27 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, iPhone, light, memories, moments, nature, Photography, pictures, red, shadows, sunshine, vase, widow
had some fun with shadow pictures… it reminded me of the great photography class I took with a colleague many years ago… we had so much fun…
the vase looks pretty cool in these photos…
enjoying the afternoon sunshine…
23 Thursday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chatting, fun, garden, haircut, Hilda the Gardener, memories, moments, plants, visit, widow
so happy that my friend, Hilda the gardener, came by last Friday for a drink, visit, and a haircut…
we spent a lovely hour chatting and laughing about life in general and gardens in particular…
then she dealt with the overgrown mess that was my hair, lol…
looks and feels so much better now;-)…
17 Saturday Dec 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, delicious, friends, fun, garden, good times, goodies, moments, neighbour, purple, trays, treats, widow
had a lovely visit with my neighbour…
she brought over a cute purple tray filled with delightful homemade goodies…
she makes a number of cookie trays for family and usually puts them on red trays, but had to go out and find a purple one for me😊… what a sweetie…
we usually meet for a little glass of something in the garden, lol, so it was good to get together in the house…
we snacked, chatted and had lots of laughs… and there are still some of the goodies left for me to eat and share🤭…
04 Sunday Dec 2022
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bow, Christmas, door, flowers, friends, fun, moments, plants, poinsettias, talented, widow, wreath
a few days ago my buddy arrived with a wreath and a huge container of poinsettias…
she took the bow off the wreath, added a silver ornament, and finally made and attached a new snowflake ribbon…
then she hung it up on the front door…
it looks great and very Christmas-y… she is very talented;-)…
04 Tuesday Oct 2022
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22 Sunday May 2022
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big girl pants, Black Market Provisions, blessed, friends, fun, moments, provisions, shopping, The Oakwood, widow
went shopping with a friend a few days ago…
we went to Black Market Provisions and found a few fun things…
from there we had lunch at The Oakwood… I had salmon dill Eggs Benedict, which I’ve been craving recently, and my friend had a roast turkey sandwich… very nice…
we also checked out a few stores for some outdoor furniture that I’ve been looking at online… of course no one had it in the store…
was dropped off at home and had a nap…
all that shopping and being out and about was exhausting, lol…
05 Tuesday Apr 2022
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beta fish, big girl pants, blessed, family, fun, grandson, hat, memories, moments, nature, river, tubing, widow
recently my grandson and I had a conversation about some fun times… two of the things he remembered are below…
one was a tubing trip down the river in Courtenay, BC, where I was knocked off the tube by a tree branch and lost my new hat… everyone but me was quite happy as they hadn’t liked it, lol… he was around seven at the time… I ended up with a bruised leg and a gash on my head… it certainly was something I won’t forget, and apparently neither will he…
the other memory was around a beta fish in a vase that I kept on my desk at one of my workplaces… he has always been interested in fish and is a great collaborator with the goldfish…
so interesting to hear the things he remembers;-)…
03 Sunday Apr 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, bunnies, bunny, fun, garden, happy, hop, hot tub, moments, nature, treat, widow
not long ago I wrote about all the bunny tracks in the fresh snow and wondering if it was one busy bunny or many…
a few nights ago, as I was starting to get out of the hot tub – I was feeling a bit lonely without my recent companion – I watched four little bunnies shoot through the gate beside the hot tub, hop down the path and across to the far corner of the garden…
and then they raced around the garden, onto the deck and up and down the snowbanks before hopping past me a few more times…
they were having a blast and so was I;-)…
once I came in, I spotted another one out the front window on the front sidewalk…
what a treat;-)…
I took these pictures today…
04 Friday Mar 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, moments, nature, seeds, snow, snowbank, squirrel, stretching, weather, widow
today I had fun watching a squirrel eat from the feeder at the front…
it was basically just stretching up from the snowbank…
I’ve been waiting to see that as the snow has gotten higher and higher…
looking forward to some melting;-)…
02 Saturday Oct 2021
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over the last three or four days I have cooked a lot in the kitchen…
I produced a beautiful corn chowder with some leftover corn on the cob…
then I made zucchini-basil soup with most of my basil and added a bit of chicken to the recipe as well…
and finally I free-styled Calico beans… didn’t have as many canned beans in the house as required nor any molasses, but it came out great anyway, lol… and it was nice to have some of my dahlias around…
there is certainly lots of choice in the fridge just now…
will be putting a few of them into the freezer for lazy days…
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