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white…

02 Thursday Mar 2023

Posted by sulis303 in life, moments, nature, retirement, travel, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, Goose Spit, grape hyacinth, happy, living room, moments, nature, orchid, plants, purple, rock collection, scent, table, white, widow

happy that I finally got a nice photo of the cute new little white orchids…

have had the plant for a few weeks now, but just couldn’t get a nice shot of a single bloom…

looks cute on the living room table along with the other new orchid and two little grape hyacinths which have just started to scent the air;-)…

and the new display in the table looks nice as well… some of my rock collection from Goose Spit with a few crystals thrown in;-)…

road…

22 Thursday Sep 2016

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big girl pants, commercial, Goose Spit, holiday, memories, on the road again, road, widow

tonight I saw a commercial on tv that had the Willie Nelson song On the Road Again in it… it was about a particular brand of car, although I can’t remember which one…

brought back so many memories… really old ones, lol…

George had made a cassette tape (see how long ago!) that we would put on every time we left on vacation…

the first song was On the Road Again… and when we got into the car and it started playing it was the sign that we were on holidays…

I don’t remember any of the other songs, just that both of us enjoyed them… eventually I think the girls even liked the tape…

keeping me steady as I stepped into Goose Spit…


I also remember hearing this song as part of his memorial service… my nephew put together a video using pictures that the girls chose from our many photo albums… this song was one of the two that he used…

supporting me, as always, as I rested on the bench…

this is one of my favourite photos… it was at our younger daughter’s wedding and I was recovering after a six week hospital stay and six weeks at home… 

I continue on the road, but now it is a solo journey… pretty sure he’s proud of me and my big girl pants…

toes in the ocean…

24 Friday May 2013

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Courtenay, Goose Spit, toes in the ocean

arrived just before 11 Courtenay time… both flights went well… the one from Winnipeg was only about two-thirds full and I was the only person in my area… very nice… not so from Calgary… the seats were closer together and the woman sitting beside me needed some of my space as well…

as soon as the kids picked me up we headed out to Goose Spit to get my toes in the ocean…

toes in the ocean...

toes in the ocean…

took pictures of the rocks, the kids and the scenery…

rocks - Cyndi says I can't bring any home...

rocks – Cyndi says I can’t bring any home…

then it was home, lunch and a rest…

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we finished off the day at Locals, a wonderful restaurant where we had a fabulous dinner…

we’ve got all the bags packed, and are heading to bed as we will be getting up very early to drive to Victoria to catch a ferry to Vancouver and get on the cruise ship…

we are going to sail right through here...

we are going to sail right through here…

woo hoo, now I am excited…

reminiscing…

13 Saturday Apr 2013

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adventure, anniversary, Goose Spit, gorgeous trees, heart failure, life has changed, Mount Washington, Puntledge, reminiscing, trip to Courtenay

recently I had to work on the desktop computer because my laptop was being a bit fussy, and I spent some lovely moments checking out pictures…  the desktop shares pictures with the laptop but it doesn’t work the other way around… found some lovely ones of the garden and George… also reminded me of how long ago some things happened…

it always seems like it was just a couple of years ago that something took place, but when you check out the pictures you realize it might be that six or eight years have passed…

also spent some time going through photo albums and I took out a great one that Cyndi had made for us from our family trip to Courtenay… I realize that it was five years ago…

the top of Mount Washington was rather cool...

the top of Mount Washington was rather cool…

it reminded me of the trip across the country with the kids, and meeting up with everyone else there…  George was slowly recovering from his heart failure and couldn’t drive out with us… the doctor advised that he needed to fly which would be less of a stress on his body…  Crystal and Jeff and the two boys drove out around the same time and we had a lovely time together and got to see all the special places around Courtenay…

fun time at Goose Spit...

fun time at Goose Spit…

we all loved Goose Spit and had a wiener roast on the beach together… that year, on our anniversary, we took the little boys for a walk along the Puntledge early in the morning so that all the grownups could sleep in a bit…

it was a wonderful time and we had an adventure when we took a wrong path and wandered down a tiny waterway that didn’t really go anywhere… we saw slugs and bugs, and I got a wonderful picture of George and the boys stretching their arms out to circle one of the very large trees…

George and the boys stretching to reach around the tree...

George and the boys stretching to reach around the tree…

wow, five years… amazing what things have happened in that time…  how my life has changed…

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