13 Friday Jan 2017
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amazing, big girl pants, busy, colleagues, consuming, event, lost, rose, team, widow
this has been a hugely busy and all-consuming week, ending in a excellent event today…
the day went beautifully and it was a great example of a well-oiled team…
finished with getting lost and having my colleagues find me and get me home…
this rose, from one of the centrepieces, is a wonderful reminder of such amazing women with whom I spend my days…
16 Saturday Apr 2016
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Beaubourg, beautiful, big girl pants, busy, Canada Goose, Central Park, flowers, New York, rickshaw, widow
up fairly early considering what time we went to bed, lol…
walked and walked and walked… saw flowers blooming everywhere…
rode the subway again… took a rickshaw tour of Central Park… what fun… great way to see most of it and learn fun facts… a beautiful place…
caught a Canada Goose resting on a rock with a turtle…
saw the city vistas from Top of the Rock…
Central Park from Top of the Rock
sunshine and warm weather make the day very enjoyable…
07 Monday Mar 2016
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big girl pants, bright, busy, clean, cleaners, melting, puddles, snow, strong, sun, treat, widow
had to stop as I was backing out of the driveway this morning to take a picture of the glittering snow… so white, bright, shiny and clean looking…
lovely start to the day…
when I returned to the house I noticed two things… huge amounts of snow had melted throughout the day… here is the top of the deck just a few days ago…
this is the same spot tonight…
the sun shone with great strength all day… really noticed it on the drive home as there were many puddles and the snow banks had gone down a lot…
the final piece was in the bathroom… the cleaners come the first Monday of the month and they always fold the toilet paper like you are in a hotel…
I had prepared for them, but with the busyness of the day totally forgot they’d been here until I walked into the house and noticed how clean it was…
what a treat…
03 Saturday Oct 2015
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barbecue, basil, big girl pants, busy, fire, fire pit, IKEA, table, volleyball
worn right out…
worked on a project first thing…
my daughter picked me up and we went to IKEA to purchase a table and chairs for their new house…
it is a housewarming, anniversary and Christmas gift…
rushed over to the other side of the city for a volleyball game…
had to get reacquainted with the rules, but enjoyed watching it… bonus was that they won this one…
stopped off for a few groceries after the game and picked up a basil plant… going to keep this one in the house… the ones that were on the deck didn’t do well with the frost last week…
had a lovely barbecued steak for dinner at the new table…
I don’t get much cooked on the barbecue these days, so really enjoyed it…
after dinner we sat around their new fire pit… beautiful end to a very busy day…
my son-in-law drove me home and I am headed to bed…
06 Sunday Sep 2015
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big girl pants, busy, deer, mowing, Nature's Playground, train
had a fairly good sleepover night… little guy was still sick and got up at three for about an hour… saw this out the window…
misty… looked ethereal…
had a busy day… went to the Children’s Nature Playground at the park and spent a few minutes quietly watching the deer… we saw five in total…
great time on the swings… these round ones are very popular… the area was nearly empty so they could play on everything as much as they wanted…
then I spotted a few wasps on the butterfly weed… pretty good photo just with my iPhone…
on to the crow’s nest… this was the most popular slide for these two…
finally headed to the train for a ride… we chose the very back because the last time we took a ride on it with grandpa it was in this spot… here they are making a space for him…
the one down side was that apparently all the mosquitoes love this spot…
picked up groceries and had a quiet time when we got home… a bit later in the afternoon the older one mowed the back garden…
and the front yard… first time he has done this so we had a bit of a lesson…
he did a great job… after supper they headed home…
writing this and then going to bed…
I am exhausted, but had great fun, lol…
29 Sunday Mar 2015
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big girl pants, busy, garden, geese, hot tub, lunch date, pond
been busy since I got up today…
started out with a lovely hot tub and watched geese fly right over me…
added pictures to the new frame and finally got it set up in the living room… still thinking I might want the 14″ one instead of this 10″ one so I haven’t hung it on the wall just yet…
