14 Monday Aug 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, family, gifted, International Left-Handers Day, left-handed, memories, moments, remembering, widow, writing
Sunday was International left-handers day…
made me laugh as I thought about the cute magnet that my son-in-law got for me a number of years ago…
it is certainly one of my favourites;-)…
apparently both my beloved and I were gifted…
sad about the kids, lol…
11 Saturday Apr 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blood sugar, bread, breadboard, delicious, delivery, French toast, hot cross buns, left-handed, memories, stay home, widow
the doorbell rang again today… second day in a row… I was expecting this one;-)…
it was a delivery of bread, croissants and hot cross buns from La Belle Baguette… the hot cross buns were still warm;-)…
I am going to be in trouble with my doctor if I keep eating bread at this rate because it raises my blood sugar… but I had to have a couple of the buns with cheese for my breakfast… very tasty…
then, for supper I made French toast using the bread knife and board that my beloved and I purchased at Victoria Beach many years ago…
the knife is made for left-handed people and fits into the tray portion of the cutting board… it is very cool…
delicious things to eat and fun memories…
06 Wednesday Dec 2017
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action, big girl pants, impact, key, left-handed, leftie, mirror, sling, transpose, widow
the other day I wrote about being a leftie…
the rental car I’m driving has the most interesting key…
there is a button on the top left of it to open and close the metal part of the key, like a switchblade…
it is made for a right handed person…
when I try to open it, using my left hand, it opens and closes into my fingers, so doesn’t actually work…
such a little thing, but what a pain…
yesterday we were practicing putting slings on one another during our First Aid Training and I was feeling a bit under the weather… which meant I couldn’t transpose all of the actions quickly… lefties must mirror everything that we see and if you aren’t paying close attention it can be difficult…
eventually I got the sling on correctly…
little things can have an amazing impact… whatever they are, lol…
26 Sunday Nov 2017
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big girl pants, craft sale, creamer, George, left-handed, lefties, mug, pottery, sugar bowl, widow
on Saturday I bought a cream and sugar bowl set at the craft show we went to…
they are exactly what I’ve been looking for… a couple of years ago I broke a piece off the one I’ve had for years, and have been looking ever since…
I also picked up a mug and asked the woman selling the pottery if they had any mugs for lefties…
she laughed because her husband, the potter, is also left-handed… she does the glazing and the colours were excellent, particularly as purple is very difficult to produce…
they do make them, but didn’t have this particular mug with them…
top left shows what I see when holding the mug… top right shows what others see… and the bottom shows how I’ve had to turn the lid around on the sugar bowl so that I can open it easily, as the little knob is also designed for a right handed person to open…
the funny thing is that George and I were left-handed but both of the girls are right-handed and all of my grandkids are right-handed as well… we had really hoped for someone we could share some of the things we have learned over time…
oh well, much simpler for them…
05 Tuesday Jan 2016
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big girl pants, family, handedness, left-handed, leftie, negative, research, Wikipedia
had an interesting conversation about handedness…
recently someone noticed that I am left-handed, lol…
George and I were left-handed although both our girls are right-handed…
I watched my grandsons carefully as they began grabbing things, hoping that one might be left-handed… so wanted to be able to teach someone some of the tricks to getting through life as a leftie…
didn’t happen… and really I don’t want to make any of their lives more difficult…
did a bit of research and came across this Wikipedia definition of handedness…
some of the information also reminded me of the negative connotations regarding lefties…
we talked about how writing is more difficult as your hand goes over the written words… not so bad now, but when ink took a while to dry, the page might end up completely smudged…
most utensils are designed for right-handed people… have learned to adapt over the years and to use the right-handed items… still don’t find left-handed scissors at all comfortable…
there are certainly more items made recently to be usable for lefties… you just have to look at each item to see if it works for you…
the one thing I’ve learned over the years is how to adapt… all the time…
everything I have learned has involved mirroring what was being shown to me… always most difficult with sports, lol…
my son-in-law brought me this magnet a while ago, lol…
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