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documentation…

08 Friday Mar 2024

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accountant, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, complete, documentation, happy, memories, moments, preparation, taxes, Technology, widow

have spent time over the last week gathering and preparing all of the information required to complete my 2023 taxes…

getting the documentation ready always reminds me of how difficult doing this work was for my beloved… he really disliked getting the bits and pieces collected…

for the last few years of his life we had others complete the paperwork, although it was still a problem to put it together…

it still surprises me how simple it is for me now… for the first few years after he died, I would gather up paper bits and courier them to my amazing accountant, who would then process everything…

then she connected me to this great technology where I was able to upload all the information and they complete and submit it all online…

it still takes a bit of work to scan, save, and upload everything, but I am getting better at it each year…

and, it is done;-)…

correct…

27 Tuesday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, correct, food, friends, furnace, happy, inspection, moments, nature, shovelling, snacks, snow, snowfall, Technology, weather, widow

the weather report had suggested a good amount of snow overnight, and they were correct, lol…

yesterday morning the ground was covered with at least two inches of snow… it looked pretty though…

it was deeper where it had blown into drifts… which, of course, were along the sidewalks and bottom of the driveway, lol…

I went out just after eight and got the sidewalks cleared as well as a portion of the driveway where my friends park on Monday afternoons…

thankfully, my housemate shovelled the remainder of the driveway…

my friends arrived and we had a great time with lots of delicious snacks;-)…

a bit later a Hydro Inspector arrived and reviewed the work done by the furnace installation company…

I was very happy that this time we passed the inspection… yay…

busy, busy…

applause…

26 Monday Feb 2024

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applause, big girl pants, blessed, dad, effort, family, happy, memories, moments, sports, Technology, time, widow

I’ve spent the week watching PVRed sports on tv…

it has been so interesting to see all the technology that has improved many of the sports, from starting blocks to lights around the track showing world record speeds…

the athletics have been excellent and have brought many memories flooding back from magical times with my dad…

we used to attend events at the old Arena and had fun watching and cheering on all of the participants…

my dad really embedded the idea in my head that every person deserved applause, even if they weren’t from a team you were cheering for…

lovely memories;-)…

tickled…

24 Saturday Feb 2024

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bed, big girl pants, blanket, blessed, deck, garden, happy, moments, reading, scrunched, sunlight, sunshine, Technology, tickled, warmth, weather, widow

was so tickled on Thursday morning… I spent just under an hour sitting on the deck reading in the sunlight…

the temperature was 3°C, and the weather channel suggested it felt like -2, although the deck is often warmer…

it was a bit of a process as I had to bring out a cushion for the chair and a small table for my tea, lol… I wore my winter jacket and had my Assiniboine Park Conservancy blanket over my legs, although I was in my slippers and was very comfortable…

what a treat to feel that warmth on my face…

and, when I went upstairs to lay down, the sun was shining along the bottom of the bed, so I napped sideways, with scrunched up legs;-)…

Orchidaceae

23 Friday Feb 2024

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Assiniboine Park, big girl pants, biomes, blessed, flowers, happy, koi, moments, nature, orchidaceae, orchids, plants, pond, The Leaf, widow

just for fun I thought I would show some of the orchidaceae that we saw at Flora of the Philippines on Tuesday…

couldn’t help myself, lol…

there were a few other things that I photographed, lol… my buddies, the fish, were swimming around the pond…

we also saw some flowers on the very top of one of the first trees you see on entering the Tropical Biome… we only saw them thanks to a recommendation by one of the volunteers;-)…

another great visit…

flora…

20 Tuesday Feb 2024

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had a fun time at The Leaf today…

went with a friend to see Flora of the Philippines…

we couldn’t figure out the new markers on many of the plants in the Tropical Biome, but eventually realized they represented the flag of the Philippines and demonstrated how many of the plants in the biomes originated there…

besides seeing where so many plants came from, there were hundreds of orchids… heaven for me…

what a treat…

after our wander through the biomes, we had lunch at Gather…

what a delightful way to spend time together;-)…

fifty-seven…

19 Monday Feb 2024

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a few days ago a friend dropped by with some books for me and in the process brought me a couple of my JD Robb favourites…

we have both read the entire series and she has the collection, so now I am going to start collecting the series…

two down and fifty-seven left to collect…

longest…

18 Sunday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, blinking, Christmas, habits, happy, light, moments, nature, snow, solar, solar lights, sunshine, Technology, weather, widow

so happy to see that all the solar lights came on after a day filled with sunshine…

what a treat…

the funny part is that this one set wasn’t working for the longest time (as in, over Christmas) but started up in the last few weeks…

and is doing a blinking pattern…

it is such fun to see them light up as it gets dark out…

at some point I guess I will need to turn off the trees in the planters, but I am enjoying them too much right now;-)…

doldrums…

06 Tuesday Feb 2024

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big girl pants, blessed, doldrums, flowers, happy, home, moments, purple, tulips, vases, weather, widow

yesterday I picked up tulips when I was at the grocery store… I was very happy about that…

when I got home they went into a single large vase, but this morning I took the time to separate them into four containers…

one is on the stairs to go up to the bedroom…

one has gone onto the kitchen counter…

one is in the bathroom…

and one is next to where I sit to watch TV in the Den…

what a lovely treat… flowers are what help me get through the doldrums of February;-)…

Awakening…

03 Saturday Feb 2024

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Awakening, big girl pants, blessed, book, great read, happy, moments, Nora Roberts, reading, time, widow

I spent a good part of Wednesday and basically all of Thursday reading The Awakening by Nora Roberts…

I literally couldn’t put it down, lol…

it was delightful and I enjoyed every page…

now to get the next book in the trilogy;-)…

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