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01 Monday Oct 2018

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opened the door to the lovely scent of a freshly cleaned house…

what a gift that is to come home to…

they only come once a month but that works just fine for me… I usually leave a list of what spaces I want them to clean as they are only here for a limited time…

I think back to Ruth, who would spend three or four hours and clean every nook and cranny… she loved to clean and it was so obvious… polishing silver and washing the floors on her hands and knees were two of her specialties…

can always tell the cleaners have been when I walk into the bathroom and see the folded toilet paper;-)…

magical…

08 Thursday Mar 2018

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had a magical time with flowers today…

there were tulips at the office and I got time to take pictures for a social media post we were working on…

when I arrived home the sunlight was streaming through the living room window and making the vase of flowers look amazing… so I spent a lovely time taking pictures…

to top off the day, the house magically cleaned itself… it smelled good when I walked in and seeing the toilet paper folded was the confirmation…

well, the cleaners came although I hadn’t been expecting them, lol…

what a blessing…

privileged…

03 Monday Oct 2016

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been reminded a few times recently of how privileged I am…

today I was able to take an extra half hour and have lunch with a great friend… we try to get together every month or so and check out different downtown restaurants, mostly within walking distance of my office… today we went to the Velvet Glove…

had a good visit and a fine meal… 

not only am I able to take a little extra time for lunch but get to spend time with friends…

did laugh at the end of the day when I realized how much of what I ate was green… even the soup had green pumpkin seeds in it, lol…

yesterday I walked to and around the English and Leo Mol Gardens with my camera… another privilege that many people don’t have…

the fact that I have the time, am fit and healthy and able to take on such an activity is great too…still lots of flowers around… and the leaves are turning colour at an alarming rate… for some of my walk it felt like it was raining leaves…

the final reminder of my privilege was in the bathroom after I got home… 

the toilet paper is folded all fancy because the cleaners were in today… 

talk about privilege…

clean…

07 Monday Mar 2016

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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…

change…

07 Monday Dec 2015

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big girl pants, change, cleaners, leftovers, open, Shadow, snowflakes, women

had to make two trips out to the car this morning so that I could get everything changed over and in the proper places… now the trunk has the grocery boxes and bags as well as the safety equipment, and the glove compartment contains the registration and maps, and most importantly, there is change available for grocery carts, lol…

  
Shadow looked pretty good in the parking spot at work…

tonight when I arrived home and came out of the garage I saw this…

  
the back door was open… 

the cleaners had been in the morning and likely took out garbage, but I was a bit nervous to enter… what if someone had actually broken in… yikes… 

I called the owner of the business as I went into the house and she stayed on the line while I walked through all three floors to be sure there was no one besides me there… 

luckily it was a warm day so nothing froze… basement was fairly cool, though…

had a visit with my amazing friends, and treats…

  
these are the leftovers that I am going to have to eat over the next little while… yum… only had a small handful of nuts and bolts and stopped at two shortbread cookies…

got a lovely picture of snowflakes on my way up the stairs…

  

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