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12 Friday Feb 2021

Posted by sulis303 in food, health, life, moments, Uncategorized

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batch, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, energy, fish, food, happy, homemade, moments, prepared, widow

there was a whirlwind of activity in the kitchen a few days ago…

not sure what it was about, but went with the flow, lol…

after breakfast, I used the leftover half banana to make some overnight oats…

a bit later I produced a small batch of homemade macaroni and cheese which I will have over the next few days…

then I prepared sweet potato oven fries to go with my pickerel for supper…

wonder if I will have this much energy over the next while, or whether it was a one time event…

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16 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by sulis303 in food, health, life, loss, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, crutch, drink, energy, knee, purse, Tea, widow

simple cup of tea you say… not so much…

wore a small purse to hold my phone, the cup that wasn’t quite empty and the garbage from my lunch…

only used one crutch so I could carry the thermos back… and in the purse I carried sweetener, the empty cup, a can of the milk I use, along with the opener for it…

going to the kitchen, boiling the kettle, gathering the other items and returning to the bedroom takes a huge amount of energy…

but did that first cup of tea ever taste delicious;-)…

amazing what you can figure out when needed, lol…

although I still need someone to come and deal with the spider in the bathtub…

followers…

14 Tuesday Jul 2015

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beloved, big girl pants, energy, flowers, followers, visits

kind of excited to see that I have 223 followers…

in 2015 I have had 2,251 visits but the most interesting thing is that people from ten countries have read one of my blogs…

  
not big numbers if you compare them to others, but big numbers to me, lol…

getting likes and comments and new followers certainly gives me energy…

always fascinating which posts get the most response… I might write something and think it isn’t particularly interesting and then have lots of activity… another time I will feel I’ve written something which everyone will resonate with and it gets no interest at all…

started out as a method to share how I was dealing with the loss of my husband and now it is more general, although everything I do is really about moving forward on my own without my beloved…

this bouquet, in the living room this morning, reminds me of how he always made sure I had fresh flowers…

  

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06 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, nature

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big girl pants, energy, garden, hot tub, moments, mosquito, pond, poppies, weeding

was up early, made a nice breakfast and planned to work in the garden when I was done…

sadly it started to rain when I went outside so didn’t get much done for a good portion of the day… passed the time watching tv :-)…

last night I had a hot tub and sat out in the swing chair watching the colours change on the waterfall… beautiful… this is the cute little remote that works the lights…

  
feeling good and full of energy, when the sky cleared up around four, I spent some time in the front flower bed cutting down wild roses and pulling out grass… filled a pail but only got about half of it done… hope to finish that off tomorrow…

kids came over and we had supper while the hot tub was emptying… after they left I cleaned and filled it… now to wait for it to warm up and put in a few chemicals…

sitting out, with a blanket on and reading by the pond…

 
good news is that the waterfall is still running beautifully… bad news is that the pond keeps needing more water…

   

oh well, we’ll figure it out… poppies are getting closer to opening every day and at least one of the dahlias I planted has popped through the soil…

  
life is good and I am lucky enough to realize that and enjoy every moment…

well, maybe not every moment… a mosquito just tried to bite me, lol…

warm…

04 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, nature

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big girl pants, energy, garden, leaking, lobelia, pond, warm

spent a few minutes this morning pulling grass out of a flower bed and topping up the water in the pond…

sun was shining all day and it was warm…

when I got home I sat outside for a while and talked with my daughter about my upcoming visit…

the pond was looking good…

  
and the fish appeared happy… lots of chasing around so maybe we will have babies before too long…

  
things are starting to bloom…

  
a bit amazed that the Veronica is blooming before the poppies… sadly it looks like there will only be seven poppies… the first summer after George died we must have had fifty blooms…

glad to have spent time in the garden before organizing supper… have to take every opportunity to be outside when there is a nice day…

  
the planters around the deck are doing nicely… first time I’ve had this colour lobelia… looks good…

the pond may still be leaking a bit but I am thrilled with the sheet of water falling from the rock… think I will run a hose under the deck and just below the grass to the edge of the pond… then when it needs to be topped up, it will be a simple turn of the tap to fill it…

feeling more energy and getting the odd job done during the week, which has been unusual for quite some time…

  

pictures…

19 Friday Dec 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, craving, diabetes, diet, energy, exercise, pictures

I am now taking pictures of everything I eat…

people tease me on a regular basis as I am taking the pictures…

that’s okay, because taking the pictures helps me remember what I have eaten…

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for the next few months I have to write down what I am eating and using the pictures helps me remember… I don’t always have time to write it down as I prepare/sit down to a meal…

besides recording what I eat, I have to take blood sugars at breakfast, lunch and bedtime… and record them as well… taking them means poking one of my fingers, sigh..

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I am getting used to it and am doing well… the doctor was impressed with how the numbers have come down and how well I am eating…

missing sugar in my tea, but getting used to drinking it with milk… so far, leaving chocolate alone hasn’t been difficult… my biggest craving is chips and they are on the not to eat list…

I am supposed to experiment and see what happens when I eat different things… maybe chips might make it to that testing list, lol…

I’m very lucky that they made the diabetes diagnosis early, and that diet and exercise should be all I need to do to take care of it…

energy level is come back…

warm…

14 Sunday Dec 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, nature, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, energy, hot tub, melting, productive, warm, weather, zero

the weather has been absolutely silly lately…

Friday night we walked back from our Christmas party in shoes and with our jackets open…

yesterday when I went out, I wore a spring jacket with a vest and was perfectly warm…

took this picture out the window this morning…

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it went to zero Celsius today…

when I had an early morning hot tub today I had to wear a baseball cap as it was misting/foggy, but lovely and warm… as I sat there, I could hear water dripping from the eaves…

silly, lol…

it was warm enough that we were able to pull out dead plants from a planter on the steps and put in the spiral tree…

it looks lovely when the snow covers it… gonna have to wait a while for that…

the swag is on the outside of the door and the silver snowflake wreath is on the inside… looks good…

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spent time organizing and decluttering…

feels like another productive day… maybe my energy is returning…

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