11 Saturday Nov 2017
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big girl pants, buds, flowers, happy, hibiscus, paper whites, perk, perk me up, planting, widow
great time with plants…
yesterday I potted some paper whites…
set them in the living room hoping to get flowers at some point…
also saw some lovely flowers when we were out for lunch…
really is quite amazing how flowers can perk me up;-)…
this morning I spotted buds on the hibiscus…
27 Thursday Jul 2017
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took this photo of a dahlia in the garden getting ready to bloom…
although I just bought these this spring it made me think about the ones we bought in 2011 in Courtenay…
we went to visit the Dahlia man… he was very old and lived on a property at the edge of Courtney/Comox… I can’t remember the man’s name, but George would have… he remembered all that type of stuff…
we must have spent two hours with him… looking at all the dahlias which were blooming and then going through his boxes and ziplock bags filled with tubers… he and my beloved talked and talked, lol…
we brought home some of the tubers and he sent more later…
they bloomed beautifully and at the end of the season we lifted them and packed them up for the next year… sadly they were put in ziplock bags and in the spring were all mushy… we hadn’t let them dry sufficiently before bagging them…
both of my girls have developed the same ability to talk to anyone anywhere and know all about them by the end of the conversation… makes me giggle… so not me…
23 Sunday Apr 2017
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big girl pants, breakfast, buds, early sunshine, family, reading, the "A", walk, widow, wind
lovely walk to the “A” and back this morning…
my grandson was with me on the way there… we caught a few Pokémon and saw the mallard couple in the creek… it was a bit chilly because of the wind, but the sun was shining…
I had been up and made tea for the daddy who arrived after his overnight shift at work… he had a nap for an hour or so before we went for breakfast… on Sunday the “A” doesn’t open until 8… he and I have learned this the hard way…
he and the youngest drove over… was so hungry I forgot to take a picture of my meal, lol…
after breakfast they headed to their house and I walked back home…
warmer with the wind at my back… had to stop and take a few pictures of the buds starting on the big tree, maybe some kind of willow, just before I reached the house…
had a short nap and read in the sunshine in the living room for the remainder of the day…
my daughter and the younger boys came for dinner and a visit and I went back to reading when they left…
listening to the ducks flying over on their way back to the creek… love the sound of ducks and geese as they travel…
29 Tuesday Mar 2016
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big girl pants, birthday, buds, excellent, friend, goose, lunch, Peasant Cookery, rain jacket, snow, tulips, walk, widow
had an excellent day yesterday…
early in the morning got this great shot of the garage roof which glittered with a thin blanket of fresh snow…
took a few pictures of the buds on the Japanese Maple, which is a sure sign of Spring for me…
then it was off to help with the set up for a special event…
a good friend picked me up and we went to Peasant Cookery for a lovely early birthday lunch… delightful…
from there we stopped at UN Luggage where I found a rain jacket… my current one is on the large size and I heard that I should have one in New York…
bit of a colour departure for me but the magenta leans towards purple, lol…
our last stop was a walk through the Gardens at Assiniboine Park… it was a gorgeous day…
this goose seemed to be looking for the water, lol…
spent some time playing with my Olympus camera as my Nikon is still at the hospital…
rather pleased with this shot…
12 Thursday Mar 2015
had another lovely walk home tonight… passed a number of bushes that have started to produce buds… tried to get a picture but it didn’t turn out…
but I did get a great shot of the creek which is filled with running water…
so wonderful to see the snow melting away more and more each day…
got a wonderful card a few days ago from a friend who knew what a hard time I have been going through…
it came at the perfect time and was a lovely gesture which warmed my heart…
life is so special and moments like a walk in the afternoon and enjoying a card make it even better…
14 Friday Nov 2014
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I think the hibiscus is in just the right place in the living room… must be getting the correct dose of sunlight…
there were at least thirteen buds this morning… looks amazing considering it probably only has twenty or thirty leaves on it…
this picture was taken when I arrived home and the sun was shining in and making some beautiful shadows…
got upstairs and took this picture of the sun going down…
enjoyed a very short walk getting home… crisp but lovely…
a great day filled with sunshine… haven’t had a lot of it lately so really appreciated it… happy to be able to take the time to enjoy the moment…
28 Monday Jul 2014
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big girl pants, bits and pieces, buds, electronics, Fargo, goldfinches, Grand Forks, hibiscus, tri-colour
discovered a few pictures on my phone that I wanted to share from our weekend in Fargo and Grand Forks…
this one shows the boys at a charging station in Starbucks… we were taking a break with a variety of beverages and resting our feet… phones and tablets were plugged in for a brief time so that no one would end up with a dead piece of electronics…
then we moved on to a final bit of shopping… even the little boys were getting tired…
tonight I got a couple of excellent shots of the hibiscus… today it has two red blooms and two yellow ones…
this one looks nice against the purple door…
I am wondering if the plant puts out more blossoms when it is stressed, because every time I look at it, seems it is in need of water… but there are numerous buds ready to open…
and tonight I saw two boy goldfinches at the feeder… yay…
27 Friday Sep 2013
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big girl pants, buds, CancerCare, diverticulitis, drugs, flowers, health issues, morning glory, out of sorts, trouble swallowing pills, unhealthy
been taking a number of drugs lately as I am dealing with a few health issues… had quite a scare at my CancerCare check-up the other day and it turned out to be just a little thing but it did mean taking some drugs…
then a couple of days ago I started to experience abdominal pain, which might have been a side effect of one of the drugs I was taking, but it moved to my side and made me think that possibly my diverticulitis was acting up… hasn’t bothered me for nearly four years… saw the doctor and he agreed so now I am on more drugs…
I don’t like drugs, and often they don’t like me… I am always leary about taking a new one as I don’t know how my body is going to accept it…
pills…
usually I would prefer to deal with pain rather than drugs, but sometimes you just can’t get around it, sigh… hopefully I won’t be on these for long and they will do the trick…
besides not dealing well with drugs, I have difficulty swallowing pills… not nearly as bad now as it used to be…
one of the meds that was prescribed was 8 quite large tablets that I had to take all at once with food… after lunch yesterday, two of my colleagues tidied up the kitchen and chatted while I worked at getting these pills down… it was quite wonderful to just have them there supporting me and I was able to get the job done… not sure I could have done it at home, on my own…
today I felt out of sorts, cold, slight headache, just not myself… think it was my body responding to that large dose of antibiotics yesterday… finally tonight I am starting to feel better… and I realized that my side had not bothered me at all today, yay…
morning glory buds…
there was one morning glory blooming today but there were many buds as well… looking forward to more blooms…
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