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laurentien…

17 Tuesday Nov 2015

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there has been this new thing where adults are colouring in a variety of adult colouring books…

was talking with my grandson about colouring… asking if he might like one of these types of colouring books… wasn’t sure if he would find them too complicated… we were looking at a number of them… he thought he would like one of them… he usually uses markers on his projects so we talked about how he would need to use coloured pencils in these books… he thought he could do that…

since then I’ve talked with a few people about coloured pencils…

my daughter and I were talking abou what type to get if I was getting some for a present… she said not to get anything but Laurentien Coloured Pencils...

  
in a conversation with someone else, we were talking about when we were kids and getting a new package… and how special it was… usually you got them at the start of school… 

sometimes you would get a twelve pack, but if you were really lucky you might get the 24 pencil case… reminded us both of how much fun we had with them… she was flooded with memories just talking about it…

  
I checked in my craft box tonight and found this… they are still the best…

might have to get me one of them colouring books…

gardening…

23 Saturday May 2015

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what a wonderful day…

up early, had breakfast and headed into the garden… set out the cushions and cleaned all the tables… took out all the plants from the dining room and set them beside the pond…

  
got all the water plants into the pond and then took a little break…

  
still looks a bit empty…

  
before long the water hyacinth will multiply and the water lilies will pop up to the surface and fill in with green lily pads…

the kids came over and my grandson and his friend worked away in the side garden cleaning up two years worth of weeds… looking very nice… I am so happy that we got this done as last year I just pretended there wasn’t anything there, lol…

my daughter and I went to a couple of garden centres and got most of the plants I will need…

the little boys picked up twigs and swept the decks while we were gone… had pizza for supper and they headed home…

filled the planters around the deck, made three baskets, and planted about seven pots before I finally came in tonight…

took a few breaks to read and watch the goldfinches at the feeder…

all around, an excellent day…

gardening…

11 Saturday Apr 2015

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it was beautiful this morning and I was very excited to open the screen door for the first time this year…

sadly my son-in-law was working days this weekend so I knew he couldn’t come and help me in the garden…

called my grandson and he and a friend came over and spent the day… they raked the garden and put out furniture while I cleaned up the planters from last year and washed a number of tables… then we moved to the front where we cut back wild roses… got rid of grass…   

laid wet newspaper, and put down 16 bags of rubber mulch… 

was so happy to get this done… bought the first ten bags of mulch last summer… ran over and got more as we worked… slurpees for the boys on our way home from Home Depot, a short rest and they then spent a couple of hours working on the pond…  they had lots of fun…

the little boys arrived just before 5 and they trimmed the Virginia creeper…

had a short visit from my sister-in-law and nephew in the tidied garden…

had pizza for supper when the daddy arrived and he changed my tires so now the car has the pretty wheels on it again…

everyone headed home and I am laying on the bed watching tv…

opened the screen door at 8:30 in the morning and closed it twelve hours later… yay…

busy, warm and very productive day…

company…

16 Friday Jan 2015

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this morning as I was waiting for my ride I topped up the water in the fish tank… it’s been low for a week or so and every time I am leaving the house I remember that it needs water…

when it is low, the running water is very loud…

took a number of trips back and forth to the sink but other than the one time I poured the water all over myself and the floor there were no issues… got it all done in time…

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the fish like it when it’s full too… they are good company for me… next will be giving the front of the tank a cleaning… algae is starting to take over, lol…

been a very long week…

had a lovely treat tonight when I got to have dinner with my grandson after he came over and shovelled the driveway…

we ordered beef bones, baked potatoes and Caesar salad from Tony Roma’s… I just love Mobile Maitre D and Skip the Dishes… by the time I get home I do not want to go out again to fetch dinner so these are great ways to get the food I want delivered to the house… picking up our dinner was George’s job…

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it is nice to have company…

clear…

08 Thursday Jan 2015

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this morning I took this picture of the fresh snow on the ground… the window acted like a mirror and so the living room was clear as well…

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kind of fun…

busy day and when I got home my grandson arrived to clear that snow…

he stayed for dinner and then headed home… on his way to the bus his dad turned up, on his way home from work, and gave him a ride… that made me happy because it is cold out there…

