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clematis…

20 Sunday May 2018

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this morning my daughter and I went shopping…

started at Lowe’s where we chose a few plants and a couple of trellises for the clematis…

then it was over to Costco where we picked up groceries and a few more plants…

stopped to pick up lunch at a new burger place close to home… had been following them for a while on social media and was eager to try them out… a bit disappointing… ordinary burgers and although there were lots of fries, they were stubby, and not that tasty… and it was expensive… oh well…

after a nap I had a hot tub and sat on the deck reading for a while…

tomorrow I will do some planting…

stepped…

13 Sunday May 2018

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had a lovely Mother’s Day…

was up early, as usual, lol, and went out to have a hot tub… spent a little while sorting out how to get a shot of me in the tub… it has been nine years since I stepped into this hot tub for the first time, on Mother’s Day in 2009… what fun to figure out how to get the shot…

met up with my daughter and family for breakfast out… usually we would have supper at home, but the younger boys have soccer practice at 6… there was a long line as we waited but the salmon benedict I ordered was delicious… it has a spinach sauce and is served on a scone, yum…

at the end of the meal she and I received a chocolate treat… when I ate it a little while ago it reminded me of a fiddle diddle cookie my friend Lisa makes… delicious…

had a text and call from my older daughter while I was waiting to be picked up after breakfast…

then my son-in-law took us moms to a number of plant stores where we wandered around and picked up a few goodies…

I was particularly happy to find a purple datura and a pretty dahlia… my plan is to leave the plants on the dining room table for a few weeks rather than put them out and bring them in, depending on the weather…

besides the plants, I got a pretty outdoor cushion, a blue-y purple pot, and purple morning glory seeds…

had planned to make roast chicken with stuffing for my dinner, but after all that running around, decided that ordering in would be a nice treat, lol…

and it was;-)…

closing…

25 Sunday Feb 2018

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up very early to watch the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics and then I went back to sleep for a while;-)…

when I finally got up the sun was shining and I took a few fun pictures… the reflection on the water lily installation, the glittering snow, and when we arrived back home, the interesting cloud formation…

this afternoon I met the kids at The Forks and we went for a walk along the River Trail to check out some of the warming huts… they are all interesting architecturally, but warming might be a stretch to describe them, lol…

here are some pictures that I took…

here are some great shots from my daughter…

home for supper and now watching the rerun of the Closing Ceremony… possibly I slept through some of it this morning…

chocolate…

24 Thursday Aug 2017

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beginning preparations for my visit to Ottawa soon…

gathering items to take with me and on the list is chocolate… my daughter is becoming an expert on the subject…

she has a few favourites from various chocolate shops around town…

today I picked up a few things from Morden’s…

arrived two minutes before they closed as traffic was bad because of all the construction… they were so gracious and provided excellent customer service, even at those last few minutes before closing…

picked up a few bars and the darkest chocolate they had… also got some of their cashews…

George loved cashews and they made me think of him as I was snacking on a handful tonight…

on a roll with chocolate today… last night on our way home we stopped at a new bakery in the neighbourhood and I picked up this chocolate ganache tart…

took it to the office, cut it into eight tiny pieces and shared it with my colleagues… this works very well for me because I get a taste of something but then don’t have tons of it… and it’s fun to share…

still have a bit of time to get to her other favourites so I have the necessary items when I arrive there, lol…

looking forward to the shopping and the trip…

trees…

06 Thursday Jul 2017

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tonight I enjoyed a delightful bit of chocolate… Brookside Dark Chocolate Tart Cherry Crisp with pomegranate flavour… might just take longer to say the name than it did to eat it, lol… 
it has a very cool tree on it…

just minutes after that my daughter sent me a picture of some screen printing she did at a class tonight…

another tree… how cool is that…

the really funny thing is that this was the picture I had already prepared to post tonight…

it is of two of my colleagues sitting in the sun for a few minutes over lunch yesterday… we try to get outside for at least a few minutes on sunny days…

the whole serendipitous thing is amazing… great way to start my weekend;-)…

gone…

29 Monday May 2017

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this is a picture of the box my new phone came in…

good news is I got a new iPhone 7…

the bad news… I got the new phone because I believe my phone was stolen this afternoon… gone, right from my desk, sigh…

