08 Monday Mar 2021
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one of the things that makes me the happiest is spending time taking photos of bouquets…
yesterday I spent a good portion of the day taking shots from all angles with my Nikon…
as the flowers open and close I will have more opportunities to get some beautiful photos…
flowers make me happy;-)…
06 Saturday Mar 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, figure-eight, goal, home, iPhone, memories, moments, pictures, steps, widow
as I’ve been walking the figure-eight pattern in the living and dining room I’ve been thinking of my beloved…
he walked the same pattern as he recovered from his heart surgery;-)…
this photo (quite a few iPhones ago) is from one of our walks while he was still in hospital after the surgery…
happily, I have met my step goal every day since mid-January;-)… maybe I will up my goal…
05 Friday Mar 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, donations, forget, hours, loss, memories, moments, remembering, widow
how do you remember when you want to forget…
nine years… 469 weeks… 3287 days… 78,882 hours…
not the 41 years before that…
trying not to see the time at the hospital that day… keeps running through my head today…
this morning I made a donation to a program that is feeding hungry people… and to the Heart & Stroke Foundation… both will help people now and in the future… my beloved was always helping others…
ordered an A&W Teenburger for my supper in celebration of one of his favourite foods…
treating myself gently… sure do miss him…
21 Sunday Feb 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, change, garden, hearts, memories, moments, pictures, purple, squares, table, widow
spent time today putting away all the hearts and refreshing the living room table…
often at this time of year I would be filling it with rocks and shells, but that seems a little early…
I gathered up all the silver and purple ornaments and took them downstairs…
then I put some Chihuly calendar pictures in the four squares and added a few other items… one square has my gardening books as I’ve been looking through them to work on the garden design for the summer…
another has a few of my favourite children’s books in it, and some cards with fun pictures of time on Maui…
the third one holds my new pouch and postcards…
the last one has items to read… magazines, my tablet and kobo… and some butterfly things…
looks good and makes me happy…
13 Saturday Feb 2021
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arrival, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, books, flowers, memories, missing, moments, roses, treats, widow
I miss my beloved all the time but seems more so around this time of year…
he was a romantic and always made it a special holiday for me… usually that included roses…
of course there haven’t been too many for me recently, lol…
I ordered books as a treat and didn’t expect them until the 15th, but they arrived early…
woohoo, looking forward to reading in the sunny living room over the next while…
11 Thursday Feb 2021
I always put sweetener and evaporated milk in my tea… usually the can goes into the fridge, but yesterday I poured my evaporated milk into a container as the can had a dent from being dropped as it was brought up to the house, lol…
the container came from Atlanta when we were there in 2016 to see the Chihuly Exhibit… we went to a Farmers Market and I picked up a chocolate drink in it… it was tasty…
lovely to remember the fun we had;-)…
it also reminded me of our camping trips over the last few years… well, not last year…
keeping my milk in the jar saved spills in the cooler, not that that ever happened;-)…
fun to remember the history of items in the house…
03 Wednesday Feb 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, dinner, food, hearts, memories, moments, ravioli, red, Valentine's Day, widow
had a bit of fun today decorating the house with hearts…
put them in the dining room, living room, bathroom, den and on the stairway…
I miss my beloved… he always made Valentine’s Day special, with flowers, treats and a delicious dinner…
I’ve been looking at meals from restaurants in an effort to support local, but they are all more food than I want, so I am planning on lobster ravioli with lobster sauce for my dinner with a salad…
should be fun;-)…
24 Sunday Jan 2021
had the fireplace channel on while I was writing my blog last night and was reminded of all the lovely fires we have had over the years…
my beloved loved wood fires and would often fall asleep in front of the fire in the basement family room… it was always difficult to start but he would use the vacuum to get the smoke to start up the chimney…
I haven’t used it since he died and last year had to have the chimney removed as it was rusting from the inside… didn’t seem worth the cost of replacing all of the pieces..
sometimes I miss it…
24 Sunday Jan 2021
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beloved, big girl pants, blessed, days, friends, garden, happy, meals, memories, moments, neighbours, normal, widow
today, as I sat in the living room looking out the window I spent a few happy moments remembering the wonderful neighbours we have had over the years…
our next door neighbours became our very good friends… when the girls were first born they would take them home so that we could eat our supper without interruption… the girls would go over to their house to see if “Uncle Buzz could come out to play?” and he did… we fed them on Wednesday nights and they babysat while we went bowling… at one point Ellen produced a cookbook for each of them with all of the recipes she made that we all loved…
the neighbour across the street made Barbie clothes and we shared many meals and coffee on the deck…
the neighbour a few houses down the lane would come and help my beloved with whatever project he was working on and they had such fun together…
the neighbour across the back lane shared their pool…
these days we aren’t quite as close to the neighbours, as all of those have gone, but they are all kind and caring in their own way…
made me think of today’s contemplating card;-)…
maybe, if the world ever returns to some semblance of normal, I will have them all over for a meal and time together;-)…
21 Thursday Jan 2021
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big girl pants, blessed, events, fun, gift, gratitude, happy, memories, moments, pashmina, pin, purple, remembering, widow
this morning my contemplating card was about gratitude…
a short time later I was putting on this lovely pashmina which hangs on the back of one of the chairs in the living room… it was a gift from a dear friend and is pink and purple…
I added a magnetic pin that I received at one of the SHEday events to hold it closed…
reminded me of how grateful I am to have many great and caring friends, and that I have participated in some amazing activities…
another thing I am grateful for is that when we remember something particular, usually we focus on the fun/good parts, not necessarily the things that weren’t as much fun, lol…
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