12 Wednesday Aug 2026
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busy day…
Hilda the Gardener came by in the morning to do some tidying and trimming…
viewed a tiny portion of the eclipse…
went grocery shopping for some time away…
had fun making treats for the ‘away’ time…
and got a bit of time on the deck with my current book and something to drink😊…
28 Sunday Dec 2025
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appetizers, big girl pants, blessed, busy, Christmas, family, food, grandson, mid-day, moments, shrimp, weather, widow
my grandson usually arrives here on Christmas day around noon…
our current tradition is to have appetizers for our mid-day meal as he may have already had breakfast and will be heading out for dinner a bit later in the day…
we had wandered the aisles at the grocery store picking up things that looked fun…
we had shrimp dumplings, fancy cheese fries, tempura shrimp, wontons, veggies and dip, sausage rolls, and a shrimp ring… lots of shrimp on that list, lol…
this year we did stockings for each other, which was great… it has been many years since I had a stocking…
it was filled with a great many treats…
then the second round of presents were opened, and I was royally spoiled;-)…
although he only had a few gifts he was very pleased with them…
we sat around and visited before he had to leave for his next engagement, lol…
I truly am blessed to have this thoughtful young man in my life;-)…
27 Monday Oct 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, Chinese food, company, delicious, family, grandsons, happy, moments, numerous, supper, treat, widow
had a delicious dinner last night…
our company chose Chinese food, so I tried to order from our favourite spot, around 5:30…
it took at least ten minutes and numerous attempts to get through… apparently everyone in the city wanted Chinese food too…
and then, the pick up time was an hour and a half, yikes…
but, when we got it, it was as always, delicious 🤤…
26 Sunday Oct 2025
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basement, big girl pants, blessed, busy, constructing, family, garage, grandsons, housemate, lumber, moments, shelves, weather, widow
well, what a day, phew… it was chilly, overcast, and windy…
spent the morning in the garage moving bits and pieces out into the driveway to make room for an empty table to work on…
then my housemate met up with his grandfather to go and pick up lumber for the new shelves planned for the basement and the garage…
once he returned home, we moved more things and then updated a shelf beside the door for my gardening gloves and tools…
it is stronger, looks amazing, and now each tool is much more accessible underneath;-)…
we worked on the basement shelves, his brother arrived, and they finished them…
they ended up looking excellent and adding more useful space for organizing our stuff, lol…
they continued to work in the garage to redo a section of shelves and add counter space…
I didn’t quite get a picture of the finished product, before we moved all the bits and pieces back into the garage for the night…
it is going to be so organized that I might not be able to find anything 🤪…
02 Wednesday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, cleaning, family, garden, gardening, grandson, lively, moments, moving, mudding and taping, plants, Technology, weather, widow
Wednesday was a lively day…
started off with an early breakfast and quick inspection of the house to make sure everything was tidy as the cleaners were coming at nine…
it was raining out when they arrived so I headed up to the computer room to get out of their way… while there I filed paperwork, put items in a pass-along box and tidied the desk… it always surprises me how that desk can get cluttered, all by itself, lol…
as they left, Hilda the Gardener arrived for a final cleanup of the garden… pots and planters were emptied in preparation for our next season, irises were planted around the garden, and the strawberry plant went back into the ground to overwinter…
while she was here, my grandson’s grandfather arrived to work a bit on the newly drywalled sections of the basement…
as they were working inside and outside, I began bringing in the plants that will live indoors during the next few seasons and setting them up in their winter locations…
this year I have set up a few grow lights in the spot where the small fish tank had been located… it will be an interesting experiment to see how they will do in this location…
so, the inside and outside of the house are both lovely, tidy, clean and organized…
then I had a nap;-)…
30 Thursday May 2024
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Wednesday, a ton of work took place in the garden…
Hilda, the Gardener, planted milkweed, beardstongue, and pansies in the garden…
weeds were dug out and she also planted up the pots at the front of the house so it looks great everywhere…
I am so blessed to have someone who can do the heavy lifting in the garden… she has made it look amazing over these last years;-)…
my grandson and I walked the irrigation line and fixed or replaced the tiny hoses that the bunnies find very tasty, lol…
we also worked on the pallet planter using landscape cloth to make bags for a few flowers to grow in…
clearly, I need to have company over to admire the space, lol…
and Wednesday is also the day that the grass gets mowed, whipper snipped, and blown clean…
busy day which meant there was no nap🤪…
20 Wednesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, Christmas, done, gifts, happy, last, moments, presents, shopping, tree, widow, wrapping
out shopping on Saturday morning for the last of the Christmas presents…
went to two stores, neither was overly busy and everything on the list was obtained…
happy to be finished …
then spent a bit of time wrapping;-)…
all of the parcels are now under the tree;-)…
15 Sunday Oct 2023
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went for a walk on Friday… it was lovely out…
first stop was the Little Library I usually stop at… when I was last there, there were only a few books, so I went through some of mine and filled a backpack to drop off…
I also included a couple of the extra bookmarks I made last Christmas…
from there I walked to the Post Office to drop a package in the mail and on my way back stopped into Ultracuts for a haircut…
since my last visit, I may have taken the scissors to my hair a few times, lol… didn’t take long, or really that much hair being snipped, to look tidy again…
as I walked home, I stopped and collected some morning glory seeds from the outside of a fence… these flowers are a lighter purple…
I’ve been watching them for a while, waiting for the pods to be ready for picking;-)…
got lots done;-)…
22 Saturday Jul 2023
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I had a very busy day on Thursday…
so I didn’t have time to get a trim because my hair had apparently gone wild overnight…
instead I dug out my sharp scissors and cut my own hair…
think it came out okay, lol… although, as always, I can’t really see the back;-)…
15 Thursday Jun 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, busy, family, fencing, garden, grandsons, happy, helpers, moments, project, son-in-law, widow, working
the latest project around the house has taken a little while… we began discussing it in February, lol…
the actual work started on Thursday, June 8th, when my grandson and son-in-law took down the back fence as well as the small one in the front yard…
it involved hammering, using the car jack and a great deal of muscle… once it was down, all the pieces were loaded into a truck… then we moved soil, cleaned up the leaves from the cedars and Virginia creeper, and filled many bags of yardwaste…
midway through the day the lumber was dropped off, but had to be brought onto the driveway a few pieces at a time, and by the end of the day we were worn out, lol…
on Friday, my grandson met our handyperson at the hardware store where they rented an auger and picked up a big bag of screws and nails…
they used more muscle to get the old holes redug and finished the day with all posts installed…
Sunday, the oldest dug up excess dirt around the shed while we waited for the rest of the crew to arrive, including one of his brothers…
they worked well together and got the back fence 99.9% finished, with a nice wide gate and the framework up for the front portion of fence…
on Wednesday and Thursday my oldest grandson put the finishing touches on the fencing and both sections look great…
so pleased with the final result as well as how smoothly the process went and what great help we had from everyone…
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