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dreaming…

16 Friday May 2014

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big girl pants, busy, dreaming, George, resting, vanity plates

a couple of days this week I found myself behind cars with vanity plates…

made me giggle and think of George… he was always quick to figure out what they meant… I was always much slower to get them…

this week I got both of them right away…

last night I dreamt about George… this is unusual because I rarely remember dreams… I can’t even remember what the dream was about now…

very happy that it is the weekend as it has been a very full week and I need to do some serious resting…

started as soon as I got home…

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prep…

14 Wednesday May 2014

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big girl pants, garage, garden, George, pond, prep

woke up to a skiff of snow on the bench that circles the deck… it is May 14 people!

it was still cool when I got home from work, but I took the time to finish filling the pond…

20140514-224445.jpgwas running in and out to be sure it didn’t overflow because it was too cold to stand out there…

20140514-224612.jpg in between the running out I made pasta with the leftover crab and asparagus from Sunday’s dinner… it was delicious…

20140514-224842.jpgbeen thinking of George a lot lately… he would have been out in the garden and the garage puttering and getting things ready for spending time outside… I just need someone to come and do some of that work, lol…

water…

13 Tuesday May 2014

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big girl pants, George, hose, water

the day started with me running around in the basement trying to figure out how to make sure that cold water would run in the hose outside…

once we purchased the hot tub George put a system in place where he could run hot water outside so we could put it into the hot tub and in the little wading pool we had for the grandkids… of course I never learned the “how to”…

part way through the winter Jeff adjusted the pipes so that we had the hot water… but yesterday I was talking with my pond guy who was coming today to clean out the pond and would need cold water to fill it…

20140513-221919.jpgJeff and I were on the phone and then we face timed and eventually I turned the correct knob and we have cold water outside… yay for me and my big girl pants…

when I got home, after working the late shift, I added more water to the clean pond while I was organizing my supper… didn’t get it completely full, but will top it up when I get home tomorrow…

the weather has been kind of cool and rainy so I have brought in the plants… they are now living in front of the fish tank, lol…

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renewed…

10 Saturday May 2014

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George, miss him, pond, poppies, reconstruction, renewed

took back the brown cushion this morning and bought myself a few baskets of flowers…

came home, set out the cushions and moved the very big hanging lounger…

20140510-215509.jpgspent some time reading and enjoying the garden…

was very happy to discover poppies coming up in the garden beds that were redone last year during the pond reconstruction…

20140510-220429.jpgGeorge loved them and we spent many hours watching them grow and bloom… watching them pop open was always such fun… the year he died we had more blooms than we ever had…

20140510-220836.jpgI miss him…

gardening…

03 Saturday May 2014

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beloved, difficult, fish and chips, gardening, George, supper, tidying

woo hoo… spent some time in the garden today…

20140503-213154.jpgplan was to tidy the back deck… the furniture was all stacked and there was a ton of cedar leaves all over it…

earlier in the day I had seen a couple of huge robins in the garden…

20140503-213516.jpgafter tidying the deck I cleaned up the new flower beds and the raised bed…

20140503-214219.jpgit was cool and a bit windy, but wonderful to be out in the garden… was happy to get so much done…

20140503-215341.jpglooks good…

then I made myself pickerel, oven baked French fries, and pea pods for dinner…

20140503-215546.jpgthought about George as I was working in the garden and making supper… he was always the one who did the hard work in the garden… my job was to keep him on track, lol… and he was always the one who made the French fries… it was more than a year before I was able to make fish and chips, and even now it can be difficult…

I miss my beloved every day…

pretty…

19 Saturday Apr 2014

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big girl pants, bunny, Easter, eggs, flowers, George, orchid, pretty

this afternoon I was wishing I had some flowers for tomorrow’s Easter dinner…

not an hour later my nephew stopped by with a lovely orchid for my birthday from he and his mom…

20140419-203106.jpg she and I had a lovely conversation earlier in the day… we don’t see each other often as she is living in the West…

