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loosening…

29 Monday Dec 2025

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went to finish the chicken soup, and noticed the oven was on, so I tried to open the door and the handle came right off…

it had been loosening before and I would just tighten it…

my housemate and I couldn’t put the handle back on because the oven was hot… we left it to cool and then tried again…

when we went to open it, the inside sort of separated… I was hoping this allowed us to get to the window that we could clean…

unfortunately, it was not the one, although we did clean this portion…

next he went out and bought some loctite to make sure the handle stayed on… we weren’t able to get to the really messed up window, but the important thing was to get the handle back on the door, which was being held closed by the stepstool…

now it is fixed… we will see if it comes loose again…

mid-day…

28 Sunday Dec 2025

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my grandson usually arrives here on Christmas day around noon…

our current tradition is to have appetizers for our mid-day meal as he may have already had breakfast and will be heading out for dinner a bit later in the day…

we had wandered the aisles at the grocery store picking up things that looked fun…

we had shrimp dumplings, fancy cheese fries, tempura shrimp, wontons, veggies and dip, sausage rolls, and a shrimp ring… lots of shrimp on that list, lol…

this year we did stockings for each other, which was great… it has been many years since I had a stocking…

it was filled with a great many treats…

then the second round of presents were opened, and I was royally spoiled;-)…

although he only had a few gifts he was very pleased with them…

we sat around and visited before he had to leave for his next engagement, lol…

I truly am blessed to have this thoughtful young man in my life;-)…

blizzards…

22 Monday Dec 2025

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we’ve had our first blizzards of the season… they sort of happened over two days…

Thursday, a good amount of snow fell and then the winds came… later the snow stopped and returned the next day with more wind…

I had to cancel two outings, so was able to stay home and watch through the living room window…

on day three my housemate spent over an hour shovelling the sidewalks and driveway… there was a lot of snow🤪…

thankfully, a neighbour a few houses to the north came with his snowblower and dealt with the area closest to the garage which saved another hour of shovelling…

the back door had about a foot of snow covering it and the deck… now it is all clear…

we will see how long that lasts;-)…

widowhood…

04 Thursday Dec 2025

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as I sit here quietly in the living room I am thinking of two big events that took place in the last few days…

the first was a congratulatory note from WordPress… on December 1st, 2012 I began writing about my journey into widowhood… and have continued that since then, moving into commenting on my life…

the second was today, which would have been my beloved’s 77th birthday… this year we had burgers here, one of his favourite foods, while the kids in Ottawa had an apple galette… he loved apple pie… we had a video visit between the burgers and galette, lol…

my grandson is going to use his Christmas stocking for the first time…

I sure do miss him🤗…

stopper…

01 Monday Dec 2025

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ran around Saturday morning and basically finished my Christmas shopping…

a beautiful outdoor tree tried to seduce me at Canadian Tire, but I walked away, lol…

we also had a lot of fun at BulkBarn finding things for a couple of Advent calendars…

the last few books were picked up at Chapters for my littlest friends and we found the last sheep door draft stopper…

so, I guess now I have to wrap things, lol…

flattened…

27 Thursday Nov 2025

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a very large, and heavy, box arrived in the mail…

I am sure that it is full of items for my Advent calendar… woohoo…

just yesterday morning I brought down the bag full of boxes which have been flattened…

my housemate will be rebuilding the twenty-four boxes and inserting the various items from my daughter into them…

then I will get the boxes and set them out to be opened one at a time during Advent;-)…

thaw…

24 Monday Nov 2025

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bought a few tree greens while at the grocery store…

dug out two birch branches, some small white twigs, and a stem of red berries from the shed…

went through a Christmas box and brought out some large ornaments…

last week I’d brought in the planter from the top step so it could thaw out so all the dead plants could be pulled out…

took the planter into the garden, removed all the dead plants and added in the greenery…

after everything was included, it was carried to the front steps…

added some solar lights…

looks good…

counted…

29 Wednesday Oct 2025

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a few fish came into the house around Thanksgiving…

on Tuesday morning we went out to collect the rest, as it is seems to be getting cooler every day…

part of the process was to empty a good amount of water, particularly as the pond was as high as I’ve seen it, since we’ve had so much rain lately…

then it was fairly easy for my housemate to catch the remaining fish…

once they were in the tanks, I counted thirty, which is about right, so we were pleased that we’d got them all…

we will check the pond over the next few days to see if there are any stragglers that we missed…

dragon…

18 Saturday Oct 2025

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last week we went through the garden and collected flowers from the pansies, bachelor buttons and petunias, as they will be a special snack treat for the bearded dragon, lol…

next they went into the dehydrator to dry…

took about twelve hours and then they were nicely dried and put into a bag for future snacks;-)…

hope the dragon likes them…