10 Tuesday Sep 2019
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back to it, big girl pants, dark, early, Google Home, share, widow
so… all summer I woke up in the morning and the light from outside was enough to start my day…
now I am talking to Google so she can turn on the lights, advise the temperature in the house, share information about the weather and the drive to work…
as I leave the house I have to remember to tell her I am out of here so she turns everything off, or down, for the day…
feels too soon to be back into this practice…
23 Friday Aug 2019
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Monday I considered turning on the bedroom light when I first got up…
there is less light every day, sigh… this is always one of the sadder happenings mid August…
at night I am now turning on the lights that run along the bannister on the stairs… those lights haven’t been on for months…
time is flying by more and more quickly…
although later in the evening I did enjoy spending a few minutes at the window as I was going downstairs to watch the solar lights start twinkling on… arrived at just the right moment;-)…
have to celebrate the little things…
11 Thursday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, dark, Google Home, juncos, recycle, reminder, widow
was a long day… started out in the dark and made it home a bit before dark… the sad part about that is that it is getting dark earlier and earlier every day…
took a few shots of the juncos as they were filling up at the feeder…
and then I had to take out the garbage and recycling… thankfully Google reminded me… which was handy because I don’t like to do it late at night and I have to leave early tomorrow for a dental appointment…
20 Thursday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, dark, garden, morning glories, sad, vitamin, vitamin D, widow
this morning I was up at my usual time… it was dark…
the sun rose forty-five minutes later… this is very sad… a clear sign of what is to come…
it was light when I left and there were many, many, morning glories blooming in the garden…
this week I started back on vitamin D…
10 Monday Sep 2018
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a few days ago I turned on the radiant heater in the bathroom because the floor was chilly…
sun is going down earlier and coming up later every day… seems like it was just June and here it is September, sigh…
also I’ve been noticing that the trees and plants are changing colour… the cedars are filled with cones… have never seen so many before… seems too soon to be fall…
08 Wednesday Nov 2017
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big girl pants, dark, fix, hot tub, repair, Technology, temperature, water, widow
hot, or not…
last night when I got home I had to add water to the hot tub as the repair person advised they couldn’t test it until it had more water in it…
so there I was at 6:30 pm topping it up… in the dark… at 6:30, sigh…
got hold of them again today and spoke with a different repair person who was able to explain it to me a little more clearly…
apparently the heater needs to be replaced… hopefully they will be here tomorrow…
not a cheap repair but they are confident this will fix the problem…
looking forward to being able to go out without having to wonder whether the temperature will be 103 or ???…
19 Saturday Nov 2016
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big girl pants, company, dark, Mom's the Word, PTE, sore, throat, widow
woke up with a sore throat, which was unfortunate as some young friends were coming over about 9:30…
we had a lovely visit and I took these pics as they were leaving…
then I had a nap…
picked up by a friend, had lunch and went to a play at PTE… this one was called Mom’s the Word…
it was cute and funny…
by the time we left the parking garage it was dark, sigh… got this shot of the house as I walked up to it… it really was dark…
still have a sore throat…
13 Thursday Oct 2016
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up and out very early this morning for a work event… it was really dark…
no birds out and about at this hour, lol…
the parking lot was empty but I got a nice shot of the church steeple…
we all enjoyed the turkey vegetable soup at lunchtime… there was a single bowl left… always a good sign…
when I arrived home the ChefsPlate box was at the garage door… was really tired but decided I would make one of the meals…
chose smokey pork meatballs over cracked wheat with sautéed Brussels sprouts and peppers… really appreciate the clear directions…
took about thirty minutes to pull it together… it was delicious and I have lunch for tomorrow…
as I lay watching some PVRed shows I am enjoying the beautiful moon through the window… didn’t even bother to take a photo…
enjoying the moment;-)…
11 Tuesday Oct 2016
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aquasize, beloved, big girl pants, conversation, dark, fish and chips, light, widow
yesterday was in a conversation with someone about how dark it is getting in the evening…
they mentioned that by 8 pm the light was fading… sadly tonight as we were coming home from aquasize at 7:25 it was already dark…
was also thinking about how my beloved would make fish and chips for when I’d get home from swimming… I miss that…
this was the light at 7:48 this morning… just getting light out…
15 Monday Aug 2016
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been getting up around six so that I can get in a bit of the Olympic coverage before work…
today it was dark enough that I needed to turn on the light in the bedroom, sigh…
then I went down the stairs and saw this…
absolutely stunning sky… took out the screen so that I could get a clear picture…
made me realize that I’d just opened that window and I had to run and close it so no bugs came in, lol…
yesterday I picked up some gladiolas when I was at the grocery store as a special treat…
although they are white, (I love the purple ones) they are stunning… in the process of checking on the correct spelling I discovered some interesting facts about flowers and birth months, lol…
decided to take a few stems to the office to brighten up my space…
so they travelled in the passenger seat…
a number of colleagues asked if they were from my garden… would be amazing if I could grow something like this in the garden…