20140419-203346.jpggot to sit on the deck for a while before the sun went behind the clouds and spent time preparing for tomorrow’s dinner… stuffing is done and the potatoes are peeled…

tried to find a pedometer online and over the phone, as we are starting a walking contest at work on Tuesday… no luck yet, but hope to get one on Monday…

took care of a few chores around the house and watched tv…

more melting outside…

20140419-204507.jpgsure hope the Easter bunny stops by before the kids arrive tomorrow, lol…

was always George’s job to make sure the bunny had been… last year I wasn’t able to deal with it, but this year I will check in the morning to see if the bunny came… hope we get mini eggs…

life moments…

12 Saturday Apr 2014

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beloved, big girl pants, fish and chips, George, life moments, married, memorial service, snow, wedding

today was filled… started around noon when huge snowflakes descended from the sky… for a long time…

look what's back...

look what’s back…

about that time one of our young friends got married… my daughter sent me a video of their vows… lovely to watch… I am hoping their love endures like that of my beloved and I…

a friend picked me up and we headed off to a memorial service for another friend’s mother… second one I’ve been to since George’s… wasn’t really sure how I would make out, but it was fine… it was in a church – a denomination that I have been connected to over the years, so the process was familiar… it was beautifully done and my friend managed very well…

but it did remind me of the memorial service we went to a week before George died… on our way home he commented about how people might remember him… that kept coming to my mind during today’s service… friends at today’s event were mindful and checked to see how I was doing… nice to be cared for…

interesting to have a beginning and an ending all in the same day… just yesterday someone commented on their parents’ 45 years of marriage… feel like I need to let the tears flow, but that hasn’t happened so far…

last night I found the missing pickerel (which I had been searching for) in the freezer and thawed it to have tonight… I made fish and chips… it was something that George made on a regular basis, often on Tuesday night when I got home from aquasize…

fish and chips...

fish and chips…

was rather proud of myself as I have only made chips a few times since then…

those big girl pants slip on easily sometimes and other times are very difficult to get into…

sorting…

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

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declutter, George, missing my beloved, sorting, taxes

in the process of decluttering, I came across some sheet music books and the lovely recipe book from our cruise last May/June…

took them to work to share with my colleagues… always easier to let something go if you know it will have a good home…

reminded me of what a great time we had on the cruise and all the new experiences and fun we had…

just heard about my income taxes and I only owe a few hundred dollars this year… much less than last year when we had to file for George as well…

missing my beloved so much… some days it feels as though the pain is more than I can handle…

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need to focus on the positives… like the fact that I actually finished the hallway shelves…

Habitat…

23 Sunday Mar 2014

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calla, daughters, garden party, George, Habitat for Humanity, Starbuck's, WestJet

had a lovely time today at the Habitat For Humanity Garden Party…

one of our colleagues was the chair of the planning committee so some of us from the office attended and brought our daughters…

space looked amazing, food was good, and there were wonderful silent auction items, with a one in a hundred chance to win a trip for two to anywhere WestJet flies…

we didn’t win anything but it was all in support of the organization so were happy to take part…

George was always interested in Habitat although he never did get an opportunity to attend one of the builds…

lovely way to spend a Sunday…

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some of the centre pieces were calla lilies in tall vases or lit branches…

and the cake pops from Starbucks were tasty and looked beautiful as well…

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taxes…

12 Wednesday Mar 2014

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big girl pants, forms, George, T4, taxes

thought I was ready to give my tax info to my accountant when I realized that I haven’t received the CPP information yet…

now I have to go through everything just to double check…

reminded me of having to get the taxes done when George died…

in the end we had to file his for two years following his death, because of the time he died…

used to be all you needed was a T4, but now there are investment forms, government docs and who knows what else… I guess the good news is that I have investments which we didn’t have for many years…

remembering all the years we owed money and how we would struggle to find a way to pay…

table is covered with lots of papers as I go through everything to see if that one doc might be there somewhere…

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hoping that once they are done I won’t owe money again… and hoping I can find that last document…

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