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garden…

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, bird feeder, garden, hot tub, snow, sun

beautiful day… up fairly early and spent some time going through a closet and deciding what to keep and what could go… have already started another pass me over box… finding I have much more energy… not sure if that is the sunshine or my body recovering from the sugar overload it was dealing with…

warm enough to be able to use the outside tap to top up the hot tub… 

overcast for most of the day, but late this afternoon the sun came out and melted more snow…



this is the last little bit left in the front yard… hoping that next weekend we can do some raking…



chair is on the deck and there is no snow left on it… wasn’t warm enough to sit out but maybe one night this week after work it will be:-)… the ice is gone from the pond and there are only a few places where there is still snow…

while I was filling the hot tub I also filled up one of the bird feeders… the squirrel had gotten into the  bag of sunflowers and eaten quite a bit… lots of shells…

starting to think about the work needed to clean up the garden and where I am going to find some gardening help this year… I would really like to hire someone to help me so that it looks good all season long…

yay Spring… 

melting…

09 Monday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, hot tub, melting, snow, Spring

yesterday morning I took this picture of the deck by the hot tub…



there was snow covering everything…

when I got home today I took this picture…





it appears to be melting out there… 

maybe, just maybe, Spring is coming…



full…

07 Saturday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, closet, errands, full, hot tub, melting

very full day…

started this morning when I went through the closet and colour-blocked the clothes… in the process filled another pass-me-over box…

lots of purple, lol…

also made another arrangement of flowers… decided I want some in every room…

ordered lunch from my favourite dimsum restaurant before heading out to do errands… I love shrimp dumplings and stuffed eggplant and it was delicious and filled me up…

beautiful temperature out and on my way home took this picture of the water at the end of the street…

picked up a cute wine rack… now have to fill it… put everything away, had a nap and watched some tv…

have added some chemicals to the hot tub, but had to stop when the snow started coming down like crazy…

great supper of leftovers… now to decide whether to go out for a hot tub in all that fresh snow, or not, lol…

achy…

15 Sunday Feb 2015

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not feeling well today… every part of my body is aching… yesterday my neck and shoulders were sore, but today everything hurts…

went out and got groceries and had a nap after everything was put away… didn’t help…

know I’m sick because I had to tidy up the bedroom before climbing into bed… when I feel miserable I always want the bedroom to be organized… luckily it only took a few minutes…

picked up daffodils while I was out and have some of them in the bedroom to help perk up the space…

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the sun was shining on them for a portion of the afternoon…

thinking I will go straight to bed after supper and maybe get up around ten or eleven and go out for a hot tub… then back to bed…

this is how the hot tub looked yesterday when I was adding chemicals… it has been very cold but was lovely when I went out last night…

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depths…

09 Monday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, depths, energizing, hot tub, ReImagining, winter

what a wonderful re-energizing evening with my ReImagining friends…

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had chicken pot pie from Costco and it was delicious… with broccoli salad and Greek salad… topped it off with a small piece of lovely light cheesecake for dessert…

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then a great conversation about the goodness in the depths of the darkness of winter…

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exhausted when I got there, but filled with peace and contentment when I left…

once home had a lovely hot tub to top off the evening…

fabulous way to start the week…

sunshine…

01 Sunday Feb 2015

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hot tub, lunar halo, streaming, sunshine

this morning the sunlight was streaming through the window onto the new pictures on the wall…

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later in the day I basked in the sunshine in the living room…

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the moon will be full tomorrow and tonight when I was in the hot tub, I noticed a circle around it… not sure I’ve seen this before…

did a little research and discovered it is a lunar halo and isn’t that uncommon…

it can be a harbinger of bad weather…

glad I got to enjoy the wonderful sunshine, lol…

goodies…

30 Friday Jan 2015

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goodies, hot tub, morning glories, purple, traffic

had to take the car to work today so after I got off I decided to stop at the credit union to deposit a cheque and get some cash… traffic along Portage was brutal and I was worried I wasn’t going to make it before they closed at five, but I just snuck in under the wire…

next, went to Home Outfitters where I had a gift card from over a year ago… just found it last month… thought I would check out what type of goodies they had that I might need…

had a lovely wander around and chose a few fun things…

got a silicone oven mitt on sale, a new cookie sheet to replace one of the very stained and bent ones in the cupboard, a cute scarf hanger which might hold the scarves that are currently on three different hangers… and finally a purple mini food processor (on sale too)…

it was great fun…

had shrimp for dinner, went out for a hot tub and watched a bit of TV…

really needed to add some colour to my day so found this shot from the summer… I do love my morning glories…

morning glories...

morning glories…

faces…

28 Wednesday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, blessed, faces, hot tub, missing George, orchid

I have a similar picture to this on my computer sign in screen at work…

orchid... do you see a face...

orchid… do you see a face…

recently a colleague had been at my desk and took a few moments to admire the picture and advised me that she felt it looked just like a face…

made me think of George, who was always bringing me orchids… for home and the office…

I was missing him tonight as I was sitting in the hot tub… not feeling that great and remembering how well he took care of me when I was sick…

I always felt I was a much better patient than he was, lol…

he nearly always knew what I would like to eat and would organize it… often fried egg sandwiches would be on the menu… he really made the very best ones…

this picture is from 2011… around this time that year a couple of us took a photography class… we had such fun… it is great to go back and remember some of the great things we have done…

snow on the deck in January 2011...

snow on the deck in January 2011…

a reminder of how blessed I am and have been…

presents…

22 Thursday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, blessed, dragonflies, hot tub, presents, scarf, supper

I love presents… I’ve always loved them which anyone who knows me knows, lol… George would always be bringing them home…

yesterday I received the beautiful bouquet of white hydrangeas and purple mums…

today I got two presents…

a friend gave me a gorgeous scarf…

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it was from she and her sister to thank me for something I had given them, which they are both enjoying…

the second was supper from my swimming buddy…

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not sure what the official name was but it was a stew of chicken with chickpeas and potatoes and it was delicious…

it was perfect as I had struggled with a sad tummy all day and was wondering what I might make for dinner…

should have gone to Aquasize but just wasn’t up to it…

went out for a hot tub… it is plus 3 right now… bizarre for the third week in January… but lovely…

the final treat was to discover my solar dragonflies were lit for a few hours… they haven’t been on for a couple of months and I was thinking maybe they were broken…

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this is a sure sign that the sun is shining longer and stronger every day and that it shone today… we have really been suffering from lack of sun this winter…

I really am blessed…

warm…

17 Saturday Jan 2015

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hot tub, Turkish towels, warm

a nice warm day today…

before it was even light, I went out for a hot tub… lovely and quiet, although I had to wear a toque and a baseball cap because snow was coming down… didn’t see or hear one bird the whole time I was out…

loving my new Turkish towels…

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warm and light and very absorbent…

when I went out to put the chemicals in the hot tub, I didn’t need so much as a sweater and listened to the dripping as the ice was melting… hopefully everything doesn’t ice over…

did a few chores around the house and forced myself to walk on the treadmill as I spent a good part of the day struggling with a stomach ache… it is finally gone…

and I walked for 35 minutes, yay…

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