sarongs…

04 Thursday Apr 2024

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time to update the living room table…

I decided on sarongs in each square and then books from various trips for me to enjoy during this birthday month…

ran the sarongs through the wash to get rid of any wrinkles and then filled in the squares… went with purple and orange… purple for me, and orange for my daughter, with whom I went on many of the trips, lol…

looks bright and fresh and I have lots of special moments to enjoy;-)…

goodies…

02 Tuesday Apr 2024

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today a box of goodies arrived from the kids in Ottawa…

it was filled with treats from as far back as Advent and souvenirs from trips to Mexico, Paris, and Sicily… it included the last envelope from Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers… and a stick with photos and documents from my former laptop…

what fun to open each item with its note explaining where it came from… now to figure out where each piece will go and start wearing some of them…

I am so spoiled…

happy birthday month to me;-)…

buns…

30 Saturday Mar 2024

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so excited tonight when my grandson arrived with hot cross buns, which we have been looking for over the last week or so…

going to enjoy some of those for breakfast tomorrow;-)…

and he brought me tulips…

I filled five vases: one went downstairs in his space, one went into the den, one went into the living room and a final one for the bedroom…

what a lovely Easter treat…

pivot…

27 Wednesday Mar 2024

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this month commemorated the twelfth anniversary of my beloved’s passing…

it is always a reminder of how one’s life can change in the blink of an eye… mine certainly did at that time and again when I was diagnosed with cancer, and later diabetes…

the thing I have learned is that we can pivot and move forward, even if in a slightly different direction…

I have spent time remembering what a wonderful life we had together and how blessed I have been been and continue to be…

thinking of those who are at that pivot point in their journey…

read…

26 Tuesday Mar 2024

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since the girls were born, I’ve been giving them books for birthdays and holidays… I’ve done the same for my grandkids, but now we’ve worked up to gift cards as it isn’t clear what they might like to read…

now I don’t really have anyone to buy books for, but I have a new neighbour who has just turned two, so I’m getting books for him now…

it is such fun to buy little people books…

oven…

18 Monday Mar 2024

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had my youngest grandson over for dinner last night…

had to think for a while to decide on what to make as the oven is still not working, lol…

decided on spaghetti with meatballs and sauce… while I was making the meatballs, I was remembering doing that with my dad… he made great ones and they were very small… and they never fell apart, lol…

mine came out okay, but a few of them did seem to disintegrate… I used the broiler, which is still working, to warm up the garlic bread…

my grandson is on a moneymaking kick as there is a big school trip planned for next year, so he did some shovelling for me in the garden… the plan was to move the snow around that was in the mountain at the edge of the deck… he did a good job;-)…

hopefully this will help in the melting process…

tended…

16 Saturday Mar 2024

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spent time today with my tech specialist as they worked on a few problems with my main computer…

technology is always a wonderful thing when it is working and a pain in the butt when it isn’t…

took us a while, but eventually we were able to get everything on the list tended to…

some of the issues revolved around the way I enter some apps…

now I have to remember the new ways, lol… wish me luck…

Pi…

14 Thursday Mar 2024

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today was Pi day, lol, so we decided to bake a frozen pizza for supper… it wasn’t cooked after the correct amount of time, nor after more time… eventually we realized that the oven wasn’t heating…

tried using the frypan, but that did not work…

so, then we ordered…

it was tasty, particularly after we’d been trying to have supper for a long time, lol…

now to figure out why the oven isn’t working…

bookshelves…

13 Wednesday Mar 2024

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yesterday I had a good time cleaning and organizing the upstairs hall bookshelves… I had hoped to spend time on the deck, but it was overcast and cool so instead I tackled the shelves… apparently the last time may have been in February of 2014…

it is quite a gift that I can wait until I feel like doing something to do it, lol…

and Tuesday morning I was ready to go…