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corms…

04 Wednesday Nov 2020

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had a lovely time on the deck this afternoon with the dahlias…

I had watched a video from Dahlias by Julie on how to separate them and was looking forward to the process…

turned out it is much more difficult than I learned… not sure I ever spotted the eyes… it will be interesting to see if any of them grow when planted in the spring, lol…

in the end I put the corms that I separated into a paper bag which then went into a dark basement closet…

but it was a beautiful afternoon…

sunlit…

17 Friday Apr 2020

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yesterday I was in the hot tub early in the evening, which is not my usual pattern…

I watched geese flying south in the blue sky…

I also watched a number of birds in the elm tree next door… in the sunlight they looked like they were bright red in colour… many flew from there past the garage…

I stared at one of them for the longest time trying to decide if it was a sunlit robin or something else… because there were so many of them I didn’t think they were robins as usually I see them alone… eventually it flew away…

thinking how my beloved would have been able to provide a certain answer as he had eagle eyes;-)…

as soon as I got into the house I checked my bird book and my bird app (of course I have one) and am pretty sure it was a robin…

but it was exciting for a few moments as I imagined all kinds of very red birds, lol..

here’s the photo that my Merlin Bird ID came up with…

looking…

21 Friday Jun 2019

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today I had an eye appointment… good news is that my eyes are looking great… not so good news is that I probably need to consider new glasses… had to wait for a while to see my eye doctor…

spent a few minutes waiting by Sargent Sundae…

then met a friend and we went for lunch at the Park Café and a walk around the English Garden… it was overcast and a bit windy, but it was nice to be outdoors…

one of my favourite photos from our time in the Garden… I’m always looking for flowers and frogs in the ponds, lol…

first water lily of the season…

contact…

26 Monday Nov 2018

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I’ve worn contact lenses off and on for 40 years although for the last few years I haven’t worn any, as I’ve had a bit of trouble with my eyesight and some infections in my eyes…

have gone through a period where I didn’t see as well with the contacts in, so there wasn’t much sense in wearing them…

got a new prescription a while back and the other day when I put my contacts in I realized that one was missing… couldn’t find it anywhere around the sink so just thought “I guess it’s gone”…

first time I’ve ever lost a contact like that although over the years my beloved was always there to help me if I did misplace one…

when I got home from work that night I discovered the contact sitting on the edge of the sink, all dried up… too funny…

just a few days ago I took my contacts out and put my glasses on, only to realize that I still had a contact in one of my eyes…

not sure if this is a sign of old age, or what…

contacts…

11 Wednesday Jul 2018

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this afternoon I headed over to Graham Avenue to get my contacts checked…

been wearing a few different test lenses for about two weeks and have been very pleased with the improvement in my vision…

with the last contacts I had, I never did get good vision for close up items and long distance wasn’t that great either… I had concluded that glasses were going to be my best option…

she experimented with a different contact and I had to wait a few minutes for it to settle onto my eye…

as I left, got this picture of one of the pop-up parks…

looking forward to the new lenses and better vision…

sadly it is back to glasses as I wait for the new ones to arrive…

eyes…

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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this morning I was able to get in to see my optometrist…

  
I’ve been using ointment for weeks trying to get rid of a persistent hordeolum on my upper eyelid… besides looking bad, sometimes it is also painful…

for a couple of years I have been using eyelid cleaning pads every day to be sure my eyelids stay clean and healthy… really have to be on top of blepharitis so it doesn’t recur… 

now we are adding something else to the regime… at least once a week I am supposed to use a heated mask over a damp facecloth for ten minutes…

here’s the mask I will be using which I had to buy today…

 
great that there are all these products to help deal with this ongoing problem…

always something, lol…

news…

05 Monday Oct 2015

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good news… my eyes are in good shape… saw the eye doctor this morning… surprised me with a field test… thankfully it came out okay… always nervous when taking one… 

sky was changing every time I came out of a business…

  
met with my finance guy and my investments are doing fine as well…

then off to pick up a few groceries… had a lovely wander around at Costco… didn’t even buy much that wasn’t on my list, lol… finished up at Safeway where I picked up the other items for Thanksgiving dinner on the weekend…

on the drive home the sky changed yet again…

  
at least there was a bit of blue in it…

had a nap after all the groceries were put away, and then made a couple of pita pizzas for dinner…

  
delicious…

now to plan what I will eat tomorrow…

footsteps…

18 Wednesday Mar 2015

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early this morning, on the way to work, the sky had beautiful pink streaks of clouds… wonderful start to the day…



had an eye appointment at the end of the day… good report, my eyes are in great shape…

walked across to my credit union and put some cheques in… one was for three cents… really, what a waste of time and resources to send someone a cheque for a piddly amount like that… considered not cashing it so it would stay on their books, lol…

last thing I did while I was there was close the Estate account for George… bit of a strange feeling, even though nothing had gone into it for at least a year… another one of those ending pieces…

next, I walked to Polo Park… sunny and fairly warm, with a bit of wind… fair amount of dust blowing around… 

took a cab the rest of the way home…

this is my youngest daughter’s 35th birthday… wasn’t able to talk with her as she is away on vacation and doesn’t have access to any technology… very strange feeling not to be able to spend some time with her on this special day… touch unsettling actually…

over seven thousand footsteps today…

eyes…

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

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been struggling with a persistent infection in my right eye… had it since before Christmas and have been taking antibiotics and a topical ointment and seeing an ophthalmologist 3 or 4 times during that period…

I had been thinking that I should get Crystal to go with me this morning, but then thought I would wear my big girl pants as he would likely only give me another prescription and send me off…

well, how wrong could I be… today, he did a little surgery on it, right in the office… his office is located in the Eye Clinic at Children’s Hospital and there are lots of very small people in his waiting room… my little eye infection is not such a big deal… although while he was working on me, it felt like a rather big deal… it was miserable for quite a while afterwards, but right now I really can’t feel any sensation in it at all…  I am trying to keep my hands away from my face, just to be sure, lol…

eye following surgery...

eye following surgery…

reminded me of George’s cataract surgery just before he died… it was his right eye as well… we went through quite the time with giving him the drops that he had to have in it 3 times a day… every single time I put them in, he would jump, lol… but his vision improved a hundredfold…

George's eye following cataract surgery...

George’s eye following cataract surgery…

amazing the things that our bodies go through…