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too chilly to hot tub and I am missing my time out there…

still searching for a good app to keep track of my blood sugar and what I have been eating… the ones I’ve looked at have very complicated food records so I will keep searching…

snow…

02 Friday Jan 2015

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looked outside this morning and saw such beauty…

everything had been covered with a blanket of light fluffy snow…

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luckily I didn’t need to leave home… always so much more beautiful if you don’t have to go out in it, lol…

this afternoon my grandson came over and shovelled the sidewalk, driveway and back path…

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he did a good job and then came in for hot chocolate while we waited for his mom to pick him up, when she got off work…

a friend stopped by a few hours later and there was more snow on the ground… we went out for supper and while we were visiting the wind was blowing the snow around…

wonder what it is going to look like in the morning…

evening…

08 Monday Dec 2014

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quite a busy evening for me, lol…

put something into the oven after I got home, and headed upstairs for a nap…

heard a quiet ring and decided to go see if there was someone at the door… and discovered my grandson who has been hired by my Ottawa kids to shovel for me…

he had taken the bus from school and had a fair walk as he might have been on the wrong bus… after he warmed up for a few minutes he shovelled… not too much snow had come down, but it had swirled around a bit…

once he finished, I made him some hot chocolate and we had a visit before he headed off to catch a bus home…

what a lovely Christmas gift, clean walks and visits with a special young man…

had my supper and napped a tiny bit… my BS friends arrived just after eight and we had an excellent time catching up… we hadn’t met for a few weeks…

while we were sitting there, cars were coming and going on the street and people were getting in and out of them… then more cars were in the lane, and finally people were walking along the creek with flashlights… bizarre… it will be interesting to hear about what was going on…

all was quiet when everyone left…

fish are happy and the tank is finally clear…

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evening…

08 Monday Dec 2014

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quite a busy evening for me, lol…

put something into the oven after I got home, and headed upstairs for a nap…

heard a quiet ring and decided to go see if there was someone at the door… and discovered my grandson who has been hired by my Ottawa kids to shovel for me…

he had taken the bus from school and had a fair walk as he might have been on the wrong bus… after he warmed up for a few minutes he shovelled… not too much snow had come down, but it had swirled around a bit…

once he finished, I made him some hot chocolate and we had a visit before he headed off to catch a bus home…

what a lovely Christmas gift, clean walks and visits with a special young man…

had my supper and napped a tiny bit… my BS friends arrived just after eight and we had an excellent time catching up… we hadn’t met for a few weeks…

while we were sitting there, cars were coming and going on the street and people were getting in and out of them… then more cars were in the lane, and finally people were walking along the creek with flashlights… bizarre… it will be interesting to hear about what was going on…

all was quiet when everyone left…

fish are happy and the tank is finally clear…

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dressing…

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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when I was at the kids’ place on Friday my youngest grandson gave me a recipe for dressing that he wanted me to make for Thanksgiving dinner…

this is very odd because he doesn’t eat dressing, or much else, unless it is Caesar salad and baked potatoes…

they had all worked on this recipe at daycare and he ate three plates full of it… he asked them to write down the recipe and they also sent a note saying how much he liked it…

how could I not make it…

IMG_8773.JPGran out and picked up the last few things I needed, including the sausage for the special dressing…

I did laugh because while he was telling me about the recipe my daughter was shaking her head no the entire time… she loves my dressing and has never liked when I have made different versions… luckily the version he was wanting is made as a casserole…

so, two types of stuffing made, potatoes, turnips and cauliflower cut and ready…

still need to finish setting the table…

fourteen…

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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started the day in the garden… two blossoms on the hibiscus and you can see what a beautiful morning it was…

hibiscus this morning...

hibiscus this morning…

the sounds in the garden were lovely, there were chickadees and goldfinches at the feeder, while the water was falling in the pond…  

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shortly after that, the nail guns took over as my neighbour was having his roof shingled, lol… caught one of the chickadees, which is difficult as they are very fast…

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chickadee…

spent a good portion of the day getting the required groceries and making spinach dip and five pounds of potato salad for the big birthday party… mom loves the spinach dip, and dad the potato salad…

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birthday boy…

our oldest grandson turned fourteen… cannot believe that fourteen years have passed since he arrived in our lives… he is a lovely young man and George and I both enjoyed watching him as he has grown… George would be very proud… I know I am…