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tapped…

27 Wednesday Oct 2021

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recently I’ve seen a number of videos about dogs and cats banging or tapping their food bowls to announce they want food…

for years we have tapped the side of the fish tank to let the goldfish know we are putting food into the water…

we follow the same system when they are in the pond, although this year they fed off the algae and bugs in the pond…

they often need to be reminded of the process once they come in for the winter… and of course any babies have to learn the process…

once they remember, they often come up to the top of the tank as I walk toward them, lol…

we are not there just yet…

generosity…

17 Sunday Oct 2021

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I’ve been thinking about generosity quite a bit lately…

recently a friend treated me to dinner and another one to lunch… such a gift;-)…

when I think of generosity, I think of generosity of spirit, kindness, and sharing the wealth as much as possible…

I think of my dad, who taught me to be kind and treat people nicely… he would have given anyone the shirt off his back…

I remember whenever he or my mom were sick and in hospital, it would be my job to fetch nuts and chocolates from Morden’s to share with the staff… that was something we did to thank individuals and groups for their help…

many years ago a colleague suggested that I did nice things for others to get attention and compliments… they were not able to understand that this generosity habit was part of who I am…

thanking those around me just seems to be ingrained in me…

for many years I would treat colleagues to flowers, chocolate and/or nuts, or something else I made, to celebrate special events… often my anniversaries or birthday… it was always great to see their enjoyment of whatever the treat happened to be…

it also brings much happiness and always reminds me of my dad…

nowadays, I am working toward sharing with others in as many ways as I can…

what makes you generous;-)…

domain…

16 Saturday Oct 2021

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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, bones, clean, domain, empty, family, fish, fish tank, memories, moments, widow

I have spent a good portion of the day working on the fish tank… it was always my beloved’s domain…

the rocks have been removed… and there were a lot of them…

before supper, there was just a little bit of water in the bottom and I finally got that soaked up… it is empty;-)…

I fried pickerel for my dinner and found two or three bones in it, which made me think of my beloved again…

if there were any bones at all, they would be in his fish, lol…

and he would have made the world’s best French fries to go with it;-)…

funny that I would make fish after working on the tank all day, lol…

WearEver…

14 Thursday Oct 2021

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big girl pants, blessed, containers, dinner, family, happy, memories, moments, parents, WearEver, widow

cooked a very large turkey for our Thanksgiving supper… worked out well, as it meant there were lots of leftovers to have… the kids even brought containers to put them into, lol…

I roasted the turkey in my parents’ WearEver roaster which hasn’t been used for many years as we haven’t had a large bird…

it brought back many wonderful memories of meals with my family…

after dinner I started soup in the roaster because there were so many bones, lol…

finished it up with vegetables, barley, and more turkey… got the soup into containers and they are in the fridge ready for the kids to pick up… they enjoy homemade soup;-)…

since then I’ve had many meals from that dinner, including turkey and dumplings with my mom’s dumpling recipe;-)…

terrine…

12 Tuesday Oct 2021

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decided to make a vegetable terrine for our dinner…

I thought I had the recipe in my cookbook, but not so much…

it had come from an old Company’s Coming cookbook… I am sure I photographed the recipe before giving the cookbooks away… unfortunately, I didn’t mark them as recipes and had no idea when I gave them away, lol…

I had looked online at various recipes, but none of them were even close…

I checked the computer, contacted my sister-in-law and even called the Company’s Coming company…

the person on the other end of the phone was very helpful… I was wanting to know which book the recipe was in so that I could order it online… once she knew what I was looking for she hung up and started searching… she called back within a few hours to let me know which book it was in, but that the book was no longer sold, and that the recipe wasn’t in any of the new books…

finally my sister-in-law sent me a text with a photo of a handwritten copy of the recipe…

yay, made it and enjoyed it with dinner… lots of memories…

wash…

27 Monday Sep 2021

Posted by sulis303 in camping, family, food, life, moments, retirement, travel, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, blessed, dishes, family, family time, friends, memories, moments, visiting, wash, washing up, widow

I’ve been thinking about the opportunities I’ve had to visit and spend time with family and friends…

one of the things I always do is wash up after meals… it started when I would visit my daughter wherever she lived… she has never liked doing dishes so it was a simple thing to do in appreciation for my time there…

whenever I have been camping with the kids, particularly when the boys were little, I would wash and have one of them dry… it was a great way to have one-on-one time and also get the job done quickly…

now, if I am visiting with friends at their cottages, it is one thing that I can do to be helpful…

one of my grandsons took this photo while we were camping this summer;-)…

time…

13 Monday Sep 2021

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recently home, following a two day vacation, which easily felt like four days…

drove up to the cottage with a friend one morning and returned home the next evening…

we had a wonderful time… we sat on the beach for a while, spent time walking and beachcombing, spotted numerous mushrooms, watched a wonderful display of pelicans and cormorants, ate great food, relaxed, and talked by the fire…

what a delightful break…

coal…

11 Saturday Sep 2021

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, life, moments, nature, travel, Uncategorized, weather

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beach, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, coal, family, first footing, happy, lobster, memories, moments, nature, remembering, treasure, van, widow

we took a trip to the East Coast in 1988 or 1989 – amazing what I forget these days, lol…

the four of us, plus my beloved’s mom… we had bought a tricked out van and the trip was great…

when we got to the coast we had lobster at every stop because the four of us loved it… George’s mom couldn’t figure out why we kept eating it as she didn’t like it that much, lol…

while we were there, we found a beach that had coal all over it… we had such fun collecting a bagful to bring home to use for first footing…

I’ve been down to one fairly large piece for a a few years now, so I’ve been careful with it…

as I was working away in the garage, cleaning, sorting, dumping stuff, I found the original bag filled with a whole lot more…

what a treasure, so exciting…

balloons…

05 Sunday Sep 2021

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woke up and watched half an hour of FMG balloons taking off from the Gatineau Airport…

brought back such wonderful memories… our first flight took five tries in 2013 but when we finally made it, it was spectacular…

that flight was from the grounds of the Festival…

in 2014, we made it the very first time and ended up taking off from the same airport as I watched the liftoff online…

the Festival happens on the September long weekend and I am hoping to make it there again… someday;-)…

become…

02 Thursday Sep 2021

Posted by sulis303 in garden, life, moments, nature, retirement, Uncategorized, weather

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become, big girl pants, blessed, buds, flowers, garden, mandevilla, memories, moments, nature, plants, weather, widow

three years ago my mandevilla was blooming profusely on this day… that year, the flowers began opening mid-July…

it lives in the dining room over the winter and doesn’t bloom during that period…

today I took photos of the buds on that same plant… interesting that we are a month and a half later this year…

it takes quite a long time for the buds to become flowers and I am looking forward to the blooms…

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