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01 Friday Dec 2023

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happy first day of Advent… it has always been a special time for me…

this year there are three different calendars for me…

the first is a digital version which comes via email every day with things to do or think about;-)… all focussed on chocolate, without any calories… this was the first one, which provides an opportunity to check items off over 25 days…

the second is on the wall in the living room and this year is filled with nuts and seeds and the odd bit of chocolate…

the third climbs the stairway… it is made up of twenty-four different sized boxes with items in them from the kids in Ottawa… last week a parcel arrived addressed to my grandson, who then filled each one… they look very cute on the stairs…

as I empty a box, I am breaking it down and stashing it at the top behind the last few… I don’t want to lose any of them…

every day is a treat;-)…

bungee…

30 Thursday Nov 2023

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last spring the doorknob on the garage door seized up… the door hadn’t been closing properly for a long time as it had shifted… I’d been using a bungee cord to close it from the outside for ages, lol…

I had done research on how to remove the doorknob, but no matter what I did, couldn’t get it off the door…

eventually my neighbour came over and removed it although he had to hammer it off in the end, lol…

since then the bungee cord has been the way to keep the door closed…

I need a new door, but that didn’t make the project list this year, so I hadn’t done anything about fixing this…

last week we were at the hardware store, picked up a new doorknob, and on Monday while I was visiting with my friends, my grandson installed it…

woohoo…

F1…

21 Tuesday Nov 2023

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I had a nap in the afternoon and went to bed a little early Saturday night so I could get up to watch the F1 race from Las Vegas… usually the races are much earlier in the day, but this was a night race…

set my alarm for midnight and got up without a problem…

found a snack and drink and curled up in bed to watch the race…

stayed awake the entire time and enjoyed the action…

then I may have slept in a bit, lol…

father…

19 Sunday Nov 2023

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I don’t always remember, but first thing yesterday I realized it would have been my dad’s birthday…

my father was a special person and although he’s been gone a very long time, I still miss him…

a bit later in the day his picture came up in my Facebook memories…

this photo was taken not too long before his death…

WREN…

11 Saturday Nov 2023

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I’ve been thinking of my mom a lot in the last few days…

she spent the last months of her life at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, in the final stages of esophageal cancer…

I was blessed with the time to be able to spend those final days with her…

they were hard but so important…

she was a WREN during WWII, a survivor of mental illness, a caregiver for her husband, a poet, a proud Legion and Army and Navy member, and a participant in the organizing of the Women’s War Memorial by the Legislature…

she was strong, but it took me many years to really understand that;-)…

cheery…

09 Thursday Nov 2023

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the plants in the basement were not doing well, so they were moved upstairs…

they, along with some others that had been on the dining room table, moved into the den…

it looks like a garden in there now;-)… a lovely cheery location to start the day…

story…

07 Tuesday Nov 2023

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we got our poppies a week ago and I put the buttons on them so they won’t get lost… I’ve been wearing mine daily, even though I don’t go out much, lol…

I’d seen something on social media about scanning your poppy to read a story about a veteran;-)…

Sunday morning I came across a link that took me to a story about a fallen soldier once I scanned my poppy…

I tried it on another poppy and got another story…

here is the link so that you can scan yours;-)…

poppy stories

what a wonderful use of technology;-)…

rafters…

04 Saturday Nov 2023

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we were back in the garage last weekend and spent an hour reorganizing…

we planned to spend another few hours to make enough space to get the car inside, particularly as we have tons of snow already…

we did spend another focussed time in the space… this time all of the stuff that was in the rafters came down to be sorted…

there is a ton of wood and other items on the floor now, in various piles… for garbage, giveaway, and a small pile to keep… but the space above is cleared out and ready for whatever needs to go back up there…

no room for the car just yet…

hung…

02 Thursday Nov 2023

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nearly a year ago, my eldest grandson and I began working away in the garage… he has a very organized mind…

a few weeks later, we cleaned out a spot and moved the shelves further along the wall…

the next time we worked in it, after purchasing additional hardware, we attached hooks and hung up a number of garden and winter tools… like items were gathered together and placed on the shelves… we came in when we started to get cold…

we spent another few hours another day working away in the space… more tools were hung on the other side of the space, the garbage bin was filled with broken, unusable items, two boxes were filled with giveaway items and the bench had much more space…

great strides were made each time we were in there and we were able to get the car in when it was home over the winter…

then we didn’t do anything more, because it got warm and the car didn’t need to live inside…

so, maybe it got filled up with other stuff, lol…

over the summer, it was great to be able to find tools without effort…