22 Tuesday Jan 2019
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big girl pants, Christmas, flowers, hot chocolate, hyacinth, long, long day, odd, treat, widow
my hyacinth is growing, but it sure looks odd… last night we had quite the conversation about it, lol…
had some hot chocolate and a tiny slice of the last bit of my Christmas treats…
nice end to a long day…
10 Thursday Jan 2019
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been enjoying some beautiful flowers lately…
the cutest little orchid…
and I’ve been watching and waiting for my amaryllis to grow and bloom… I bought two at the same time and the one my daughter had bloomed beautifully at Christmas time…
mine did nothing for over a month… now it has started to grow in a manner that looks more like a hyacinth… will be interesting to see what happens…
a rose from the beginning of the week…
17 Saturday Mar 2018
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beloved, big girl pants, flowers, fried egg, hyacinth, memories, pink, purple, replicate, sandwich, scent, widow
thinking of my beloved a lot recently… for the past few days I’ve been thinking of his fried egg sandwiches…
this morning I made an open-faced version using some of the French bread from La Belle Baguette that I picked up yesterday…
I can’t replicate what he did… they were always especially yummy… although that might have to do with how much butter he would add to the bread, lol… and the eggs were always perfectly cooked with soft yolks…
I picked up a few hyacinths the other day… left one at work and brought one home for the bedroom… just love the scent as they open… as it bloomed, discovered that it was pink… I usually get the purple ones…
made me realize how much pink there is currently in the bedroom… I held the hyacinth up to the new curtains which have purples and pinks in them… then realized that my afghan has pink in it as well… and when I put away some laundry in the closet – which I recently hung by colour – I spotted some pink as well…
very interesting as pink has never really been one of my colours…
14 Wednesday Mar 2018
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artistic, big girl pants, cream, flowers, fragrance, hyacinth, moments, opportunity, Spring, text, widow
I’ve been wanting to get some flowers for the office recently, but haven’t had an opportunity to pick any up…
as I was heading to work this morning I got a text from a colleague asking me to pick up cream for the office on my way in…
so it just felt like a sign that I now had the chance to get the flowers;-)…
and so I did…
another colleague has an amazing artistic talent and she took the flowers and made them picture worthy…
I also picked up two small hyacinth plants… left one at the office and brought the other one home…
just love the fragrance when they are blooming… Spring is in the air…
11 Thursday Jan 2018
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big girl pants, flowers, hyacinth, moments, scent, smell, snowflakes, stop, widow
this morning on my way to work I had to stop and take a photo of the snowflake wreath hanging on the back door…
trying hard to remember to stop for the moments…
also spent some time smelling my hyacinth tonight… such a beautiful scent…
01 Saturday Apr 2017
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. soup, beloved, big girl pants, ChefsPlate, chocolate, cold, eat, hyacinth, jammies, meals, meatballs, missing, omelette, recover, sick, smell, widow
have really taken the day to rest and recover from the cold I’ve been struggling with all week…
these are some of the times when I most miss my beloved… he always did a great job of looking after me…
jammies on all day and the only thing I did was prepare meals…
for breakfast I really wanted to order something, but dragged myself down to the kitchen and took inspiration from the cute woman at the resort who made all the egg dishes… cooked up mushrooms, green onion and spinach and made an omelette with a little cheese in it as well… came out very nicely…
for lunch I chose the last bit of my zucchini basil chicken soup with chips and some Mexican chocolate… seemed like just the right combination, lol…
for supper made one of the ChefsPlate meals… still enjoying the process of preparing the meal… and it tasted great…
turkey and spinach meatballs…
as I was sitting in the living room waiting for the meatballs to finish cooking I could actually smell the hyacinth…
hurray, the cold is starting to let up…
30 Thursday Mar 2017
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on my way home tonight stopped by the creek to get a shot of the high water/ice…
noticing more and more each day how quickly the snow is melting away… makes me happy…
before too long I’ll be sitting on the back deck by the pond…
enjoying the hyacinth which is blooming so nicely…
sadly I can barely smell it’s beautiful perfume… my cold is giving me a run for my money, lol…
and I was very pleased to discover the purple Superstore boxes that my kids dropped off today… I traded some green ones…
little things continue to make me happy…
28 Tuesday Mar 2017
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been thinking recently about exercise…
today an article came up in my email about walking… was fun to take… got 10 out of 13 correct…
nearly finished our 30 day challenge at the office and I have done my exercises every day… will be taking a break when we are finished… I’ve pulled something in my right side and I think it needs a rest so it can recover…
really looking forward to getting over to the Park and wandering through the English and Leo Mol Gardens… should be soon…
purple hyacinth blooming…
26 Sunday Mar 2017
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big girl pants, boost, charge, cleaning, family, flowers, frustration, fun, geese, hyacinth, widow
fun and frustration today…
spent some time cleaning off the deck and then sitting out reading and listening to music… warm enough to just have on a long shirt and culotte jeans…
heard and spotted geese flying overhead and managed to catch them on my phone…
my daughter was working but all the boys came over and we headed out to do some shopping… except that my car wouldn’t start… the boys pushed it out of the garage and into the street where my son-in-law boosted it…
we went to the first grocery store and when we came out the car wouldn’t start again… found a fellow leaving his car and got a boost… went to two more stores and we ran in and left my son-in-law in the car to drive around while we shopped… by the third store we all went in and rushed through to be sure the car would work…
on our way home we went to Canadian Tire and picked up a battery charger…
while supper was cooking, we charged the battery so it should be fine tomorrow…
when we were out I picked up a purple hyacinth and some purple flowers…
the funny thing was that when we arrived home from our vacation the kids’ vehicle wouldn’t start… then, this morning my son-in-law’s car wouldn’t start;-(… but this was the third, so we should be good, lol…
21 Monday Mar 2016
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beauty, big girl pants, bookends, bunny, Hershey kiss, hyacinth, Manitoba Orchid Society, nature, orchid, perfume, purple, widow
didn’t have to be at work until eleven so I relaxed with a cup of tea in the living room while enjoying the perfume from the blooming hyacinth…
such a delicious smell… and I was so pleased that it turned out to be purple, lol…
also saw a bunny hop across the street while I was soaking up the quiet…
this afternoon I received this in my email…
a Hershey’s kiss in a purple wrapper from my kids who are visiting Las Vegas… makes me giggle because Hershey chocolate tastes like soap to me… but I love kisses…
to bookend the great start to the day, tonight a dear friend came over with her freshly made hot cross buns… they are soooo delicious…
we had a lovely visit and both enjoyed the new orchid which I picked up at the Manitoba Orchid Society’s show and sale yesterday afternoon at the Assiniboine Park Conservatory…
the beauty that surrounds us is most amazing…
