05 Friday Jan 2024
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accurate, big girl pants, bird, birds, blessed, calendar, Christmas, family, gift, moments, nature, widow
one of my Christmas presents was a bird calendar from my grandson… it arrived a few days ago and is titled Extremely Accurate Birds…
I hung it up on Monday morning…
it has made me laugh every time I walk by…
28 Thursday Dec 2023
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bandages, beloved, big girl pants, bled, blessed, cut, family, injury, memories, moments, remembering, screwdriver, widow
one of my gifts was a cool screwdriver…
as I was trying to remove it from the packaging before bed, I cut my finger… it bled quite a bit so I put a bandage on it…
it reminded me of my beloved;-)…
he had bandages everywhere in the house, garage, the car, his pockets…
and that was because he was always injuring himself as he worked away at whatever project was happening…
memories;-)…
27 Wednesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, computer, difficulties, early, family, food, gifts, leftovers, moments, relaxed, Technology, time, widow
had a quiet and relaxed day on Christmas…
got up late for me, about eight;-)… made tea and watched a Christmas movie while I had my breakfast and waited for the Ottawa family to contact me…
after some technical difficulties, we had a lovely visit and opened presents;-)… technology really is an amazing thing…
after saying goodbye to them, I got the chicken into the oven and may have watched another Christmas movie, lol…
my grandson arrived home from one set of parents, we opened gifts, and had a lovely lunch…
then he was off to visit the other set of parents and I may have had a nap…
tv shows and leftovers took up the rest of the day…
26 Tuesday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chicken, Christmas, Christmas lunch, dinner, family, grandson, gravy, memories, moments, potatoes, preparing, stuffing, thawing, tradition, turnip, widow
I found out in the morning on Christmas Eve that we were going to have lunch on Christmas Day between trips my grandson was making between his various family clans;-)…
it was a quick trip to the freezer to pull out a beautiful chicken and get it thawing… I had been planning on a Cornish hen, with all the fixings, so it wasn’t a lot more to do to cook the chicken;-)…
a turnip was peeled, cut, boiled (so that the water would be available for the chicken gravy), and mashed…
mashed potatoes were also prepared and put into the fridge which helps with making a resistant starch…
stuffing was made and packaged, ready to go into the chicken…
took most of the day to thaw the chicken, lol, but it was ready for the oven in time…
everything turned out beautifully and we had a delicious Christmas lunch…
possibly a new tradition;-)…
23 Saturday Dec 2023
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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, biomes, blessed, dinner, evening, family, Gather Kraft Kitchen and Bar, grandson, koi, lush, moments, nature, night, plants, plastic, pond, The Leaf, walkways, widow
nearly a year to the day, we went back to The Leaf in the evening…
we ate dinner at Gather Craft Kitchen and Bar and then wandered through the biomes…
the restaurant was very busy, but we were seated by the window at a two-person table, so were quite a distance from the other diners…
we shared chorizo spiced seitan tacos, I had pork and veal meatballs, and my grandson had a fancy hamburger and everything was tasty… we decided to skip dessert and go for blizzards after our visit to the biomes…
as we wandered through the Tropical biome it was quite amazing to see how the plants have grown… the place is absolutely lush;-)… leaves fell over the walkways in a number of spots, lol…
looking down from the bridge on the third floor it was striking to see how much everything has grown…
it was the first time since that inaugural visit that I’ve been at night… unfortunately it was too dark for my Nikon so all my photos were with my iPhone… got to see some bananas, a pineapple, coffee beans and cacao pods…
it looks like the inside of the biomes have been wrapped with plastic, and the fans in the Tropical biome were blowing rather vigorously…
it was exciting to see that there were a great number of various-sized smaller koi in the pond… babies, maybe;-)…
the next post will be about the Mediterranean biome;-)…
23 Saturday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, boots, family, fixed, grandson, happy, moments, Rona, snow, weather, widow, worry, zipper
last winter I was having trouble zipping up my boots… they still fit fine, but it was getting more and more difficult to zip them up… I tried running a candle up and down them and then being sure to zip them closed as soon as I took them off, but it was still a worry when I went to put them on…
I purchased these boots Dec 2, 2015, so they didn’t owe me anything, but I didn’t want to replace them…
not long ago, when we were at Rona, we found a spray (similar to WD40), and used it on the zippers…
they work perfectly now and I am very happy about that;-)…
21 Thursday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, dinner, family, grandson, grandsons, happy, moments, time, treat, visit, widow, wishlist
one of the items on my Christmas wishlist was a visit from my grandsons, so I was excited on Sunday to prep for their visit…
had fun setting the table all fancy for our dinner…
I haven’t seen them since the summer so this was a great treat…
it was fun to watch them open their Christmas presents after dinner…
thanks to the oldest for making this happen;-)…
18 Monday Dec 2023
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big girl pants, Christmas tree, family, folding, green, moments, napkins, practice, shapes, Technology, tree, widow
tried to make napkins shaped like trees;-)…
they would have been better with green fabric, but this was what I had to work with, lol…
the first one came out not too bad, but after that, each one was different;-)…
apparently I need to practice for a while with the video in front of me…
12 Tuesday Dec 2023
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Advent, advent calendar, big girl pants, blessed, butterflies, family, fluttering, fun, happy, kaleidoscope, mirror, moments, purple, widow, wings
this morning in my Advent box I received a kaleidoscope of butterflies…
I love that name for a group of butterflies;-)…
some of them had broken free of their original home and had stuck themselves all over the inside of the box… it took a bit of time to get them all out, lol…
the glue on them is just down the centre of each one so their wings raise up a bit and they do look as though they are fluttering…
I put them on the bathroom mirror and they look very sweet there…
we will see if they stay or flutter to the ground as there isn’t much stickiness to them;-)…
08 Friday Dec 2023
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