19 Monday Oct 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, dark, lit, moments, nature, plants, solar lights, widow, window
was walking past the dining room and spotted the solar lights across the three plants that are in the window…
they only stay lit for a few moments so I often don’t see them…
what a lovely treat 😊…
21 Friday Aug 2026
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06 Saturday May 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, corms, dahlias, dark, dirt, flowers, garden, growing, growth, light, moments, plants, widow
on Friday the dahlias came up from the basement…
two years ago when I brought them in, I removed all the soil, bagged each one, labelled them and put them away in the dark in the basement…
when I brought them in last fall, I didn’t even take off the dirt… they went into a pail, which went onto a shelf in the laundry area… so, not even in the dark… and I had no idea which type they were, lol…
when the pail came upstairs on Friday I wasn’t expecting much and was pleasantly surprised…
at least four of the clumps had new growth… I am very excited about this… currently they are sitting on the table in the sun…
soon they will be planted in pots in the garden;-)…
01 Sunday Jan 2023
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blessed, coal, dark, definition, family, first footing, garden, her big girl pants, home, loss, memories, moments, remembering, tradition, widow
we have done first-footing since I was a little girl… for us, it meant that just before midnight on New Year’s Eve my dad, who had dark hair, would jump in the car and drive around to all our aunts and uncles and grandparents’ houses and take them an offering – it always included coal, bread and sometimes oranges and a little drink of something… I also remember how my dad would have to search out new coal every year because no one ever kept it from year to year, lol…
from Dalhousie Castle:
“Stemming back to the time of the invading Vikings in the 8th and 9thcentury, it is believed that the first person to enter a house, the “first foot”, can bring luck – or misfortune – for the year ahead. In Scottish tradition good luck comes in the form of a tall, dark-haired man being the first footer.” Dec 7, 2020
I spent time this morning looking back at some of the different ways it has happened for me…
my daughter being the first female to cross the threshold first when she was here in 2017…
my middle grandson taking home a bag and making sure to bring it and be the first one to cross my threshold…
my daughter arranging for friends to come by with a box of items she had sent to them…
while visiting the kids in Ottawa, having a diamond necklace in the bag because there wasn’t any coal, lol… and I did have to give it back🤪…
this morning I went out the back door in my housecoat, walked around to the front door, and first-footed myself…
those big girl pants 😂…
06 Wednesday Oct 2021
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at 1:24 this morning I looked out the window after hearing some bells ringing…
I have this cute little frog that holds these bells and when it rains they make lovely sounds…
it wasn’t raining which is what drew my attention…
I spotted two raccoons walking along the edge of the bathtub pond area…
too dark for pictures and I scared them off by banging on the window…
this likely explains the bent over bird feeder from the other day…
good news is that the fish appear to be safe…
25 Wednesday Nov 2020
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alarm, Big Brothers Big Sisters, big girl pants, blessed, boxes, camera, dark, early, moments, motion, pickup, reuse, treasures, weather, widow
last night I set my alarm for the first time in ages… Big Brothers and Big Sisters were doing a pickup of donations and I’d been gathering things for weeks…
had to turn on all the lights because it was so dark… went out to sweep off the step but the thin layer of snow was frozen, lol…
I moved all the boxes from the den closet onto the front step… took a while…
then I turned on the motion sensor for the front camera and had a cup of tea while I watched my morning news program…
good thing I got up early because they arrived just after eight…
happy to see things that I no longer need, but are in excellent condition, get to be reused ;-)…
24 Saturday Oct 2020
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13 Monday Jul 2020
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the sky is very menacing tonight…
the light is very strange…
from the back it looks like there is an orange visor over the sky…
from the front the clouds are very threatening…
think we are in for a big storm…
13 Wednesday Nov 2019
Posted in life, moments, technology, Uncategorized
pitch dark at 5:59 am and I am jerked awake by the sound of the phone ringing…
heart pounding I grab the receiver to hear an automated voice telling me my credit card has been used to make a purchase…
this is not the first time I’ve had this call so I know it is a scam and hang up…
takes at least fifteen minutes for my heartbeat to return to normal…
not really the way I want to start my day…
06 Wednesday Nov 2019
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big girl pants, dark, light, moments, snow, street, Technology, walk, widow
this was the view as I walked up the street at 5:30 tonight, sigh…
sad about the time change… I am still waking up at 5 am…
been using my SAD light at work most days…
hope to be back to normal in the next few days, cause this is rather tiresome…
