06 Friday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, bleeding hearts, blessed, blooming, flowers, iris, moments, nature, Technology, walk, weather, widow, wild rose, yesterday
saw some lovely flowers on my walk yesterday…
such a treat to see so many;-)…
and when I arrived home, the wild rose was blooming…
11 Friday Jun 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, dahlia, flowers, garden, iris, memories, moments, nature, photos, plants, purple, widow
last year I almost missed this little iris… so I was watching for it this year…
it sits right up next to a flower pot which I hope is going to have a dahlia growing in it…although currently there is no sign of said dahlia;-(…
but the iris is beautiful…
08 Wednesday Jun 2016
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big girl pants, discovery, dragonfly, eggplant, garden, iris, purple, rain water, widow
early this morning I discovered a dragonfly in the kitchen… found a container, slid it in and popped it outside… kind of fun to find it and be able to deal with it…
took a walk around the garden and found a few lovely things…
purple flowers on the eggplant… looking forward to some fruit… also love the cute pansies in the background…
and I spotted some blooms on the little iris…
they are likely going to be purple too, lol…
watered all the pots and planters with rain water which also helped with my step count…
sure do appreciate having a few minutes to enjoy the garden first thing in the day…
had a bit of a giggle as I drove through pouring rain on my way home… guess I didn’t need to do that early morning watering…
11 Thursday Jun 2015
on our way home from work last night we stopped at Safeway and picked up the ingredients for Souper Thursday… my turn… found the recipe on Pinterest and made it without time to test…
interesting experience today as I brought the ingredients to the office, put them into the crockpot, and let it do its thing… usually I spend the evening preparing the parts and often getting the soup ready for the next day and then reheat it at the office…
I doubled the recipe and in the process may have put in an excessive amount of tortellini… so we ended up with stoup… a cross between soup and stew… it was good… and easy… certainly the simplest soup I’ve made…
been very happy with the irises I took into the office on Monday… last couple of blooms opened up this morning…
all in all a good day…
08 Monday Jun 2015
this morning the sun looked very strange in the sky…
it was orange with a halo around it…
most of the poppies were blooming… all at the same time… think there might be one left…
made sure to get some photos because they often barely last a day…
leaving the driveway I got a picture of the front flower bed… looks nice after all my work on Saturday…
I picked two beautiful purple irises to take to the office…
they are beautiful and brighten up my space…
as the day went on the light outside changed and it looked as though the sun was covered by fog, which turned out to be smoke…
rather odd…
11 Wednesday Jun 2014
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last night I went outside to sit and watch the stars and enjoy my new mobile…
the kids had given me a couple of them a few years ago, but they did not handle the winter weather so I ordered more and they just arrived… didn’t stay out very long because the mosquitos were out in full force…
when I got home today I noticed that the purple iris in the back of the garden had opened, so I took a picture…
earlier today my camera advised that it had run out of memory… a bit like me today… then I had to delete pictures so I could finish taking the ones I was working on…
only got a couple of jobs done to prepare for the kids’ arrival tomorrow night, but that was all I could manage… still feeling rather tired these days…
guess I am going to have a lot to do tomorrow, lol…
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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bothered me, car, car dealership, CRA, financial people, George, iris, phone call, remnders, when I die
sent off the fax to CRA this afternoon… rushed home for a meeting with my financial people… I know, I have people… part of the conversation was about what would be left for my kids when I die… I have to think about that type of stuff now that it’s only me left…
iris from the garden that George had planted a few years ago…
yesterday I got an envelope in the mail with George’s name on it… it was from the car dealership inviting him to a sale… the thing is, I’ve been to the dealership a number of times since his death, gone through all the fancy paperwork and cost – to change the car from his name to mine, they required a $200 safety check – so they should know that I’m the person they should be in touch with…
thought it hadn’t really bothered me, but tonight I got a phone call from a man asking to speak to George… I asked who he was and he advised he was from the car dealership… I told him that George had died over a year ago… he said he was sorry and they didn’t know, and I kind of lost it, saying that they did know and really ought to keep their records up-to-date…
lots of reminders this week…
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