21 Wednesday Oct 2015
Posted in health, life, nature, technology
the sky was lovely yesterday morning…
luckily I was able to take a few pictures as I was the passenger in the car… the colours were very pretty…
a beautiful sky makes me very happy…
when I got home I slept for an hour while my supper was cooking… then, after I ate, I slept through a number of shows and woke up in time to go to bed… and I slept all night… apparently I was really tired…
this orchid is so gorgeous… makes me smile every time I look at it…
03 Thursday Sep 2015
Posted in health, life, technology
been getting a few more followers lately…
each one makes me so happy… still haven’t figured out how to thank people for following me… need to study up a bit to see how to use some of the widgets available I think…
have over 230 followers as some follow by email…
always fun to check the stats… for a while I couldn’t see them on my phone, but eventually I figured it out…
these days I rarely use the computer to check and write my posts…
was just talking with someone who also mentioned that they do everything on their phone… nothing on their laptop or computer…
I still use the computer for a few things, particularly if I have pictures on my camera that are going to be part of my post…
was speaking with someone recently and we talked about what makes one post receive more likes than another… we didn’t come to any conclusion… seems like something that I don’t imagine as that interesting gets a lot of attention and something else that I think will get lots of attention, gets very little…
thank you for liking and/or following me… I appreciate it:-)…
01 Tuesday Sep 2015
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big girl pants, blessed, blossoms, canna, garden, gift, happy, pond, precious, simple, water lily
a gorgeous evening…
the temperature right now is 27 degrees and I am sitting on the back deck by the pond enjoying the sounds…
well not really… as I write this an ambulance is going by and the neighbour is running his shopvac, lol… up until that point I was listening to the waterfall and chickadees flitting about the garden and watching a little red squirrel dash across the main deck…
the canna is blooming again… bright and beautiful, it was the first thing I saw when I looked out the window this morning…
I am continually surprised by how much happiness a blossom or two can give me…
on a recent walk through the English Garden at the Park I got a lovely shot of some Lisianthus…
next year I am going to grow some, although I’m not sure where I will find plants…
there were very few water lilies open but this one caught my eye…
some of them have the most interestingly patterned leaves while others are simply green…
simple things really do make me happy…
once again, as I spend these precious minutes steeped in the beauty of a late summer evening, watching the fish swim around the pond as the light fades, I realize what a gift my life is and how blessed I am…
15 Thursday Jan 2015
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the days have been getting just a little bit longer…
tonight I took this picture at 5:08… the sky is still light…
this is very exciting…
I was also happy to see the lights shining through the snow… they are solar so the sun must be getting stronger…
a few days ago the lights were still shining in the morning…
just thinking about it makes me happy…
saw the bunny running in the front street this morning… so cute… I do love seeing them…
been using my SAD light in the mornings on weekdays… think it has made a difference, but really, there is nothing like daylight and sunshine…
07 Sunday Jul 2013
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able to work in the garden, affairs in order, beloved, big girl pants, cancer of the uterus, enjoying life, expecting to die on the table, happy, healthy, hernia surgery, hysterectomy, journey, money easily accessible, what a year
this morning I continued working a bit in the side garden… slowly but surely I am getting it tidied up…last year at this time I wasn’t able to do much of anything due to my health… I was lucky to find a wonderful woman who came and tidied up the garden for me…
side garden after more weeding… 3/4 done…
about this time last year I was getting my personal affairs in order, because I was expecting to die on the operating table when I had surgery in mid July…
was told on May 22nd, over the phone, that I had cancer of the uterus… I had been waiting for hernia surgery for some time and, after this diagnosis, worked with my doctors to ensure that the hernia surgery I needed would take place at the same time as the hysterectomy…
in my mind I was sure that I was going to die, and so I went about organizing all of my affairs… had a new will written, as well as power of attorney and a health directive… made sure that the money from George’s insurance policies was easily accessible… I wanted to be sure that the girls would have a simpler time with my estate because I didn’t want them to go through all the struggles I had with George’s…
it wasn’t until just the week before my surgery that I began to think I might live through it…
and here it is, nearly a year later… I am healthy, happy and enjoying life… putting on those big girl pants is not nearly as difficult as it was…
missing my beloved every day but moving forward on this journey…
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