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Live…

20 Saturday Feb 2021

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chocolate bar wrappers, fun, her big girl pants, Instagram, Instagram Live, keep learning, laptop, live, Soma Chocolatemaker, widow

this morning I learned something new… well, a few things, lol… I wanted to watch my daughter in a Live on Instagram, and thought I would watch it on my laptop…

searched the internet and discovered I could download an app from the Microsoft Store so that I would be able to…

downloaded it, but of course there were no Lives happening in my feed and the time to watch was getting closer… by then I had both my phone and the app open, to be sure I wouldn’t miss it… just before she was to come on, someone else started a Live and I could see it on the computer screen… yay…

happily watched the presentation and then decided that I would follow the directions to make a pocket for the back of my Chocolate Notebook…

went to my chocolate bar box and looked for a wrapper to use… I don’t have many bars just now and no empty wrappers because I send them to my daughter who uses them for a number of things…

I found a Soma Twinkle Bar that I love and decided to use the back of the wrapper… it has the saying “travelling without moving” which seemed perfect, especially these days… I enjoy everything from Soma and not long ago put in an order with a friend to help with the shipping costs…

I put the washi tape into a regular scotchtape dispenser and it worked perfectly…

used mountain scape washi tape to go around the wrapper on the three sides, following the directions provided by Genevieve and then I added tape across the top, on the wrapper only, so that it looked framed!

it was fun to find a new way to see Instagram, although a bit stressful with the timing… and fun to make something…

bouquet…

23 Wednesday Dec 2020

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bouquet, Christmas treat, flowers, friendship, gift, her big girl pants, photographs, special people, treat, widow

today I got a lovely surprise when the doorbell rang and a bouquet of flowers was delivered…

I have been missing fresh flowers and they were even on my christmas list…

they were from a dear friend, and I have spent a good portion of the day taking photographs of them…

I have moved them from area to area as the day has gone on…

often I look up words to see if I have already used them for a post title, and today I found this post… it was for an event that this friend and I were both working on, lol…

what a delightful treat…

pose…

19 Saturday Dec 2020

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birds, feeders, her big girl pants, nature, pose, sky, squirrels, widow

had some fun watching the visitors to the feeders today…

saw chickadees, nuthatches and woodpeckers at the front feeders… at one point all three were there, although only the woodpecker decided to pose, lol…

lots of sparrows as well as this guy on the deck…

at the end of the day, the sky was stunning…

nature was everywhere;-)…

ribbons…

15 Tuesday Dec 2020

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chocolate, Christmas, fridge, gifts, her big girl pants, mail, memories, parcel, permission, presents, purple, ribbons, widow, wrap

a parcel arrived from the kids in Ottawa… once I received text permission to open it, I discovered 3 boxes, a package that said it needed to go into the fridge, and a small chocolate bar, lol…

I had fun wrapping them and put purple ribbons on them before adding them to the growing pile under the tree… they are the first gifts for me…

it was funny to wrap my own parcels, but was a reminder of the few times I might have purchased my own gift, wrapped and put it under the tree… although usually those items would go to my beloved and he would wrap them up, lol…

fun memories… nice that now I can mostly look back on them without tears…

zebra…

10 Monday Aug 2020

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beach time, dangerous, feet, floating, friends, fun, great conversations, her big girl pants, mussels, sharp, vacation, water, widow, zebra, zebra mussels

we had wonderful times at the beach and in the water… the area is quiet so that means the beach is too the majority of the time…

