03 Sunday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, careful, Christmas mug, holiday season, labelled, memories, moments, mug, Tea, widow
I was happy to have my first cup of tea in one of the Christmas mugs last Friday…
for a few years I couldn’t find them as they had been put away carefully in a closet that was packed overly full…
when I found them a while back, I was careful to put them in a location which I labelled so I couldn’t miss them, lol…
the holiday season has clearly arrived…
25 Tuesday Aug 2020
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big girl pants, careful, datura, flowers, garden, gift, moments, nature, photos, plants, poisonous, widow
spent some time in the front flower bed tidying the datura…
they are doing great… I’ve been trimming the spent blossoms so that the plant might make more flowers;-)…
also made sure that all the debris went into the pots and washed my hands afterwards as they are poisonous…
the other day I may have put my hand to my lips and had a strange sensation so am being more careful…
final photo from inside the house…
26 Thursday Mar 2020
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big girl pants, careful, groceries, Maui, memories, moments, purple, shopping, snow, supper, Technology, widow
interesting weather today… I took pictures between 8 and noon as the snow came and went on the deck, lol…
actually got dressed… put on a long dress that I picked up on Maui last April…
flowers and turtles brightened my day…
I also ordered dinner in… this is the first time I’ve done this since I got home in January… was very careful when I brought in the bag and removed the food… this is what I had for my dinner…
since then I have washed my hands many times and been very careful not to touch my face…
I ordered a couple of items so will have four or five meals to take me through the next week;-)…
was also able to order groceries that will come in about a week and a half… the system is overloaded so I am pleased to get on the list at all…
17 Wednesday Apr 2019
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big girl pants, careful, Maui day seven, shirt, spf, sunburn, sunglasses, sunscreen, widow
do you like my new shirt and sunglasses…
picked up the shirt because we both got sunburned on Saturday, so we’ve been slathered in after-burn lotion since then…
the shirt has sun protection built right in…
we had sunscreen on, and were under an umbrella, but apparently, even then you can burn…
since then we’ve been wearing long sleeves, lol…
tomorrow I think I can wear something a bit more appropriate for the weather, but when we go swimming will wear the shirt…
we are hearing lots about the negative effects of sunscreen, so wearing the shirt in the water is good for the ocean, and us;-)…
14 Friday Dec 2018
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A1C, big girl pants, black currant, bonbons, careful, chocolate, doctor, eating, Soma Chocolatemaker, stricter, the Chocolate Lab, week, widow
been a week since the conversation with the doctor about my A1C and how I need to work to get it down a bit…
happily we both agreed that I can do this with more control of my diet and without meds…
I think it was just the day before that visit that I ordered a bunch of chocolate from Soma Chocolatemaker and it arrived this week, lol…
one of the things I ordered was this blackcurrant flavour that I fell in love with after one of the Easter treats from my daughter… trying to figure out how I can have some without messing up the stricter eating plan…
one thing I did do was start cutting my wonderful Advent bonbons into quarters and just having one of them each morning… it has made me focus on the bite and I’ve really enjoyed the flavour of each one…
today I took the extra pieces and shared them with my colleagues;-)… made everyone happy…
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