22 Saturday Feb 2014
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big girl pants, crocus, flowers, hyacinth, raised spirits, Spring
was out doing errands late this afternoon, after spending the majority of the day watching the Olympics…
had the hot tub water checked and it is doing great… yay…
at Safeway came across hyacinth and crocus in little pots… couldn’t help myself, had to bring them home…
they even smell a little spring-y…
amazing what a little fresh growth makes to my spirits…
13 Friday Dec 2013
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big girl pants, festive celebration, flowers, ouch, sore arm, yoga
my arm has been a little sore for a week or so…
today at yoga I must have overdone it because right now I can hardly move it…
was at a lovely festive celebration tonight with colleagues and board members…
below is a photo of the six floral arrangements that one of our colleagues put together…
15 Friday Nov 2013
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big girl pants, bloomimg, cactus, flowers, over-watered, pond
this morning I took out the garbage and recycling… wasn’t sure if I would be able to get them out to the back lane because the pond guys had over seeded a good portion of the area and I didn’t want to drive the bins through the dirt, or soil as my mom would say…
then I discover that it has rained/snowed overnight and the lids are frozen shut… took quite an effort to get them open…
once I got back inside I took a few pictures of the cactus as it was blooming… very interesting because it looks very miserable… can’t decide if it is over- or under- watered…
nice to start the day enjoying a few moments with flowers…
10 Thursday Oct 2013
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last night I got dropped off at the end of the street and walked the rest of the way… it was gorgeous and I was happy to spend a few minutes in the fresh air…
was thinking about the bunnies that I have been seeing lately and looked up to see one sitting in the road, right in front of the house…
bunny from a few months ago,,,
I think they are very cute and enjoy having them on the street and in the garden… apparently I don’t plant anything that they think is yummy so I haven’t felt any desire to get rid of them…
I do have friends though who have a big problem with bunnies eating their vegetables and flowers…
but, for now, I just think they are cute…
as the light left the sky I stood still and watched the little fellow as it watched me… finally a car came down the street and away went the bunny…
27 Friday Sep 2013
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big girl pants, buds, CancerCare, diverticulitis, drugs, flowers, health issues, morning glory, out of sorts, trouble swallowing pills, unhealthy
been taking a number of drugs lately as I am dealing with a few health issues… had quite a scare at my CancerCare check-up the other day and it turned out to be just a little thing but it did mean taking some drugs…
then a couple of days ago I started to experience abdominal pain, which might have been a side effect of one of the drugs I was taking, but it moved to my side and made me think that possibly my diverticulitis was acting up… hasn’t bothered me for nearly four years… saw the doctor and he agreed so now I am on more drugs…
I don’t like drugs, and often they don’t like me… I am always leary about taking a new one as I don’t know how my body is going to accept it…
pills…
usually I would prefer to deal with pain rather than drugs, but sometimes you just can’t get around it, sigh… hopefully I won’t be on these for long and they will do the trick…
besides not dealing well with drugs, I have difficulty swallowing pills… not nearly as bad now as it used to be…
one of the meds that was prescribed was 8 quite large tablets that I had to take all at once with food… after lunch yesterday, two of my colleagues tidied up the kitchen and chatted while I worked at getting these pills down… it was quite wonderful to just have them there supporting me and I was able to get the job done… not sure I could have done it at home, on my own…
today I felt out of sorts, cold, slight headache, just not myself… think it was my body responding to that large dose of antibiotics yesterday… finally tonight I am starting to feel better… and I realized that my side had not bothered me at all today, yay…
morning glory buds…
there was one morning glory blooming today but there were many buds as well… looking forward to more blooms…
14 Saturday Sep 2013
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barbecue, flowers, fresh veggies, lovely day, market, moon, more nature, quiet morning, Shelmerdine, star filled sky, storm
had a quiet morning around the house… actually put away all the glass balls from the Champagne Bubble Party…
