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macerate…

18 Wednesday Feb 2026

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yesterday morning I started prepping for supper…

I sliced strawberries and then added sugar to macerate them…

later in the day I pulled out the pancake recipe from a well-worn cookbook and got the dry ingredients ready…

once my housemate brought home milk, I finished the mix and started cooking…

microwaved some bacon on the side and whipped the cream…

the first batch of pancakes came out perfectly… mine came from the second batch and may have been a bit darker, lol…

what a delicious dinner;-)…

while…

10 Tuesday Feb 2026

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yesterday morning, I spent a little while wandering around the house and adding in Valentine decorations…

in the living room (adding to the table which I did a few days ago), on the stairs…

in the bathroom, and the den…

on Valentine’s Day, I will make something special for my dinner, not sure what yet… my beloved and I would maybe have had steak and lobster or some special treat…

he was very romantic and always got me a rose and some little present to celebrate the day…

I’m always happy to do a bit of decorating around the house, and then spend time thinking about him on Valentine’s Day… I have been so blessed;-)…

spending…

09 Monday Feb 2026

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went out for groceries and found three little heart pillows…

which I had to bring home;-)…

and I was also happy to find daffodils and hyacinth;-)… they came home too, lol…

since then I’ve moved them a few times…

everything is now in the den, as I am spending the majority of my time in there, watching the Olympics;-)…

ice…

08 Sunday Feb 2026

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it was a lovely day so we spent some time on the deck, in between Olympic events…

first project was to top up the hot tub and clean all the ice off of it…

next, we emptied, cleaned, and filled the cold tub… a new pump has gone into it to keep the water moving…

it is always amazing how long it takes to fill up tubs, particularly in the cold, lol…

but, the jobs are done;-)…

driven…

31 Saturday Jan 2026

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I don’t think I’ve driven at all this winter…

since the snow started, I have been relying on my housemate and Uber to get me where I need to go… and my adventure buddy who always does the driving (yay to her!)…

my newest process is to volunteer at The Leaf from three until six… that way I can Uber there and my housemate can pick me up… seems to be working quite well…

recently I had a ride in a Tesla, which had the entire roof made of glass… I knew how to get in, from a previous encounter, although the driver automatically opened the door, but it took a while to figure out how to open the door from the inside to exit at my destination, lol……

I was thinking how cool it would be to drive out of the city and watch the stars or the aurora in comfort from the back seat without having to leave the vehicle, lol…

check-up…

30 Friday Jan 2026

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this morning I had an appointment with my doctor for my regular blood pressure check-up, as well as hearing my A1C results…

as we went into the exam room he mentioned to his staff person that I always wear purple, lol…

he started out asking if I had been to Fleurs de Villes and we chatted about that for a few minutes… I wondered why he had asked and finally realized I was wearing one of my Fleurs de Villes t-shirts, lol…

he had to take my blood pressure a few times to get a good reading… I mentioned that my housemate was waiting for me and I was worried he wouldn’t get to work on time, lol…

my A1C had gone down and has been trending downward which made me happy as I feel I am eating in a more normal fashion… he was pleased with that…

we also discussed that those numbers could go as high as 8.1 before it would be a problem as I age… of course, neither one of us plan to let that happen…

on the way home we picked up a favourite breakfast as a treat;-)…

way to go me😊…

crisp…

15 Thursday Jan 2026

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my housemate decided to make apple crisp with all the apples he purchased and then forgot to eat, lol…

I found a recipe and we peeled, cored, and sliced what felt like a ton of apples before they went bad…

next he mixed in the sauce and then used the vacuum sealer to package two bags of the apples…

when he decided to make the apple crisp, he gathered the ingredients for the crisp portion, put everything together and baked it in the oven…

it came out delicious… reminded me of my beloved whose favourite thing to bake was apple pie;-)…

alphabetizing…

12 Monday Jan 2026

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we were looking for brown sugar and somehow decided to tidy the cupboards, duh…

everything came down, quite a few rather old items were discarded, and the remaining containers went back in…

then we headed to the grocery store and while we were there, found a couple of revolving trays and new spice jars…

once we were done putting groceries away, we added the trays, which of course meant taking all of the containers out again…

it is going to be so much easier to find the item I am looking for now…

then, we got out the label maker, which I am still learning how to use, and made labels as we filled the jars that would fit in the two spice racks…

now we are working on alphabetizing them;-)…

such fun, but we were both exhausted…

step-stools…

10 Saturday Jan 2026

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spent a little bit of time in the kitchen…

went upstairs and brought down the regular mugs and changed them out for the holiday ones…

next, with help from my housemate, I changed out the dinner plates and saucers… it is always a bit of a process as one set comes down from the top of the cabinet and the other goes up…

step-stools are involved and I am always surprised at how much the Christmas plates weigh, lol…