13 Thursday Nov 2025
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had a delightful morning yesterday…
spent time talking with the plants as they were watered and turned… a few are struggling with the move indoors but most are happy…
then I spent a glorious hour on the deck, in the sunshine, reading my current novel…
09 Wednesday Jul 2025
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today, we celebrated one of our group’s birthdays by spending the afternoon at Pine Ridge Hollow…
we drove out in a hybrid electric car and spent a couple of hours wandering through all the shops…
we followed that up with an excellent dinner at the restaurant…
our meal started with beet chips and goat cheese ranch dipping sauce, oh my, so tasty…
four members of the group had pickerel piccata while I had the lamb shank…
my lamb was braised and flame-grilled, came with tabbouleh, fennel slaw, whipped labneh, and a drizzle of chermoula… I had to look up a number of the items on Google but they made a delightful combination;-)…
everyone’s meal was delicious and just a touch different than expected…
the birthday “girl” had schmoo, while others enjoyed the frozen lemon meringue…
we conscripted a fellow restaurant member as they were leaving to take our traditional photo…’you can see we were having a lot of fun;-)…
a leisurely drive home ended another of our special days…
10 Saturday May 2025
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what a delightful way to begin the day…
looked out the front window just after 7 am and spotted this goose…
watched if for quite a while before heading back to bed, lol…
then, just after nine, as I was making breakfast, I walked out to the living room and spotted five mallards across the street…
they all came over, but only two of them stopped for a snack under the bird feeders;-)… I was happy when I caught this one as it was leaving…
24 Wednesday Jan 2024
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it smells delightful right now in the living room as both of the hyacinths are blooming…
spent the majority of the day there so I could enjoy the scent;-)…
I am so happy to have flowers in these dark days of winter…
03 Monday Aug 2015
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big girl pants, critters, delightful, garden, leftovers, light
except for a few chores, I have spent the entire day in the garden…
moved from chair to chair and from sunny to shady areas and back…
watched the critters…
besides this one, which practically joined me in my chair, there were red squirrels, bluejays, chickadees, sparrows, butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees, with some wasps and mosquitoes….
the morning glories were glorious… always seems to me that they are lit from within…
for a good part of the day I had yoga pants and a sweater on… usually I sit in the shade but was forced to move into the sunlight to warm up a few times…
when I wasn’t watching the wildlife around me, I was reading, napping, or eating… not too many steps in today, but I have plans to spend some time on the treadmill once I go in…
made a lovely salad for lunch with leftovers from last night’s supper…
turned out delicious…
after realizing last night that there is less light each day I decided to enjoy every moment of it today…
and it has been quite delightful…
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