09 Tuesday Mar 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, garden, happy, light, moments, nature, Spring, sun, sunlight, sunshine, weather, widow
over the last week I’ve been enjoying the sunlight…
in the morning it is shining into the den, which it hasn’t done for months…
and in the afternoon it now shines on the spot where I usually sit…
yesterday, I sat on the deck in the sunshine for an hour… and the sun was warm on my body…
spring is coming;-)…
27 Saturday Feb 2021
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accomplished, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, food, grandsons, light, lightstrip, moments, painting, plants, Technology, widow
busy day yesterday…
in the morning I attached the Philip’s lightstrip that I got for Christmas from my grandsons… I had played with it a bit the day before…
I am pleased with how it turned out…
moved around more plants and made a meal that needs to sit for a day…
after that I finished with making a dozen cards from the watercolour painting I’ve been doing…
felt very accomplished, lol…
27 Wednesday Jan 2021
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today, I wore those big girl pants again…
it started late yesterday when the light blew in the den… I went and got the kitchen step stool, but when I stood on the second step it made me too nervous to take down the cover…
after I thought about it for awhile, I decided the small ladder from the garage would work, so I had my grandson put it beside the back door while he was here shovelling… I brought it in and left it to warm up, as it is metal and it was very cold out today…
finally, I climbed up, changed the bulb, and returned the ladder to the back door… tomorrow will be warmer so I will return it to its spot in the garage…
I am having to figure out how to do more things as I am not having anyone in the house these days… looking forward to the time when people can come and do jobs for me…
04 Monday Jan 2021
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big girl pants, books, charger, garden, Kobo, light, moments, reader, reading, sun, Technology, weather, widow
I’ve been frustrated for a long time because I couldn’t find my Kobo reader… I think I started the search around May…
I came across it ages before that and put it away carefully, sigh… at that point I also had no idea where the charger was for it…
so, I knew it was here, and I’d been searching everywhere for it, particularly after my daughter suggested that one of the universal chargers would likely power it up…
I’ve been using the tablet, but that only works in the house due to the way that the light bounces off it outside… so that meant I needed paper books all summer, lol… I still have one last book from my last online summer purchases…
this morning I was tidying in the bedroom and there it was tucked in along the edge of one of the shelves…
honestly…
and I even found a charger that worked, from my old Blackberry, lol…
woohoo… gonna get reading;-)…
05 Saturday Dec 2020
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, deck, garden, happy, hot tub, light, memories, miss, moments, nature, Technology, time, widow
sitting in the hot tub last night, remembering my beloved on what would have been his 72nd birthday, I was reminded of all the fun things we have done together during our forty plus years…
I’d been wanting a hot tub since our anniversary many years ago when he rented one for a weekend, but we couldn’t afford one until 2009…
once I chose the one I wanted, he built a deck to put it on, and then a deck to go in front of it… easy to get to, it is now perfect for dips… he never loved the hot tub the way I did, but wanted me to be happy…
when we had friends over (you remember that, right?) for a hot tub, if we needed a drink or towel or anything, we’d bang on the wall of the house and he would come out to see what was required, lol… he’d also take photos when I wanted them…
with the new security light/camera on the garage, I have to go to the side door of the garage and turn off the power so that the light doesn’t keep coming on while I’m in the tub… thankfully the deck goes right there so it is easy to get to and from…
some of our best talks happened late at night in this hot tub… I sure do miss him…
01 Wednesday Jul 2020
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big girl pants, creeper, garden, grandson, hot tub, light, memories, moments, trim, vine, virginia creeper, widow
my grandson came by today for lunch and to do some trimming of the Virginia creeper for me…
I had emptied the hot tub as we had planned to move it out of the way so that a ladder could go up next to the house…
unfortunately, it wasn’t being cooperative so he ended up climbing onto the tub and reaching as high as he could…
it was a stretch but he was able to remove most of the overgrowth… it already looks much better…
I think the plan is for he and Jeff to come by on Friday to move the tub, make a few repairs to the deck and finish the trimming…
the light is already much brighter in the main floor tv room…
one of the things they will do on Friday will be to put that piece of siding back where it belongs, lol…
guess I won’t be refilling the tub for a few days, lol…
26 Wednesday Feb 2020
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bevels, big girl pants, blessed, floor, light, Maui, memories, nature, purple, rainbows, remembering, sunshine, vacation, widow
recently I was checking out the rainbows on the kitchen floor… there has been lots of sun;-)…
thought they were coming through the patio door, but then I figured out they were coming from the back door window which has a number of bevels on it…
brought back memories of our time in Maui where there were rainbows all the time…
one day there were seven different rainbows within about an hour… it was amazing…
I do love rainbows…
12 Wednesday Feb 2020
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today I had a lovely time sitting in the sunshine in the living room…
I started a new book by one of my favourite writers and soaked up the warmth… of course, it was -40 outside, lol… so it really was a treat…
have had numerous conversations recently about our lack of sun… cold weather is much easier to accept when the sky is blue and a big yellow ball is in it… we are not getting the amount of sunshine that we used to…
I spent time taking photos of the light and shadows around the house as the sun shone in various areas…
fun…
24 Friday Jan 2020
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big girl pants, blessed, garden, home, jungle, light, moments, orchid, plants, purple, sunshine, widow
Monday I wandered around the living and dining rooms taking photos of the plants in the sunlight…
it was shining so beautifully on the jungle of plants that are filling the space… the furniture and even the purple snowflakes in the window were just beautiful;-)…
I’ve being paying close attention when it is shining to be sure to enjoy the light…
what a glorious time… sunshine is so energizing…
31 Tuesday Dec 2019
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, drive, family, light, lights, memories, moments, treat, widow
a few nights ago we took a drive to Taffy Lane in Ottawa…
my oh my… those people are serious about decorating for the holidays, lol… so many lights…
such fun… there were very few cars so we were able to take it slow and admire all the lovely scenes…
my daughter took this shot of one of my favourites, with a dinosaur and penguin in it;-)…
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