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runners…

13 Friday May 2016

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strange weather today… had planned to meet a friend for a walk around the Gardens at the Park…

sky was lovely when I was first up at 6:45…


if you look hard, you might see the robin in the tree… then this…


all those white dots – snow, sigh… so we decided to meet for breakfast instead…

actually wore runners because I didn’t want to get my toes wet and the temperature was around zero…


after breakfast I went for a walk to and around the English Garden…

couldn’t get into the Leo Mol portion but was excited to see they are replacing the gravel path with bricks… they have replaced other paths in the Garden as well… looks very nice and will be easier to walk on…


the tulips are just starting to open… glad I went over today… hope to get there next week to see them in full bloom…


finally, about 6, the sun came out… crazy day, lol…

guests…

31 Thursday Mar 2016

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woke early and looked out to see this lovely view of the moon…

 
a bit later I got ready and walked over to the “A” to meet my daughter for breakfast…
  
waiting for my guest… getting easier and easier to sit in a restaurant on my own… big girl pants, lol…

we went to a tile store to look at countertops for my upcoming kitchen reno…

it was great fun to walk through the shop, where they were cutting with giant tile saws, and the yard, looking at all the different options… they had to lift one out of a warehouse and bring it outside with a forklift… I think this is it…

  
made the whole process more real… I am getting a new kitchen…

we ran a couple of other errands before she dropped me at home and I was surprised to see these guests across the street…

  
we do have mallard ducks who live in the creek, but can’t remember the last time I saw geese around here… maybe they will stay and have babies;-)…

workout…

15 Monday Feb 2016

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started my day with a great breakfast… even had a rose on my tray…

  
the sun was hiding behind some haze for most of the day…

 
had a relaxed morning and then went downstairs to do some time on the treadmill…

haven’t been walking as much lately so was happy that I got moving, lol…

for a while now I’ve been wanting to rearrange the furniture in the basement, so today while I was down there I had an extra workout and did a little furniture moving…

that treadmill is kind of heavy… luckily the sectional wasn’t joined together although it does have fasteners to connect the pieces, so it wasn’t overly heavy… next time the kids are over I will get them to help me link the pieces… more comfortable when everything is attached…

  
kind of pleased with how it came out… missed George as I was working away, but I also got to do it exactly the way I wanted it, lol…

finished the lobster from last night in a huge salad for lunch…

  
really tasty with the lemon dressing from last night…

been glued to the tv as all the Grammy shows have been on… great fun to see who’s there and what the colours being worn are…

giggles…

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

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up early and walked over to the “A” for breakfast…

here are the kids as they waited for their breakfast…

  
and how they passed the time… made me giggle…

  
cute eh…

I walked home… and my daughter took this shot of me…  

  

was lovely out and I enjoyed the walk… the giggle was that I forgot to put my Fitbit on in the morning, so none of the steps were recorded… 
  
been looking at this tree down the street for the better part of a week because the snow on it was very pretty…

we spent a few hours at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights where we had some fun in the XOXO exhibit…

  
here my daughter is making a love letter memento to give to her husband… hard work to produce it, lol…

  
I got to hug the Embrace which said ahhhh when it was hugged:-)…

  
while she was waiting for me she spotted these very pretty cream and sugar containers, but by the time we got back there, someone had purchased them…

lots of fun and giggles…

tacos…

29 Sunday Nov 2015

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boys slept in until eight this morning… then happily watched cartoons on tv until their mom arrived about 8:30…

we went out for breakfast… second day in a row for me, lol… today it was Perkins for eggs Benedict… the 55 plus portion for me, which is just the right amount…

more shopping and found these adorable battery powered salt and pepper mills… had to bring them home… they are so cute…

  
now I have to figure out where to put them because they are too tall to fit in the cabinet where the old ones were, lol… but I can get rid of the older ones…

for our supper tonight we had tacos… only the little boys and their daddy came, but everyone loved them and had at least three each…

  
I used a ground vegan product instead of meat… very tasty and easier than cooking hamburger… no one even noticed the difference… we also had some refried beans, which we adults enjoyed… the boys don’t like beans of any kind…

