04 Tuesday Sep 2018
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big girl pants, flowers, garden, mandevilla, morning glories, raindrops, storm, widow
this morning as I was leaving for work I was looking for morning glories amongst the mandevilla…
not a single one, but took some nice pics of the mandevilla covered in raindrops…
it poured around five in the morning and that made for some pretty pictures…
sure am missing my camera;(…
27 Monday Aug 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, hot tub, love at first sight, memories, morning glories, orchids, remembering, sight, widow
yesterday when I was shopping I picked up an orchid…
I’ve been remembering times with my beloved a lot lately…
hot tubs and morning glories and orchids…
wonderful memories…
recently I heard someone ask if people believed in love at first sight…
I do…
the first time I met him I knew he was the one for me… and I was right, he most certainly was;-)…
26 Sunday Aug 2018
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08 Wednesday Aug 2018
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big girl pants, blessed, cucumber, flowers, garden, glory, memories, morning glories, nature, neighbour, orange, photos, sky, sun, tulips, widow
three great things before I even left the driveway this morning…
a stunning sky… couldn’t really get a picture that showed how orange the sun was…
then as I was headed to the garage I spotted morning glory flowers… the first ones of the year…
while I was searching for more blooms spotted my neighbour and after checking in with him he shared cucumbers and tomatoes with me…
dropped them into the house, took one final picture of the morning glories and headed off to work…
pretty fine way to start the day…
03 Friday Aug 2018
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barrel, baskets, big girl pants, flowers, garden, inconsistent, moments, planters, pond, water barrel, watering, weather, widow
out into the garden this morning…
watered all the planters and baskets using water from the new water barrel…
watering by hand works much better than using the hose as I am able to see exactly how much each plant is getting…
also topped up the pond… seems like it needs filling about every third day…
this basket is doing the best… some of the others are a bit sad… the weather has been odd with boiling hot days and then really cool ones…
we won’t talk about the inconsistent watering, lol…
23 Monday Jul 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, close, flashbacks, flowers, lonely, mandevilla, missing, moments, widow
not sure why, but I’ve been missing my beloved a great deal…
having flashbacks to walking into the hospital room the night he died…
this photo of some of the mandevilla blooms reminded me of how close we were…
18 Wednesday Jul 2018
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appetite, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cancer, exercise, family, flowers, foods, friends, garden, healing, health, mandevilla, moments, surgery, walk, widow
this morning I was reminded that six years ago today I had surgery to remove my uterus and repair a large hernia… just a few months after losing my beloved…
how my life has changed since then…
I did have cancer, but removing the whole thing meant no further treatment needed to happen, other than frequent checkups for the next five years…
for ten weeks I couldn’t lift anything… friends and family came by to do everything that needed to be done…
since then I have been well, although two years later I was diagnosed with diabetes… I’ve lost weight, been more active and changed my diet… thankfully I do not need to take any meds…
tonight, as I ate rice rolls that a colleague brought me, I was reminded of how little I ate during those first weeks… I had no appetite and a friend who came to stay with me worked very hard to find foods that would temp my taste buds, lol…
one of my fondest memories was the day I was able to walk out of the house and into the garden after being stuck inside on the main floor for over a week because I couldn’t manage stairs…
the garden is such a healing place…
17 Tuesday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, cement, family, flowers, garden, happy, mandevilla, moments, pictures, purple, supper, treat, water, widow
started my day watering planters on the deck and getting a shot of the second mandevilla flower…
from there it was off to work, where my colleague replaced the seat on my office chair… so happy and comfortable;-)…
at lunch workers were putting down cement on the Millennium Library ramp and I so wanted to put my footprints into it…
but, I didn’t…
ended the day with the most delicious dinner… summer in a bowl… new potatoes from the local grocery store, with small beets and purple beans from my daughter’s garden… what a wonderful treat… that first meal of fresh vegetables is always memorable… no meat required…
16 Monday Jul 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, garden, hibiscus, memories, roof, squirrel, taunt, upset, widow, yelling
just heard one of the squirrels outside yelling at something or someone…
reminded me of a couple of things…
first was the squirrel on the roof this morning as I was taking a picture of the hibiscus flowers…
it was quite upset that I was standing there and I suggested that it could stop the yelling as it was my roof and I wasn’t doing anything to cause a problem…
got the picture of the hibiscus, the cloudy sky and the pond that is losing water at an alarming rate again… could just be the amount of water falling with the wind and heat… we shall see…
was also thinking of the squirrel that used to holler at my beloved every time he would walk out of the house… or when he came out of the garage… just to taunt him, lol… eventually he caught it and we drove out to a forested area and dropped it off…
so, yelling squirrels bring back many memories, lol…
13 Friday Jul 2018
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big girl pants, family, flowers, garden, mandevilla, moments, Park, phone, photos, pond, time, walk, widow
spent quite a while on the phone with my daughter this morning… our conversation started as I was walking home from the Park…
finished the call relaxing in the garden before it got too hot…
and how exciting is this;-)…
finally the first flower on the mandevilla opened today…
there are dozens of buds so it will be interesting to watch them all open…
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