25 Wednesday Mar 2026
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we went out for a hot tub in the daylight🤪…
can’t even think of the last time that happened, lol…
it was fun to check out the trees, birds, and squirrels…
sadly there is still a lot of snow out there, sigh…
21 Saturday Mar 2026
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big girl pants, blessed, butterfly, butterfly blanket, happy, light, moments, monarch, naps, nature, warm, widow
I have been loving my new butterfly blanket…
it is much lighter than the blanket that I’ve been using for naps in the den…
and although it is lighter it is just as warm and cozy;-)…
I think it is going to be lovely when I’m in my chair on the deck —- soon I hope —- as the weather warms up;-)…
25 Wednesday Feb 2026
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big girl pants, cold tub, dishwasher, light, moments, power, switch, Technology, widow
last week we discovered that the heater, that keeps the cold tub at 5° C, had tripped the power switch…
we couldn’t figure out what caused the problem, but it didn’t happen again… until this morning…
twice, while I was making soup in the kitchen, it tripped again…
seems to be some connection with the dishwasher and light above the stove and maybe the heater in the cold tub… turned off the stove light and didn’t have anymore problems…
fingers crossed 🤞…
11 Wednesday Feb 2026
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the light is returning;-)… this makes me so happy…
this photo was taken at 7:36 Monday morning… makes getting up in the morning much easier…
and this one was at 5:56 pm that afternoon…
seeing the extra light makes the day seem much more pleasant;-)…
looking forward to more light every day…
09 Sunday Mar 2025
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automatically, big girl pants, blessed, electronics, light, manually, moments, Technology, time, time change, weather, widow
sprang forward this morning, lol…
it is so much easier these days… most electronics in the house automatically change…
now the only items I have to change are the stove, microwave, coffee pot, and grandparent clock…
I didn’t mind the process even before then because it was simple to change a phone, or anything else, by moving it forward, unlike changing it backwards in the Fall…
25 Monday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, fluffy, light, minutes, moments, nature, seven, shovelling, snow, weather, widow
only took seven minutes to shovel the front sidewalk and a path to the driveway…
didn’t need to shovel to the neighbours as Canada Post isn’t coming right now…
a nice start to the season, the snow was light and fluffy and there wasn’t too much of it ;-)…
03 Sunday Nov 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, happy, hibiscus, light, mandevilla, moments, monstera, moves, nature, plants, switch, widow
moved a few plants around in the living and dining rooms…
the mandevilla made its way to the dining room…
and the hibiscus moved to the living room and it might still switch with the monstera…
it will be interesting to see if they will be happy in these new spots as the hibiscus has always lived in the dining room…
04 Friday Oct 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, bridge, family, fishtanks, fixed, grandson, happy, hue, light, lightstrip, moments, remembering, stairs, Technology, widow
during the basement changes the Philips Hue was unplugged…
once we realized that some of the lights weren’t working, it was plugged back in, but it would not start up again…
apparently this does happen, so we ordered a new one…
it arrived on Thursday and my grandson connected it and then had to add all of the units back in, lol…
took a while, but eventually everything was back up… then I added them to the automations and adjusted all their colours… kept having to add more units to the automations, as I remembered which ones were in which…
I was very happy because the lightstrip that runs up the stairs had been off and it has been the nightlight when I am using the stairs at night…
the lightstrip that goes over the fishtanks has been on all the time, so it was good to get it back to being off at night…
I do love technology;-)…
16 Sunday Jun 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cook, dad, family, father, food, light, lunch, memories, moments, scrambled eggs, widow
was thinking of my dad as I was making scrambled eggs recently…
he was a great cook and always used a fork when scrambling eggs… he said it made them fluffier… he always added a touch of milk or water as he prepared them…
it was a lovely memory around Father’s Day;-)…
he was a very special person and I think of him often…
04 Saturday May 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, Canadian Tire, deer, geese, light, moments, nature, nice, shopping, treat, weather, widow
two lovely things today…
we went to Canadian Tire for a few things and when we got back to the car, we spotted these two cuties;-)…
reminded me of the two deer that walked down the street on Monday afternoon;-)…
and this was the sky tonight at 9:00 pm…
so exciting to have the light at this time of night….
nice treats…
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