23 Thursday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, chatting, fun, garden, haircut, Hilda the Gardener, memories, moments, plants, visit, widow
so happy that my friend, Hilda the gardener, came by last Friday for a drink, visit, and a haircut…
we spent a lovely hour chatting and laughing about life in general and gardens in particular…
then she dealt with the overgrown mess that was my hair, lol…
looks and feels so much better now;-)…
21 Tuesday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blanket, blessed, comfy, crafty, crocheted, memories, moments, purple, reading, widow
on some of the colder days, I’ve been wrapping up in a blanket when I sit and read in the living room…
Ive been using the crocheted one that I made a few years ago and just recently found a post telling me that I finished it two years ago on February 7, 2021…
it is very cozy and I enjoy using it…
06 Monday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, decorating, grouped, happy, hearts, memories, moments, plants, shelf, widow
hearts are turning up all over the place…
hanging in the front window, and looking so nice when the sun shines through them…
on a shelf, grouped together…
next to a plant to enjoy in the bathroom…
even on a shelf in the kitchen…
they make me smile…
05 Sunday Feb 2023
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, celebrate, decorating, donation, family, health, heart, Life, memories, moments, remember, stairway, virus, widow
been doing a little decorating for February…
it is Heart month and I dug out the hearts from various spots around the house and put them out…
the stairway came out quite nicely;-)…
every time I go up or down the stairs, I am reminded of my beloved…he dealt with a number of heart issues over his last few years…
he had been in good health, until a virus caused serious cardiomyopathy and later he had a quadruple bypass… all of that before he was finally taken with a heart attack… his father also died from a heart attack…
this month I will be making a donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation in celebration of our wonderful life together…
03 Friday Feb 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, family, fourteen, garden, grandson, hot tub, memories, moments, remembering, stress, time, trajectory, trauma, widow, work
my youngest grandson just turned fourteen…
brought back a number of memories as his birth changed the trajectory of my life…
because I refused to miss his birth, I ended up leaving a job I had been at for ten years, as the boss wasn’t pleased that I had taken away time from my position… a lot of trauma occurred over the next while and eventually I was walked out of the office…
one good thing that came out of that was the hot tub, as I was awarded a year’s salary due to my wrongful dismissal and purchased it with some of those funds…
there was huge stress and tension and the hot tub has helped with that for many years now;-)…
after a number of months I found the perfect position where I flourished for nearly ten years before my retirement…
lots of things to sift through…
this photo was taken in 2020, when I was still keeping my distance from everyone, but it does show him and the hot tub together, lol…
hard to believe it all began fourteen years ago…
16 Monday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, Christmas mugs, dresser, label, list, memories, moments, mugs, remembering, widow
the project for Saturday was to return the regular mugs to the cupboard and put away the Christmas/holiday ones…
first thing I did was go into the office to get the boxes out from under the dresser…
and they weren’t there… even got down on my knees to be sure…
kind of freaked out wondering if I had accidentally put them in the giveaway pile which had gone out before the holidays;-(…
looked in the basement, kitchen and all over the messy computer room again… then I checked in the den closet and there they sat… clearly I put them in there knowing they would end up upstairs, but thinking I would save some steps when it came time to repack them…
whew… that got the blood pumping, lol…
didn’t take too long to get them changed over and looking good…
they sat on the stairway and then made it upstairs to wait for next Christmas…
and they will go to the spot I expect them to be…
in the dresser, in the office closet, not underneath it, with a label on the front🤪…
15 Sunday Jan 2023
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Audubon, big girl pants, birds, calendar, chickadee, cold, eating, hand, memories, moments, nature, remembering, seeds, train, travel, widow
the Audubon calendar for Friday and Saturday was a chickadee…
and yesterday a memory came up on Facebook of me feeding a chickadee in Mer Bleu three years ago while I was visiting…
I had hoped to train my chickadees to eat from my hand, but so far, no luck…
I did catch this little one dashing to and from the feeder, lol…
05 Thursday Jan 2023
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bare, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, Christmas, memories, moments, stairs, taking down, trees, undecorating, widow
spent Tuesday putting away the little trees…
now the stairs look a bit naked…
the front trees are put away but that space looks filled with the plants that returned from the den…
I’ve been trying to add a new tree to the collection most years, but didn’t manage it this year… maybe next year;-)…
04 Wednesday Jan 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, dinner, dishwasher, escargot, family, food, home, lobster, memories, moments, New Year's, preparations, remembering, steak, time, treat, widow
for years we celebrated New Year’s Eve with steak and lobster… this started with friends before we had kids;-)…
at some point it moved to New Year’s Day as the kids wanted to participate but were off celebrating on the night before…
this year I enjoyed the preparation as I worked on getting escargot stuffed mushrooms, baked potatoes, fried mushrooms and sautéed Brussels sprouts ready…
the kids arrived, got the barbecue going and then grilled the steaks and lobster tails…
dinner was delicious and we had a great time…
on Monday, as I emptied the dishwasher and put away all of the pieces we used, I revisited the fun and special moments…
and the tradition continues…
02 Monday Jan 2023
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Audubon, big girl pants, birds, blessed, calendar, Chihuly, garden, memories, moments, nature, pictures, Technology, tradition, widow
January first was new calendar day…
for many years we have had Chihuly calendars… either my daughter or I would get two and give one to the other person;-)…
one year I even made one filled with photos from our trip to see his installation in Atlanta…
this year I changed it up…
I found an Audubon calendar online that shows a different bird each day… ordered two and sent one off with the other Christmas presents…
took down the old one and put up the new one…
I think I will learn a bit and maybe it will even help me with bird identification in the garden…
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