19 Sunday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, birthday, blessed, dad, family, father, memories, moments, remembering, special, Technology, time, widow
I don’t always remember, but first thing yesterday I realized it would have been my dad’s birthday…
my father was a special person and although he’s been gone a very long time, I still miss him…
a bit later in the day his picture came up in my Facebook memories…
this photo was taken not too long before his death…
13 Monday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, connecting, COVID, fish, health, laptop, memories, moments, selfie, selfie stick, sun, sunshine, Technology, widow, zoom
had some fun with technology today…
met with my Monday group in the morning via Zoom… I set up a space in the living room for the laptop so others could see the fish, but they weren’t visible, lol…
during Covid we met via Zoom, so we have been happy to have access to it again as the group has been dealing with poor health and we don’t like to miss our time together…
hopefully everyone will be feeling better soon so that we can get back to meeting in person…
later in the day I used the selfie stick to take a photo of me reading in the sun… there hasn’t been much of it shining over the last few weeks…
I had tried to get it to work yesterday, without success… after going online and doing a bit of research, I figured it out, so today it took the photo easily;-)…
such a treat when technology works;-)…
11 Saturday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cancer, family, memories, moments, mother, remembering, Remembrance Day, strong, time, widow, WREN, WWII
I’ve been thinking of my mom a lot in the last few days…
she spent the last months of her life at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, in the final stages of esophageal cancer…
I was blessed with the time to be able to spend those final days with her…
they were hard but so important…
she was a WREN during WWII, a survivor of mental illness, a caregiver for her husband, a poet, a proud Legion and Army and Navy member, and a participant in the organizing of the Women’s War Memorial by the Legislature…
she was strong, but it took me many years to really understand that;-)…
07 Tuesday Nov 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, memories, moments, poppies, poppy, poppy stories, remembering, Remembrance Day, story, Technology, veterans, widow
we got our poppies a week ago and I put the buttons on them so they won’t get lost… I’ve been wearing mine daily, even though I don’t go out much, lol…
I’d seen something on social media about scanning your poppy to read a story about a veteran;-)…
Sunday morning I came across a link that took me to a story about a fallen soldier once I scanned my poppy…
I tried it on another poppy and got another story…
here is the link so that you can scan yours;-)…
what a wonderful use of technology;-)…
03 Friday Nov 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, memories, moments, moose, neighbour, pattern, remembering, sanding, scroll saw, tidying, widow, wood
when we were cleaning out the basement back room in the spring, I came across some wood that my beloved had drawn moose on, but hadn’t cut out…
I took them over to my neighbour who has been working with a scroll saw for the last few years…
he brought them back a few days ago…
he did a great job but left the final sanding because he thought my grandsons might like to finish grandpa’s project;-)…
02 Monday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, cameras, choosing, display, drawer, family, happy, living room table, memories, moments, nature, photos, pictures, rediscovered, sarong, shells, Technology, widow
took some time to begin the process of changing the living room table display for the fall…
removed the shells that I rediscovered in the spring… I won’t forget where I put them this time (upstairs in the Computer room closet🤪), lol…
I decided to put my camera collection out… I had to move the glass to fit one of them in…
next I printed photos to put in each of the squares… that was a bit of a process between the iPhone, computer, and printer, lol… besides having to choose only sixteen (well, seventeen)…
I’m rather pleased with how it came out;-)…
next change will be glittery things for the holiday season…
01 Sunday Oct 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, blooming, dahlia, flowers, fringed, frost, garden, happy, high tea, Lily Stone Gardens, memories, moments, nature, slow growing, weather, widow
well, we made it…
this Dahlia Fringed ‘Tsuki Yori’ bloomed at last, happily before the frost arrived…
I bought the plant in early May when we visited Lily Stone Cafe for High Tea and then checked out Lily Stone Gardens…
it was planted on the deck as soon as the risk of frost had passed, but has been slow growing since… there is another bud on it;-)…
very pleased it has opened as it is rather lovely…
21 Thursday Sep 2023
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Armstrong & Small, big girl pants, blessed, colleague, eye doctor, eye glasses, glasses, memories, moments, simpler, Technology, time, vision, widow
went for my annual eye exam, and while I was waiting, saw a former work colleague…
had a lovely catch-up…
I went through the gamut of tests and then got to spend time with my doctor… I’ve been going to him for ten years and they’ve been gathering data on my eyes over all that time… I don’t mind waiting, because when he is with me, there is no rushing through the explanations and all questions are answered…
eyes are in good shape and I learned a new way to clean my glasses while I was there…
will give it a try and see if it makes cleaning them simpler;-)…
15 Friday Sep 2023
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50, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, changes, family, flowers, garden, happy, house, memories, moments, moved, plants, pond, purple, remembering, widow
we moved into this house in September of 1973… 50 years ago:-)…
this is rather astonishing to me, lol…
early on, there was a lot of red everywhere, inside and out… then we went to some light pink, gray, and finally to touches of purple…
the garden started out as a grassed square, then a space for a kid swing set, a small pool, a giant sandbox, a two story playhouse, and then plants and ponds…
so many changes, so many memories;-)…
what a life…
07 Thursday Sep 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, faded, garden, Maui, memories, moments, nature, pictures, rain, rainbow, rainbows, remembering, sky, weather, widow
on Monday night, just before supper, I looked up and spotted a beautiful rainbow…
it faded and then a double one started up, and after it faded, there was a third one, with very bright colours…
what a treat…
reminded me of our time in Maui when we saw five different rainbows in an hour…
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