I discovered this about fifteen minutes before having to go into a three hour meeting…

thankfully my daughter was able to call MTS and have the phone locked and then sort out what I had to do to get a new one…

after the meeting I went to the mall where I spent about an hour with the MTS people and then another forty-five minutes at the Apple Store…

since I arrived home I’ve been working to replace everything on my phone…

here’s a lesson… back your phone up on a regular basis, sigh… 

now to see when I last backed up to my computer…

frozen…

01 Monday May 2017

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or not…

Saturday was a good day… up at a reasonable time… made a lovely breakfast… I tend to have eggs on the weekend… 

got some laundry done… even scrubbed down the top of the stove… sure do miss George for some jobs and scrubbing is one of them… my arms are wussy but he had strong hands and arms… when he scrubbed a pot it was completely shiny when he was done;-)…

had a break and sat outside and read for a bit… texted with my daughter to see if they were coming for dinner on Sunday and when she advised they were, I headed down to the freezer to pull something out to thaw…

that is when the day took a turn… everything was thawed… as in not frozen, not even cold… bad… it smelled bad and all of it was bad…

my daughter and grandson came over and he – who has a strong stomach and weak nose – unlike his mother and grandmother – took out five bags to the garbage…

then he hosed down and rinsed out the freezer a few times and moved the – now very heavy and completely full – garbage can to the back of the yard… of course Friday was garbage day, so the disgusting smell will be around all week… likely we will need to put some bleach in it for a few days after it gets dumped to get rid of the odour…

so, here’s my freezer today…

waiting to be picked up and taken to the scrap yard…

starting to research a replacement… should I get another chest freezer or go for an upright one…

decisions, decisions…

specialist…

10 Monday Apr 2017

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seemed like a long day today… probably because I had a late afternoon specialist appointment…

I think I’m fine but will wait for the report to arrive to confirm that…

things moved along fairly quickly but there was certainly waiting involved…

waiting to get in to see the doctor… happily my daughter was able to come with me so that really helped pass the time… visiting keeps your mind occupied… and we got in fairly quickly…

then, once in the office, waiting for the doctor to arrive… we spent some of the time looking at Excel and figuring out how to do things on a Mac… so different than a PC…

the final, and longest, wait was for blood work… although there were only four people in front of me, we sat for over half an hour… not exactly sure what was going on there…

took a lot of vials… wonder what they do with all the leftovers, lol…

when I got home I made supper, worked on a social media project, and then rested before my BS buddies arrived…

after the busy weekend and slightly stressful day, I think I am going to sleep well tonight:-)…

warmers…

12 Sunday Feb 2017

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made a Valentine’s Day dinner for my daughter and grandsons… son-in-law was working so he missed out, although he doesn’t love lobster the way the rest of us do…

when the kids arrived, my daughter took me over to the store to pick up the steak for our dinner…

then she went out and barbecued the steak and lobster… it was delicious…

one of the giggles we always have around lobster has to do with the butter warmers… 

we’ve had ours for around forty years…

no matter which one she has my daughter’s is never hot enough… our current joke is that dad keeps blowing on it and cooling it down… 

here she is trying to get hers burning stronger as we sat down to our delicious dinner… everyone else had very hot bubbling butter, lol…

was fun to set the table with a Valentine theme… spent some time at Dollarama picking up a few items, including some little plastic hearts filled with tiny heart candies, which were very popular…

I’d made some heart shaped red berry muffins which were also a hit…

little things like the warmers make me feel my beloved is at the dinner table with us… if he had been here, there would have been flowers on the table as well…

chocolate…

21 Wednesday Dec 2016

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Christmas has begun… my Ottawa daughter is home for the holidays… 

took this picture of the hot tub when I returned home from running errands this afternoon… looks pretty although not so good that the ice is all the way down the wall;-(…

as I headed to the airport this beautiful sunset stopped me in my tracks…

it was still light when I arrived and I waited in the car, watching for the plane…

wasn’t very long till it landed, but the light was certainly gone on this winter solstice evening…

the plane was very, very, very, big…

home to her favourite dinner of macaroni and cheese, made by mom…

then we had some chocolate after she took the appropriate pictures for her Instagram account @peacecyndi… it was fun to watch her at work…

the leather and walnut bite we shared was delicious and then we had some of my coconut, candied violet with gold flakes Advent chocolate bar from ChocoMe…

it is lovely to look at and quite tasty…

now for a hot tub and bed…