06 Saturday Mar 2021
Tags
beloved, big girl pants, blessed, figure-eight, goal, home, iPhone, memories, moments, pictures, steps, widow
as I’ve been walking the figure-eight pattern in the living and dining room I’ve been thinking of my beloved…
he walked the same pattern as he recovered from his heart surgery;-)…
this photo (quite a few iPhones ago) is from one of our walks while he was still in hospital after the surgery…
happily, I have met my step goal every day since mid-January;-)… maybe I will up my goal…
06 Saturday Feb 2021
Posted in health, life, moments, Uncategorized, weather
a few days ago I put lotion on my hands because they were dry…
anyone who knows me realizes that this is very odd…
my hands don’t absorb things like lotion, so I never use it… even after putting sunscreen or other cream on my body I have to wash it off my hands…
this time it soaked in…
clearly, the humidity is poor around here…
31 Thursday Dec 2020
Posted in garden, health, life, loss, moments, nature, Photography, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, birds, blessed, camera, daughter, flowers, garden, home, Instagram, joy, memories, moments, morning glories, nature, orchid, photos, plants, pond, purple, remembering, walk, widow
last evening I spent time on Instagram… people tend to put up their nine most liked photos of the year, but I decided to put up my nine favourite ones…
I was thinking they would be flowers, with maybe a bird or piece of chocolate included…
once I finished, there were seven with flowers, one bird and a monarch butterfly…
looking through the pictures reminded me of some wonderful times over this past year…
my orchids, which provide such joy for me all year long…
planting, growing and enjoying morning glories, datura and dahlias…
time spent, with and without cameras, viewing the birds in the garden…
a rose along the sidewalk on one of the walks I took this year, with my daughter in my ear;-)…
the amazing time I spent over the summer with eggs, caterpillars and butterflies… and the day my grandson and I watched the butterflies appear…
time with hearts and flower bouquets…
the water lily flowers that erupted in the pond… had the most blooms ever this summer… and I hope to overwinter them in the aquarium…
lovely reminders of a crazy, but wonderfully special year…
21 Monday Dec 2020
Posted in life, moments, nature, Photography, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
beautiful, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, cold, home, memories, moments, sidewalk, snow, stay, weather, widow
what a beautiful view to wake up to on this first day of winter… everything was covered in a blanket of snow…
even more beautiful considering I don’t need to go out in it and can stay inside;-)…
well, I did shovel the sidewalk…
11 Friday Dec 2020
Posted in food, life, loss, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, company, dishes, fingertips, home, moments, plates, tidy, widow
finally put away some dishes the other day…
I figured I didn’t need thirty plates available at my fingertips for feeding all my company so I moved a number of plates and bowls and added a few Christmas ones where I can reach them;-)…
interesting how long it took me to let go of that stack… also moved some of my favourite dishes off a counter to fit in with the rest..
looking tidier in the kitchen…
15 Saturday Aug 2020
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, caterpillars, garden, grandson, home, moments, monarchs, plants, thirst, water, weather, widow
happy to check out the garden after being gone for a short time… enjoyed walking through and seeing what was about to bloom, what had just about finished and checking for caterpillars… unfortunately I haven’t found any more monarch or swallowtail babies…
I had asked my grandson to come by and water it while I was away and was very happy that he did…
the front flowers were a bit sad, as he hadn’t remembered to water them. but a quick dose of water and they all revived…
the ability of most plants to recover from thirst is quite amazing, lol…
05 Friday Jun 2020
Posted in garden, life, moments, Uncategorized
Tags
barefoot, big girl pants, blessed, feet, garden, home, memories, moments, remembering, slippers, widow
recently social media declared it was barefoot day…
once I heard that, I stepped out of my flip flops and haven’t put anything back on my feet since;-)…
for many years I didn’t wear anything on my feet as often as possible… inside or outside…
and then, even in the house I was wearing slippers… interesting how things change over time…
blessed to be home and have the option…
15 Friday May 2020
Posted in family, life, loss, moments, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, declutter, home, memories, move, neighbours, remembering, sugar cookies, treat, welcome, widow
I’ve spent a good part of the day watching the activity as the new neighbours move into the house next door…
looks like they are a young couple and they have been coming and going since around 7:30 this morning…
last Friday I watched the moving van arrive and take away all the belongings of the couple who had lived there for over 10 years… well he lived there for that time, and recently got married… since then they have come and gone a number of times to do the last bit of clean up and removal… his adult kids had all been by to fetch their bits and pieces and a couple of days ago a truck came and picked up the hot tub…
it made me think of a couple of things…
first was the day we moved into this house… it was in August of 1973… we had purchased the house from an older couple and on the day we were to move in, we arrived at nine in the morning to discover them sitting at their kitchen table having tea… it appears that they had forgotten they had to be out that day… we were freaking out at our end, because we had to be out of the apartment we had been living in by the end of that day… amazingly, their son arrived and they were out of the house by 3 pm…
second is the thought of what my kids will have to do when I leave the house… we have lived here for 47 years so there is a lot of stuff… I keep thinking about how I need to be decluttering more than I have, although right now isn’t really the time to do that, as organizations are not taking donations at this time, lol…
but it does remind me to get onto that project as soon as possible… we won’t even discuss the state of the garage, which has not been dealt with since my beloved’s death over eight years ago…
I baked sugar cookies to deliver next door and share with a few others…
07 Thursday May 2020
Tags
big girl pants, birds, finches, garbage, garden, Google Home, home, moments, nature, remembering, waste, widow, yard waste
today, Google Home reminded me to put out the garbage and recycling… I also remembered that tomorrow will be the first day that yard waste will be collected…
I was very happy about that because there were quite a few bags and a garbage can full of leaves, branches and old plants waiting to be disposed of…
this photo was from last week after Hilda the Gardener was here and it shows all the detritus that was needing a place to go…
this photo is from today after I moved all of the bags out to the lane… some of them were heavy…
amazing how moving a few bags makes the whole area look better…
when I went to take today’s photo I also spotted more finches at the feeder…
good day all around…
29 Saturday Feb 2020
Posted in family, life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized
Tags
big girl pants, blessed, family, happy, home, memories, mentor, moments, practice, purple, water, watercolour, widow
over the last week or so I’ve been collecting things so that I can do some watercolour painting…
yesterday I gathered up all the equipment and sat down to paint…
when I did some of this at Christmas in Ottawa it was more difficult than I’d imagined it would be…
here at home I think it was even more difficult without my daughter’s mentorship, lol…
it was a fun hour, although I need to practice more;-)…
