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shivers…

05 Sunday May 2019

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this morning the sun was shining as I got dressed to go for my first Spring walk to the Park…

temperature was a bit cool, right around 1° Celsius, but it looked pretty nice out…

so, I wore short pants and sandals… by the time I was heading out the door the sky looked a bit dark (like snow) so I did add my hat…

a bit of wind as I was walking, but not too bad… I had on my Spring/Fall jacket and my little gloves were in my pocket…

before too long I had on the gloves and took most of my pictures wearing them… luckily the camera doesn’t insist on bare skin the way the iPhone does, lol…

snowflakes did fall every now and then… May 5th, sigh…

I was happy to get home but didn’t realize until I was laying under a blanket with a hot cup of tea in my hands how cold I had been… I did sit in the bathroom for a while to warm my toes on the floor;-)…

my entire body shivered for ages, lol…

hope my next walk is a bit warmer…

brrrr…

30 Wednesday Jan 2019

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my, oh my… it has been crazy cold…

this morning while I was waiting for the car to warm up a bit, I took some pictures…

the cover of the hot tub is amazing… I haven’t been in it for a while, but it looks like it has turned into a cocoon to keep the heat in, lol…

it is so beautiful as everything is covered in ice…

I don’t usually sit in the car while it is running in the garage, but it was so cold that I felt Indi needed to warm up before we left… although the door was wide open it smelled, so I moved her onto the driveway for a few final minutes…

that’s when I got the pictures, lol…

last night when I left the office it was so cold that it felt like everything in the car was frozen, even though the battery had been plugged in all day…

rarely do we all plug in, but this morning I took this photo… clearly others felt it was cold as well…

faux…

18 Friday Jan 2019

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on my drive in yesterday I watched a man walk across the street with bare hands… it was extremely cold and reminded me of the many who do not have the basics for this weather, sigh…

as I was leaving the office a man stopped and gave me a faux rose… he said

give this to someone and tell them you care, while you can…

then he gave me a second one, which he said was for me… at that point he asked if I had change for a cup of coffee… I advised I didn’t have any money on me so he took back one of the roses and merrily went in his way…

both reminders of how truly blessed I am… warm clothes to wear, a safe home to live in, a vehicle to get me around and work that makes me happy…

crummy…

03 Tuesday Apr 2018

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the weather has been decidedly crazy lately…

last week I wore sandals to work… since then there have been threats of snow almost daily…

happily, for many of the days, at least the sun was shining…

nearly everyone I talk to has been feeling crummy with the up and down temperatures… hard to know whether to wear a light jacket, the middle jacket or the really heavy duty cold one…

hard to believe we haven’t had much snow at all this winter considering that it’s been so cold…

crazy…

party…

05 Monday Feb 2018

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happy that my grandson made it over on Sunday to shovel…

he drove his brother to a birthday party and then came to get the job done…

it was really cold out… it was -27 when I wrote this but quite a bit colder while he was here…

a few days ago it snowed for most of the morning, but lightly, so there wasn’t too much to remove… I was very happy because it is always nice to have the sidewalks and driveway clean for everyone…

after he finished, we had lunch, he studied and I read, until he had to go back and pick up the little guy…

Nest…

03 Wednesday Jan 2018

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so the smoke detector was installed on Thursday afternoon… and I am loving it… a cute little ring of blue (a nightlight) appears when I walk under it… so far no alarms, which is good, nor has it talked to me yet…

on Friday my son-in-law went out and found the Nest thermostat at a good price and on Saturday he began the process of installing it…

it was a long complicated piece of business… by 7 pm that night, it was 63 degrees Fahrenheit in the house because after the first install, and putting back the original thermostat, the furnace refused to circulate any heat… the furnace service people came out around 8 pm and discovered that a fuse had blown, so they went back to the shop and brought a new one and installed it… this particular fellow didn’t know how to install the Nest product so we left it so that the house could warm up… it was rather chilly…

on Tuesday my son-in-law tried again, after he had gone out and bought more fuses, in case we blew another one in the process of hooking up the new thermostat…

once again, the new one wouldn’t work so he reinstalled the old one… he walked over to the furnace company’s office and left a message for the owner to give us a call… a while later we heard back and they figured out that there needed to be another wire…

which meant that the drywall ceiling in the basement hall had to come down so he could run the cable… he removed it and cleaned everything up beautifully, but by then it was too late to move to the next step…

today, while I was at work, he was able to pull the wire (without cutting into the plaster in the hall, yay), connect everything, and set the temperature, because it finally worked perfectly…

we added it to my app and I can now change the temperature from my phone… although it does say it is -8 outside, whereas the weather app says it is -22, lol…

seemed like such a simple little job, but he didn’t stop until it was done;-)… I sure am blessed…

ice…

30 Saturday Dec 2017

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out and about today…

found some warm and non-skid boots for my daughter at Canadian Footwear… they still measure your feet there… who knew… these will keep her on her feet when there is ice on the sidewalks in Ottawa…

had a lovely visit and some delicious hot chocolate with Constance as we browsed and found just the chocolate that we needed at Chocolatier Constance Popp…

stopped in at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to pick up my membership…

got a few pictures with the Winnipeg sign, being as we’ve done the Ottawa and Kingston ones, lol… a lot warmer when we did them… there is a new ice rink in front of the sign now… very cool…

and then popped over to see the ice castles, although they don’t open for another week… already look spectacular…

pictures came out rather well considering that my glasses were foggy from the cold…

pretty full morning…

burgers…

16 Saturday Dec 2017

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bit of an odd day… woke up at 6:15, made a thermos of tea and went back to bed… it had snowed a bit in the night…

at 7:30 the power went off and didn’t come back on for two hours… happy to have the warm tea as the temperature in the house dropped to 69 Celcius…

it is always so quiet when the power is off… and with the fresh blanket of snow it felt very cozy… particularly because I didn’t have to go out…

once the power was back on I spent some time working on a project and later met up with my daughter and eldest grandson at the mall… oh my… what was I thinking…

cars and people everywhere… good news is that I now have just about everything I need…

stopped to pick up A & W teen burgers, onion rings and fries and then home… teen burgers from A & W were a treat we would sometimes have on our way home from work… nice to enjoy them with my grandson who is spending the night and helping me with some chores around the house tomorrow…

a number of people say he looks just like my beloved;-)…

fingers…

15 Friday Dec 2017

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a few days ago I walked over to TheForks to meet a dear friend for lunch…

on my way I got this shot of the CanadianMuseum for Human Rights… it is such a beautiful building… just yesterday I renewed my membership…

it was a lovely day but a bit cold… I was wearing these amazing purple leather gloves which a friend gave me a few years ago… they look great but are not tremendously warm… so eventually I pulled the sleeves down over my fingers to keep them toasty…

looked just like my eight year old grandson, lol…

dizzy…

17 Sunday Sep 2017

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yesterday I did very little as I am dealing with a cold which has invaded my ear and made me rather dizzy…

the only thing I managed was to make some chicken soup…

didn’t even get out of my nightie… had some fun using the 10 second timer to take the picture on my iPhone, lol… thankfully no one came to the door…

had enough to fill 3 containers with plain soup and then made my mom’s dumpling recipe to go in the remainder of the soup…

one bowlful for my supper and a container which I had for lunch today…

my Friday night supper from SkipTheDishes worked for 3 meals… supper, part of my breakfast, and then lunch;-)…

really happy that I did that because the weekend has been very low key…