07 Saturday Nov 2020
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17 Wednesday Jun 2020
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06 Saturday Jun 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bushy, clematis, driveway, excited, flowers, memories, moments, pinch, plants, purple, sunshine, widow
a week ago I took a picture of the clematis growing up the sunny side of the house… it didn’t have any buds at the time…
I was very happy that it was getting bushy and doing well… after some research it appears that it needs to be pinched back so I will start doing that…
we’ve planted a number of them over the years in various spots and they have always died after a few years…
my beloved and I planted this one along the driveway before he died so I am always thrilled when it reappears…
today I spotted some buds and am very excited…
22 Wednesday Jan 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, bricks, driveway, moments, reading, shovelling, sidewalk, snow, text, weather, widow, windrow
another lovely quiet day…
so happy to know that my shovellers will be by whenever it snows… Saturday it was the partner who did it all with a shovel… there was a lot of snow out there…
when it wasn’t snowing or blowing it was beautiful…
last night the city plowed the street and built some good sized windrows in front of the sidewalk… they did a great job cleaning out the end of the driveway though…
I texted my shovelled and he was by within an hour to clear out the bricks of frozen snow…
think this process is going to work well for both of us… him, not having to dig it out when it has frozen back into one large clump and me, having a clear walkway for my company…
12 Saturday Oct 2019
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big girl pants, cold, driveway, garden, groceries, moments, nature, online, Save-On-Foods, snow, Technology, widow
the snow fell for two days… my driveway is covered and I wasn’t sure that I could get out, and then back in…
I needed groceries for Thanksgiving dinner with my grandsons on Monday so yesterday I shopped online at Save-On-Foods…
you pick your items, many from the list of previous items you’ve purchased in the store, choose a delivery time (usually the next day), pay with your credit card and you are done;-)… it costs $10 for this service…
they call you in the two-hour window when they are nearly at your house, bring in the groceries and advise if there have been any substitutions…
then off the driver goes and you get to put away your groceries…
although, I need to work on figuring out how much things like mushrooms and Brussels sprouts weigh in kilograms, lol…
04 Monday Feb 2019
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big girl pants, car, colleague, deep, drifted, driveway, overnight, pretty, shoveler, snow, widow
this morning I was rather surprised by how much snow had fallen overnight…
when I opened the back door there was easily six inches of snow up against it… I figured it had just drifted and when I stepped over it there was six inches of snow on the deck and all the way to the garage…
when I opened the big door there was four or five inches… I walked along the driveway to see how deep the snow was and decided that I might not be able to get the car out…
back inside and called a cab… didn’t want to get stuck at the bottom of the driveway…
but it sure was pretty, lol…
was able to get a ride home with a colleague and walked from the end of the street to be sure she didn’t get stuck…
there was even more snow when I walked up the driveway… snow pants would have been helpful, lol…
the steps and sidewalk were completely covered…
my shoveler isn’t available tonight, but will be here at 7:30 am so that I can get out in time for work…
07 Monday Jan 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, clearing, driveway, group, neighbourly, neighbours, snow, snowblower, widow
my oh my… it snowed quite a bit last night… and then the wind took over… blew the side door of the garage open and quite a bit of snow went inside…
looked pretty as I was leaving the house this morning, although the driving wasn’t great…
at the end of the day we left the office in groups to be sure that no one got stuck in the parking lot…
when I arrived home I turned into the driveway and couldn’t get up the slope as my snow clearing person hadn’t made it over yet…
vehicles were parked on the street so I was worried I might back into one of them if I tried to make a run for it… I went and knocked on a neighbour’s door… the vehicle wasn’t his but he thought it was from the house right across the street from me… that neighbour was shovelling so I went and asked about the vehicle… it was his, but he said I had lots of room…
he came over and tried to drive Indi up the driveway… as he was trying, the first neighbour came out to help… with a number of tries, and two of us pushing, Indi made it to the flat section of the driveway… thank goodness for winter tires…
I was able to get her into the garage from there…
I opened the side door to see that my back lane neighbour had snow-blowed the sidewalk from the lane to the deck;-)…
I took a picture of the spot where Indi got stuck, but it doesn’t look like a problem…
here’s the driver as he finished shovelling his sidewalk…
pretty neighbourly, I’d say;-)…
15 Thursday Feb 2018
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beautiful, big girl pants, conversation widow, driveway, grandson, Olympics, shoveler, snow, supper
well that was nice…
texted my grandson, the shoveler, to say that there was a bit of snow on the driveway and sidewalks… it was quite beautiful as I looked out this morning before and after footprints were made…
we met at the office after work, stopped for gas and picked up some chicken wings for our supper… made a salad and we watched some Olympics…
then he went out and cleared away the snow… hot chocolate and a bit more Olympics and off he went to catch the bus home…
I really enjoyed having someone to discuss the performances of the various athletes we watched;-)…
06 Friday Jan 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, comfortable, driveway, driving, ice, pump, Shadow, widow
this morning as I was driving to work I ran into a patch of ice…
had to work hard at leaving my foot on the brake… used to old school pumping…
reminded me of what an excellent driver George was…
he always drove defensively… which also made me think of him as I was sliding on that ice patch…
this is the most recent picture of Shadow that I have… didn’t remember to take a photo of her this morning in her new parking spot at the office… it is a great one with a car on one side but not the other…
the other day, when I was backing out of the garage, my daughter commented on how well I maneuvered the tricky bend in the driveway…
made me think back to when my beloved left me and I had to get in and out of the garage… at first it was very stressful, but as time has gone on I’ve become comfortable with the process… I still would rather be the one to put her into the garage which makes getting her out simpler, lol…
this was a picture I took of the house, from the car, when I made it out of the driveway after one of the big storms recently… you can sort of see the jog by the garage…
I am getting more comfortable in those big girl pants…
06 Tuesday Dec 2016
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Advent Elf, beautiful, big girl pants, driveway, snow, snowstorm, sticky, weather, wifow
woke up to this…
it had snowed all night and snow was sticking to everything… couldn’t see through the windows…
it looked different when I got home… it was still snowing a bit but was all cleaned up… very happy that I was able to get up the driveway and into the garage…
the Advent Elf came by and shovelled as my grandson wasn’t able to make it over… there was a lot of snow, and it isn’t done yet…
a pain to clean up and travel through but so beautiful…
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