31 Sunday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, garden, grandson, halloween, moments, nature, rain, snow, treat, tricks, weather, widow
so, there were some Halloween tricks, but no treats…
the kids were over this morning and we were working in the garden…
just after they left I was in the dining room and looked out the window to see this…
that would be snow pelting down like crazy…
of course, it is Halloween…
and a short time later it looked like this…
eventually it all melted…
22 Friday Oct 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, furniture, garden, grandson, moments, nature, path, shed, sidewalk, stepping stones, walk, weather, widow
the weather has really gotten fall-ish…
this afternoon my grandson arrived to finish a few jobs around the yard, including putting away the lawn furniture and then he and his friend replaced the sidewalk stones along the front flowerbed… they had sunk way down into the grass over the years….
this is going to make walking from the driveway to the house much more stable and it will also be way easier to shovel once the snow arrives…
28 Tuesday Sep 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, chair, effort, garden, grandson, moments, nature, rebuilt, rocking lounger, weather, widow
the umbrella for the fancy rocking lawn chair/lounger went in to be rebuilt as the fabric had disintegrated, lol…
the chair has been without the umbrella since spring…
I had been looking around for ages and was very happy that Murray Tent and Awning was able to do the job…
my grandson picked it up and brought it here yesterday so I was excited to put it up this morning…
it took a while to figure out how to get the ribs back into it, but eventually I sorted it out… lots of bending and stretching, lol…
it looks great… the colour goes well with the cushion and the other items in the garden…
I am very pleased;-)…
10 Tuesday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, car, family, garden, grandson, memories, moments, photos, purple, shopping, twenty-one, widow
today, my grandson turns twenty-one…
apparently I am getting lax in my old age as I haven’t been taking as many photos as usual…
these are three of the most recent ones with him in them, lol… but they cover the important things…
in this first one he is cleaning out the hot tub for me… he often comes over and looks after various household and garden jobs…
currently he has my car and here he driving me home after my first Covid-19 vaccination where he kept me company through the entire process… and suggested we get an ice cream treat…
this last one is him heading out in the car after delivering items off for me… he runs errands for me and drops off bits and pieces whenever needed…
what a wonderful time these twenty-one years have been…
he is a wonderful support…
02 Monday Aug 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fun times, garden, grandson, happy, hot tub, lifesaver, memories, moments, photos, remembering, treat, water, widow
came across this photo yesterday… it is one of my all time favourites…
it was taken twenty years ago (so it isn’t quite as crisp as I would like) in a rented hot tub in our yard…
for a few years we would rent a hot tub for our anniversary weekend… it was such fun and a wonderful treat… so lucky to now have my own hot tub to use whenever I want;-)…
the lifesaver is so cute and his little face is adorable;-)…
our grandson just loved it then, and he still enjoys using hot tubs…
makes me smile to remember special times…
25 Sunday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, garden, Google Home, grandson, iPhone, link, moments, plug, pond, Technology, water, waterfall, widow
been wishing that I didn’t have to climb behind the planter every time I need to turn the waterfall on and off…
I decided to look online to see if there was something I could use outside to control the plug…
I was so excited to find a KASA TP-Link outdoor plug… KASA is part of my Google Home system, and the plug was reasonably priced…
my grandson picked it up for me and it was easy to add to my Google Home… well, he added it, lol… I can even add another item to the plug as it has two outlets…
this is going to make dealing with the waterfall so much easier, and I’ve been having fun turning it on and off;-)…
15 Thursday Jul 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, fun, grandson, happy, horse, memories, moments, motorcycle, purple, remembering, ride, widow
yesterday I went for a short motorcycle ride with my grandson…
he got his licence last summer, but just recently passed the test which meant he could have a rider behind him…
not too long ago he said he would give me a ride, after he practiced a bit more with friends…
today he dropped by and told me to put on jeans and a jacket so we could go for the ride…
I had a bit of trouble getting up behind him… the backseat is much higher that the one on the motorcycle I rode on when I was sixteen, lol…
the funny part is that the young man I was going out with at the time, and who had the motorcycle, lived down the very street I currently reside on…
took a few minutes to get up… felt a bit like getting onto a horse, and I was worried I would pull him over if I held onto him tightly…
eventually I made it and off we went… it was a short ride and it felt like he was speeding like crazy, but at most he was doing 55…
I am pretty sure my thighs are going to be aching because I was gripping the sides of the bike hard, lol…
maybe we will do it again… I think it was fun;-)…
18 Friday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, designer, flowers, friends, garden, grandson, moments, nature, plants, pond, purple, reorganize, weather, widow
what a wonderful afternoon yesterday… although it was hot, my garden designer came and spent a few hours rearranging pots and plants and other goodies…
we moved, and moved items again, until the garden looked just so…
a few jobs left for my grandson when he comes next… lifting a few heavy things and digging in a few lights…
what fun to have a fresh set of eyes… and someone who is perfectly fine if I don’t care for the placement of items…
I think the garden is happy too…
17 Thursday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fixes, flowers, garden, grandson, grass, moments, nature, widow
my grandson came recently and spent the day working in the garden…
many jobs were done, including emptying, cleaning and filling the hot tub…
stones were moved, grass seed put down, the umbrella put up, hoses run and the waterfall rock repaired…
we had a lovely day together, and then he and his girlfriend had supper with me on the deck…
they sat at the table and I was in my chair by the door…
he reminds a lot me of his grandpa, lol…
what a wonderful treat…
14 Monday Jun 2021
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