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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…

this morning I took a photo of the butterfly bench with a number of blooms on it…

currently the majority of the blooms are the large blue ones with a few smaller purple ones still popping out…

by late this afternoon they had all shrivelled up…

what a treat to be able to enjoy them from start to finish;-)…

boyfriends…

04 Monday Aug 2025

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on Tuesday evening one of the doors on the side gate was taken away to be repaired by one of my beloved’s boyfriends…

a number of the “rays” had broken over time so it needed a delicate touch to return it to its former glory…

it was odd that only this one door had the broken pieces…

at bedtime I put a chair up in the empty space as I didn’t want the deer to come and visit (ie, eat) anything in the garden, lol…

Wednesday afternoon it was returned all beautiful and restored…

we screwed it back into the hinges and it looks excellent…

left…

03 Sunday Aug 2025

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earlier this week I had a bit of a meltdown…

it wasn’t until Wednesday that I realized the reason for the meltdown was my body getting ready for Friday…

would have been our 55th wedding anniversary… we only made it to 42 together…

it is hard to believe that 13 years have gone by since my beloved left me…

55th…

01 Friday Aug 2025

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today I’ve been giggling over a couple of things as I remember 42 years together, on what should have been our 55th wedding anniversary…

first thing I wandered the garden and took pictures of the morning glories…

some, where they were planted, and some that have just found a spot they like, lol…

I remember my beloved bringing me pictures of the ones blooming in the garden each day when he came to visit me in hospital around our fortieth anniversary…

he was just getting used to the camera on his phone, so it was a big deal for him to take the time to take pictures of flowers…

the second thing is the pond…

it has been leaking for ages, but only when the waterfall is running…

we had the leaking problem for a year or so before he died and it was driving him crazy, trying to figure out the problem…

finally, as I was reading on the back deck, two red squirrels were having a battle over one of the feeders… he and squirrels never got on, so it was funny to have them yelling at each other today…

designed…

25 Friday Jul 2025

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spent time with old photos today as I was searching for some particular pictures…

a neighbour was having a party and had signs on the lawn which made me think of the business we had for a number of years…

we designed and produced (well my beloved did the making, lol) different signs and words and snuck into yards to set them up for special occasions…

it was fun and at the time no one else was doing that…

going through photos to find a few of the ones we’d set up was enjoyable and a reminder of some amazing times in our lives;-)… some of those albums were kind of dusty…