other books that have been on the sidelines since I started the Fern Michaels collection;-)…
31 Thursday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, casserole, grandson, house, Lagostina, lighten, moments, pass-alongs, shopping, widow
made a trip to share some of our pass-alongs…
the trunk and some of the backseat were filled with items that will lighten the house, lol…
and then we found some books and a cute little casserole pan to bring home… I think it will be a perfect size…
we did leave more than we brought home, lol…
19 Thursday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, books, cash, GLOBOsapiens, JD Robb, Louise Penny, moments, read, shopping, Technology, trunk, widow
finally made it to GLOBOsapiens Used Bookstore, as a number of friends had told me about it…
took a box full of books that I had read, which have been rattling around in the trunk for weeks, and came home with a box full of books that I have been looking for…
they only take cash and luckily I had some on me… and, because I brought books in, most of the ones I purchased were half price…
I’ve been looking for the JD Robb In Death series for quite some time so was thrilled when I found twenty to add to my library woohoo…
now to add them to my list so I know which ones I have and which ones I still need;-)… and figure out where they are going to go…
11 Wednesday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, family, Fern Michael, food, happy, library, moments, order, potato salad, reading, supply, treat, widow
was very happy on Sunday afternoon when a new supply of Fern Michaels books arrived…
I was on the last two books, so it was perfect timing;-)…
I also got a container of homemade potato salad, woohoo…
took a bit of time on Monday to add them to the stair library;-)… before setting them on the steps, I had to sort them in order…
lots of great reading ahead;-)…
05 Thursday Sep 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, books, different, little free library, moments, morning, new-to-me, walk, weather, widow
today I added a couple of books to my stair library…
picked them up at a Little Free Library on my morning walk…
both are from some of my favourite authors;-)…
this was a new-to-me library as I took a slightly different route today…
28 Wednesday Aug 2024
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bag, big girl pants, blessed, books, buddy, friend, library, moments, plants, pond, restocked, stair library, widow
so excited when I got a text from my book-buddy saying she was on the way over with a couple of bags of reading material for me…
woohoo…
it was a drop and run as she had places to be, lol…
and then I restocked the stair library;-)…
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