I did watch kids from a few cottages over as they kneeboarded and that was fun…

we went in the water often and it was refreshing… we floated on pool noodles and had deep conversations and lots of laughter…

we also found tons of zebra mussels… only a couple the first few days, but after a really windy evening that blew into shore there were many clusters under our feet… one day we spent at least an hour or so feeling them with our toes and then having someone lift them up with their feet so we could collect them and bring them to shore to be disposed of… it was great exercise…

they are very sharp and all three of my companions ended up with cuts on their feet that had to be taken care of to be sure that no infections occurred… I nearly always wore my water shoes so happily was able to feel the clumps or sticks or rocks with them on and not get injured…

it was rather concerning to see so many…

toy…

03 Friday Jan 2020

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blessed, blogging, changes, computer, her big girl pants, learning, moments, retirement, Technology, widow

well, I haven’t written a blog at the computer for absolutely ages… usually I write them using my phone…

but, yesterday, I got a new toy:-)… an Acer Aspire 5… it is a beauty… still haven’t connected a mouse to it but that will happen when I get home as I have a number there, lol…

I’ve been thinking about acquiring a new laptop for quite a while and finally made the decision yesterday while I had my son-in-law available to help me choose just the right one…

I had anticipated that it would be much more costly, but there were still sales on and we settled on this type… we had to go to two different locations before we found a store that actually had any as they’ve been selling like hotcakes apparently…

then we spent a good part of the evening getting it set up… the important things, like background and lockscreen, lol… also got my website and instagram connected… going to do as much setting up here as possible, while I have my geeky son-in-law to help…

this is only the second laptop I’ve owned… the first one was hacked many years ago and my nephew took it away to be fixed and never brought it back… it was also an Acer… he loaned me a different machine, but the screen started to go so it wasn’t very useful and I’ve only used it for a few particular jobs since then…

one of my retirement goals is to get caught up on technology as I have been too busy to fit time in to check out what’s new and improved out there… I think this is going to be a great asset in that process…

such fun:-)…

fluid…

31 Wednesday Aug 2016

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begonia, fluid, garden, her big girl pants, pond, rain, water, widow

yesterday I took a few photos before I turned off the pump in the pond…

the waterfall is not flowing very well and I am going to be away for a few days, so I turned it off… I don’t want the pump to burn out if too much fluid evaporates…


this begonia has just been growing like crazy… apparently it has enjoyed the rain and heat…

first thing tomorrow I will water everything before I leave…

wonder how the garden will look when I get home…

nearly…

03 Friday Oct 2014

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her big girl pants, hot tub, nearly, rustling, trees

great time in the hot tub tonight…

it is a bit chilly and feels wonderful when your head is cool and your body warm…

could hear the leaves rustling in the neighbour’s tree as the wind blew gently and admired their lovely yellow colour as they were backlit by the streetlight…

the Virginia creeper leaves along the garage and pergola are nearly gone… interesting to see the shape of the vines now, quite different from just a few weeks ago…

IMG_8571.JPGthe jets didn’t come on the entire time I was out so I could hear the sounds of the evening…

as well as the rustling leaves I heard the planes landing and a neighbour’s dog barking… and the quiet…

a few raindrops landed in the water but not on my head because I put a hat on when I went out… I don’t like water on my head and thought that it might rain as I was heading out, so I grabbed it… fun to watch those drops as they landed in the water…

wonderful end to a Friday…

IMG_8362.JPGthere are no leaves left on this tree today…

Ottawa Day 5…

29 Friday Aug 2014

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Cacao 70, chocolate, her big girl pants, hot air balloons, Ottawa Day 5

spent an hour first thing watching about 24 hot air balloons fly over the city… what a treat… took some pictures but they weren’t good…

we went out for a late lunch to Cacao 70… it is a chocolate restaurant…

IMG_7659.JPGit was delicious…

took a walk over the bridge to see water lilies and arrowheads… another beautiful day…

IMG_7661.JPGwater was calm as this paddler went by…

IMG_7660.JPGwhile we were deciding on our supper more balloons floated over… this picture is taken with Cyndi’s camera…

IMG_7662.JPGlooking forward to spending the whole day with the kids tomorrow…

running…

08 Thursday May 2014

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her big girl pants, hot tub, running

the pump is in and the water is running over the stone…

20140508-203539.jpglooking forward to my hot tub tonight and listening to the wonderful sound of the running water…

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