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27 Thursday Nov 2025

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a very large, and heavy, box arrived in the mail…

I am sure that it is full of items for my Advent calendar… woohoo…

just yesterday morning I brought down the bag full of boxes which have been flattened…

my housemate will be rebuilding the twenty-four boxes and inserting the various items from my daughter into them…

then I will get the boxes and set them out to be opened one at a time during Advent;-)…

desktop…

05 Wednesday Feb 2025

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finished up the card box project, woohoo…

went through all of them and had no difficulty moving excess to the pass-along box…

it is always interesting to me how one day it is a simple process to toss/give away things, and another day you can’t let go of anything…

I relabelled some of the dividers to make them fit with my types of cards…

a pile has gone into the pass-along box and the rest put behind the appropriate tab in the box…

happily there is still room left for additional cards, lol… and my desktop is clean and tidy once more…

job well done, if I say so myself;-)…

crammed…

01 Saturday Feb 2025

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started on a little project…

the plan is to sort through all of the cards so that they will fit into the card box…

this is going to be difficult as they were previously crammed into the box, lol…

now I will sort through all of the cards and decide which ones need to be given away…

decluttering is always a process, sometimes more difficult than others…

wish me luck;-)…

Freebird…

04 Tuesday Apr 2023

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been laughing for a few days… not long ago I was searching for the box that the Freebird camera came in as we were having trouble reconnecting it to the wifi…

I always keep the boxes of any technology in the Computer Room, even though I get teased about it… so, it was really frustrating when I couldn’t find the box…

so, looked out the window in the den, which I have done every day, and realized the box was under the camera that looks into the garden, lol…

I knew I hadn’t thrown it out…

arched…

30 Thursday Mar 2023

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well, that was fun;-)…

ordered an arched trellis online and it arrived a few days ago… I was a little worried because the package was taped up a lot and I wondered if all the pieces were going to be inside…

I hadn’t planned to put it together until the snow was gone, but was a bit worried about missing pieces and what I would do if I didn’t sort it out till later…

when it was undone, some of the bags appeared to have been opened and then re-closed… and, there were no instructions…

took a while, but after looking at the information from the link where I bought it, it came together nicely…

currently it is in three pieces… the two sides and the arch… not sure I could get it outside if I join it all together… the final two cross pieces and screws are waiting to finish it up…

might take the pieces out to the garage and finish it, or just wait for the snow in the side garden to melt so I can put it in its new home…

sure hope it fits the way I want…

hooked…

22 Friday Jul 2022

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drove to Oak Street on Tuesday, just before the rain, to pick up my bouquet subscription…

I took a box that hooked into the seatbelt so that the flowers wouldn’t fall over… it worked perfectly…

such a treat to get fresh flowers every week… and they are lasting very well…

got a few photos as the drops started to fall…

box…

01 Friday May 2020

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the kitchen counter looked rather sad because it was covered in stuff… I’ve been setting things that have come in the mail onto it to quarantine until I can open them, lol…

happily there were two packages filled with chocolate bars sitting there that had served their time… they were ready to add to my chocolate stash…

previously I’d been using two small plastic containers, but clearly that wasn’t going to work now… I searched through the house looking for the right size container and came upon an orange flower box which had held a flower delivery… how happy is that…

cleaned off the shelf in the cupboard which held the chocolate and some larger mugs and then reorganized… I moved the mugs to the back as I haven’t been using them much lately and then put the lovely orange box, filled with all the chocolate, towards the front of the shelf…

looks great and now it will be easier to get to…

of course I have to make sure not to eat too much chocolate… but now there is easier access…

watermelon…

27 Friday Oct 2017

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finally got back to ordering ChefsPlate meals… took the summer off as we were camping a fair bit and there were so many fresh veggies in the Markets…

on Wednesday my first box arrived… I had chosen two meatless options and one beef… filled the fridge up, lol…

life had been very full so I haven’t had an opportunity to make anything until tonight…

chose a delicious Beef Taco Salad… it had watermelon radishes, which were beautiful to look at and tasted a bit spicy… first time I’ve tried them…

happy to have the time to make the meal… it is always fun to follow the directions and see what turns out… saved the second half separately so that nothing will be soggy… just need to combine and eat;-)…

looking forward to a weekend of figure skating on tv…

good thing that I have lunch already prepared for tomorrow…

enjoyment…

06 Monday Mar 2017

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so I’ve been moving the flowers around a lot…

when I first opened them, I had them on the dining room table…

then they moved to the living room… I spent time there reading…

when I went upstairs to the bedroom they went along with me… I’ve really enjoyed them wherever I’ve been…

this morning I boxed them up and took them to the office… they smelled delicious and looked wonderful all day long… my colleagues enjoyed them too…

then at the end of the day, I put them back in the box and brought them home again…

they were in the living room for a while but are now here with me in the bedroom…

wanting to get as much enjoyment out of them as possible…

ChefsPlate…

18 Tuesday Oct 2016

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the lack of light and sunshine drags me down…

when I got home tonight I was exhausted and had a nap before even thinking about dinner…

when I woke up I made sesame tofu banh mi with enoki mushrooms, pickled vegetables and sweet soy glaze…

it was the final meal from last week’s ChefsPlate box… good thing because this week’s box arrives tomorrow, lol… 

opening the bag is a bit like Christmas and the excitement starts to build as each piece comes out… 

reading the directions and following the steps in order is fun and gave me energy…

it turned out very tasty… although a little spicy… might not put all the chili peppers in the next one…

and the great news is that tomorrow’s lunch is all ready;-)…