07 Friday Apr 2023
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while going through stuff in the computer room, I came across a few items from my work life…
was so excited to find two Pentel RSVP pens… it wasn’t till I tested to see if the ink still flowed that I remembered how much I loved them… I made it a habit to be sure there were a couple of the purple/violet ones in my desk at all times, lol…
now I have one in the computer room and one in the kitchen, so I can access them at any time…
simple things can make me so happy…
03 Monday Apr 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, bonus, chairs, deck, delivery, garden, happy, moments, pallet, planter, widow
was making my morning tea the other day, when I looked outside and noticed a delivery truck slowing down and stopping in front of the neighbours’ house…
kept watching, to see what they were getting, lol… then he pulled out a pallet with four chairs on it…
they were for me, but there were vehicles in front of the house so they had to park that little bit further…
the driver got them down and brought them up the driveway, but felt he couldn’t carry them along the path between the driveway and house because it wasn’t shovelled to the ground… so he left them there…
I put my coat on, went out, cut away the plastic holding them to the pallet, and carried them in, two at a time… then I brought in the pallet… at which point my grandson came up the basement stairs to see what was going on, lol…
I am very happy to get them because I’ve been looking for replacements since the fall for the 13 year old ones on the deck which have given up the ghost… all the ones I had seen couldn’t be delivered so I was very happy when I found these on sale the other day… and there was no delivery fee;-)…
I think I will make a planter with the pallet… bonus…
01 Saturday Apr 2023
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beige, big girl pants, blessed, cooking, dinner, family, food, grandsons, happy, home, home cooked, moments, widow
had a delightful day yesterday… got to cook for my grandsons…
made stuffing (one of their absolute favourites), prepped mashed potatoes, boiled a turnip (to use the water in the gravy), cut up cucumbers, cooked mushrooms, and opened a can of cranberry jelly…
such a treat to have them for a home-cooked meal, lol… and fun to make dinner for more than one or two people…
put the chicken into the oven and the final piece was to make the gravy and pull out the cranberry jelly (only two of us like that)…
as always, while I work away making the pieces of the meal, I am thinking about the people who will be eating the meal with me…
dinner turned out delicious, although it was a bit on the beige side, lol… sadly, only one of them was able to come as the other was home sick with a stomach bug;-(… I did send home a goodie bag for when he feels better…
30 Thursday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, Canadian Tire, food, friend, fun, happy, moments, Paderno, pampushki, saucepan, shopping, The Butter Tart Lady, time, treat, widow
started Thursday morning with a stop at The Butter Tart Lady where we picked up some delicious items… pampushki and sausage rolls…
later we had a lovely wander through Canadian Tire as we had no time constraints… found the cutest hockey tape in rainbow and purple;-)… picked some scrubbies up and then found a new Paderno saucepan to replace one which had started to lose its non-stick coating, and was on sale…
no idea what I will do with the hockey tape, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something, lol…
and the lid from the old saucepan fits on the new pan so will continue to hang on the wall with the pots…. yay…
27 Monday Mar 2023
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AirPods, bicker, big girl pants, blessed, Chinese food, driveway, family, food, grandsons, happy, lost, moments, shovelled, snow, supper, time, treat, visit, weather, widow
got to have my grandsons over for dinner…
haven’t seen them for ages, so it was a wonderful treat;-)…
we caught up and they shovelled part of the driveway for me…
the shovelling was a big job as the driveway hasn’t been cleared for months, but it was a beautiful day… and, in the process, the youngest lost his AirPods… in a white container;-(… we spent quite some time digging through all the snow they had moved but did not find them…
we had Chinese food for supper…I’ve been craving it for a while so that made it especially good…
after supper I dug out a set of earbuds from my collection of ones that don’t fit my ears and gave him those… everyone played on their phones for a while as we chatted before they headed home;-)…
they have become lovely young men, although they still bicker like brothers, lol…
26 Sunday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, friends, happy, moments, PTE, set, Space Girl, Technology, unique, widow
went to PTE with my theatre buddy and another friend to see Space Girl…
the show was terrific and the set was quite unique… there was a great deal of technology used, which made it even more fun…
ordered a water and paid using technology for the payment system as well…
amazing how this type of technology has improved over the last few years… seems like it is everywhere now;-)…
19 Sunday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, Blue Morpho, butterflies, elusive, garden, happy, moments, nature, orange, photos, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, sun, The Leaf, treat, walk, widow
had a fun time in the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden at The Leaf on Thursday… it wasn’t too cold outside and bright so there was lots of activity…
a fair number of people were in the space and there were many butterflies…
apparently I was enamoured with the orange ones, lol…
this little one sat and offered different poses;-)…
and, of course, I tried to catch the elusive Blue Morpho… there were quite a few of them, but what makes it elusive is that you need to catch it in flight to capture the blue colour, lol… but I did get a partial shot;-)…
at least you can see some of the blue…
spending time in this space sure does make me happy;-)…
18 Saturday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, biome, blessed, flowers, garden, growth, happy, humidity, moments, nature, plants, The Leaf, trees, walk, wall, waterfall, weather, widow
had another great visit to The Leaf on Thursday…
we arrived about 10:45 am and it felt like we walked into a wall of moisture… clearly the humidity level has gone up considerably since we were last here…
there were a good number of people in the space, but it didn’t feel crowded…
the waterfall is still spilling into the walkways, but it seemed at a lesser degree…
the plants are visibly growing and are lush and bright, even on a partially overcast day…
they seemed so much happier than on my last visit, when many of them looked like they might not survive…
lots of different flowers blooming throughout both the tropical and Mediterranean biomes…
every walk through the biomes brings something different and interesting… can’t wait to see what future visits will produce…
17 Friday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, colour, fish, green, happy, memories, moments, Patrick’s Day, rash guard, shirt, St., widow
I have always dressed for special days, such as red on Valentine’s Day, green on St. Patrick’s Day, etc…
today, I spent a number of minutes looking through the closet in search of something green… this is rather funny considering I am home alone all day, lol…
what I found was the blue and green rash guard shirt that I got in Hawaii… so that’s what I put on… this shirt doesn’t get much wear…
certainly not a bright green, but still green… and I’m sure the fish are pleased with my choice;-)…
16 Thursday Mar 2023
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arrangements, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, designing, flowers, foam, happy, moments, nature, purple, vase, widow
Wednesday was the day… I took the bouquet that came twelve days ago and separated it into three different arrangements…
the roses have been gone for quite a while but the remainder were doing quite well…
the biggest problem had been getting the water into it as the foam really filled up the top so there wasn’t room to easily add water…
started with designing this first arrangement in an oval shaped vase… it came out nicely I think… it is going upstairs into the bedroom…
there were so many greens that I filled another small container with them and added two of the carnations… this one has gone into the bathroom…
finally, the mums and a couple of daisies went into a very small bottle and were put in the den…
so that meant that the orchid collection has returned to the living room table…
flowers everywhere;-)…
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