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frozen…

01 Monday May 2017

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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beloved, big girl pants, daughter, decisions, freezer, frozen, garbage, grandson, smell, strong hands, widow

or not…

Saturday was a good day… up at a reasonable time… made a lovely breakfast… I tend to have eggs on the weekend… 

got some laundry done… even scrubbed down the top of the stove… sure do miss George for some jobs and scrubbing is one of them… my arms are wussy but he had strong hands and arms… when he scrubbed a pot it was completely shiny when he was done;-)…

had a break and sat outside and read for a bit… texted with my daughter to see if they were coming for dinner on Sunday and when she advised they were, I headed down to the freezer to pull something out to thaw…

that is when the day took a turn… everything was thawed… as in not frozen, not even cold… bad… it smelled bad and all of it was bad…

my daughter and grandson came over and he – who has a strong stomach and weak nose – unlike his mother and grandmother – took out five bags to the garbage…

then he hosed down and rinsed out the freezer a few times and moved the – now very heavy and completely full – garbage can to the back of the yard… of course Friday was garbage day, so the disgusting smell will be around all week… likely we will need to put some bleach in it for a few days after it gets dumped to get rid of the odour…

so, here’s my freezer today…

waiting to be picked up and taken to the scrap yard…

starting to research a replacement… should I get another chest freezer or go for an upright one…

decisions, decisions…

scary…

20 Wednesday Aug 2014

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big girl pants, garbage, litter, scary, spider

a few days ago as I was driving on my way to work, I saw a plastic cup, a water bottle and a soft drink can within about four blocks in my neighbourhood… downtown it is much worse, even though there are garbage cans in many places…

makes me crazy and also worried that people are just not caring about their surroundings…

I still put wrappers or other dry garbage in my pockets to take home when I am out and there isn’t a garbage can or recycling bin close by…

although George smoked he rarely tossed a butt out the window of the car or left it on the street…

the girls learned very early that littering was just not done…

crazy…

tonight I took a picture of another scary thing… a spider den in the basement… it has been there for a while now and every time I go down to the basement I have to check to make sure the spider, which is very big, is not out of his nest…

spider den in the drywall...

spider den in the drywall…

will have to have my son-in-law deal with it this weekend…

big girl pants aren’t fitting so well today…

 

little jobs…

28 Friday Feb 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, garbage, little jobs, recycling

today was garbage and recycling day…

I’ve come to the place where I don’t put out the bins every week… partly because I don’t usually have that much garbage or recycling in one week, but also because it is difficult to get the bins into the back lane with all this snow…

my neighbour snow blows along his garage which is where three of us put our bins… my son-in-law also makes sure it is cleared out when he is over…

I leave the recycling on my side of the lane right in front of the gate so it makes it difficult to get in and out…

often when the kids are over, my grandson brings the bins in for me…

recently I put up a mirror and have been cleaning the bookshelves in the hall…

these are all little jobs that I never had to deal with… I’d come up with something that needed to be done and my beloved would make it happen… I miss that…

I also finally found some hooks that don’t have to be nailed or screwed in… finally got them hung up on the weekend and now can hang my towels on my new purple door…

looks rather pretty…

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helping hands…

19 Friday Apr 2013

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garbage, helping hands, neghbour, recycling, thankful, Truro Creek, water flowing

my back is still a pain… been going on for a week now and the twisting and turning I do at night makes it very sore in the morning… by night time it is much better, but then I go to bed and irritate it all over again… it has been improving, very slowly, which is often what happens when you pull a muscle…

and then we went swimming on Tuesday, which may have put the recovery back a bit… if the car had been here this morning I think I would have gone to see the doctor because it felt miserable…

last week I didn’t put out the garbage and recycling because I didn’t think I could drag the bins over the snow to the lane so I really felt I had to do it this morning for today’s collection…

was on the way to the bins in the back yard when I heard my neighbour in the lane… he’s always asking if he can help me with anything, so I called him over and he took both bins and put them out for me…

was so thankful because they were sitting in a low spot where water had melted and then frozen so you had to wrench them to get them to start moving… and wrenching is just not a good thing to be doing these days…

tonight he brought the empty bins back into the yard which was also great… ever since I put the note on the garbage bin, it has been picked up without a problem… guess I should have done that a lot sooner…

garbage and recycling bins out while still light Thursday, February 21, 2013...

garbage and recycling bins out while still light Thursday, February 21, 2013…

I walked from the end of the street with my daisies in hand tonight and got a shot of the creek with water flowing in it… the snow is finally starting to melt away, yay…

water finally in Truro Creek...

water finally in Truro Creek…

 

 

Further to yesterday…

23 Saturday Feb 2013

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anniversary of his death, dinner conversation, flashbacks, funeral, garbage, payday dinner, The Next Place, words affect others

exciting news…  they did pick up the garbage but did not leave a response to my note… yay…

it was quite the day…  while I was at work this morning, my son-in-law came to shovel out the driveway and let me know that the garbage people really did pick-up…

my daughter and I went to the service for our neighbour’s son which filled a banquet hall and where the minister read from a great book titled The Next Place which brought tears to my eyes…  this is the second funeral I’ve attended since George’s death and both have brought flashes of the days following his death to mind…

The Next Place

The Next Place

at supper tonight (payday dinner!) we were talking about how we are each reacting to the upcoming anniversary of his death… my younger daughter is having flashbacks to all of the events starting with the phone call she received from me… she remembers a comment that I made that I didn’t remember at all, until she mentioned it… shows how one’s words can affect others even though those words are completely gone from your own memory… my grandson is also thinking of Grandpa a lot… I am finding these days to be less stressful than the Valentine’s day run-up…

while we were having our supper, across the street our friend and neighbour was having her kids for supper as well… made me wonder about their dinner conversation…

although, after the kids left just before eight, I laid down and woke up around one in the morning, lol…

sun going down tonight...

sun going down tonight…

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