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halloweeny…

27 Sunday Oct 2024

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this morning I had some fun bringing out a few decorations for Halloween…

plugged in one of the pumpkins and put a witch’s hat on it…

next I moved the dining room table and set up a second pumpkin after stuffing it with some solar lights…

it also got a witch’s hat… apparently I have a number of them, lol… a friendly witch and her purple pumpkin finished off that area…

one velvety cape went on the dining table and the other spiderweb one went on the living room table, along with a few halloweeny items…

and, finally, I changed the cushions on the couch…

fun 🤩…

hat…

11 Sunday Aug 2024

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I’ve been wearing this Chihuly hat since we visited Atlanta in 2016 and love it…

it has turned that very sad gray/black colour and looks completely worn out…

haven’t been able to figure out how to save it, sigh…

got this new hat a few days ago… it was part of the 2024 Canadian Olympics clothing line and I hope it lasts as long and as well as the Chihuly…

streak…

04 Monday Mar 2024

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Sunday night I really had to talk myself into going out to the hot tub…

it wasn’t cold, but it was snowing, sigh…

I do not like to get my face wet or my glasses covered in snow, so it was a bit of an issue, lol…

instead of taking my towel out with me, I hung it on the inside handle of the patio door so it wouldn’t be covered in snow when I got out of the tub…

made sure to put my peaked hat on over my toque… it had a bit of snow on it when I got back into the house…

on my way upstairs I took a picture of the garden, looks pretty but it was still snowing…

well, I didn’t break my streak… there have only been two days I haven’t been in since January first, both when the temperature felt like -41°C…

average…

01 Wednesday Nov 2023

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yesterday, I set up pumpkins with lights in them, and put a witch’s hat on the larger one…

I filled a bowl with chocolate bars and set it by the door…

we had twenty kids, about average for our neighbourhood… this was a good number considering how cold it was… I was surprised at how quiet they were – many of them just rang the doorbell, lol…

two of them were from Sturgeon Heights collecting non-perishable items for Christmas hampers… last week there was a flyer in the mailbox advising they would be coming so I had gathered a few items to donate… made sure they got candy too;-)…

the house looked good with the ghost on the steps and pumpkins in the window;-)…

tubing…

05 Tuesday Apr 2022

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recently my grandson and I had a conversation about some fun times… two of the things he remembered are below…

one was a tubing trip down the river in Courtenay, BC, where I was knocked off the tube by a tree branch and lost my new hat… everyone but me was quite happy as they hadn’t liked it, lol… he was around seven at the time… I ended up with a bruised leg and a gash on my head… it certainly was something I won’t forget, and apparently neither will he…

the other memory was around a beta fish in a vase that I kept on my desk at one of my workplaces… he has always been interested in fish and is a great collaborator with the goldfish…

so interesting to hear the things he remembers;-)…

bin…

15 Monday Nov 2021

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the garden looked so beautiful after the snow on Friday…

of course it always looks beautiful as long as you don’t have to go out into it, lol…

I had taken out the garbage bin on Thursday, even though the pickup day had moved because of Remembrance Day… I didn’t want to struggle with the snow that was coming…

good thing I did that… a lot of snow came down… the pickup ended up being on Saturday, but I didn’t have my grandson bring it in while he was here shovelling…

this morning I went out and shovelled my way to the back gate so I could bring the bin back in…

shovelling was easier and I left the garbage bin just under the cedars so it won’t get too much snow on it… I followed the path that the bunnies had made so that there should be less drifting… except I ended up with my head in the branches…

had a snow hat for a few minutes…

hat…

23 Monday Oct 2017

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worked the late shift today so first thing this morning I ran around and did a few errands…

Thursday is my soup day so I went to the grocery store to get the ingredients to make zucchini basil chicken soup…

then it was over to the dollar store to look for little gloves… didn’t have what I wanted but I did find a few goodies for Halloween;-)…

a new witches hat… I have a few but this one was cute… and a spiderweb-y cape to go with it…

memories…

03 Sunday Jul 2016

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this morning I was thinking about our time in Atlanta just a few weeks ago…

very happy while I was there to pick up a 2017 calendar… also picked up some beautiful notecards and a Chihuly hat…

just a few days ago I turned over my 2016 calendar to this picture…


another beauty… makes checking the date a very pleasant experience… and a reminder of those wonderful visits to the Atlanta Botanical Garden and our amazing visit to Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle…

I had picked up a couple of novels before heading to Atlanta and started reading this one…


was blown away by her reference to Chihuly as I read on the flight to Ottawa on the way to Atlanta…

synchronicity…

memories…