13 Thursday Jun 2019
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the clematis is growing beautifully…
I’ve been taking photos when I leave the garage to record how quickly it is climbing…
these ones started on June 5th… they go clockwise and end yesterday when I saw the two buds getting ready to bloom…
the plant is much fuller than last year… my beloved and I planted this one…
memories…
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
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battery, big girl pants, brrr, cold, frozen, garage, hot tub, pictures, plug, weather, widow, winter
my, oh my… it has been crazy cold…
this morning while I was waiting for the car to warm up a bit, I took some pictures…
the cover of the hot tub is amazing… I haven’t been in it for a while, but it looks like it has turned into a cocoon to keep the heat in, lol…
it is so beautiful as everything is covered in ice…
I don’t usually sit in the car while it is running in the garage, but it was so cold that I felt Indi needed to warm up before we left… although the door was wide open it smelled, so I moved her onto the driveway for a few final minutes…
that’s when I got the pictures, lol…
last night when I left the office it was so cold that it felt like everything in the car was frozen, even though the battery had been plugged in all day…
rarely do we all plug in, but this morning I took this photo… clearly others felt it was cold as well…
24 Thursday Jan 2019
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it is cold out…
this morning I had to replace a safety pin that is helping to keep the garage door closed…
thought I was pretty smart when I figured out that by pinning a cloth over the lock mechanism the door will stay closed in the colder weather…
then as I drove beside the trellis I stopped, rolled down the window, took my gloves off, and got a few pictures of the snow on the leaves…
been looking at it every day as I move up or down the driveway…
silly to decide today, when it is -40 with the windchill, that I need to stop and take the photo, lol…
09 Wednesday Jan 2019
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beloved, berries, big girl pants, frost, garage, help, kindness, meals, project, Tea, widow, window, wreath
in December we had a Random Acts of Kindness contest at work… we added berries to the wreath whenever we did something kind, or saw someone else doing something kind… at the end of the contest we sent a donation to a local charity…
have been thinking a lot about kindness lately…
from friends taking meals to support others…
to someone bringing me a cup of tea while I was deep in a project…
to the person who brought me my favourite lunch treat for no reason…
whenever I see frost on my garage window I remember the kindness of someone who invited me to their house not long after my beloved died… the frost on the window in their garage was stunning and I will always remember taking some pictures of it…
people are kind…
03 Thursday Jan 2019
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beautiful, big girl pants, delicious, flowers, garage, groove, moments, smell, treadmill, walking, widow
been back in the groove of walking on the treadmill every morning… kind of fell off the wagon over the holidays, lol… happy to get back on track…
before I left the house I sat and enjoyed the flowers that I picked up on Monday… a lovely treat to have the moment to focus on the beauty…
when I got into the garage it still smelled delicious… just like barbecued steak… yum… pretty nice after three days… didn’t smell when I got home… will check it out tomorrow, lol…
04 Sunday Nov 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, facecloth, garage, hands, little things, missing, now, spiders, widow
it’s the little things…
was sitting in the hot tub this morning thinking of my beloved… realizing that some of the things I miss most are the little ones…
like having him wring out facecloths and towels and swimsuits… he had the strongest hands… now, I’ve developed more strength in my hands and wring things out myself…
like dealing with spiders… I have always been afraid of them… and always felt that they search me out… he would save me when I would come across one… my shriek would be a fairly clear sign for him, lol… I can now find the nearest item to use to smack down a spider when I come across one… just the other day I was surprised by a big one and I didn’t even freeze… just grabbed something and wacked it…
like being there to commiserate with… this morning I banged my foot on the door… it really hurt… no one to say poor you;-(… haven’t found a solution for that yet…
like driving the car into the garage… it was always stressful for me because of the slight jog in the driveway… now I just drive right on in, even when I know I have to go out again soon…
and of course holding hands… I really miss that…
09 Tuesday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, elm tree, garage, saw, seed, son-in-law, sucker, virginia creeper, widow
an elm tree seed started growing a few years ago and had gotten really big right up against the garage wall…
my son-in-law and I have been talking about cutting it down, but hadn’t got around to it…
last weekend he brought the right saw and cut the sucker down…
took a little while before all the bits died back… what a difference it makes and I am sure that the garage floor is also very happy…
the Virginia creeper has also died back over the last week so the garage is looking kind of naked, lol…
08 Thursday Feb 2018
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back door, big girl pants, garage, garage door, gate, opener, remember, shift, Technology, widow
in recent weeks I’ve been entering and exiting the garage via the big rolling door…
over the last couple of years midway through the winter something shifts in the garage and the door I usually use won’t stay closed… so, currently, I have a stool up against the door to keep it from opening … which means that I need to come and go through the big door…
rather than have to open and close the gate into the backyard which has an odd handle, I’ve been using the front door of the house to come and go…
so,!as I walk towards the house and get inside, I have been reciting back door, back door, back door so that I remember to go and shut the door with the opener located there… otherwise I forget and hours later realize that the big door to the garage is still open…
so, tonight, it occurs to me that I could bring in the remote from the car and use it to close (and open) the door from the front of the house and not worry that I might forget to close it, lol…
duh…
I have put the remote in my jacket pocket so I don’t forget it in the morning, lol…
07 Saturday Oct 2017
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today I’ve spent a lot of time thinking of some of the reasons to be thankful…
my health…
family and friends…
work and great colleagues…
a comfortable home and garden…
almost forty-two years of marriage…
I’ve also been appreciating my car and the garage that she gets to live in… George did the majority of the driving, partly because I was happy to be chauffeured, but mostly because he loved to drive…
one of our traditions was to take a drive out of the city to enjoy the colours of the foliage… sad that has fallen by the wayside… still not prepared to drive on the highway, lol…
once I was on my own I had to put on those big girl pants and drive myself places… going in and out was huge, as there is a little jog between the driveway and the garage… every time I went in or out was stressful…
now it is a piece of cake…
had some fun today and made an apple pie for our Thanksgiving dinner, which is a rare occurrence… George was the pie maker and I’m thinking he would be proud of me… looks good, fingers crossed that it tastes good too…
16 Monday Jan 2017
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yesterday I took a picture of a chubby squirrel sitting on the top of the neighbour’s garage…
chattering away up there as I was taking the picture… never noticed the amount of white on them before… although maybe this one is just old, lol…
and this morning, as I headed out to the garage, I thought I saw something, but it wasn’t until I started backing out of the driveway that I actually saw the bunny running toward the road… critters always bring a smile to my face… well, maybe not spiders…
when I closed the garage door on my arrival home I noticed the hoarfrost had created some patterns on the window…
reminded me of a visit to a friend’s house a few years ago where I got some stunning pictures in her garage…
looking forward to seeing her before too long as she has a new addition to her family who I am very excited to meet…
