08 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, difficult, family, flowers, foam, moments, photos, treat, vase, water, widow
dug out an old watering jug so that I could set the vase of flowers into it and fill it with water so the floral foam inside the vase could soak up all the water it needed…
took a while, but after half an hour or so I was able to get it out with a bit of finagling…
it is amazingly difficult to add fresh water to the container every day, lol…
05 Sunday Mar 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, eleven, family, flowers, gone, memories, moments, Ottawa, purple, remembering, time, treat, widow
got a call from the florist Friday, advising they had a delivery for me…
not long after, the doorbell rang and a parcel was handed to me…
when I removed the packaging, I found a beautiful purple vase filled with flowers… what a treat…
they were from the kids in Ottawa… to celebrate my beloved… today will mark eleven years since he left us…
time has flown by and barely moved…
I am going to enjoy these beautiful flowers and take many, many, photos of them as I remember all the wonderful times we had together…
I have been, and continue to be, blessed…
23 Tuesday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, combining, drill, flowers, glads, happy, moments, weather, widow
started the morning gathering up all my bouquets, combining a few together, and tidying up another…
a bit sad as the glads were done…
then I took out the drill and put the second screw into the motion sensor on the deck… angling it as my son-in-law suggested… and it worked perfectly…
the rocks that were holding it up are now back in amongst the trees…
05 Friday Aug 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, family, flowers, moments, subscription, travelling, widow
I’ve been enjoying my flower bouquets…
last week’s is still doing rather well in the living room…
and this week’s has been travelling around with me in the garden…
such a wonderful treat;-)…
18 Monday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, bonbons, bouquet, chocolate, Decadence Chocolates, flowers, friends, moments, seventy-first, treats, weather, widow
today, for my seventy-first birthday, I’ve been treated to phone calls, texts, and messages on social media…
I’ve also received a gift of a flower bouquet subscription, an actual bouquet of flowers, and chocolates… these people know me well, lol…
my buddies also came by and sang to me on the sidewalk…
our birthday bag has travelled many a mile from one house to the next and has been repaired a number of times… it has even gone missing for a year or two, but always turns back up…
just before they surprised me, I had been listening to music released in 1951… much of it seems very old, lol…
first thing this morning, I went out and shovelled the steps and sidewalk after more snow over the last few days… it was a treat to have blue sky, sunshine, and weather warm enough to wear a spring jacket… and the snow on the trees was pretty…
I also did some yoga, had a nap, took flower photos, got some reading done in the sunshine, attended a Zoom meeting and possibly ate a bonbon or two with some tea…
pretty fine way to spend a birthday…
06 Sunday Feb 2022
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amaryllis, arrange, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, flowers, moments, nature, plants, snow, vase, widow
took some time to arrange the amaryllis plants…
right now three are blooming, so I put them together on the living room table…
first I took apart the last of my New Year’s bouquet and used the vase to set one of the pots inside…
there is still one plant waiting to bloom on the dining room table… when it opens, I think I will add it to the collection in the living room…
having fresh blooms in the house makes me happy, particularly during these cold and snowy days…
12 Friday Mar 2021
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23 Wednesday Dec 2020
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bouquet, Christmas treat, flowers, friendship, gift, her big girl pants, photographs, special people, treat, widow
today I got a lovely surprise when the doorbell rang and a bouquet of flowers was delivered…
I have been missing fresh flowers and they were even on my christmas list…
they were from a dear friend, and I have spent a good portion of the day taking photographs of them…
I have moved them from area to area as the day has gone on…
often I look up words to see if I have already used them for a post title, and today I found this post… it was for an event that this friend and I were both working on, lol…
what a delightful treat…
19 Thursday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, bouquet, flowers, memories, moments, orchids, retirement, roses, supplier, surprise, treat, weather, widow
yesterday I received a message that some flowers were coming my way…
I spoke with the florist who advised they would arrive before end of day…
but then, 6 pm came and went… they usually close at that time, so I figured there would be no flowers…
around 7:30 they arrived… still wasn’t sure who was sending them…
they were well wrapped because it was cold outside…
opened them up to discover a beautiful bouquet of orchids, roses and carnations…
they were from a Toronto supplier I had worked with over the last ten years…
a lovely surprise…
07 Saturday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, board, bouquet, camera, flowers, happy, moments, pictures, presented, relaxing, vase, widow
last Friday I was presented with a lovely bouquet of flowers by our Board…
I have been taking pictures of them ever since… so happy to have my camera back to do so…
today I trimmed the stems and put the flowers into a different vase…
flowers make me happy and taking pictures of them is very relaxing…
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