platter…

14 Tuesday Oct 2025

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had fun preparing the table for Thanksgiving dinner…

planning on more company than I’ve had in years, so it made me happy to search out different plates and bowls to put the food on, and in…

from a platter and covered bowl from a dear family friend, to a gifted tray, special pottery pieces my beloved and I had purchased over the years, to a tiny handmade purple bowl, to a very old salt and pepper set that was my grandmother’s…

all set on a thanksgiving tablecloth with leaf napkins…

hunt…

08 Wednesday Oct 2025

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recently I went through the Halloween and Thanksgiving boxes…

I went on the hunt for pumpkins for Thanksgiving and ended up putting out those as well as Halloween goodies;-)…

pumpkins, witches, ghosts, and spiders, lol…

glad to have set things out as I haven’t done that for a few years…

redecorated…

01 Wednesday Oct 2025

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last year, around this time, my housemate decided to redecorate his space…

from removing the fireplace, to drywalling, to putting in new ceiling tiles, to painting the space with two colours, and reorganizing his stuff, he worked hard with help from friends and family…

it came out very nicely…

and he has enjoyed the space…

this fall he has been preparing for an interesting pet…

wearing…

21 Sunday Sep 2025

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when I went to the Park Cafe for brunch on Thursday, I stopped to check out the memory stones that the Ottawa kids had purchased for me;-)…

I’ve visited them enough that it is easy to find them…

sadly, much of the wording on the stones is wearing away…

fuses…

19 Friday Sep 2025

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the power has gone off a few times over the last few days… only for a few seconds, and only in some parts of the house…

the only way to know for sure was the stove and microwave both flashing or showing 0…

many years ago we had an electrician tell us that there are two fuses that cover half the house each, but I couldn’t remember where they were, lol… my beloved had always dealt with those issues…

we called an electrician and he turned up early in the evening…

he knew right where those fuses were located (in a big gray box!) and then had to search online for where to find them as the electrical supply stores were already closed… so happy he found them and was able to pick them up and change them…

apparently this is an old way of putting electricity into houses, lol…

of course our house would have it, 🤪…

magnolia…

17 Wednesday Sep 2025

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this magnolia seems to be blooming one or two buds at a time…

saw some beautiful trees filled with magnolia blooms in Courtenay, BC, more than fifteen years ago and I still remember how amazing the scent was…

unfortunately, this tree is too high up to be able to enjoy the scent, but it is lovely to spot new blooms…

small…

05 Friday Sep 2025

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such small things give me joy;-)…

this morning, on a drive downtown to the dentist’s office, I spotted two different bendy buses;-)…

since I first saw one in Ottawa, while visiting my kids, just seeing one brings me happiness, lol…

great start to the day…

shrivelled…

30 Saturday Aug 2025

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I spent a large portion of the day reading in the garden and enjoying the flowers and fish…

as the afternoon progressed I watched the morning glories close up… it reminded me of all the days when I worked and how, by the time I got home, they were all done…