01 Friday May 2026
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took Indi to have a bath this morning…
spent a few minutes before leaving home to empty out the trunk so it could be cleaned as well…
when I arrived there were maybe 10 or 15 cars lined up, but I decided to wait…
took about 25 minutes to get in and then about 15 to run through the machinery…
she always looks gorgeous when she comes out, and with her summer rims on, lol…
when she was done there were about 40 cars waiting…
good thing I waited, lol…
17 Saturday Jan 2026
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big girl pants, car, drone, lane, moments, Technology, widow
so the other day, as I was sitting in the living room, I spotted a drone lift off from a car which stopped in the lane across the way…
it flew right over the house and didn’t return to the car for at least fifteen minutes…
I’m guessing it was doing some shots for a real estate video…
I couldn’t catch it on video but got a few photos of it coming down to land on the top of the vehicle…
I drew circles around it, lol… the brush behind it certainly didn’t help make it visible…
04 Wednesday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, brakes, car, family, garage, happy, Indi, moments, service station, Sturgeon Automotive, Technology, Uber, widow
my housemate took the car in this morning for new front brakes… we are trying out a garage that a friend recommended…
it took about four hours and then we got the call it was ready…
he had gone to work, so I ordered my first Uber to go and pick it up…
it came in about three minutes, was clean, and the driver was dressed professionally… seven minutes got me there…
the estimate and final bill for the new brakes matched and the car drives well… the brakes don’t feel any different…
happy to have found this new service station which is closer than Toyota;-)…
30 Wednesday Apr 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, car, completely, happy, Indi, memories, moments, owner, purple, seven years, Technology, wheels, widow
Indi is seven years old today…
hard to believe that all this time has gone by…
and she is finally completely mine, lol…
now to get those pretty wheels back on;-)…
17 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, car, clean, cold, dirty, family, filthy, grandson, happy, Indy, moments, weather, widow
I’ve been asking my grandson to get the car washed for ages…
he had numerous reasons why it didn’t happen, but they boiled down to the fact that it would just get dirty again…
I finally gave an ultimatum that it had to be washed… poor thing was filthy…
he went out Wednesday evening and brought Indy home clean… even though it was dreadfully cold, thankfully, none of the doors froze up…
she looks so nice;-)…
02 Thursday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, car, family, garage, grandson, hung, mess, moments, organized, sorting, tools, weather, widow
nearly a year ago, my eldest grandson and I began working away in the garage… he has a very organized mind…
a few weeks later, we cleaned out a spot and moved the shelves further along the wall…
the next time we worked in it, after purchasing additional hardware, we attached hooks and hung up a number of garden and winter tools… like items were gathered together and placed on the shelves… we came in when we started to get cold…
we spent another few hours another day working away in the space… more tools were hung on the other side of the space, the garbage bin was filled with broken, unusable items, two boxes were filled with giveaway items and the bench had much more space…
great strides were made each time we were in there and we were able to get the car in when it was home over the winter…
then we didn’t do anything more, because it got warm and the car didn’t need to live inside…
so, maybe it got filled up with other stuff, lol…
over the summer, it was great to be able to find tools without effort…
21 Saturday Oct 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, car, car racing, devoted, family, formula 1, grandson, happy, hooked, learning, moments, naps, sports, Technology, widow
my grandson has got me devoted to Formula 1 car racing…
a few years back, he used my car to drive to a race in Montreal…
often the races are rather early in the day, so sometimes I end up needing a nap on race day…
today I watched a few hours of cars shooting around a racetrack in Austin, Texas…
I am learning more of the nuances during each race and have been having a good time getting questions answered by my own expert, lol…
I think that my beloved would have enjoyed it as well;-)…
12 Tuesday Sep 2023
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adventure, big girl pants, buddy, car, drive, food, fresh veggies, friends, hot tub, moments, nature, plants, shop local, somewhere, Technology, veggies, weather, widow
went for a drive with my adventure partner…
drove just outside the city to Jonathan’s Farm to collect the veggies we both ordered online…
it was a sunny day and the drive was relaxing…
there was no one around when we arrived although I spotted someone in the field way down the way, lol…
we gathered up our produce and headed home…
the one thing we noticed was all the crazy drivers on the road, lol… Friday and everyone was in a hurry to get somewhere 🤪…
looking forward to some delicious meals…
01 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in family, garden, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
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anniversary, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, car, family, garden, grandson, memories, moments, morphed, paper flowers, photos, pond, remembering, Technology, time, walk, widow
started the day looking at photos of my beloved…a few tears were shed in the process… we were married 52 years ago today… I still remember looking out the window of the apartment to see him dropping off the decorated car… in those days, getting the car turned out with paper flowers was the thing to do, lol…
then I had a walk around the garden… in the 49 years we’ve been in this space, it has morphed from a square green grass covered area, to a swing set with some cedars, to a small swimming pool space, to a huge sandbox with a two story playhouse, to a parking area for a camper trailer… to a space filled with ponds and lovely gardens…
thanks to the help of Hilda the Gardener, a lawn service, and the kids, it is looking wonderful and I know that he would be pleased…
I am truly blessed, but I miss him every day…
15 Friday Jul 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, car, drive, friends, Fry-Day’s, fun times, horses, hybrid, moments, nature, widow
went out for lunch on Monday with my BS buddies…
we took a drive in a couple of cars to Teulon for lunch and had a great time at Fry-Day’s… the battered mushrooms are absolutely delightful… we had hoped to eat on the patio but the sky did not cooperate, so it was inside for us…
on our way home I was able to catch a few photos of some sweet horses…
it was the first time I’ve ridden in a hybrid car and it was enjoyable… we stopped and picked up a few fresh veggies and I ended the day with some delicious beet greens…
good times with great people😊…
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