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fresh…

02 Sunday Aug 2015

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big girl pants, fresh, garden, light, lobster, morning glory, paint

out and about this morning… picked up painting supplies so my daughter can paint the front and back doors… they are purple, but very faded so she is going to freshen them up for me…

  
also picked up some gray trim paint to go around the back door and patio door… will look lovely and fresh when this is done… 

  
right now the paint is peeling horribly…

thrilled today to see a morning glory from the deck…

  
to see the others I had to be in the garden area…

spotted two of the tiny tomatoes starting to turn colour, oh yay!

  
looking forward to eating them soon…

yesterday I purchased some fresh green and yellow beans which we included with our dinner tonight, although only my daughter and I eat them…

also picked up the fixings for steak and lobster dinner today… that was usually our anniversary splurge… amazingly, all of the grandkids like lobster already… don’t think our girls even got to taste it until they were in their teens, lol…

dinner was great and the lobster delicious… lobster is fine for me, but that butter, not so much…

now I am sitting in the garden, with a blanket on, watching a red squirrel do acrobatics to get seeds out of the bird feeder…   

it had been there for ages, but as soon as I went to take the picture it darted away, lol…

been a busy day, and the light is fading… 9:40 and I had to put a light on in the garage to put things in their places…

spring…

23 Thursday Apr 2015

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big girl pants, bunny, crows, light, Spring, sun, walk

everyone is so excited for spring… 

the crows were chatting amongst themselves as I was heading out to my ride this morning…

  
there were a couple of them in the tree…

as we turned onto the next street I caught sight of a good-sized brown bunny…  

on my way home tonight I walked part way and enjoyed the birdsong and the sun on my face…

got a shot of these buds bursting into leaves…

  
sun was shining and the wind had died down… just beautiful out…

just this morning I was thinking about how light it is so early…

looking forward to more warm and sunny days…

yay spring…

blogging…

16 Monday Mar 2015

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big girl pants, blogging, Cancer Society, daffodils, light, post

recently read something about how often people like to read blog posts…

lots of opinions but most seemed to only want to read posts a few times a week…

made me wonder if posting every day is a bad thing… should I post less often… does it matter what others think… arghhhhhh…

I do know that a couple of the people I follow can post three or four times a day and sometimes that seems like a lot to me, lol…

I guess everyone has their own ideas…




this morning we received daffodils from the Canadian Cancer Society… it is another organization that we support through purchasing daffodils during March…





such a great time of year when we get flowers every couple of weeks…

and the ground is drying up, there is very little snow left and there is more light every single day…

lighter…

13 Friday Feb 2015

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big girl pants, light, lighter, sun

this morning as I was waiting for my ride I took this picture out the front door…

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the sky was much brighter much earlier… very nice…

for a good portion of the day the sun shone through various offices…

tonight when I got home it was light and bright… it was hard to see the TV as the sun streamed through the window…

it is so exciting to see the light lasting longer every day…

flowers…

21 Wednesday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, flowers, George, light, treadmill

had a rather hectic day…

in amongst all the activity these beautiful flowers arrived…

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they were a surprise from my colleague, who is admiring them in the picture…

I love flowers and have been missing them the last few weeks… George always made sure I had live flowers during January and February to help make the winter easier… so far I haven’t been able to pick any up as it has been too cold to have them in the car… he would warm the car up and then pop the flowers in and rush home, lol…

on our way out of the office I had to stop and take a picture of the gorgeous sky…

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it was still light at 5:03… that is very exciting…

made dinner, had a nap and then walked on the treadmill for 45 minutes…

light…

07 Wednesday Jan 2015

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big girl pants, light, Millennium Library, sad, Shelmerdine

Shelmerdine spent weeks working on a corner of the Millennium Library Park as the weather turned cold and the snow began to fall… we think part of the construction was a pad for food trucks to park on, but we won’t know until Spring comes… this portion is right behind our building…

the other thing we noticed was balls hanging from the trees…

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they weren’t lit for quite a while but about a week ago they started to light up the area… got this shot on the way into the office this morning… still rather dark as you can see…

have been using my SAD light and I think it is helping keep me happier…

came home a bit later tonight and did notice that it is staying a bit lighter in the evening…

looking forward to each additional minute of light…

bulbs…

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, bulb, light

on Sunday Jeff figured out that the bulb I put into the light in the bedroom was bad… good news really because the light still worked fine…

then we had to search the house to find a bulb we could steal as none of the ones in the cupboard were the right size…

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everyone left and I headed upstairs to discover that one of the two bulbs in the hall fixture had blown as well…

next morning one of the bulbs in the living room fixture went…

really need to go and get more light bulbs before every light in the house goes out…

light…

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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big girl pants, garden, geese, George, light, morning glory, sun

noticing every day how there is less light… waking up in the dark and needing to turn on the lights to get ready…

the sun is setting around eight so it is dark before you know it… less than thirteen hours of light each day…

the garden is struggling as well, what with the low temperatures… I check as soon as I get outside to see if any morning glories have braved the weather and bloomed…

IMG_8256.JPGI can’t see a morning glory without thinking of George counting how many were blooming each morning when I was in hospital for a six week period, and often bringing me a picture… sure do miss him…

IMG_8257.JPGhard to see, but this is a picture of some geese flying over first thing… the sound of their honking makes it clear that Fall is coming, lol…

IMG_8258.JPGfresh tomato with my chicken, potatoes and roasted garlic tonight… love popping something into the oven and napping while it cooks…

even with a persistent cold, life is good…

light…

04 Tuesday Feb 2014

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light, love sunshine, Millenium Library Maze, sundogs, sunlight, sunrise, sunset

have really been noticing the additional light each day recently…

today the sun rose at 7:55 am and set at 5:29 pm for a total of 9 hours and 33 minutes of light… a month ago, on January 4th it rose at 8:25 am and set at 4:41 pm for a total of 8 hours and 16 minutes… every day an additional three or four minutes are added on, which doesn’t sound like much, but it sure makes a difference…

amazing what an hour and seventeen minutes can do for a person… nearly everyone I have talked with recently has noticed it… and the fact that we are all feeling better and happier…

the temperature has also risen a bit and we are enjoying more sunshine… walked over to the library yesterday and took a picture of the maze that was built by volunteers over the weekend… it is very cute…

Millennium Library Maze...

Millennium Library Maze…

last night I got this picture of the sunset…

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sunset last night…

tonight on our way home from work the sun was shining into the car and I was basking in it… we also saw a very nice sundog…

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sundog 4Feb14…

I am also doing a better job of dinner, which I think might also be related to the light… I feel as though I have the energy to cook something instead of relying on frozen things from the freezer or something that doesn’t involved any prep…

I do love sunshine…

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