09 Friday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, chair, favourite, feeders, garden, moments, nature, pond, spot, view, weather, widow
I think I have found a new favourite spot in the garden;-)…
from here I can see the flower beds and both bird feeders…
not sure if it will continue because soon the hanging chair will come out and that may affect the view, but I am enjoying it for now…
23 Sunday Mar 2025
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02 Sunday Mar 2025
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, book, chair, cooperative, cushions, deck, family, feeder, garden, micro-climate, moments, nature, reading, weather, widow
spent a delightful hour on the deck in the sunshine…
last evening my housemate dug out one of the deck chairs from under the tarp so there would be a place to sit when the weather is cooperative…
I found a set of cushions in the garage and brought out my Assiniboine Park blanket…
pulled over a small table and put my current book on it…
I did have my winter jacket on, but the sun on my face as I was reading was wonderful;-)…
there is still lots of snow in the garden, but the deck is always its own little micro-climate…
I even filled up a few bird feeders…
24 Saturday Aug 2024
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I have had the cushions for my outdoor chairs for over a year and I love them…
last Sunday I discovered a much simpler way to put them on the chairs, lol…
previously I would open them up and push down the bottom cushion and then make sure to raise the top cushion above it…
the new method puts both cushions on the chair and push it to the back, then raise the top (back) cushion…
so much easier;-)…
too funny, lol…
25 Friday Aug 2023
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2x4, big girl pants, blessed, bolt, broken, chair, family, footstool, happy, home, living room, moments, widow
a bolt let go on one of the chairs in the living room…
it has been sitting with a sign saying broken on it for months…
I’ve been looking everywhere to find something to replace it, without success…
it finally made it out onto the deck where we had a look at it…
a piece of 2×4 was cut to size, painted black, and then screwed to the edge of the chair…
it is as good as new… and the footstool still fits underneath…
I am very happy;-)…
03 Thursday Aug 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chair, cushions, garden, moments, nature, plants, pond, rigged, shade, sun, umbrella, widow, woolly thyme
spent a bit of time getting all the chairs out, as well as cushions, for our Monday afternoon gathering…
even rigged an umbrella over an additional chair to be sure everyone had shade…
before that, I used the same umbrella to provide a bit of shade for the creeping thyme that we moved on Saturday… hoping it likes the new spot and starts to cover a bit more ground, lol…
01 Monday Nov 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, chair, covering, decorating, friends, gathering, living room, moments, plants, purple, widow
this week our group is moving indoors as it is cold outside, so I have been getting the living room organized… another chair has been added so that everyone has a separate place to sit…
a few days ago I spent some time covering a black and white chair so that it fits better in the living room…
it didn’t come out perfectly, but I am happy with the outcome… it is purple, after all…
side tables were moved, pledge applied, plants resituated, cushions replaced…
can’t wait for my friends to see it…
28 Tuesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, chair, effort, garden, grandson, moments, nature, rebuilt, rocking lounger, weather, widow
the umbrella for the fancy rocking lawn chair/lounger went in to be rebuilt as the fabric had disintegrated, lol…
the chair has been without the umbrella since spring…
I had been looking around for ages and was very happy that Murray Tent and Awning was able to do the job…
my grandson picked it up and brought it here yesterday so I was excited to put it up this morning…
it took a while to figure out how to get the ribs back into it, but eventually I sorted it out… lots of bending and stretching, lol…
it looks great… the colour goes well with the cushion and the other items in the garden…
I am very pleased;-)…
03 Saturday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, chair, family, family time, garden, grass, moments, nature, pond, treat, weather, widow
had a great day in the garden… started with watering the grass and plants, and getting all the cushions out… then time in the pond cleaning the pump out and tidying some water grasses…
finally sat and enjoyed the space…
this was the special chair…
in the morning a friend came over for a visit… it was her birthday and we had a lovely visit… a few presents, some tasty snacks, and a great wander around the garden…
a short time later my sister-in-law and nephew came by with lunch… can’t think how long it has been since I’ve seen her… she had flown in for the weekend so it was a real treat to spend time with them…
great way to spend a Saturday;-)…
25 Wednesday Jul 2018
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application, big girl pants, chair, dermatologist, doctor, freeze, skin, sting, Technology, waiting, widow
this morning I had an appointment to see a dermatologist…
I always find seeing a new doctor a bit stressful and this was no different…
a colleague had seen this particular specialist before so I kind of knew where I was going…
arrived a few minutes early and then waited for quite a while before making it into the actual room…
the chair was huge and I waited till he arrived before sitting in it, lol…
from there it was very quick, as he looked at the spot under my eye, confirmed it wasn’t anything to be worried about, and then sprayed it with something to freeze it off… didn’t hurt as he was doing it but sure did sting later…
will need to go back in a couple of months as he didn’t think one application would remove it…
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