08 Monday Apr 2019
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
looking forward to gathering with my BS buddies tonight…
apparently the Easter bunny stopped by a bit early as I won’t see them closer to the holiday…
although we will be celebrating Easter, it is snowing like crazy right now…
the ground was clear when I got home from work;-(… all of those gray spots and lines are snowflakes coming down…
19 Tuesday Dec 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
amaryllis, big girl pants, bite, Costco, family, holiday, home, lunch shopping, son-in-law, widow
did a few jobs around the house this morning and then went out for lunch with my son-in-law…
caught him mid-bite… this would make my colleagues laugh as I am always taking pictures of them eating lunch with their mouths open, lol…
we popped into Costco and picked up a few last minute things… always happy to shop there with him because I usually pick up heavy items…
after he left I spent some time admiring the amaryllis… over the last number of weeks I’ve taken quite a few pictures as it has grown…
a nap, and then, I picked my kids up at the base and brought them home;-)…
happy holidays…
04 Friday Aug 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, collections, Corelle, holiday, plates, purple, shopping, treats, widow
being as I’m on holiday, it seemed only fitting that I should get a few treats;-)…
yesterday I picked up this cute case to add to my iPhone case collection… I also got a clear one and will have to choose a few of my pictures to print and put in it…
I’ve been changing up my cases on a regular basis and for the last few weeks was using the one that holds a credit card… works great but will only hold one card and I really need to carry two…
I also picked up some clothes… a warm hoodie, a long sleeve t-shirt and a pair of patterned pants…
my final treat was this morning when I found three cute plates…
I’ve been enjoying eating off different plates for the last while, and have been adding to my collection of fun dinner ware… only need one so it isn’t too expensive to add a few new ones… the two tree ones are Corelle which also means they can go into the dishwasher, and won’t break…
happy holidays… lots of treats;-)…
15 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
author, big girl pants, books, glorious, holiday, Nora Roberts, reading, time, underneath
have six books packed for holiday reading…
two 3-book series from Nora Roberts… she is one of my favourite authors but I haven’t been reading for quite a while…
underneath all those shoes and clothes the books are in the bag…
looking forward to the opportunity to spend time just relaxing and reading…
sounds glorious;-)…
19 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, holiday, internet, kids, lunch, Pokémon, sink, strike plate, tacos, widow
today the kids came for lunch rather than our usual dinner…
early this week my son-in-law came over and fixed the garage door… he had to put on a new strike plate… he had added a bar in the summer when the door latch wasn’t quite catching…
a week or so ago I heard something fall to the ground but I didn’t see what actually fell and then when I arrived home later I realized that the door wouldn’t stay closed… the bar had fallen off… I texted him and he came by that night on his way home from work…
had thought he might wait until it was light out, but he got it fixed no problem, even though it was dark…
today he cleaned the drain in the bathroom sink… appeared it was filled with my daughters’ hair… took quite a while but eventually he got it fixed and all back together…
his final project was to check out the internet and wi-fi… think he might have got that working better too…
we also spent a lot of time playing Pokémon… twice while they were here one of them ran out to catch Pokémon close by, lol…
the little guy seemed to be doing yoga poses at one point…
my daughter and I spent some time looking at the information about the hotel and city we are going to visit next month… should be fun…
everyone enjoyed the meal… we had ground beef and shrimp tacos… very tasty… and we had a fun visit…
now for some tv…
14 Wednesday Dec 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
Tags
. soup, big girl pants, chicken, delicious, famous, holiday, moments, potluck, prepping, spinach dip, widow
just spent a lovely hour prepping for tomorrow’s staff holiday potluck…
cheated a bit and picked up a cooked chicken which I sliced up… put aside the bones for soup which I’ll make tomorrow night…
then I made my famous spinach dip… well maybe only famous in my circles, lol…
doesn’t take too long to make, but it sure is tasty…
finished with getting peapods, celery and carrots ready to go along with the dip and two types of bread…
looking forward to all the other delicious components of the lunch…
22 Thursday Sep 2016
Posted in family, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized
tonight I saw a commercial on tv that had the Willie Nelson song On the Road Again in it… it was about a particular brand of car, although I can’t remember which one…
brought back so many memories… really old ones, lol…
George had made a cassette tape (see how long ago!) that we would put on every time we left on vacation…
the first song was On the Road Again… and when we got into the car and it started playing it was the sign that we were on holidays…
I don’t remember any of the other songs, just that both of us enjoyed them… eventually I think the girls even liked the tape…
keeping me steady as I stepped into Goose Spit…
supporting me, as always, as I rested on the bench…
this is one of my favourite photos… it was at our younger daughter’s wedding and I was recovering after a six week hospital stay and six weeks at home…
I continue on the road, but now it is a solo journey… pretty sure he’s proud of me and my big girl pants…
herbiggirlpants 