09 Monday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, family, flowers, grandson, groceries, heart, heart pillows, moments, shopping, spending, widow
went out for groceries and found three little heart pillows…
which I had to bring home;-)…
and I was also happy to find daffodils and hyacinth;-)… they came home too, lol…
since then I’ve moved them a few times…
everything is now in the den, as I am spending the majority of my time in there, watching the Olympics;-)…
11 Sunday May 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bottle, flowers, garden, groceries, happy, moments, plants, purple, table, weather, widow
Thursday evening we went to do some grocery shopping… I found a couple of side tables for the garden and a new water bottle…
which, by the way, isn’t purple… sadly the old one, which was purple, is no longer usable…
the tables were easy to put together and look good… so far, one is happily ensconced beside the butterfly chair…
and just possibly, I found some plants for the garden;-)…
the season is beginning…
24 Monday Feb 2025
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big girl pants, bins, blessed, deadline, deals, delivery, efficient, food, grandson, groceries, moments, plastic bags, read, Save-On-Foods, shopping, Technology, widow
my housemate has been picking up groceries for me so I haven’t ordered from Save-on-Foods for quite a while, but on Thursday I put an order in for delivery…
I had received an email advising of a $25 refund if I spent $75, so I went ahead and ordered some regular items on my shopping list, lol…
I made sure to call their info line because one item was buy-one-get-one-free, and I couldn’t remember if I should put two, or one, on the order…
the phone was answered quickly and the customer service person had the answer right away…
I also appreciate that they no longer use plastic bags, except for produce… I put out my own boxes and the driver transfers from their bins to mine…
when my order arrived, there wasn’t a credit so I went back to the email, only to discover that the deadline had just passed… by a few days, lol… apparently I should have read it better or put the order in sooner…
but, I did get the free item;-)…
17 Monday Jun 2024
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Airbnb, big girl pants, blessed, cottage, deck, family, groceries, moments, nature, plants, Technology, treat, unpack, water, widow
well, after grocery shopping and packing up what felt like tons of stuff, we set off on our adventure…
we have returned to the superb Airbnb that we spent a week at last year…
it took about two and a half hours from leaving the house to sitting on the deck with tea and a refresher…
didn’t take very long to unpack the groceries and our personal stuff… then we headed to the upper deck to enjoy the scenery and our drinks…
as I sat there I listened to the waves gently lapping the shore, and heard the warblers, vireos, and sparrows singing in the trees nearby… and we’d already watched a couple of ducks working on their afternoon snacks as a pelican fly by…
what a delightful treat this time together is;-)…
20 Saturday Apr 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, family, few, flowers, food, groceries, moments, plants, Safeway, seniors, shopping, treat, widow
on Wednesday we went for a quick visit to Safeway to pick up a few items…
I got flowers and a plant with two types of hyacinth, tulips am daffodils…
seemed like a lovely birthday treat;-)…
and it was seniors’ day so the saving was the same amount as the bouquet…
that was a treat…
the few items did end up filling two bags, lol…
25 Sunday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, food, freezers, grandson, groceries, housemate, Life, lists, moments, Technology, widow
a number of months ago my housemate and I took the time to go through the two fridge freezers and make a list of what was in them…
the concept worked fairly well, although sometimes we didn’t remember to change the lists as we took things out for meals…
we’ve been planning to update the lists for a few weeks and finally on Thursday we got to it… apparently, I’ve had a real desire for potato patties as we now have three large packages… oops…
I’ve printed out the lists and this time, besides the one on the fridge downstairs, I’ve got both on the upstairs fridge so I should be on top of what needs to be replaced and what is getting used…
I also spent time reorganizing the magnets and sticky notes, lol…
14 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Costco, garden, groceries, hose, hose attachments, leaking, moments, shopping, water, widow
Tuesday we went to Costco and I got a new set of attachments for the hose…
sadly, the current attachment has been leaking for awhile and the hose doesn’t expand without an attachment…
hoping that all three will work well… fingers crossed…
12 Monday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, checkout, containers, cute, grandson, groceries, heart shaped, moments, shopping, treat, widow
yesterday we went to Superstore for some groceries…
while we were in the checkout line I spotted these cute little heart-shaped containers…
they had no price tag, but I decided I needed them, lol… they ended up being about $4.00…
today I filled some of them with a few treats for a gathering of friends…
they are so cute and useful with their little covers…
and fun…
15 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, clothes, Costco, extras, groceries, items, moments, shopping, shorts, treats, widow
went to Costco for four things, hahaha…
came home with three of them and just a few other things…
including leggings that I had picked up a while ago, and loved, in a different colour… shorts with side pockets (spring must be coming, right!), two v-neck tops… salad, and maybe a fun snack;-)…
19 Sunday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, braver, family, flowers, groceries, happy, home, mask, moments, out and about it, plants, shopping, treat, weather, widow
spent a good portion of Thursday out and about shopping… I am getting much braver these days although I still wear a mask everywhere…
were in Home Depot and Rona, getting bits and pieces to fix a few things in the house… then we wandered up and down every aisle at Costco and picked up a few items…
our final stop was Safeway where I was able to obtain some flowering plants and a few bunches of flowers…
and everyone knows they make me happy, lol…
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