I love feeding them tacos because they always eat well and there aren’t any complaints… there is lots of lettuce, tomatoes, green onions, avocado and sour cream to go with the soft and hard tacos that they like…

tonight they had milk with their supper… I usually offer juice boxes because I don’t think of drinking milk as I really dislike it, but they think of it as a treat, ugh…

another of their favourites is Subway sandwiches… they would choose that over burgers nearly any day… 

wonderful that they enjoy healthy foods…

missing…

26 Saturday Sep 2015

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up early and headed out for breakfast after we woke up the teenager…

on our way, stopped by the spot where we scattered George’s ashes as the middle one had asked about it a few weeks ago and we weren’t able to get there because his brother was sick…

wasn’t sure if the other two would want to, but they both said yes and away we went…

found the spot and played on the rocks and talked about that morning and how the oldest had scattered the ashes and they had gone out to the river and on to the lake… all places that Grandpa loved…

when we were sitting down for our breakfast we had a toast to Grandpa…

 
while we were waiting for our food to arrive we talked about our breakfast that morning and how it would have been better to have grandpa with us…

late in the afternoon we went across the street and the boys spent some time climbing a tree by the creek… it was just at the time that my friend’s ashes were being scattered in another part of the city… 

sat and thought about her as they climbed away… special moment…

  
missing a lot of people today…

pattern…

14 Monday Sep 2015

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as I work to lose the additional pounds that the doctor wants and to stay healthy and active I have been following a pattern…

get up in the morning… make and eat breakfast… take care of bathroom necessities… pack my lunch and take out whatever is needed for dinner…

then I spend fifteen to twenty minutes on the treadmill… it is set up in front of the tv in the basement… I watch a particular morning show while walking which makes the time fly…

  
the rest of the day I make sure to take extra trips to the printer, check in with colleagues in person instead of emailing, and get up and step away from my desk on a regular basis…

usually walk part way home… maybe just one block, but occasionally quite a bit further… sometimes I spend fifteen minutes of my lunch hour and walk on the treadmill at the gym in our building…

happily my Fitbit will vibrate and let me know I have reached my goal for the day…

usually on the weekend I will walk to and around the Park at least once…

sometimes in the evening I will spend a bit of time on the treadmill to ensure I have completed my steps and reached my activity goal…

the pattern has become ingrained and that makes me happy…

walking really is my favourite form of exercise… 

 

peace…

13 Wednesday May 2015

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yesterday I received a lovely Mother’s Day card in the mail…

  
lovely peaceFULL card… my daughter has used a peace sign as part of her signature since she was a teenager so this card holds lots of meaning for me…

had a miserable headache for a good part of the day yesterday, but it was gone when I woke up this morning…

made sure to water all the plants that we brought home from the greenhouses… they are looking good as they await their transfer into the garden… can hardly wait for the weather to warm up so that they can get out there… the garden is my refuge and I am eager to spend time in it…

 

stopped in for a haircut and then a few groceries on my way home from work tonight… this morning I had to search for something for breakfast as I had run out of early morning foods, lol… picked up a few kinds of cereal, yogurt and fresh veggies… for many years I didn’t eat breakfast and now I try to make sure that there are easy things to eat so that I can stay on track…

I think that knowing I am sticking to my diabetes plan makes me feel good about life in general…
 

comfortable…

07 Saturday Feb 2015

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this morning I put a few extra layers on and walked over to the “A” to meet a friend for breakfast…

they have a great inexpensive breakfast special which George and I would often have on the weekend… I’d walk and he would meet me there after driving the car over… he had trouble walking so it usually worked well… we’d often take a drive after breakfast… sometimes when it was nice out and he was feeling good we would walk over together….

whenever we walked anywhere we always held hands… when the girls were younger they thought it was embarrassing, but as they got older they thought it was cute, lol…

my usual breakfast is softly poached eggs, which I have on a piece of the rye toast, and bacon… of course these days I shouldn’t have the bacon but it was a bit of a treat this morning… final treat was half a slice of remaining toast with a tiny bit of strawberry jam…

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sitting there waiting for my friend reminded me of the day I had breakfast there all by myself… it was only the second time in my life that I ate on my own in a restaurant… even though I felt like everyone was watching me it also felt comfortable because we had been there so many times…

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when I walked through the doors at the hotel I had to take a picture of the worn handle… it makes me think of all the people who have opened the door over the years… that seems comfortable too…

meals…

13 Thursday Nov 2014

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had a delicious breakfast this morning at The Met… a lovely french toast casserole with fruit salad and some bacon, yum…

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at lunch we had a wonderful Thai soup made by a colleague… it is their specialty and is a lovely treat whenever we get it…

tonight, at aquasize I started coughing… think it might have been the chemicals in the water… a couple of others were coughing as well…once I got home I didn’t know what I wanted, so I made myself a hot lemonaide…

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two out of three meals were great…

supper ended up being two crumpets with melted cheese on top…