26 Monday Oct 2026
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16 Friday Oct 2026
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banner, big girl pants, deer, family, food, grandson, moments, nature, no stickers, poll, treat, voted, widow
this morning I voted in the advance poll at Polo Park… they are really strict about not allowing photos to be taken, and instead of stickers, had a banner you could use… maybe it saves money 🤪…
as a reward we got pretzels… mine were mini sesame ones… and I found them easier to eat;-)…
my favourite is the garlic and salt, but I was heading to The Leaf to volunteer and didn’t want to breathe garlic on the visitors, lol…
and as a special treat we came across three deer…
what a lovely bonus…
26 Wednesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, bookcase, books, family, grandson, happy, imagined, moments, perfect fit, widow
so I’ve been thinking about where to put the 100 books, lol…
my housemate had a bookshelf stored elsewhere and we arranged to have it delivered…
it fit in the spot I’d imagined perfectly 😊…
took a while to empty the boxes and bag, but I was so happy when it was done…
and, in the end, the 100 books fit exactly…
25 Tuesday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grandson, jigsaw, moments, project, rail, Technology, tools, toy, widow
in the final process of replacing the stairs to the side garden, we discovered we needed a jigsaw…
so, of course, we had to go shopping for a new toy, lol…
in the end we found a reciprocating saw which would work for the current project and a variety of future projects…
and I thought it was much cuter than a boring old jigsaw…
we have learned to always buy the same brand as our other battery operated tools😀…
and now, the deck, stairs and rail project is completed… yay…
24 Monday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, books, declutter, friends, grandson, moments, moved, shop, stair library, widow
my friend is decluttering, and donating many of her books to a local book sale…
when she mentioned this, I offered to help and shop at the same time…
we had great fun, going through shelves upstairs and down, as she decided what could go, and the few that needed to remain…
she’d give me reviews as the books came off the shelves…
I had brought a single grocery store box to hold the ones I would bring home, lol…
we made two trips to drop off the books…
when I got home, there was that box, a grocery bag and two cardboard boxes… all full👀…
refilled the stair library with a few of them…
still thinking about where the rest will go🤪…
19 Wednesday Aug 2026
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beloved, big girl pants, deck, family, garden, grandson, moments, pond, snoopervise, widow
while I was away for a few days, the back deck got replaced…
it was interesting how nervous I felt, not being there to snoopervise, lol…
luckily, I received photos and was able to check some of the work with the garden camera🤪…
once that deck was finished, they moved on to the stairs and small deck which leads into the side garden…
when I got home, I checked both spots out and am very happy with the final product…
one single board needs to be screwed in on the stairs by the side deck…
I am feeling a bit melancholy as these are the last of the decks that my beloved built… all the rest have been redone…
even when I had the pond rebuilt, I had them leave that deck just as it was…
time moves on…
01 Saturday Aug 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fixed, garden, grandson, moments, temporarily, vinyl siding, widow
this morning my middle grandson arrived with a coworker to silicone the vinyl siding that he’d temporarily fixed a while ago…
they were here for less than fifteen minutes, and in that time fixed the siding and checked out an issue on the shed roof which he will come back to sort out when he has time…
and then, off they went 😊…
I certainly am blessed…
25 Saturday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, chocolate, chocolate-covered, family, grandson, macadamia nuts, sarong, sea turtle, spoiled, widow
my housemate was away on vacation and just returned…
I was treated to an absolutely beautiful kitchen towel that has a sea turtle on it…
a light and airy sarong…
and 3 boxes of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts…
Costco used to carry them in a big plastic jug, but they haven’t had them for ages…
talk about spoiled 😊…
21 Tuesday Jul 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, grandson, moments, silicone, vinyl siding, widow
I was surprised today when my middle grandson arrived…
I had messaged him on Sunday about a piece of siding that looked to be coming off the house and I was worried it might come right down…
today, he stopped by on his way home from work to check it out and see if he could fix it…
with a little bit of ingenuity, he managed to get the piece of vinyl back up, although we will need to pick up a tube of silicone and he will come back and do a permanent fix…
my job, when anyone is on the ladder, is to hold the sides and make sure the bottom of it is flat, lol…
24 Wednesday Jun 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, drooling, family, grandson, knives, moments, new, old, sharpened, shopping, widow
took four of my most used knives in to be sharpened… and was advised they weren’t really worth sharpening…
made me sad as two of them were wearever knives that were my mom and dad’s… which did make them likely sixty or seventy years old…
so, then I bought some new ones… had fun with the salesperson who had lots of questions and made me hold many knives…
lucky for me, they were all reasonably priced, unlike those that my housemate has… the staff were drooling over his collection, which they had just sharpened and were the reason we were there, lol…