then it was a cab downtown to meet my daughter and spend two hours at the Home and Garden show… might just have found someone to help me in the garden… also spoke with my pond guy and we have a plan to get it all finished as soon as they can work outside…
then we headed to Silver City to meet up with the little guys to see Home… ate half a bag of popcorn… can’t help myself where popcorn is involved…
stopped at Safeway to pick up a few ingredients for our supper and headed home to get it made as my son-in-law had to get to work…
cleaned up from supper and got the ingredients ready for tomorrow evening’s gathering… need to be ready as I will be working late…
luckily I am going in a bit later and have made a lunch date with my grandson who is on spring break…
might sleep in a bit in the morning because I am just a little tired, lol…
11 Sunday Jan 2015
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had a very busy day today…
slept in until 8, and don’t think I stopped since then, until about an hour ago…
met the kids for breakfast at The Original Pancake House where I got to have my favourite chicken livers and potato pancakes… yum, can’t even remember the last time I had these…
from there we went shopping where I found two pairs of pants and a new scarf… we looked at chairs and treadmills… had our toes pedicured and I even got a dragonfly painted on one of mine…
finally, got this beautiful shot of the sky as we were getting into the car just before I dropped the kids off at the bus stop…
bought groceries, came home and unloaded all my purchases…
had leftover chicken livers for my supper, and napped for an hour… thinking about heading out for a hot tub…
04 Monday Aug 2014
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Blended, busy, exhausted, frogs, go-carting, pool, Thunder Rapids, waterfall
last night we watched Blended before falling asleep in our beds… we woke at various times this morning but finally everyone got up about 9:30 am…
went down and had an excellent breakfast before everyone, except me, headed to the pool… a friend arrived and they had great fun…
waterslide was very fast…
eventually everyone returned to the room, got dressed and we headed off to Thunder Rapids, stopping for a quick bite in the car on the way…
we did everything… there was go-carting, a few times…
little boys go-carting…
then bumper boats…
bumper boats, should be called splash boats…
just a little wet… even I got wet watching…
miniature golf, where Gray and I both got a hole in one…
my hole in one…
we saw frogs, although I didn’t get any pictures… freezies and time at the playground followed by a last round of go-carting in bigger and faster cars…
the biggest three in the fast cars…
finally home, where we ordered Chinese food for dinner and after we cleaned up everyone headed to their own place…
thanks to my pond guy, the garden sounds right as the waterfall is running again…
my waterfall running again…
although not quite like the one at Thunder Rapids, lol…
waterfall at Thunder Rapids…
what a wonderful weekend…
now to bed, I am exhausted, lol…
13 Sunday Jul 2014
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got up and had a hot tub just before the rain started… I sat there very still as the goldfinches were flitting about, as well as a couple of squirrels running around the fence and into one of the feeders, while the blue jays were flying through the garden… rather busy…
then, while one boy finch was at the feeder I thought I saw another yellow something fly past… wasn’t positive…
girl and boy goldfinch eating…
went for breakfast with the kids in St. Boniface, wearing those big girl pants again, and on to a few stores, including one where we got Jeff his belated birthday and Fathers’ Day gift – a new barbeque…
I headed to Safeway for groceries and when I got home and was looking out the window I saw two boy goldfinches at the feeder… yay…. didn’t get a picture, but will be trying to do that in the next few days…
last night the moon was full and very beautiful… spent a bit of time and got this photo…
full moon last night…
was rather pleased with the outcome…
16 Friday May 2014
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big girl pants, busy, dreaming, George, resting, vanity plates
a couple of days this week I found myself behind cars with vanity plates…
made me giggle and think of George… he was always quick to figure out what they meant… I was always much slower to get them…
this week I got both of them right away…
last night I dreamt about George… this is unusual because I rarely remember dreams… I can’t even remember what the dream was about now…
very happy that it is the weekend as it has been a very full week and I need to do some serious resting…
started as soon as I got home…
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