05 Monday Sep 2022
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bacon, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, food, lunch, moments, son-in-law, supper, Technology, treats, widow, work for food
while he was here we worked at having all the foods my son-in-law has missed…
we’ve had burgers and bacon in many forms… we’ve been to a few favourite places…
we ordered samosas and butter chicken… and had Chinese food…
and then there was Tony Roma’s and Captain’s Table and Dairy Queen;-)…
and a few of my recipes were included, lol…
a delicious two weeks😁…
17 Friday Jun 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, drive, fun times, garden, Lilystone, Lilystone Cafe, Lilystone Gardens, lunch, moments, nature, poppies, retail, treat, widow
what a delightful day… got up, dressed, put out all the cushions and had breakfast on the back deck, admiring the ten or so poppies waving their lovely heads in the flower bed…
Hilda the Gardener arrived and started weeding and tidying everywhere…
a friend picked me up and we drove to Rosenort to eat and do a little shopping…
we had a delicious lunch at Lilystone Cafe, where we both picked up a few treats to bring home for later… I was happy to see them making great use of technology to take orders and prepare the bills… staff were friendly and treated us like family…
then we headed over to Lilystone Gardens, where we engaged in a bit of retail therapy, including a Christmas present… they are just now recovering from flooded fields and roads…
after an enjoyable return drive to the city we stopped at her house to check out some recent work and her very lush garden…
home, a wander around the garden to admire how tidy it is, and a sit down on the deck with a cup of tea and my book…
;-)…
05 Thursday May 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, deck, droppings, garden, grass blower, happy, lunch, moments, nature, screen, sun, weather, widow
spent some time out in the garden…
moved the pieces of furniture that were on the back deck and used the grass blower to get rid of a good portion of the debris…
then I had to use the broom for a lot of it that was stuck in the cracks… mostly bunny droppings, lol…
the wet areas dried throughout the day and will be ready for furniture…
after that was done, I sat on the upper deck and read my book for an hour or so…
saw white-throated sparrows and a Swainson’s Thrush, as well as one of my bunny buddies…
this was the first time that I was able to only have the screen open for the entire day…
so happy…
03 Tuesday May 2022
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today I ate my lunch on the deck… first time this year…
yay… it has been a very, very long winter and spring has not been welcoming…
afterwards I sat, enjoyed some tea and read for a while…
looking forward to many more such opportunities…
17 Sunday Apr 2022
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, Easter, food, happy, lunch, memories, microwaved, moments, supper, treat, widow
today is Easter, so I decided to make all my meals a treat;-)…
for breakfast I had two poached eggs with a potato patty…
there may have been a little chocolate eaten…
lunch was the last of my dimsum from Gimli Fish… the three packages are around $10 each and they provide three meals… it is a great option for me…
I did have a laugh when I microwaved the first batch… instead of using the timing for the microwave, I used the ones for steaming… it didn’t taste quite as good as usual that time, lol…
supper was a version of stuffed pork chops which I used to make for my beloved and I all the time… I used country style spareribs over my homemade stuffing…
came out beautifully and the bottom of the stuffing was deliciously crisp…
great food;-)…
20 Monday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, celebrate, Christmas, DeLuca's, elves, food, friends, happy, lunch, moments, treats, widow
had a wonderful time with my BS buddies to celebrate Christmas, even after the decision to stop gathering in person…
this morning a charcuterie board arrived from DeLuca’s and I divided it into five along with a veggie tray, crackers and pistachios… there was ranch dip with it and I made some fresh hummus to go along with all the other goodies…
a couple of elves fetched gifts and then dropped them off at other locations with the boxes of food…
shortly after that we gathered by Skype and enjoyed our meal… there was lots of conversation and laughter… eventually we went around the rectangle and opened gifts…
lots of thought had gone into each offering… there were cozy things, handmade goodies, items for the kitchen, donations and love;-)…
we slid back into Skyping without a hitch… we had only been meeting in person since the end of July…
these are some of the most special people in my life…
I am blessed…
12 Sunday Dec 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, car, Christmas, family, grandson, groceries, happy, Indi, lunch, moments, pillow, shopping, tags, widow
what a lovely day…
my grandson came over with a bunch of things I’d asked for…
one of which was this cute tree pillow to go with the Joy pillow from the other day…
we had a delicious lunch of roast chicken, potatoes, gravy and carrots…
a lovely visit and off he and Indi went…
then I spent time wrapping a number of presents… such fun… and I used some of my recent Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers gift tags…
those tags have come in very handy;-)…
21 Saturday Aug 2021
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22 Tuesday Jun 2021
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. soup, big girl pants, blessed, curry, family, flavours, food, lunch, memories, mom, moments, scent, widow
today, as I was eating my cauliflower soup for lunch, I was thinking about my mom…
she loved curry… at that time it was not one of my favourites, but yesterday I popped some into the soup…
tasted pretty good and the smell certainly brought back memories of times with her;-)…
24 Monday May 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, decks, garden, grandson, grass, lattice, lunch, moments, plants, pond, repairs, safety, trees, trim, waterfall, widow
spent the entire day in the garden… nice to enjoy the warmth and sun…
my grandson came over and a contractor friend of his arrived to do some work on the decks… we had arranged the appointment before the newest regulations were out… I was very happy that he wore his mask the whole time he was here…
he fixed a piece of the decking beside the hot tub, which was falling apart… then he tacked up loose boards under the main deck and finally he repaired a loose piece under the gate pergola which is going to make opening the hot tub much easier…
then the two of them made sure that all the lattice along the garage was in the proper spot… it was quite a process and looks so much better now…
after lunch our contractor friend left and my grandson cleaned the pump in the pond, mowed the grass, trimmed up some cedars, and dug out a bunch of flower pots from the shed…
after he left, I moved and rearranged pots, and planted a few items which can go in and out of the garage until the weather warms up…
I am truly blessed…
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