18 Sunday Oct 2026
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arrangement, big girl pants, family, flowers, fresh, moments, widow
redid this arrangement today after some of the flowers had died…
a bit of tossing, trimming, and rearranging, and it came out looking fresh and new…
19 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, discourage, food, fresh, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, snack, squirrels, strawberry, strawberry plant, treat, weather, widow
excited this morning to spot the strawberry that was ripe enough to eat… and pleased that the birds and/or squirrels hadn’t beaten me to it…
I did paint those rocks red and put them around the plant to discourage thieves, lol… maybe they worked…
the strawberry was delicious;-)…
this plant was purchased two years ago and lives in a pot over the summer…in the fall it is transplanted back into the bathtub garden to overwinter;-)…
09 Monday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, drywall, family, fresh, grandson, happy, moments, paint, rain, sand, weather, widow
my middle grandson came over Sunday to help replace the carpet on the front steps… of course it poured so that didn’t happen…
instead he did a final sand of the drywall in the laundry area and gave it two coats of paint…
what a difference it makes, and it looks so fresh with the white paint…
today we put everything back… those dressers were heavy…
14 Friday Jul 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, boiled, food, fresh, garden, happy, mango, moments, nature, shopping, summer, Tea, veggies, widow, Wolseley Farmers Market
my friend picked me up Tuesday and we went to Wolseley Farmers Market… first time this season…
so happy… fresh veggies…
also picked up a new mango tea to try…
cooked the potatoes and put them in the fridge to cool… popped country style spareribs into the oven and then boiled green and yellow beans, with snap peas… mixed in the potatoes and added butter… yum…
the first veggies of the season always taste so delicious 🤤…
28 Tuesday Feb 2023
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02 Thursday May 2019
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29 Wednesday Aug 2018
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basil, big girl pants, bread, colleagues, croissants, dinner, eats, fresh, La Belle Baguette, lunch, treat, widow
had some delicious eats today…
picked up a loaf of bread and some croissants at La Belle Baguette on my way into the office…
the car smelled amazing all the way downtown and the croissants were a hit with my colleagues…
at lunch I made a tomato sandwich, and a cucumber one as well, with the fresh bread and a ripe tomato from a colleague’s parents’ farm… used basil instead of lettuce… oh my, it tasted wonderful…
for my supper I finished off the shrimp from last night and the last of the mango slices I picked up the other day…
yummy day…
17 Thursday Aug 2017
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went to the Farmers Market today and picked up a few things…
got tiny cucumbers and potatoes, a cauliflower, peas, two kinds of buns, a chocolate bar and 3 purple glads…
as I walked home with my treasures lots of people commented on the gladioli…
for dinner I had roasted country style spareribs along with new potatoes and dill, beets from last week, and cucumbers in vinegar and water… delicious…
wonderful to have access to fresh food so close to the office…
life is good…
30 Thursday Jun 2016
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big girl pants, brie, delicious, Downtown Farmers Market, fresh, market, supper, veggies, widow
had a great time at the Downtown Farmers Market today…
picked up some lovely small new potatoes; red and white radishes; tiny beets and greens; peas; asparagus and strawberries… also picked up some Thai coconut soup, gluten-free perogies and an adorable purple hat… lots of fun…
and I was only away from the office for thirty minutes…
hadn’t taken any meat out for dinner so cooked the beets with greens, half of the potatoes and some of the peas… added a bit of Brie and some fresh dill…
oh, so yummy… looking forward to more delicious dishes over the weekend…
summer has arrived…
02 Sunday Aug 2015
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big girl pants, fresh, garden, light, lobster, morning glory, paint
out and about this morning… picked up painting supplies so my daughter can paint the front and back doors… they are purple, but very faded so she is going to freshen them up for me…
also picked up some gray trim paint to go around the back door and patio door… will look lovely and fresh when this is done…
right now the paint is peeling horribly…
thrilled today to see a morning glory from the deck…
to see the others I had to be in the garden area…
spotted two of the tiny tomatoes starting to turn colour, oh yay!
looking forward to eating them soon…
yesterday I purchased some fresh green and yellow beans which we included with our dinner tonight, although only my daughter and I eat them…
also picked up the fixings for steak and lobster dinner today… that was usually our anniversary splurge… amazingly, all of the grandkids like lobster already… don’t think our girls even got to taste it until they were in their teens, lol…
dinner was great and the lobster delicious… lobster is fine for me, but that butter, not so much…
now I am sitting in the garden, with a blanket on, watching a red squirrel do acrobatics to get seeds out of the bird feeder…
it had been there for ages, but as soon as I went to take the picture it darted away, lol…
been a busy day, and the light is fading… 9:40 and I had to put a light on in the garage to put things in their places…
