passing…

06 Wednesday Mar 2024

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went for a walk on Sunday morning… the front steps were covered with slippery ice pellets, so we walked carefully…

the temperature was around 0°C and it felt like -8°C… not bad and the wind was behind us as we walked towards Portage…

we arrived at the “A” and had a lovely breakfast…

it has been many months since I’ve been there and it was a nice treat…

breakfast here used to be one of our regular activities on the weekends… I would walk over and my beloved would drive… after breakfast we would head out in the car to do errands or take a drive…

it was nice to eat here this week as we come to the anniversary of his passing…

I sure do miss him…

scentless…

02 Saturday Mar 2024

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I am particularly sensitive to scents so the products I use are usually scentless – as much as possible…

lately I’ve been catching a hint of a scent as I walk through the main floor hallway…

it reminds me of pipe smoke, a scent that I have enjoyed as it makes me think of some very special people;-)…

but, I haven’t been able to figure out where it was coming from…

until today…

my housemate has a new bar soap and the scent is not in the bathroom, but in the hall…

it is very faint so was hard to track down… but I am always happy when I figure it out;-)…

applause…

26 Monday Feb 2024

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I’ve spent the week watching PVRed sports on tv…

it has been so interesting to see all the technology that has improved many of the sports, from starting blocks to lights around the track showing world record speeds…

the athletics have been excellent and have brought many memories flooding back from magical times with my dad…

we used to attend events at the old Arena and had fun watching and cheering on all of the participants…

my dad really embedded the idea in my head that every person deserved applause, even if they weren’t from a team you were cheering for…

lovely memories;-)…

suppose…

21 Wednesday Feb 2024

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arrived home yesterday to a cupboard cleaning frenzy…

everything had been removed from two cupboards and partially put back…

not necessarily the way I would like…

as I look at the result, it occurs to me that we use a great number of different items that I used previously, lol…

reminded me of when my beloved was off of work and doing most of the cooking… he had some bizarre idea that things should be organized the way he liked 😳…

considering that my housemate has been here for just over a year, I suppose he should have a say in how things are organized, but still🤔…

and then we dealt with the pantry together…

cutters…

16 Friday Feb 2024

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over the last two or three weeks I’ve purchased a few different sets of Valentine cookie cutters as I’ve worked on a project…

the end result of the project didn’t turn out quite as well as I wanted, but after a lot of trial and error I was satisfied with the results…

so I decided to use the cookie cutters for their actual purpose, lol…

I made cookies for the first time in I don’t know how long…

I can’t even think of how many I have made over the years… I made them for every holiday for the girls’ classmates as well as for family and friends…

it was fun to make them again as I remembered so many I had previously produced…

they came out very nicely and we have been enjoying them…

touched…

02 Friday Feb 2024

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first thing I did on Thursday was put the heart wreath on the front door…

a little later, I brought down the rest of the love items and set them around the house…

that was fun;-)…

February is Heart and Stroke month and a time when I make a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in memory of my beloved and those who have been touched by heart disease…

lots to think about…

plows…

15 Monday Jan 2024

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yesterday was the first night of snow clearing on side streets this winter, and I have finally figured out which zone we are in…

I have learned to go out as soon as the plows go by to shovel the end of the sidewalk otherwise it turns to concrete and is nearly impossible to move…

they arrived about 10:45 pm and my housemate went out and shovelled our sidewalk and the one next door… in his shirtsleeves, but he did have his gloves on…