03 Monday Apr 2017
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so happy… there are flowers everywhere…
yellow daffodils in the kitchen last night…
then they travelled in the car this morning on their way to the office…
found their final destination on the counter at the front of the office…
remind me of sunshine and smiley faces…
26 Sunday Mar 2017
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big girl pants, boost, charge, cleaning, family, flowers, frustration, fun, geese, hyacinth, widow
fun and frustration today…
spent some time cleaning off the deck and then sitting out reading and listening to music… warm enough to just have on a long shirt and culotte jeans…
heard and spotted geese flying overhead and managed to catch them on my phone…
my daughter was working but all the boys came over and we headed out to do some shopping… except that my car wouldn’t start… the boys pushed it out of the garage and into the street where my son-in-law boosted it…
we went to the first grocery store and when we came out the car wouldn’t start again… found a fellow leaving his car and got a boost… went to two more stores and we ran in and left my son-in-law in the car to drive around while we shopped… by the third store we all went in and rushed through to be sure the car would work…
on our way home we went to Canadian Tire and picked up a battery charger…
while supper was cooking, we charged the battery so it should be fine tomorrow…
when we were out I picked up a purple hyacinth and some purple flowers…
the funny thing was that when we arrived home from our vacation the kids’ vehicle wouldn’t start… then, this morning my son-in-law’s car wouldn’t start;-(… but this was the third, so we should be good, lol…
06 Monday Mar 2017
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bedroom, big girl pants, box, enjoyment, flowers, living room, moving, office, widow
so I’ve been moving the flowers around a lot…
when I first opened them, I had them on the dining room table…
then they moved to the living room… I spent time there reading…
when I went upstairs to the bedroom they went along with me… I’ve really enjoyed them wherever I’ve been…
this morning I boxed them up and took them to the office… they smelled delicious and looked wonderful all day long… my colleagues enjoyed them too…
then at the end of the day, I put them back in the box and brought them home again…
they were in the living room for a while but are now here with me in the bedroom…
wanting to get as much enjoyment out of them as possible…
04 Saturday Mar 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, family, flowers, loss, memories, months, orchids, roses, sixty, time, widow
1825… days since my beloved left me… 261 weeks… 60 months…
hard to believe so much time has gone by… although it also feels like it was just a moment ago…
he was my best friend, lover, staunch supporter, caregiver, sounding board, helper, chauffeur, shopper, masseuse, gardener, and…
as each anniversary of his passing has come and gone I have been through a variety of emotions… profound sadness, loneliness, and many tears…
some years it has been less difficult than others, but it never has a clear path… not more difficult at the beginning and less so as time has gone by…
the first year my colleagues all wore purple to show their support to mark the day… sweet and supportive…
received flowers from the kids today…
beautiful… the orchids are nearly identical to the ones from graduation… my mauve dress and George’s matching turtleneck were designed and made by a friend and I wore a beautiful orchid corsage on my wrist… that was a very long time ago, lol…
and of course the roses… my romantic husband brought me hundreds over the years…
a lovely treat and they brought back some special memories…
23 Thursday Feb 2017
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, City Place, flowers, garden, health, money, solar lights, widow
enjoying my flowers…
been thinking about how blessed I am…
have enough money to be able to go and pick up a few things at the Farmers’ Market if I want…
and so I did today… got some Stak Company soup mix, some micro greens for today’s lunch and a couple of chocolate bars just for me…
my health is good and I am able to get out and about whenever I want… did all that walking downtown on Tuesday with the kids…
was very excited to see the solar lights shining through the snow in the garden…
usually a sign that the sun is getting stronger and it is getting warmer;-)…
I am ready for Spring…
20 Monday Feb 2017
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big girl pants, flowers, Formal Gardens, garden, hot tub, Poke Balls, puddles, Safeway, squirrels, walk, widow
out for an early morning hot tub and was listening to the squirrels chattering away…
as I looked out into the yard – which didn’t get quite as cleaned up for winter as my beloved would have done – I remembered how the garbage can was damaged by an angry squirrel… George had cleaned out a nest the squirrels had made in the shed… he’d put a ton of peanuts and leaves and various bits of stuffing into the garbage can… a few days later we discovered that the squirrel had chewed through a corner of the can… it is very thick plastic and we couldn’t believe they could actually get through it, lol… and all the peanuts were gone…
was remembering many of the fun times that have taken place in the garden…
headed out to the Formal Gardens at the Park a bit later to get a walk in, and gather some poke balls…
dull sky but warm… lots of puddles to go around…
on the way home stopped at the Tuxedo Safeway and picked up flowers… they looked lovely and perked me right up…
I’d tried to get some at the Madison Safeway yesterday but their supply was decimated from the Valentine’s Day rush…
a restful Louis Riel day…
12 Sunday Feb 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, daughter, decorate, dinner, flowers, lobster, Valentine, warmers, widow
made a Valentine’s Day dinner for my daughter and grandsons… son-in-law was working so he missed out, although he doesn’t love lobster the way the rest of us do…
when the kids arrived, my daughter took me over to the store to pick up the steak for our dinner…
then she went out and barbecued the steak and lobster… it was delicious…
one of the giggles we always have around lobster has to do with the butter warmers…
we’ve had ours for around forty years…
no matter which one she has my daughter’s is never hot enough… our current joke is that dad keeps blowing on it and cooling it down…
here she is trying to get hers burning stronger as we sat down to our delicious dinner… everyone else had very hot bubbling butter, lol…
was fun to set the table with a Valentine theme… spent some time at Dollarama picking up a few items, including some little plastic hearts filled with tiny heart candies, which were very popular…
I’d made some heart shaped red berry muffins which were also a hit…
little things like the warmers make me feel my beloved is at the dinner table with us… if he had been here, there would have been flowers on the table as well…
31 Tuesday Jan 2017
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arrangement, big girl pants, chips, florist, flowers, hydrangeas, Safeway, widow
needed chips and flowers today so I stopped at Safeway on my way home and picked up both…
spoke to the florist on duty and told him about the hydrangeas that I brought home a few weeks back and which died within a few days… he mentioned they would replace them so one batch of these flowers were free… nice…
had enough flowers to make two arrangements so I’ve got one in the living room and one in the bedroom…
munched on a bowl of chips while enjoying the flowers…
28 Saturday Jan 2017
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, jacket, orchid, romantic, Valentine's Day, widow
been thinking a lot about Valentine’s Day and my beloved…
he was a romantic and always made sure that the day was special for me… he was also romantic the rest of the year…
been dealing with a few household issues lately and maybe that’s why I’ve been thinking of him so much…
on our last Valentine’s together he had a lovely card, a rose, cinnamon hearts and a jacket I’d been coveting from his work – all sitting on the kitchen counter when I came downstairs… he’d had to go through quite a process to get the jacket for me as they didn’t have the right size at his store, so he’d gone to another location to get it.. still one of my favourites…
every time I have flowers they remind me of all the individual roses, bouquets and orchids he brought me over the years… particularly during the winter months when I would often feel down…
flowers have always been able to perk me up and bring a smile to my face…
15 Sunday Jan 2017
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sunrise…
and sunset…
today…
what a great day…
sunshine all day long today and yesterday, and it wasn’t freezing cold either…
went grocery shopping with my daughter and picked up some beautiful flowers…
they make me feel happy…
and I cannot believe it but the never ending orchid has a new bud on it;-)…
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