we had a storm which started with lots of thunder and then the sky opened and it poured for maybe ten minutes… watched some TV and made myself a few things to eat…
waiting to move the car seat…
then Crystal and the little boys came, transferred the car seat to my car and we went for a wander through Shelmerdine’s where we enjoyed some fall flowers and checked out mulch and many pumpkins… came across a colleague who looked stunning, having just been to a wedding out that way…
there weren’t very many folks around so the little people ran about checking out all the pumpkins and the trees and bushes…
we went to the market garden and picked up some lovely fresh veggies… we got corn on the cob, peas, yellow and green beans, green onions, garlic, tiny and medium sized potatoes, cauliflower and radishes…
when we got home we put a little roast on the barbecue and prepared yellow beans, corn, potatoes and a caesar salad for our dinner… it was lovely… sadly the littlest person is going through the no meat phase, although both of his brothers went down that path long before he did… while the roast and potatoes were just finishing the propane ran out on the barbecue so Jeff put a new tank on… should I have the desire to barbecue, there will be fuel, lol…
after supper we read a book and then everyone went home and I had a little nap… when I got up the moon was smiling at me through the tree and I took a couple of pictures…
moon through the tree…
since then I have been in the hot tub and enjoyed watching a beautiful star filled sky…
what a lovely day…
10 Tuesday Sep 2013
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yesterday I took a picture of the sunflower in the front garden starting to open…
sunflower just starting to open through the window…
I didn’t plant it there, but apparently I haven’t done any weeding for a while and all of a sudden there it was big and bold in the garden… couldn’t pull it out after that…
sunflower opening…
so I’ve been watching it and this morning as I was leaving the driveway I took a couple of pictures…
close up of sunflower opening…
as I wasn’t home, I couldn’t see if it swivelled around to follow the sun, but maybe I will be able to see that on the weekend…
it is always such fun to see a field of sunflowers turning their faces to follow the sun…
03 Tuesday Sep 2013
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some beautiful flowers this morning…
lovely purple morning glory…
the morning glory had something like 13 flowers open on it… and they went right around the side of the house…
morning glories going around the corner of the house…
another of the spotted dahlias was blooming and I got a shot of one of the bigger tomatoes which is growing in a pot by the back door…
spotted dahlia… wonder what the real name is…
tomato growing…
a lovely way to start the day…
20 Tuesday Aug 2013
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as I was leaving the bedroom this morning I took this picture of the sun lighting the tree next door…
sunlight on the neighbour’s tree this morning…
when I stepped into the garden I saw that the dahlia was finally completely open…
really took a while to get there… the bud looked like it was ready to bloom before the August 6 party…
purple dahlia… on August 14…
it has been opening up very slowly… but it is quite lovely and I got a couple of good pictures…
first dahlia bloom this summer, from the side… hmmm, looks pink, not so purple…
16 Tuesday Apr 2013
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so, had in my mind that I would Google whether it has ever snowed here on April 18th… seemed like a simple thing, but I have now spent an hour trying to get the information…
found a nice chart on weatherspark.com but couldn’t copy it into the blog… anyway, it basically said that it should be way warmer than it is… nothing about snow, lol…
tomorrow is supposed to be sunny with a few clouds with the temperature going to plus 3 Celsius… let’s hope there is no snow…
flowers for the three birthday celebrants…
I will be sixty-two… today at work we celebrated three birthdays… it is quite amazing to me that with only 12 people on staff, 3 of us have our birthdays in one week… there was singing, icing topped muffins and cute little flower arrangements for each of us…
my lovely birthday flowers…
later I went for a birthday lunch with another friend who shares an April birthday… it was very pleasant to spend time with them and enjoy lunch at Bistro Dansk in Wolseley…
at the end of the day on our way home we stopped by Rona for a few items for the office and I think I found a lounge chair for the deck so will have to go back in the next few days to pick that up…
missing my beloved… he always made my birthday a special event…
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