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17 Thursday Nov 2016

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some wonderful moments today…

the sky was stunning as I headed downtown… there were a few clouds but the light on them was just beautiful… having to drive means I often don’t get the pictures I would like…

I took in a box of children’s books that had been hanging around the house and watched with delight as three colleagues found treats to take home for their little people…

as I was driving down a street in Charleswood tonight I came across a deer in a yard just quietly standing there…

ended the night with purple hair…

hasn’t had any purple in it for weeks so it was a wonderful treat to have it back…

crazy day…

16 Sunday Mar 2014

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spent time doing some spring cleaning over the weekend…

got a Corning ware pot cleaned which has been covered in grunge for months…

then I emptied out a hall closet, packing up nearly everything that was in it to give away… yay me…

put away some last bits of Christmas decorations, finally… seems easier to do these jobs when I have helpers…

finally when my boys were here we took six boxes of books to the fire station for the Children’s Hospital Book Mart…

the day was cold, but sunny… until about 4, when snow started falling and blowing… at some points during dinner we couldn’t see the house across the street…

before the kids left they had to shovel the sidewalk so I don’t have to walk through a huge pile of snow in the morning…

and I am wearing my new bracelet which my grandson made especially for me…

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not feeling so much like spring just now…

books…

08 Saturday Feb 2014

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between watching the Olympics and doing laundry, I spent some time cleaning off the bookshelves in the hallway…

it is always difficult to give away books… I had to look at each one and make a decision…  most of them had an inscription because I always write in a book when I give it to someone… a few had been given to George and it was a bit hard to give them up… but, I have decided to only keep ones that the little boys will want to read, or ones that I will read again…

hall book shelves...

hall bookshelves with lots of empty space…

today was a good day and I was able to let go of many… can see the shelves with some books on them and some of my treasures and this is helping with the divesting process…

nearly all my cookbooks went… really, these days you can find just about anything on the internet, if it isn’t already in my green binder (which holds all my family favourites )…  I also gave up some of the books I have had since I was a teenager… including some great poetry books…

was able to fill 3 boxes and started a box of other give-away knick-knacks… managed to get them downstairs even though they were a bit heavy…

still lots to sort through, but I am rather proud of how much I got done… hopefully tomorrow will also be a good day for divesting…