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cleanup…

27 Thursday Dec 2018

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Best Buy, big girl pants, breakfast, cleanup, computer, Freshii, Google Home, grandson, music, pictures, rest, shopping, Technology, trash, widow

another wonderful day…

grandson slept over… we made breakfast and then spent a few hours doing a cleanup in the computer room… filled bags of garbage, recycling and a few boxes of giveaways…

my grandson figured out how to get my 500 plus songs onto Google Play… it took about four hours… I am so happy to have them available…

he took out all the trash and then we ran over to Best Buy to pick up a few more plugs for my Google Home… had lunch at Freshii and then back home to connect one of the plugs…

the Himalayan Salt Lamp is now able to turn on and off by voice…

then my work computer person came over and moved computers, drives, pictures and got Outlook working for me… I am very pleased…

now to rest;-)…

canes…

13 Thursday Dec 2018

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big girl pants, canes, cherry, Christmas tree, gift, grandson, stuffed, tree, widow

a while back my youngest grandson and I were shopping and we spotted cherry flavoured candy canes… my favourite…

they’ve been stuffed up in the cupboard since then…

today after work, I pulled them out and put them on the tree…

there are sixteen of them and they fill the tree up quite nicely…

the plan is that when people are over they will take a candy cane when they leave;-)…

for many years I would make things to put on the tree for this purpose, but have simplified things, lol…

shovel…

20 Tuesday Nov 2018

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big girl pants, bunny, garage door, grandson, shovel, snow, widow

we have been very lucky with the snowfall so far this year… been really cold but little snow has fallen…

I do have a person to come and shovel for me, which makes me happy… I don’t have to worry about whether my grandson can make it over, although I am going to miss our time together…

think we will have to plan some supper dates…

here’s what I saw when I opened the back door this morning…

the garage door had opened during the night, sigh… once the temperature reaches a certain point the door won’t stay closed… I didn’t do anything about replacing it over the summer… guess I’ll be using the front to get in and out of the house for the next few months…

but, did see some bunny tracks…

when I came home it was all clear… I think he ended up blowing the snow because there really wasn’t much on the ground…

what a lovely treat…

feeder…

05 Monday Nov 2018

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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, feeder, garden, grandson, moments, plants, shopping, supper, widow

yesterday my oldest grandson came over and we cleaned up all the pots and planters in the garden…

well, he did most of the cleaning up while I worked on a few things in the house…

we did work together to get the bird feeder hooked up so that it won’t lean over…

we ran out for groceries and then had ribs, baked potatoes and Brussels sprouts for dinner…

when he was picked up I went to bed, lol… fun, but long, day…

arm…

20 Saturday Oct 2018

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arm, big girl pants, filling, grandson, hot tub, temperature, widow

today I emptied and refilled the hot tub after my grandson arrived to move the tub a tiny bit before it was refilled…

when we replaced the arm on the hot tub a while ago, we moved it out a bit which meant that I couldn’t open one side of the cover without opening the gate… bit of a pain on a cold night…

it takes about 3 hours to empty and about half an hour to fill…

waiting now to see how long it will take to get up to the correct temperature…

migrate..

24 Monday Sep 2018

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big girl pants, birds, clean, grandson, migrate, migration, view, widow, windows

this morning I was enjoying the view out of the living room window…

it is sparkling clean… my grandson did a great job…

and then, tonight I read about the problem that birds have with clean windows as they migrate…

oh dear…

headboard…

23 Sunday Sep 2018

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amazingly productive day… out and about for groceries and items for a project… it was rainy and cold;-)…

back home I started two types of soup – chicken and vegetable, as well as zucchini basil… made rice and started red lentil curry…

my grandson arrived mid afternoon and helped with a rather long list of to do items…

he helped bring a mattress up from the basement that I am trying out as a headboard… I’ve been wanting a new headboard for ages… think it might work…

plants were brought into the house and feeders were filled… the printer is working again, a light got hooked up in the kitchen, and the living room window is clean…

he left around three hours after he arrived… I’m exhausted, lol… now for a rest before I finish the soup…

saved…

21 Tuesday Aug 2018

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big girl pants, blessed, blooms, grandson, happy, mandevilla, morning glories, saved, waiting, water, widow

so happy that the morning glories were saved…

while I was away my grandson came by a few times and watered them… they are in small planters so need lots of water…

I’d been waiting for them to flower for weeks and the first bloom only came out the day before I left on vacation…

they are blooming in and amongst the mandevilla which is also blooming like crazy…

flowers sure do make me happy…

camping, day one…

10 Friday Aug 2018

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big girl pants, birthday, camping, day one, family, fun, grandson, moments, regatta, rowing, sun, visiting, widow

well, we really weren’t camping as we went to Rabbit Lake for the Northwestern Regatta…

the eldest grandson turned eighteen today so we were up early and drove for an hour, arriving just in time for his first race…

watched races, visited with people, dropped the younger boys off at a friend’s where we had a lovely visit before returning to the regatta for his next race…

at the end of race day, seven of us went out to celebrate the big birthday…

had a great time on a patio, then said goodbye to the older boys and headed back to the campground…

now we are in bed looking forward to day two of the regatta…

leftovers…

06 Monday Aug 2018

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big girl pants, camping, Chinese food, family, feeder, garden, goldfinch, grandson, hot tub, leftovers, memories, pond, selfie, widow

today I continued with the packing…

my youngest grandson came over for a few hours and we spent time in the hot tub and filled the pond… we also counted down the days till we go camping…

we had Chinese food leftovers and managed a selfie… took both of us to get it, lol… it was lovely because he usually doesn’t want to be in pictures…

after he was picked up I went outside and watched two gold finches fly away from the feeder… so I sat outside for half an hour, but they did not return…

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