14 Thursday Sep 2023
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finally went for a walk a week ago…
took a few books and dropped them off at a Little Library…
on my walk I got a few nice photos…
this flower bed had purple in it and on the planter and behind is a purple picnic table;-)…
didn’t go all the way to the Park, but want to get back into the habit, so decided to start small…
felt good;-)…
01 Wednesday Feb 2023
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great excitement…
got a call from my next door neighbour… we are both readers and share books on a regular basis…
she was at a thrift store and found books by one of our favourite authors… she wanted to check to see if we had read all the ones that were available…
we chatted and went through the list that I’ve made as I’ve read the books… I used the list inside one of the covers and have noted each book we’ve read…
we discovered six… yay…
once she dropped them off, I went through the list and marked the books in order of where they are on the list, which is the order I will read them… I also included three that I had just purchased…
so, you may not hear from me for a while, lol…
28 Thursday Apr 2022
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not too long ago my daughter sent me photos of two books that she thought I might like… they were at Costco and she wondered if I wanted her to buy and mail them to me…
I thought they looked good, but said I would see if the kids here could pick them up for me;-)…
a few days ago a friend checked to see if I needed anything from Costco and I mentioned these books…
she picked them up for me and came by today to drop them off… I asked if she had time for coffee and she said she did if I was okay with her coming into the house…
I feel like I am getting more comfortable with having individuals inside these days…
we talked about art, family treasures, grandkids, the weather, and food… a great visit…
now I have a bit more reading to do;-)…
25 Tuesday Jan 2022
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decided recently that it was time to change out the living room table…
so I the removed all the purple and silver ornaments and put them away…
then collected the books I haven’t read yet and inserted them into the four spaces… my neighbour has been sharing books with me and I am a little behind in my reading…
I also put the blooming amaryllis, a violet, and the last of the New Year’s bouquet on it…
looking at the table should encourage me to make more time for reading;-)…
26 Saturday Jun 2021
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Wednesday was a busy day…
got the bathtub pond up and running…
then climbed into the main pond to clean out the pump…
after lunch my son-in-law and middle grandson came by… one levelled the waterfall stone so that water doesn’t leak out and need to be replaced as much… he also spread soil in the front, filled containers and tidied up the dirt pile…
the other mowed and whipper snipped the front and garden, including along the lane (sometimes we forget about that area)… he also helped with the soil cleanup…
they left, and the oldest grandson arrived to take me downtown where I got vaccinated for the second time;-)… as a treat we got ice cream cones on the way home;-)…
once home he changed a leaky hose and carried many boxes of books to the front step for pickup… we put them in plastic bags because they weren’t being picked up until Friday, but were too heavy for me to move, lol…
really was a busy one…
13 Saturday Feb 2021
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I miss my beloved all the time but seems more so around this time of year…
he was a romantic and always made it a special holiday for me… usually that included roses…
of course there haven’t been too many for me recently, lol…
I ordered books as a treat and didn’t expect them until the 15th, but they arrived early…
woohoo, looking forward to reading in the sunny living room over the next while…
04 Monday Jan 2021
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I’ve been frustrated for a long time because I couldn’t find my Kobo reader… I think I started the search around May…
I came across it ages before that and put it away carefully, sigh… at that point I also had no idea where the charger was for it…
so, I knew it was here, and I’d been searching everywhere for it, particularly after my daughter suggested that one of the universal chargers would likely power it up…
I’ve been using the tablet, but that only works in the house due to the way that the light bounces off it outside… so that meant I needed paper books all summer, lol… I still have one last book from my last online summer purchases…
this morning I was tidying in the bedroom and there it was tucked in along the edge of one of the shelves…
honestly…
and I even found a charger that worked, from my old Blackberry, lol…
woohoo… gonna get reading;-)…
21 Monday Sep 2020
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recently I spent a good portion of the day in the computer room tidying…
I’ve been dumping empty boxes in there for months and there were about 10 boxes of books that were packed up before the pandemic but hadn’t made it to the fire station…
when I am on my Skype calls with my BS buddies I keep losing video of them, so I thought I’d try a call from the main computer which is hooked up directly to the internet… hope that helps…
so, I had to clean the room up so when I was on the call I wouldn’t be horribly embarrassed, lol…
this morning I carried all but one of the boxes of books out to the garage and put them on the newly emptied shelves… they weigh a lot… the last one is way too heavy for me…
for tonight’s call, one person wasn’t available, one person couldn’t get her camera working and in the middle of the call, my computer decided it was going to upgrade, so I was off the call for ten minutes or so…
interesting experiment, lol…
08 Monday Jun 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, books, Chapters, delivery, happy place, moments, read, widow
very happy that my order from Chapters/Indigo arrived yesterday…
I did laugh a bit when I realized I had ordered two of one of them… good that it was on sale, sigh… should have used the computer instead of my phone to place the order… I left the extra one out of the photo and plan to see if one of my friends would like it;-)…
the books will sit on the dining room table for a few days before I take them out one by one as I read them… it has been fun reading on the tablet in the living room and the paperbacks in the garden;-)…
24 Sunday May 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, books, comfort, friends, garden, Kobo, location, moments, paperback, read, reading, reread, shopping, sunshine, tablet, Technology, widow
I now have an interesting reading plan, which depends on location……
if I am reading in the house I go into the living room and read on my tablet with Kobo… I had purchased a great number of books a few years ago and then completely forgot about them… this has proven very useful;-)…
if I am reading outside, I use paperback books… I find it too hard to read using the tablet due to the reflection…
today I just finished the last of the books that have been lent to me by friends and my next door neighbour… going back to the bookshelf to find something to reread…
