30 Tuesday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, boat, cliffs, family, fun, jumping, perspective, water, widow
a few days ago I put up a picture of the boys jumping from the cliffs that we had walked to…
today we rode over to the cliffs in the boat and I got more pictures to show the actual height…
all of the boys had fun jumping;-)…
21 Sunday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, fun, improved, La Belle Baguette, lunch, rain, St. Norbert Farmers’ Market, time, treat, weather, widow
yesterday turned out to be quite a fun day…
instead of laying on my bed and watching tv all day I went out with a few friends…
on our way to St. Norbert Farmers’ Market we stopped at La Belle Baguette for some bread…
I haven’t been to the Market for years… it has certainly grown and improved… there are more makers and the main covered building is wonderful… while we were there it poured for about five minutes, and we were under the canopy the whole time…
after an entertaining time there, we went out for lunch… the sky was a bit foreboding and all of a sudden it poured… for another five minutes… by the time we got to the restaurant it had stopped;-)…
great fun… finished the last bits of that lunch for tonight’s supper…
01 Monday Jul 2019
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banned, blessed, fun, garden, goldfish, grandson, memories, Parrot, parrot feather, pond, shubunkins, time, water hyacinth, water lettuce, water lilies
my grandson and I went out for sushi and then we picked up some goldfish and shubunkins for the pond, and a few more pond plants…
the crazy thing is that the Manitoba government has banned floating water hyacinth and water lettuce after deciding they are invasive plants… and in the Amazon and southern USA, they are… but here they cannot survive the winter, even in the house… very frustrating as these plants really provide protection for baby fish in the pond… and help with slowing algae growth, sigh…
anyway, we put a few water lilies in and some parrot feather so hopefully the little fish will use those and be safe from the big fish until they grow a bit more;-)…
once he got all the fish into the pond, he worked to make sure the plants won’t fall over and the pots aren’t visible…
looks great and I think the fish are happy…
really enjoy spending time with him…
30 Sunday Jun 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, English Garden, flowers, friends, fun, garden, Leo Mol Garden, pond, shopping, sprinkled, therapy, treat, walk, widow
had a spur-of-the-moment walk and breakfast with a friend…
she texted me early to see if I wanted to go for a wander through the English and Leo Mol Gardens… of course I did;-)…
threw on my clothes, walked over and met her at the Park…
we had a lovely visit as we circled the Gardens being careful not to get sprinkled on as many sections and paths were getting misted, lol…
from there we moved over to the Park Cafe for a great breakfast…
and then we enjoyed a little retail therapy…
lovely treat to start the day…
03 Monday Jun 2019
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fun in the garden…
finally got around to planting the lobelia and alyssum… the weather may have turned the corner, although it was something like 4 degrees when I got up…
decided to plant in clumps, so all lobelia in some planters and just alyssum in others…
looking forward to watching them grow and seeing how they look…
09 Saturday Mar 2019
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big girl pants, friends, fun, homemade, homemade cookies, laughed, lunch, Pho Hoang, PTE, walk, widow
great day…
slept in and watched some tv…
picked up by a friend and we went out for lunch at Pho Hoang… shared some tofu spring rolls and I had seafood chow mein…
great catch-up and delicious lunch… we giggled because we both tried something other than our usual menu choices…
from there we headed to PTE and saw Mom’s the Word: Nest 1/2 Empty…
it was sooooo funny… we laughed all the way through it… brought home 2 delicious homemade gingerbread bars after I ate a tasty fancy almond covered cookie that had homemade jam in it… cannot remember the exact name of either of them, lol…
walked from Portage without any gloves… didn’t realize that they weren’t in my pocket… good thing it was quite warm, lol… and then found them on the sofa;-)…
29 Saturday Dec 2018
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art, big girl pants, blanket, collage, colouring, crafty, crocheting, food, friends, fun, happy, knitting, widow
time with friends… had a wonderful afternoon with a very crafty group of women…
there was knitting, colouring, collage-ing, crocheting, eating, drinking, and lots of conversation…
my project…
it is going to be a blanket for my bed… I worked on it while I was there and when I got home…
this morning as I was crocheting away I realized that it was way too long, sigh… would have been great for someone seven feet tall, lol…
so I unraveled it and started over…
this time it will be about four feet wide which should work nicely on the bed…
back to crocheting;-)…
24 Monday Dec 2018
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yesterday a couple of fun things happened…
I took a picture of my The Chocolate Lab bonbon in front of the purple dragonfly on the Christmas tree…
not that big a deal, except that a picture of me opening that ornament from its box in 2013 on day 23 of Advent came up in my Facebook feed just a little while later;-)…
and then to top that, I decided to put on a pair of fuzzy socks as the floor was a bit chilly… I don’t usually wear them, but had an urge this morning…
these were from last year’s day 23;-)…
and look what else came up in my feed, lol…
16 Sunday Dec 2018
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big girl pants, Christmas, cookies, family, fun, gingerbread, icing, moments, supper, widow
tonight after supper we decorated some gingerbread cookies that we’d picked up a few weeks ago at IKEA…
everyone took part… lots of focus and luckily the icing I picked up today worked perfectly…
then we ate them and they were delicious;-)…
we are going to put together the gingerbread house and decorate it on Christmas Eve as we need royal icing to glue it……
16 Friday Nov 2018
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big girl pants, Christmas, coffee table, decorations, drawer, family, fun, moments, photos, redesigned, widow
on the weekend I had a bit of fun as I redesigned the drawer in the living room table…
in the summer I usually fill it with sea shells and rocks…
in the fall I’ve used scarves or photographs…
for the holiday season there have been a few versions of Christmas ornaments… one year silver and blue and purple… another year there were red balls too…
this year I used silver, blue and purple and included some framed pictures of family and friends…
kind of enjoy thinking up new ways to fill it…
and it looks lovely… now to figure out the rest of the Christmas decorations…
this year I am hoping to do some serious decluttering of excess decorations… not that I have too many, lol…
