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towel…

17 Tuesday Dec 2019

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big girl pants, cold, door, fur coat, home, memories, purple, towel, weather, widow

over the last week or so I’ve put a towel at the bottom of the front door to help keep the warm in, and the cold out… apparently they are called door snakes or draft dodgers…

it has made me giggle every time I walk past as it reminds me of a dear friend’s mom… she lived in a huge, but very old, house and all winter she would throw fur coats at the bottom of various doors in the house to stop the cold from entering…

so funny, lol…

which is why I giggle when I see my towel blocking the cold from entering the house…

maybe I should be looking for a purple one;-)…

pellet…

13 Wednesday Feb 2019

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adrenaline, big girl pants, blocked, bunny, carrot, door, pellets, surprise, widow

so last night I was in the bathroom and noticed a little piece of something on the ground… wondered if it was a piece of chocolate… it wasn’t, but I couldn’t figure out what it was…

spotted a few more as I walked to the kitchen and there were some on the floor there as well…

by then I was thinking that someone had been in the house… picked up all the bits and tossed them out…

headed upstairs and while I am watching tv saw a little head and then heard the pitter patter of little feet… when I looked down at the end of the bed I saw this…

the cutest little bunny… she let me take her picture and then hopped into the computer room…

I went downstairs to find some water and a carrot but I was still trying to figure out how she got in…

downstairs she came and sat in the doorway between the living and dining rooms…

I made a few phone calls and sent a few pictures… I like bunnies so I wasn’t scared but didn’t want one running around the house all night, leaving little pellets behind…

once she was in the dining room, I used chairs to block her in… then I made a path from there out the front door…

good thing it wasn’t too cold because the door was open for a while… once I moved the barricade to the dining room, she followed the path and went right outside where I had put a few more pieces of carrot for her…

eventually my heart stopped pounding, the furniture was all back in place, and I went downstairs to hook the vent back up, which was how she got in… will be buying something so that nobody else can come in that way;-)…

certainly had the adrenaline flowing…

trellis…

24 Thursday Jan 2019

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big girl pants, door, garage, leaves, silly, snow, trellis, widow, windchill

it is cold out…

this morning I had to replace a safety pin that is helping to keep the garage door closed…

thought I was pretty smart when I figured out that by pinning a cloth over the lock mechanism the door will stay closed in the colder weather…

then as I drove beside the trellis I stopped, rolled down the window, took my gloves off, and got a few pictures of the snow on the leaves…

been looking at it every day as I move up or down the driveway…

silly to decide today, when it is -40 with the windchill, that I need to stop and take the photo, lol…

cupboard…

13 Monday Nov 2017

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big girl pants, crazy, cupboard, door, friends, kitchen, oldest, open, rainbow, widow

a while ago my oldest asked why I left the cupboard door to the garbage open…

I think it is so I can have access all the time, but it did make me think back to years ago when one of my best friends always had her drawers and cupboard doors open when she was cooking…

seemed dangerous and made me crazy…

so it was a bit humorous that apparently I have started to leave this one door open…

this morning there was a tiny rainbow in the kitchen as I was taking the picture…

have to think about this a bit more and maybe start closing it …

painting…

24 Wednesday Aug 2016

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big girl pants, door, game, painting, Poke Balls, purple, widow

at lunch I was collecting Poke balls at the Millennium Park…

okay, okay… the game is fun… well, the bits I know how to play…

rushed home after work as the painting company person was coming to get my signature on the paperwork so they can go ahead with the job…

feeling slightly guilty for having someone come and do this piece of work but also excited that it is actually going to get done…

hoping that the weather cooperates and I can have a freshly painted door and trim early in September…

poppy…

06 Monday Jun 2016

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ajar, big girl pants, door, flower, George, hesitate, poppy, ups and downs, widow

here’s how the day has gone…

when I arrived home tonight, after seven, I found the back door ajar…


cleaners were here mid afternoon… so, likely it’s been unlocked for three hours… 

I didn’t even hesitate to go in… or even bother to look around for intruders… clearly it just didn’t get closed properly…

then I looked out the window and saw this…


went out and spent a few minutes enjoying the poppy flower… it’s a beauty and may be the only one this year as I don’t see any other buds in the garden… 

the year George died there were over forty blooms… never had that many flowers before or since…

really happy that I saw it because they are usually a single day flower… might be gone tomorrow…

ups and downs, lol…

door…

10 Thursday Dec 2015

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beloved, big girl pants, door, key, remote, Shadow, starter

excited to see the deck covered in a fresh dusting of snow when I opened the back door this morning…

  
it always looks so beautiful when everything is white for that short period of time…

left work a bit early and drove to the edge of the city to take the car back to the dealership…

have been very impressed with their assistance since I purchased the car… 

on Sunday, when I was in a parking lot after shopping, the driver’s door wouldn’t open… at first I thought I was using the wrong button… now there is the key with the door open and close spots and the remote starter with open and close buttons…  

tried them all, many times, but nothing would open the driver’s door… eventually phoned my daughter who suggested I go in and open it from the other side… after that it seemed to work fine… of course the worry is that it might happen again…

called the next day and my sales guy suggested I bring it in so they could check it out…

he wasn’t there today, but the Sales Manager met with me and had a look… of course, everything worked perfectly… we also went over how the remote starter worked… I think I get it now, lol… he advised that I could use either of the buttons to open the door…

he gave me his direct phone number and email address and said if it happened again to call him personally and he would arrange for a rental car and they would test the car until it happened again so they knew what it was and could fix it…

they really do want everything to go well…

it was overcast all day and when I was walking back to the car Shadow really looked purple although the picture doesn’t show it quite as well…

  
thinking my beloved would be proud of me as I slip those big girl pants on more easily each day…

changes…

04 Saturday Oct 2014

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big girl pants, changes, clouds, door, fridge, moon, stove

the sky was lovely this morning… I got a shot of the clouds…

IMG_8661.JPGdid a bit of tidying up while I was waiting for my new stove and fridge…

IMG_8662.JPGthey are not brand new, but new to me… my son-in-law, and his brother, brought them over and put the stove in easily… we weren’t able to replace the glass on top, but hope to do that in the next week or so…

IMG_8663.JPGthe fridge on the other hand was a different story… had to take off the back door to get it into the house… then they had to take off the door in the basement… then they had to take off the two fridge doors… then they had to take off two fasteners at the bottom of the fridge and that was when they ran out of time…

so there is a fridge with no doors in the middle of the basement, waiting to get into the back room and be put back together…

IMG_8664.JPGto finish off the day I watched the moon go by my window… it was beautiful…

lots of changes today…

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